Honestly, folks, this piece by Jack Brewer at the UFO Trail is one of the best things you'll ever read on this topic. Psy Ops and Mind Control: Then, Now and the UFO Community It's a telling history of how these odd subjects are inextricably related, complete with the...
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Majestic-12 Debunking by Prominent Ufologists: 30 Years’ Looking Back
Respected ufologist Robert Hastings has a nice summary of the research within the UFO community debunking the Majestic-12 documents and the conspiracy narrative that goes with them. It's an excellent set of links on what's wrong with the Majestic-12 documents. Readers...
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:
On Those Military Triangular Craft That Don’t Exist
Back in July of 2013 I posted some initial thoughts on David Marler's UFO book dedicated to the subject of triangular craft. I went after Col. John Alexander (who wrote the Foreword) a bit in that piece. Alexander rather condescendingly dismissed any human military...
President Clinton and UFOs
Billy Cox has a worthwhile piece on the recent brouhaha over President Bill Clinton's recent interview with Jimmy Kimmel. Billy does a nice job sifting fact from fiction as it pertains to President Clinton's inquiries into UFOs.
Alleged UFO Image from Brazil
A couple weeks ago I was sent a link to the image below. The sender wanted to know my thoughts. I sent the photo on to Antoine Cousyn, an imaging analyst who devotes considerable time to analyzing alleged UFO photographs. He is part of what I believe is a company...
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,...
What Do UFOs Have to do with Animal Planet?
After watching this past week's Animal Planet show, "Uncovering Aliens," I'm still without an answer -- other than ratings. At any rate, I watched to see my friend Derrel Sims. It was fun to see him on TV. But I confess I had to roll my eyes in several places. Two...
Theology, Politics, and Astrobiology
It’s been nearly two weeks since I attended the annual scholarly society meetings for scholars in my field of study and interest: the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), the Near East Archaeological Society (NEAS), the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR),...
The Famous Cash-Landrum UFO Incident: Detailing Its Lack of Credibility
Hat tip to Jack Brewer at the The UFO Trail for tweeting this one. Robert Sheaffer over at the Bad UFOs blog posted this lengthy overview and telling debunking of the famous Cash-Landrum UFO case. The incident became a classic case in part because it involved physical...
Contact in the Desert Conference: Conclave of the Bizarre
Rob Sheaffer over at the Bad UFO blog offers a whimsical (and in places, disturbing) description of the goings-on at the "alternative knowledge" conference held this past August at the Joshua Tree Retreat Center. Every UFO conference is a mixture of people (attendees...
The Spaceships of Ezekiel Fraud
I've blogged before (here and here) about how what the biblical prophet Ezekiel saw was not a UFO or flying saucer. From time to time I get email (or comments here) about how I'm wrong because of the "research" of Joseph Blumrich, a pseudo-scientist who blessed the...
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-...
Did the Nazis Have a UFO Base in the Antarctic?
Readers of The Facade know that one of the important sub-plotlines in the story concerns Nazi occult mythology and the idea that UFOs extend from human technology traceable to research done by German scientists during World War II. Part of the lore associated with...
Russell Crowe’s UFO Explained by Photo-Analyst
Below is a pretty sweet video explanation for the "UFO" Russell Crowe captured on his camera. Credit for bringing this to my attention goes to Jason Colavito, via Twitter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjlK7kjgphU