L.O.W.F.I's Guest Editorials
The League of Western Fortean Intermediatists presents...
February
Contactees and the Absurdities of Ufology
By Nick Redfern
“You can write about anything you like, just as long as it has some kind of western US angle,” said Skylaire Alfvegren recently, when she invited me to pen a guest editorial for the League of Western Fortean Intermediatists. Well, given the nature of Skylaire’s invitation, it wasn’t difficult to come up with a subject-matter.
After all, as some of you may know, just a couple of months ago New Page Books published my most recent title: Contactees – A History of Alien-Human Interaction. And as just about anyone and everyone who has ever dared immerse themselves in the strange and twilight realm of all things of a long, blond-haired and space-brotherly nature will know, the West-Coast – and specifically California - is where most of the other-worldly action occurred. 
Continue reading Nick's article...
September
Bigfoot in Texas?
by Craig Woolheater
co-founder and chairman of the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy
A common misconception among the general public is that the Bigfoot phenomenon is limited strictly to the Pacific Northwest. Many people think of Texas terrain as being nothing but prairies and deserts filled with “tumbling tumbleweeds” to quote the famous song.
However, in East Texas, which is where the majority of the reported sightings of Bigfoot
occur in the state, there are approximately 12 million acres of forest land. There are four
national forests and five state forests in Texas, all located in East Texas, the primary and
most important forested area in Texas. The East Texas Pine Belt, or “Piney Woods” as it is commonly called, extends over forty-three counties and accounts for almost all of the state’s commercial timber. Continue reading Craig's article...
August
Fortean Ufology: Long Live the Old Guard, Long Live the New Flesh
by Skylaire Alfvegren
The real UFO story must encompass all of the many manifestations being observed. It is a story of ghosts and phantoms and strange mental aberrations; of an invisible world that surrounds us and occasionally engulfs us; of prophets and prophecies, and gods and demons. It is a world of illusion and hallucination where the unreal seems very real, and where reality itself is disorted by strange forces which can seemingly manipulate space, time, and physical matter--forces that are almost entirely beyond our powers of comprehension. [...] Continue reading Skylaire's article...
June
Adam Gorightly In The Land of Enchantment
by Adam Gorightly
At first glance, New Mexico seems nothing more than a second sister to the Longhorn State, as big oil rules in the southern reaches of The Land of Enchantment where many of the towns one encounters along the way resemble greatly those rural landscapes stretching for hundreds of miles across the plains of Texas and Oklahoma.
However, New Mexico is rich not only in oil, but arcane lore, with its fabled history of crashed saucers, atomic bomb blast sites and, some would suggest, Freemasonic conspiracies... [...] Continue reading Adam's article...
April
ALIENS WILL BE ALIEN
by Mick Farren
I have always had reservations about grey aliens. Indeed, I have always found them a little too trite to be true. Okay, the egg-headed, abducting, little bastards are all over t-shirts, fridge magnets and The History Channel, but, for me, that doesn’t make them any more convincing. That alien visitors to our world should turn out to be upright, four limbed, bi-pedal entities, seems just too much of a coincidence, particularly as the current configuration of human beings was created by a very specific set of evolutionary circumstances. Was it possible that our first extra terrestrial contact would be with a species that – like us – had some small, grey ancestral quadruped who also stood up on its hind legs to look over what passed for long grass on a distant planet, under another star? [...] Continue reading Mick's article...
March
Intermediatism Is Bliss...
Fortean Intermediatism and Indeterminacy
by Greg Bishop
“I can conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is anything more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.”
-Charles Hoy Fort
When I first heard about the LOWFI project from Skylaire, I thought that the “I” stood for “indeterminist.” This was excellent news. FINALLY someone was going to enshrine the concept of indeterminacy in a formal organization.
When I found that the word was “intermediatist,” I must admit that I was stumped. Charles Miller’s article from Patrick Huyghe’s excellent Anomalist journal provides an answer: [...] Continue reading Greg's article...
February
Government Files, Police Helicopters and Wind Turbines
The Incredible Story of Britain's Latest UFO Flap
By Nick Pope
Britain is in the middle of a UFO flap. Edward J. Ruppelt, one of the former heads of Project Blue Book (the United States Air Force's now defunct UFO investigation program) offered this definition of a flap in his book The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects:
"In Air Force terminology a "flap" is a condition, or situation, or state of being of a group of people characterized by an advanced degree of confusion that has not quite yet reached panic proportions. It can be brought on by any number of things, [...] Continue reading Nick's article...
