"This is all an insoluble mystery to me," said I. "It grows darker instead of clearer." "On the contrary," he answered, "it clears every instant. I only require a few missing links to have an entirely connected case." --Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes, in The Sign of the Four A few days ago, I … [Read more...]
“Ghost Rockets” – The UFO That Landed in Lake Nammajaure
A narrow trail through a stunted, dank green woodland. A city street where two middle-aged men walk through pouring rain under a skeletal black umbrella that's too decrepit to shelter one of them, much less both. An outdoor table on a starless night, where two old men sit speculating on what … [Read more...]
“Westall ’66” – UFO, Memory, Under-story
I spent much of the past week at the movies. Meaning, as it often does these days, sitting in front of my computer screen. The films I watched were two UFO documentaries: "Westall '66: A Suburban UFO Mystery" (2010, Australia, 49 minutes) and "Ghost Rockets" (2015, Sweden, 72 minutes). They … [Read more...]
Sabbatai Zevi, the “Holy Serpent,” and the Passover Plate
This is a post for Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the Exodus from Egypt, which starts tonight. It's on a subject, though, that at first sight doesn't seem to have much to do with the festival. Snakes. Snakes, not as a zoological but as a psychological reality. Snakes, not for what … [Read more...]
UFOs, Screen Memories, and the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery
It's nighttime, and it's raining. I'm in a bedroom--my bedroom, I assume--in the three-story house on Bellevue Avenue in Trenton, NJ, where my parents and I lived with my mother's parents until I was five. My father is with me. We're looking out the window at a rainy street, the glare of the … [Read more...]
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