"We were all teenagers once," says my old friend Jerry Clark at the beginning of last month's Fifteenth Anniversary interview on the Paracast podcast. It's plain from the timbre of Jerry's voice that, like the rest of us UFOlogists from days of yore, he's left those teen years far behind him. "I … [Read more...]
“Holy Fools” – Jack Womack’s UFO Library
Jack Womack, Flying Saucers Are Real! Brooklyn: Anthology Editions, 2016. Flying Saucers Are Real! is a beautiful book. Given the author's background, it had the potential of being an intelligent and insightful book as well. It is neither, and the missed opportunity is saddening. First, … [Read more...]
The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction – An African-American Story
Refer back, polite reader, to the two epigraphs with which I prefaced the previous installment of this post. Particularly the one from Philip Klass. “As I listened to Barney reliving his UFO encounter, I could agree completely with the doctor that Barney had indeed seen ‘something,’ and it had … [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...]
