The New York Times writes about a UFO experiencer without any derision

Astronomy 2 Galaxies and Reverse1997 oil on canvas

This from a recet obituary in the NYTimes:

Ionel Talpazan, an outsider artist from Romania who sold his visionary works of U.F.O.s and life in outer space on the sidewalks of Manhattan before being discovered in the late 1980s, died on Sept. 21 in Manhattan. He was 60...

Mr. Talpazan claimed that one night in the Romanian countryside, when he was 8, a strange, hovering shape slowly descended from the sky, enveloping him in a celestial blue light, and then disappeared. The experience haunted him and became the source of his art.

This article is striking because of the rather bland way it addresses the claims of UFO contact. It is written without a hint of derision. It states plainly that Talpazan had a close up sighting of a mysterious craft that left him confused, and he set about rendering his UFO visions.  Mr. Talpazan stated, “I felt that by drawing them, I might penetrate their mystery.”

This sounds very much like the obsessiveness found in in most UFO abductees.

Ionel Talpazan, pictured in 1999 with his painting “Father and Son in Space.”
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Silver Screen Saucers

Now available!

Author Robbie Graham just published his long awaited book, Silver Screen Saucers with the subtitle: Sorting Fact from Fantasy in Hollywood's UFO Movies.

More so than any other medium, cinema has shaped our expectations of potential alien life and visitation. From The Day the Earth Stood Still and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to Prometheus, and beyond, our hopes and fears of alien contact have been fuelled by the silver screen. This book is an examination of the interplay between Hollywood’s UFO movies and the UFO phenomenon itself, from 1950 to present day.

Silver Screen Saucers grants the reader a rare, close-up examination of the DNA that builds our perceptions of the UFO mystery. From interviews with screenwriters and directors whose visions have been shaped by their lifelong UFO obsessions; to Presidents talking UFOs with Hollywood heavyweights; to CIA and Pentagon manipulation of UFO-themed productions; to movie stars and producers being stalked by real Men in Black, This book provides fresh perspective on the frequently debated but little understood subject of UFOs & Hollywood.

More about the book HERE - and Robbie's blog HERE. 

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