I first heard about the “Allende Mystery” in 1963, when my good friend Jerome Clark—whom to this day I’ve never met face to face—laid out the details for me in one of the multi-page letters the two of us exchanged as teen UFOlogists. It intrigued me from the beginning. I was 15 years old; Jerry … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – In the Gray Barker Collection
“Monday, September 6. Well, I am on the road. … It is not quite the sparkly, sunshiny day I had imagined. It is overcast, drizzly, warm and humid.” Just the sort of day to set forth on a nearly 400-mile drive from North Carolina to Clarksburg, West Virginia, and into the past. It was exactly … [Read more...]
Roswell and Annie Jacobsen — “They Were Children”
“I need to tell you one thing. I never saw the bodies. To get down into the vaults, you have to do more than drink a few beers with a second lieutenant. I did see some photos, though, in the archives, that they’d taken back in ’47, when they first found the wreckage [at Roswell]. And I must … [Read more...]
Jungian Psychology and UFOs – The Magonian Quaternity
(Third of a series) “[T]he physicist’s models ultimately rest on the same archetypal foundations that also underlie the speculations of the theologian. Both are psychology, and it too has no other foundation.” —Jung, “A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity” So what have we learned … [Read more...]
Jungian Psychology and UFOs – More On the Magonia Men (and Woman)
Four visitors from the skies—three men and one woman. First reported from Lyon, in what’s now France, early in the ninth century. Then from the Turkish Dardanelles, late in the seventeenth century. To reappear like that, after nearly 900 years, would be quite a trick for human beings. Even, I’d … [Read more...]
