An ancient visit by an alien star, runs the headline in the Health & Science section of The Week magazine (April 13, 2018); and the story begins: "A wandering binary star sideswiped the solar system some 70,000 years ago, knocking dozens of far-flung comets and asteroids into unusual orbits. … [Read more...]
“Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO” – Coming 2020 from Stanford University Press
We were going to call our book The Flying Saucer Mystery. This was 57 years ago, when I'd just turned 13, and my pal Bryan and I were fired up with the idea that two bright eighth-graders like us could write the definitive book on the "elusive disks," as one writer called them. Heck, we could … [Read more...]
Giants, Fairy Tales, and Erich von Däniken
“ ‘Giants’ keep cropping up in all parts of the globe: in the mythology of East and West, in the sagas of Tiahuanaco and the epics of the Eskimos. ‘Giants’ haunt the pages of almost all ancient books. So they must have existed.” —Erich von Däniken, Chariots of the Gods “There aren’t any such … [Read more...]
“Chariots of the Gods?” – Erich von Däniken and the Book of Enoch
I didn’t get a chance to tell Erich von Däniken, when he and I were guests together last week on Gene Steinberg’s “The Paracast” radio show, that the first time I read his Chariots of the Gods? it was in Hebrew. This was in the summer of 1978, nine years after Chariots was first published. I was … [Read more...]
The “Book of the Dead” in Spring Hope – Catherine Woodard’s “Opening the Mouth of the Dead”
"This fall, in third grade, We live in Ancient Egypt Not North Carolina, says Mrs. Long, just back From the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. She saw a little gold coffin for a king called Tut." --Catherine Woodard, Opening the Mouth of the Dead Mrs. Long is one of the world's great … [Read more...]
