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ufo news clipping service by charles

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for ufo researchers and especially those

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interested in ufo history the internet

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is a treasure trove there are many

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easily accessible archives online with

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archive.org and archives for the

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unexplained being two of the main go-to

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sites there is also a lot of material

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available thanks to researchers who

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preserved it on their sites during

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periods of active research and

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investigation and the material remains

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despite many having ceased any major

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activity two examples are the websites

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left behind and looked after by caring

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former members by the national

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investigations committee on aerial

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phenomena and the center for ufo studies

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among the archived material can be found

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articles on ufo incidents clipped out of

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newspapers these were gathered in many

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cases by individual researchers in the

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area of the ufo incident were through

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the efforts of a network of members of

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some of the larger organizations such as

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nycap and kufos then in 1969 a young ufo

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enthusiast took it upon himself to start

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a news clipping service devoted to ufos

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and other things for teen he copied cut

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and pasted the clippings to put together

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a monthly publication available by

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subscription appropriately named the ufo

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news clipping service according to

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wikipedia the first news clipping

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service was started in london in 1852

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actors musicians artists and writers

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came into the shop of a polish news

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agent named romaic looking for reviews

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and news articles about themselves and

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their work romaniac realized he could

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turn this into a business

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since then news clipping services

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developed that cater to all sorts of

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interests and those existing today tend

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to cater to companies interested in news

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about their particular brand of goods or

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services that news clippings could be an

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important source of information on ufo

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cases was recognized in 1952 by captain

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edward j rupelt who is then revitalizing

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the air force's ufo investigation that

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was in transition from operating his

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project grudge to operating his project

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blue book rupelt tells the reader in

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chapter 10 of his 1956 book the report

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on unidentified flying objects that he

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suggested to a superior that they use a

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news clipping service and that is

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superior like the idea

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according to rupelt newspapers sometimes

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got reports that didn't go to the air

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force rupelled ads newspaper reporters

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rival any intelligence officer when it

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comes to digging up the facts and there

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was always a possibility that they would

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uncover and print something that we'd

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missed for tian and ufo researcher john

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keel author of the 1975 book the mothman

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prophecies was known to have used news

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clipping services in his work as a

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journalist and a reporter specializing

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in fortean subject matter according to

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his friend lauren coleman in a 2009

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obituary coleman wrote after keele's

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death keel subscribed to several news

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clipping services coleman reports that

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keel would sometimes get 150 clippings

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in a single day during a 1966 1967 ufo

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flap this must have been expensive and

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time consuming for keel and others who

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made use of multiple services but an

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alternative was just a couple of years

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away roderick dyke was 17 in 1969 and

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was the director of the ufo research

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committee even at that young age he was

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an active investigator one case he

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looked into that year involved a film of

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ufos captured by a vallejo junior

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college student in 1958 documents

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related to the case dating back to march

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are preserved online at the nycap site

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these include dyke's correspondence

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regarding the film on stationery with

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the ufo rc letterhead there is a letter

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to the student clifford de lacy

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discussing analysis of the film and

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another to dr robert m l baker regarding

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his use of the film in an american

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association for the advancement of

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science presentation in may of that year

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dyke put out the very first issue of the

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ufo news clipping service under the

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typewritten title monthly clipping

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service dyke informs his subscribers

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that there are only eight of them at the

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moment and that he needs at least two

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more to continue from this issue until

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issue 89 the publication is under the

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umbrella of the ufo research committee

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with issue number 90 the publication was

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under the umbrella of the clearinghouse

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for ufo news and information issue

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number one consists of 15 photocopied

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pages filled with clippings many from

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other clipping services never before

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published 1969 ufo statistics from

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project blue book and three pages of

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historic clippings from 1947 which

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include two that mentioned kenneth

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looking publication but throughout the

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years it takes on a more professional

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look in the first issue dyke thanks an

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associate who provided him with

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clippings from australia and in the

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second he thanks a contributor who

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provided clippings from canada and one

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can see the beginnings of a network

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forming

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in 1977 according to the supplement

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written by david marlar and included in

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the 40th anniversary issue dyke started

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looking for someone to take over his

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editor and that person ended up being

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lucius farish ferris took over with

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issue 99 while dike remained as a

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contributor at this point there is no

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umbrella entity named and the ufo news

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clipping surface stands on its own

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farish was a long time ufo researcher

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and in addition to being the editor of

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the ufo news clipping service farish

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became the organizer and host of the

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ozark ufo conference in eureka springs

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arkansas in 2007 the responsibility of

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taking on both tasks became too much and

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in december farish passed editorship

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responsibilities back to dyke who

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carried on in that role until 2009. by

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this time dike no longer had to cut and

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pace by hand as home computers had long

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since become ubiquitous in december of

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2008 dyke emailed david marlar telling

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him he was on a very short list of

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people he'd like to take over for him

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the two had been in touch for several

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years through correspondence and

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exchanging buying and selling

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ufo-related memorabilia marlar describes

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both himself and dyke as avid collectors

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marlar took over his editor in 2009 with

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issue 407 marlar kept the publication

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going until 2011 and put out the final

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issue number 505 in august of that year

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on the first page of issue 505 there is

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a message from dyke dyke sums up the

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history of the over 44 year run of the

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ufo news clipping service and tells the

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reader that in that time over ten

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thousand pages were printed containing

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over thirty thousand clippings he

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emphasizes that there was no

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editorializing throughout the

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publication's history according to

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marlar the ufo news clipping service

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subscribers list was a veritable who's

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who of ufology which is a testament adds

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to its value among ufo researchers while

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the service is no longer available to

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investigators of contemporary cases

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every issue of the publication is

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available online for historical

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researchers just the thing for good