Where have all the abductees gone? Back in the 90s, which feels in retrospect like UFOlogy's golden decade, they seemed to be everywhere. Comic strips spoofed them, a sure sign of their high visibility--readers could be counted on to get the joke. With the new century, perhaps helped along by … [Read more...]
“I Dreamed of Donald Trump” – The Kelly Bulkeley Dossier
I don't think I've ever dreamed about a US President, until that President was Donald Trump. But then, Donald Trump has been a President unlike any other, unconstrained by the inhibitions on speech and behavior that used to be taken for granted in someone seeking or occupying high office. You … [Read more...]
Michael Gordin’s “The Pseudoscience Wars” – Immanuel Velikovsky and His Enemies
Michael D. Gordin. The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. "Like other scientists with an interest in UFOs, [J. Allen] Hynek was denied a voice in most of his profession's publications yet ridiculed … [Read more...]
“Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO” – Coming 2020 from Stanford University Press
We were going to call our book The Flying Saucer Mystery. This was 57 years ago, when I'd just turned 13, and my pal Bryan and I were fired up with the idea that two bright eighth-graders like us could write the definitive book on the "elusive disks," as one writer called them. Heck, we could … [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...]
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