Just in time, I suppose, for the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the debris on the Foster Ranch--which, if you accept the version that says that happened on June 14, would be two weeks from today. (Got plans for the celebration?) I don't have any "Open Sesame" for the complex and … [Read more...]
Roswell and Mogul – The Memories of Charles B. Moore (Part 2)
(This is Part 2 of a two-part post. For Part 1, click here.) It's the "smoking gun" for the Mogul explanation of the Roswell debris. (I don't remember who called it that. Maybe Karl Pflock?) The Roswell witnesses remembered having seen peculiar pink, or purple, or purplish-pink markings … [Read more...]
Roswell and Mogul – The Memories of Charles B. Moore (Part 1)
"I have a distinct memory that James Richard Smith, better known as J.R., watched the 4 June balloon train through a theodolite on a clear, sunny morning ..." --Charles B. Moore, in Saler, Ziegler and Moore, UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth (1997) The devil is in those … [Read more...]
Glassboro to Roswell – The Telescoping of Memory
There’s no mystery about what happened in Glassboro, New Jersey, in the fall of 1964. Or at least I didn’t think there was a mystery when I posted about it two and a half years ago, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the (non-)event. On or about Friday, September 4, a Glassboro State … [Read more...]
The Roswell Bookshelf – “UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth” (Part 1)
Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler, and Charles B. Moore. UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. When Donald Menzel called flying saucers a "modern myth," he meant it as a put-down. When Carl Jung did the same, he meant it … [Read more...]
