"I should worry, not for nothin' Everybody loves me, yes they do ... I feel just about ten feet all, havin' a ball Guess ya might call me a Pollyanna." --Doris Day (1958) If I do, it's probably not a compliment. "Pollyanna-ish" has entered the English or at least the American language as a … [Read more...]
MJ Banias, “The UFO People” – The Case of Amy
(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...]
MJ Banias, “The UFO People” – The Case of Roy
M. J. Banias, The UFO People: A Curious Culture. N.p.: August Night Books, 2019. This is a book that's brilliant in spots, fascinating in long stretches, intelligent and thoughtful throughout. It contemplates the paradoxical reality of a subculture committed to what to our cultural mainstream … [Read more...]
Frank R. Paul – “The Man Who Created Flying Saucers”?
It's an accolade more commonly given to Ray Palmer, the Amazing Stories magazine editor who's best known for his promotion of the "Shaver Mystery" of the late 1940s. The idea, floated in 1983 by UFOlogist John Keel in a self-assured article entitled "The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers," was that … [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...]
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