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Periodical: Pursuit (SITU)

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Pursuit.
The Newsletter of the Society for Investigation of the Unexplained.
Science is the Pursuit of the Unexplained
1968--1989
Quarterly
Columbia, NJ.
Editor: John A. Keel, Hans Stefan Santesson, et al.
Publisher: Ivan T. Sanderson Foundation.
1/3, June 1968-1989 (the journal incorporated the first two issues of the Foundation's newsletter, May 1967 and March 1968, and began its own numbering with vol. 1, no. 3, June 1969).
32-60 pp. (varies). Subscription included in $5.00-$12.00 a year dues.

The Society for Investigation of the Unexplained (SITU) was founded by Ivan T. Sanderson (1911-1973) in 1965 to acquire, investigate and report on tangible objects in science that were not readily explained. Over time, these goals were expanded to include all Fortean subjects, like the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull, UFOs, Atlantis, Charles Hapgood's Piri Reis maps and earth's shifting poles, curanderos, vampires, incorruptible bodies, leylines, Tesla, Sinistrari's demons and semen, transcriptions of Charles Fort's notebooks, etc. Sanderson was a Scottish biologist who moved to the United States and achieved some fame in the 1950s and 1960s was a popularizer of various cryptids (especially the Abominable Snowman) and cryptozoology in general. The journal regularly contained excerpts from the press on unexplained and mysterious events. At various times it was accompanied by an irregular Newsletter and a monthly newspaper, The Animal World, for young people. John A. Keel (1930-2009) was a leading author of the period on the unexplained, beginning with his The Mothman Prophecies (1975), which explored the coming of red-eyed and winged beings to Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He was basically Fortean in his approach and came to reject the space-ship and physical alien approach to UFOs and focus on them as psychic phenomena. He is said to have coined the phrase "Men in Black" in 1967.

Issues:Pursuit I01 V01 N1 1967
Pursuit I02 V01 N2 1968
Pursuit I03 V01 N3 1968
Pursuit I04 V01 N4 1968
Pursuit I05 V02 N1 1969
Pursuit I06 V02 N2 1969
Pursuit I07 V02 N3 1969
Pursuit I08 V02 N4 1969
Pursuit I09 V03 N1 1970
Pursuit I10 V03 N2 1970
Pursuit I11 V03 N3 1970
Pursuit I12 V03 N4 1970
Pursuit I13 V04 N1 1971
Pursuit I14 V04 N2 1971
Pursuit I15 V04 N3 1971
Pursuit I16 V04 N4 1971
Pursuit I17 V05 N1 1972
Pursuit I18 V05 N2 1972
Pursuit I19 V05 N3 1972
Pursuit I20 V05 N4 1972
Pursuit I21 V06 N1 1973
Pursuit I22 V06 N2 1973
Pursuit I23 V06 N3 1973
Pursuit I24 V06 N4 1973
Pursuit I25 V07 N1 1974
Pursuit I26 V07 N2 1974
Pursuit I27 V07 N3 1974
Pursuit I28 V07 N4 1974
Pursuit I29 V08 N1 1975
Pursuit I30 V08 N2 1975
Pursuit I31 V08 N3 1975
Pursuit I32 V08 N4 1975
Pursuit I33 V09 N1 1976
Pursuit I34 V09 N2 1976
Pursuit I35 V09 N3 1976
Pursuit I36 V09 N4 1976
Pursuit I37 V10 N1 1977
Pursuit I38 V10 N2 1977
Pursuit I39 V10 N3 1977
Pursuit I40 V10 N4 1977
Pursuit I41 V11 N1 1978
Pursuit I42 V11 N2 1978
Pursuit I43 V11 N3 1978
Pursuit I44 V11 N4 1978
Pursuit I45 V12 N1 1979
Pursuit I46 V12 N2 1979
Pursuit I47 V12 N3 1979
Pursuit I48 V12 N4 1979
Pursuit I49 V13 N1 1980
Pursuit I50 V13 N2 1980
Pursuit I51 V13 N3 1980
Pursuit I52 V13 N4 1980
Pursuit I53 V14 N1 1981
Pursuit I54 V14 N2 1981
Pursuit I55 V14 N3 1981
Pursuit I56 V14 N4 1981
Pursuit I57 V15 N1 1982
Pursuit I58 V15 N2 1982
Pursuit I59 V15 N3 1982
Pursuit I60 V15 N4 1982
Pursuit I61 V16 N1 1983
Pursuit I62 V16 N2 1983
Pursuit I63 V16 N3 1983
Pursuit I64 V16 N4 1983
Pursuit I65 V17 N1 1984
Pursuit I66 V17 N2 1984
Pursuit I67 V17 N3 1984
Pursuit I68 V17 N4 1984
Pursuit I69 V18 N1 1985
Pursuit I70 V18 N2 1985
Pursuit I71 V18 N3 1985
Pursuit I72 V18 N4 1985
Pursuit I73 V19 N1 1986
Pursuit I74 V19 N2 1986
Pursuit I75 V19 N3 1986
Pursuit I76 V19 N4 1986
Pursuit I77 V20 N1 1987
Pursuit I78 V20 N2 1987
Pursuit I79 V20 N3 1987
Pursuit I80 V20 N4 1987
Pursuit I81 V21 N1 1988
Pursuit I82 V21 N2 1988
Pursuit I83 V21 N3 1988
Pursuit I84 V21 N4 1988
Pursuit I85 V22 N1 1989


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