"When Scott Lerner returned from Israel, he stayed in a YMCA. He did not particularly want to stay in a YMCA, but he had no good alternative. ... Once he had friends in this town, but that was three years ago. In between had come the war, in between had come the oil embargo. He did not know how … [Read more...]
Ralph Blumenthal’s “The Believer” – The UFO Odyssey of John Mack (Part 2)
Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (For the first part of this post, click here.) "It is also possible that some of the affective energy which is displaced onto the UFO controversy derives from the … [Read more...]
These Do I Remember – COVID-19 and the Yom Kippur War (Part 2)
(Continued from my previous post.) We'll be safe here, the director of the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research told me, the night of the day the Yom Kippur War began. And we were. On that Yom Kippur--October 6, 1973--Egypt and Syria had launched a coordinated attack across the … [Read more...]
These Do I Remember – COVID-19 and the Yom Kippur War (Part 1)
How quickly it all came upon us. Not that we couldn't have seen it coming--we knew what COVID-19 was doing to Italy, which is a whole lot closer to us than China. Yet we continued to deny. Even last week, I still imagined it likely that the bookstore launch of Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story … [Read more...]
An Alien Abductee in Israel – the Strange Story of Ariel Semmel (Part 1)
Director Ariel Semmel is convinced that aliens have abducted him, runs the headline in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. And he's made a documentary film about it. My friend Professor Yaakov Ariel was kind enough to send me a link to the article by Nirit Anderman, which appeared on the Haaretz … [Read more...]
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