The journalist and screenwriter has hunted UFOs with Robbie Williams,hung out with secret US army battalions and played keyboards for Frank Sidebottom. He’ll be around to answer your questions on Monday 13 November at 1.30pm. 9.59am GMTIf you need a conspiracy theory investigated, a charismatic cult leader profiled or a shadowy cabal of experimental pseudo-scientists infiltrated, and Jon Ronson is your man. The mild-mannered journalist and broadcaster has been charming and disarming his way into secretive circles since the early 90s,authoring many books, magazine articles and radio shows on people and phenomena that might otherwise fly under the radar.
His adventures have taken him all over the world, and from North Pole,Alaska (where he investigated a foiled school shooting plot) to UFO-spotting in the Nevada Desert with Robbie Williams. His most illustrious book is 2004’s The Men Who Stare at Goats, approximately a secret US army battalion who tried to keep “unique age” ideas into practice and become rainbow-powered supersoldiers who could slay animals by looking at them. It was subsequently made into a film starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor as the Ronson-esque protagonist.
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Source: guardian.co.uk