"Fast away the old year passes ..." "Looking forward to the new year?" the receptionist asked me. We were in one of the doctor's offices where I've spent more of my time this past year than I would have liked. "Sure am!" I replied, in the same sprightly tone. But then the truth-teller … [Read more...]
MJ Banias, “The UFO People” – The Case of Amy
(This is the second installment of my review of M. J. Banias, The UFO People: A Curious Culture. N.p.: August Night Books, 2019. For the first installment, click here.) “The UFO phenomenon/subculture is a reflection of ourselves, our fears and desires, our ghosts. In some curious way, it, … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 3)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. So what's the takeaway from all this, for us UFOlogists? By "all this," I'm referring to the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a group … [Read more...]
“Project Blue Book,” “The History Journal,” and the New York Times
For about fifteen seconds, it did look like a real newspaper when my friend Jake Horwitz handed it to me over lunch. HUNDREDS WITNESS MYSTERIOUS UFOS, the headline proclaimed in enormous type, and beneath it a photo of an arc of white lights embedded in a luminous green ring, against the background … [Read more...]
Teaching UFOlogy – UNC 1996, OLLI 2019
Among the unanswerable questions that come up as I ponder my life: At age 12-going-on-13, scared out of my senses but also thrilled and energized by Gray Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, could I have imagined that at age 71 I'd be planning to use that same book as a text for a … [Read more...]
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