I used to read Fortean
Times every month, but stopped a few years ago, mostly due to the fact that
I was already subscribed to several magazines and had to drop one for financial
reasons, see: http://subscribe.forteantimes.com/.
Also the journal had changed its style during the period I read it, and this
definitely influenced my decision. It became far more cynical and I thought tended
to focus too much on the weakest cases, or exploits of successful debunking and
exposing fraud. It sought to occupy that strange demimonde between the world of
the Skeptic and "buh-leeva" which is today known as
"fortean", probably as a result; in that sense it's similar to
BUFORA, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/bufora-conference-2012.html.
Even today it still features some reasonable material and if it wasn't for
budgetary reasons I'd probably still read it. FT is one of the world's principle anomalous phenomena periodicals.
It was inspired by the research of Charles Fort, an American paranormal
researcher from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has been in circulation
since the 1960's, in one form or another and with many different publishers. It
is based in the UK ,
but has readers across the globe. It can be found on many a magazine stall in
high street newsagents and corner shops. It was from one of those that I bought
a copy of the latest issue, number 324- February 2015. The reason was that my
friend and fellow researcher, and regular FT-reader,
Colin Woolford informed me that your humble servant had been featured in one of
the current issue's articles.
That article is part of a regular column called The UFO Files and the authors are the
Lighthouse Twins themselves, Andy Roberts and Dr David Clarke. It's a short
piece, only a couple of hundred words, and it is their take on my own HPANWO
Voice post about the death of Boyd Bushman, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/the-coxxer-on-alien-life.html.
Clarke and Roberts also table their own concerns over Bushman's story. Just as
I was writing the post somebody claimed that the aliens in the photo shown by
Bushman in his interview are toy ET's that can be bought at Walmart. The
question is which came first? I've recently written in detail about how the
gatekeepers of UFO secrets sometimes preempt a forthcoming inevitable
revelation by cluttering up its path with confusing and diversionary
disinformation, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/area-51-alien-interview-new-research.html.
In this case I postulate in my report that they also used a second newspaper
article as a damage limitation scheme, the Daily
Mail one with Prof. Brian Cox. Clarke and Roberts analyze my ideas in a
very tongue-in-cheek tone, obviously dubious about my doubts that the timing of
the Cox interview and the Metro piece
on Bushman could be coincidental, even though they appeared the same day. I
don't think it's sensible to dismiss this possibility, but once again we're
getting into the realms of trying to falsify a coincidence claim; as I've said
before, that is virtually impossible, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/pan-pareidolia.html.
They end the article with the words "Welcome to the club, Brian," in
response to my concerns about the unique and sinister role Prof. Brian Cox is
playing in the media right now, which I discuss in more detail here: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/prof-brian-cox-watch-this-space.html.
The "club" being the group of people who have been accused by those
in the UFO and conspiratorial community of being used to spread disinformation.
Clarke and Roberts have been nominated as such by many commentators, including this
one. They have both retorted to this with scorn, and obviously I'm included in
that. To be fair, I've given Dr Folklore and Mr Bolide Meteor some harsh criticism
myself over the years, see: http://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/berwyn-40.html
and: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/ufos-back-in-news.html,
so you could say they're paying me back in kind. There is a source link to my
article which is correct, but in the text of the article they get my name
wrong; they call me "Ben Emlyn-Hughes". Yes, that was a great goal,
Jimmy. Anyway, the readers of Fortean
Times will be able to work out for themselves who's right and who's wrong
here. I'm not concerned at all by people disagreeing with me publicly so long
as both sides of the story get told. I have confidence in the truth and the
evidence relating to it. Anyway, thanks for the free publicity, guys!
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