"Have you ever," he inquired hesitantly of Yossarian ... "been in a situation which you felt you had been in before, even though you knew you were experiencing it for the first time?" Yossarian nodded perfunctorily, and the chaplain's breath quickened in anticipation as he made ready to join his … [Read more...]
“It Was Huge!” – A Childhood Memory, a Black-Triangle UFO
Last Tuesday evening, I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Martin Willis on his "Podcast UFO." You can listen to the interview here, or watch it as a video here. If you click on the link to the video and scroll down to the "comments" section, you'll see that I seem to have managed, as … [Read more...]
Teaching UFOlogy – UNC 1996, OLLI 2019
Among the unanswerable questions that come up as I ponder my life: At age 12-going-on-13, scared out of my senses but also thrilled and energized by Gray Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, could I have imagined that at age 71 I'd be planning to use that same book as a text for a … [Read more...]
The Mystery of the Merkabah – The Alien Eyes
(This is the fifth and final post of a series. To begin the series, click here.) "Oh--oh, the eyes are there. Always the eyes are there. ... Only the eyes are talking to me. I--I--I--I don't understand that. Oh--the eyes don't have a body. They're just eyes ... not connected to a body. … [Read more...]
Carl Sagan vs. Betty and Barney Hill – Working Both Sides of the Street
Flipping through an old issue of the International UFO Reporter, I came upon a scathing review of the 1996 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by superstar astronomer Carl Sagan (1934-1996). The author of the review was my old UFOlogical friend Jerome Clark. I need to … [Read more...]
