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In August 2006 I learned Wendy Connors had released a new Faded Disc audio archive CD — this one featuring an audio retrospective of British and Australian UFOlogy cases.  The recordings on the CD are dated between 1946 and 1989.  The "UFOs Across The Ponds" MP3 CD consists of 51 tracks with a total running time of 32:25:30.  There are four Arthur Shuttlewood recordings described on the Track Listing: 28 Arthur Shuttlewood Interview.  Interviewer unknown at this time.  1968.  35:02 32 Arthur Shuttlewood lectures on the Continuing Story of the Warminster Thing and his involvement in the investigation.  October 5, 1968.  57:06 34 Arthur Shuttlewood lectures on UFOs and Modern Thought.  September 13, 1969.  49:40 38 Arthur Shuttlewood lectures on the 1964 Warminster case.  February 28, 1970.  01:04:35 You may listen to the 1968 interview by clicking on the first listing above.  Shuttlewood would go on to have many more unusua...

Th is is a p hoto from The Warminster Mystery (1967): "Cradle Hill.  Nightly watch for UFOs has been kept on this high point just outside Warminster since February 1966." The six books by Arthur Shuttlewood that I have reviewed apparently do not constitute his entire output of books chronicling the variety of unexplained phenomena that collectively became known as 'The Warminster Mystery.'  In his 1979 book More UFOs Over Warminster , he mentioned local UFO cases and stated "as my seven books on the continuing enigma illustrate, with all witness names and addresses given."  In his other book published in 1979, UFO Magic in Motion , he wrote: "My last book, Wheels of Heaven , was dedicated to an old friend, the Master of Orkney, 91-year-old Oliver St. John, and his cousin, Chela Fitzmaurice." People interested in UFO research are known as UFOlogists and any such researcher is at a loss if he or she hasn't read the work of Arthur Shuttlewood, who...

I obtained a copy of the UK journal Flying Saucer Review Vol. 16, No. 4 July/August 1970 at A mazon.co.uk.  The issue contains a brief (one page) article by Arthur Shuttlewood.  Charles Bowen's first page editorial "Warminster Phenomenon" shows that Arthur Shuttlewood was regarded cautiously, following the publication of his books The Warminster Mystery (1967) and Warnings from Flying Friends (1968).  I was reminded of the circumstances that have often been seen over the decades in response to individuals who have experienced various 'unexplained phenomena' and then attempted to chronicle these events to expand others' knowledge of life. Although Shuttlewood was acquainted with numerous people, among them UFO researchers, he never had or cultivated any relationships where other people might be considered his 'followers'; however, the first paragraph of the FSR editorial raises the question of 'cultism': An important prerequisite for any seri...

I recently read an interesting review paper by Dr. Edmund T. Rolls titled "Taste, olfactory and food texture reward processing in the brain and the control of appetite" that I'll discuss in this post ( 1 ).  Dr. Rolls is a prolific neuroscience researcher at Oxford who focuses on "the brain mechanisms of perception, memory, emotion and feeding, and thus of perceptual, memory, emotional and appetite disorders."  His website is here . The first half of the paper is technical and discusses some of Dr. Rolls' findings on how specific brain areas process sensory and reward information, and how individual neurons can integrate multiple sensory signals during this process.  I recommend reading it if you have the background and interest, but I'm not going to cover it here.  The second half of the paper is an attempt to explain the obesity epidemic based on what he knows about the brain and other aspects of human biology. Read more »

This is a photo from the May 1 session of the Citizen Hearing On Disclo s ure .  ( source: citizenhearing.org ) B etween April 29 and May 3, a "Citizen Hearing On Disclosu re of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race" was conducted at the National Press Club in Was hington , D.C.   The event organizer was " reg istered l obbyist" Stephen Bassett .  P articipants included Grant Cameron, Richard Dolan, Stanton Friedman, Steven Greer, Linda Moulton Howe, Roger Leir and Nick Pope — all names familiar to listeners of the late night radio show "Coast t o Coast AM." At this hearing it is doubtful that there was any mention of the case s tud y books written by the 'contactees ,' including those of Arthur Shuttlewood, who has been the topic of a continuing series of articles at this blog.  There have also been previous articles about the 'flying saucer contactees' of the 1950s —Angelucci, Bethurum, Fry —who each extensively chro...

In the first chapter of his final book UFO Magic in Motion (1979), Arthur Shuttlewood (1920-1996) looked back at his predicament as reporter of the diverse unexplained phenomena occurring in the vicinity of his local Warminster, Wiltshire, England.  The first ' Thing story' broke on Christmas Day 1964, as he had acknowled ged in a September 10, 1965   Daily Mirror article ( shown above) that is i ncluded in the book.  He now reflected: My past works on the 'new' scientific study of Ufology have been packed with masses of evidence and solemn testimony from reputable and reliable witnesses in all walks of life the world over.  Freely and fearlessly, they testify to unaccountable flying phenomena that excite yet mystify them.  Occasionally, they are shocked as well as surprised by their 'baptism' into deep waters of the unworldly in blue seas of heaven, having been assured by 'official' sources and armchair theorists that saucers in the air are a moder...