"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...]
Cryptids, UFOs, Lost Continents – Colin Dickey’s “The Unidentified”
Colin Dickey. The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with The Unexplained. Viking, 2020. "Obsession" was perhaps an unfortunate choice of words for the subtitle. It suggests a lesser book than The Unidentified in fact is. Any book that incorporates … [Read more...]
“The Phenomenon” – Reflections on James Fox’s New UFO Documentary (Part 2)
"The Phenomenon." Directed by James Fox. Released October 6, 2020. In my last post, I began talking about my reactions to James Fox's new UFO documentary "The Phenomenon." I talked about what I thought the film had succeeded in establishing: first, that some very smart and very serious … [Read more...]
“2020 – The Summer of the Saucers” (Navy UFO Videos, Pentagon Task Force, New York Times)
"This is a big one for me — maybe the one I feel most strongly about," Bryce Zabel (@hollywoodufos) tweeted on August 13 about his article "People Get Ready," published that same day on medium.com. It's an important article, filled with prophecies, nearly all of which I think are bound to fail. … [Read more...]
The New York Times and the UFO – Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal, Harry Reid
It's not, as they say, your father's New York Times. Very definitely, it's not my father's New York Times. My father, who died over 30 years ago, swore by the Times partly on account of its well-deserved reputation for gravity and sobriety, partly because of the center-left politics that … [Read more...]
