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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 2h

Well, just look at us. For the last several months a wave has been in progress here. And there happens to be in the US a fully funded scientific committee with the highest authority created specially to study the problem. What does that committee do? It argues, it dreams, it theorizes. (25 Jun 1967)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 10h

We spoke about Cleve Backster’s experiments on plants: they still work, said Alexander, but he now uses microorganisms, less sensitive to artefacts. We also spoke of communication with dolphins, experiments in Florida. (17 Jan 1988)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 14h

John Mack played a videotape of “Kredo,” a South African shaman raped by a demonic figure that smelled of rotten fish, and his investigation of a close encounter near a school where three girls related seeing strange beings who inspired them to “feel sadness” and to clean up the Earth. (28 Apr 1995)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 18h

One can have no confidence at all in an individual who resorts to such fraud, he said, “even if all the other phenomena he produces appear genuine.” This remark could well apply to Uri Geller. I want to understand the mechanism through which these people influence our culture. (14 Jan 1973)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 22h

He tried to make me feel better, as managers always do, by giving me the usual bromide: "You are not a number here, we treat you as an individual. You are part of our big family." (26 Sep 1968)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 1d

He said he didn’t like Mind Race, first because Russell discloses that the Pentagon paid SRI for ten years (a fact that was technically classified, although everyone knew it) and also because in the future SRI is less likely to be trusted by funding sources. (11 Mar 1984)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 1d

I sat at the edge of the water and started writing a new article about the patterns behind the landings for Flying Saucer Review. I have read the Valensole file again. I imagined what it would be like to stand with Maurice Masse in his field in Provence. Perhaps I will do it some day. (24 May 1966)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 1d

Marie-Thérèse now leaves for Siberia, where she will spend a month with Kaznacheyev, said to be studying brain waves, UFO abductions and remote viewing in Novosibirsk. She grew up near Pontoise at the Château in Ennery, a village I know well. (28 Sep 1990)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 1d

I landed in London in the afternoon and went to the British Museum to see the show about the Vikings. I like this unpretentious area with its little shops, the Theosophical Editions, the Atlantis bookstore. (26 May 1980)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 1d

No stars tonight: the sky is overcast. In the beam of my flashlight a big toad hops away through the grass. Janine is reading Wired, the life of John Belushi. I have made no progress in my writing but I’m a rancher now. I can show you the mud on my shoes. (1 Nov 1984)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 2d

We discussed various choices, retirement homes within her beloved Paris. She is reading Strieber’s Transformation, and clearly sees the novelist’s technique: “He never deviates from his topic,” she observes, “He manages suspense in every chapter.” (18 Jun 1988)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 2d

Where did Allen Hynek and Fred Beckman get the idea that Gordon was too old to do valuable work? He's a brilliant man, full of wit, very sharp indeed. He may have exercised more influence over this research than anyone in Europe, aside from Aimé Michel. (25 Jun 1970)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 2d

I saw his original, funny inventions, measured all he meant to me, and started crying. I am proud he has gone away and is independent. I just thought I was ready for him to leave, and found I was wrong. (7 Sep 1981)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 2d

Taking me aside in confidence, Hynek has shown me some extraordinary notes he took a few years ago from a classified report written by Colonel Robert Friend, one of the most competent officers ever to be responsible for Blue Book. Friend was still a Major at the time. (15 Jan 1965)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 2d

This is the ideal setting for me to read Wedge, the long history of the secret war between the FBI and CIA from the days of “Wild Bill” Donovan to 1994, written by Mark Riebling. (9 Sep 1996)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 3d

A group of computer scientists at SRI have offered me an intriguing job. They work under a Department of Defense contract to develop radically new software for what they call the “augmentation of human intellect.” (28 Jan 1972)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 3d

I am glad my children don't share my affinity for secrecy and magic, even though I think the world is, in the final analysis, a secret place that can only be understood through magic. (29 Oct 1994)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 3d

Troubled time. The Board has told our “businessman president” to resign and asked me to run the company again. I made the announcement today in a very difficult speech to my staff. I lost my voice in the middle of it. (10 Jun 1981)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 3d

Fred and I reminisced over lunch about our departed friend and drank a sad toast to him. He now leans towards the dubious theory that most abductions are staged. He probed me about my impressions when I met the Hills, and their relationship with Dr. Simon. (14 Jan 1993)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 3d

Now I feel like a convalescent recovering from a dreadful disease. I am relaxing in bed, with the Air Force files spread out around me all over the blankets. The phone just rang: I did not bother to pick it up. (26 Nov 1966)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 4d

A car was on fire on the turnpike. Downtown Boston smelled of pollution. Traffic was bad, the Mystic tunnel clogged up like a sewer, so I missed my plane. When I finally landed in New York I collapsed, tired and frustrated, in the downtown bus. (16 Jul 1972)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 4d

The same night Terry and his wife woke up with bloody cuts on their thumbs; the horses stampeded, enhancing the atmosphere of primeval terror around the place. (22 Sep 1996)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 4d

But I do have Janine, warm Janine close to me, Janine who loves me, while the great tycoons and wealthy captains of industry I know have left little but a trail of broken families, divorces, and resentment. (25 Jul 1994)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 4d

The kind futility of France enfolds me once again. I am reconciled with it. I experience with delight this country that doesn't change, its amiable folks hopelessly dominated by an egotistical elite with an enormous ability to exploit those it should serve. (2 Oct 1969)

Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 4d

He also confirmed that the French military had been redoing Petit’s experiments without him, irradiating plants to simulate what happened at Trans-en-Provence, and researching microwaves. (23 Apr 1989)