There’s no mystery about what happened in Glassboro, New Jersey, in the fall of 1964. Or at least I didn’t think there was a mystery when I posted about it two and a half years ago, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the (non-)event. On or about Friday, September 4, a Glassboro State … [Read more...]
The Roswell Bookshelf – “UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth” (Part 2)
Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore. UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. (For the first part of this post, click here.) “The Greeks believed the gods were immortal,” I wrote in a guest blog … [Read more...]
The Roswell Bookshelf – “UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth” (Part 1)
Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore. UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. When Donald Menzel called flying saucers a "modern myth," he meant it as a put-down. When Carl Jung did the same, he meant it … [Read more...]
The Roswell Bookshelf – Kevin Randle, “Roswell in the 21st Century” (Part 2)
Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century. Naples, FL: Speaking Volumes, 2016. (For part 1 of this post, click here.) Suppose a man you don't know very well--you didn't know him at all, actually, until he sat down next to you at the counter of a crowded diner and the two of you fell to … [Read more...]
Roswell and Annie Jacobsen — “They Were Children”
“I need to tell you one thing. I never saw the bodies. To get down into the vaults, you have to do more than drink a few beers with a second lieutenant. I did see some photos, though, in the archives, that they’d taken back in ’47, when they first found the wreckage [at Roswell]. And I must … [Read more...]
