Two UFO stories from David Clarke's new book How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth, which I'd planned to include in last week's book review but couldn't find room for. One of them is pretty funny. The other is intriguingly serious, and opens questions which neither Clarke nor … [Read more...]
David Clarke, “How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth”
Can there possibly be anyone who knows the UFO files of the UK Ministry of Defence better than David Clarke? A dogged, affable journalist, a UFOlogist-turned-skeptic with a Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Sheffield, England, Clarke spent years prying UFO documents loose from his … [Read more...]
Michael Shermer – A Skeptic’s Story of Alien Abduction
"On Monday, August 8, 1983, I was abducted by aliens." That's how Michael Shermer, founder and director of The Skeptics Society, opens the chapter on UFO abductions in his book Why People Believe Weird Things. You just know, don't you, that he's speaking tongue-in-cheek? He intends his story … [Read more...]
A “Solved” UFO Case from the Files of MUFON Ohio
"My girlfriend and I were returning from Olive Garden in my car," said the witness, a physician in private practice. It was an uneventful trip home from a restaurant meal, until the couple "descended a large hill" a few hundred yards from their house and "an object materialized at the side … [Read more...]
Cleveland 2015 – “Congress of Scientific UFOlogists” 50th Reunion
We met in Cleveland in June 1964, and again in June 1965. 1966 too; but by that time I'd dropped out of the UFOlogy scene and so I missed the great Congress of Scientific UFOlogists held in New York City in June 1967. It's one of the great regrets of my mostly well-spent youth. We returned … [Read more...]
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