In September 1964, at Glassboro, David Halperin was 16. On September 12 he measured a landing site there, recording a conical, scorched crater ringed by three tripod holes. He went on to become a writer, blogger and religious-studies scholar. His later work read famous cases for what they said about culture, the mind and faith. He called the 1969 José Antônio da Silva abduction essentially a religious experience. In the Tujunga Canyon Contacts he saw Holocaust imagery. He also traced Albert K. Bender's loss of interest in saucers to his 1954 romance with Betty Rose.
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Author of an essay interpreting the photograph
Writer who offered a psychological and social reading of the case (2016)
Researcher who studied the Bender letters in the Gray Barker Collection
16-year-old investigator who measured the site; later writer and blogger
Writer who discussed the case and found the MoD explanation unconvincing
Scholar who read the case as a religious experience
Religious-studies scholar who wrote about the case in 2012