Tuesday, April 02, 2019
Going deep into the UFO archives
In preparation for moving much of my collection of books
and other materials about UFOs, I have been going through my files in detail.
I’ve been finding many things I had completely forgotten about, as well as many
things I had thought had been lost over the years.
And I’ve found some gems. Like letters from contactees
imparting to me the true nature of the universe and the name of the planets
their aliens come from (“Excelsior” and “Zanthar-3” were my favourites.) Or programs
from scientific conferences where I had been invited to present papers on the
taboo subject of UFOs.
Among them was the original invitation from 1977 to speak
at the University of Manitoba at a colloquium in the physics department “to
faculty and students.”
This was the talk that had to be moved to the largest
lecture hall on campus because so many people wanted to attend from beyond the
campus community, including media. It led to my becoming “the UFO guy” and to
my encouragement to speak widely on the subject across Canada.
The colloquium
was even reviewed in the university newspaper, allowing even more people to find out
about me.
I did numerous TV and radio interviews that year, likely damaging my
reputation among my physics peers but making me realize that the general public
needed some serious education on the subject of UFOs.
This wasn’t my first media appearance regarding UFOs.
That was actually Uforum, the cable TV show on UFOs that I was involved with in
1975. It lasted one season of six episodes, all of which have been lost to
time.
[Aside: I only predated Tom DeLonge and his media push for UFO
programming by about 45 years.]
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