avidly Bob Warth, then director of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, wrote John a letter, including some clippings on bears and on the unusual behavior of an Orbiting Space Observatory. I’m not sure why John was interested in bears at the time; he might have been working on something about out-of-place animals.
In 1991, Bob Rickard invited John to write a regular column for Fortean Times. The magazine had just joined with a new publisher, and was looking for more material. Unfortunately, John didn’t take him up on it. Here’s Bob Rickard’s letter, as well as the “general notice” he mentioned, showing the venerable Fortean journal mutating into a more professional periodical.
