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by Jerome Clark

March 1991

January 1991- Vol. 44, No. 1

I have stayed out of the debate between Friedman, Schmitt and Randle on one side and my fellow columnist and old friend, John Keel, on the other as they have argued the merits of the Roswell evidence, though regular readers will have no trouble divining which side I’m on. Nonetheless, I must correct a misleading asser­tion Keel makes in The Roswell Furor in FATE’s January issue.

Keel says that witnesses to the Roswell events—as of December 1990 nearly 300 had been located and interviewed—cannot be trust­ed because ever since 1947, when the crash took place, UFO buffs have been “molesting” them to turn a Japanese balloon into a downed spaceship. “The Roswell thing has been revived every few years,” he says. In his view, in the more than four decades since some­thing plummeted into the Brazel ranch in New Mexico, participants’ testimony Read the rest of this entry »

Long time FATE writer Jerome Clark reflects on how ufology has evolved over the years.

A UFO over Aurora, Texas in 1897.

December 1985

by Jerome Clark

TWO YEARS AGO in this column (October 1983 FATE) I suggested that the UFO age had passed. Interest in the subject was stagnant, I wrote, largely because ufology had failed either to establish conclu­sively the existence of UFOs or to lay them forever to rest, leaving us with a “riddle that stubbornly resists solution.” Read the rest of this entry »