Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd edition. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2018. I've never met Jerry Clark, the editor and for the most part the author of the monumental UFO Encyclopedia that's about to come out in its third, updated edition. Yet he's one of my oldest friends and, for a few … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – Jessup, Allen, and the “Mary Celeste”
On December 4, 1872, the American ship Mary Celeste was found abandoned and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean. Its crew had vanished, never to be seen or heard from again. The mystery inspired, in the nineteenth century, a flesh-creeping story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle entitled “J. Habakkuk Jephson’s … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – The Mysterious Señor Allende
“So what have I learned from my first day in the Barker archive?” I wrote in my diary on Tuesday evening, September 7, 2004. “That Carl Allen, far from being an elusive and mysterious figure (as I once fondly imagined), was a tedious and persistent lunatic who bombarded Gray Barker with tons of … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – The “Allende Mystery”
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...]
