Hundebladet

Hundebladet was a newsletter Anders Lange began publishing in 1948 as an extension of his dog kennel. Though its title can be rendered as Dog News, the publication soon ranged well beyond canine matters. Its importance lay partly in that expansion: Lange’s tolerant editorial policy made the newsletter a meeting point for alternative perspectives, including interests that did not necessarily share a political focus.

Origins and Editorial Scope

Lange’s publishing venture grew out of his enthusiasm for dogs and the practical world of his kennel. But Hundebladet did not remain a specialist canine publication. Its editorial openness allowed it to gather material on a broad range of subjects, turning a newsletter rooted in one man’s dog keeping into a venue for disparate ideas.

That breadth matters when considering the publication’s later association with UFO speculation. The newsletter offered space for such material, but it should not be understood as exclusively—or even principally—devoted to it. Its stated editorial character was permissive rather than narrowly programmatic.

UFOs and Its Readership

Hundebladet regularly printed articles and items concerning flying saucers. The book suggests that Lange may have regarded UFO speculation as a natural extension of his interest in Vidkun Quisling’s Universism theories, while treating that connection as a possibility rather than a certainty. Whatever Lange’s own reasoning, the subject drew readers whose interest lay more in extraterrestrial spacecraft than in politics.

The distinction between what the newsletter published and what mattered most within its pages is important. Per Bangsund, reflecting on the publication, recalled that UFOs had not been a major issue in Hundebladet. The campaign against fluoridated water, he said, had been far more important. His recollection complicates any impression that the regular appearance of flying-saucer material made the newsletter chiefly a UFO publication.

A Forum for Alternative Interests

Hundebladet’s range connected subjects that might otherwise appear unrelated: dog keeping, political ideas, opposition to fluoridated water, and speculation about life beyond Earth. Its tolerant editorial policy gave these interests room to coexist without making them equivalent or indicating that every reader shared them. The publication’s record therefore points less to a single doctrine than to a forum whose openness attracted varied contributors and audiences.

Its UFO content is revealing precisely in this limited sense. Flying-saucer stories helped bring in readers interested in extraterrestrial craft, but Bangsund’s retrospective places them alongside, and below in importance, other concerns. Hundebladet’s broader significance was its capacity to collect alternative perspectives in one publication, not the dominance of any one of them.