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...]
The Roswell Bookshelf – Kevin Randle, “Roswell in the 21st Century” (Part 2)
Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century. Naples, FL: Speaking Volumes, 2016. (For part 1 of this post, click here.) Suppose a man you don't know very well--you didn't know him at all, actually, until he sat down next to you at the counter of a crowded diner and the two of you fell to … [Read more...]
“Alien Encounters” 1995 – When UFOs Invaded Disney World (Part 2)
I first learned about the Walt Disney Company's 1995 flirtation with UFOlogy, about which I posted two weeks ago, while reading a book called The Abduction Enigma (1999). This book, co-authored by Kevin Randle, Russ Estes, and William P. Cone, is not one of the better-known works of abduction … [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...]
The “Roswell Slides” and Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Roswell Alleged Alien Photos Are Fake Says Neil deGrasse Tyson," proclaimed the "BizTek Mojo" website on May 8, three days after the anticlimactic unveiling of the so-called "Roswell Slides" in Mexico City. But Neil deGrasse Tyson didn't say that at all. What the distinguished astrophysicist … [Read more...]
