Valerie Nieman. Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2018. I may have mentioned once or twice in the course of the past several years' blogging: I don't read a whole lot of poetry. Not that I have anything against poetry or poets. It's just that my attention normally … [Read more...]
UFO Skywatch – December 26-27, 1963
NJAAP PENNSYLVANIA-NEW JERSEY SKYWATCH PRODUCES NO SIGNIFICANT RESULTS But, Undaunted, We Begin Preparing For Another It's a (deservedly) forgotten bit of UFO history: the "skywatch" organized for December 26-27, 1963, by the New Jersey Association on Aerial Phenomena, the small … [Read more...]
Pascagoula to Medjugorje – The Enigma of the Shared Vision
I missed out on the great UFO wave of October 1973. I was in Israel at the time, there to write my dissertation on the "chariot" vision of the prophet Ezekiel. (A UFO? Some think it was.) I'd stepped off the plane the previous August, wholly unaware--naturally--that in another two months a major … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 3)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. So what's the takeaway from all this, for us UFOlogists? By "all this," I'm referring to the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a group … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 2)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. (Continued from my previous post.) "A few years ago," British historian Ronald Hutton wrote in 1999, "I was lunching in a hotel restaurant … [Read more...]
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