Once upon a time, I've learned from reading the comic strips, schoolkids coming back from summer vacation were made to write essays on "What I Did Last Summer." (Linus to Lucy: "What did I do last summer?" Lucy to Linus: "You read comic books and watched TV.") I was in elementary school back … [Read more...]
Landed UFOs and a Flying Cross – Two Stories from David Clarke
Two UFO stories from David Clarke's new book How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth, which I'd planned to include in last week's book review but couldn't find room for. One of them is pretty funny. The other is intriguingly serious, and opens questions which neither Clarke nor … [Read more...]
Michael Shermer – A Skeptic’s Story of Alien Abduction
"On Monday, August 8, 1983, I was abducted by aliens." That's how Michael Shermer, founder and director of The Skeptics Society, opens the chapter on UFO abductions in his book Why People Believe Weird Things. You just know, don't you, that he's speaking tongue-in-cheek? He intends his story … [Read more...]
The “Roswell Slides” and Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Roswell Alleged Alien Photos Are Fake Says Neil deGrasse Tyson," proclaimed the "BizTek Mojo" website on May 8, three days after the anticlimactic unveiling of the so-called "Roswell Slides" in Mexico City. But Neil deGrasse Tyson didn't say that at all. What the distinguished astrophysicist … [Read more...]
The Daimon, the Witch, and the Moon-Journey – “The Dream” of Johannes Kepler (Part 4)
Johannes Kepler's story "The Dream," about a daimon-propelled journey to the moon and the strange and often horrifying beings one might find there, ends as dreams do. "And then I woke up." "When I had reached this point in my dream, a wind arose with the rattle of rain, disturbing my sleep and … [Read more...]
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