{"id":65,"date":"2008-01-14T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T18:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/2008\/01\/14\/fear-and-loathing-in-new-hamsphire\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T14:50:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T18:50:04","slug":"fear-and-loathing-in-new-hamsphire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Loathing in New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, we\u2019re not talking about the recent New Hampshire primary here. We\u2019re talking UFO politics, which is as fiery and contentious as American politics these days. Our headline also happens to be the title of the two-page review of Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited<\/em><\/strong><\/a> that appeared in the October 2007 issue of Magonia<\/em> by Peter Rogerson. It\u2019s just what you would expect from a review in a journal that covers \u201cContemporary Vision and Belief.\u201d It\u2019s Rogerson\u2019s belief that \u201cthe Hill story reads like a product of the human imagination.\u201d Yet, Rogerson can\u2019t help but drop a bombshell near the beginning of his review.\u201cThis is probably the first detailed reinvestigation of the Hill\u2019s story in years…Right from [the first paper, by Dennis Stacy] there is a surprise. At a crucial point in Barney\u2019s first encounter, where the public accounts have him grabbing a jack for protection, it is now revealed that he got a out a .22 caliber pistol which he had hidden in the trunk (importing guns into Canada is illegal). That\u2019s an important point…\u201d<\/p>\n

So, yes, Encounters at Indian Head<\/em> is finally beginning to get its day in the sun. Brockport Professor Stuart Appelle, in the course of reviewing another book on the Betty and Barney Hill story in the Winter 2007 issue of the Journal of Scientific Explorations<\/em>, mentions our book, which was edited by Karl Plock and Peter Brooksmith: \u201cThis books contains a series of absolutely certain, yet diametrically opposed, opinion pieces stemming from a small conference in 2000.\u201d Another reviewer, this time in Fortean Times<\/em>, happens to mention our book as well \u2013 also in a review of that other book, and in much the same way \u2013 by describing the book as \u201ca collection of papers by various hands whose responses to the story range from thoughtful acceptance to diligent scoffing.\u201d Reviewer P.L. Frankson then follows this with a quick compliment, saying that the book under review is \u201ca considerably less interesting read than Encounters<\/em>…\u201d<\/p>\n

But the prize mention goes to Rebecca Rule, whose review of Encounters at Indian Head<\/em> commanded a full page spread in the The Concord Monitor<\/em> and other newspapers in New England this past weekend. After setting the stage for those not familiar with the Betty and Barney Hill story, Rule explains how the book came about, and then writes: \u201cThe 10 essays by nine experts range from highly technical and footnoted to deeply philosophical. We hear the Hills’ story from many perspectives…Encounters at Indian Head<\/em> is an earnest attempt to fathom the unfathomable. It’s about much more than Betty and Barney and what happened to them. It’s about what we believe and why we believe it.\u201d At the end, Rule kindly tosses off a flattering comment in our direction: \u201cAnomalist Books specializes in \u2018well-researched work on maverick science, unexplained mysteries, unorthodox theories, strange talents, and unexpected discoveries.\u2019 It has quite a catalog. Check it out..\u201d Thank you, Rebecca!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, we\u2019re not talking about the recent New Hampshire primary here. We\u2019re talking UFO politics, which is as fiery and contentious as American politics these days. Our headline also happens to be the title of the two-page review of Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited that appeared in the […]<\/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-65","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\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}