A commenter on my site informed me of this recent news item of interest for UFO Religions: UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth The article is a serious one and not a parody. Here are the first two paragraphs along with the...
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The Science and Pseudo-Science of Extraterrestrial Communication
That's the gist of this interesting and informative episode of Exposing PseudoAstronomy. Here's the episode's abstract: Linguist, Dr. Karen Stollznow, discusses some of the communication problems on our own planet and how that translates to the huge potential...
Plot Elements from The Portent In the News Since It Was Published
On the cover of The Portent (as was the case with The Facade before it) tells readers that the content elements of the storyline are all real. Some folks might think that's just marketing. It isn't. Since the release of The Portent this past August, several content...
Elongated Skulls: Not a Mystery
I wish I had a dollar for every TV show, website, or ancient alien enthusiast email that touts the bogus idea that elongated skulls are proof of either aliens, nephilim, or both. It's utter nonsense. These enthusiasts regularly suggest and assume that mainstream...
First Generation Space Shuttle Looked like a Small Triangle / Cigar-Shaped UFO
No surprise here.
Ancient Astrology as a Common Root for Science and Pseudo-Science
That's the title of this essay from the Electronic Journal of Folklore. The essay is from vol. 15 (published in 2000). It's also available in PDF. It's a good overview of ancient astronomy / astrology and gets into familiar concepts and themes that will be familiar to...
Does Quantum Theory Need a Fundamental Correction?
For all of you who are interested in quantum mechanics, this article is fascinating and informative: "Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?" I know it doesn't specifically relate to UFO Religions (for my money, it's theology), but I...
Are UFOlogists Scientists?
That's the question Antonio Paris asked on the Aerial Phenomenon blog. Have a look - a nice graphic illustrating the difference between science and pseudoscience. Editor's note: added the image:
How Scientists Could Be Fooled Into Thinking They’ve Found Extraterrestrial Life
That's the title of an interesting and appropriately cautionary essay by George Dvorsky. He also wrote a piece entitled "14 Intriguing Ways We Could Detect Signs Of An Alien Civilization." Here's another article on how scientists could also draw the wrong conclusion:...
Boeing Acknowledges Anti-Gravity Project – Right out of The Facade
Nick Cook, long time writer for the prestigious Jane's Defense Weekly and author of the book, The Hunt for Zero Point, has written a worthwhile essay on aerospace giant Boeing's recent admission it is working on anti-gravity. The piece begins: Boeing, the world’s...
Quadrocopters as Mistaken UFOs
Stuart Robbins has an interesting post about how quadrocopters can (and have been) mistaken for UFOs. In case you're not familiar with quadrocopters, here are some YouTube videos:
Space Science: New Book on the Quest to Discover ET Life and the UFO Issue
This forthcoming book by Antonio Paris looks promising: Space Science: Challenges for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis of UFO Phenomenon. The link says that the book will "addresses what the UFO community conveniently fails to address." For what those failures are,...
Graham Hancock and Bad Archaeology
Professional archaeologist Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, the force behind the Bad Archaeology blog, recently posted a series of articles detailing the (poor) research techniques and (flawed) argumentation of Graham Hancock. Here are the links to the series: Hancock’s...
UFO Mis-Identification: Earthquake Lights
USA Today had a nice piece on earthquake lights, a rare but natural phenomenon commonly misidentified as UFOs. Check it out! (Image is from the article). "When a powerful seismic wave runs through the ground and hits a layer of such rocks, it compresses the rocks with...
Non Sequitur Thinking in Science – It’s a Problem There, Too.
Mostly in popular science, but not exclusively. I thought I'd post here on this because I tend to go after this issue most of the time over at PaleoBabble. But it's an issue here. The most exotic context for this is, of course, the "That technology is beyond what we...