Where have all the abductees gone? Back in the 90s, which feels in retrospect like UFOlogy's golden decade, they seemed to be everywhere. Comic strips spoofed them, a sure sign of their high visibility--readers could be counted on to get the joke. With the new century, perhaps helped along by … [Read more...]
Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman – “Descent into Hell” and the Bebedouro Abduction
In my last post, in honor of my old friend Jerome Clark and the forthcoming third edition of his monumental UFO Encyclopedia, I spoke of the Bebedouro UFO abduction and the Jungian interpretation of it that he and Loren Coleman published in their 1975 book The Unidentified. Jerry has since … [Read more...]
My Friend Jerry – Jerome Clark – and “The UFO Encyclopedia”
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd edition. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2018. I've never met Jerry Clark, the editor and for the most part the author of the monumental UFO Encyclopedia that's about to come out in its third, updated edition. Yet he's one of my oldest friends and, for a few … [Read more...]
“The Shadow of the Unknown” – A Tale of Teen UFOlogy
A way to meet girls, it wasn’t. The world of teen UFOlogy in the early 1960s, to which I belonged, was with a very few exceptions a world of teenage boys. At times I regretted this, but accepted it as inevitable. “This is the most important unsolved mystery in the world today,” my senior … [Read more...]
The Roswell Bookshelf – Kevin Randle, “Roswell in the 21st Century” (Part 1)
Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century. Naples, FL: Speaking Volumes, 2016. Scene from a dermatologist’s office, about two weeks ago: The doctor’s assistant has just led me into the office, handed me the equivalent of a sheet wherewith to preserve my modesty after I take off my … [Read more...]
