Feb 08 2010
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Space-Brothers at LOWFI
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write an editorial for the LOWFI site, and which has just been posted. It’s on the Contactee movement.
You can write about anything you like, just as long as it has some kind of western US angle,†said Skylaire Alfvegren recently, when she invited me to pen a guest editorial for the League of Western Fortean Intermediatists. Well, given the nature of Skylaire’s invitation, it wasn’t difficult to come up with a subject-matter.
After all, as some of you may know, just a couple of months ago New Page Books published my most recent title: Contactees – A History of Alien-Human Interaction. And as just about anyone and everyone who has ever dared immerse themselves in the strange and twilight realm of all things of a long, blond-haired and space-brotherly nature will know, the West-Coast – and specifically California – is where most of the other-worldly action occurred.
After all, there were the “Four Georgesâ€: Adamski, the transplanted Pole, and surely the definitive Contactee, whose purported CA-based encounters with Orthon the E.T. in the early years of the 1950s helped make his Flying Saucers Have Landed book (co-written with Irishman Desmond Leslie) a mammoth-seller; Van Tassel, of both Giant Rock and Integratron fame; Hunt Williamson, who memorably contacted the Space Brothers via the medium of the Ouija board; and King, founder of the Aetherius Society, who ultimately wound up in California, after leaving behind his homeland of England.
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 Nick Redfern – who has written 1064 posts on UFOMystic.
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February 8th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
There is nothing offensive about that.
I have noticed this clothing fetish that some people have. I remember when Ken Gerhard was on Monster Quest and some people were upset about his hat. Why do they want everyone to look like insurance salesmen? Personally, I am more likely to not trust someone wearing a suit. In my experience snake oil salesmen of all sorts tend to wear such uniforms. Then again, I am from NM where dressing up means ironing your jeans.
February 8th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
Nick,
I may be wrong, but I could have sworn that your description of the suit wearing speaker fit a certain Grandfather or Roswell to a T.
Paul
February 9th, 2010 at 3:14 am
Grandfathers are excused for bugging people about wearing suits. They are set in their ways, it is more of a generational thing and they are suppose to bug “the kids” about such things.
It is far worse when people our age (or younger) think others should be wearing suits, not wearing a certain hat or whatever.
February 9th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Nick,
Human wardrobes aside, what do you think this “something” is?
You mentioned that the phenomena changes over time, which I find very interesting. These changes tell us a great deal about ourselves and our society. Could they also tell us more about the “something”?
February 9th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Nick — awesome angle on your Contactees research. Joseph P. Farrell devotes a chapter of his Roswell and the Reich new book to your research. This new interview with Farrell says your Roswell research is ground breaking and brilliant and crucial to his book.
February 14th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Loved the article, and I posted a link at Vintage U.F.O. As to wearing suits, I’m with Lesley; I don’t quite trust suits. Age might have something to do with that kind of thinking, but not so much; I’m 55 and don’t care about things like that much. Anyway,enjoyed the article!