Taking UFOs Seriously - Psychology Today

Cornell University Dean and Professor Glenn Altschuler offers an academic review of University of North Carolina's Diana Walsh Pasulka's new book American Cosmic, published by Oxford University Press. It's a predictably skeptical appreciation, but gives a sense of the book's content and Pasulka's varied perspectives. The sad but amazing subject of the important book When Prophecy Fails is told in the podcast In 1955 a Team of Psychologists Secretly Studied a UFO Religion as it Prepared for the End of the World. No, this is not "Heaven's Gate" but a small group of Midwestern people whose beliefs and consequent travails fueled a major social psychological theory. On the more individualistic end, that former baseball player is still making headlines, as proven by Tim Binnall's Jose Canseco Makes Bizarre Claims About Aliens and Time Travel. Tim notes that after a "Twitter rant" on January 30 whose composition he details, Mr. Canseco went silent online. Well, he came back online, saying on February 3rd that he time traveled into the future and predicted/perceived that the Rams would win the Super Bowl 27 to 20. He said "I'm taking the alien off payroll" afterwards. Not sure whether this affects David Metcalfe's February 3rd disquisition Cyborgs, Psychics and Intelligent Plasmas -- Speculative Approaches to Human Space Travel with Jose Canseco. Metcalfe parses out and seeks larger meanings in each January 30th Canseconian "tweet," interweaving speculations by scientists, Jacques Vallee, and even Martin Caidin's "Six Million Dollar Man" novel Cyborg. (WM)

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