I hadn't thought much about Marcello Truzzi until about two months ago, when I saw a post on the Facebook page of UFOlogist Isaac Koi noting that the full archive of Marcello's Zetetic Scholar is available on the Web, with the permission of his widow Pat Truzzi. I remembered Marcello from more than … [Read more...]
Jerome Clark’s “UFO Encyclopedia” – Thomas Bullard’s “Abduction Phenomenon”
Where have all the abductees gone? Back in the 90s, which feels in retrospect like UFOlogy's golden decade, they seemed to be everywhere. Comic strips spoofed them, a sure sign of their high visibility--readers could be counted on to get the joke. With the new century, perhaps helped along by … [Read more...]
Joel Achenbach, Carl Sagan, and the UFOlogists
Joel Achenbach. Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe. Simon & Schuster, 1999. "The temptation, for those of us who have not scared the door of a church in a long time, is to give the topic of religion a wide berth. The truth is that many of us are not … [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...]
