TWILIGHT OF THE SKEPTICS
‘The Deep Breath Before the Plunge’
The Grusch allegations and Wednesday’s hearing could, like the ‘alien autopsy’ and infamous Majestic-12 documents, fizzle and die. Or, it could lurch us into something profoundly different.
We’ve been here before — with the Majestic-12 documents, with Bob Lazar and with the infamous televised “alien autopsy” in the 1990s. Each time, the tiny, insular ufology community was like, “This is it!”
Until it wasn’t.
All this has brought to mind a “here” that I found myself in back in the fall of 1988. It had nothing to do with UFOs. It was an election year, with Vice President George H.W. Bush and his thousand points of light squaring off against then-Masschussetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, a Democrat doomed to forever be remembered for an ill-advised appearance in a tank.
I was a journalism student at the University of Oregon, and a former low-level aide to President Ronald Reagan came to the campus with a lecture in advance of a book she was working on. Before an appreciative audience of young, liberal college students, she sowed the seeds of a conspiracy theory.
