Wendelle Stevens Ufology collection

Collection

Identifier: MS 1014

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Content Description

This collection documents Stevens' UFO investigations, business history, and communications. There are correspondence files, reference material, cassette tapes, audiovisual materials, and photographs.

These materials were maintained by the organization "Open Minds," after the death of Wendelle Stevens.

Harmful content notice: This collection contains several items with anti-semitic messages.

Dates

Creation: 1970 - 1999

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from the Wendelle Stevens Ufology collection, 1970-1999, MS 1014, must be facilitated through the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University. The Woodson Research Center use policy is that researchers assume sole responsibility for any infringement of privacy, literary rights, copyrights, or other rights arising from their use of the archival materials.

Biographical / Historical

Wendelle C. Stevens was born on January 18, 1923 in Round Prairie, Minnesota. Shortly after graduating high school Stevens enlisted in the Army where he worked as an airplane mechanic. He rose to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army Air Corps and would eventually become a Lieutenant Colonel. During his time in the service Stevens was assigned to Alaska for polar survey projects and mapping. It was during this period Stevens encountered UFO stories and became interested in the topic. He retired from military service in 1963.

Stevens became an investigator, photographer, author, and private publisher for UFO and related phenomena ultimately starting the business, UFO Photo Archives to support his work. His most notable case is that of Eduard “Billy” Meier in which Meier alleged to be in contact with beings from the planet Plejaren. From 1983 to 1988, Stevens was incarcerated in the Arizona State Prison system. He was released from parole in 1988. Stevens dedicated the rest of his life to the study of ufology and died on September 7, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona.