Jul 24 2008
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UK/UFO
I mentioned here a couple of days ago Dave Clarke’s new UFO-post for Fortean Times on the subject of the British Ministry of Defense’s UFO files. But I have to bring this additional, new piece from Dave to your attention too. It provides a welcome voice of reason amid all the hysteria that has surrounded the many, recent UFO encounters reported throughout the British Isles. As Dave shows, the truth is a little more down to earth.
Personally, I don’t doubt at all that we do have a genuine UFO presence amongst us; however, we should never forget that most reports do have rational explanations - and Dave amply demonstrates that what many perceived recently to have been genuinely anomalous reports were probably nothing of the sort at all.
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July 24th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Dave Clarke needs to get himself a new hosting server. I can’t get to his site 95% of the time…some sort of routing issue to Australia I’m guessing.
July 25th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
…Nope, the link doesn’t work for me either :/
July 25th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Well it is a nice balance to “all things Forteana” considering I’ve spent the day reading the dangerously overwhelming “There’s Something in the Woods.” Nevertheless I was hooked into swinging into my local scifi-fantasy-horror store for a copy of “The Lurker at the Threshold.” It’s rare to find fiction worthy of reading.
As for your new book Nick — the quesy feeling in my stomach attests to its power. Earth-shattering comes to mind. The security blanket for me is the recurrent experience of the “Oz Effect” via sound, which is the basis of my research as well.
July 27th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Drew
Many thanks for the words re the book. Yeah, “Threshold” is definitely a good one.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Nick: When I finished your book I thought of a friend who would really like it. Since I make no plans (have no phone, etc.) when I randomly passed the anarchist cafe where he hangs and I spied his outline in the dim light, my bike skidded almost into his body with my message: “I have a delivery!”
So he was psyched (and stoned) but when I also showed him the Derleth book he went on this “micropredation” rant about how there wasn’t really a “mythos” to Lovecraft. Then he asked me if I knew about the skunk ape and also stated that he wanted to read about chupacabra (forcing me to pull out my “Island of Paradise” book). While he’s more into Algernon Blackwood, the link between forteana and cosmic horror fiction did not go unnoticed. More than once he said he would read your book, meanwhile Downes’ book is a VERY EXCELLENT read.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Drew:
Many thanks for this; very interesting! Yeah, Jon’s “Island of Paradise” book is a great one, and required reading for anyone interested in the controversy of the Chupa.
July 30th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
http://www.abcgallery.com/M/matisse/matisse129.html