Check out the post by Mac Tonnies (thanks to Nick Redfern for posting this). I think much of what Mac says here is quite coherent. I’ve recently offered to do a lecture in Roswell next summer on the topic of why, in terms of biblical theology, intelligent alien...
UFOs as Folklore
Are Christians the Only Ones Who Consider ET Evil?
I wanted to share some thoughts on the most recent Partridge article I posted. Basically, I want to make sure you all caught some of his more important ideas, and to share some thoughts of my own with respect to those ideas. First, Partridge lays out his thesis very...
The ET Mythology as a Propaganda Tool, continued
This is a follow-up to my earlier post in regard to the article on how folklore served as a useful propaganda tool in Nazi Germany. The article was meant to point out that governmental power, totalitarian or otherwise, often makes use of “big picture”...
UFO Mythology as a Tool of the State, Part 1
I know a number of you have been wondering why I “assigned” the second PDF article, the one on folklore as a political tool of the Nazi regime. I wanted readers to think about how folklore or religion serves many purposes of a totalitarian regime. Indeed,...
Discussion Starters on Bullard’s Supernatural Kidnapping Folklore Article
Well, by now a number of you have read the PDF articles from my last post. I want to make a few observations with respect to the first one (Bullard: “The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative in Technological Guise”). The article does two things, fundamentally:...
Getting Re-Kickstarted with a Bang
If you're following this blog you may have had two recent thoughts: (1) Mike's time is being spent more on replying to comments than blogging; and (2) the comments are drifting away from the UFO theme. Agree on both counts. Now for the remedy. One of the stated goals...
Those “UFO Reports” in Ancient Literature
[There was] a noteworthy post from the UFO Iconoclasts blog. In a nutshell, it questions (coherently) the notion that there are a plethora (any?) UFO sightings in ancient writers, as so often reported. My take on this is agreement. I have said many times that these...
Defining Terms and Narrowing Focus (a short sidebar)
The UFO question is very complex. Anyone who puts any serious time into studying it will know that. Any UFO sighting can be filed (immediately or eventually) into one of several categories: 1. The misidentification of a man-made flying craft (plane or something less...