Anomaly Collections Directory
Other Archives with UFO, Paranormal & Specialized Anomalistic, Esoterica, Forteana Collections
Updated May 2023
Here is an ongoing international index of UFO & Paranormal oriented repositories for books, magazines, newsclippings, and especially personal collections of historic phenomena researchers.
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
Here are some of the best online Collection-Directory pathfinding aides for UFOs, the Paranormal and Parapsychological materials:
- TARO (Texas Archival Resources Online) – UFO Search Results
- UFOArchives: Your Guide to finding UFO-related archives in libraries: Major Collections @Bemidji State University
- Paranormal Studies: Archival Collections @ Rice University Fondren Library, Houston Texas
- PHCP: Preserving the Historical Collections of Parapsychology in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
And thanks to Isaac Koi and others who continue to inspire this Directory / Index effort. See the 1999 Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group for an attempt to outline the content of various UFO archives in several universities and in the hands of private UFO groups/researchers. See also the Resources at Sign Historical Group.
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APRO: Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (defunct / deceased: Jim and Coral Lorenzen)
- Morbid Anatomy Museum & Library, Brooklyn, New York
- APRO Bulletins collection – Open Minds TV (See Wendelle Stevens entry below)
- Unique UFO Archive Hidden in Warehouse (APRO Archives and Files) – Clas Svahn of AFU (Archive.org)
Aldrich, Jan – Folder headings in the file holdings of Jan Aldrich
American Heritage Center – University of Wyoming [Laramie, Wyoming]
Carlos Allende papers, 1943-1994, (bulk 1957-1984)
Jack D. Pickett papers, 1950s-2006
Frank Scully papers, 1924-1985
R. Leo Sprinkle papers, 1961-2004
American Philosophical Society [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA]
Colorado Project Collection / Edward Uhler Condon (1902-1974) Papers
- Condon, Edward – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
- Condon, Edward – ArchiveGrid summary.pdf
Philip J. Klass Collection
Donald Menzel – Papers concerning UFOs, 1952-1976
Ivan Terence Sanderson papers, [ca. 1920-1973]
- See also Michael Swords Collection – “CUFOS – North” [Kalamazoo, Michigan] SITU Archives (Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained & Ivan T. Sanderson) – Link 2011 / Link 2014
ArchiveGrid — About ArchiveGrid
“Archives of the Impossible” [Formerly the GEM Archives: Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism] – Rice University, Houston, Texas
- Archives of the Impossible at Fondren Library’s Woodson Research Center (special collections)
From the certificate program within the Religious Studies department of Rice University, founded by the efforts of Jeff Kripal.
Main Collections:
- Jacques F. Vallee –UFOlogist, computer scientist, venture capitalist.
- Whitley Strieber – author of the Communion books detailing his abduction experiences, and his wife and co-author, Anne Strieber.
- Edwin May – research director at Pentagon’s Star Gate project that focused on ESP research.
- Richard Haines – founder of National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP).
- Brenda Denzler – anthropologist and scholar of the paranormal (books and some archival materials).
- Jeffrey Kripal Academic Papers, 1970-2015
- A full run of Fate magazine.
AFU: Archives For the Unexplained (formerly Archives For UFO Research) [Sweden]
- Collections
- Hilary Evans library
- W. Raymond Drake library
- Mike Hutchinson magazine collection
- Earl J. Neff clipping collection
ARE: Association for Research and Enlightenment (Edgar Cayce) [Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA]
- Edgar Cayce’s ARE Library
- Andrew Jackson Davis
Rare Book Collection - Edgar Cayce Readings
Circulating Files - Egerton Sykes
Rare Book Collection - Historical A.R.E.
Periodicals and Newsletters - Lecture Archives
- Photographs
B –
154 GB NARA Blue Book Archive
Barker, Gray – Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library [Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA]
- Gray Barker UFO Collection
- Barker, Gray – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf (?)
Project Blue Book Archive [www.BlueBookArchive.org] – Currently Offline
Project Blue Book – Black Vault Archive
Bloecher, Ted – Ted Bloecher papers 1950-2000 – Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library [NYC, USA]
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Bloecher, Ted – Inventory.pdf
Bott, Murray – Murray Bott Archives [Mt Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand]
Bray, Arthur – Arthur Bray Collection – University of Ottawa [Ottawa, Canada]
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Canadian UFO Survey [survey.canadianuforeport.com]
- Annual Survey
- Personal Collection of Chris Rutkowski
Carr, Robert S. – Robert Spencer Carr Papers – University of Florida Smathers Libraries [Florida, USA]
Cohen, Daniel Edward – University of Southern Mississippi & de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection
- Daniel & Susan Cohen Papers (1976-2001)
CUFOS: Center for UFO Studies (J. Allen Hynek) [Chicago, Illinois, USA]
- The J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies Collection
- CUFOS – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
- “…maintains a library and archives of UFO-related materials. These materials include books, articles, documents, and sighting reports.”
- See also J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986) Papers – Northwestern University Archives [Evanston, Illinois, USA]
- See also Michael Swords Collection – “CUFOS – North” [Kalamazoo, Michigan]
CISU: Centro Italiano Studi Ufologici (English) [Torino, Italy]
- Research Projects in Italy
- CISU – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
- www.CISU.org
Chalker, Bill – UFO Investigation Centre [West Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia]
- Bill Chalker / Australia Collection
- Chalker, Bill – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library [Clarksburg, West Virginia, USA]
- Gray Barker UFO Collection
- Barker, Gray – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
Connors, Wendy – SHG Audio Archive Project
- Materials went to Rod Dyke‘s Archives for UFO Research, AUFOR
- Connors, Wendy – extract SHG Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
Coody, Robert – NAU Northern Arizona University / Cline Library, Special Collections & Archives (Flagstaff, Arizona)
- “New Age Collection” (including “Anderson Foundation” material)
“Robert (Bob) Coody. At one point, he was employed at Cline Library in Special Collections and Archives.”
- “Flagstaff History For Kids! A portrait of two paleolithic age Native Americans on a hilltop surveying a wooly mammoth hunt in the far distance. Paleo-Indian by Bob Coody”
CDU: Corpus of Ufological Documentation
- Based on funds from the Ikaros/Anomaly Foundation
Craig, Roy – Texas A&M University / Cushing Memorial Library (College Station, Texas, USA)
- Roy Craig Collection on the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects Papers: 1963-ca. 2002
- Craig, Roy – Inventory.pdf
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Davidson, Leon – Flying Saucer Collection at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library: University Special Collections
(Chemical engineer and scientist, one of the team that developed the atomic bomb. Wikipedia)
- Finding Aid: Leon Davidson Flying Saucer Collection ca.1950-1980
- Periodicals and Pamphlets, 1968-1900 (1984 Gift)
Dayton Daily News Archive / Wright State University – DDN Archive of UFO & Weird Collections
- UFOs, Unicorns and other spooky things – October 29, 2012 By Bill
- Finding Aid (PDF)
Discordia, Historia – Kerry Thornley & the Discordian Archives
- HistoriaDiscordia.com (Curated by Crackpot Historian Adam Gorightly)
Druffel, Ann – Expanding Frontiers Research (Formerly, WAPA: Western Aerial Phenomena Archive), Utah
With contributions from Keith Chester, Jan Aldrich, Fran Ridge, Norm Gagnon, Jim Klotz, and Barry Greenwood.
Dyke, Rod – (AUFOR) Archives for UFO Research [Seattle, Washington, USA]
- Wendy Connor’s materials went to Rod Dyke
E –
Esalen Institute Library Online
F –
Faded Discs Project / Wendy Connrors
- Project Blue Book Guide : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
- Huge audio archive of UFO history… collated by ufologist Wendy Connors
- Section A : This brief introduction
- Section B : Wendy Connors and her “Faded Discs Archive”
- Section C : Best place for sharing large audio collections?
- Section D: Best automated means of producing transcripts of audio material?
- Section E : Disc 1 : Ufology: A Primer in Audio (Second Edition) Volume One (1947 – 1964) :33 Tracks – 25+ Hours
- Section F : Disc 2 : Ufology: A Primer in Audio (Second Edition) Volume Two (1964 – 1967) : 29 Tracks – 24+ Hours
- Section G : Disc 3 : UFOs across the Ponds (An Audio Retrospective Of British & Australian Cases) : 51 Tracks – 32+ hours
- Section H : Disc 4 : Project Blue Book : 96 Tracks – 27+ hours
- Section I : Disc 5 : CE IV : An Audio History of Alien Abduction and Animal Mutilation 1957 – 1976 : 56 Tracks – 25+ hours
- Section J : Disc 6 : Saucerology : 48 Tracks – 35+ hours
- Section K : Disc 7 : CE III Humanoids : 34 Tracks – 13+ hours
- Section L : Disc 8 : Cops & Saucers : 41 Tracks – 12+ hours
- Section M : Disc 9 : Profiles in Ufology (Volume One – Donald Keyhoe, James E McDonald & Frank Edwards) : 58 Tracks – 33+ hours
- Section N : Disc 10 : High Strangeness : 19 Tracks – 14+ hours
- Section O : Disc 11 : Hotline audio reports National UFO Reporting Center : 40 Tracks – 5+ hours
- Section P : Disc 12 : 1974 – 1977 Audio case reports National UFO Reporting Center : 252 Tracks – 44 hours
Farish, Lucius (“Lou”) – UFO Newsclipping Service
- Personal files and extensive book collection left to David Marler (see Marler, David below)
Folklore Society Library and Archives
Library and Archives of the Folklore Society are held at University College London (UCL) Library:
Folklore Museums Network
Fuller, John G. – John Fuller Files – Twentieth Century Archives, Boston University [Boston, Massachusetts, USA]
FUFOR: Fund for UFO Research [Alexandria, Virginia, USA]
Donald E. Keyhoe Archives: FUFOR [Mount Rainier, MD]
G –
Green, Gabriel – (Contactee)
- See: RVML: Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library [Ashland, Oregon, USA]
Greenwood UFO Archive [www.GreenwoodUfoArchive.com]
- Archive of Barry Greenwood
Gross, Loren [Fremont, California, USA]
- UFOs: A History / The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse by Loren Gross (Online Archive) – Sign Oral History Project
- Gross, Loren – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
H –
Hall, Manly P.
- Manly Palmer Hall Media Archive and Memorial
- See also Philosophical Research Society (Manly P. Hall) [California, USA]
Museum of Hidden History and the Hidden History Center [York, Pennsylvania]
- “a library and research center. It contains the McGehee and Penn Jones Collections, as well as a very large collection of books and archival documents that belonged to our founder, John Judge.”
Hill, Betty and Barney – University of New Hampshire Library
Hill, Paul – Paul R. Hill Collection, 1936-1996 – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [Blacksburg, Virginia,USA]
Holland Collections
Hynek, J. Allen – J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986) Papers – Northwestern University Archives [Evanston, Illinois, USA]
I –
IAPSOP: International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
- A for Aberree (Scientology) to Z for Zum Licht
ICM: International Cryptozoology Museum (Loren Coleman) [Portland, Maine, USA]
- CryptozoologyMuseum.com
- Various Collections including some John Keel materials.
International UFO Museum and Research Center [Roswell, New Mexico, USA]
- Research Library / Point of Contact
- George Fawcett and Elmer Sabo Collection
- Fawcett, George – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
Internet UFO Bibliography (Rick Harrison)
Intruders Foundation (defunct / materials disposition uncertain)
- Budd Hopkins Archives: “…since the death of Hopkins in 2011, David Jacobs has been the guardian of most or all of the tape recordings of Hopkins’ regressive hypnosis sessions. That included some 600 hypnosis subjects…”
- Controversy: Security of Budd Hopkins Archive Called into Question, David Jacobs Shares Responsibility
J –
Jones, Cecil B. “Scott” – C. B. “Scott” Jones papers – University of Colorado, Boulder
Part of the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, Rare and Distinctive Collections Repository
“The Cecil. B. “Scott” Jones collection contains original documents from the 1960s-2013 and copied documents from as early as 1943. The majority pertain to his work as an assistant to Senator Clairborne Pell, with the Human Potential Foundation (HPF), and with the Peace and Emergency Action Coalition for Earth (PEACE). Also included are documents related to his time with the U.S. Navy as a fighter pilot and later as a Naval Intelligence officer, his work with a think tank in California called Kaman Tempo, and his work for a short lived non-profit named the Center for Applied Anomalous Phenomena (CAAP).”
Jones, William E – William E Jones UFO Collection – Ohio State University [Columbus, Ohio, USA]
- FINDING AID: Preliminary Inventory of the UFO Collection: Unprocessed Materials, undated SPEC.RARE.0019
- FINDING AID: Preliminary Inventory of the William E. Jones Collection on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), 1940-2013 SPEC.RARE.0018
K –
Chief Dan Katchongva Papers – Processed by The Autry National Center, Braun Research Library (Autry Museum of the American West)
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“Katchongva (1860-1972) was a traditional leader and Hopi Chief at Hotevilla, Arizona. This collection consists of material primarily created between 1970-1971. They include photocopies of correspondence from Chief Dan Katchongva to tribal, church, and government leaders; press clippings; and posters related to unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings near Prescott, Arizona and its relation to a Hopi prophecy. You can access the finding aid at…”
oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8tq630q/entire_text/ (PDF)
Source: National Historical Publications and Records Commission (Facebook post)
Keel, John (NYC / Portland, Oregon, USA)
- JohnKeel.com – Doug Skinner
- see also Loren Coleman’s International Cryptozoology Museum (Jadoo)
Koi, Isaac [www.IsaacKoi.com / UFO Collective discussion group]
L –
Leary, Timothy
Lexscien – Online Library / Digital Collections Consortium [www.LexScien.org]
M –
Jesse A. Marcel Library (JAML) – Montana
- Maintained by Dr. Richard O’Connor & the Crop Circles Research Foundation, Inc.
Marler, David – University of New Mexico (UNM) Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections – Rio Rancho, NM
- DavidMarlerUFO.com
- Lucius Farish Archives
- UFO researcher earmarks collection for UNM – Albuquerque Journal
Marrs, Jim – See University Of North Texas Special Collections
McDonald, James – Arizona Archives Online & Arizona University Libraries Special Collections
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McDonald, James – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
MUFON: Mutual UFO Network [Cincinnati, Ohio, USA]
- Archival materials with many file-cabinets worth of paper files (and allegedly digitized files), abduction hypnosis session transcripts, sightings reports, and more are somewhere in a airport plane hangar which may or may not be the one portrayed in the recent cable TV series Hangar-1.
- Past Controversy: The Carpenter Affair: For the Record
- Leonard Stringfield research materials were donated to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), “according to an August 3, 2012, announcement by [then] MUFON Executive Director David MacDonald.“
N –
NICAP: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena [Original archive whereabouts unknown]
NOUFORS: Northern Ontario UFO Research & Study [Ontario, Canada]
NUFOHRC – National UFO Historical Records Center
- NUFOHRC.org
- NICAP and CUFOS case files including J. Allen Hynek’s personal Project Blue Book files
- Personal collections including…
- Philip Mantle from the UK
- Antonio Huneeus
- Lou Farish
O –
Olmos, Vicente-Juan Ballester – Fotocat
- Fotocat Blog
OPUS: Organization For Paranormal Understanding and Support [Virtual]
P –
PARANOIA Magazine Archives [Waco, Texas & Kingston, Rhode Island]
- Baylor University / Poage Legislative Library – Building 64
One Bear Place 97153
Waco, Texas 76798
. . . and . . .
- University of Rhode Island / Carothers Library and Learning Commons – Special Collections
15 Lippitt Road
Kingston, Rhode Island 02881
Peebles, Curtis [San Diego Air and Space Museum Library and Archives / OAC – Online Archive of California]
PHCP: Preserving the Historical Collections of Parapsychology [Victoria, British Columbia, Canada]
Parapsychology Foundation Library [Greenport, New York, USA]
Philosophical Research Society (Manly P. Hall) [California, USA]
Pflock, Karl
350+ books including, a complete bound set of, Nexus/Saucer News/Saucer Smear, 1954 to date (this will go to the Gray Barker Collection). … A complete copy set of all material will go to the library at the University of New Hampshire, Betty Hill’s alma mater. The original material will go to the OSU collection.
Psychical Research and Spiritualism Collections – University of Manitoba [Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada]
Psychical Research & Spiritualism Collections:
“The University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections has acquired a number of manuscript collections and rare books related to the study of these disciplines. The collections and books represented on these pages were chosen for the value of their information about matters of the occult and paranormal. Some collections have direct and immediately apparent relevance while others are connected peripherally to psychical research and spiritualism. Also included are links to photograph collections in this area of study.”
Includes the archives for Alexander Imich, founder of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center. [Finding Aid]
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R –
Realist Archive Project (Zine)
Roach, Franklin – University of Alaska [Fairbanks, Alaska, USA]
RVML: Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library [Ashland, Oregon, USA]
Ruppelt, Edward
- Ruppelt, Edward – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
- See also Michael Swords Collection – “CUFOS – North” [Kalamazoo, Michigan]
- The Edward Ruppelt Papers, Succession: “The UFO Research Coalition under the keepership of CUFOS owns The Ruppelt papers. Dr. Swords holds the collection for CUFOS and URC until they request relocation.”
S –
Sagan, Carl
Salisbury, Frank Boyer – J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah [Salt Lake City, Utah, USA]
Sign Historical Group [Canterbury, Connecticut, USA]
- UFOs: A History / The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse by Loren Gross (Online Archive) – Sign Oral History Project
- Olavos T. Fontes Collection
- www.project1947.com/shg/
- See also Project 1947
Project SIGN Research Center Archives [Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA]
Sign Oral History Project [Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA]
Sourcebook Project: Science Frontiers – Digest of Scientific Anomalies (William Roger Corliss Archives) [Glen Arm, Maryland, USA]
- Science-Frontiers.com (archives not yet publicly available)
SPR: Society for Psychical Research [London, England]
SRIC: Survival Research Institute of Canada
- SRIC: SurvivalResearch.ca (website)
Survival Research Institute of Canada
PO Box 8697, Victoria, BC V8W 3S3 Canada
Stevens, Wendelle
- APRO Bulletins collection – Open Minds TV
“Lt. Col. Wendelle Stevens moved to Tucson when he retired from the USAF, where he had the opportunity of working closely with the Lorenzens for many years. His collection of the Bulletinspans decades, from 1954 into the early1980s, providing an invaluable record of that ufological era.”
Stringfield, Leonard
See: MUFON: Mutual UFO Network [Newport Beach, California, USA]
“Stringfield (1920-1994) was an American ufologist who worked with government and private agencies to track UFO reports and had a special interest in reports of crashed objects.” – Roger Marsh
Switzerland Collections
Swords, Michael – “CUFOS – North” [Kalamazoo, Michigan]
- The Michael Sword Collection – Link 2013 / 2014 Digitization Update
- Succession: “This collection is, in part, owned or controlled by CUFOS, and, in part, by Dr. Swords. The collection will be given to CUFOS when appropriate.”
- “The collection is owned by Dr. Swords. They will, at the appropriate time, be deposited with CUFOS.” ????
- George Hunt Williamson Collection (see also Robert C. Girard Collection) – Link 2011 / 2013
- SITU Archives (Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained & Ivan T. Sanderson) – Link 2011 / Link 2014
- Swords, Michael – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
- Ruppelt, Edward – extract from Sign Historical Group Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
T –
Thomas, Kenn – Steamshovel Press magazine editor / publisher [State Historical Society of Missouri, Research Centers]
- The Kenn Thomas Papers – Preliminary Inventory (PDF) @ The State Historical Society of Missouri
U –
Ufodex
University Of North Texas Special Collections
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W –
Webb, Jack – UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library [Los Angeles, California, USA]
- Project Blue Book Copies of Records, 1947-1977 (Investigative reports of the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book … as well as scripts and related material from the television show Project U.F.O. produced by Jack Webb.)
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Webb, Jack – Inventory2.pdf
Williamson, George Hunt – Contactee
- See Michael Swords’ Personal Archives [Kalamazoo, Michigan] – Link 2013 / 2014 Digitization Update
- See Anomaly Archives > Robert C. Girard Collection – Link 2011 / 2013
- Williamson, George Hunt – extract SHG Proceedings (1999) edited by Thomas Tulien.pdf
WISE (World Institute for Scientific Exploration) Worldwide Resource Center – Digital Library (Dr. John Reed)
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Y –
Young, Arthur M. – Anodos Foundation
Z –