Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) — formerly Archives for UFO Research — is the world’s largest UAP and paranormal archive. Founded 1973 by Håkan Blomqvist, Kjell Jonsson, and Anders Liljegren in Södertälje, Sweden. Located underground in apartment cellars in Norrköping. HOLDINGS: 4.2 kilometres of shelving in 15 locations. 55,000+ books. 88,000 magazine issues. 650,000 newspaper clippings. 30,000 photographs, films, tape recordings. 55,000+ UFO reports. 20,000 Swedish UAP observations. 2,000 Swedish Armed Forces cases (mostly ghost rockets). Archives donated from Norway, Denmark, and other Scandinavian countries. UNIQUE ITEMS: Soviet underground UFO scene documents — typed clandestinely in only 7-8 original copies, with handwritten Russian margin notes and sketches of rockets. Thousands of previously classified Swedish Military ghost rocket documents from the 1946 wave. US News & World Report: “among the most comprehensive digital libraries for UFO sightings and investigations into them by governments worldwide.” Jacques Vallee: “without question the most comprehensive archive for materials involving the global history of the UFO phenomenon in the world. One cannot study the subject thoroughly without consulting its holdings.” J. Allen Hynek quoted on their homepage. Chairman: Clas Svahn — the researcher who personally interviewed Karl-Gösta Bartoll in 1984 and extracted the key ghost rockets intelligence. JESSE MICHELS CONNECTION: AFU’s Facebook noted Michels as actively in conversations with key UAP figures. Direct URL: afu.se
