Moseley is best known
as the editor of Saucer Smear, the
final evolution of his self-published newsletters that were sent on an
irregular schedule to his “non-subscribers.” In its pages he printed his
opinions which were sometimes radical and sometimes rational. He welcomed
responses, often soliciting them to keep the controversies going.
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He was the son of an
Army general, whom he seemed to dislike and a self-described grave robber,
trading in antiquities from South America. He faked, according to his book, Shockingly Close to the Truth, written
with the late Karl Pflock, a UFO landing, and the a letter supposedly from the
Department of State to contactee George Adamski. In other words, he often had
fun with those in the world of UFOs which might have been his ultimate mission.
In later life he
moved from the idea that UFOs might be Earth-based craft to an opinion that
they were more terrestrially based (or as Jerry Clark pointed out to me, extra-dimensional, which is not necessarily terrestrially based). But that didn’t stop him from keeping his
fingers in the UFO pie.
Mosley lived, for the
last many years in Key West, Florida, where he avoided the Internet as much as
possible, and enjoyed his position in the world of UFOs. He died of cancer on November 16.
