Nick Redfern's Blog, page 100

About My Books

Over the past week or so, a couple of dozen people have asked me about three forthcoming books from me, which are advertised on Amazon as being published in August.

They are actually new editions (and published by a different company) of 3 of my older books, The Real Men in Black , The NASA Conspiracies , and Monster Files .

So, aside from the name changes and the cover images, they are exactly the same books.

Museum of the Weird...

It's time for an absolutely, totally, 100 percent shameless plug. A couple of days ago, while at the Austin, Texas-based Museum of the Weird, I picked up this t-shirt. If you are ever in Austin, check out the MOTW, you won't regret it!

On The Road

A few photos from my travels of the past week, to Illinois, Austin, and San Antonio: hanging out with good friends Ken Gerhard and Jen Devillier, and also with MUFON legend Walt Andrus, authors Rosemary Ellen Guiley and April Slaughter, and Steve Busti, of the Austin-based Museum of the Weird.

 Me and a chick who has seen better days  April Slaughter  Me and April  Rosemary Ellen Guiley   Rosemary and me  Good friends Ken Gerhard and Jen Devillier  Me with MUFON's Walt Andrus  Steve Busti, at his Austin, Texas-based Museum of the Weird  Cool part of Austin's 6th Street

Monsters Below...

A very cool new article from Brent Swancer , on the subject of the strange creatures that lurk deep below us...

June 24: A Deadly Day For Ufologists

 
Loren Coleman has an excellent new article on the more than a few deaths in the UFO field that have occurred on June 24. It's the date on which (in 1947) our lord and master, Kenneth Arnold, had his famous and controversial encounter that ushered in the modern era of Ufology. It's also a subject which I discuss in my latest book, Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind .

The Convenient Monster

My new Mysterious Universe article is a review of a certain episode of the old 1960s TV series, The Saint (starring Roger Moore).

The episode in question is titled The Convenient Monster and focuses on a spate of mysterious deaths attributed to none other than the Loch Ness Monster...

Lone Star Saucers

Also received yesterday, Nate Riddle's book, Lone Star Saucers: Searching for UFOs in Texas , a book I was interviewed for. Nate has a cool writing style and the book is filled with fascinating Texas-based saucer lore.

Classic Forteana Reprinted

I got a package of review books yesterday from New Saucerian Books. 

NSB are doing a great job of reprinting a bunch of old, classic, and rare titles. 

Here's the latest ones: John Keel's Our Haunted Planet ; Keel's Strange Creatures From Time And Space ; Albert Bender's Flying Saucers And The Three Men ; Gray Barker's Serpents of Fire ; Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers ; and Searching for the String , which is a collection of Keel's writings.

Nessie The Plesiosaur? No!

 "A couple of nights ago, I did a 10-minute transatlantic phone interview with a radio show in the UK. It was 1.00 AM here in Dallas, Texas, and 7.00 AM in England. And, as is generally the case when it comes to breakfast-time radio, they wanted to keep things bright, short, light and breezy, which was fine with me. The subject: the creatures of Loch Ness.

"When the Wiltshire-based host asked me to comment on the theory that the Nessies are plesiosaurs, I replied it was complete nonsense. For a second or so, there was a noticeable silence..."

That's how my latest Mysterious Universe article starts...

Um...Something...

An odd-looking reflection on my office ceiling, which it took me about 10 minutes to figure out was caused by a CD case and a piece of crumpled paper under it! The weird thing is that in the reflection it looks very symmetrical!