Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert, and if you love flying saucers and stories of Martians and moon men and all that,

maybe you've been following the release of the latest batch of government UFO files.

The worst thing about these document dumps is that much of the information is media

slop, often deliberate hoaxes.

And this stuff was sent to whatever bureau or military branch.

And very few people can distinguish that stuff from reports produced by military and government personnel.

Concerned citizens would send in articles from their local paper or the National Enquirer and the Weekly World News.

All kinds of wacky and wild stories, weird wild stuff, some built around a few crumbs of reality and many outright inventions.

It gets a file number and into the vaults it goes.

That was the idea with the X-Files TV show, All the paranormal junk, the tabloid reports of

werewolves, etc., went into the X-File cabinet, the stuff that wasn't assigned to anybody

or any office. Why X? Because according to the TV show's lore,

the unsolved file cabinet under the letter U was completely full.

The response from the online fans of flying saucers has not been positive,

because the fans of space alien disclosure will only be satisfied by government confirmation of their wildest fantasies of interstellar insect armies,

and Ra from Egypt being a space priest demon from outer space and all that.

There's just no real-world evidence for any of that stuff as enjoyable as it might be on a movie screen or a video game.

And all of those far-out-out-there concepts were brought to life by Polk Magazine editors and writers and early science fiction authors,

by fantasy writers, mostly working in Hollywood and Los Angeles.

L.A. had a lot of people like that. They used to meet at Clifton's cafeteria in downtown

for long lunches where they talked for hours about novels

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