There are very few extraordinary writers on anomalies—and Colin Bennett is one of them—whose forceful brilliance of vision mutates and…
For the Sake of a Greater Cosmos
An introduction to the thought of Colin Bennett Colin Bennett’s rich and lasting contribution to our culture was as a…
Science and Scepticism
From Combat Diary 27 There have recently been many web attacks on UFO believers and “New Age” folk, mostly by…
Putting the Noise Back into the System
A Postmodern Fortean Analysis of Consumerism, Cargo-cult Belief, and Ufology for Jack Sarfatti Published in UFO Magazine, Vol. 23, No.3,…
Weaponising The Narrative
for Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniac who helped create the modern imagination Published in UFO Magazine, Volume 24, No. 5,…
Skepticism as Mystique: A Fortean Essay in Rationalist Panics and Skeptical Dementia
Published in UFO Magazine, Vol. 21 No. 10. December 2006 The Cultural Battlefield There are two kinds of skepticism: local…
Cosmology—Science As Showbusiness
Published in Fortean Times No 75, June 1994 Editor’s Introduction: When science starts selling itself, ever more extravagant claims are…
Recipe For a Universe
First published in Fortean Times, October 2000 First sit in your room and claim to be the maker of a…
Meme Wars: We Have an Agenda
A Fortean Essay in Story Technologyfor Jacques Vallee Bennett should be hung. Bruce Maccabee The above image is a three-d…
Managing Mystery
First published in UFO Magazine August 2006 Everybody Laughs at Xera A twenty-something called David distributes a pamphlet entitled Visions…
Deconstruction of the B-29
Printed as an Appendix in Flying Saucers over the White House, Cosimo Books, 2010 Let us do something that we…
Lee Harvey Oswald as Fortean Man
Published as an appendix in Politics of the Imagination, Headpress Books 2002 According to Assassinations, [1] there was so much…