Even those familiar with the Contactees of the 50s and 60s will find Hakan Blomqvist’s tale of the Johanssons rather challenging. It’s got John Keel’s “windows”; telepathic contacts from the “space people”; re-entering American spy satellites; Adamski-type craft making circles in the sky; shortish, large-headed entities with shining red eyes; and physical shaking and EM […]

Whether it’s reading cuneiform tablets from a Near-Eastern “dig” or finding an ancestor’s journal when going through old family records, uncovering a surprising new piece of information is a thrill. Hakan Blomqvist recently discovered something that caused him to “raise my eyebrows in astonishment.” Blomqvist’s discovery sheds more light–and engenders more questions–about the career and […]

Believing that the Esoteric Tradition ranks, along with science and religion, as one of the three intellectual forces or pillars of cultural history, Hakan Blomqvist argues that the Contactee Movement of the 1950s and 1960s “represented a unique and positive cultural impulse and a philosophy of hope for a whole generation of humanity.” Similar notes […]

Historical researcher and skeptic Jason Colavito weighs in on Luis Elizondo’s latest statement about the public release of three F/A-18 UFO videos and Luis’ part in that process. Perhaps of more moment than the still-murky question of Mr. Elizondo’s precise position and outsider speculations upon the propriety of his actions is Jason’s headlining issue of […]

The Pacific Northwest has bigfoot. New Jersey has the Jersey Devil. Florida has Florida Man. Chicago has its particular flavor of flying humanoid, and Linda Godfrey presents a very provocative theory about this beast’s genesis. And it has nothing to do with The Windy City’s winds being favorable for large fliers. Continuing with the theme, […]

John Keel has supplied considerable material to The Anomalist over the past few years, notably from the Keelian website maintained by Doug Skinner. Following Keel’s adventures with the Long Island contactees, we, as others, have wondered how Keel’s experiences affected him. Hakan Blomqvist praises the new book by Brent Raynes, John A. Keel: The Man, […]

HÃ¥kan Blomqvist reviews Ardy Sixkiller Clarke’s new book Space Age Indians, published by Anomalist Books. Her fourth book on Indian encounters with UFOs and aliens, this volume concentrates on contacts and abductions involving both benevolent and malevolent entities, specifically “Blue Men, Reptilians, and Other Star People,” according to the subtitle. “Her study is a unique […]

Maury Island Incident Historical Society releases list of Top Songs for UFO Lovers  The Waterland Blog The Maury Island Incident Historical Society this week released its list of the top songs for UFO lovers – just in time for National UFO Day (June 24) and World.

Two accounts of the September 18, 1976, Royal Iranian Air Force F4 Phantom UFO events are tested by Michael Prescott. It’s an interesting and illuminating comparison, even to the level of Things Not Said in the different versions. A lesser-known encounter just eight years prior has for the last four been the center of a […]

Faye Larkin, from Salford was 26 when she took her own life in woodland weeks after writing a NHS blog about her battle with Borderline Personality Disorder, an inquest heard.