I published my first article on UFOs when I was 13 years old. I was in eighth grade at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Junior High School in Bristol, Pennsylvania; I'd gotten hooked on flying saucers, as it was then more normal to call them, a few months before. It all came from reading what in my … [Read more...]
Black People, White People, ET People – Race and the UFO
"You have people on Mars! Think how great you are. Ask the white man if he has any out there. We have life on other planets, but he don't." I don't know when Elijah Muhammad, until his death in 1975 the leader and most visible face of the black-nationalist "Nation of Islam" (a.k.a. "Black … [Read more...]
Albert Bender and the “Max Steiner Music Society” – A Life Post-UFO
What sort of man was Albert K. Bender--he who supposedly discovered the secret of the UFOs, for which he was "silenced" in 1953 by the Three Men in Black? Gray Barker, whose They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers (1956) gives the classic account of his silencing, describes him in the most … [Read more...]
Gray Barker, Albert Bender – “Men in Black” and the Summer of 1954
"And the summer wore on into August, a summer that was not quite right. There were more freak weather conditions and earthquakes, and in the air were threats of something unknown that was to come. Windshields broke mysteriously from coast to coast. There were hints that astronomers had focused … [Read more...]