Thursday, November 06, 2003
BBC - Radio 4 - Science Index for streaming audio and a brief introduction here
Monday night's "Britain's X-files" (this seems to be a good series) covers some of the most interesting UK UFO cases, with a good airing for psychosocial researchers like Mike Clark and Andy Roberts, and a fine further tracking down of just what the US air base sighted during the Rendelsham Forest scare (lightship as well as Orford Ness lighthouse, which I just happened to be in sight of and close to last week). There was a failure though to be very conclusive about the apparent coincidences of lights and earth tremours in a major Wesl incident: one commentator claimed coincidence of meteor and tremour (Fort has too many cases of this for coincidence to be plausible, but there was no mention of the "earth lights" hypothesis of Paul Devereux and others); and there was another story about poachers using bright lights which sounded plausible and completely unsubstantiated. A fascinating feature of both of the main cases studied here was the acumulation of myth about MIBs, autopsies etc in these cases - people apparently convinced that these things had happened, invariably to FOAFs. For my take on Forteana, see Why the Future is Fortean in Foresight, February 1999 vol 1 no 1 pp 73-90
Monday night's "Britain's X-files" (this seems to be a good series) covers some of the most interesting UK UFO cases, with a good airing for psychosocial researchers like Mike Clark and Andy Roberts, and a fine further tracking down of just what the US air base sighted during the Rendelsham Forest scare (lightship as well as Orford Ness lighthouse, which I just happened to be in sight of and close to last week). There was a failure though to be very conclusive about the apparent coincidences of lights and earth tremours in a major Wesl incident: one commentator claimed coincidence of meteor and tremour (Fort has too many cases of this for coincidence to be plausible, but there was no mention of the "earth lights" hypothesis of Paul Devereux and others); and there was another story about poachers using bright lights which sounded plausible and completely unsubstantiated. A fascinating feature of both of the main cases studied here was the acumulation of myth about MIBs, autopsies etc in these cases - people apparently convinced that these things had happened, invariably to FOAFs. For my take on Forteana, see Why the Future is Fortean in Foresight, February 1999 vol 1 no 1 pp 73-90
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