Jim Moseley, who died in 2012, was an old time ufologist who started a magazine called Flying Saucer News in the 1950s that reported sightings. Later, he changed the title to Saucer Smear and reported on the sociology of ufology with a lot of tongue in cheek humor. He went after debunkers and believers alike with equal glee. He especially took to task those who were full of themselves as experts on a subject that floats between reality and the absurd. Needless to say, Jim tended to annoy a lot of people who were serious about their exploration, their investigations, their debunking, or whatever. The Amazing Randi threatened to sue him more than once.
We knew Jim since the 1980s, stayed once at Rose Lane Villas that he owned for years his Key West and we also saw him shortly before his death when he lived in a drab room on the outskirts of Old Town. We had a couple of adventures with Jim running into the Amazing Randi once with him in Fort Lauderdale, and another time venturing into the attic of an old house near Rose Lane Villas that used to be a Ford plant in the 1920s, where we found a casket and skeleton. Yikes! We left quickly.
This April, I noticed that the Saucer Smear web site still existed. So I left him a message:
Hi Jim, How are things on the Other Side? Mixing it with the alien presence? Glad we had a chance to have one last dinner in Key West before you moved on. Hey, it was time to get out of that dumpy room, right? Catch you later. Rob MacGregor
This morning, July 13, I got a response of sorts. On the side of my FB home page in the advertising column, this image popped up:
Thanks, Jim.
Woo woo!
I take it that’s a thumbs up from Jim Moseley on the other side to your comment? 😉
Ha! That’s a different way of looking at it!
That is WEIRD!!! Woo-Woo stuff galore!
I had no idea Trish was putting this post up today. But I noticed a subject line in an e-mail that said: Moseley Nails It. I opened the e-mail and saw that it had nothing to do with the post. It was a comment from a friend about the writer Walter Moseley. He wrote:
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Easy Rawlins, in “Charcoal Joe”, is in the wardens office to get permission to visit a crime boss:
“The most dangerous people in the world were men like (Administrator) Desmond Bell. They became SS officers and postmasters, church deacons and cops. in their minds there was always a marching band playing the tune that they stepped to. But I wasn’t there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.”
Wonder what real-life presidential candidate he was thinking of!
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Interestingly, in Saucer Smear Jim occasionally referenced people who shared his surname. More than once he noted that many were black, including Walter Moseley and Carol Moseley Braun.
Woo-woo, for sure.
Did you leave your comment on his website?
It’s a bit eery that the response showed up on your FB page.
Rob isn’t sure about that, Vicki.
WOW!