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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 1h

Today I had lunch with two other ufologists, Jean Sider and Alain Boudier. The latter rambles about bases on the moon and Billy Meier's fakes. Sider is more serious. (1990)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 1h

Yesterday I had to fly to Geneva again, but I came back early enough for dinner with researcher Joël Mesnard. He mentioned that three men-in-black with pasty faces and fierce looks visited him once.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 9h

These cults gave rise to Christianity through the intervention of Saint Paul: Did he misuse their teachings when he offered his own interpretation of Jesus’ life? (1992)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 9h

We drove to Qumran today, then on to Masada, and floated in the salty Dead Sea. What were the zealots of Masada and Qumran if not a fundamentalist cult?

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 13h

My daughter invited me to dinner at Ghirardelli Square for my birthday, a great pleasure, but we have new financial worries: this move to the City has been expensive, with workers to pay and Olivier in college. Infomedia has turned a corner, however: business is picking up. (1981)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 17h

Three occupants came out of it and he is absolutely sure they gave him some pancakes. Besides, he still has the pancakes to prove it! (1965)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 17h

We have just watched the documentary released by NBC. How fragile and irrational we look, Allen and I! In a way the most solid character, stable as the rock of his own strong inner conviction, turned out to be Joe Simonton, the old Wisconsin country boy who saw a flying saucer land in his backyard.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 21h

Yesterday the manager of the communications project drew an immense vista for me on the automation of the library. They have in mind “sociological” applications that will make use of a data-base of poor people. Cross-indexing has been done, from census data to criminal records. (1970)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is this really London, this clear city, sunny, warm and cheerful? Many countries, from Poland to Spain and Italy, are represented at the Financial Times investment conference I am attending here, all worried about the same things: jobs and technology. (1991)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dan Tolkowsky kindly took us to Jaffa for a fish dinner on the edge of an ancient pier. One of the world's oldest cities, an Egyptian harbor, later used by Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, Crusaders and pilgrims, Jaffa is filled with the memories of a hundred wars. (1992)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am flooded with interesting mail from readers of Invisible College. What comes out most clearly is the deep emotion among the American public regarding the future of man, our sacred nature, the preservation of freedom. This gives me a renewed sense of confidence. (1975)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of the stars” (Lawrence) we watched artificial satellites, several meteors, Saturn and Jupiter, the Andromeda nebula, the Pleiades and Mars in its most precious opposition of the century. (1988)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First light at the new observatory: I setup my old uncle’s telescope on its elegant hardwood tripod on top of the tower. We had a moonless sky, millions of lights spread on both sides of the Milky Way.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Larry King sat at an incongruous desk in the desert with an expert on Roswell (who isn't?) and a few others. The big mystery was never elucidated. Interspersed with the proceedings were sound bites from skeptics. Carl Sagan appeared sick and drawn. Even the debunking case was poorly stated. (1994)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It turns out De Gaulle has finally discovered the importance of computers and has launched a great new project he calls the Plan CalcuL He is bitter at Johnson's refusal to sell him a CDC 6600 with which to compute his H bomb. (1966)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We began the trip with breakfast on the Mediterranean shore at the Dan Accadia, just North of Tel Aviv. Janine has bought me Tom Robbins’ Skinny Legs and All, about the silliness of religious fanaticism, Jews and Arabs, Jezebel, and the sexy rites of Astarte. (1992)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was surprised to find that he’d actually read every word. He commented, “Your books are too lucid. Rational books never sell as well as the fake ones.” (1991)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This afternoon I met again with my French publisher, Mr. Robert Laffont. He was seated in a recliner, looking weak and tired. He invited me to pull up a chair next to him as we discussed Revelations and my Russian book.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We took plant samples,” he told me. “The grass had died. A cow’s rectum and sex organs were removed; a one-foot diameter circle had been cut in the animal. The cut left a charred substance, almost no blood.” (1995)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bob has just come back from Saskatchewan where a man, his wife, and their three sons had reported seeing a craft and short beings. It hovered for 20 minutes above the treeline.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My plans haven't changed: I want to come here often, to run my own experiments, get closer to a view of nature which I appreciate even more since my Picher expedition. I went swimming, walked to the cabins. (1978)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday morning I was alone in the forest at Spring Hill, sitting on a carpet of dead leaves, thinking of the flow of time, the frail substrate of human agitation.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today I drove lazily through Noe Valley and Castro Street, visiting bookstores. There was a marvellous sweetness in the air of San Francisco, bits of idle time and sparkling azure sky dropping around like tinsel. It was an afternoon stolen from the world. (1988)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He was invited to brief a high-technology committee of the Defense Department, the same group that was responsible for initiating stealth technology. They decided that Hal’s proposals would take precedence over optical computing. (1989)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Later I had a phone conversation with Hal, who was returning from Palo Alto where he had met with Lockheed physicists, including Blackburn. He told me his super-electron project was “ready to go big time.”

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The various groups that form his Universal Party comprise nudists, illuminati, small-time crooks, and a fat fellow who runs around in a T-shirt that reads “I love Jesus.” Occasionally he takes it off, as well as his pants, and runs through Berkeley calling for penance. (1973)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Old Mr. Hopkins has given us precious details about his life as a proper Contactee: he always sleeps naked, with all the lights on.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

...a society crashing headlong into the scary unknown, technologies out of control, everything seemingly possible yet nothing recognizable. Should we see this as a healthy transition away from the easy rationalizations and phony reality of Reagan’s America, of Mitterrand’s France? (1984)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another sign of changing times is the strange wind that destabilizes the denizens of New Age research. Janine is sad to witness the desertion of many friends as fine people with good minds spin away from reality. It’s a general phenomenon...

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I drove downtown to bring a collection of UFO magazines to the binder, I found the city as I had left it: with a big hollow feeling. (1966)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My thesis committee met today to hear my defense of my dissertation project. They gave me the green light. Mittman said I had attacked a very tough problem but he felt my approach was correct.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I continue to make progress with database implementation and causality experiments, but we haven’t caught any unexplained phenomenon. (1995)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This trip to the redwoods was perfect. Tonight, by fair seeing, I was able to observe Saturn’s rings (on edge at the moment, only a thin line), the Pleiades, and the Andromeda nebula.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now Hal’s friend is panicking. His house has been burglarized several times. He was studying an alleged energy machine, “Johnson’s motor.” All his models have been taken apart by visitors who made no effort to be discreet. Neighbors have seen the men driving away. (1982)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The man finds the research interesting but he doesn’t take the operational aspects seriously. He spilled the beans before a colleague of Anderson in trade for information on other topics: a lesson for the future, you cannot trust the government. (1985)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We walked back to his apartment and watched the new Twilight Zone. I expressed my dismay at the Jack Anderson article that exposed Grill Flame. Ingo told me the leak came from a member of the National Security Council.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As the laughter subsided Art asked Anton how sales of his book were doing. “Splendid,” he answered. “Nice Christian kids have been caught sneaking into a church to burn copies of my Satanic Bible, hoping to exorcize me. Think of the publicity!” (1970)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The larger world, too, has suddenly swiveled into an uncertain future. The crisis with Iraq spells war before Christmas. The Soviet empire has caved in, Germany is reuniting. History is gathering a funeral wreath for the grave of the Millennium. (1990)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Ah merde, I expected this from the beginning, that you would split again! This country, which is the smartest in the world at the basic level of the average plumber, the farmer, the mailman, has managed to acquire the most pretentious, cynical and rotten elite one can imagine." (1968)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The case is becoming known as "The Lead Mask Mystery" because the corpses had crude masks over their eyes. Inspector Jose Venancio Bittencourt, a veteran detective of the Rio police, is quoted as saying it is the strangest mystery in his career. (1966)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A French newspaper someone had left in the plane that brought us home contained a very curious report: two young electronic technicians have died on a hilltop near Rio de Janeiro while waiting for a flying saucer they claimed to have contacted.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gabriel remembers the gloom of the train trip to Villedieu but, oddly enough, he has no recollection of how he came back a few months later. My magistrate father stayed in Pontoise. (1992)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maman had valiantly organized a dinner at La Hucherie last night. Gabriel came over with Jeannine. Our mother gave us her recollections from the opening days of the Second World War: I was 8 months old when we left Pontoise.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our sheet metal contractor came over to look at our plans. When he found out we were building an observatory he asked, “You believe there’s life up there? I’ve seen strange things… I’ve spent several years in the Forest Service. And my dad has seen a saucer that had landed next to a road.” (1987)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They also told us of their growing admiration for the People's Temple, located further up their road. Every Sunday dozens of buses bring its members up from the Bay Area. (1974)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We visited the real estate lady. Her husband told us about his psychic experiences in bilocation and clairvoyance. He's had visions of a place where he believes Patty Hearst is sequestered.

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The virtual file holds the abstracts,” they whisper to one another in hoary confidence, “The keys are processed separately. We balance the trees and we print a monthly catalog, by inverting on specific parameters.” This will go on for two days. (1977)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not a pretty sight, this meeting of computer scientists. The rooms of the Conrad Hilton are filled with frail geeks with shrill voices and fat librarians in shapeless gray dresses:

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We left the medieval town, driving towards Padirac and Rocamadour. The rain came down in buckets, bringing back memories of that France of narrow roads I had so often seen through blurred windshields, little dead towns engulfed in blackness, bleak landscapes. (1991)

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Forbidden Science @forbiddenscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Anyone with smarts will either leave the country, as you did, or keep a cushy job in some government office.” But I didn’t leave because of taxes, I told him: I was much too poor to be taxed. (1997)

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