The Great UFO Book!

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There isn’t one. There has never been one.

There has never been a text or anything written about UFOs that impacts or impacted the so-called phenomenon, nor impacted society in a profound way.

One can provide a litany of texts that have moved civilization forward and backward too.

But no one can provide a UFO text that has done either.

Yes, there have been and are some good books about UFOs extant but none that are great or near great.

I even had a foreign author quiz me, this week, about the Socorro incident and the symbol allegedly seen by witness Police Officer Zamora.

This UFO author hadn’t read Kevin Randle’s latest book on the Socorro incident where the mysterious insignia is reviewed rather thoroughly.

And one can see that this blog didn’t have an impact either, on a person interested in the UFO phenomenon.

Rummaging through UFO web-sites and blogs, and all kinds of other texts, about UFOs, over the years and recently, a person cognizant of Derrida’s maxim about the text being everything knows that UFO texts have meant little or nothing to the public nor even to UFO enthusiasts; both ignore the topic, one totally, the other particularly.

UFO acolytes often delve into sightings, eschewing the details that have been elicited over the years, only to engage in reflux, not to bring forth any UFO epiphany.

Recently TIME magazine presented the 100 top podcasts circling the states and even the globe. These are verbal texts and fall into the Derridian universe about textual content.

No UFO podcast was listed.

The recent death of Brad Steiger, who was a prolific UFO/paranormal author, some of us read and have a book or two of his, takes him to his great reward unknown by the public, at large, and even by many in the UFO community who have been too chintzy to grab a book of his.

John Keel, who descended into madness, has had a renaissance by a few in the UFO crowd but he, too, is not known or cherished by the general, sane public.

Donald Keyhoe, and a plethora of other UFO commentators who are in print, Jacques Vallee among them, are personae non grata among the informed intelligentsia. They have written nothing that rises to the level of significance, and are often even set aside by protagonists of the flying saucer enigma.

There are no great writings about UFOs and there are no great writers, therefore.

It’s not the topic. It’s the lack of genius in the UFO world.

When a schizophrenic like St. Paul was able to turn a minor event in the past to a wholesale religious movement by a few letters to a generally illiterate (and ignorant) mass, how is it possible that no one interested in UFOs can do the same, about a phenomenon that has a tangibility and history a bit more extensive than the one Paul promoted?

RR