Category Archives: Mirage Men Book

The Abuses of Enchantment

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

  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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RIP Gabe Valdez

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Gabriel ‘Gabe’ Valdez  passed away in his sleep at home in Albuquerque, New Mexico aged 67, on 7 August. Here he is on the right, alongside our mutual friend Project Beta author Greg Bishop. Retired for some years, Gabe was a much-respected … Continue reading →

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Mirage Men on Boing Boing!

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

A great short write-up from David Pescovitz over at the mighty Boing Boing! I first met my friend Mark Pilkington, the UK journalist and publisher of Strange Attractor Press, a few years ago when he was visiting San Francisco researching a … Continue reading →

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The Abuses of Enchantment: October Gallery, London

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

In the first of several talks I’m due to give this year, I’ll be presenting an updated version of The Abuses of Enchantment at the October Gallery as part of their excellent Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness series, programmed by Dr … Continue reading →

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Psiop Radio interview online

Posted on December 22, 2010 by

SMiles Lewis and Mack White of Psiop radio, veterans of the Austin, Texas underground comics and zine scene, have posted a recording of a two-hour interview/discussion we had in late November online – you can listen live or download it here.

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Aliens of Mono Lake!

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

NASA’s has announced the existence of an entirely ‘alien’, arsenic-based bacterium (or more accurately ‘an extremophile bacterium that can be coaxed into substiting arsenic for phosphorus in some of its basic biochemistry‘ – thanks Scienceblogs) found living within the strange … Continue reading →

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Mirage Men at Unconvention 2010

Posted on October 11, 2010 by

I’ll be returning to the Fortean Times Unconvention this year to present an all-singing, all-dancing audio-visual talk, ‘The Abuses of Enchantment’. Mark shows how military and intelligence operators have shaped and exploited beliefs in UFOs, ghosts, monsters, vampires, and elements … Continue reading →

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Mirage Men control the horizontal…

Posted on October 8, 2010 by

A classic, not-a-little topical episode of Leslie Stevens’ The Outer Limits, originally broadcast on 30 September, 1963. The story closely echoes the plot of Bernard Newman’s The Flying Saucer, published in 1948 and discussed at some length in Mirage Men. Newman’s … Continue reading →

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Mirage Men get Wired

Posted on October 6, 2010 by

Science and technology writer David Hambling interviewed me recently for Wired.co.uk… Mark Pilkington’s new book Mirage Men is a dizzying ride through a world of deception, manipulation and psychological warfare by intelligence agencies. Working in the field of UFO phenomena, … Continue reading →

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Orfeo Angelucci’s acid test?

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

One of the wilder stories told in Mirage Men is that of former Agency for International Development translator Bosco Nedelcovic. Nedelcovic claimed that in 1957 he took part in a CIA operation to conduct tests on a Brazilian Farmer, Antonio … Continue reading →

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