Mark Pilkington has written an "exposé", Mirage Men, in which he states in the title; A Journey in Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs. It didn't take long to see that he wasn't kidding.
The first chapter describes his trip to the US in 1995 where he claims to have witnessed his first UFO near Yellowstone Park. His Stuart Wilde-type writing style immediately put me off, but it was the first paragraph of chapter two that made me throw the book across the room:
OK, now we know where this guy is coming from. By the way, John Lundberg is the leader of the pack of alleged UK cc makers, with his own website devoted to same - _http://www.circlemakers.co.uk/ Lundberg gives short shrift to the crop circle researchers who refuse to accept that the circles are made by regular guys in the middle of the night - and shovels some serious BS about how they make them. Here is an excerpt from that site's Rod Dickinson review of Lucy Pringle's book:
Question, did NBC ever run this show, Men Who Conned The World? I've done some looking, but have yet to find whether or not it actually aired.
Lundberg is a constant companion of Pilkington's exploits throughout the book. About midway through they crow again about the crop circle exploits to the spooky Rick Doty who becomes their pal at an Arizona week long UFO conference. Doty, a longtime source of government UFO nonsense talks about the info that they fed to Paul Bennewitz, which eventually drove him round the bend.
This same conference is where Bill Ryan gained his UFO cult hero spurs with his Serpo tales. Doty, Lundberg and Pilkington had become good buddies with Ryan and are furthering his "cause" (read handling). No doubt Ryan's source for the Serpo phenomena came from just these types of friends.
It would be easy to dismiss this book as a waste of time, but for those with a good dose of discernment and a lot of background on how these things work (Thank you, Laura) - and the ability to tolerate somewhat sophomoric writing, it is good look at the methods employed in steering the perceptions of seekers. All of the usual suspects are in there... as well as maybe a few truths. I'd wait, though, until it is in the dollar bin at the bookshop.
The irony of it all is that it poses as a revealing of the methods of institutionalized dissemination of UFO/paranormal disinfo. The upside is its amateurish transparency. Only the GLP and ATS-type clappers would be credulous enough to take this bait.
The first chapter describes his trip to the US in 1995 where he claims to have witnessed his first UFO near Yellowstone Park. His Stuart Wilde-type writing style immediately put me off, but it was the first paragraph of chapter two that made me throw the book across the room:
OK, now we know where this guy is coming from. By the way, John Lundberg is the leader of the pack of alleged UK cc makers, with his own website devoted to same - _http://www.circlemakers.co.uk/ Lundberg gives short shrift to the crop circle researchers who refuse to accept that the circles are made by regular guys in the middle of the night - and shovels some serious BS about how they make them. Here is an excerpt from that site's Rod Dickinson review of Lucy Pringle's book:
Question, did NBC ever run this show, Men Who Conned The World? I've done some looking, but have yet to find whether or not it actually aired.
Lundberg is a constant companion of Pilkington's exploits throughout the book. About midway through they crow again about the crop circle exploits to the spooky Rick Doty who becomes their pal at an Arizona week long UFO conference. Doty, a longtime source of government UFO nonsense talks about the info that they fed to Paul Bennewitz, which eventually drove him round the bend.
This same conference is where Bill Ryan gained his UFO cult hero spurs with his Serpo tales. Doty, Lundberg and Pilkington had become good buddies with Ryan and are furthering his "cause" (read handling). No doubt Ryan's source for the Serpo phenomena came from just these types of friends.
It would be easy to dismiss this book as a waste of time, but for those with a good dose of discernment and a lot of background on how these things work (Thank you, Laura) - and the ability to tolerate somewhat sophomoric writing, it is good look at the methods employed in steering the perceptions of seekers. All of the usual suspects are in there... as well as maybe a few truths. I'd wait, though, until it is in the dollar bin at the bookshop.
The irony of it all is that it poses as a revealing of the methods of institutionalized dissemination of UFO/paranormal disinfo. The upside is its amateurish transparency. Only the GLP and ATS-type clappers would be credulous enough to take this bait.
