Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. OK, here’s the problem: On June 24, 1981—the anniversary of the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold that kicked off the modern UFO era, if … [Read more...]
“Project Blue Book” – Truth, History, and the History Channel
I hate to admit it, but I have no choice. I've started to look forward to the weekly one-hour shows of the History Channel series, "Project Blue Book." My initial response to the debut episode two weeks ago was that it was trash: awful as history, mediocre as drama. I still think it's trash, … [Read more...]
“Project Blue Book,” “The History Journal,” and the New York Times
For about fifteen seconds, it did look like a real newspaper when my friend Jake Horwitz handed it to me over lunch. HUNDREDS WITNESS MYSTERIOUS UFOS, the headline proclaimed in enormous type, and beneath it a photo of an arc of white lights embedded in a luminous green ring, against the background … [Read more...]
St. Stephen and King Herod – A Day-After-Christmas Story
"Good King Wenceslas looked out On the Feast of Stephen ..." Did you know that December 26 is St. Stephen's Day, the "Feast of Stephen" of the carol? Very likely you did. For me, a Jewish boy, such things were esoteric, almost forbidden lore. When I discovered them, I found them entirely … [Read more...]
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show – XZRS: David Halperin – Journal of a UFO Investigator: A Novel
It was the oddest experience I've ever had doing a radio interview. Or possibly the most remarkable. I'm still not sure to what extent Rob McConnell and I managed to communicate when he interviewed me for his "X" Zone Radio Show about my 2011 novel Journal of a UFO Investigator. I seem not to … [Read more...]
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