"It certainly has taken me by surprise," said Mr. Gascoigne. ... "Probably you think me blamable." "Not blamable exactly. I respect a man for trusting another." --George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, chapter 64 Do you know the strange story of Cedric Allingham? And--do you care? If you think … [Read more...]
The Tunguska Explosion, Nuclear UFOs, and Isaac Asimov
"At the village of Strelka I met the old Tungus Vasily Okhchen who ... had been sleeping at the moment when the tent was torn away and had been thrown to the side by a powerful jolt. He had not lost consciousness. He said that he heard an unbelievably loud and continuous thunder; the ground shook, … [Read more...]
Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Moon Flights, and Little Green Men
It’s not very often you get to use the word "charming" for a piece of literary scholarship. That's precisely the word, though, that fits Marjorie Hope Nicolson’s Voyages to the Moon, published in 1948 by the Macmillan Company. The book is 66 years old, which the same age I am until my birthday … [Read more...]
“Ezekiel Saw the Wheel”
This is a P.S. to my post two weeks ago about African-American UFOlogy. It's inspired by Michael Lieb's discussion of Ezekiel's wheel in the African-American folk music tradition, in his extraordinary 1998 book, Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End … [Read more...]
An African-American UFOlogy?
My aim in this post is to ask a question I can't answer. Does there exist an African-American UFO tradition, parallel to but distinct from the UFOlogy of white America? If so, what are its contours? Its meaning? I found myself thinking about this after posting two links on my Fan Page … [Read more...]
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