A tale of two podcasts, Part 1. (I'll post Part 2 in another two weeks.) Both podcasts aired, two weeks apart, on the "Micah Hanks Program," where I had the honor of being interviewed several weeks afterward. Their dates were March 9 and 23, straddling that awful week when the coronavirus storm … [Read more...]
The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show – XZRS: David Halperin – Journal of a UFO Investigator: A Novel
It was the oddest experience I've ever had doing a radio interview. Or possibly the most remarkable. I'm still not sure to what extent Rob McConnell and I managed to communicate when he interviewed me for his "X" Zone Radio Show about my 2011 novel Journal of a UFO Investigator. I seem not to … [Read more...]
“The Shadow of the Unknown” – A Tale of Teen UFOlogy
A way to meet girls, it wasn’t. The world of teen UFOlogy in the early 1960s, to which I belonged, was with a very few exceptions a world of teenage boys. At times I regretted this, but accepted it as inevitable. “This is the most important unsolved mystery in the world today,” my senior … [Read more...]
Joel Achenbach, Carl Sagan, and the UFOlogists
Joel Achenbach. Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe. Simon & Schuster, 1999. "The temptation, for those of us who have not scared the door of a church in a long time, is to give the topic of religion a wide berth. The truth is that many of us are not … [Read more...]
UFOs in Israel – Aliens, the “Other,” and Dr. Tehiya Eshet
Tell me quick--what UFO event happened at Ahihud? At Shikmona? Kadima? Yatzitz? You don't know? I didn't either, and truth be told I still don't. I'd probably have trouble even finding these places on a map of Israel. They belong to a world that's long fascinated me but into which I've had … [Read more...]
