Early this morning I was surprised to hear the unmistakable voice of Art Bell, creator of the late-night radio program Coast to Coast AM taking the airwaves, for one of his now-seldom annual appearances on the show (these usually coincide with holidays). To add further excitement to the situation, I also recognized the voice of his guest, author William R. Forstchen, an excellent writer and an acquaintance of mine, whom I met several years ago at a conference in Asheville, North Carolina.
Forstchen, having authored numerous books with Newt Gingrich, is a New York Times Best-Selling author and expert on military history, as well as a professor at Montreat College outside of Black Mountain, NC. The subject on the table during Art’s interview last night was Forstchen’s new book, One Second After, which follows the struggle of John Matherson, a retired Colonel who lives with his family in Black Mountain, NC, during the weeks and months that unfold after an EMP strike against the United States by an unknown foreign enemy.
I’ll keep my endorsement simple and short: You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to buy this book and read it as soon as possible.
The most famous Martian “chip off the old block,” that is, the ALH84001 meteorite, was discovered a quarter-century ago in Antarctica. The meteorite is believed to have been ejected from Mars about 17 million years ago and, and much like the aliens from John Carpenter’s 1980s remake of the sci-fi classic The Thing, spent close to 11,000 years encased within Antarctic ice sheets. Though not as exciting as Carpenter’s alien shape-shifter, possible fossil remains of microorganisms observed in samples taken from the meteorite set the scientific world ablaze upon their discovery. Now, new evidence suggests that these strange fossil formations “are almost certainly fossilized bacteria.”
Retired Colonel John B. Alexander, in addition to being a key figure portrayed in the new film The Men Who Stare At Goats has been a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons for decades. His views and research into the subject of New Age ideas influencing the military has made him noteworthy among fringe science and Ufological communities, as well as the fact that he was head of Las Vegas billionaire Robert Bigelow’s NIDS organization investigating paranormal sites (similar to Tom Slick’s funding of Bigfoot expeditions to Nepal in the late 1950s, hoping to find the Yeti). Alexander was also a member of the Aviary group involved in UFO cover-up matters as orchestrated by the global power group, The Cabal, according to Wikipedia.