The Archives for the Unexplained holds one of the most comprehensive collections of UAP-related documentation ever assembled. Here is what is in it, what is accessible online, and why it matters as a research resource alongside official government disclosures.
The Core Collections
- Books: A global library of UAP publications spanning decades. Titles from researchers, government officials, academics, and investigators across the US, UK, Sweden, France, and beyond.
- Magazines: Complete or near-complete runs of UAP periodicals. This includes publications that no longer exist and whose content is otherwise inaccessible.
- UFO Report Files: Raw investigation files from cases. These include the original witness reports, investigator notes, photographs, and follow-up documentation from Swedish and international cases.
- Clippings: A newspaper and media archive that documents how UAP was covered in the press across different countries and different decades. This is a primary source for the sociology of UAP reporting.
- Audio and Video: Recordings of witness interviews, expert lectures, television broadcasts covering UAP cases, and internal researcher documentation.
- People and Groups: The personal archives of individual researchers — their correspondence, field notes, analysis documents, and collections. When a researcher dies and their materials might otherwise be dispersed or lost, AFU is often where they end up.
- Pictures and Objects: Physical photographs, film, and in some cases physical artefacts associated with UAP cases.
Online Access
AFU has been digitising parts of its collection. The current online access point is files.afu.se — a document and file library with partial holdings from the main archive. This is not a comprehensive digital replica of AFU’s physical holdings, but it provides remote access to a significant portion of the collection without requiring a visit to Norrköping.
Growing in 2025-2026
In November 2025, Swedish folklorist Ebbe Schön’s entire library was donated to AFU, adding a major academic collection on folklore and anomalous phenomena. A Swedish university began incorporating AFU resources into a university-level UAP research course. In February 2026, AFU published an interview with a collector described as possessing more UAP evidence than anyone alive — suggesting further major donations may be in the pipeline.
Source: afu.se. Archives for the Unexplained. Collections documentation and news, 2025–2026.