Sometimes worthy articles are tough to pair thematically, so here’s an early 2020 potpourri. Nearly 30 years ago Dr. Helen Sharman became the first Briton to go into space, and she is still incompletely known as the first British woman to do so. In certain ways that’s much more surprising than her beliefs that ET life is abundant in the universe and could even be here now. In something reminiscent of an old Bob Newhart tv episode, there’s someone running for office in California who claims to have been abducted by aliens. But this is no ordinary citizen: it’s Bob Salas, inextricably linked with one of the most dramatic–and troubling–UFO encounters ever. Billy Cox has the story on the co-author of Faded Giant who is Gunning for Second Place strategy for competing in a Congressional District northwest of Los Angeles. Elsewhere, ‘Alien Abduction’ Filmed by Doorbell Cam wasn’t presented as a real ET abduction, thankfully, but it certainly is head-scratching. Maybe the same can be said for Jim Keith’s Theory on Roswell: An Atomic Bomb. Nick Redfern has the tale and its possible connection to a conspiracy theory about Keith’s untimely death. Speaking of Nick, Roswell, and conspiracies, try Conspiracy, Deception and Revelation: False UFO Memories. This is an excellent cautionary tale about a problem common in ufology–and not helped by supposed “docudramas.” (WM)

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