Era
1940s
90 entries in the archive from the 1940s.
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Aleister Crowley | Biography
Aleister Crowley, the Leamington Spa-born English occultist who joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1898, received the Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) at the...
Arthur C. Clarke | Biography
Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917 to 2008), Royal Air Force radar officer, author of the 1945 paper that specified the geostationary communications satellite, novelist of Childhood's End...
Barney Hill | Biography
Barney Hill Jr., WWII US Army veteran, US Postal Service employee, NAACP legal officer, and co-experiencer in the 19 September 1961 encounter on US Route 3 in New Hampshire. His...
Betty Hill | Biography
Eunice Elizabeth Barrett Hill, New Hampshire social worker whose 19 September 1961 encounter on US Route 3 with her husband Barney became, through the 1964 hypnosis sessions with...
Coral Lorenzen | Biography
Coral Elsie Lightner Lorenzen, co-founder in January 1952 of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation, editor of the APRO Bulletin across all 258 issues and thirty-six years, and...
Credo Mutwa | Biography
Credo Mutwa (1921 to 2020), Zulu sangoma, sanusi, and one of the principal twentieth-century transmitters of southern African oral cosmology into print. Indaba My Children (1964),...
George Van Tassel | Biography
George Van Tassel, aircraft engineer turned 1950s contactee, founder of the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention and builder of the Integratron at Landers, California.
J. Allen Hynek | Biography
Josef Allen Hynek, astrophysicist and scientific consultant to the United States Air Force UFO programmes Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969....
Jack Parsons | Biography
Jack Parsons, the self-taught rocket chemist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ran an occult lodge out of his Pasadena house. JATO inventor, OTO magus, FBI file...
James Clapper | Biography
James R. Clapper (b. 1941), United States Air Force Lieutenant General (retired), Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 2001 to 2006, Under Secretary of Defense...
Jesse Marcel | Biography
Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. Recovered debris from the Foster Ranch on 7 July 1947 with Captain Sheridan Cavitt and was...
Jim Lorenzen | Biography
Leslie James 'Jim' Lorenzen, WWII US Army Air Forces combat radio operator, civilian engineer at Holloman Air Force Base and the Kitt Peak National Observatory, and co-founder in...
L. Ron Hubbard | Biography
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the Nebraska-born American pulp-fiction writer who served as a US Navy lieutenant in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War, attended the January...
Leonora Piper | Biography
Leonora Evelina Piper, the Boston-born trance medium whose eighteen-year working partnership with Richard Hodgson at the American Society for Psychical Research produced the two...
Lord Hill-Norton | Biography
Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton (1915 to 2004), Chief of the Defence Staff 1971 to 1973, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1974 to 1977, and from the late 1980s...
Nikola Tesla | Biography
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical engineer, inventor of alternating current and the Tesla coil. The wireless-power years at Wardenclyffe, the 1899 Colorado Springs Mars...
Sir Oliver Lodge | Biography
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, the Liverpool and Birmingham physicist who built the Lodge coherer in 1894 and transmitted wireless signals across an Oxford lecture-theatre before...
Otis T. Carr | Biography
Otis T. Carr (1904 to 1982), the Baltimore engineer and self-described Tesla student whose OTC Enterprises promoted the OTC-X1 flying-saucer prototype across the late 1950s,...
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd | Biography
Richard E. Byrd (1888 to 1957), United States Navy polar aviator. The contested 1926 North Pole flight, the 1929 South Pole flight, the 1934 Advance Base winter that nearly killed...
Whitley Strieber | Biography
Louis Whitley Strieber, novelist (The Wolfen 1978, The Hunger 1981, Warday 1984) whose December 1985 encounter at his cabin in Accord, Ulster County, New York became Communion: A...
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Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories under editor Raymond A. Palmer, who from 1945 ran the Shaver Mystery, a precursor to the flying-saucer era. This page covers that period, not the magazine's wider...
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Doubt (Fortean Society)
Doubt was the journal of the Fortean Society, one of the earliest organisations to systematically collect reports of anomalous phenomena. Published from 1931 through the 1950s.
FATE Magazine
FATE Magazine, founded in 1948, was the first mass-market publication to cover flying saucers seriously. It published Kenneth Arnold's original account and ran continuously for...
Fortean Society Magazine
The founding periodical of Charles Fort's intellectual legacy, published by Tiffany Thayer from September 1937, documenting anomalous phenomena including aerial observations,...
Ghost Rockets
Documentary set on the 1946 Scandinavian Ghost Rocket wave. From May to December 1946, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish military and civilian observers reported roughly two thousand...
Infinity Newsletter
Infinity Newsletter: a long-running American UFO and anomalous-phenomena publication established in 1945, two years before the Kenneth Arnold sighting, with the masthead motto...
Infinity
Infinity Newsletter was established in 1945 and reached its 11th year by 1956, published by Barrow Studios, covering military plane crashes, Congressional UFO legislation, creature...
Journal of Borderland Research
The journal of the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, founded by Meade Layne in 1945. Through Riley Crabb's editorship from 1959 to 1985 and onwards under Tom Brown's...
Round Robin
Round Robin, edited by Meade Layne from San Diego beginning February 1945, is the earliest UFO-relevant periodical in the NHI Archive. It traces the migration of one small civilian...
Wonders
Wonders covered cryptozoology and anomalous phenomena with contributions from Mark A. Hall and other researchers, spanning material from the 1870s through the 1990s.
1943
UFO Newsclipping Service, 1943. 3 articles in this issue.
1947
UFO Newsclipping Service, 1947. 1 article in this issue.
