Conspiracy Theorists and other UFOlogists
I must admit to being fascinated by the whole question of Roswell and its "cover-up"
Reprint Time--Helena
A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
Steven,
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing the way some whackos get turned on by a weather balloon.
The best conspiracy theory that I have read is that it actually was an experimental nuclear-powered plane that crashed. Rather than give away military information to the Russians, military intelligence decided to play along with the UFO crowd by issuing contradictory or ambiguous information.
The alien was a chimp in a pressure suit. One of the problems was the radioactivity present in the craft. Appropriate shielding would have been very heavy, so they were testing the amount of exposure that the crew would experience during a flight.