Review of Jesse Walker, The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory. HarperCollins, 2013. Conspiracy theories make me nervous. I've been the star attraction in too many of them. Not me personally, you understand. But as a Jew, I periodically emerge as an ex officio plotter against … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – The Story Concluded
“Barney Hill, the black man who joined together that which custom had strictly divided, died on February 25, 1969. He died without knowing that his harrowing experience, of helpless and terrified captivity in the dead and deathly hours of the night, had buried itself like some alien seed in the … [Read more...]
Trickster Tales – James Moseley, Sherlock Holmes, UFOlogy
I've been reading an unusual UFO book. It came out about six weeks ago, edited by Timothy Green Beckley, whom I've known from our teenage UFOlogist days in the mid-1960s. It's entitled The Astounding UFO Secrets Of James W. Moseley: A Special Tribute to the Editor of Saucer Smear and the Court … [Read more...]
“UFO 96” – The UFO World of 50 Years Ago
If I wanted to do this properly, I suppose I'd issue an annotated edition. Something along the lines of Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice. "No joke is funny unless you see the point of it," Gardner wrote in his introduction to The Annotated Alice, "and sometimes a point has to be explained. … [Read more...]
