I published my first article on UFOs when I was 13 years old. I was in eighth grade at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Junior High School in Bristol, Pennsylvania; I'd gotten hooked on flying saucers, as it was then more normal to call them, a few months before. It all came from reading what in my … [Read more...]
Albert Bender and the “Max Steiner Music Society” – A Life Post-UFO
What sort of man was Albert K. Bender--he who supposedly discovered the secret of the UFOs, for which he was "silenced" in 1953 by the Three Men in Black? Gray Barker, whose They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers (1956) gives the classic account of his silencing, describes him in the most … [Read more...]
Albert Bender’s “Flying Saucers and the Three Men” – An Atheistic Contact Story
"Do you believe in God?" "That is a creation of your people on Earth. You have strange races and colors in your people, and many languages are spoken, but it seems that all your peoples have had the desire to worship something during their evolution. They, growing like small children, wanted to … [Read more...]
Gray Barker, Albert Bender – “Men in Black” and the Summer of 1954
"And the summer wore on into August, a summer that was not quite right. There were more freak weather conditions and earthquakes, and in the air were threats of something unknown that was to come. Windshields broke mysteriously from coast to coast. There were hints that astronomers had focused … [Read more...]
Teaching UFOlogy – UNC 1996, OLLI 2019
Among the unanswerable questions that come up as I ponder my life: At age 12-going-on-13, scared out of my senses but also thrilled and energized by Gray Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, could I have imagined that at age 71 I'd be planning to use that same book as a text for a … [Read more...]
