LOL. Luckily for you I’ll be offline after tomorrow (saturday) until tuesday morning (or, for those non-Brits, as us English peope call the day after Christmas: “Boxing Day”), so you won’t have too many more UFO links to go chasing after.

But tuesday onwards, there may be a deluge of links….

Merry Christmas from the sod

I was just about managing to keep on top of my wide ranging, very long list of wildly varying subjects of particular interest to me, when I had to go and pay you more attention than usual.

And suddenly you’re inundating me with all these madly interesting links about subjects in the UFO field I wasn’t even dimly aware of!

Jesus, I used to have a life until I met you, but now I’m gonna have to spend the rest of the Season of Good Will fighting me kids and me brother to the death just to keep on a terminal.

Well, thanks a lot, and a very merry Christmas to you too - y’sod!

Bender, as far as I know, is still alive and living in the L.A. area. It would be child’s play for any competent P.I. (I think I know one) to locate him in a day. The reason I have never bothered him is that Moseley says the last person who tried this was chased off his doorstep. In one issue of Excluded Middle I published a picture of him in sunglasses and a long coat at the dedication ceremony for a star on Hollywood Blvd. for one of his heroes, film composer Max Steiner. This happened in the late 1970s or early ’80s. He was president of the composer’s “appreciation society.”

One other “Outer Limits” episode which is quite relevant to Ufology was “The Bellero Shield” which may have impacted on the Hill abduction case as posited by excellent UFO commentator Martin Kottmeyer.

Hey, maybe I’ll post this with a link!

I do indeed remember Billy Goodman - his shows even made it to the UK way back then even. Yeah, adding the “horror story” stuff of Lear, Cooper etc and really telling the story of that weird era would be a good one.

Yeah, Greg was telling me that Bender is still around. Wonder if he got royalties on the Men in Black movie? He should have done!

Thanks for the Outer Limits insight. I would urge anyone to read the Newman novel (there are even allegations about Newman’s official links too - click on the link in Newman’s name in my original post and it will take you to a good summary of Newman and his book).

There are definitely some very intriguing and weird parallels in his novel with what came decades later in ufology - including, as you pointed out, Reagan’s comments about uniting against an alien threat.

The faked Alien Autopsy is another interesting facet - as is Newman’s decision to have one of the UFO crashes in his novel in, of all places, New Mexico.

Maybe he knew something weird happened at Roswell, New Mexico, and this was his way of leaving clues…

It should be noted that Kenn Thomas is working on a book about Ray Palmer, though I don’t know all the details. I interviewed Kenn on my web radio show the other day “Untamed Dimensions” (plug,plug) but we ran out of time before I could get around to asking him about the project.

Bob Lazar would be an interesting subject, too, and that whole scene around him in Vegas in the late 80’s which included John Lear, Bill Cooper and the “Billy Goodman Happening” radio show.

btw, does anybody else remember “The Billy Goodman Happening”? Great stuff.

I was not aware of Bernard Newmann’s novel, but like most readers here am aware of Ronald Reagans’ odd commentary about the world uniting against an alien enemy. I had frankly thought the inspiration for this kind of thought originated with “The Architects of Fear,” that wonderful and groundbreaking episode of the original Outer Limits. For those who are not familiar with this story, a group of scientists working in secret within what is obviously an American governmental agency take one of their own ranks (Robert Culp) and turn him into an unsettlingly grotesque extraterrestrial. I’d continue, but that would be a “spoiler,” as they say. It’s only an hour, and admittedly primitive by today’s special effects standards, but the writing and acting alone make it worth seeing, at least once.

Daniel

Yeah I agree: biographies can be a great and insightful read. You’ll note that many of the books, people, and cases I suggested were late 1940s to 1950s themed. It’s a study of this period - more than any other, I think - where we will find the answers.