(For Part 3, "The Green Children - 'Small, Vulnerable ETs,'" click here.) In the first post of this series, I led off with the question of why, given that UFO beings are seldom described as green in the actual reports, the stereotype of "little green men" in the flying saucers is so widespread … [Read more...]
Little Green Men – “Green Children” of Woolpit (Part 1)
The problem in a nutshell: In close-encounters-of-the-third-kind reports and UFO abduction stories, at least in the post-1947 era, the UFOnauts are seldom if ever described as being green in color. Yet the trope of flying saucers piloted by "little green men" endures, unshakeable and seemingly … [Read more...]
Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Moon Flights, and Little Green Men
It’s not very often you get to use the word "charming" for a piece of literary scholarship. That's precisely the word, though, that fits Marjorie Hope Nicolson’s Voyages to the Moon, published in 1948 by the Macmillan Company. The book is 66 years old, which the same age I am until my birthday … [Read more...]
