{"id":299,"date":"2009-05-18T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=299"},"modified":"2009-05-18T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:03:30","slug":"much-food-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Much Food for Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-thumbnail wp-image-22\" title=\"hill-14-20-20.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/hill-14-20-20.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"hill-14-20-20.jpg\" width=\"85\" height=\"128\" \/>Peter Brookesmith has kindly reminded us that we neglected to blog about what may be the best review we have ever seen to come out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forteantimes.com\" target=\"_top\"><em>Fortean Times<\/em><\/a>. It&#8217;s not a coincidence that Brooksmith happens to be one of the two editors (with the late Karl Pflock) of the book in question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/pflock-brookesmith.html\" target=\"_top\"><strong><em>Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. The &#8220;Fortean Times Verdict&#8221; on the book summed it up as &#8220;Intelligent, wide-ranging and a must have for UFOlogists&#8221; with a score of a perfect &#8220;10.&#8221; Bob Rickard, who reviewed the book, concluded: &#8220;It&#8217;s an exemplary debriefing on how a story grew in the telling, influencing the content of many &#8216;abduction&#8217; experiences to follow and, in turn, giving birth to the &#8216;missing time&#8217; school of self-referenced and highly subjective (but very bankable in terms of media) ufology. The lack of consensus on what happened to the Hills reflects a healthy division of opinion in ufology.&#8221; Bill Chalker echoed those words in his own review of the book for Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufologistmagazine.com\" target=\"_top\"><em>UFOlogist<\/em><\/a> magazine. &#8220;<em>Encounters at Indian Head<\/em> is an excellent study of why the uncertainties of human testimony alone will guarantee that there will always be room for doubt, and that resolution of a case of that type will always be dependent on one&#8217;s approach.&#8221; Chalker, like Rickard, also recommended the book. So with Brookesmith, that makes three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Brookesmith has kindly reminded us that we neglected to blog about what may be the best review we have ever seen to come out of Fortean Times. It&#8217;s not a coincidence that Brooksmith happens to be one of the two editors (with the late Karl Pflock) of the book in question: Encounters at Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encounters-at-indian-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}