Issue # 6

Spring 2000

Ufology At A Standstill?

So...this is what the year 2000 feels like...

Certainly an anticlimactic sensation, as one could have well expected last year as we put together the last issue of INEXPLICATA for the Nineties. Perhaps the anticlimax is due to the incredible amount of activity--dare I say excitement?--that ufology experienced between 1988 and 1998. From the Matrix-induced furor of Lear, Cooper and Bennewitz to the Alien Autopsy and the 50th anniversary of Roswell, the embarrassing discipline known as ufology burned the candle at both ends in a party that never seemed to end. One aspect of research gave way to another with the same ease as fashion trends: we went from secret underground bases to public discussion of abduction phenomena, then onto Roswell and the government's plethora of excuses and explanations on the subject, and finally to the "neo-skeptical" era of questioning everything that the preceding years had put forth. At the end, we paid our bill, tipped the check-room attendant, and stumbled into the daybreak of a new reality.

  Commercial interests strip-mined ufology from cereal (a box of UFOS every morning) to serial (the conspiracy-haunted X-Files) to the point that the public at large no longer cares...or event wants to hear the subject mentioned. The ultimate consequences will not be felt until later this decade, and the disappearance of many UFO related publications as forums for information and discussion represents an alarming trend.

In this issue, Pablo Villarubia pursues one of the scariest UFO cases of all time while two new members of the INEXPLICATA team -- José Manuel Durán and Dr. Roque Mecoli -- give us their viewpoints on the UFO phenomenon. Contributing Editor Manuel Carballal explores the military/UFO connection and we interview Dr. Rafael Lara Palmeros.

 

          As always, enjoy the ride. And don't forget to tip the check-room attendant, will you?

          Scott Corrales

          Editor, INEXPLICATA

          Director, Institute of Hispanic Ufology

The Incredible Saga of Joao Prestes
by Pablo Villarubia

An Alien Heat: Chronicles of Sex and Saucery
by Scott Corrales

An Embarrassment of Humanoid Riches
by José Manuel Durán

The Pros and Cons of Alien Visitation
by Dr. Roque Mecoli

Never Mind the Saucers: UFOs Identified!
by Manuel Carballal

Ex Libris (book reviews)

Mexico Watch
Dr. Rafael A. Lara's