UFOs - the great and secret show

The Sydney Space Association sent me this flyer promoting my lecture to them - UFOs - the great & secret show. My title borrows from fantasy writer Clive Barker's book title as it resonates strongly with the themes I will be examing - namely the extraordinary scope of the UFO phenomenon and why the UFO reality is largely remote from our mainstream awareness because of marginalisation by media, government and science. I examine the hidden dimensions of this remarkable paradox.

Despite the recent prominence given to matters like the secret British Ministry of Defence "Condign" report (which claimed that UFOs or "UAPs", as they call them, are much ado about "plasmas" and other natural phenomena), the mainstream media's regular proclamations that UFOs are yesterday's "fringe" news, and the sceptical debunking of the subject by so-called scientific "experts" (e.g. the Harvard psychologist Susan Clancy's claim that alien abductions are little more than "sleep paralysis" and various psychological conditions), there is the striking and inevitable paradox that the UFO and alien abduction phenomenon has not gone away and is very real and vitally present.

Date: Wednesday July 19 2006
Time: 7 pm sharp
Venue: 3rd level, Powerhouse Museum, Harris Street Ultimo (please use entrance in Macarthur Street)
Free admission, question time, refreshments served.