Jul 11 2008
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UFOs at Daily Grail
Greg Taylor of The Daily Grail interviewed me a couple of days ago on my research, and the interview has just been posted on-line. We touch upon a lot of things in the interview, including the future of Ufology.
Here’s an extract for you:
“Personally, I think new blood in ufology is vital – but on one condition: namely, that the new blood is open-minded. I’ll tell you what I mean: in my view the old, Keyhoe-type of ufology dominated by classic flying saucers and soil-sample-grabbing aliens is over; utterly gone, aside from in the memories of people who were in the subject at the time. The phenomenon is clearly changing to mirror the people of then and now. Yet, there’s so many people – even some relatively young ones – still stuck in the old nuts-and-bolts, vehicle-interference, radar-visual dominated era. But much of the old-guard doesn’t want change: it wants the good old days to go on forever. Well, they won’t go on forever – and they shouldn’t either, because investigating the subject in the old ways hasn’t got us any answers, at all, in 60 years. Yes, we have more reports and more sightings and more testimony, but actual answers? Nope: not a single one.
“However, while it would be great to inject a whole load of new blood into the subject, it’s only going to work if the new generation is open-minded enough to not just be clones of the older generation. In other words, merely being younger is not enough on its own. There has to be a willingness to not be confined by one theory. In life in general, there are 70-year-olds whose minds are full of wonder and new ideas, and there are 17-year-olds who have already made their mind up – on all sorts of things. So, yes, we definitely need new people. But they have got to bring something new to the table, and not be caught up from day-one in the “Flying Saucers from Outer Space” era because that’s never solved anything and is clearly redundant.”
And here’s the rest of the interview.
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July 11th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Forteana or Death. That’s worthy of a T-shirt
But Nick, you recommend to the young kids that might be interested in cryptozoology to read read read, and yet you didn’t provide a list of books that, in your opinion, should be the “backbone” of any aspiring ufologist or cryptozoologist.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:34 am
yet you didn’t provide a list of books that, in your opinion, should be the “backbone” of any aspiring ufologist or cryptozoologist.
Good point. Has Nick ever done a list of what he considers the best books for those interested in the subject(s)? Okay, off to check out the interview.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:46 am
RPJ:
Yeah that would make a great t-shirt!
As for UFO books, I’d say “Messengers of Deception (Vallee);” “Above Top Secret” (Good); “Project Beta” (the Gregster); “Communion;” (Strieber); “The Spirit Molecule;” (Strassman - technically not a UFO book, but very relevant); “The Hynek UFO Report;” (Hynek);
As for crypto: “On the Track of Unknown Animals” (Heuvelmans); “Alien Animals” (Bord & Bord); “Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us” (Green); “Monster Hunter;” Downes; “Creatures of the Outer Edge (Clark Coleman); “Hunting the American Werwolf (Godfrey); “Field Guide to Lake Monsters…” (Coleman & Huyghe).
Crossover books that in some ways cover both areas - “Operation Trojan Horse” (Keel); “Mothman Prophecies” (Keel); “The Owlman and Others” (Downes).
That’s my choice, anyway, as a primer for people new to the subject! I’m sure I’ve omitted some major ones!
July 12th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Nick is clearly too modest to mention his own contributions. I particularly liked “Three Men Seeking Monsters”, which is simultaneously thought-provoking and hilarious.