"We were all teenagers once," says my old friend Jerry Clark at the beginning of last month's Fifteenth Anniversary interview on the Paracast podcast. It's plain from the timbre of Jerry's voice that, like the rest of us UFOlogists from days of yore, he's left those teen years far behind him. "I … [Read more...]
Cleveland 2015 – “Congress of Scientific UFOlogists” 50th Reunion
We met in Cleveland in June 1964, and again in June 1965. 1966 too; but by that time I'd dropped out of the UFOlogy scene and so I missed the great Congress of Scientific UFOlogists held in New York City in June 1967. It's one of the great regrets of my mostly well-spent youth. We returned … [Read more...]
“UFO 96” – The UFO World of 50 Years Ago
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...]
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...]
