(Continued from my previous post.) We'll be safe here, the director of the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research told me, the night of the day the Yom Kippur War began. And we were. On that Yom Kippur--October 6, 1973--Egypt and Syria had launched a coordinated attack across the … [Read more...]
These Do I Remember – COVID-19 and the Yom Kippur War (Part 1)
How quickly it all came upon us. Not that we couldn't have seen it coming--we knew what COVID-19 was doing to Italy, which is a whole lot closer to us than China. Yet we continued to deny. Even last week, I still imagined it likely that the bookstore launch of Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – “The Dying of Anna Shapiro”
That's chapter 6 of Outtakes of a UFO Investigator, which I'm now posting as a PDF. Anna is the mother of Danny Shapiro, the "UFO investigator" of the book's title. You'll find a few characters in this episode who were part of the original manuscript of Journal of a UFO Investigator, but whom I … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – Israel in the 1960s
“No!” Shlomo cried triumphantly. “I looked for the Wall. It’s not there! He gives you guided tours around Jerusalem, this Perowne, in his book. He shows you the—the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He shows you the Dome of the Rock. Which the Muslims built where our Temple used to be, so we … [Read more...]
