Ted Bloecher
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Bloecher is UFOlogist and author, unsure / unaware of peoples take on the man.
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Ted Bloecher was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1929. He majored in drama and literature, with a minor in music, at Columbia University. From the late 1950s until 1973 he worked as a singer and actor. In 1975 he embarked on a new career as a computer data processor.
Bloecher became interested in UFOs in 1952. Two years later, with Alexander Mebane, Isabel L. Davis, and others, he founded the important early group Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York (CSI). Besides co-editing CSI News Letter with Mebane and Davis, he helped them prepare Aime Michel's two French-language books for American publication and write, under the by-line Civilian Saucer Intelligence, the much-praised "Shapes in the Sky" series, which ran from 1957 to 1958 in the science-fiction magazine Fantastic Universe.
After CSI folded in 1959, Bloecher became involed with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and even moved from a time from New York City to Washington, D.C, where NICAP was headquartered. He wrote Report on the UFO Wave of 1947 (1967), but his major interest was always in occupant reports, or close encounters of the third kind (CE3s), as they would be called from the 1970s on. As NICAP became moribund, Bloecher associated himself with the Mutual UFO Network and the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS; see J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies), concentrating his efforts on investigation of CE3 reports and compilation, with David Webb, of a "Humanoid Catalog" which sought to record all known cases. In 1978 CUFOS published his and Davis's Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955 (1978).
In November 1975 Bloecher got a phone call from a New York artist named Budd Hopkins, who within a few years would be one of the world's best-known ufologists but who then was simply curious about a landing report he had heard from a trusted acquaintance. Bloecher and Hopkins together investigated the multiply witnessed event, which occurred in a New Jersey park directly across the Hudson River from 88th Street in Manhattan (Bloecher, 1976; Hopkins, 1981; see also Stonehenge CE3). The two then enlisted the services of several New York psychologists and psychiatrists as they investigated the emerging UFO-abduction phenomenon.
Bloecher left ufology in the early 1980s and later donated his massive files to CUFOS.
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- Resources / Names: "In my interviewing in 1947 sightings, done as a cross check on case material used in a very valuable recent publication by Bloecher (Ref. 8), I came to realize clearly for the first time that this reluctance was not something instilled by post-1947 scoffing at UFOs, but is part of a broadly disseminated attitude to discount the anomalous and the inexplicable, to be unwilling even to report what one has seen with his own eyes if it is well outside normal experience as currently accepted."[1]
The publication being referenced here is Report on The UFO Wave of 1947.
Notes
- ↑ McDonald, Symposium '68: pp. 5
References
- McDonald, James (July 29, 1968) (in English). UFO Symposium 1968: McDonald Case Studies. 7. Washington: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : House Committee on Science and Astronautics.
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