Tuesday, May 20, 2014

K Gsta Rehn A Pioneer

K Gsta Rehn A Pioneer
On June 17, 1989 K. G"osta Rehn died in Stockholm, 97 get-up-and-go old. He was the grand old man and investor of UFO research in Sweden. Sooner than in 1978 he donated booth of his gathering of books and magazines to AFU and he told his preschooler, Greta Frankel, that the left behind files, for the most part consisting of packages, would go to AFU after his bereavement. On Grand 27, 1989 Anders Liljegren and I went by car to his spot in Bromma, coating of Stockholm to impose the rest of the giving. We were curious to link only this minute a few books and magazines. Greta Frankel told us that she had dumped all packages in a sachet in the patch about a week ago. Wintry we walked to the plug of the house. And communicate was the sachet past 32 binders packed past fathomless packages past UFO witnesses, ufologists and scientists from all over the world. We were overjoyed at our opportunity. This colossally beguiling gathering is now housed at AFU and all packages has been digitized. Of special disquiet are the many script from Jim and Coral Lorenzen, as K. G"osta Rehn was APRO representative for Sweden. The APRO records is despondently not amenable to the UFO empathize.

K. G"osta Rehn

K. G"osta Rehn was natural in 1891 and exhibited congruous talents such as very countrified. He played violin and upright and was booth of the pupil singing group such as Marie Curie standard the Nobel recommendation in Chemistry 1911. His image was to enter a job as consert pianist but the reduction reduction finished his thoughts and he was trustworthy to office Law sooner. In 1919 he standard a permit and travelled to the United States to office Law and Economics. At Fordham Academe he earned the degrees of bachelor of law and bachelor of arts. He wedded in New York 1922 and the join up had one preschooler, Greta Frankel. The cave of the 1930s was a trying time for the Rehn reduction and he was systematically out of work. The marriage ceremony finished and he returned to Sweden in 1939.

K. G"osta Rehn was an alert and complicated wise. He was well au fait past the latest set in Humanities as well as Natural Science and wrote articles on reduction, neurology, sematics, lessons and psychology. In 1954 he decipher Donald Keyhoe's paradigm "Carried by the wind Serving dishes From Scarce Place" and became outstandingly attentive by the UFO cloak-and-dagger. Rehn ready a Swedish description of the Keyhoe book which was published in 1955. In bad feeling of his distaste to religion and occultism (he was a hardline atheist, materialist and communalist) he became an nimble ufologist, arena investigator and Swedish representative for Mast Phenomena Conduct experiment Alliance (APRO) in 1958.

The Keyhoe book translated by K. G"osta Rehn

Sooner than in 1960 he had the manuscript to his first book prepared but it was not published until 1966. "De flygande tefaten. Dokument och teori" (The Carried by the wind Serving dishes. Certification and Theories) was the first technically oriented UFO book published by a Swedish corral. It was very well standard in the Swedish press. Rehn tried to disquiet scientists and intellectuals to discipline the UFO state of affairs. In the wide-ranging packages communicate are script to famous Swedish scientists even Tord Vestibule, David Ingvar, Tor Ragnar Gerholm and Ingemar Hedenius. He ready his ideological upright support very clear from the start: "I beg that the saucers are useful craft. That they work out from farther than space is the only this minute permission conception." Rehn was in addition explicit communicate was a facade by the CIA.

Offer was three particularly books from the pen of K. G"osta Rehn. "UFO-utmaningen" (The UFO Request) was the last one published in 1976 such as his bad spectacle finished his ufologicial job. As an atheist and materialist Rehn regarded the theories of John Keel and Jacques Vallee as "a concentrated bill alley". He fought snappily against doesn't matter what that may well be regarded as occultism in ufology. The ETI theory was the only this minute technically actual. His estimation, in a note down to Coral Lorenzen, of the books by contactee Daniel Fry was "three masterpieces of drivel". But in his last book he was blatantly intrigued by the reports of humanoids who may well reside in our emotion and walk on earth weakness impediment. "Might they work out from our own planet? But how?"

Daniel Fry (departed) in inform past K. G"osta Rehn in 1970

K. G"osta Rehn was, in bad feeling of his greedy lessons, a soothsayer. In his 1972 book he writes: "The saucers speak well of us inspiration, a pledge of contact past handiwork." He used to say the he full-fledged the psychic in his attachment for music. In the Rehn files in AFU I found a document from a Swedish employer humanitarian this estimation of his character: "Harsh enthusiastic but everything of a logician".