The summer had hardly begun--the solstice was at 11:31 p.m. on June 20--when a smorgasbord of fascinating articles about UFOs appeared in a wide range of media. And I thought 2020 was "the summer of the saucers"! Even before the appearance of the Pentagon's "UAP" report, even before the June 24 … [Read more...]
My Friend Jerry – Jerome Clark – and “The UFO Encyclopedia”
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...]
Landed UFOs and a Flying Cross – Two Stories from David Clarke
Two UFO stories from David Clarke's new book How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth, which I'd planned to include in last week's book review but couldn't find room for. One of them is pretty funny. The other is intriguingly serious, and opens questions which neither Clarke nor … [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...]
