A handful of UFO-related links as I mine my blog feeds:
- NSA Interest in the Paranormal: following on last week’s post, it turns out the GB6 came out of a pre-existing culture of paranormal interest at the NSA dating back to the 1980s – see Jon Ronson’s “Men Who Stare At Goats” for more. Your taxpayer money at work.
- Thanks to the X-Files, UFOs were trendy during the 1990s. Eat Static named this 1993 single after the Gulf Breeze sightings – not bad! Nothing overtly alien but you can dance to it:
- ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Other Disco Galactic Themes’ by the Geoff Love Orchestra, 1978: Speaking of music, sci-fi geeks of a certain age remember the disco version of the Star Wars theme; here’s some info on how it (and other “space disco”) came to be.
- The “Arrival” Movie – UFOs, Aliens, and the Rising of the Dead: I loved “The Arrival” and am always happy to read other “takes” on the movie, even when I disagree. Though frankly, the story is open-ended enough that it can encompass multiple interpretations.