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The Fortean Chronicles of Ray Bradbury
by Red Pill Junkie
March 17, 2018
Once upon a time –as every good story should start– there was independent filmmaker and writer Paul Davids sitting at a luncheon right next to none other than the Ray Bradbury, arguably one of the greatest American writers of the XXth century. Curiously enough, and like many other authors who made a living out of imagining interstellar adventures and life on other planets, Mr. Bradbury was very skeptic about the topic of UFOs.
Paul Davids is definitely not a skeptic. Not only did he have a personal sighting of a classic saucer-shaped object along with his two young children at their home in 1987, but he was also involved in the TV film Roswell based on the book by Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt, which Paul had just finished producing by the time he was breaking bread with Bradbury. When the legendary writer learned about this he became angrier than a Martian white ape in heat and started yelling at poor Paul:
““What are you doing making a piece of fiction like that and trying to pass it off as something that’s true?” I was so taken aback. I said “Mr Bradbury, with all due respect, have you heard what the witnesses really said? Do you know the case?” He said, “I don’t have to now the case – *I* know it didn’t happen!” And I said, “Mr Bradbury, can I ask why you’re so sure?” He said, “Because I’m Ray Bradbury! They would have told ME! You think this would have happened and they wouldn’t have told ME!? You’re crazy!”“
Oh boy. Talk about the heat of the Rocket Summer!
RAY BRADBURY
And so, old Mr. Bradbury went to his grave thinking those silly flaying saucers were nothing but a bunch of hooey. Had he been younger, perhaps, he would have been more open-minded to David’s arguments in favor of the Roswell incident –although truth be told, the older *I* get, the more SKEPTICAL about it I turn!– or perhaps he had read about early UFO reports when he was younger, and decided that the ‘Martians’ and ‘Venusians’ who kept contacting startled farmers, truck drivers and housewives all around America weren’t nearly as interesting as his own Martians, who glided through the arid canals of their red homeworld onboard ancient boats pulled by a myriad firebirds.
Which is truly ironic, because The Martian Chronicles is probably my favorite book in the English language, and I happen to believe that in its pages Ray Bradbury managed to connect the dots and pay homage to MANY of the anomalous phenomena surrounding UFO accounts and other Fortean mysteries, in ways that most UFO researchers haven’t even bothered to consider!
I will now proceed to list some of The Martian Chronicle’s chapters –which are actually short stories, sometimes loosely threaded between one another– in which these literary insights are to be found, and give a brief exposition regarding their Fortean relevance. Needless to say this article will be 100% SPOILERIFIC, so if you haven’t read Bradbury’s magnum opus I suggest you turn off your computer or electronic device and borrow a copy of this wonderful book at your nearest library (yes, those are still a thing! Remember that Bradbury’s entire education consisted solely on spending his nights at the public library and his days pounding the typewriter):
CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/03/the-fortean-chronicles-of-ray-bradbury/
The Fortean Chronicles of Ray Bradbury
by Red Pill Junkie
March 17, 2018
Once upon a time –as every good story should start– there was independent filmmaker and writer Paul Davids sitting at a luncheon right next to none other than the Ray Bradbury, arguably one of the greatest American writers of the XXth century. Curiously enough, and like many other authors who made a living out of imagining interstellar adventures and life on other planets, Mr. Bradbury was very skeptic about the topic of UFOs.
Paul Davids is definitely not a skeptic. Not only did he have a personal sighting of a classic saucer-shaped object along with his two young children at their home in 1987, but he was also involved in the TV film Roswell based on the book by Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt, which Paul had just finished producing by the time he was breaking bread with Bradbury. When the legendary writer learned about this he became angrier than a Martian white ape in heat and started yelling at poor Paul:
““What are you doing making a piece of fiction like that and trying to pass it off as something that’s true?” I was so taken aback. I said “Mr Bradbury, with all due respect, have you heard what the witnesses really said? Do you know the case?” He said, “I don’t have to now the case – *I* know it didn’t happen!” And I said, “Mr Bradbury, can I ask why you’re so sure?” He said, “Because I’m Ray Bradbury! They would have told ME! You think this would have happened and they wouldn’t have told ME!? You’re crazy!”“
Oh boy. Talk about the heat of the Rocket Summer!
RAY BRADBURY
And so, old Mr. Bradbury went to his grave thinking those silly flaying saucers were nothing but a bunch of hooey. Had he been younger, perhaps, he would have been more open-minded to David’s arguments in favor of the Roswell incident –although truth be told, the older *I* get, the more SKEPTICAL about it I turn!– or perhaps he had read about early UFO reports when he was younger, and decided that the ‘Martians’ and ‘Venusians’ who kept contacting startled farmers, truck drivers and housewives all around America weren’t nearly as interesting as his own Martians, who glided through the arid canals of their red homeworld onboard ancient boats pulled by a myriad firebirds.
Which is truly ironic, because The Martian Chronicles is probably my favorite book in the English language, and I happen to believe that in its pages Ray Bradbury managed to connect the dots and pay homage to MANY of the anomalous phenomena surrounding UFO accounts and other Fortean mysteries, in ways that most UFO researchers haven’t even bothered to consider!
I will now proceed to list some of The Martian Chronicle’s chapters –which are actually short stories, sometimes loosely threaded between one another– in which these literary insights are to be found, and give a brief exposition regarding their Fortean relevance. Needless to say this article will be 100% SPOILERIFIC, so if you haven’t read Bradbury’s magnum opus I suggest you turn off your computer or electronic device and borrow a copy of this wonderful book at your nearest library (yes, those are still a thing! Remember that Bradbury’s entire education consisted solely on spending his nights at the public library and his days pounding the typewriter):
CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/03/the-fortean-chronicles-of-ray-bradbury/