Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] from Common Cause, and lists the people who had attended its early meetings, among whom was….. David Moller. Now join up the dots. Hanky-panky in the British UFO world The former Searchlight agent provocateur, Tim Hepple, is now cruising the British UFO world under the guise of ‘Tim Matthews’ of the ‘Lancashire UFO Society’. […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] or maybe a some detailed look at the microwave/laser plasma ball weapons technology which seems to have been tested in the mid 1990s, giving rise to numerous ‘UFO’ sightings. () The book is seriously lacking in references. Each chapter has only a few footnotes collected at the end of the text. Hambling gives a […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
Russ Kick (ed.), Disinformation, 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-9664100-7-6. Available from http://store.disinfo.com. I once sat in on an interesting conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: ‘Oh, … Read more
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] of UFO-spotters scooting as close as they could get to Area 51 and similar areas in California. So why would government disinformers publicise these areas within the UFO subculture? Also, the Bennewitz mythos was immediately taken up by far-Rightists and thinly disguised neo-Nazis. I personally saw how the mythos brought new audiences to transparently […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] A loose alliance of intelligence officers in America, led by a CIA officer named Ron Pandolphi, has spent the last 20 years running disinformation at the American UFO buffs. If you have watched the X Files TV programme you have been watching themes first invented by Pandolphi and his crew. Which is an oblique […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
Parapolitics/Intelligence November 1984 – February 1985 The usual invaluable mixture of precis of stories from the world’s press plus reprints of some entire articles and the occasional original piece. November’s includes a long and excellent piece by Jonathan Marshall on the Strange career of Ronald Hedley Stark. PP/Intelligence subscriptions $20 payable to ADI at ADI, […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies Jim Schnabel Dell (USA) 1997, $5.99 Psychic Warrior David Morehouse Michael Joseph, London, 1996, £16.99 I approached the Jim Schnabel book with some caution. A number of people, including Armen Victorian, are intensely suspicious of Schnabel’s activities in the UFO/paranormal fields: some suspect him of […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
Researching the European State: a critical guide Edited by Tony Bunyan Statewatch PO Box 1516, London N16 0EW £7.00 With sixty A4 pages plus a six page index, this is, as the title suggests, an annotated bibliography. The flyer which came with it accurately described it thus: ‘This is the first bibliography on the European […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
Someone pointed out to me that Lobster 42 ranged from Gladstone to UFOs, a spread probably unique today. But this range has a downside: things get picked up and then sidelined. One such area is the field bounded on one side by what is known as mind control and on the other by non-lethal technologies. … Read more
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] working in the parapolitical catalogue business complaining about the kind of garbage they have to sell to make a living. (For example, the wilder end of the UFO thing.) The second reason is that there simply isn’t enough material around of that quality. It’s axiomatic: if there was, Steamshovel wouldn’t be printing rubbish about […]