Available now – click here! Ariel Phenomenon explores the infamous Ariel School UFO sighting witnessed by over sixty schoolchildren in Zimbabwe in 1994. The story covers a former student’s journey back to the African school – the place that, at the age of nine, shattered her reality. Interviews with witnesses, now scattered across the globe, ask […]
Continue ReadingPentagon’s Director for Defense Intelligence Ousted
April 14, 2022 — The Department of Defense has fired the Director for Defense Intelligence, Garry Reid. Sources who spoke with The Debrief described Reid as the person most directly responsible for preventing the release of additional UAP (UFO) videos, and accused him of retaliating against former AATIP director Lue Elizondo after Elizondo brought the subject of UAPs […]
Continue ReadingThe Phenomenon: Control System, or Developmental Driver?
April 21, 2022 — Stuart Davis has published an essay of interest. “I wanted to take a look at two ways the Phenomenon can be viewed. As a control system or, as a developmental driver. Quick note in what follows, when I say Phenomenon, it’s with the big ‘P’, it includes all the phenomena from UFOs, […]
Continue ReadingMarch 3, 2022 — Stuart Davis reads his 2004 remembrance of John Mack in this moving episode of Aliens & Artists.
March 3, 2022 — Stuart Davis reads his 2004 remembrance of John Mack in this moving episode of Aliens & Artists. Available as an audio podcast at: AliensAndArtists.com Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
Continue ReadingStuart Davis’ Aliens & Artists: A Tribute to John Mack
March 3, 2022 — Stuart Davis reads his 2004 remembrance of John Mack in this moving episode of Aliens & Artists. Available as an audio podcast at: AliensAndArtists.com Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
Continue ReadingNews clippings from the 1990s
March 5, 2022 — Newspaper and magazine articles about Dr John Mack have been added to a free archive curated by Isaac Koi. Mack probably wished the articles were less about him and more about the phenomenon. As he once remarked, reporters were primarily interested in why he was making a “fool” of himself, and […]
Continue ReadingThe PRETEND podcast explores alien encounters
December 21, 2021 — The PRETEND podcast by Javier Leiva delves into alien encounters. “There are people out there who claim they encountered beings from another planet just to seek attention. But, others carry these experiences in secret…” Alien Abductions and Hypnosis (The Hypnotist Part 4) Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcast Listen to the Preview:
Continue ReadingMonthly Chosun magazine of South Korea reports on alien encounters; GQ magazine (UK) interviews Luis Elizondo about UAPs
Monthly Chosun (South Korea): A South Korean current affairs magazine, Monthly Chosun, touts “the first Korean media to interview ‘UFO abductees’” in its November issue. The article by Youngnam Kim includes interviews with Susan Manewich (contributor to JAR Magazine), Alan Steinfeld (editor of the new book Making Contact), and Will Bueché (archivist at the John E Mack Institute). Please […]
Continue ReadingChristopher Mellon and Luis Elizondo respond to Pentagon announcement
November 24, 2021 — Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Asst Sec of Defense for Intelligence under Clinton and Bush, who stepped away from his government position to force the subject of Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) into the public sphere, and Luis Elizondo, former Director of AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program), have both responded to this week’s announcement […]
Continue ReadingA letter to Lauren French, Communications Director for Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
October 4, 2021 — The following letter from the John E Mack Institute was sent to Lauren French, the communication director of Rep. Adam Schiff’s office. Dear Lauren French, I encourage you to replace the word “threat” with the word “risk” in future press releases on this subject, to more accurately describe the behavior of the […]
Continue ReadingSen. Bill Nelson, NASA administrator, on the possibility of an alien presence
October 19, 2021 — Sen. Bill Nelson, NASA administrator, spoke about the possibility of an alien presence in a podcast held by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “[You’ve seen] what those Navy pilots saw in 2004. And there have been some 300 sightings since then. And I’ve talked to those pilots, and they know they […]
Continue ReadingThe Debrief: The Rise of Alien Abductions
September 24, 2021 — A new article in The Debrief presents accounts from several men and women who are willing to go on the record about their alien encounters. “The Experience: The Cultural Rise of Alien Abductions and Those Who Encounter Them” is online at TheDebrief.org A roundtable discussion among the people featured in the article has been […]
Continue ReadingThe Believer: Audiobook edition of John Mack biography now available
July 13, 2021 — An audiobook edition of The Believer by Ralph Blumenthal is now available. The reader is Phil Thron and the running length is 12 hours and 20 minutes. The hardcover was released in March 2021. The Believer is the true story of Dr. John Mack, the eminent Harvard psychiatrist who risked his career to […]
Continue ReadingDoD has no idea what UAPs are
June 4, 2021 — Officials have no idea what UAPs are, according to an early preview of the upcoming Department of Defense report. “…senior officials briefed on the intelligence conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be […]
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