Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (For the first part of this post, click here.) "It is also possible that some of the affective energy which is displaced onto the UFO controversy derives from the … [Read more...]
Of Astrology and Astronauts – Thoughts from a Jung Conference
We were supposed to meet on the campus of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, the first week of April 2020. Of course we didn't. That was when--surely you've not forgotten?--everything was closing down, academic conferences no exception. The gathering in question was the triennial conference … [Read more...]
Dreams of UFOs and “Flying Saucers” – the Kelly Bulkeley Dossier
"Laying on our couch, seem to be half awake and half asleep and seeing different colored lights through the window and UFO's were all over the sky and floating around the houses all over town. I was screaming in my dream for my husband to help. He and my son were in the room watching TV and I kept … [Read more...]
David Clarke, “How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth”
Can there possibly be anyone who knows the UFO files of the UK Ministry of Defence better than David Clarke? A dogged, affable journalist, a UFOlogist-turned-skeptic with a Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Sheffield, England, Clarke spent years prying UFO documents loose from his … [Read more...]
Al-Khidr – The “Green One” of Islam (Part 7 of a series)
“Little green men” in the UFOs. From the Pope to the Flintstones, they’re everywhere in the popular imagination. Yet they’re seldom actually reported by people who experience close encounters of the third kind, or the fourth. (See my last post, though, for a qualification of this.) Where do they … [Read more...]
