The Exposing Pseudoastronomy podcast devoted a recent episode to this long held myth. It's a classic mis-reading of the Bible, which never actually makes the claim, though church authorities of all stripes assumed it (assisted by "creatively" reading into the text)...
Conspiracy Theories
Nephilim and Bigfoot: Can We Stop the Madness?
I wasn't sure where to post this piece of wackiness - here or at Paleobabble. This audience won (or lost) since the subject matter is so often associated with UFOs. Something interesting popped in my blog reader this week from the Cryptomundo blog - a post by Craig...
Why Conspiracy Thinking Can Be So Incoherent
You just HAVE to watch the video below (7:00). It's clear and to the point, and you'll no doubt have a laugh or two - a video on how Luke Skywalker's destruction of the Death Star was *really* an inside job. It's very well done and has almost two million views on...
Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure
The indefatigable Stephen Bassett has come up with a new, creative idea to keep nudging American officialdom to disclosing its UFO secrets: a citizen hearing at the National Press Club, at which four former federal lawmakers will hear an anticipated 30 hours of UFO-...
Hippies Waiting for Alien Ark for 2012 Rescue
I think I've seen this in a movie. Camper loads of happily deluded new-age pilgrim-hippies (pippies sounds like a good term to coin here) have descended upon the Pyrenean village of Bugarach, where a mountain overshadowing the tiny hamlet has been labeled the landing...
Islamic Temple Mount Conspiracy?
Read about it here (the details of secret, off-limits digging are real; the motivation or object is the question). My guess is "no." It wouldn't matter with respect to attempts to erase the Jewish altar remnants if Leen Ritmeyer is right (see the link at the bottom...
Are There Nazi Occult Symbols and a Swastika Carved into the Ground Due East of Roswell, NM?
Someone sent me the picture below (actually, this is a better one, taken from Google Earth - I got the original in Google maps - put in the coordinates yourself and have a look: 33.206278, -103.584820). Certain bloggers have duly claimed that the image is the result...
The Sad Demise of MUFON
If you have a sustained interest in the subject of UFOs and their investigation, you've heard of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network). This at-one-time important grass roots network has been steadily sliding toward irrelevance (see here and here for past issues). Events of more...
NASA’s “Non-Terrestrial Officers”
Many readers will know the name Gary McKinnon, the "Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the 'biggest military computer hack of all time'" (Wikipedia). This link leads to an interview with McKinnon in which he describes an...
Kevin Randle on the Decline and Fall of Ufology and the SOM 1-01 Manual Fraud
An interesting essay on the famous Kingman, Arizona, crash, the MJ-12 SOM 1-01 manual.
Alien Bases on the Moon? Nope.
I've been getting emails about these "structures" on the moon. As you can see, the image is courtesy of NASA and Google Earth software. It comes from the second link noted below. Sorry, folks, these are not artificial structures. There is no alien moon base. This...
I Was Right About that CA Crop Circle
A few days ago I said the CA crop circle looked to me like a computer chip or motherboard. I suggested that it was part of some marketing campaign for a new chip or some other electronics toy. That suspicion turned out to be dead on. From the article (and the...
California Crop Circle
I'm sure by now everyone who frequents this blog has heard about the California crop circle. Naturally, it's generating talk of aliens. It looks like a computer chip. My guess is that it's a clever promotion for some new chip or motherboard for some new tech device -...
Is MUFON a Sham? Must it Be?
These are two fundamental questions that arise as one reads the recent two-part series by Jack Brewer of The UFO Trail entitled, "MUFON, Science, and Deception." Jack describes the goal of these pieces as "a two-part post exploring recent MUFON history and...
Mike at AREA-51
A couple days ago I paid a visit to AREA-51 (for real . . . at least as far as they let you go). It was fun (and of course there was a research benefit). Along the way my wife took a picture at the Extraterrestrial Highway sign that pilgrims encounter along the way....