For about fifteen seconds, it did look like a real newspaper when my friend Jake Horwitz handed it to me over lunch. HUNDREDS WITNESS MYSTERIOUS UFOS, the headline proclaimed in enormous type, and beneath it a photo of an arc of white lights embedded in a luminous green ring, against the background … [Read more...]
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show – XZRS: David Halperin – Journal of a UFO Investigator: A Novel
It was the oddest experience I've ever had doing a radio interview. Or possibly the most remarkable. I'm still not sure to what extent Rob McConnell and I managed to communicate when he interviewed me for his "X" Zone Radio Show about my 2011 novel Journal of a UFO Investigator. I seem not to … [Read more...]
Teaching UFOlogy – UNC 1996, OLLI 2019
Among the unanswerable questions that come up as I ponder my life: At age 12-going-on-13, scared out of my senses but also thrilled and energized by Gray Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, could I have imagined that at age 71 I'd be planning to use that same book as a text for a … [Read more...]
Jerome Clark’s “UFO Encyclopedia” – Thomas Bullard’s “Abduction Phenomenon”
Where have all the abductees gone? Back in the 90s, which feels in retrospect like UFOlogy's golden decade, they seemed to be everywhere. Comic strips spoofed them, a sure sign of their high visibility--readers could be counted on to get the joke. With the new century, perhaps helped along by … [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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