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
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Dr.
Rafael A. Lara's
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