A gentleman named Jordan Hofer, with whom I’ve had a stimulating exchange of comments in connection with my post "Drawing Dirty Pictures - Philadelphia UFO, January 1974," tells me he has no objection to my calling attention in a new post to some of the points raised in our conversation. So that’s … [Read more...]
Trickster Tales – James Moseley, Sherlock Holmes, UFOlogy
I've been reading an unusual UFO book. It came out about six weeks ago, edited by Timothy Green Beckley, whom I've known from our teenage UFOlogist days in the mid-1960s. It's entitled The Astounding UFO Secrets Of James W. Moseley: A Special Tribute to the Editor of Saucer Smear and the Court … [Read more...]
“UFO 96” – The UFO World of 50 Years Ago
If I wanted to do this properly, I suppose I'd issue an annotated edition. Something along the lines of Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice. "No joke is funny unless you see the point of it," Gardner wrote in his introduction to The Annotated Alice, "and sometimes a point has to be explained. … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – UFO Abductions Become Part of Us
There are some "banner years" in UFO history. 1966 was one of them. It was a threshold year, leading from the classic UFOlogy of the 1950s and early 1960s to something new, which has left its mark on our culture to this day. March, 1966: a rash of UFO sightings in Dexter and Hillsdale, … [Read more...]
“Crucify Him!” – The Long Trauma of Easter
Easter. Not my holiday. In an earlier post I've written about how, as a Unitarian Universalist of Jewish heritage, I've taken to celebrating Christmas. Not Easter, though. Too much historical baggage there for me. The Christmas story is warm, inclusive, expansive. The poor Jewish shepherds … [Read more...]
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