Nigel Watson’s review of Adam Gorightly’s Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius seconds the gullibility and outside manipulation Gorightly claims characterizes U.S. ufology. Watson finds himself Losing Contact with an Alan Steinfeld-edited book of that name, immediately upon reading its list of authors. Paul Seaburn voices only positive thoughts regarding […]

Two noteworthy cryptozoological works have gotten a welcome update from their authors. The first is the topic of a review by John Rimmer: Karl Shuker’s newest book–though it probably won’t be “newest” for long considering how prolific he is–Mystery Cats of the World Revisited (Anomalist Books). Rimmer notes: “Although the discovery of a new species […]

More like a multiverse of ghosts, based upon David Sivier’s review of Paul Eno’s Dancing Past the Graveyard. And it’s not just ghosts, but you-know-who, bigfoot, and so much more high strangeness. While parallel universes and multiverses are in vogue, David makes several valid arguments against dumping all phenomenon into the multiverse bin along with […]

What’s David Sivier doing, reviewing a 50-plus-year-old novel by the prolific Robert Silverberg? Silverberg produced a sci-fi work that was ahead of its time in several important ways. And Sivier’s remarks upon the book’s possible place in the Roswell story is at least worth consideration. Science fiction and UFOs are also on Rich Reynolds’ mind. […]

Jeb Card’s recent book Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past gets rave reviews from Magonia’s John Rimmer. About the only drawback to the tome Rimmer notes is its price, stiff even from the paperback or Kindle angle. It does seem a worthwhile addition for those with a serious interest in how archaeology, […]

Charles Gritzner has thoroughly studied “ghost lights” in “one of the US headquarters” for the phenomenon, and reviewer John Rimmer has nothing but praise for the result. The geographer approaches his subject comprehensively, critically, and historically, with suggested considerations but no final explanation for the many mysterious tales he relates. Rimmer’s “take” on North Carolina […]

We turn to memories and memoirs of iconic ufologists, starting with the publication of the fourth in a series of chronological diary entries by Jacques Vallee entitled Forbidden Science: The Spring Hill Chronicles. Reviewed by an iconic ufologist herself, Jenny Randles, this is “must” primary source material for UFO studies in the last decade of […]

Three articles related to publishing and out-of-this-world things. The universe is a very strange, grand, and old place. It has intrigued and guided humans since before recorded times; indeed, some of the first techniques for marking time and acting upon that practice used the movements of the heavens in the night sky. Jonathan Powell’s book […]

Magonia It’s all about time. For Eric Wargo, it’s about our largely unrecognized sense of the future, specifically information available in our own future timeline. His new book, Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausation, and the Unconscious has been reviewed by Jenny Randles, who says “…this is the most interesting and well-argued book about a paranormal topic […]

John Rimmer reviews Peter A McCue’s book Paranormal Encounters on Britain’s Roads, which examines tales of ghostly hitch-hikers and other spooky encounters on the nation’s highways. John feels the work is “an interesting collection of memorates of anomalous phenomena.” In The Strange Tale of an English Witch we have a woman who, back in 1600s […]