“Little green men” in the UFOs. From the Pope to the Flintstones, they’re everywhere in the popular imagination. Yet they’re seldom actually reported by people who experience close encounters of the third kind, or the fourth. (See my last post, though, for a qualification of this.) Where do they … [Read more...]
Strange Stories from Inner Space
Two eerie tales, from the depths of inner space. One of them about UFOs, the other not. I can personally vouch for one of these stories, the non-UFO one. It happened to me. It was the morning of May 20, 2009. That’s more than three years ago, so those of skeptical bent will be happy to know … [Read more...]
Lindbergh, UFOs, and the Jews
In July 1959, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh paid a visit to the aged Carl Jung in his home in Bollingen, Switzerland. Lindbergh and Jung talked about—what else?—UFOs. This I learn from A. Scott Berg’s 1998 biography of Lindbergh, which my old friend in UFOlogy Jerry Clark has called to my … [Read more...]
The God Who Isn’t and Is
Some thirty years ago, one of my students at UNC complained that I was like all the profs in the Religious Studies Department. "They'll never tell you what they believe about God!" I thought it over and decided he had a point. So I tried to come up with a clear, straightforward answer I could … [Read more...]
