This
week I spoke with John Steiger, a long-time friend who has just published a
book of plays called The UFO Trilogy – Dramas for the Stage. You can, of
course, listen to the show here:
Although
I hadn’t planned on spending so much time on the Roswell “trial,” the
discussion just went in that direction. John’s idea was to present the Roswell
case
as a civil trial by questioning the “witnesses” on the stand. Although the
majority of the witnesses are those who saw some aspect of the Roswell debris,
or participated in the recovery of that debris, there were witnesses on the
other side, including Sheridan Cavitt, Charles Moore and Irving Newton. We did
spend some time identifying who the witnesses were so that everyone would be
able to understand the relevance of the people called to testify.
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| Sheridan Cavitt. Photo copyright by Kevin Randle. |
The
second drama is a Board of Inquiry that is investigating the Rendlesham Forest
events of December 1980. Here there are only three witnesses, Jim Penniston,
John Burroughs and Charles Halt. Each has his own act, and providing their
perspective on the observation and landing of a craft. The idea was to have a
single
interrogator, but fill out the other four Board slots with members of
the audience. As John put it, they might have the best seats in the house.
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| John Burroughs. Copyright by Kevin Randle |
The
last of the dramas is “Will to Believe: The Brooklyn Bridge UFO Investigation.”
This involves the Budd Hopkins’ investigation into the Linda Cortile abduction
which might have included a Secretary General of the United Nations. John
expressed his concern for the accuracy of the information as reported by
Hopkins originally. I would have been a little more forceful, suggesting that
this case wasn’t nearly as strong as Hopkins might have suggested.
I
fear that we didn’t have enough time to properly examine the last two dramas.
All three are intriguing. The dramas are available in a single volume which can
be found at Amazon, quite naturally. They were published by Flying Disk Press,
and in the interest of full disclosure, my recent book, The Best of Project
Blue Book has the same publisher.
Next
up is Rob Swiatek, who will be telling us a little bit about the beginnings of
MUFON, which is the outgrowth of an accusation levelled a number of months ago.
Of course, we won’t be limited to that and will delve into the current crop of
UFO sightings as well. If you have questions for Rob, submit them here and I’ll
get them asked during the program.
And
a follow up for last week... Philip Mantle, by way of Robert Fischer, supplied
the following link to an interview with Charles Hickson. It might be of
interest to those of you who were intrigued by last week’s interview with Calvin
Parker about their abduction in 1973. You can listen to it here:
My new book THE UFO TRILOGY: Dramas for the Stage encompasses the facts known about the cases of Roswell, Rendlesham Forest, and the Brooklyn Bridge UFO abductions (allegedly involving the UN Secretary-General). All three were fully researched by me and to demonstrate such, I've included a Bibliography and an Index for reference at the conclusion of each play. In addition, there are 855 separate Endnotes substantiating the inclusion of virtually every evidentiary fact discussed in the text.
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