So why did he remain such a dick on the UFO question with passages such as this?
I do not consider myself a religious person in the usual sense, but there is a religious aspect to some highs. The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and [...]

Posted by Greg Bishop on December 31, 2006 6:58 am.

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Well, that’s another year gone!
According to the latest at UFO Digest 2006 was a good year on the UFO front:
“This year, 2006, has been a watershed of sorts in the field of ufology. From the stories I have investigated, to those contributed by writers and those from eyewitnesses, 2006 was indeed a monumental and unforgettable [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 31, 2006 3:00 am.

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With all of 5 years left until the world ends (again) according to the Mayan calendar (or our interpretation of it) we wish you a healthy, prosperous, and adventurous 2007.
UFO sightings on New Year’s Day? Here’s one I found from Australia in 1996 at UFO Info:
The Chronicle, Wangaratta, N.T. - On January 1, at [...]

Posted by Greg Bishop on December 31, 2006 12:01 am.

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Alien park deemed viable in Roswell, N.M.
ROSWELL, N.M., Dec. 29 (UPI) — The planning director for the city of Roswell, N.M., says the possibility of an extra-terrestrial themed amusement park in the city is “looking very positive.”
Zach Montgomery said a feasibility study completed by New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Business Center found that the city’s [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 30, 2006 9:24 pm.

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I’m hardly the biggest fan of UFO fiction; but, occasionally, a novel on the subject will come along that really catches my eye. Such was the case with the late Ralph Noyes’s A Secret Property of 1985. Written by a former employee of the British Ministry of Defense, the book tells in fictional format a [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 30, 2006 9:00 am.

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My favorite Onion headline of the year: “CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years“

Posted by Greg Bishop on December 30, 2006 1:38 am.

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Second and last installment. Feel free to debate and suggest other dates and incidents. Remember, these were chosen with three criteria in mind: 1) The effect on Ufology in general 2) The effect these events have on the perception of the phenomenon and 3) The effect on public awareness.
11) March, 1966 - “Swamp Gas” Incident
At [...]

Posted by Greg Bishop on December 30, 2006 12:18 am.

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Like everyone else, ufologists and Forteans have to eat - if only to give them the energy to be ufologists and Forteans again. After eating this wonderful feast, however, we all had a good snooze.
Taken in the dining room of Jon Downes’s spacious, historic home in Devon, England in the summer of 2006, from left [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 29, 2006 12:44 pm.

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Mother-ship: now there’s a term absolutely guaranteed to raise the hackles of any smug, self-important ufological skeptic. So, I’ll say it again, only this time louder: MOTHER-SHIP!
For those unaquainted with this one-time ufological stalwart, the mother-ships were almost a permanent fixture of the halcyon days of ufology (and by that I mean the 1950s and [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 29, 2006 6:19 am.

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If you’d like to see some of my online photos, particularly of the incredibly great New Frontiers Conference a couple of months ago, please visit my flickr page.

Nick Redfern and Stan Friedman at “Freeman’s New York Restaurant” Halifax N.S.

Posted by Greg Bishop on December 29, 2006 2:57 am.

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“May I help you?”
John Keel’s Mothman Prophecies is a classic of fortean and UFO literature. If you don’t think so, we can step outside.
Keel weaves the strange events of 1966-67 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia into a chilling tale which ended in a predicted disaster. Mothman was seen by over 100 witnesses, who usually [...]

Posted by Greg Bishop on December 29, 2006 2:28 am.

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Ufologists on their day off.
Day three…
When not doing things of a ufological nature, here’s somewhere I like to go to hang out: the Avebury Stones, Wiltshire, England. A truly magical and mystical area, I recommend it to anyone who wants to get in touch with England’s rich, weird history. Go down there in the summer [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 28, 2006 6:38 am.

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This caught my eye. Definitely worth reading. Highly relevant to anyone interested in what may be “out there.”

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 28, 2006 6:22 am.

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Man-Made Flying Saucers are back in the news - and not before time! It’s going to be interesting to see how this story develops.
He doesn’t believe in UFOs; he’s just building his own
Clinton Twp. man lives for sci-fi
December 27, 2006
BY STEVE NEAVLING
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
By day a construction worker, Carrington spends his free time inside [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 28, 2006 6:17 am.

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Yep, it’s true!

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 28, 2006 6:08 am.

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With the death of former President Gerald Ford, his links with ufology are certain to be re-examined and placed under the spotlight by the UFO research community. For anyone wanting the details, check out this. And this, too. It’s going to be interesting to see if anything else of a ufological nature surfaces in the [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 28, 2006 6:04 am.

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Everyone likes lists. I know I do. Perhaps if only to re-educate myself, I present this one.
Inspired by Paul Kimball, whose forthcoming documentary on the 10 best UFO cases and list of the 50 most important people in the history of the subject, let’s see if we can come up with the 20 most important [...]

Posted by Greg Bishop on December 28, 2006 12:10 am.

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Gray Barker is one of my Ufological heroes, mainly because he saw the humor in the saucer subject. He also harbored a deeply inquisitive attitude about it, even though he didn’t let on about this to many people.
Somewhere, I have an mp3 of Barker talking to Jackie Gleason on the Long John Nebel show in [...]

Posted by Greg Bishop on December 27, 2006 6:28 pm.

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Ufologists on their day off. Day Two…
Here I am in September of this year, undertaking one of my occasional chores - feeding the good cattle of Texas. Heck, it makes a change from just mutilating them. Any negative comments about my tartan pyjamas will result in a swift and fatal visit from the Men in [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 27, 2006 6:59 am.

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Last month, I was speaking at Ryan Wood’s annual UFO Crash-Retrieval Conference in Las Vegas. Of the various lectures, the one that really stood out for me was that of Paul Schatzkin. Currently, as he revealed in his lecture, Schatzkin is working on a new biography of T. Townsend Brown - a name that will be very [...]

Posted by Nick Redfern on December 27, 2006 6:37 am.

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