Among the unanswerable questions that come up as I ponder my life: At age 12-going-on-13, scared out of my senses but also thrilled and energized by Gray Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, could I have imagined that at age 71 I'd be planning to use that same book as a text for a … [Read more...]
Jerome Clark’s “UFO Encyclopedia” – Thomas Bullard’s “Abduction Phenomenon”
Where have all the abductees gone? Back in the 90s, which feels in retrospect like UFOlogy's golden decade, they seemed to be everywhere. Comic strips spoofed them, a sure sign of their high visibility--readers could be counted on to get the joke. With the new century, perhaps helped along by … [Read more...]
The Orson Welles Martian Invasion – “The Night America Trembled”
In September 1957, when I was nine years old, my parents and I watched a one-hour TV show entitled "The Night America Trembled." The night in question was October 30, 1938, which my father and mother remembered well although of course I didn't. That was when a brilliantly conceived radio … [Read more...]
Dreams of Aliens and Alien Abductions – The Kelly Bulkeley Dossier
I posted last time about what turned up when I searched Kelly Bulkeley's Sleep and Dreams database for dreams that mentioned "UFO" (17 reports, of what seem to have been 15 distinct dreams) and "flying saucers" (4). I also did a search for "alien," and here the harvest was considerably more … [Read more...]
Dreams of UFOs and “Flying Saucers” – the Kelly Bulkeley Dossier
"Laying on our couch, seem to be half awake and half asleep and seeing different colored lights through the window and UFO's were all over the sky and floating around the houses all over town. I was screaming in my dream for my husband to help. He and my son were in the room watching TV and I kept … [Read more...]
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