Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (For the first part of this post, click here.) "It is also possible that some of the affective energy which is displaced onto the UFO controversy derives from the … [Read more...]
Ralph Blumenthal’s “The Believer” – The UFO Odyssey of John Mack (Part 1)
Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (First part of a two-part post.) This is a remarkable book about an extraordinary man: John Mack (1929-2004)--Harvard professor of psychiatry, anti-nuclear activist, … [Read more...]
“The Phenomenon” – Reflections on James Fox’s New UFO Documentary (Part 3) – UFO Encounter at Ariel School
"The Phenomenon." Directed by James Fox. Released October 6, 2020. (The final installment of a three-part post. For the first two parts, click here and here.) There are impressive UFO witnesses. There are not-so-impressive UFO witnesses. And then there's Salma Siddick. She's a … [Read more...]
“Alien Encounters” 1995 – When UFOs Invaded Disney World (Part 1)
I met Walt Disney. It was the fall of 1955, when I was 7 and beginning third grade. The brand new Walt Disney School of Levittown, Pennsylvania, which had been in construction across the street from my house for the previous year or two, had just been opened for our education, and the great man … [Read more...]
John Mack and Donna Bassett – UFO Abductions and Lawrence of Arabia
"I faked it," said the woman named Donna Bassett. "Women have been doing it for centuries." What Donna Bassett "faked" was her hypnotically evoked memory of having been abducted into a UFO. The victim of her fakery was the august John Mack--professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, … [Read more...]
