UFO encounters often leave lasting impacts upon individuals. Mark Russell Bell proffers a brief and lesser-known Finnish “flap” that left its witnesses perplexed, angry, and–maybe–dead. Skeptical Nigel Watson differs with Irena McCammon Scott’s speculations in Inside the Lightning Ball: Scientific Study of Lifelong UFO Experiencers. Yet even in this review, Dr. Scott’s first-hand collisions with the Unknown are engrossing. The matter of really close meetups with aliens also appears in Hakan Blomqvist’s “They Have Hidden Behind the Extraterrestrial Myth”. Taking his cue from a John Keel letter, Blomqvist thinks “earth-based and undiscovered aliens” would pose “an even greater enigma than extraterrestrial visitors.” Blomqvist’s article about possible Terran ufonauts features sources published by Anomalist Books. And Keel himself is the recipient of A Letter from Lynn Catoe, January 19, 1968. It concerns a troubled investigator who thought most other UFO researchers were really “‘extraterrestrials’ or ‘devils’,” one of whom (or which?) claimed to be his father. (WM)

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