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E very so often, I will throw a (precious) book across the room in abject frustration. Late last night, as I was struggling to finally throw off my procrastination (which I am told might not even exist, at least not in the way we think of it ), I read an essay by a writer an email group I’m part of had started to sing the praises of: Joshua Cutchin, a seeming American prodigy who writes voluminously on matters paranormal and uncanny. It was perhaps an uncanny email chain to have received at the time I received it, since I was in the process of collecting my thoughts for what I was going to dub a “heretical” ufological post—one that will doubtless strike many as anathema, worthy of my disbarment. It was going to suggest a line of thinking that is the very last thing on anyone’s mind, ufologically speaking: I was going to write a post on  positivism . More specifically, the curiously open-minded form of positivism espoused (somewhat problematically—but positivism is almost always pr...

  W ith Col. John Alexander’s talk “UFOs/UAPs: Enigmas and Complexities” the SCU’s AAPC 2022 effectively concludes—except for a final panel discussion (which will not be covered in my review). I will admit that I found it rather hard to make sense of Alexander’s presentation as a whole, because, quite literally, there were approximately half a dozen presentations somehow stuffed into one giant, all-encompassing Magical Mystery Tour of a talk. If up to this point the SCU’s conference had gingerly avoided the woo-woo and the “high strangeness” that frequently is attached to the UFO phenomenon, well, here it was—and back with quite a vengeance. Was this a kind of Freudian return of the repressed? It’s hard to resist such a theory (and I think a theory  of some kind is needed to help us bring the enormous complexity of the talk under control)… Where to begin? Well, Alexander certainly did so with quite a bang: a rather bombastic (and dated) video introduction to Col. John Alexa...