Comments on: Get this book that I have a chapter in! https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/28/get-this-book-that-i-have-a-chapter-in/ Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/28/get-this-book-that-i-have-a-chapter-in/#comment-458546 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:30:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23752#comment-458546 John: Yeah, I had a different essay originally which involved UFOs, but Karen had too many UFOs so I stuck with the haunted museum.

I remember talking about that, including both the mass psychology of what UFOs and what aliens look like (based on movies, etc.) as well as me having seen a large UFO over Boston Harbor that turned out to be a cruise liner, but seen from a tightly turning aircraft at night, which causes one to lose track of which way is down vs. up. In my case, I lived, since I wasn’t flying the plane (poor John John) and as noted the aliens were not real!

I’ll have to review your book!

]]> By: John Shea https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/28/get-this-book-that-i-have-a-chapter-in/#comment-458545 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:11:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23752#comment-458545 Hi Greg,
Going to look this one up. Sounds like fun. I remember talking about UFOs with you back in grad school, but I can’t remember the details. That professor from Psych, ____ Mack, was writing a lot about abductions in those days.
Technically, though, a UFO is any airborne solid object that has not been identified. So, a small shiny speck in the night sky = UFO until you get binoculars out are see the red and green airplane wing lights.
Got a new book out, Stone Tools in Human Evolution, that I think you will like. It is built up around many of the Bioanthro-Archaeology issues we used to talk about.
Cheers
John

]]> By: FLwolverine https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/28/get-this-book-that-i-have-a-chapter-in/#comment-458544 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 03:31:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23752#comment-458544 I encountered something that was a very convincing UFO until it wasn’t – but I was pretty terrified for about 45 minutes.

]]> By: L.Long https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/28/get-this-book-that-i-have-a-chapter-in/#comment-458543 Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:47:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23752#comment-458543 I can believe many have unusual experiences. I saw a large eyed monster in the woods behind my house, and a real UFO with dancing flashing lights over its surface. And yes I know what they were after a while of thinking about it and doing some basic research.

]]> By: Douglas C Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/28/get-this-book-that-i-have-a-chapter-in/#comment-458542 Wed, 01 Mar 2017 03:24:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23752#comment-458542 Ha – your ghost story – if it’s the same one you’ve published on your blog a few times – is a very good tory.

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/28/get-this-book-that-i-have-a-chapter-in/#comment-458541 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:13:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23752#comment-458541 How about a chilling encounter with a science-denial zombie?

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