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...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 1)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. OK, here’s the problem: On June 24, 1981—the anniversary of the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold that kicked off the modern UFO era, if … [Read more...]
The Orson Welles Martian Invasion – “The Night America Trembled”
In September 1957, when I was nine years old, my parents and I watched a one-hour TV show entitled "The Night America Trembled." The night in question was October 30, 1938, which my father and mother remembered well although of course I didn't. That was when a brilliantly conceived radio … [Read more...]
Dreams of Aliens and Alien Abductions – The Kelly Bulkeley Dossier
I posted last time about what turned up when I searched Kelly Bulkeley's Sleep and Dreams database for dreams that mentioned "UFO" (17 reports, of what seem to have been 15 distinct dreams) and "flying saucers" (4). I also did a search for "alien," and here the harvest was considerably more … [Read more...]
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