I suppose it qualifies as an iconic photograph. Taken at Salem, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1952, it remains more than 50 years later a stock illustration for popular journalism on UFOs. The Guardian used it in 2011, Time magazine in 2015, the New York Times in 2019. Just this month, attractively … [Read more...]
Thinking About Dobie Gillis – 61 Years Later
Come stroll with me down Memory Lane ... "DO-O-BIE wants a gal who's dreamy, DO-O-BIE wants a gal who's creamy, DO-O-BIE wants a gal to call his own. Is she blonde, is she tall, is she dark, is she small, Is she any kind of dreamboat at all? No matter; he's hers and hers alone … [Read more...]
“Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO” – Two Reviews, an Interview
Something of what it is to publish a book: You send your thoughts, your ideas, your stories out into the world. You hope to hear echoes; you dread the inevitable silences. You just love it when you get applause. But when you get thoughtful criticism, you've received a gift just as fine--not … [Read more...]
Of Astrology and Astronauts – Thoughts from a Jung Conference
We were supposed to meet on the campus of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, the first week of April 2020. Of course we didn't. That was when--surely you've not forgotten?--everything was closing down, academic conferences no exception. The gathering in question was the triennial conference … [Read more...]
A “Paracast” Remembrance – Teen UFOlogists and the Klass Curse
"We were all teenagers once," says my old friend Jerry Clark at the beginning of last month's Fifteenth Anniversary interview on the Paracast podcast. It's plain from the timbre of Jerry's voice that, like the rest of us UFOlogists from days of yore, he's left those teen years far behind him. "I … [Read more...]
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