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The Contactees Weren't Just Kooks
I'm a defender of the Contactees, the George Adamski's of the world. It isn't so simple, to just brush them off as endearing (or not so endearing, depending on your perspective) kooks. Many on both sides of that rickety UFO fence consider the Contactees, such as Adamski, Daniel Fry, Van Tassel, and so on as an embarrassment. Some may look upon them as quaint; maybe not so embarrassing, but not to be taken seriously, either.
I take them very seriously. I suspect there was a lot more going on with the Contactees than meets (met?) the eye.
Colin Bennett's book Looking for Orthon is a good book to read about George Adamski in particular, and the flying saucer Contactees American culture vibe of the times.
Nick Redfern, in his blog entry Blasts from the Past, on UFO Mystic writes:
Is all this harking back to the days of yesteryear mere coincidence or are the dastardly Greasy about to go belly-up? Surely this evolutionary decline they're supposedly on has been going on for far too long now. Are they about to give way to their long-haired, blonde ancestors and their absurdly shiny saucers?
Interesting observation and question! Maybe something is about to turn...
Nick points to Ed Komarek's
The 1950s Contactees Movement Revisited, (Part 2) which is very interesting. Komarek is into the exopolitics aspect (his blog is Exopolitics: The Study of the Politics of Extraterrestrial Contact ) of UFOs; I'm not sure I agree completely with him on some things but that's beside the point.
I agree with Komarek and others about one thing though: it's important for anyone interested in the UFOs of today to take a look back at the UFOs past. It's folklore (not to be misused or synonymous with "falsehoods") and history, and we'd miss out on a lot by forgetting about these past events. And we might miss out on what's right in front of us, if we're unaware of went before.
Origin: space-wanderers.blogspot.com
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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; Career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:g STARS -Small, cool, faint, and feeble, most red dwarfs struggle for centuries to generate the same amount of visible light that the Sun throws off in a year. Although red dwarfs outnumber all their brighter brethren put together, not a single one glows brightly enough to stir the unaided eye. Still, one of these dim red suns must be the brightest in Earth's sky. But which one? See article.g ABODES - Epsilon Eridani, at 10.5 light years, is a relatively nearby star, and we know it has planets. Can we find a way to view those planets, a way that will show us not just pinpoints of light but surface details? See article.g MESSAGE - Quote of the Day: "(Are we alone:) the greatest question ever posed." - George T. Whitesidesg COSMICUS - Could we develop a workable starship design that doesn't require any technologies that don't seem possible within the next 50 years. See http://www.ibiblio.org/lunar/school/InterStellar/Explorer Class/ExplorerClass.html.g LEARNING - Here's a neat classroom activity that examines if yeast, a common yet tenacious microbe, can survive boiling water, salt, UV radiation and citric acid? Students find out for themselves by creating "Planets in a Bottle" which illustrate extreme conditions on other worlds. See http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad16mar99 1a.htm.g IMAGINING -There's a neat Web site, Sector 001, that reviews the appearance of dozens of Star Trek aliens at http://www.powernet.net/~jcrafton/extra-in.html. It also includes some speculations about each one, particularly why so many are humanoid.g AFTERMATH - How would proof of extraterrestrial intelligence affect humanity's "world" view? Astronomer Steve Dick discusses the matter in this transcribed Smithsonian Institute lecture, from 1999, at http://www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/dibner-library-lectures/extraterrestrial-life/etcopy-kr.htm.Get your SF book manuscript edited Amazon.com Widgets
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