Ray's X-Blog

Mind control? Writer/podcaster Micah Hanks is at the top of the list of ufologists who are being mind-controlled by evil aliens. Man, some people get all the luck.  (Why can't I end up with publicity like that?) Over at his site, The Gralien Report, Micah aggregates links to stories related to fringe topics and occasionally writes an article.  In his essay, Mind Numbness: The Truth About Government Mind Control, he discusses how a story is circulating that he and other attendees at a conference late last year were put under the control of the sinister ETs with a distinct appellation: the Dow Greys.  (I wonder if they're in league with Dow Chemical or Dow Jones?) Apparently the Dows took the unsuspecting attendees underneath the conference center and zapped them so that now they're spreading all sorts of disinfo. Micah has described the whole story as "complete rubbish."  A certain gadfly (ahem) commented at his Gralien site: "Gee, Micah, mayb

I hate to disagree with a favorable review but... After reading his take on my paperzine, Ray X X-Rayer , it seems the reviewer got the wrong impression about what I'm doing through it and my blog.  Of course the fault could me mine because I've never really stated the intent behind my eXpressions. The reviewer said that I rough up lunatic UFOnuts and conspiracy theorists.  Yes, there are crazy people out there but I don't think they dominate – and therefore invalidate – areas like UFO and conspiracy research.  I consider situations individually, X-raying and showing the basic structure underneath each one and pointing out defects that may exist.  I try to be fair, doing more than just "roughing up" a few people along the way. I do have a problem with extreme skeptics – skep-nuts if you will – whose debunking sometimes needs to be debunked.  I see problems on both sides of the divide. The reviewer compared me to the late Jim Moseley, editor of Saucer