Always there’s been somebody the UFOlogists have loved to hate. When I was a teen-age UFO investigator, this was Harvard astrophysicist Donald H. Menzel, arch-skeptic of the 1950s and 60s. Menzel died in 1976; his spot was taken by science writer Philip Klass. Like Menzel, Klass produced multiple … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – Reflections
I drove up to Clarksburg, West Virginia, on Monday, September 6, 2004. I spent Tuesday through Saturday morning immersed in the decades-old files of Gray Barker, impresario of the Three Men in Black, the Philadelphia Experiment, and other myths and legends almost too numerous to list. “Gray Barker … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment and Joe Gould
Once there was a man called Carl Allen, otherwise known as Carlos Allende, who had within him a secret. (Don’t we all?) From that secret, as yet undiscovered, Carl Allen created a myth called “the Philadelphia Experiment” which reverberates within our culture to this day. He died in 1994, … [Read more...]
“Men in Black 3” – Three Men in Black
“Here come the Men in Black The galaxy defenders; Here come the Men in Black They won’t let you remember.” —Soundtrack for “Men In Black” (1997) Here they come again, for a third round. “Men in Black 3” has been in theaters since the last week of May. It’s gotten reviews that are not … [Read more...]
“Life of Pi,” UFO Journal, and the Nature of Truth
Over the past year or so my novel Journal of a UFO Investigator has been compared to Don Quixote. It’s been compared to Catcher in the Rye, to The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Wizard of Oz. Now my friend Victoria Zula has suggested a comparison I hadn’t heard before, with Yann Martel’s award-winning … [Read more...]
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