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IUR Back Issues International UFO Reporter IUR Back Issues International UFO Reporter COMPLETE YOUR UFO REFERENCE LIBRARY WITH BACK ISSUES OF THE INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER All issues marked with an asterisk* are out of print; photocopies available only. All articles that discuss Roswell and UFO crashes in bold type. Volume 29 “The flying box, and other cases,” by Raymond Fowler “Taken down under: The Australian abduction experience,” ____ Spring “Satellite objects and cloud cigars,” by Herbert S. Taylor by Bill Chalker “Mysterious island: The UFO legacy of the Isle of Man,” by ____ Fall “Too close for Condon: Close encounters of the 4th kind,” Jenny Randles by Michael D. Swords “Balloons, missiles, and UFOs,” by Michael D. Swords “A preliminary classification of some reports of UFOs,” by “Digging up Roswell,” by Robert Durant Fred Merritt “First contact with ET within 20 years?” by Mark “UFOs in Canada, 2003,” by Mark Rodeghier Rodeghier “Spooky plausibility: A review of Sight Unseen,” by Craig ____ Summer “Satellite objects: A further look,” by Herbert S. Taylor R. Lang “The meaning of hybrid and abductee play,” by David M. “Taken down under (part 2): The Australian abduction Jacobs experience,” by Bill Chalker “The effect of UFOs on society,” by Ron Westrum ____ Winter “When UFOs were serious business: Then and today,” by “Timmerman’s triangles,” by Michael D. Swords Michael Hall “NARCAP statement on the Mexican FLIR case” “1952: Ruppelt’s big year,” by Michael D. Swords “On media delusions and Ivan Sanderson: Two reviews,” by “Skeptical failures down Mexico way,” by Mark Rodeghier Jerome Clark “UFO secrecy and the law,” by Donald R. Burleson “Postcards with a UFO theme,” by George M. Eberhart “The use of thermoluminescence for the evaluation of UFO ____ Fall “Aliens, hair, and DNA,” by Bill Chalker landing site effects,” by Edward J. Zeller “Green miniature airplane hovers in front of a house,” by Clas Svahn “Air Force UFO investigations in the mid-1950s,” by Volume 27 Michael D. Swords ____ Spring “UFO/Vehicle very close encounter,” by Mark Rodeghier “Psychotherapy and UFOs,” by Mark Rodeghier “Angel Hair: An Australian perspective,” by Keith “A case of radar detection of UFOs in France,” by Claude Basterfield Poher “Was there a second Estimate of the Situation?,” by “An abductee’s life,” by Tom Rymer Michael Hall “Conversations with Martians,” by Jerome Clark “The trivialist,” by Jerome Clark ____ Winter “Navy missile tests and the Canary Island UFOs,” by V.J. “The 1952 Nash/Fortenberry sighting revisited,” by Ballester Olmos and Ricardo Campo Perez Thomas Tulien “Radio signals from space, alien probes, and Betty Hill,” by ____ Summer “What’s convincing about UFOs?,” by Michael D. Swords Michael D. Swords “Media bias and UFOs,” by Haiko Lietz “Mystery clouds and the UFO connection,” by Herbert S. “Do nuclear facilities attract UFOs?,” by Donald A. Taylor Johnson “Just for fun: The trivial stuff that legends are made of,” by “Interpreting the Ramey memo,” by James Houran and Michael D. Swords Kevin D. Randle “The relationship between religion and UFOs,” by Mark “Unusual experiences from the Timmerman files,” by Rodeghier Michael D. Swords ____ Fall “The flying triangle phenomenon,” by Don Ledger “Frank Kaufmann reconsidered,” by Kevin D. Randle Volume 28 and Mark Rodeghier ____ Spring “Levelland, Texas, 1957: Case reopened,” by Donald R. “The 1946 ghost rocket photo,” by Clas Svahn Burleson “Harvard’s revenge? Abduction reports and false “Spanish military UFO encounter,” by Vicente-Juan memory,” by Stuart Appelle Ballester Olmos “The U-2 spy plane and Blue Book: Another look,” by “Greene County close encounter,” by John Timmerman Mark Rodeghier “Snapshot from a cruise,” by John Timmerman and Mark ____ Winter “The Washington, D.C. jet chase of July 26, 2002,” by Rodeghier Joan Woodward “Barney Barnett’s crashed saucer: Where did it come “Timmermania: A step too far into the Timmerman from?” by Kevin D. Randle and Karl T. Pflock files?,” by Michael D. Swords “Proto-UFOs,” by Jerome Clark “Attitudes toward ETI, UFOs, and abductions,” by Mark “A close encounter before flying saucers,” by Frank John Rodeghier Reid “Collision course,” by Jenny Randles “Astronomers get serious about ETI (if not UFOs),” by Mark Rodeghier ____ Summer “The Arthur Kill sightings, July 14-15, 2001,” by Dennis K. Volume 26 Anderson ____ Spring “Close encounter in UFO alley” by Jenny Randles “Enigma variations: Proto-UFOs and other strangeness,” by “UFOs on memory lane,” by Kevin D. Randle Jerome Clark “Project Mogul still a flight of fancy,” by Robert J. “Orthoteny as a world grid: The intra-ocular impact test,” Durant by Donald Johnson “Discovering the new extrasolar planets,” by Michael D. Swords “Astronomers and UFOs,” by Henry Cordova, Frank John ____ Summer “New findings on the Lubbock lights,” by Donald R. Reid, and George M. Eberhart Burleson “Fire on the Mountain: The Berwyn Mountain incident,” “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered by Andy Roberts questions,” by Michael Hall “The Mystery of Howden Moors: Part two,” by David “Alien society and the abduction phenomenon,” by David Clarke and Martin Jeffrey M. Jacobs ____ Winter “An Aircraft/UFO encounter over Germany,” by Richard “A little walk in the strange life of George Hunt Haines Williamson,” by Michael D. Swords “UFO Beings, folklore, and mythology: Personal “The Roswell testimony of Chester P. Barton,” by experiences,” by Lisa Oakman Joseph Stefula “Mack Brazel reconsidered,” by Thomas J. Carey and ____ Fall “The Lockheed UFO case, 1953,” by Joel Carpenter Donald R. Schmitt “An analysis of angel hair, 1947-2000,” by Brian Boldman “The forgotten letters of Edward J. Ruppelt,” by Michael “Rendlesham Forest: The British MoD file,” by Jenny Hall and Wendy Connors Randles “What does a half-century of intense UFO display mean?” by Michael D. Swords Volume 23 ____ Winter* “The July 1952 Coast Guard photo revisited,” by Joe ____ Spring “Top secret 1949 document,” by Jan Aldrich Nyman and Barry Greenwood “The Mantell case–50 Years later,” by Christopher D. Allan “Pre-World War II ‘Creature Retrieval,’” by William E. “Tully Saucer Nests of 1966: Part II,” by Bill Chalker Jones and Eloise G. Watson “Government UFO documents on the Internet,” by Mark “Close encounters: the more we learn, the less we know,” Rodeghier by Craig Lang ____ Summer “An Engineer looks at the Project Mogul hypothesis,” by “The Timmerman files,” by Michael D. Swords Robert A. Galganski “UFOs in Canada, 2001,” by Mark Rodeghier “C.B. Moore’s Mogul tape,” by Robert J. Durant “Britain’s secret UFO study,” by Mark Rodeghier “1997 Canadian UFO Survey,” by Chris Rutkowski “Seeing the forest for the trees: New twists in the Bentwaters case,” by Jenny Randles Volume 25 “Apocalypse in gray,” by Thomas E. Bullard ____ Spring “The Senator, the saucer, and Special Report 14,” by Joel ____ Fall “The history–making Sturrock workshop,” by Michael D. Carpenter Swords and Mark Rodeghier “Detection of UFOs using state-of-the-art technology,” by “UFO flare-ups in Ohio,” by Terry Endres and Ron Schaffner John Schuessler “Will the real Sheridan Cavitt please stand up?” by “New lines in UFO research: Orthoteny revisited,” by Don Thomas J. Carey Johnson “How the Ministry of Defence covers up,” by Jenny Randles “Encounter in Puerto Rico,” by Henry Cordova ____ Winter “Investigating the ghost rockets,” by Jan Aldrich “A 1956 military aircraft-UFO close encounter,” by “Alfred Loedding: New insight on the man behind Project Richard Haines and Franklin Carter Sign,” by Michael Hall and Wendy Connors ____ Summer “Deciphering the Ramey memo,” by Donald R. Burleson “Signals, noise, and UFO waves, by Richard Hall ”Flight to Fort Worth: From complicity to cover-up,” “The end of a photographic case,” by Mark Cashman by Thomas Carey and Don Schmitt “A moment in history: An interview with Bill Bequette,” by “The Harwinton daylight disc,” by Mark Cashman Pierre Lagrange “The 1999 French report on UFOs and defense,” by Mark Rodeghier “Vehicle interference at Little Fox Lake, Yukon,” by Volume 22 Martin Jasek and Mark Rodeghier ____ Spring “The strange sage of Cactus Jack," by Thomas Carey ____ Fall “Walesville revisited,” by Kevin Randle “The McCoy letter," by Michael Swords “Keyhoe’s context,” by Frank John Reid "The Linda Cortile case analyzed: Part 1,” by Greg Sandow “The Rendlesham Forest case: Point/counterpoint,” by “An anecdotal report of a UFO crash/retrieval in 1941: Jenny Randles and Richard Hall Part 1," by Walter Webb “The Swedish military and UFOs,” by Clas Svahn with ____Summer “An anecdotal report of a UFO crash/retrieval in 1941: Eileen Fletcher Part 2," by Walter Webb “Counting abductees: What can surveys tell us?” by Mark "The Linda Cortile case analyzed: Part 2," by Greg Sandow Rodeghier "Carl Sagan and me," by Budd Hopkins “Orthoteny: Lost cause or a redeemed one?” by Claude "The 1997 Space and UFO Science Symposium at the Mauge Cosmo Isle-Hakui Center, Japan," by Richard Haines ____ Winter “Chupacabras in Perspective,” by Thomas Bullard "UFOs in Canada—1996," by Mark Rodeghier “From GEPAN to SEPRA: Official UFO studies in "UFOs and humor: An annotated list," by Chris Rutkowski France,” by Gildas Bourdais "Mid-1997 roundup of new UFO and related books," by “The Roswell debris field: Size doesn’t matter,” by several authors Robert Galganski ____ Fall "The CIA's UFO history," by Mark Rodeghier “Dyad scout craft,” by Richard Hall "Who's the dummy now? The latest Air Force report," by Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney "Roswell: Clashing Visions of the possible," by Michael Volume 24 Swords ____ Spring “Strange evidence," by Bill Chalker "Lie Detection in UFO controversies," by Geoff Price "Behavioral classification system for UFO occupants," by "The Australian government and UFOs," by Bill Chalker Mark Cashman ____Winter "The Glue Explanation Just Won't Stick," by Robert "Abductions and research bias: How to lose your way," by Galganski Thomas E.
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