Flipping through an old issue of the International UFO Reporter, I came upon a scathing review of the 1996 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by superstar astronomer Carl Sagan (1934-1996). The author of the review was my old UFOlogical friend Jerome Clark. I need to … [Read more...]
“Strange Country” – The Human Face of the UFO
When filmmaker Sean Kotz emailed five months ago, asking for my cooperation with his project “Strange Country,” I was excited. It was to be a documentary, he explained, on the UFO sightings of 1987-88 in Wythe County, Virginia. I’d heard about these sightings not long before; I had shared a panel … [Read more...]
A UFOlogy for the 21st Century
Here’s a proposition—a UFOlogical proposition. UFOs are a human phenomenon. A UFO sighting, therefore, is not bounded by the sky in which it’s appeared, or seems to have appeared. The observer—better, experiencer—is a part of the sighting. So is everyone who believes in that sighting. So is … [Read more...]
Reincarnation, Quantum Physics, and Dr. Donald Menzel
Some 40 years ago, when I was a graduate student, I came upon a pamphlet by one Dr. Ian Stevenson, entitled something like “Evidence for Reincarnation from Claimed Memories of Former Lives.” I read it; I was impressed by what I recall as its judiciously open-minded approach. I showed it to my … [Read more...]
“Scenario”: The Aliens Arrive …
Full disclosure: I'm not a great fan of poetry. There are those poems, often read long ago, that have embedded themselves in my mind, whose rhythms come to me at the oddest times. They're a motley lot. Some of them, like Chesterton's "Lepanto" or Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," I … [Read more...]
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