On UFO Mystic: "Remembering Gray Barker"
Greg Bishop has a piece on Gray Barker,(They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers,1956 and The Silver Bridge,etc. )and a cynical mood swing in Barker’s life on the UFO stuff; he wrote a poem about UFO being “shit.” A “bucket of shit” —- (there are some days I feel the same way.) Barker was a fascinating character in UFOlogy; worth learning about if you aren’t familiar with him and his works.
It may strike some as strange that I consider Barker worth looking into to, or that I “defend” him. He was a hoaxer, and worse, many say. He made up stuff, he embellished, he was lax. But as always, there’s more to this than just simplistic accusations of “charlatan!”
Regan Lee
I live in the same town that Mr. Barker did in West Virginia. I very much agree with you that there is alot more to this man than just a hoaxer. I’m not entirly sure whether Barker and Keel were just “putting the world on” or just trying to put dinner on the table like most West Virginians. Either way, I’m pretty sure that he got a great laugh out of it.