Can it be true? Is it really possible that the story and experience of UFO abduction, which had this country so mesmerized back in the 90s, is a remembrance/re-enactment of the African American historical trauma? Mediated through the harrowing experience of the world's first abductee, the … [Read more...]
The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction – An African-American Story
Refer back, polite reader, to the two epigraphs with which I prefaced the previous installment of this post. Particularly the one from Philip Klass. “As I listened to Barney reliving his UFO encounter, I could agree completely with the doctor that Barney had indeed seen ‘something,’ and it had … [Read more...]
The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill – Part 1
On one tape, I heard Barney Hill relive his close-quarters encounter with the UFO. At the start of the interview, his voice was quite calm, but as he “approached” the UFO, hovering over a field near the highway, Barney screamed hysterically. Dr. Simon told me that he had never had a patient become … [Read more...]
“Strange Country” – The Human Face of the UFO
When filmmaker Sean Kotz emailed five months ago, asking for my cooperation with his project “Strange Country,” I was excited. It was to be a documentary, he explained, on the UFO sightings of 1987-88 in Wythe County, Virginia. I’d heard about these sightings not long before; I had shared a panel … [Read more...]
A UFOlogy for the 21st Century
Here’s a proposition—a UFOlogical proposition. UFOs are a human phenomenon. A UFO sighting, therefore, is not bounded by the sky in which it’s appeared, or seems to have appeared. The observer—better, experiencer—is a part of the sighting. So is everyone who believes in that sighting. So is … [Read more...]
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