If I wanted to do this properly, I suppose I'd issue an annotated edition. Something along the lines of Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice. "No joke is funny unless you see the point of it," Gardner wrote in his introduction to The Annotated Alice, "and sometimes a point has to be explained. … [Read more...]
Donald Menzel, Phil Klass – the Men We Loved to Hate
Always there’s been somebody the UFOlogists have loved to hate. When I was a teen-age UFO investigator, this was Harvard astrophysicist Donald H. Menzel, arch-skeptic of the 1950s and 60s. Menzel died in 1976; his spot was taken by science writer Philip Klass. Like Menzel, Klass produced multiple … [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...]
“Men in Black 3” – Three Men in Black
“Here come the Men in Black The galaxy defenders; Here come the Men in Black They won’t let you remember.” —Soundtrack for “Men In Black” (1997) Here they come again, for a third round. “Men in Black 3” has been in theaters since the last week of May. It’s gotten reviews that are not … [Read more...]
The Philadelphia Experiment – The Fury of an Invisible Man
Of course he was insane. Now: having said this, have we said anything worth knowing? That’s what I can’t quite figure out. The earliest letter relevant to Carl Allen in the Barker files is dated 22 July 1954. The latest is 22 December 1985—almost a year after Barker died. These are two of … [Read more...]
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