Eric Ouellet Interview - The Paracast

Sociologist Eric Ouellet, whose book Illuminations: The UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event (Anomalist Books, 2015) sheds a novel light on UFO and other anomalous experiences, trades thoughts with Paracasters Gene Steinberg and J. Randall Murphy. Convinced that the long-dominant "ETH tradition" in ufology has gotten the field exactly nowhere, Dr. Ouellet has created a conceptual scheme acknowledging the "realness" of experiences at the personal level, yet seeing them as coexisting with and symbolic of larger, impersonal events. The book considers this "Parapsychological Hypothesis" in light of such famous ufological episodes as the summer of 1952 Washington D.C. over-flights, the Belgian 1989-91 wave, Rendlesham, December 1980, and the Betty and Barney Hill case of 1961. Dr. Ouellet, a professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, also has interesting things to say about the defense establishment's general attitude toward UFOs, as well as the matter of "missing time," and why some people see a UFO when others staring in the same direction fail to do so. In Phantom Histories: Exploring the Work of Medievalist Claude Lecouteux David Metcalfe argues for a similar attention to more than "the material focus" so characteristic of our time. Only in this instance, Metcalfe shows how French historian Claude Lecouteux delves beneath the simple narratives of folk tradition and more official religious explanations of extraordinary events. Also, his focus is far wider and more on age-old experiences than the modern UFO era. Lecouteux's works also sound like fascinating reading. (WM)

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