"You have people on Mars! Think how great you are. Ask the white man if he has any out there. We have life on other planets, but he don't." I don't know when Elijah Muhammad, until his death in 1975 the leader and most visible face of the black-nationalist "Nation of Islam" (a.k.a. "Black … [Read more...]
UFOs, Louis Farrakhan, the “Mother Wheel,” and … “Independence Day”
The date: September 17, 1985. The place: Tepoztlan, Mexico. Louis Farrakhan, controversial leader of the Nation Of Islam--NOI, better known as "the Black Muslims"--is abducted into a UFO. Or is he? The issue may be one of nomenclature. For Farrakhan the experience wasn't an abduction but a … [Read more...]
UFOs, Louis Farrakhan, and the “Mother Wheel” – The Scholarship of Stephen Finley
About a month ago I was privileged to attend a small gathering of writers, scholars and thinkers--some from academia, others from outside it--loosely structured around the theme of UFOs. Professors Jeffrey Kripal and Diana Pasulka, two religious-studies scholars doing groundbreaking work on UFOs … [Read more...]
An African-American UFOlogy?
My aim in this post is to ask a question I can't answer. Does there exist an African-American UFO tradition, parallel to but distinct from the UFOlogy of white America? If so, what are its contours? Its meaning? I found myself thinking about this after posting two links on my Fan Page … [Read more...]
