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Jenny Randles | |
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| Born | Stacksteads, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
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Jenny Randles (born circa 1951) is a British author and former director of investigations with the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), serving in that role from 1982 through to 1994. She has authored several books about UFOs and other paranormal phenomena.
Randles was born in Stacksteads, Lancashire, in England, [1] circa 1951. [2] She studied physics at university. She worked as a teacher in Cheshire, but quit to study UFOs. [3] She was the former director of investigations with the British UFO Research Association (BUFORA), serving in that role from 1982 through to 1994. [3] [4] [1] Randles is a columnist for the magazine Fortean Times . [5] She is the editor of Northern UFO News. [6] Randles has written several books on UFOs [7] [8] and paranormal phenomena. [9] Subjects covered include crop circles, [10] [11] ESP, [12] and spontaneous human combustion. She was a proponent of the idea of spontaneous human combustion being an actual phenomenon, which is scientifically disputed. [13] [14] She coauthored a book on human combustion, Spontaneous Human Combustion, with Peter Hough, [15] as well books with him on afterlife phenomena, including Death by Supernatural Causes and The Afterlife. [16] [17]
Randles investigated the Rendlesham Forest UFO case and was one of the first to do so, coauthoring the book Sky Crash: A Cosmic Conspiracy shortly after it happened. [8] [18] She subsequently became skeptical of that case's veracity and that it had anything to due with aliens, but her earlier claims contributed to some of the conspiracy that grew around it. She later stated of Rendlesham that "While some puzzles remain, we can probably say that no unearthly craft were seen in Rendlesham Forest. We can also argue with confidence that the main focus of the events was a series of misperceptions of everyday things encountered in less than everyday circumstances". [8] [18]
Other books on UFOs she has authored include UFO Retrievals, [19] UFOs and How to See Them, [20] World's Best "True" UFO Stories, [21] and Science and the UFOs with amateur astronomer Peter Warrington. [7] [22] The latter book argues ufology has many failings and advocates for proper scientific investigation of them without sensationalism, but argues there is legitimacy behind some sightings. [7] [22] She argues claimed UFO abductions do not actually involve extraterrestrials, [23] [24] and rather that "under hypnosis witnesses relive a genuine trauma" reconfigured to UFO belief. She believes many UFO sightings are legitimate, and possibly are atmospheric phenomena. [7] [25] Between 1993 and 1997 she worked on the dramatized documentary series Strange but True? which featured many cases from around the world. [26] In a 1986 review of a book she coauthored with amateur astronomer Peter Warrington, Science and the UFOs, reviewer Philip Taylor described Randles as then being the "most well-known British 'UFOlogist'", [7] and Skeptical Inquirer described her as a "respected ufologist". [27]
She is a transgender woman, and transitioned in 1971. She was going to be outed in 1996 while working on a television production, so came out to her coworkers. She self-describes as a transsexual. [2] [28]
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