- Wendy Connors -is- the real ufological deal.
I say this confiding, honestly, that I report a -great- deal of raw understatement,
but I'm trying to avoid any hyperbole that might degrade the sincerity
and so then the effectiveness of this review. Recently (and publicly!)
I was accused by canted detractors as having "absolutely zero"
cognitive (BS) filters. I remind the reader that I had abundant -enough-
filtration to filter out he who would accuse me of the lack of same...
Ms. Connors, on the other hand, is legitimately unfettered by the need
of -any- filtration.
Why?
Because Wendy Connors is very highly respected as a researcher, and I'm
not the only one who says so! She has been endorsed by ufological commentators
as wildly divergent in intellect, contribution, and cant as Jerry Clark
and Andy Roberts (leaving it to the reader as to which of them describes
the high mark and which the low...) but -her- reputation as a researcher
is of the -highest- order!
I'm unabashedly impressed with Wendy Connors, myself. She's a genuine
ufological investigator of the first water (you appreciate her courage
and the jewel-like quality of her contribution immediately!). In her written
work, she is one of the intrepid few able to take a subject too easily
interpreted, otherwise, as a threateningly fearful unknown, and with wit
and humor establish, for it, an enduring and sensible educational framework
for the rational, interested, and healthily curious. Additionally, she
allows, as a welcome result of her work, a more useful understanding of
UFOs that might be -alternatively- enjoyed... knowledge, reader, -is- generally
the antithesis of fear!
The fruits of Ms. Connors -latest- research assesses the taproot of modern
ufology. You see, from the very -beginning-, and at the very -start- (even
before the UFO flap in 1947, and as I have written before), CREDIBLE people
were giving CREDIBLE reports to CREDIBLE officials running CREDIBLE investigations,
and these reports were, in turn, considered CREDIBLE by the even the more
elevated, higher ranking, and -hyper- CREDIBLE!
In other words, at the -start- of the public interest in ufology, intelligent,
educated, and powerful people thought that these UFOs (...admitted as a
physical reality to actually -be- there in the first place!!!) were intelligently
guided craft... not of this Earth! That's a fact, folks!
We know it's a fact because in the old, more naively innocent (and less
duplicitous) ufologically *uncontrolled* days, these persons, and many,
many others were -recorded- saying so! That's a fact, too!
Where are all these old recordings then? What has become of them? Where
did they go?
They were momentarily lost to senseless history; that's where they were!
They were at the bottom of old trunks, in dusty drawers and forgotten unvisited
rooms. They were mislabeled, misfiled, and mistaken for something else!
Moreover, they were corroded and damp and mildewed... in the process of
disintegration, aurally illegible, and fading into complete and final oblivion!
Wendy Connors has reversed this ignoble fading of recorded history (...to
that awful finality of tragic loss); she has mounted, and succeeded in,
an -arduous- rescue of this history from that oblivion! Additionally,
she provides for a new -kind- of ufological credibility that would have
been lost to us but that she facilitated, expanded, and -clarified- the
MEMORY of it for our eventual benefit! There just can't -be- too many
superlatives for the magnitude of this work! No hyperbole here!
Errol Bruce-Knapp, Jeff Rense, Art Bell, and George Noory have historical
precedents (and record their programs for history), or maybe the reader
thought these gentlemen sprang fully formed from the forehead of Zeus in
the late 20th Century! No, night radio has long been the province of the
paranormally twitchy, almost for as long as there has -been- radio. Among
these was a popular late night talk-show host by the name of "Long
John" Nebel. He was the "Jeff Rense" of his time.
Nebel (et. al.), by way of example, had -all- the ufological luminaries
on his radio program and much of what they said, way back when, would raise
the hair on the back of a complacent neck, even today. These seminal programs,
among many, many others, would have been lost but for Wendy Connors diligence,
computer skill, and poignant sense of -real- history!
Nebel is only a fraction of what you could hear, reader! There are pilots
and engineers and air traffic controllers! There are doctors and reporters
and conservative professional persons! There are military officers, famous
radio personalities, and named scientists! There are persons such as yourself,
reader, presuming your innocence or an honesty or a sincerity plainly heard
in many of these astonished voices from the past... real and uncontrived
persons recounting their unbelievable encounters in a manner more easily
believed, than not!
Y o u ... a r e ... t h e r e, good reader! Ms. Connors makes you a fly
on the wall for "things are now as they were then, except you ...
are ... there"! You're there for a true to life accounting of a historical
actuality regarding the highly strange that would have been heard (or remembered!)
-no- other way! This is a one-of-a-kind, kind of thing.
Connors provides a time machine, actually -- a time machine with the focus
on the seminal ufological. Why, one of the segments is the specially abridged
"War of the Worlds" program that Orson Wells produced in the
30's! The reader will recall that this is the radio program about an invasion
from Mars by hostile beings that many astonishingly believed (!) ...and
where Americans, by the way, gave a damned good accounting of themselves,
actually (!), despite believing that they were being invaded by monsters
from beyond! Damned good! ...Whatever the reader has heard, otherwise!
I digress.
Connors' work is a dazzling array, a panoply, a huge range, a plethora
of the highly strange... (!) Fascinating voices in this astonishing assemblage
speak to a real world actuality of the ufological! Hear the authentic
voices of persons you'd only read about as they share their amazing accounts
and startling testimonies! ...Dr. Willey Ley, Dr. Allen Hynek, Frank
Scully, Donald Keyhoe, Captain Edward Ruppelt, Major Dewey Fournet... the
list seems unending!
Additionally, there is a lot more than meets the eye with this true -wealth-
of a compilation! It is not just a mere collection of dead voices (they
throbbed with life once, same as you!). No, one gets a sense, as one listens
over and over again ( ...one -can- with this collection!), that the ufological
struggle by individual human beings has been needlessly endured for decades!
One begins to perceive how people have tried to make sense of what they
had witnessed, or how they tried to rationalize their out-of-the-box experiences!
One appreciates how they fought then, as they fight now, for sense and
sensibility when confronted with the... abject 'weird' and highly 'strange'...
that is the larger reality many of us remain convinced -is- the reality!
Ms. Connors has produced a compact disc, a volume one, entitled "Ufology:
A Primer in Audio 1939 - 1959", with nearly eight hours of the uncompromised
history you've -never- heard before... and that I've -barely- described
in this review. This one disc contains over a hundred recordings of ufological
history as it happened, reader! I think it is as valuable as some the
better quality text-books I've purchased and gotten less out of... for
a hundred... or a hundred and twenty dollars!
She wants twenty dollars for the disc, reader! It's a -steal-! Orson
Wells, all by *himself*, is worth that... and the disc contains seven
and a half -more- hours of quality material!
Check:
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- http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/team/wendy.html
 ...for a description, a table of contents, and purchase
information.
If the reader knows someone interested in UFOs, they'd love this in their
Christmas stocking! But get it for yourself, reader! Forgetting that it
is common sense support for quality ongoing research of the highest order,
it's a quality work to have in -any- documentary library!
It's the real deal, folks. ...UFOs -are- real; we are -not- alone...
It's not the beginning of the end, or even the end of the beginning --
It's the -beginning- of the beginning! "... and you are there...,"
reader! Wendy Connors, of "Faded Discs," makes these enigmatic
discs, decidedly, -less- faded, and succinctly -puts- you there, right
where they -are-! Hey boys and girls! It's the future! Here's an opportunity
to spin up on it -- give that future a real PAST and so, therefore, a solid
foundation! Verily! Read on!
Lehmberg@snowhill.com
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