Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (For the first part of this post, click here.) "It is also possible that some of the affective energy which is displaced onto the UFO controversy derives from the … [Read more...]
Ralph Blumenthal’s “The Believer” – The UFO Odyssey of John Mack (Part 1)
Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (First part of a two-part post.) This is a remarkable book about an extraordinary man: John Mack (1929-2004)--Harvard professor of psychiatry, anti-nuclear activist, … [Read more...]
Cryptids, UFOs, Lost Continents – Colin Dickey’s “The Unidentified”
Colin Dickey. The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with The Unexplained. Viking, 2020. "Obsession" was perhaps an unfortunate choice of words for the subtitle. It suggests a lesser book than The Unidentified in fact is. Any book that incorporates … [Read more...]
“Handbook of UFO Religions” – “Judaism and the UFO”
E. J. Brill, according to Wikipedia, is "a Dutch international academic publisher founded in 1683 in Leiden, Netherlands. With offices in Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore, Brill today publishes 275 journals and around 1200 new books and reference works each year." I've known its hefty, … [Read more...]
The Skinwalker Ranch Mystery – Mick West, Brandon Fugal
"Twenty lashes with a wet noodle!" That was the penalty Ann Landers (or was it Dear Abby?) used to impose on herself, whenever she was caught in some egregiously foolish error in one of her newspaper columns. I don't think I deserve the full twenty. But maybe ten would be appropriate. The … [Read more...]
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