In the zine scene of the eighties and nineties, Adam Gorightly's name was ubiquitous. As a self-described "crackpot historian," he has closely examined all the fringe mythos of our time, from UFOs to government mind control and beyond. You know, the kinds of things that most of us were blissfully unaware of until the internet blew up the world and brought Q Anon home for Thanksgiving dinner.
In the most recent episode of my podcast, available here, Adam and I discuss the possibility that military intelligence may have created (well, probably did create) the modern UFO movement. The story, in brief, is that an agent of the AFOSI named Richard Doty began “leaking” dubious material to UFO researchers to keep them from discovering top secret experimental technology like stealth aircraft. But lest you think that Adam is a stone-cold materialist UFO skeptic, I'd like to point you to this conversation that we had last year, in which we discuss Alex Jones, mystical conspiracy theory, and his own extraterrestrial "close encounter." (What follows are highlights from a much longer conversation.)
ADAM: I think that I probably ought to point to a UFO psychedelic experience I had when I was in my teens, that got me deeper into this stuff. You know, questioning what I had seen. Questioning consensus reality. Then, in the mid-to-late-eighties, I got more into the conspiracy research scene. And I think one of the things that triggered that was like in the early to mid-eighties, I saw a poster at a community college I was going to, and the poster asked: "Did the CIA killed JFK?" I said whoa, what the hell is up with that? So those kinds of experiences had something to do with my interest in this stuff.
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