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Periodical: Infinity Newsletter

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Infinity Newsletter.
Latest Serious Ufology News From All Over the World.
Other titles: Barlow studio's International Infinity Newsletter
1945--1957?
Quarterly
Waterbury, CT.
Editor: Haughton Barlow.
Publisher: Published for Barlow Studio & UFO-Center by Ye Olde Town Gossip Press.
1/1, January 1945.
9-40 typewritten pages, 50 cents or 15 different UFO clippings.

Barlow (1928-2014) was a journalist who happened on the works of Charles Fort during World War II, read stories about Foo-Fighters in the European theater, and realized that "the startling world of Fort was THIS world" and that "Science-Fiction becomes a FACT." He devoted his time thereafter into research into the "unknown" in his "studio," a mobile home on a lake. In 1947 came Kenneth Arnold and UFOs and he realized he was "not alone in my curiosity." "We are dedicated to seriously Exploring, Recording, Compiling & Correlating the Unknown. The Unknown shall always be Infinite, but we tiny creatures must forever strive to overcome it. All of us must bring Calmness, Integrity and open-Mind into the battle, and don't think it isn't a Battle." The journal itself had pages of bare-bones summary descriptions of UFO reports arranged chronologically, with a similar list of the current mysterious and unknown, all interspersed with Barlow's Fortean comments.

The newsletter has now been compiled into a book, The Collected Issues of Infinity Newsletter (2020).

Issues:Infinity Newsletter N48 Oct-dec 1956
Infinity Newsletter N49 Jan-mar 1957
Infinity Newsletter N50 May-aug 1957
Infinity Newsletter N51 Sep-dec 1957


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