tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post4655835949816556942..comments2024-03-07T12:48:21.070+00:00Comments on MAGONIA REVIEW: THE EGO HAS LANDED: FREUD AND THE UFOLOGISTSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-41519259410056715872018-04-24T22:08:26.112+01:002018-04-24T22:08:26.112+01:00According to my reckoning 22 September 1967 was a ...According to my reckoning 22 September 1967 was a Friday. Julian Butler (late of Cradle Hill)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-48938839857054954972009-03-31T09:04:00.000+01:002009-03-31T09:04:00.000+01:00This feature by Clement Freud was published in the...This feature by Clement Freud was published in the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 22 September 1967. It is referenced in my book with Andy Roberts, 'Flying Saucerers: A social history of UFOlogy' (Heart of Albion 2007), p 162-63.<BR/><BR/>As we note in the book, Freud's article generated a furious letter to the Daily Telegraph from FSR editor Charles Bowen who accused the journalist of seizing the opportunity to entertain readers "at the expense of the cultists, the hilltop worshippers and the publicity seekers who plague the fringe of the [UFO] movement." As a result, according to Bowen, the public was left with the impression that everyone who studied UFOs were nuts... (What a terrible accusation for a journalist to face!)<BR/><BR/>Fortunately, Trench (later Lord Clancarty, instigator of the House of Lords UFO debate in 1979) wasn't as precious as Bowen. He got the better of him in a light-hearted response published a couple of days later. He pointed out that: "all minority groups are apt to take themselves too seriously...[and] we must allow a little light relief to enter the subject otherwise we become bores."<BR/><BR/>Hear hear for that! (Clearly there was no love lost between the two former FSR editors, so nothing changes in love and war)Dave Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17811372009688882929noreply@blogger.com