Author Archives: Mark

About Mark

Author of 'Mirage Men' & 'Far Out' and publisher/editor at Strange Attractor Press.
Posted on May 11, 2013

After eight long years the Mirage Men film is finally finished, and I’m thrilled to say that the initial response has been overwhelmingly positive. The film has been enthusiastically accepted for the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 where it will receive its … Continue reading →

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Coming soon

Posted on October 3, 2012

This is the first teaser poster for the Mirage Men documentary film, which is now very nearly finished. We hope to have news about festival screenings for 2013 in the next few weeks. Thanks are due, once again, to Roland … Continue reading →

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Area 51 Viewers Guide

Posted on August 4, 2012

Between 1994 and 1997,  the brilliant and acerbic Glenn Campbell published The Groom Lake Desert Rat which chronicled the unfolding exposure of what soon became the world’s best known secret non-existent airbase. The Rat also served as a gossip sheet for … Continue reading →

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From the vaults

Posted on August 4, 2012

As preparations get underway for this month’s epic Unknown Fields expedition across the US Southwest, here are a couple of vintage photographs of myself in 1995. The UFO sightings at Yosemite National Park that open Mirage Men occurred a few … Continue reading →

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Ebe’s Paranoia

Posted on July 20, 2012

A music video by The Castle, inspired by Mirage Men

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Mirage Men film trailer

Posted on May 10, 2012

[click through to vimeo or it's on youtube if you have a preference]   Here’s the first trailer for the Mirage Men film, created by mine and John Lundberg’s new partners on the project, Roland Denning and Kypros Kyprianou. Huge … Continue reading →

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Behold, the real Men in Black

Posted on April 20, 2012

This footage, and its lively voice over, is what I believe to be the first appearance of the Men in Black (MIBs) on camera. The MIBs of course are the sinister, omniscient silencers who show up to question UFO witnesses … Continue reading →

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Coming soon…

Posted on March 21, 2012
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Saucer Country

Posted on March 19, 2012

Saucer Country is a new comic book series written by Paul Cornell, drawn by Ryan Kelly and published by Vertigo. Arcadia Alvarado, the leading Democratic candidate for President of the United States, says she was “abducted by aliens.”As the Mexican-American … Continue reading →

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The Abuses of Enchantment

Posted on March 16, 2012

  Here’s a video of a presentation I gave for Dr David Luke’s ‘Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness’ lecture series at London’s October Gallery in February 2011. The talk incorporates and expands upon some of the ideas outlined in Mirage Men. … Continue reading →

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