(This is the second installment of my review of M. J. Banias, The UFO People: A Curious Culture. N.p.: August Night Books, 2019. For the first installment, click here.) “The UFO phenomenon/subculture is a reflection of ourselves, our fears and desires, our ghosts. In some curious way, it, … [Read more...]
The Man Who Was a “Zetetic Scholar” – Remembering Marcello Truzzi
I hadn't thought much about Marcello Truzzi until about two months ago, when I saw a post on the Facebook page of UFOlogist Isaac Koi noting that the full archive of Marcello's Zetetic Scholar is available on the Web, with the permission of his widow Pat Truzzi. I remembered Marcello from more than … [Read more...]
Pascagoula to Medjugorje – The Enigma of the Shared Vision
I missed out on the great UFO wave of October 1973. I was in Israel at the time, there to write my dissertation on the "chariot" vision of the prophet Ezekiel. (A UFO? Some think it was.) I'd stepped off the plane the previous August, wholly unaware--naturally--that in another two months a major … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 3)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. So what's the takeaway from all this, for us UFOlogists? By "all this," I'm referring to the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a group … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 2)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. (Continued from my previous post.) "A few years ago," British historian Ronald Hutton wrote in 1999, "I was lunching in a hotel restaurant … [Read more...]
