New York Magazine Writer Declares End of UFOs

For those of you interested in my discussion of Christopher Loring Knowles’s claims about H. P. Lovecraft and Theosophy, Reddit has a very interesting point-by-point rebuttal of Knowles. Despite the author’s less than kind words about me (disparaging my Cult of Alien Gods and denying a connection between Lovecraft and von Däniken because von Däniken never read Lovecraft--pace Jacques Bergier), the rebuttal is an excellent explanation of every point where Knowles went terribly wrong. Knowles will now have a new place to direct his wrath.

Let’s move on to another topic… the end of UFOs. At least that’s what New York Magazine writer Mark Jacobson suggested after attending MUFON’s conference on media coverage of UFOs. According to Jacobson, only 400 people attended the New Jersey conference, a marked decline from the thousands who attended MUFON events in the 1970s. Most attendees, he said, were over the age of 50. As a result, Jacobson believes that the UFO phenomenon is toast.