Vintage U.F.O.

Tim Beckley has just released his second book in a series of contactee classics; this one is Dana Howard’s Over the Threshold. The cover art is groovy; very much a vintage vibe, by artist Carol Ann Rodriguez, who also did the cover for the previous book, Howard’s Up Rainbow Hill. This new edition of Over the Threshold is very nice; interesting photographs of ectoplasm, a great article by Sean Castell on angelhair, and yes, my introduction on the desert as setting.

On our blog UFO Proletariat, Alfred Lehmberg has a new piece: “Gray is the Word” on Roswell.

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…

A really cool story! A Rogue UFO Encounter?

Researcher Scott Corrales has translated my Women From Venus article into Spanish. Very nice! You can read it at his blog Arcana Mundi.

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.

On UFO Digest: Was Nikola Tesla A UFO Contactee? by Sean Casteel.

Good article, Sean’s always good; and about Tesla being a contactee, very likely.

New blog I started, Alien Art Genre.

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.)