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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.
Language: English.
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).
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