Y’know what? The world is a magical place, full of – as the late Robert Palmer so eloquently said – every kinda people.
And as it turns out, many of them are crazy.
Thankfully, many of them are crazy in a non-threatening, enormously entertaining way.
This richly rewarding category spans everything from mothers who pre-chew their child’s food, to ghost hunters, to Rudy Giuliani (although he could jump over to the ‘entertaining-but-threatening’ list at any moment).
And at the center of this genre is the extreme end of the UFO camp. Very crazy, very harmless.
Well, at one point, a friend sent me some literature from an organization called the ‘Unarius Academy Of Science’. Intrigued, I gave it a read. As it turns out, they not only believe in UFO’s but that the UFO’s will be super-scientists, coming here to save the Earth. Apparently, their science is very, very tight.
So I felt compelled to send a letter to the director of the Academy, posing as a ‘fellow researcher’. It’s pretty ridiculous and over the top (correcting his made up ‘facts’ with my made up facts, etc.) and I thought there was no way it would get a response. But much to my surprise (and as Mark had predicted), a few months later, a response did indeed arrive. I’d describe Dr. Spiegel’s tone as ‘enthusiastic/politely annoyed’. But he did invite me to come for a visit…
