Glenn Campbell's UFOmind.com (best UFO website of the 1990s?) - 400,000+ links replaced. Browsable HTML and searchable PDFs added to archive
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Isaac Koi
Mar 2, 2022, 7:57:23 AM3/2/22
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In the 1990s, my favourite UFO website was run by Glenn Campbell (known as "UFOmind.com" or the "Aliens on Earth" website).
UFOmind.com provided a massive directory of links to material about UFOs and Area 51 on numerous websites (both UFO and mainstream) and a helpful guide to the personalities involved.
Glenn Campbell sadly passed away in December 2021.
A few parts of his UFOmind website are currently still online. However:
(1) The colours have changed so that most of the text is the same colour as the background. This makes most of the text invisible.
(2) Most of the links to other websites that existed in the 1990s have not been updated since 1996 and are now dead.
(3) Back in about 2001, many of the pages were deleted by Glenn Campbell because the links on them no longer worked and he did not have the time (or apparently the interest) to maintain them any longer. While there may not have been any realistic alternative at that time, those deletions ripped the heart out of the UFO Mind website.
Many of the UFOmind webpages have been archived on various dates by the Wayback Machine's Internet Archive. However, that archive is not easily searched. Also, many of the links do not work on most of the archived copies of each page. You have to know which version of each page to access.
Today, it is possible - with a bit of effort (following steps I've detailed below, partly because I think the same steps could be adapted to resurrect some other UFO websites...) - to use the material in the Wayback Machine's Internet Archive as a starting point but then automate replacing the dead links with working links to archived copies of most of those webpages and then also convert the material into searchable PDFs.
I think this archive provides a useful resource for finding much of the UFO material posted online in the 1990s on websites that are now defunct (but often stored in the Wayback Machine and with the links in this copy of the UFOmind.com website are now generally accessible). This archive has certainly brought back a lot of memories for me - in addition to helping find some material on Bob Lazar and others...
Glenn Campbell kindly gave me permission to share his UFO material online a few years ago and I added copies of his Desert Rat newsletters to my online archive back then in the folder for UFO publications from the USA. I think the permission he kindly gave back then covers this upload as well (which, as I've mentioned above, is already in the Wayback Machine's Internet Archive but generally unsearchable and with broken links on most pages).
A significant part of the UFOmind website was the inclusion of various discussion lists relating to Area 51 and UFOs. The main such list evolved into the UFO Updates email discussion list, moderated by Errol Bruce-Knapp. Errol also kindly gave me permission to share an archive of that discussion list a few years ago, and searchable PDF copies of the numerous posts by leading UFO researchers over many years to the UFO Updates email discussion list are already in my online archive.
The html version of the UFOmind website with revised links, and the archive of searchable PDFs, are both now in the archive I have been helping to make freely available online.
Links and further details are in my blog post at the link below:
For those that just want to browse the revised html version, you can click on the direct link below:
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