Flying High - Michael Prescott's Blog

"Maybe a high degree of strangeness is exactly what we ought to expect." So says "thriller writer" Michael Prescott, who's been moved to muse by Jacques Vallee's "landmark (and controversial) phenomenological analysis of human-alien encounters," as Dennis Stacy once described Passport to Magonia. Prescott goes beyond the folkloric similarities to those parallels UFO reports have with "mediumistic communications over the past century or more." Vallee's book must have played a role in Opening the Door for Prescott, for he then read two more influential UFO books. The result: further comparisons between UFOs and other paranormal topics. While some might find little new in this article (though the suggestion of a possible paranormal component in mass hysteria was noteworthy), it's a very readable summary of Prescott's intelligent "first impressions." We hope he now "walks through that open door" and spends more time in ufology. David Halperin did so, beginning many, many years ago, and in this instance the door must have led outside, per his UFO Skywatch - December 26-27, 1963. "Indulge an old man his nostalgia," Halperin asks of those who come to this article, and something profound resonates here--beyond, deeper, and more fundamental than the specifics of one person remembering a budding UFO passion. (WM)

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