An ancient visit by an alien star, runs the headline in the Health & Science section of The Week magazine (April 13, 2018); and the story begins: "A wandering binary star sideswiped the solar system some 70,000 years ago, knocking dozens of far-flung comets and asteroids into unusual orbits. … [Read more...]
“The Stranger” and the Westall UFO – Some Afterthoughts
Last month, I put up a two-part post on "The Stranger," the hit Australian TV series of 1964-65, and its possible influence on the dramatic UFO incident at Westall High School in Melbourne on April 6, 1966. ("Dramatic," at least, as recalled by some of the participants. Others were unimpressed; … [Read more...]
“Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO” – Coming 2020 from Stanford University Press
We were going to call our book The Flying Saucer Mystery. This was 57 years ago, when I'd just turned 13, and my pal Bryan and I were fired up with the idea that two bright eighth-graders like us could write the definitive book on the "elusive disks," as one writer called them. Heck, we could … [Read more...]
“The Stranger” and the Westall UFO – Does Life Imitate TV? (Part 2)
"We shall forget all about this meeting, yes? We will say nothing to anyone about it. Please?" So speaks the mysterious "stranger"--real name unknown, even to himself; called "Adam" after the "new man" of the Bible--to his three young friends, midway through episode 2 of the 1964-65 Australian … [Read more...]
“The Stranger” and the Westall UFO – Does Life Imitate TV? (Part 1)
They say life imitates art. Do UFOs imitate cinema and TV? That is to say, when a particularly compelling image of spaceships or aliens figures in a popular movie or TV show, do people start imagining—and testifying, with every appearance of sincerity—that they’ve seen it in the sky? There’s at … [Read more...]
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