Tag Archives: UFOs

UK National Archives Releases “British X-Files” Documents

August 4th, 2010 | Posted in UFOs

The American media has picked up on the British government’s decision to release hundreds of previously classified documents related to UFO sightings. (For a BBC News report see here.) The files are a part of the National Archives. The story includes a link to the web page for the archives which includes PDF files for […]

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Paul Meehan: The Strange Case of Picnic at Hanging Rock

August 1st, 2010 | Posted in alien abduction, Paul Meehan, UFOs

Author and TheoFantastique contributor Paul Meehan introduces the story of Picnic at Hanging Rock and its possible connection to a paranormal phenomenon. Paul is the author of a number of books including SAUCER Movies: A UFOlogical History of the Cinema (The Scarecrow Press, 1998). The Strange Case of Picnic at Hanging Rock By Paul Meehan […]

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Roswell: Happy Anniversary

July 6th, 2010 | Posted in aliens, UFOs

No adequate consideration of American cultural celebrations for the month of July would be complete without a mention of Roswell, New Mexico. In July 1947 on a rancher’s land near the small city of Roswell, an event took place that would give birth to one of the greatest mysteries which would fuel UFO mythology and […]

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Paul Meehan: Alien Abductions and Sleep Paralysis

May 2nd, 2010 | Posted in alien abduction, aliens, Old Hag, Paul Meehan, science fiction, sleep paralysis

Paul Meehan is a contributor here at TheoFantastique as regular readers will recall. He is the author of a number of books including Saucer Movies: A UFOlogical History of the Cinema (The Scarecrow Press, 1998), Cinema of the Psychic Realm (McFarland, 2009), and Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir (McFarland, 2008). He has […]

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Sleeping with the Aliens: Weird Encounters of the Fourth Kind

November 8th, 2009 | Posted in alien abduction, aliens, Old Hag, Paul Meehan, science fiction, sleep paralysis, UFOs

TheoFantastique is pleased to present its first guest posting, a review of The Fourth Kind by Paul Meehan, author of several books including Tech-Noir: The Fusion of Science Fiction and Film Noir (McFarland, 2008), Cinema of the Psychic Realm: A Critical Survey (McFarland, 2009), and Saucer Movies: A UFOlogical History of the Cinema (The Scarecrow […]

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Paul Meehan – SAUCER MOVIES: A UFOlogical History of the Cinema

May 19th, 2009 | Posted in aliens, Paul Meehan, science fiction, UFOs

For decades popular culture has experienced and enjoyed two related phenomena, that of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), along with alleged alien visitation, as well science fiction films that feature flying saucers and their occupants. Indeed, as author Paul Meehan has noted, “[s]aucer movies are a distinct subgenre of science fiction film, and perhaps should constitute a […]

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