(This post is the third of a series. For the first two installments, click here and here.) Remember "The Fourth Kind," the pseudo-documentary thriller about UFO abductions in Alaska that came out around the end of 2009? Filmed by Olatunde Osunsanmi? Starring Milla Jovovich as psychiatrist … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – UFO Abductions Become Part of Us
There are some "banner years" in UFO history. 1966 was one of them. It was a threshold year, leading from the classic UFOlogy of the 1950s and early 1960s to something new, which has left its mark on our culture to this day. March, 1966: a rash of UFO sightings in Dexter and Hillsdale, … [Read more...]
The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction – Ghost From the Past
Can it be true? Is it really possible that the story and experience of UFO abduction, which had this country so mesmerized back in the 90s, is a remembrance/re-enactment of the African American historical trauma? Mediated through the harrowing experience of the world's first abductee, the … [Read more...]
The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction – An African-American Story
Refer back, polite reader, to the two epigraphs with which I prefaced the previous installment of this post. Particularly the one from Philip Klass. “As I listened to Barney reliving his UFO encounter, I could agree completely with the doctor that Barney had indeed seen ‘something,’ and it had … [Read more...]
The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill – Part 1
On one tape, I heard Barney Hill relive his close-quarters encounter with the UFO. At the start of the interview, his voice was quite calm, but as he “approached” the UFO, hovering over a field near the highway, Barney screamed hysterically. Dr. Simon told me that he had never had a patient become … [Read more...]
