I met Walt Disney. It was the fall of 1955, when I was 7 and beginning third grade. The brand new Walt Disney School of Levittown, Pennsylvania, which had been in construction across the street from my house for the previous year or two, had just been opened for our education, and the great man … [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...]
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...]
Saint Paul – UFO Abductee? (Part 1)
It sounds a bit grotesque. But more than the Old Testament characters--Elijah, Ezekiel--who've been claimed by the blogosphere as UFO abductees, the great preacher and ideologue of first-century Christianity has a solid claim to the title. Was Elijah an abductee? "And as they [Elijah and … [Read more...]
