Aided by 63 years’ experience and a dedicated band of capable associates, Stan Gordon gives an accounting of some of the “star” cases of the past year. And some of those events, including a small “basketball-skate-board-spiked hair like a chupacabra drawing-thingy,” rank among the stranger accounts we’ve ever heard. Launching in part from Stan’s work, Michael Harris Hoffman offers an interesting way to comprehend such anomalies in An Anthropomorphic Look at ET Portals and Cryptid Trailways. Moving on to UFO Fads: Whatever Happened to Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, Alien Abductions, and Angel Hair? Anthony Bragalia rather explains away several “fads” as a combination of natural processes and human hysteria. He does score some real “hits” here. But his standard explanations and “simple broad brush” approaches may be challenged by researchers more experienced in their particular areas. Case in point: Dr. CS Matthews’ Mystery Still Stalks the Prairie: Ongoing Considerations and Puzzles Concerning Cattle Mutilations. (WM)
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