"Something is happening here but you don't know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones?" --Bob Dylan I got my first inkling that something was happening on the afternoon of Sunday, December 17, when I checked my emails and saw that two friends had, independent of each other, sent me links to a pair of … [Read more...]
Joel Achenbach, Carl Sagan, and the UFOlogists
Joel Achenbach. Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe. Simon & Schuster, 1999. "The temptation, for those of us who have not scared the door of a church in a long time, is to give the topic of religion a wide berth. The truth is that many of us are not … [Read more...]
Roswell and Mogul – The Memories of Charles B. Moore (Part 1)
"I have a distinct memory that James Richard Smith, better known as J.R., watched the 4 June balloon train through a theodolite on a clear, sunny morning ..." --Charles B. Moore, in Saler, Ziegler and Moore, UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth (1997) The devil is in those … [Read more...]
“Alien Encounters” 1995 – When UFOs Invaded Disney World (Part 1)
I met Walt Disney. It was the fall of 1955, when I was 7 and beginning third grade. The brand new Walt Disney School of Levittown, Pennsylvania, which had been in construction across the street from my house for the previous year or two, had just been opened for our education, and the great man … [Read more...]
Desmond Leslie – Sifra di-Tzeniuta, the “Book of Dzyan,” and “Flying Saucers Have Landed”
At the beginning of this month I blogged about the terse, baffling Kabbalistic text called Sifra di-Tzeniuta, "The Book of Concealment." It's found in the second volume of the Zohar, written in Aramaic like the rest of the Zohar, yet orders of magnitude more cryptic and therefore, perhaps, more … [Read more...]
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