Stanton Friedman's Last Visit to the Roswell UFO Festival - Open Minds

Alejandro Rojas presents an excellent interview with a reflective, 83-year-old Stanton Friedman, the original civilian investigator of the Roswell incident, on the occasion of his last expected visit to the annual Roswell UFO Festival. There's also a tribute to Stan at his 2013 International UFO Congress Lifetime Achievement Award, containing a great deal of valuable biographical material. Iconic Australian researcher Bill Chalker is also in a contemplative mood, musing about The Old and the New. The "Old" is the sesquicentennial of a UFO sighting/dream in a Sydney, New South Wales, suburb. The "New" is a November 25, 2009, Port Jervis, New York, CEII-EM "vehicle stoppage" case that also may feature a particular phenomenon called "solid light." Bill has been working on this particular part of UFO phenomenology for some time; it features light beams that behave oddly, usually "stopping" or ending some distance short of how ordinary light should act. Friedman and Chalker might take issue with the following, but A Conservative and a Marxist Both Claim Ufology is a Leftist Pursuit. Thankfully, author Jason Colavito allows that "there is no one political orientation for an ancient astronaut theorist," even if he does promote "the fact that the ancient astronaut [AA] theory is structurally conservative, with a small 'c'." Some few AA assumptions are characteristic of a 19th-century European zeitgeist that was largely unconsciously (and that makes it perhaps even more objectionable) racial, but that does not equate to AA believers being racists; the AA branch is not the only one in ufology; and Colavito and sociologist Michael Barkun overstress an association of popular ufology with the extreme right. Still, this is an interesting article. (WM)

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