"He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him." --"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) Of course it wasn't really the sun. The sun, considered as an astronomical body, doesn't do that kind of thing. So when the nodding, grinning, half-crazy old man announces at the end … [Read more...]
The UFO Gnostic – Orfeo Angelucci Meets Carl Jung
If it hadn't been for Carl Jung, I doubt if I would ever have read Orfeo Angelucci's The Secret of the Saucers. The book, published in 1955 by Ray Palmer's "Amherst Press" and now available in complete and also a truncated (but more easily searchable) form on the Web, belongs to that … [Read more...]
Joel Achenbach, Carl Sagan, and the UFOlogists
Joel Achenbach. Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe. Simon & Schuster, 1999. "The temptation, for those of us who have not scared the door of a church in a long time, is to give the topic of religion a wide berth. The truth is that many of us are not … [Read more...]
A 1966 UFO Abduction – Memory, Performance, Dream
"In 1966 I was 8 years old. At sleep away summer camp (Surprise Lake near Cold Springs NY on the old Cornwallis estate). I had a strange night." What follows is the story of a UFO abduction, set in a time in which abductions were a rare novelty. It was reported on September 15, 2012, to … [Read more...]
Wrapping Up Roswell
Just in time, I suppose, for the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the debris on the Foster Ranch--which, if you accept the version that says that happened on June 14, would be two weeks from today. (Got plans for the celebration?) I don't have any "Open Sesame" for the complex and … [Read more...]
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