Mark Pilkington’s Mirage Men explores the twilight world of UFOs and the people who are obsessed with them, sometimes beyond the limits of rationality. However, the author’s CV includes a stint as a contributing editor to the Fortean Times, and Forteans famously bring a balanced, neutral eye to the study of things paranormal.
In an arresting opening chapter, Pilkington relates a UFO sighting of his own. It’s 1995, and on a clear day in the vicinity of Yosemite National Park in California, he and two British friends observe a series of large spheres crossing silently overhead. The objects resemble balloons made of liquid silver bobbing gently along, and seem inexplicable – mercurial in every sense.
This is yet another example of the mainstream media's highly selective attention. Books like Mark Pilkington's Mirage Men, that are obviously critical of the subject of UFOs and the ET presence, will get play. But it's a safe bet that you will never see such a MSM stalwart as the Financial Times ever reviewing a book like Leslie Kean's UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record, or Richard Dolan's upcoming A.D. -- After Disclosure. To read the rest of the article, click here."Indeed, we live in an increasingly Orwellian managed totalitarian hive. The freedom of the Internet will be short-lived. The most dangerous development is the Wickedpedians (The Taliban of Cyberspace, The Ministry of Truth). They are a fanatic cult of soulless hack-minds headed by Jimbo Wales wanting to restore Soviet-Style mind-control of reality over the entire world by re-writing history as in 1984. See also the story by Jorge Luis Borges "Tlon" about how a such a group changed reality." -- Jack Sarfatti