Perkins, David – writer / researcher
October 18, 1945 – August 20, 2023
- Fortean and Mutology Researcher David Perkins Dies – CryptoZooNews – By Loren Coleman
- Vale to Pioneers Lee Spiegel and David Perkins – The Daily Grail – By Red Pill Junkie
David Perkins and SMiles Lewis – “UFOs, Cattle Mutilations and the Gaian Mind”
Interview with Greg Bishop: Part-1 & Part-2 / Introduction to Stalking the Herd (by Christopher O’Brien) / Anomaly Archives Links [Photo below by Greg Bishop]
“David Perkins is founder and staff writer for Spirit Magazine. He has been an active paranormal researcher for the past twenty five years, investigating everything from cattle mutilations to underground alien bases. His special area of research is “Paranormal Phenomena and the Gaian Mind: Considering the Possibilities”.
David Perkins is a 1968 graduate of Yale University majoring in American Studies and Political Science. As a writer/journalist, he has investigated UFOs, cattle mutilations and paranormal phenomena since 1975. He has a published book Altered Steaks (Am Here Books) and is finishing Mute Testimony (co-authored with Tom Adams, which is a book examining the history of the cattle mutilation phenomenon. David’s article on cattle mutilations, “Darkening Skies”, was included in UFO 1947-1997 (John Brown Publishing), an anthology of the world’s leading authorities on UFOs.
Perkins, one of Ufology´s foremost thinkers, has written articles that have appeared in Boulder, Taos and High Times magazines, as well as numerous newspapers and research journals. He is the founder of Western Spirit magazine and currently serves as staff writer for that publication. He also wrote the forewords to Christopher O’Brien’s books The Mysterious Valley and Enter The Valley. David has been featured on the Art Bell Radio Show and appeared in numerous television and movie documentaries including, A Strange Harvest, Sightings, High Strange New Mexico, The Mutilation Files, Fox Family Channel´s Exploring the Unknown and The Billion Dollar Secret. His “Weirdness Update” is a regular feature in Western Spirit.”
- b SantaFeNewMexican.com, January 17, 2015
- Tangling With the Trickster: Myth, Magic and the UFO by David Perkins, Magonia 80, January 2003
Understanding UFOs and Other Paranormal Phenomena
David Perkins – Paranormal Phenomena and the Gaian Mind
UNDERSTANDING UFOS AND OTHER PARANORMAL PHENOMENON, with David Perkins.
Founder and staff writer for Spirit Magazine. He has been an active paranormal researcher for the past twenty five years, investigating everything from cattle mutilations to underground alien bases. His special area of research is “Paranormal Phenomena & the Gaian Mind: Considering the Possibilities.” David Perkins is a 1968 graduate of Yale University majoring in American Studies and Political Science. As a writer/journalist, he has investigated UFOs, cattle mutilations and paranormal phenomena since 1975. He has a published book Altered Steaks (Am Here Books) and is finishing Mute Testimony (co-authored with Tom Adams, which is a book examining the history of the cattle mutilation phenomenon. David’s article on cattle mutilations, “Darkening Skies,” was included in UFO 1947-1997 (John Brown Publishing), an anthology of the world’s leading authorities on UFOs. “Thinking Outside the Box” Are UFOs from outer space or inner space? In this presentation, author/researcher David Perkins will explore the “extreme possibilities” implied by the UFO phenomenon. Do they come from distant planets or is the answer closer to home? What role do UFOs, crop circles and animal mutilations play in our cultural and biological evolution? Perkins explores these questions and many more in his whirlwind tour of the greatest mysteries of our times. A 1968 Yale graduate, Perkins will share the highlights of his nearly 30 years of paranormal research. Don’t miss this thought-provoking and unique lecture.
Files:
- b SantaFeNewMexican.com, January 17, 2015 (local copy)
- Tangling With the Trickster: Myth, Magic and the UFO by David Perkins, Magonia 80, January 2003 (photocopy from personal correspondence) (local copy)
- Weirdness Update: Dead Cows He Has Known by David Perkins, Spirit Magazine, Fall 1999 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
- The Trouble With Cows by David Perkins, Spirit Magazine, Fall 1999 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
- Weirdness Update: Media Frenzy by David Perkins, Spirit Magazine, Vol. 11, #3, 1998 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
- Edward Abbey Throws a Monkey Wrench by David Perkins, Illustrations by R. Crumb, Spirit Magazine, Vol. 11, #2, 1998 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
- “High Heat…” Weirdness Update by David Perkins, Spirit Magazine, Vol. 11, #1, 1998 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
- In Search of the First Americans by David Perkins, Spirit Magazine, Vol. 10, #1, 1997 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
- Weirdness Update by David Perkins, Spirit Magazine, Vol. 10, #1, 1997 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
- Fortean Times Presents: UFO 1947-1997 Fifty Years of Flying Saucers – John Brown Publishing (London) 1997, Darkening Skies, 1979-1980: Of Dead Cows and Little Green Men by David Perkins, pages 139-148 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
- Heart of Weirdness by David Perkins, Spirit Magazine, Winter 1994/1995 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
- Weirdness Update: The Great Arizona UFO Invasion by David Perkins, Spirit Magazine, pages 34-36, 48, 49 (photocopy from personal correspondence)
See also:
- Alternate UFO Hypotheses
- Animal (Cattle) Mutilations