Beyond Belief
Covid eZine retrospective
Paul Fillingham and Adrian Reynolds
Something shifted during Covid. The usual distractions stopped working - no sport, no commuting, no office small talk and camaraderie. And in the silence, the stranger frequencies became easier to hear. Governments reached for wartime metaphors while dismantling the freedom those wars were fought to secure. And then, right on cue, the UFOs arrived, this time, dressed up in a new acronym UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena), just to make everything seem a little less familiar. The cigars and saucers of yesteryear banished in favour of ticktacs, orbs and ball lightning.
ThinkCREATE was a collaborative eZine, written during lockdown. Sitting at the intersection of paranoia and solitude - the point where state distraction meets genuine strangeness.
It's 2026, and we're riding a fresh wave of officially sanctioned UAP intelligence releases. Everything has a familiar smell about it, and it doesn't smell too good. Things always start to smell a bit off when something else needs burying.
These are not conspiracy theories. They are questions about who decides what is real, and when. So enjoy this little retospective, because the articles are a little clue about how we started thinking about a new digital storytelling collaboration we are calling Seaside Sci-Fi.