Tag Archives: UFO

To All You Foes

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Gene Stewart

Lights in our sky They hover nearby Whispering answers Without saying why Asking us questions Of inside, of out, Of whether we’re certain Or living in doubt Drawing us up Hunting us down Haunting our farmland Examining town Freezing our … Continue reading →

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Trust, But Verify … Remember That Tall Order?

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Gene Stewart

A presumed competence, a projected avoidance of flights of fancy, and a strict adherence to observed fact attaches to both active and ex military and police witnesses, buttressing their credibility. Their testimony often flops debates and influences conclusions. Yet, they’re … Continue reading →

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You Friend or UFO?

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Kenneth Arnold’s original drawing showed these two shapes.  Then came William Rhodes’s photographs, showing this shape. When Arnold saw those in a newspaper he said that was what he’d seen. Interestingly, Rhodes had his negatives and prints confiscated by a … Continue reading →

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The Other, Then & Now

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Gene Stewart

In the 1950s and 1960s we sat in quiet homes that received, at best, 3 TV channels and radio, and we heard about UFO flaps from word-of-mouth as often as via media. Local newspapers, which we all read, occasionally carried … Continue reading →

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Tic Tac Disclosure & Whistleblowing

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Gene Stewart

So there is the Tic Tac UFO event(s).  Happened, it seems, off the coast of Southern California.  Involved the Nimitz carrier group during an exercise.  Shapes resembling tic tac mints, stubby rounded cylinders, did amazing things to disrupt the group’s … Continue reading →

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The Thing Is… What?

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Gene Stewart

To our misfortune, photographic and video evidence no longer suffices as evidence we can trust, if ever it did.  Illusionists and hoaxers have been with us always.  They present amazing things for their own purposes, often to manipulate or exploit … Continue reading →

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Review of The 37th Parallel by Ben Mezrich

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Gene Stewart

The 37th Parallel by Ben Menrich Atria Books, 2016, HC, 1st Edition 260pp, index, bw photos throughout ISBN:  978-1-5011-3552-1, $26 USD A Review by Gene Stewart First some bona fides:  Ben Mezrich graduated Harvard summa cum laude and has published … Continue reading →

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A Missing Time Incident

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Gene Stewart

My friend Dan and I were talking one summer evening in my living room at 600 W. Lloyd St. in Ebensburg, PA.  We were sitting in the living room but around 11 my mother came partly down the stairs and … Continue reading →

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Review of Casebook On the Men In Black by Jim Keith

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Gene Stewart

Casebook on the Men In Black by Jim Keith Adventures Unlimited Press, 2011 edition b&w photos, illos, $14.95 ISBN:  978-1-935487-35-7 A Review by Gene Stewart Men In Black is not just a Will Smith movie franchise.  It’s not just a … Continue reading →

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RAT STEW: TV, and HistorLatelyy – What’s Been In My Head

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Gene Stewart

A few days ago in Omaha, near where I live, a man was killed by gunfire at a park. He was driving and tried to escape the bullets by going cross-country, breaking through a split-rail fence onto a grassy field. … Continue reading →

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