EDITORS

• Patrick Huyghe is a freelance science writer and contributor to Omni magazine. He is also the author of three books: Glowing Birds: Stories from the Edge of Science (Faber& Faber, 1985), The Big Splash (Birch Lane Press, 1990, Avon Books, 1991) and Columbus Was Last (Hyperion, 1992). His e-mail address is patrick@cloud9.net.
• Dennis Stacy lives in San Antonio, Texas. He is editor of the monthly MUFON UFO Journal and a frequent contributor to Omni magazine and Fortean Times. He can be reached in writing at PO Box 12434, San Antonio, TX 78212. His e-mail address is dstacy@texas.net.

ART DIRECTOR

• Ansen Seale is a commercial photographer and designer based in San Antonio. Ansen created the cover art titled "Premonition" for The Anomalist:2. He also does Web pages and 3-D images. Ansen can be reached by fax at (210) 820-3467 or by e-mail at ansen@tddc.net.

CONTRIBUTORS

• Sal Amendola, a Brooklyn-based artist, was born in Italy in 1948. He attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1969. He has been a freelance illustrator and art instructor since then. A member of the National Cartoonists Society, he has drawn, written and edited for most of the major comics publishers, including DC, Marvel and Archie.
• Robert A. Baker, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, is a staunch skeptic of the UFO abduction phenomenon. A Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), Baker is the author or co-author of six books, including a popular college textbook, Psychology for Man, along with They Call It Hypnosis and Missing Memory.
• Martin Cannon is a California writer, researcher and artist perhaps best known for "The Controllers," a widely distributed article that discerns parallels between known earth-based technologies, including mind-control procedures of interest to the CIA, among others, and alleged UFO abductions. A book-length version (340 pages, $14.95) of The Controllers was scheduled to be published in the fall of 1995 by Feral House, PO Box 3466, Portland, OR 97208.
• Ev Cochrane is the editor and publisher of Aeon: a Journal of Myth and Science, which explores the evidence for catastrophism in ancient myth and modern science. Cochrane is the author of Martian Metamorphoses and The Many Faces of Venus, both of which will be published later this year. His paper, "What Are Mars Rocks Doing on Earth?" was first presented at the Velikovsky Centenary Conference held in New York City in July 1995. Cochrane can be reached by fax at (515) 292-2603 or by email at ecochrane@delphi.com.
• Loren Coleman has devoted his life to pursuing cryptozoological wonders, which made his contribution to The Anomalist:2 ("Was the First Bigfoot a Hoax?") particularly difficult to write. "To be credible, however," he says, "we must search for these mysteries scientifically, critically and honestly." Coleman is a Research Associate at the Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. His most recent book is Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti (Faber & Faber).
• William Corliss may be the foremost anomalist of our time. A former physicist in industry, Corliss has devoted the past two decades to scouring the scientific and semiscientific literature for anomalies of all kinds. This work, which he calls the Sourcebook Project (P.O. Box 107, Glen Arm, MD 21057), has thus far led to the publication of 30 volumes on the "unclassified residuum" of science.
• Hilary Evans lives in Blackheath, London, where, with wife Mary, he operates the Mary Evans Picture Library. He is a prolific writer on subjects psychical and paranormal, having produced, among other works over the years, Intrusions; Gods, Spirits, Cosmic Guardians; Visions, Apparitions, Alien Visitors and Alternate States of Consciousness. The Mary Evans Picture Library (59 Tranquil Vale, London, SE3 OBS, England, Tel: 181-318-0034, Fax: 181-852-7211) specializes in the visual documentation of the past and has graciously supplied much of the art appearing in The Anomalist.
• Michael Grosso, Ph.D. Columbia University, is an artist, philosopher, and psychic explorer, whose work is about mapping the multiple ways to liberate human potential. He has been on the faculties of City University of New York, Kennedy University, Marymount Manhattan college, and Jersey City State College. He is the author of The Final Choice, Soulmaker, Frontiers of the Soul, and the recent Millennium Myth. He is currently at work on a monograph on life after death for the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
• San Antonio artist Jim Harter creates his striking collages from a personal collection of more than 10,000 images culled from late 19th and early 20th century wood engravings. He has produced a dozen books for publishers like Dover, Harmony and Bonanza Books. Three CD-ROM collections of clip art are now available from the Jim Harter Archives: Assorted Images, Vol. 1, Images of Women, Vol. 1, and Images of Men, Vol. 1.
• Donna Higbee is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist working with people who feel they have had non-human abduction experiences. She is also interested in receiving further accounts of, and feedback about, th e issue of spontaneous involuntary invisibility. She can be contacted in writing at PO Box 6404, Santa Barbara, California, 93160, or by email at Goodhigbee@aol.com.
• Ted Holden is a computer consultant involved in artificial intelligence applications in the Washington, D.C. area. He counts among his hobbies staying abreast of the ongoing controversy regarding a catastrophic explanation of recent solar system history. (Check out his WWW page on Catastrophism.) An earlier version of his story, "Dinosaurs: A Problem of Gravity," appeared in The Velikovskian, edited by Charles Ginenthal, 65-35 108th Street, Suite D15, Forrest Hills, NY 11375.

• Peter Jordan is a parapsychologist who has spent twenty years tracking the unexplained. He is a Field Investigator for the Psychical Research Foundation in Durham, North Carolina and a Research Specialist in Psychology for the Mutual UFO Network in Seguin, Texas. Jordan is a professional stand-up comic and lives with his wife and four psychokinetic cats in Clark, New Jersey.
• Martin Kottmeyer is a chicken farmer and "fringe" scholar in Carlyle, Illinois. His works have appeared in Magonia, Archaeus, and numerous other publications. "The First Extraordinary Claim" in The Anomalist:1 is an excerpt from an unpublished book manuscript entitled A Most Perfectly Scientific Defense of the Flat Earth Concept. His article on "UFO Flaps" in The Anomalist:3 is the co-winner of the Dr. Alexamder Imich Prize Contest No. 5 "for papers contributing to the understanding of the interaction between the UFO phenomena and humankind." This contest was sponsored by the Society for Enlightenment and Transformation of the United Nations.

• Gary S. Mangiacopra, who admits to having been a "fortean groupie" since his early teens, has since become an active cryptozoological researcher and writer on the topic of as-yet-uncaught animals. He holds a master degree in biology from Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. He is currently working on two book manuscripts dealing with unknown aquatic animals; one on sea-serpents of the world's seas, the other on their counterparts in the freshwater lakes of North America.

• David Ritchey, Ph.D. is a reseracher, consultant and therapist specializing in alternative states of consciousness and psychological sensitivity. He lives in rural Vermont, refuses to keep a fax machine in the house, but admits he is considering the purchase of a modem.

• Paul Rydeen works as an engineer when he's not chasing flying saucers. He is a contributing editor to Crash Collusion magazine, and has published widely on various aspects of anomalous phenomena, conspiracies, and the arcane. He is currently editing an anthology of essays and fiction exploring the metaphysical aspects of late science fiction author Philip K. Dick's mystical contactee experiences. A Minnesota native, he currently lives with his family in the cultural eddies of the deep south. A different version of this article first appeared in Strange Magazine, PO Box, 2246, Rockville, MD 20847.

• Rupert Sheldrake is a London-based biochemist best known for his radical theory of morphic resonance, which he presented in A New Science of Life, published in 1981. The controversy that ensued over this hypothesized web of memory that links generations of creatures everywhere and allows the experience of each to benefit all has been further explored in his The Presence of the Past (1988), The Rebirth of Nature (1990) and in Seven Experiments that Could Change the World (1995).

• John Shonder is a writer, translator, and mechanical engineer who does consulting work on energy and environmental issues in developing countries. a native of Chicago, he now divides his time between Oak Ridge, Tennessee and Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is currently writing a novel based on his experiences in Central America. A shorter version of "Organ Theft Rumors in Guatemela" originally appeared in the October 1994 issue of FOAFTale News, the newsletter of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. For information on the society write: Paul Smith, Department of Folklore, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5S7. Shonder's email address is padrote@delphi.com.
• Doug Skinner has published articles in Cover, Weirdo, Nickolodean Magazine and The INFO Journal. He's lectured on Shaver before the Curt Marcus Gallery, NY, the Archaeus Society, the International Fortean Organization, and the NY Fortean Society. Other exploits include portraying the "toilet citizen" in Crocodile Dundee II, writing the music for the Broadway show The Regard of Flight, and performing a ventriloquism routine about UFO abductions on a Showtime Martin Mull Special.
• Dwight G. Smith received his Ph.D. in Zoology from Brigham Young University in 1971 and has been teaching at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven since 1970. He has published 300 scientific papers and ten books, mostly in predator-prey ecology, community ecology, and endangered species. Smith has conducted research in Siberaia, South Africa, Namibia, South America, and throughout most of the United States including Alaska. With Gary Mangiocopra, Smith maintains an interest in unusual zoological phenomena.
• Dennis Stillings graduated from the University of Minnesota in Philosophy and Mathematics. From 1975 until 1980, before forming the Archaeus Project, Stillings directed the Bakken Library of Electricity in Life, located in St. Paul. Archeaus now devotes its entire resources to the development of a "healing island destination" on the Big Island of Hawai'i, which will feature a hospital and other institutions dedicated to integrating mainstream allopathic medicine with alternative therapies.
• Ingo Swann is world-renowned artist and the psychic who helped pioneer the experimental design for "remote viewing" research at Stanford Research Institute and the American Society for Psychical Research. He is also the author of Star Fire, Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP, and Your Nostradamus Factor.
• Tom Van Flandern is an astronomer and the author of Dark Matter, Missing Planets & New Comets, published by North Atlantic Books in 1993. Van Flandern has directed the Celestial Mechanics Branch of the Nautical Almanac Office of the U.S. Naval Observatory and has been a consultant to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His commentary, "Betting on the 'Mars Face,'" in The Anomalist:2 was adapted from a talk he presented in Cody, Wyoming and published in the September 15, 1994 issue of his newsletter, the Meta Research Bulletin, P.O. Box 15186, Chevy Chase, MD 20825.

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