by Loren Coleman, posted June 23, 2022, 2:37 pm EDT.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++In response to one of my past postings on ufologists dying on June 24ths, Robert Sheaffer, a skeptical author of Bad Ufos (2016), wrote to me, firmly tongue in cheek, at 1:28 pm, June 22, 2014:”June 24th is coming up soon, so I’m going to be hiding under the bed.”The topic of the deaths of ufologists is oft-discussed in the field of ufology. In 1971, UFO author Otto Binder claimed that at least 137 UFO investigators had died under mysterious circumstances during the 1960s. Binder’s 1971 Saga article, “Liquidation of the UFO Investigators,” summarized his findings.Tied to the specific date of St. John’s Day, Otto Binder (1911-1975), as well as John Keel (1930-2009), noticed a number of “seemingly coincidental deaths in the UFO field on 24 June.” I have written about this special day in my first book The Unidentified (Warner Books, 1975, with Jerome Clark), in Curious Encounters (1985), and in Mothman and Other Curious Encounters (Faber and Faber, 2002). June 24th, every year since 1947, gets special attention from anniversary death watchers.The past is prologue to the future.Here is a quick overview of the notable ufo-related deaths on June 24:June 24 (or 23?), 1964, Frank Scully, 72, author…
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Will A Ufologist Die On June 24, 2022?
