"On Monday, August 8, 1983, I was abducted by aliens." That's how Michael Shermer, founder and director of The Skeptics Society, opens the chapter on UFO abductions in his book Why People Believe Weird Things. You just know, don't you, that he's speaking tongue-in-cheek? He intends his story … [Read more...]
A “Solved” UFO Case from the Files of MUFON Ohio
"My girlfriend and I were returning from Olive Garden in my car," said the witness, a physician in private practice. It was an uneventful trip home from a restaurant meal, until the couple "descended a large hill" a few hundred yards from their house and "an object materialized at the side … [Read more...]
Cleveland 2015 – “Congress of Scientific UFOlogists” 50th Reunion
We met in Cleveland in June 1964, and again in June 1965. 1966 too; but by that time I'd dropped out of the UFOlogy scene and so I missed the great Congress of Scientific UFOlogists held in New York City in June 1967. It's one of the great regrets of my mostly well-spent youth. We returned … [Read more...]
The “Roswell Slides” and Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Roswell Alleged Alien Photos Are Fake Says Neil deGrasse Tyson," proclaimed the "BizTek Mojo" website on May 8, three days after the anticlimactic unveiling of the so-called "Roswell Slides" in Mexico City. But Neil deGrasse Tyson didn't say that at all. What the distinguished astrophysicist … [Read more...]
Ghostly Apparations, Wicca, and Ronald Hutton
So it's the merry month of May, and, accordingly, I spent last Saturday afternoon at a Beltane celebration out in the country. It was a beautiful blue-sky day, not too hot. The sun was pretty intense, though, and I decided to pass up the Maypole dance and stay in the shade. I'm not much of a … [Read more...]
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