#joe nickell

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Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow for CSICOP, creates an “Alien Timeline” which highlights everything from the “flying saucer craze,” cases like the Betty and Barney Hill Abduction all the way to modern conception of aliens.

Really cool chart!

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Joe Nickell's Alien Timeline

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UFO Sightings - Alien Timeline

Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow for CSICOP, creates an “Alien Timeline” which highlights everything from the “flying saucer craze,” cases like the Betty and Barney Hill Abduction all the way to modern conception of aliens.

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So I ordered this book

It is good, but cutting to the chase i got it mostly for Chapter 24, which talks about the evolution of alien depictions of aliens in close encounter reports. It was not as in depth as I would have hoped, but sources are cited i can probably follow to more information. However in this chapter the author, Joe Nickell, does something I think we all wanted to do:

He puts his collection of Grey memorabilia in as an example of the standardization of alien depictions in close encounters over time. That’s awesome. That be like me writing a book about the history of batman depictions over time and using a page to show off my collection of batman comics. Its not often you get to show off your merch collection to support your point and I respect that.

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Joe Nickell’s Alien timeline

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On this day in 1996, an icon of the Virgin Mary begins weeping during Sunday services at an Orthodox Greek church in East York, Ontario. Over the next several days the church is overwhelmed as pilgrims come from near and far to see the alleged miracle

It doesn't take long before skeptic Joe Nickell and the Toronto Sun manage to reveal the carnival trickery behind the "miracle." They also reveal that the local priest, Ieronymous Katseas, had been involved with a similar "miracle" in New York several years earlier. Katseas is eventually forced out of the church and disappears.

(We covered the saga of the weeping icon and its more famous precedent in Series 2's "Goodnight, Irene.") 

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Alien timeline