Rich Reynolds notes that reports of small humanoid-like entities tend to have a geographic “mental flavor” to them. Do different UFO occupants have their particular vacation preferences, or is there something in the ways that the phenomenon is perceived that tend to vary depending upon what branch of humanity (and its own particular culture) is doing the perceiving? An interesting postulate, with a sparse but worthwhile Comments section afterwards. The post underscores what a difficult discipline ufology really is–at least, to be prosecuted responsibly. Reynolds then discusses Kevin Randle and his 1976 Account of UFO Entities Communicating with Humans, a 1976 Official UFO magazine article that illustrates what a long and productive ufological career Randle has had. Rich’s post is a good companion to his piece just considered, as it presents a spectrum of ways that humanoids reportedly have tried to palaver with us. Speaking of humanoids and garbled communication, Doug Skinner’s latest installment Special Cases — The Long Island File (27): A Letter from Agar is, if anything, even more cryptic than usual. We learn that the supposed-alien Agar may have used Old Testament passages from a Catholic Bible, but other than that, her three-page letter to John is rather obscure. At least John is “approaching the Mountain and [he] shall see the light.” We’re not sure that John saw it this way. We wonder whether the grammatical mistakes in Agar’s letter bear any similarity to Jaye Paro’s style. (WM)

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