London Fortean Society

Tuesday 23 June 2020 7.30 pm BST (GMT+1)  This event will be held ONLINE. Please register online at the following link: Book now .  Join this event on Facebook .  Conway Hall is a charity who have lost almost all of their income. We politely ask for a donation when registering for this event. More than seventy years since Kenneth Arnold saw erratic objects “like a saucer if you skip it across the water”, UFOs have been making headlines once again. On December 17, 2017, the New York Times ran a front-page story about an approximately five-year Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The article hinted, and its sources clearly said in subsequent television interviews, that some of the ships in question couldn’t be linked to any country. The implication, of course, was that they might be linked to other solar systems. The UFO community—those who had been thinking about, seeing, and analysing supposed flying saucers (or tria...

Saturday 20 June 2020 1 pm BST (GMT+1)  This event will be held ONLINE. Please register online at the following link: Book now .  This event is in partnership with Conway Hall. Conway Hall is a charity and we politely ask you to add a donation when registering. This talk will be held online using the  Zoom  application (available for PC, Mac, iOS and Android). A link to join the talk will be sent to ticket holders on the day of the event. — Without writing, indigenous elders memorised a vast amount of factual information on which survival depended both physically and culturally: knowledge of thousands of animals and plants, astronomical charts, vast navigation networks, genealogies, geography and geology… the list goes on and on. How did they remember so much? And why does this explain the purpose of ancient monuments including Stonehenge, Easter Island and the Nasca Lines? Can we use these memory methods in contemporary life? After discovering that t...