Nick Redfern on the Contactees, as well as the absurdities of ufology for LOWFI. What I so very much appreciate about Redfern’s take on the Contactees is his acceptance of them, as well as his acknowledging that his interest in them is because, among other things, it’s just fun.
Nick writes: “Like it or not, the UFO mystery is full of absurdities. . . ” and you’d think a lot more within the field would understand that by now.
Redfern also says what seems like an obvious thing, at least to myself, that the Contactee phenomena (like the rest of UFOs, I’d think) is neither “black or white.” It’s not literal, it’s not not literal.
Anyway, a great piece and thanks to Skylaire Alfrevgen, our fearless Fortean leader at LOWFI, for inviting Nick to write the piece. Read it here.
Nick Redfern, at UFO Mystic, shares a story of a high strangeness encounter in England from 1975. As Nick says, it doesn’t directly involve UFOs, and yet…
Nick Redfern has a fun post at his blog<a href=”http://contacteesbook.blogspot.com/2010/01/devil-girl-from-mars.html”> Contactees</a> about the 1954 movie Devil Girl From Mars. I love movies like this: silly, chessy, sure, but I can’t get enough. Here’s a bit of background from Nick’s post:
A couple of nights ago I watched an old (1954) British, black-and-white science-fiction film called Devil Girl From Mars that starred Patricia Laffan as the Devil-Girl herself, and Hazel Court (who appeared in a number of the classic Hammer horror films of the late 1950s and early 1960s), and John Laurie, a Scottish character-actor best known in Britain for his role as Fraser in the BBC comedy of the 1960s and 1970s, Dad’s Army.
Here’s a clip of the movie. I just love the robot and Devil Girl’s costume is a blast:
My new Trickster’s Realm column for BoA is on beings from Venus; contactees, sort of, but with a different mode of operation than the usual Space Sister. Women From Venus.
Alien Art Genre: Drawings, paintings, and other artistic renderings of aliens, entities, UFOs, esoteric happenings and other strange things experienced — whether literally or by inspiration — by creative witnesses. If you have an image to submit, email Regan Lee at rlee@orangeorb.net with image, medium, title and brief description (direct sighting or encounter, inspired by _____, etc.)
Poulpe Pulps is a wonderful resource of vintage cover art with underwater and Octopi type creatures as the theme. This is great news for me, for I share an affinity with things of the deep, as my blog Octopus Confessional illustrates.
Here’s an excerpt from the Poulpe blog’s intro: Welcome to Poulpe Pulps, an OCTOPIA BLOG feature. The octopus, known as poulpe in French, pulpo in Spanish, polip in Hungarian, and polypous in Classical Greek, is pluperfectly the essence of pulp.
Here you will find hard-to-locate images of science fiction, fantasy, and adventure pulp and comic covers featuring the wily octopus, courtesy of your hostess Francesca Myman.
Water UFO, a site with a database of sightings of underwater UFOs, going back centuries. Just a few of the interesting areas to explore on the site: a PDF download of BLUE BOOK UFO REPORTS BY SHIPS AT SEA, Abductees and Water, and Sea Monsters and Water UFOs.
The blog Forgetomori has a post on the following image that’s become a classic in UFO lore:Die Fälscher Alien. Excerpt:
t’s one of the most iconic alien images. The men in trenchcoats are described as agents from the FBI, KGB or even SS. None of these is true.
The famous image actually first hit the ufological circles when it was published in an Air Force bulletin in the USA on 1950:
The rest on Forgotomori.
It’s a great image; one I’ve always loved for its UFO – Nazi, captured alien vibe. I remember seeing this image decades ago in one of those Reader’s Digest or Time LIfe type books full of “strange mysteries” or some such. Those books were hardbound, large, full of photos and illustrations of all kinds of Fortean and alien type topics. Whenever I find a book like that in a thrift shop or second hand bookstore I usually buy it; I have a good collection of those things.
Anway, good post on this image on Forgotomori — a very good blog all around, by the way.
I cannot recommend too strongly the fantastic "Vintage UFO" blog, conducted by Regan Lee. It has the most amazing collection of UFO imagery from 1950s adverts and space-girl-pinups to short video clips of interviews, excerpts from TV shows. An absolute treasure-trove. ~ John Rimmer, Magonia blog
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