"Androcles" <dummy@dummy.net> wrote in news:v2uHd.4420$vC1.3980
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"shadowmonster8" <shadowmonster8@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Check out this website:

http://www.shadowpeoplebooks.com

This is sci. physics, not wild.imagination.

Androcles

Did anybody here read that article in Skeptical Inquirer several years
ago,
where they traced the origin of the modern UFO myth to a book by a
science
fiction writer who couldn't get his writing career off the ground?
So he
repackaged his book as non-fiction and sales went through the roof. I
wish
I could remember what decade this all took place, but it was sometime
between WW II and the early sixties. I think the guy also invented
the
concept of Men in Black.

But what's really interesting along these lines is Phillip K. *****'s
contribution to the history of science-based paranoia. As we already
know
PKD was a severely schizophrenic, but wildly successful sci-fi writer.
An
on-line bio of him that I read credited him as being the first person
to
have the psychotic delusion that the CIA was controlling his brain
with
radio transmissions.

That's a helluva claim to fame, huh?