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...]
Showtime “UFO,” the Phoenix Lights, and Fife Symington
Well. There's not much doubt which side of the UFO controversy J. J. Abrams is on, is there? The first episode of the four-part documentary "UFO," for which Abrams is executive producer (with Glen Zipper), aired last Sunday night on Showtime. It starts with an eerie encounter of the Apollo 17 … [Read more...]
“Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO” – Two Reviews, an Interview
Something of what it is to publish a book: You send your thoughts, your ideas, your stories out into the world. You hope to hear echoes; you dread the inevitable silences. You just love it when you get applause. But when you get thoughtful criticism, you've received a gift just as fine--not … [Read more...]
The New York Times and the UFO – Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal, Harry Reid
It's not, as they say, your father's New York Times. Very definitely, it's not my father's New York Times. My father, who died over 30 years ago, swore by the Times partly on account of its well-deserved reputation for gravity and sobriety, partly because of the center-left politics that … [Read more...]
A “Secret UFO Office” in the Pentagon? – What Just Happened In the Media
"Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones?" --Bob Dylan I got my first inkling that something was happening on the afternoon of Sunday, December 17, when I checked my emails and saw that two friends had, independent of each other, sent me links to a pair of … [Read more...]
