"He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him." --"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) Of course it wasn't really the sun. The sun, considered as an astronomical body, doesn't do that kind of thing. So when the nodding, grinning, half-crazy old man announces at the end … [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...]
