Spheres, domes and bottomless holes appear in C. M. Kornbluth’s The Silly Season, but how are they connected? We discuss this memorable story from 1950, then move on to the actual newspaper silly season, secret aircraft, UAPs, and the time we embarrassed a Milwaukee Journal reporter.
Links:
The Silly Season by C. M. Kornbluth [Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fall 1950]:
https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v001n04_1950-Fall_AK
Wikipedia entry on the Silly Season:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_season
Wikipedia entry on the rumored Aurora Aircraft:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(aircraft)#References
Wikipedia entry on recent UAP videos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos
Pentagon-released video of spherical-shaped UAP seen over Iraq:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6qTR_Lxe1Q
Internet Archive Fate Magazine collection:
https://archive.org/details/fatemagazine
In Search of… UFOs (witness sketch of UFO at 20:27):
https://archive.org/details/InSearchOf16mm/In+Search+of…UFOs+(480p_30fps_H264-128kbit_AAC).mp4
The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort [Project Gutenberg]:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22472
