Jenny Randles

"Oz Factor" redirects here. For Unwritten Law's 1996 album, see Oz Factor (album).
Jenny Randles
Born October 30, 1951
Occupation Author

Jenny Randles 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.[1]

Career

Randles specializes in writing books on UFOs and paranormal phenomena. To date 50 of these have been published, ranging from her first UFOs: A British Viewpoint (1979) to Breaking the Time Barrier: The race to build the first time machine (2005). Subjects covered include crop circles, ESP, life after death, time anomalies and spontaneous human combustion.

According to her publishers, Simon & Schuster, Randles studied physics and geology at university, has written articles for New Scientist, and has sold more than 1.5 million copies of her fifty published books.[2] It was stated in 1997 that her books had been published in 24 countries.[3][4]

The same source states that she was the story consultant to the ITV TV series Strange But True? that ran between 1993 and 1997, and that she has also done documentary work for the BBC.[3]

Randles is a regular contributor to the magazines Fortean Times and The Skeptic and has spoken at the UnConvention.

She was editor of Northern UFO News (a 12-20 page A5 journal detailing UFO activity within Northern England) from 1974 up to 2001.

Oz Factor

"Oz Factor" is a term invented by Randles in 1983 to describe the strange, seemingly altered state of consciousness commonly claimed by some witnesses of unidentified flying objects and other similar paranormal events.[5] Randles has noted the strange calmness and lack of panic described by the witnesses, relative to the bizarre circumstances that they described and says that they described and defined the Oz factor as "the sensation of being isolated, or transported from the real world into a different environmental framework...where reality is but slightly different, [as in] the fairy tale land of Oz." [6] She has further noted that "[t]he Oz factor certainly points to consciousness as the focal point of the UFO encounter."

Written works

Among Randles' numerous published books are the following:

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "UFO EVIDENCE: UFO Researchers & People- Jenny Randles". Retrieved 5 February 2008.
  2. ↑ "Jenny Randles". Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 From the dustjacket blurb of Jenny Randles' book Alien Contact: The First Fifty Years, published by Collins & Brown (1997).
  4. ↑ "Mysterious object filmed in 1964 in Oz outback not UFO, says Brit govt". Sify News. 2010-08-05. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  5. ↑ Spencer, Lawrence R. (1999). The Oz factors : "The Wizard of Oz" as an analogy to the mysteries of life. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-58500-729-5.
  6. ↑ Oz Factor

References

Fortean Times on Jenny Randles.

External links