ITALIAN UFO NEWSFLASH
ISSUE NO. 383 - 24 JANUARY 2003
by the Italian Center for UFO Studies
(Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici, CISU)
Contents:
- At Risk: The SOS-OVNI Archives
- "UFOs & The CIA": A New Book by A. Lissoni
- The New Issue of "Clypeus"
At Risk: The SOS-OVNI Archives
The international UFO community is mobilizing an attempt to rescue one of
the largest French ufological archives from dismantlement.
It concerns the archives and library of the association SOS-OVNI, under the
management of Perry Petrakis, which is heavily in debt as a result of the
slump in sales of its journal "Phenomena", for many years the only UFO
magazine on sale in French newsstands.
Its creditors have initiated legal proceedings, and there now exists the
very real risk that hundreds of (very rare) books, thousands of UFO
magazines from all over the world, audio-visual materials, and case
investigations files, are headed for the auction block.
In order to avert this risk, a European “pool” is being formed of
organizations which have among their objectives the recovery and the
preservation of UFO archives, coordinated by an anonymous Franco-Swedish
alliance between Arkivet for UFO-Forskning (AFU) and the group Sauvegarde
et Conservation des Études et Archives Ufologiques (SCEAU). This alliance
has issued an appeal for the gathering of proposals from the international
ufological community.
For Italy, the Italian Center for UFO Studies (CISU), which already has
come to the rescue of some ufological archives and libraries, is offering
itself as a collection center for proposals and donations from our nation,
via the postal checking account of Cooperativa UPIAR.
[Communication by Bruno Mancusi, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Perry
Petrakis and Clas Svahn; EuroUfoList, 20 January.]
UFOs & The CIA: A New Book by Lissoni
MIR Edizioni is sending bookstores a new literary work from Alfredo
Lissoni: it’s entitled UFOs & The CIA and represents the updated version,
in book form, of a text previously published only in electronic format in
CD-ROM installments, in 1996.
From Majestic 12 to alien retro-engineers; animal mutilations to Area 51;
the “shadow government” to the revelations of Corso; and “Men In Black” to
“villainous pacts” with the aliens none of the arguments relating to the
UFO conspiracy theory are left out here.
The volume totals 224 pages and costs 12 Euro, plus postage. The
Cooperativa UPIAR has purchased a stock of it, on sale beginning next week
at the e-commerce Website of Upiar Store, (www.upiar.com), at a price of 16
Euro (13 for CISU subscribers).
[Communication by Alfredo Lissoni; Chucara2000, 23 January.]
Just Out: The New Issue Of Clypeus
Shipment is underway to all members of Issue No. 111 of Clypeus Chronicles
Of The Unusual.
The historic journal, directed by Gianni Settimo, is the oldest Italian
publication covering topics including the “ufological”: it was actually
conceived in December 1963 as a “journal of flying saucers,” a body of the
Centro Studi Clipeologici (Center for Media Clip Studies). Subsequently,
after having led the way in 1965 in the creation of a “Unique National
Center for the study of phenomena believed to be of an extraterrestrial
nature” e.g., the CUN it continued as an independent journal devoted to
the unusual, available by subscription but with some occasional
installments sent to newsstands (in 1964, 1972 and then in ‘76). In 1991,
it promoted the formation of an Italian Fortean Society to work alongside
the monumental cataloguing project of Umberto Cordier.
In the new issue: a UFO in an epic manifesto; Hessdalen in Val del Lys; the
dragon of Finale Ligure; and the miracle to the north of Scotland.
Membership (for 3 issues) costs 8 Euro. As always, subscribers to the CISU
receive a 20% discount.
[Communication by and Gianni Settimo; web.tiscali.it/clypeus.]
Collaborators on this edition were: Alfredo Lissoni, Bruno Mancusi, and
Gianni Settimo.
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This is the English translation of UFOTEL, a free
phone/Internet information service on UFOs edited
weekly by Edoardo Russo for the Italian Center for
UFO Studies (Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici),
available in Italian by calling +39-011-545294,
or by e-mail subscription, or on CISU website
at
http://www.arpnet.it/ufo/ultime.htm
UFOTEL is a supplement to "UFO - Rivista di
informazione ufologica", published by the Italian
Center for UFO Studies, registered at Tribunale
di Torino, No. 3670, on 19 June 1986.
Director: Giovanni Settimo.
Publisher: Cooperativa UPIAR, Corso Vittorio
Emanuele 108, 10121 Turin, Italy
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