I missed out on the great UFO wave of October 1973. I was in Israel at the time, there to write my dissertation on the "chariot" vision of the prophet Ezekiel. (A UFO? Some think it was.) I'd stepped off the plane the previous August, wholly unaware--naturally--that in another two months a major … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 3)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. So what's the takeaway from all this, for us UFOlogists? By "all this," I'm referring to the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a group … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 2)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. (Continued from my previous post.) "A few years ago," British historian Ronald Hutton wrote in 1999, "I was lunching in a hotel restaurant … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 1)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. OK, here’s the problem: On June 24, 1981—the anniversary of the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold that kicked off the modern UFO era, if … [Read more...]
