The Mythology Of UFOlogy By A Long Time Student

Hosts Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz welcome to Exploring The Bizarre (KCORradio.com) DAVE HALPERIN whose friendship with Beckley goes back to when they were both teenagers. In the UFO controversy, the skeptics are right about the less important point: UFOs have no physical existence. TheUFOlogists are right about the more important point: UFOs are a vitally important subject, never to be dismissed as “bunk” or “claptrap.” Attention must be paid. UFOs, like religion, are a human phenomenon. They have nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. Back in the 1960s, David Halperin was a teenage UFOlogist. Later he became a Professor of Religious Studies at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he taught until his retirement in 2000. His specialty: religious traditions of heavenly ascent and otherworldly journeys. He is the author of five books on Jewish mysticism and messianism, and a novel, "Journal of a UFO Investigator," published in 2011 by Viking Press and translated into Spanish, Italian, and German. His non-fiction book, "Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO," will be published next year by Stanford University Press. He blogs on UFOs, religion, and other subjects dear to his heart at www.davidhalperin.net.

UFO Madness In Ohio -- Plus, Baseball Hi Jinks

It's one, two, three strikes and your out at the ole ballgame -- as Yankee fan Tim Beckley slides into home plate knocking out guest RICK HILBERG of Cleveland UFO fame. Even though baseball season is upon us we quickly turn to the topic at hand, mainly the history of flying saucers in Ohio, from the group leaders to the most important sightings. One of the original organizers of the Congress of Scientific UFOlogists and editor of FLYING SAUCER DIGEST, RH goes back to 1958 when he attended his first UFO meeting, and as a teenager starting his own UFO zine. Beckley and Rick met through the pages of Ray Palmer's FLYING SAUCERS FROM OTHER WORLDS magazine. This is an historical romp that covers some of the best reports, including an incident in which RK was himself involved as a key witness. Listen and than check him out on FaceBook. Free newsletter www.ConspiracyJournal.com

GRAY BARKER - THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS

Exploring the Bizarre hosts Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz honor the later UFO investigator Gray Barker. Allen Greenfield, Steve Ward and David Houchin, head of the Gray Barker Collection located in the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library give their views on Barkers involvement with the Men In Black, the Flatwoods Monster, Mothman and the collapse of the Silver Bridge, as well as touch upon his sexuality which was considered "radical" in its day and time.