Ufology’s “umbrella” covers not only the “core phenomenon/a,” but the perhaps even larger aspect of the various human reactions thereto. Greg Taylor introduces the complicated, unsettling, and often downright scary story of a shadowy man with many aliases, numerous alleged occupations, and mysterious apparent intelligence connections. Then there are Strange Cases of Criminals Mind Controlled by Aliens, claims Brent Swancer. Swancer describes several particularly disgusting “The Devil made me do it”-type crimes for which the perpetrators blamed ET and/or dimension-shifting weirdoes. Less gruesome but considerably more well-known is Tanner F. Boyle’s subject in It’s Always Sunny in Gulf Breeze, Florida, Pt. 4, about the “Gulf Breeze Six” AWOL soldiers in the early 1990s…the continuing saga. A much wider and more scientific scope comes from Paul Sutter’s Why Haven’t Aliens Contacted Earth? New Fermi Paradox Analysis Suggests We’re Not That Interesting Yet. I Love Lucy and even earlier radio transmissions have been coursing outwards from our Pale Blue Dot for decades. But on the galactic scale of time and distance maybe no one’s yet detected those feeble efforts. Or found them that worthwhile. But Malcolm Robinson has no doubts on the matter, claiming I’m a UFO Expert and Aliens Do NOT Come in Peace, They Have a Hidden Agenda. So Millie Turner reports, and if Mr. Robinson is correct, we hope that “agenda” is abandoned, even if it’s ‘cuz we’re so durn dull! (WM)
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