"The Phenomenon." Directed by James Fox. Released October 6, 2020. In my last post, I began talking about my reactions to James Fox's new UFO documentary "The Phenomenon." I talked about what I thought the film had succeeded in establishing: first, that some very smart and very serious … [Read more...]
The New York Times and the UFO – Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal, Harry Reid
It's not, as they say, your father's New York Times. Very definitely, it's not my father's New York Times. My father, who died over 30 years ago, swore by the Times partly on account of its well-deserved reputation for gravity and sobriety, partly because of the center-left politics that … [Read more...]
About UFOs – Conversations with Michael Shermer and Whitley Strieber
"Have you ever," he inquired hesitantly of Yossarian ... "been in a situation which you felt you had been in before, even though you knew you were experiencing it for the first time?" Yossarian nodded perfunctorily, and the chaplain's breath quickened in anticipation as he made ready to join his … [Read more...]
“Flying Saucers?” – A Voice from Sixty Years Past
I published my first article on UFOs when I was 13 years old. I was in eighth grade at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Junior High School in Bristol, Pennsylvania; I'd gotten hooked on flying saucers, as it was then more normal to call them, a few months before. It all came from reading what in my … [Read more...]
Gray Barker, Albert Bender – “Men in Black” and the Summer of 1954
"And the summer wore on into August, a summer that was not quite right. There were more freak weather conditions and earthquakes, and in the air were threats of something unknown that was to come. Windshields broke mysteriously from coast to coast. There were hints that astronomers had focused … [Read more...]
