(My friend Martin Brossman and I have just recorded, via Zoom, a video interview on "Coronavirus and the UFO"--two subjects we don't often think to connect. As soon as the video goes live, I'll post the link to it here. In the meantime, here's the gist of what we said to one … [Read more...]
Remembering Stanton Friedman – The Recollections of Kevin Randle, Kal Korff
I never met the late Stanton Friedman. Nor did we exchange correspondence, nor did I ever hear him speak. To the memory of this man, I have no personal contribution to make. I can only repeat the obvious: that with his passing on May 13, UFOlogy lost a major figure. I'm moved to write … [Read more...]
Wrapping Up Roswell
Just in time, I suppose, for the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the debris on the Foster Ranch--which, if you accept the version that says that happened on June 14, would be two weeks from today. (Got plans for the celebration?) I don't have any "Open Sesame" for the complex and … [Read more...]
Roswell and Mogul – The Memories of Charles B. Moore (Part 2)
(This is Part 2 of a two-part post. For Part 1, click here.) It's the "smoking gun" for the Mogul explanation of the Roswell debris. (I don't remember who called it that. Maybe Karl Pflock?) The Roswell witnesses remembered having seen peculiar pink, or purple, or purplish-pink markings … [Read more...]
Roswell and Mogul – The Memories of Charles B. Moore (Part 1)
"I have a distinct memory that James Richard Smith, better known as J.R., watched the 4 June balloon train through a theodolite on a clear, sunny morning ..." --Charles B. Moore, in Saler, Ziegler and Moore, UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth (1997) The devil is in those … [Read more...]