OMNI MAGAZINE ARTICLE
UFO UPDATE
Published in February 1987 issue of Omni Magazine
 
About Jim Frazier, author and his brother Kendrick Frazier, Editor of Skeptical Inquirer
 
My Brother the Debunker

by Jerome Clarke
 
One is the editor of a renowned magazine devoted to debunking UFOs, psychics,
and astrology.   The other believes that a superior intelligence  will
transform the human race.  What's more, they're brothers.  Kendrick Frazier,
44, and  James Frazier, 39, admit  they have "lively  disagreements" whenever
they get together for reunions at the  family home in Greeley, Colorado.  Ken
edits THE SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, a quarterly magazine published by the Committee
for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the
scourge of the "new nonsense," including  the beliefs of brother James.  [SEE
"CENSORING THE  PARANORMAL," CONTINUUM #1.] But  Jim, who works as
 editor of the  local  GREELEY NEWS,  insists  that  his  beliefs  are neither  new  nor
nonsense. "Our benefactors have been here as long as we have," he declares,
"initiating the  likes of Gilgamesh  and Socrates  into the mysteries  of the
cosmos."
 
To Ken, this  sort  of statement  represents  a threat  to  the progress  of
science.  In  the mid-70s,  as editor  of the  respected publication  SCIENCE
NEWS, he grew  alarmed  when readers  wrote  in asking  for  stories on  the
paranormal.  Not long afterward he began to correspond with longtime debunker
Martin  Gardner.   Their idea:  the formation  of  a  skeptical,  scientific
organization "to correct public misunderstanding."  2 years later, CSICOP was
born.
 
Jim's odyssey began in the mid-70s as well.  On May 17, 1976, around 3:30 AM,
he says, he  was awakened from sleep  by the voice of  Beelzebub booming from
his clock radio.  Apparently, Beezlebub was speaking through radio show host
Brian Scott, who said he'd been abducted by giant thick-skinned, long-eared
aliens back  in 1971.  Ever since, Scott claimed, disembodied ETs  had been
borrowing his vocal cords to express ideas of their own.  Jim, a psychologist
and would-be film producer, listened till  dawn, utterly fascinated.  6 weeks
later  he introduced  himself to  Scott, and  several months  after that,  in
December 1976, he accompanied  his new friend  on a visit  to Inca  ruins at
Tiahuanaco, Bolivia.  There, Jim Frazier says, he saw Scott become possessed
by a  mysterious being "with the  presence of a  king." In fact, he was more
than  a king  --  he was  Ticci  Viracocha,  the god  who  brought the  Incas
civilization from on high.
 
According to Jim, Brian Scott  is just  one of  many humans  who have  been
visited by  alien forms.   But, he  says,  "Scott  alone has  survived  the
experience with  all his faculties  intact.  If we only listened to him, he
would help us create a new world, a  new philosophy, new forms of language, a
new relationship  between man  and the  unknown." One thing's for sure: The
relationship between Jim Frazier and Brian Scott continues to this day.  Jim
now  owns  the rights  to  Scott's  life story  and  has  even written  a  TV
miniseries about his friend.
 
Ken Frazier is reluctant to discuss his brother's unusual beliefs outside the
immediate family.   But, he states, "it's possible for people to have vivid
personal experiences  from which belief systems  stem.  I don't question the
seeming realness of these experiences."
 
 
 
After this article was published in 1987, Jim protested some distortions in his quotes, 
and Jerome Clarke provided documentation which showed his submitted quotes 
were changed by the editors of OMNI. Jim had suggested that the projects
of Brian Scott and other UFO contactees be checked out and analyzed by scientists. 
The changed quotes imply that Jim indicated we should follow Scott alone, like a cult leader. 
Brian and Jim carefully avoided cultism in everyway.  Jerome Clark supported Jim’s protest 
to Omni editors, but no retractions were printed.
 
On February 7, 1980, seven years before this article appeared, Scott and Frazier 
were commended at the White House by President Jimmy Carter for bringing 
the President the “Voice of Common Man.”  Documents related to the story were placed
 into the National Archives for Carter’s Presidential Library.  
Later in 1980, the NOR x1-11 was placed into an Easter Seal Society center for use 
with deaf and aphasic kids. About two years later, the psycho-biology lab 
at California State University in Fullerton received the NOR for testing.  
The NOR stayed at Cal State Fullerton for over a decade.Numerous studies were published
 in professional journals using the NOR.
 
The book, Transformation of a Common Man, was not published until 2002.