Timothy Good has done us a public service in giving us facsimile reproduction of that great wealth of documents in the Appendix to Above Top Secret. Lazy and reclusive ufologists, of whom I am one, can now study at a little closer to first hand some of the famous and infamous bits of paper which have enriched or littered ufology in the past four decades but which many of us only know by repute or selective quotation.
I thank Paul Devereux for his criticisms of my review of Persinger’s ‘tectonic strain theory’. As for the earth lights theory in general, I totally agree with Devereux’s statement that “it is highly desirable that such an area be fully investigated”; the last sentence of my paper attests my willingness. I must however comment on Devereux’s criticisms.
The theatre of the UFO phenomenon is a manifestation of the drive for creative expression. This should have been obvious to me when I wrote Break a Leg; but somehow it slid by me and I ended up saying applause was the driving end of the UFO phenomenon.
In 1985, during the confrontation between the police and supporters of the Stonehenge Festival one newspaper reported that to prevent gatherings at any alternative place, police were guarding other sites “where ley-lines intersect”. Bizarre as this image is (one wonders if police chiefs perused back issues of The Ley Hunter, or whether the police national computer was programmed to find such sites) it is nonetheless a testimony to widespread familiarity with the ley line theory.