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...]
Ralph Blumenthal’s “The Believer” – The UFO Odyssey of John Mack (Part 1)
Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (First part of a two-part post.) This is a remarkable book about an extraordinary man: John Mack (1929-2004)--Harvard professor of psychiatry, anti-nuclear activist, … [Read more...]
UFO Roundup, June 21, 2021 – Britain’s Roswell, UFO Conspiracy, Oumuamua Revisited
The summer had hardly begun--the solstice was at 11:31 p.m. on June 20--when a smorgasbord of fascinating articles about UFOs appeared in a wide range of media. And I thought 2020 was "the summer of the saucers"! Even before the appearance of the Pentagon's "UAP" report, even before the June 24 … [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...]
