A narrow trail through a stunted, dank green woodland. A city street where two middle-aged men walk through pouring rain under a skeletal black umbrella that's too decrepit to shelter one of them, much less both. An outdoor table on a starless night, where two old men sit speculating on what … [Read more...]
“Westall ’66” – UFO, Memory, Under-story
I spent much of the past week at the movies. Meaning, as it often does these days, sitting in front of my computer screen. The films I watched were two UFO documentaries: "Westall '66: A Suburban UFO Mystery" (2010, Australia, 49 minutes) and "Ghost Rockets" (2015, Sweden, 72 minutes). They … [Read more...]
UFOs, Screen Memories, and the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery
It's nighttime, and it's raining. I'm in a bedroom--my bedroom, I assume--in the three-story house on Bellevue Avenue in Trenton, NJ, where my parents and I lived with my mother's parents until I was five. My father is with me. We're looking out the window at a rainy street, the glare of the … [Read more...]
John Mack and Donna Bassett – UFO Abductions and Lawrence of Arabia
"I faked it," said the woman named Donna Bassett. "Women have been doing it for centuries." What Donna Bassett "faked" was her hypnotically evoked memory of having been abducted into a UFO. The victim of her fakery was the august John Mack--professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, … [Read more...]
John Lennon, May Pang, and the UFO (2) – Reflections
(The second part of a two-part post.) So what are we to make of the story told over and over by John Lennon and his lover May Pang, always with essentially the same details, of seeing a UFO at close range over their Manhattan apartment on the evening of August 23, 1974? Tell anybody about … [Read more...]
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