NJAAP PENNSYLVANIA-NEW JERSEY SKYWATCH PRODUCES NO SIGNIFICANT RESULTS But, Undaunted, We Begin Preparing For Another It's a (deservedly) forgotten bit of UFO history: the "skywatch" organized for December 26-27, 1963, by the New Jersey Association on Aerial Phenomena, the small … [Read more...]
“Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO” – Coming 2020 from Stanford University Press
We were going to call our book The Flying Saucer Mystery. This was 57 years ago, when I'd just turned 13, and my pal Bryan and I were fired up with the idea that two bright eighth-graders like us could write the definitive book on the "elusive disks," as one writer called them. Heck, we could … [Read more...]
“The Shadow of the Unknown” – A Tale of Teen UFOlogy
A way to meet girls, it wasn’t. The world of teen UFOlogy in the early 1960s, to which I belonged, was with a very few exceptions a world of teenage boys. At times I regretted this, but accepted it as inevitable. “This is the most important unsolved mystery in the world today,” my senior … [Read more...]
Donald Menzel, Phil Klass – the Men We Loved to Hate
Always there’s been somebody the UFOlogists have loved to hate. When I was a teen-age UFO investigator, this was Harvard astrophysicist Donald H. Menzel, arch-skeptic of the 1950s and 60s. Menzel died in 1976; his spot was taken by science writer Philip Klass. Like Menzel, Klass produced multiple … [Read more...]
