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From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:37:45 -0700
Fwd Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 01:57:19 -0400
Subject: UFO History Workshop

Greeting List,

On the 29th and 30th of June a number of us met at the
International Holiday Inn at Chicago's O'Hare Airport to
participate in a UFO History Workshop.  A more detailed
announcement will follow shortly; the present message concerns
one of the first projects we agreed to undertake.

The workshop was organized by Tom Tulien who cosponsored the
event with the Fund for UFO Research.  Michael Swords, Richard
Hall, and Jan Aldrich moderated the sessions.  Attendance by
Dominique Weinstein, Bernard Thouanel, and Jean-Jacques Velasco
of France and Maurizio Verga of Italy gave the meeting
international perspective.

We basically discussed our current holdings and projects, what
should be done, what we would like to do, what as a small group
with limited time and money could actually do, and we approved
several projects which seemed possible to accomplish.  One
project was to convert the "Preceedings," an 86 page
pre-confernece booklet listing resources, collections,
proposals, and comments on various historical topics into an
expanded, "Proceedings."

We now come to the purpose of this message, we wish to solicit
some of the following information from list members:

1)  Biography and UFO related projects.  For those with an
interest in UFO history, a short biography of no more than one
page is requested, please include projects you have worked or
are working on currently. (Projects do not have to be history
related.)

2)  Inventory of UFO material.  For the present please keep the
inventory to no more than two pages.  Please do not list every
UFO book in your collection, but rather the amount of books,
what UFO publications do you have complete or nearly complete
runs, what is the extend of government material, case files,
clipping collections, etc. Please list any unique items you feel
are rare or important even if they are only copies.  Finally end
with:

a) Accessibility.  Is your collection available to others?  If
so, what are the conditions.  If it is not accessible, please so
state.

b) Succession Plan.  Do you have a plan for the disposition of
your material if something should happen to you?  It is not
necessary to announce your plans, only whether or not you have
such a plan.

*NOTE:  As an example to others, all participants agreed that
they would each establish a succession plan.  The "Proceedings"
will discuss the "hows" and "whys" of succession plans in
greater detail.

**ALSO NOTE:  We intend to update such inventories from time to
time and make them more comprehensive.  Please keep the
inventory you submit on file and consider using it as a shell
for a more detailed document.

3) UFO Collections.  We are interested in finding and preserving
UFO collections--especially "lost" collections.  Please let us
know of collections that should be preserved. (If you can give
any details about whereabouts of the collections, description of
contents, and possible contact(s), that would be most welcome.)
Obviously we are aware of the papers of Condon, Menzel, Smith,
Barker, APRO [we would welcome suggestion on how to get access,
here], etc.  However, we would like to know about less well
known collections including information, if known, on location,
contents, accessibility.  (As Loren Gross so aptly put it, "We
would like to know about 'dry holes,' also."  Collections that
are known to be lost or destroyed should be listed.   Personal
papers of individuals associated with UFOs which contain little
or no UFO material are of interest.  Such information will save
time of other researchers.)

4)  Proposals for history related projects.  In the two days of
the workshop we only just skimmed along the surface of what
needs to be done.  Please let us have your ideas.  Please limit
the proposal to no more than two pages.

5)  Historical papers.  Short papers, notes, etc., on some
historical aspect or event which is not well known are most
welcome.  Again, the maximum length should not exceed about
three pages.

6)  Contacts with official and academic bodies--especially from
list members outside the US.  This information would be most
interesting. Official contacts from several countries are
discussed in the current "Preceedings" for Italy, Switzerland,
and Sweden.  Information from other countries is most welcome.

Please consider submitting a contribution for one or all of the
areas listed above.  The deadline is 30 June.

At the MUFON convention, it might be possible to met and discuss
the historical undertakings either individually or in a small
group.  (More on this in another message.)

  Thanks.

Regards,

Jan
--
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
P. O. Box 391, Canterbury, CT 06331, USA
Telephone: (860) 546-9135