I hate to admit it, but I have no choice. I've started to look forward to the weekly one-hour shows of the History Channel series, "Project Blue Book." My initial response to the debut episode two weeks ago was that it was trash: awful as history, mediocre as drama. I still think it's trash, … [Read more...]
A “Solved” UFO Case from the Files of MUFON Ohio
"My girlfriend and I were returning from Olive Garden in my car," said the witness, a physician in private practice. It was an uneventful trip home from a restaurant meal, until the couple "descended a large hill" a few hundred yards from their house and "an object materialized at the side … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – Reflections
I drove up to Clarksburg, West Virginia, on Monday, September 6, 2004. I spent Tuesday through Saturday morning immersed in the decades-old files of Gray Barker, impresario of the Three Men in Black, the Philadelphia Experiment, and other myths and legends almost too numerous to list. “Gray Barker … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – In the Gray Barker Collection
“Monday, September 6. Well, I am on the road. … It is not quite the sparkly, sunshiny day I had imagined. It is overcast, drizzly, warm and humid.” Just the sort of day to set forth on a nearly 400-mile drive from North Carolina to Clarksburg, West Virginia, and into the past. It was exactly … [Read more...]
They Knew Too Much …
Barker, Gray. They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. Jung, C.G. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. Scully, Frank. Behind the Flying Saucers. Those were the three books under the subject heading “Flying Saucers” in the card catalog—remember card catalogs?—of the public … [Read more...]
