Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Major new article: UFO perception management


A major new article on the subject on government manipulation of UFO-themed media products is accessible from today as an advance publication for the Spring 2011 issue of 49th Parallel - a journal of North American Studies jointly run through the UK universities of Birmingham and Nottingham.

This is one of only a small handful of articles dealing with UFOs and entertainment-media-control ever to have been published in a peer-reviewed academic journal, and is all the more unusual in that it treats UFOs not as a mere cultural abstraction, but as a real, physical phenomenon of considerable concern to officialdom.

Of particular interest in this piece are revelations from the director of Disney's 2009 movie Race to Witch Mountain concerning covert and seemingly high-level CIA involvement in said production.

The article - co-authored by myself and Matthew Alford - is entitled: A History of Government Management of UFO Perceptions through Film and Television. It is accessible directly at the 49th Parallel website. It will also be permanently accessible here at Silver Screen Saucers in the 'Articles' section.

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