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Roswell: Ufology’s Albatross

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So, I read, at the Anomalist, that Greg Bishop did one of his Radio Misterioso round tables (with cronies) about Roswell from the recent Roswell anniversary gathering.

Let me say that Roswell is the allegorical equivalent of Samuel Talor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Here are a few excerpts that coincide with the drudge that is Roswell:

"At length did cross an Albatross,

Thorough the fog it came;

...

We hailed it in God's name.

It ate the food it ne'er had eat,

And round and round it flew.

The ice did split with a thunder-fit;

The helmsman steered us through!

And a good south wind sprung up behind;

The Albatross did follow,

And every day, for food or play,

Came to the mariner's hollo! 

... 

And some in dreams assurèd were

Of the Spirit that plagued us so;

Nine fathom deep he had followed us

From the land of mist and snow.

'God save thee, ancient Mariner!

From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—

Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow

I shot the ALBATROSS. 

... 

And every tongue, through utter drought,

Was withered at the root;

We could not speak, no more than if

We had been choked with soot.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks

Had I from old and young!

Instead of the cross, the Albatross

About my neck was hung.

...

The Mariner, whose eye is bright,

Whose beard with age is hoar,

Is gone ...

He went like one that hath been stunned,

And is of sense forlorn:

A sadder and a wiser man ..."

So you can see that Mr. Bishop and his pals may be likened to the crew aboard the ship of this great poem.

A summary of what the poem is about can be found at Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner

Roswell is the albatross that staid, boring ufologists and UFO buffs keep resurrecting to kill with vapid and stupid, redundant podcasts and blog entries (me among them).

But if you get the message of Coleridge’s great work, you know that Roswell, like the albatross therein, is a soul killer and offers doom for those who keep striking at it.

RR