(For part 1 of this post, click here.) "'Aliens' is a code word for something that exists, something that's evidently wiser than we are or wise in a different way, and we don't know what it wants or is able to do. Really, what's the difference between an 'alien' and God? Different people give … [Read more...]
An Alien Abductee in Israel – the Strange Story of Ariel Semmel (Part 1)
Director Ariel Semmel is convinced that aliens have abducted him, runs the headline in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. And he's made a documentary film about it. My friend Professor Yaakov Ariel was kind enough to send me a link to the article by Nirit Anderman, which appeared on the Haaretz … [Read more...]
MJ Banias, “The UFO People” – The Case of Roy
M. J. Banias, The UFO People: A Curious Culture. N.p.: August Night Books, 2019. This is a book that's brilliant in spots, fascinating in long stretches, intelligent and thoughtful throughout. It contemplates the paradoxical reality of a subculture committed to what to our cultural mainstream … [Read more...]
Pascagoula to Medjugorje – The Enigma of the Shared Vision
I missed out on the great UFO wave of October 1973. I was in Israel at the time, there to write my dissertation on the "chariot" vision of the prophet Ezekiel. (A UFO? Some think it was.) I'd stepped off the plane the previous August, wholly unaware--naturally--that in another two months a major … [Read more...]
Dreams of Aliens and Alien Abductions – The Kelly Bulkeley Dossier
I posted last time about what turned up when I searched Kelly Bulkeley's Sleep and Dreams database for dreams that mentioned "UFO" (17 reports, of what seem to have been 15 distinct dreams) and "flying saucers" (4). I also did a search for "alien," and here the harvest was considerably more … [Read more...]
