Eric Ouellet. Illuminations: The UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event. San Antonio and Charlottesville: Anomalist Books, 2015. The question that kept occurring to me as I read Eric Ouellet's challenging, lucid, at times brilliant book: to what extent do you have to be a believer in … [Read more...]
The UFO and the Pink Triangle – The Tujunga Canyon Abductees
When you think of the UFO abduction literature, what authorial names come to mind? From the 1980s, Whitley Strieber and Budd Hopkins, surely. From the 1990s, David Jacobs and John Mack. Of course your mind will go to the granddaddy of abduction books, John Fuller's The Interrupted Journey … [Read more...]
UFOs and Parapsychology – Donald Menzel, Ernest Taves
"There are no such things as flying saucers. The government has told you that. ... If you believe in Donald H. Menzel, President Eisenhower, and Government announcements you need have no fear of being frightened by this story. Read it on a stormy night, or in the middle of a graveyard if you wish. … [Read more...]
UFOs, Screen Memories, and the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery
It's nighttime, and it's raining. I'm in a bedroom--my bedroom, I assume--in the three-story house on Bellevue Avenue in Trenton, NJ, where my parents and I lived with my mother's parents until I was five. My father is with me. We're looking out the window at a rainy street, the glare of the … [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...]
