"The Phenomenon." Directed by James Fox. Released October 6, 2020. In my last post, I began talking about my reactions to James Fox's new UFO documentary "The Phenomenon." I talked about what I thought the film had succeeded in establishing: first, that some very smart and very serious … [Read more...]
“The Stranger” and the Westall UFO – Does Life Imitate TV? (Part 2)
"We shall forget all about this meeting, yes? We will say nothing to anyone about it. Please?" So speaks the mysterious "stranger"--real name unknown, even to himself; called "Adam" after the "new man" of the Bible--to his three young friends, midway through episode 2 of the 1964-65 Australian … [Read more...]
The Westall UFO – A Teacher’s Testimony (Part 2)
I'd intended to start part 2 of this post by picking up the threads of the McDonald-Greenwood interview where I left them at the end of part 1. (And if you're not clear on what the McDonald-Greenwood interview is, and why it's crucial to understanding the UFO that made its appearance at an … [Read more...]
The Westall UFO – A Teacher’s Testimony (Part 1)
Toward the end of June 1967, the American physicist James E. McDonald visited Australia. His ostensible purpose: to do research on cloud physics. McDonald had another aim as well. He'd become convinced that UFOs were a scientific problem of the first magnitude, to which orthodox science had … [Read more...]
The Westall UFO(s) – Why They Were Two
"All the kids were hanging on the fence, here, quite a few kids, here," says the lean, mustachioed man in his 50s who's been introduced to us as Victor Zakruzny. It's ten minutes into the documentary "Westall '66," and Zakruzny is showing investigator Shane Ryan the spot--once "a grassy paddock" … [Read more...]
