Table of Discontents

A periodically updated collection of links to each Getting Spooked series in more readable order

Alien Abduction and Racial Anxiety: Barney and Betty Hill Reexamined

Part 1: Introduction / Screen Memories

Part 2: Peace from Venus / Cosmic Transmissions

Part 3: ETs on TV / Repressed Memories

The Bosco in Brazil

Part 1: The Villas-Boas affair, MILABS-mania, and Induced Abduction Experience

Part 2: The Scoriton Affair, Paul Bennewitz, and Targeted Individuals of the Cosmic Variety

Part 3: More UFO Psyops, the CIA, the School of Living, and Proposals Galore

Part 4: Certainly Not EPCOT, the Finders, and Uneasy Speculations

Part 5: Op-eds, Clarence J. Gamble, and Other Odds & Ends

Part 6: A Conversation with Rich Reynolds + More Odds and Sods

Part 7: Recap, the Institute for Policy Studies, and More Modest Proposals

Part 8: Bosco Nedelcovic, the General, and the Vampires

Part 8.5: Born in Belgrade b/w Julius Evola Gets Upset

Part 9: A Conversation with Mickey and Ines Nedelcovic

Christopher Bledsoe and the UFO Cult of Intelligence

Part 1: An Analysis of UFO of God, Chris Bledsoe, and Those Who Believe in Him (or Want You to Believe in Him)

Part 2: The JSOC Next Door / The Religious Scholar Who Came to Dinner

Part 3: The Men from NASA (Hal Povenmire & Timothy Taylor) Befriend Chris Bledsoe

Part 4: The Transmigration of Timothy Taylor / The Divine Invasion of Chris Bledsoe

Part 5: Forty Yards to the Burning Bush / A Shuttle Darkly

Part 6: American Cosmic Revisited / The Ballad of Tyler D.

Part 7: Überspook Col. John B. Alexander, the Pope Incident, the Cult of Intelligence, the MILAB Melee, Information Warfare, and Non-Lethal Weapons

Part 8: To the Stars Inc., Tom DeLonge, Jim Semivan, a Murky CIA History, and More Kayfabe

Cystic Detective Updates

Update #1: A Descendant of Jesus Christ, Nothing New Under the Sol, and a Question: What the Hell is Going on at General Motors?

Update #2: More on Plant Enthusiast Paul Sauvin, Mulling over CBW, and the Pesky Drone Swarms Come Up Again

Forbidden Science Dispatches

Dispatch #1: Jacques Vallée Meets Barney and Betty Hill, 1967 / The ET Scholars from IBM

Dispatch #2: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes and Paranoia in Brazilian UFO Research

Dispatch #3: Satanism, Saucers, and Nazi Rocket Scientists: The Colorful Cast of Characters in Jacques Vallée's Forbidden Science 2

Dispatch #4A: H. Bruce Franklin, the Venceremos Organization at Stanford, and the Symbionese Liberation Army

Dispatch #4B: James McDonald the UFO Scientist, Betsy McDonald the Socialist, and the Surveillance of 1970s American Activists

Dispatch #5: Keith Harary, SRI, Jonestown, and the Murder of Al and Jeannie Mills

Dispatch #6: Lt. Col. Thaddeus P. Floryan, an Obscure Peruvian Contactee, and the “Teaching Machine"

Dispatch #7A: Christopher “Kit” Green, Biological & Chemical Warfare, Yellow Rain, Cattle Mutilations, and the MKULTRA-ish in the CIA's Life Sciences Division

Dispatch #7B: Cutting through the Secret Onion and Other Intel Games, Glomarization, Project Azorian, Project Serpo, and the Friendship of Jacques Vallée and Kit Green

Dispatch #8: Let’s Have Some Levity, Shall We? The Funny, Cheerful, Poetic, and Idiosyncratic within Jacques Vallée’s Diaries

Dispatch #9: The Early NIDS Days, Ron Pandolfi, Kit Green, Robert Frosch, General Motors and Hughes Connections, and How the UFO Topic Has Been a Fount for NatSec & Foreign Policy Psyops for Nearly a Century

It’s Always Sunny in Gulf Breeze, Florida

Part 1: The Gang Goes AWOL (A Gulf Breeze Six Primer)

Part 2: Ed Walters (Possible Antichrist) Photographs a UFO & Battles Its Crew

Part 3: Lyn Buchanan's Psychic EMP / Vance Davis Meets a Major Alien Babe Through Self-Mind Control

Part 4: The Gang Contacts Spirits Through a Ouija Board

Part 5: The Group Gains Members and Receives Further Prophecy

Part 6: The Gang Sees the End Times Coming / The Gang Goes Stateside

Part 7: The Gang Hits the Beach / Vance and Ken Fall in Love

Part 8: The Gang Gets Busted / The Gang in Captivity

Part 9: The Gang Gets Discharged / Free the Gulf Breeze Six

Part 10: Vance Davis Goes on a Press Tour & Meets Sean David Morton

Part 11: Vance Davis Coast to Coast / Richard C. Hoagland's NSA Source

Part 11.5: Addendum / Vance Davis' New Age Networking

Part 12: Final Thoughts on the Gulf Breeze Six and their AWOL Adventure [Delusion / Operation]

Part 13: Final Thoughts on the Gulf Breeze Six and their AWOL Adventure [Operation / Delusion]

Manifest(uf)os & State of the U(fo)nion Addresses

Manifest(uf)o: Thoughts on the Perpetual UFO Psyop/Scam

State of the U(fo)nion: The Sol Conference, Military and Intelligence Religions, and Further UFO Ponderings

Manifest(uf)o II: The Deficiency in Skepticism and Continued Thoughts on the State of Ufology

State of the U(fo)nion II: Losing the Magic, Forgetting Class Consciousness, Worshipping False UAP Idols, and Left Wondering Where to Go from Here

Reader Requests

Reader Requests #1: Bringing Meier to America, & the Uncomfortable Truth of Lt. Col. Wendelle Stevens

Reader Requests #2: Return to Wendelle C. Stevens, the Huckster, the Pedophile, and the Fascist

Reading Lists

Reading List #1: Some Bookshelf Recommendations for the Non-Hardened Cynic

Reading List #2: Four Parapolitical or Paranormal Books for Suspicious Minds

Reading List #3: Four Books to Remind Readers That I Still Possess a Sense of Childlike Wonder

Reading List #4: Five Stellar Paranormal and Parapolitical Newsletters/Blogs That Keep You Eager for More

Reading List #5: Okay, So Maybe Not Reading—But Sometimes Watching Things Is Good for You Too! Seven YouTube Documentarians or Video Essayists Worth Your Time

Reviews

Review: Martin Cannon’s The Child Stealers (2022)

Review: Uga Carlini's Beyond the Light Barrier (2023)

Review: D.W. Pasulka’s Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences (2023)

[Spook]Housekeeping

April 2023: Plans, Promotions, and a Little Bigfoot Tale

St. Peter at the Sonic Drive-In

Part 1: Sudden Disappearances and a UFO Cult in Small Town America

Part 2: Clues Uncovered, the “Strange Faith” in Russell, and Possible Human Deception

Part 3: License Revoked, Believers Found, and the Man at the Pentagon

Part 4: Prophecy Fails, the Aftermath, and Vague Conclusions

Still Sunny: Continued Investigations into the Gulf Breeze Six

Gulf Breeze UFO Redux: Leah Haley, Alien Abduction, and Space Spooks Coast to Coast

Part 1: Ken Beason, Dreams, Nightmares, Paranoia, and Science Fiction

Part 2: Ken Beason, The Incarnate, and Echoes of Past Apocalypses

Part 3: Ed Walters and the Intricacies of the Gulf Breeze UFO Crowd

Part 4: Former Intelligence Personnel Recollect Memories of Field Station Augsburg and the Six AWOL Soldiers

That Charming Man: Indrid Cold Reconsidered

Part 1: Woodrow Derenberger, Indrid Cold, and the Possibility of Covert Operations in West Virginia

Part 2: Tad Jones, the Sphere, the Threats, and Astronaut Boot Prints

Part 3: Union Carbide, the Air Force, NASA, and NICAP—Oh My!

Part 4: Human Affairs in Intergalactic Contact / The Shrink Meets a Spaceman

Part 5: Leon Davidson, Believing Adamski, and How to Manipulate a Contactee

Part 6: Contactees in Cars Getting Reconnaissance and Other (Extra) Terrestrial Adventures

Part 7: Getting Spooked in the Land of Mothman and Indrid Cold

Part 8: Harold W. Hubbard, Thomas Monteleone, and Other Lanuloose Ends

Part 9: Against the Urban Legend-ification of Indrid Cold, the Grinning Man

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One-Off Explorations by Date

Countdown to the Apocalypse: Tim McVeigh, The X-Files, Bill Cooper, and That Darn Doty (12/29/2022)

Taking the Hyper Dimensional Resonator to Candyland: Steven L. Gibbs' HDR Unit, More Butts/Corder, and a Prelude to the Gulf Breeze Six (1/12/2023)

Gerry Irwin's UFO-Induced Amnesia: The First American Abduction Experience, What It Means About the Phenomenon, and More (1/18/2023)

Fred Lee Crisman Fights the Deros: Propagation of Paranormal Myth in the Era of Shaver (3/25/2023)

Wendelle Stevens Runs a UFO Conference Badly: The CUFORN Bulletin Recalls the 1991 First World UFO Congress (7/23/2023)

Fear and Loathing at MUFON PA: Reflections on My First UFO Conference, Western Pennsylvania MUFON 2024 (4/17/2024)

Holes, Caverns, and Hell Itself: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves as Urban Legend (6/5/2024)

Close Encounters with the Far-Right in Paranormal Spaces: Jason Reza Jorjani’s Closer Encounters, Speculative Sources, Alt-Right Sensibilities, & Intelligence Vulnerabilities (7/16/2024)

Some "Primary Perceptions" of Cleve Backster: The CIA, the Shickshinny Knights of Malta, Plant Consciousness, Enhanced Interrogation, Mind Control, and a Tsar (8/14/2024)

Cleve Backster Addendum (Some "Secondary Perceptions"): Jeffrey MacDonald vs. Joe McGinniss, More on Mankind Research Unlimited, and Curious Connections to Silva Mind Control (8/21/2024)

The Sacred Struggle of a Phillies Catcher: Darren Daulton's Metaphysical Treatise, Occulted Baseball, and the Toxic Chemicals That May Have Led Him There (10/16/2024)

UFOs, Drones, Glitter, and Radar Chaff: What Leon Davidson and the Solution to the Glitter Mystery Can Tell Us About the Current Unidentified Flying Drone Flap (12/18/2024)

Ad Astra per Aspera: Kansas History as Seen through Roadside Historical Markers (1/15/2025)

The Cultural Cold War and Alien Abduction: Budd Hopkins, Abstract Expressionism, Hypnotic Regression, Screen Memories, American Exceptionalism, and Recurrent Problematic Patronage in the Arts and Sciences (4/9/2025)

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Guest Articles

Emily

• Radioactive Toothpaste and Conspiranoia - The Strange Saga of Ufologist John Ford, Pt. 1: A bizarre assassination plot, radium from Northrop-Grumman, UFOs, militias, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and a culture of conspiracy

Reid

• The Children’s Crusade, Pt. 1: Belita Adair, the Space Kids, and Andrija Puharich's Faraday Cage

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