Archives for the Unexplained (AFU): Sweden's Comprehensive UFO Archive in Norrköping

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AFU is a Sweden-based nonprofit in Norrköping that builds a large, volunteer-run archive about UFOs, ufology, Forteana, cryptozoology, paranormal phenomena and folklore, founded in 1973 by Håkan Blomqvist, Kjell Jonsson and Anders Liljegren, later joining UFO-Sweden, growing to store thousands of books, magazines, clippings, photos and other material across multiple sites, led by Clas Svahn, renamed in 2013, and recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the most comprehensive digital libraries for UFO sightings and government investigations.

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Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) is a Sweden-based nonprofit foundation in Norrköping dedicated to collecting UFOs, ufology, Forteana, cryptozoology, paranormal phenomena and folklore, founded in Södertälje in 1973 by Håkan Blomqvist, Kjell Jonsson and Anders Liljegren as the Work Group for Ufology, relocated in 1980, aligned with UFO-Sweden in 1986, renamed AFU in 2013, and boasting about 3.5 km of shelves across 15 locations with more than 55,000 books, 88,000 magazine issues, 650,000 newspaper clippings, 30,000 photographs and other media plus scale models, paintings and memorabilia, housing Scandinavian and British archives including over 55,000 reports and file collections, around 20,000 Swedish observations and 2,000 open Swedish Armed Forces investigations since 1946, continuing to grow through donations from Norway, Denmark and others, organized by a specialized subject classification system, operating largely on volunteers with Clas Svahn as chairman, and described by U.S. News & World Report as among the most comprehensive digital libraries for UFO sightings and government investigations worldwide.