My aim in this post is to ask a question I can't answer. Does there exist an African-American UFO tradition, parallel to but distinct from the UFOlogy of white America? If so, what are its contours? Its meaning? I found myself thinking about this after posting two links on my Fan Page … [Read more...]
The Biochemist and the Raccoon – The Alien Abduction of Dr. Kary Mullis
Suppose I were to tell you that an alien abduction has been reported by no less a scientific authority than a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist. You’d be impressed, wouldn’t you? But suppose I were to add that said Nobel Laureate has a long history of experimenting with psychedelic drugs. That he … [Read more...]
“Under the Skin” – Thoughts on the Alien Woman
Now that Scarlett Johansson's "Under the Skin" movie has been released in New York and Los Angeles (last Friday), and starting tomorrow will be shown "in select cities," I'll have to make my decision. Do I really want to go see it? As a UFOlogist, I think I ought to. (If only for the imagery … [Read more...]
Antonio Villas-Boas and the Astounding She-Monster – A Zeitgeist Tale
This is the story of two space females. One of them, in October 1957, kidnapped a Brazilian farmer named Antonio Villas-Boas and half-seduced, half-raped him twice before letting him go. The other appeared about six months later on the silver screen, and far more powerfully in a movie poster that, … [Read more...]
J. Allen Hynek and Halley’s Comet
This is a PS to last week's post on astronomer and UFOlogist J. Allen Hynek, which I was working on when a story about Hynek's last days came to mind. I looked the story up in Keith Thompson's book Angels and Aliens (Fawcett Columbine, 1991), and found it to be fully as powerful and moving as I'd … [Read more...]
