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:
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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...
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...
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-...
Alexander the Great and UFOs
Bet you never thought you'd see those two subjects in the same sentence! Welcome to the wacky world of ancient astronaut twaddle. A reader recently sent me a link to this essay on the Chronicon Mirabilium blog: "Did Alexander the Great Really See UFOs?" It's a good...
Another Air Force Roswell Explanation (If You Can Believe It)
I've lost track of how many times the USAF has explained what happened at Roswell. First there was the 1994-1995 War-and-Peace-like, 1000-page tome, "The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert." This was the report connecting the Roswell crash...
Addendum to My Previous Man-Made UFO Post
An alert reader (kudos to Keith) brought yet another alternative possibility to mind with respect to how a "shape shifting" UFO need not be alien technology. He cited the following from W. A. Harbinson's important book, Projekt Saucer: The fuselage of the experimental...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 9
Here is a link to my ongoing eschatology (end times) archive over on my other blog. I'm still showing how any view of end times is based on guesses and presuppositions. I should warn readers at this point, though. If you are married to the pre-trib / pre-mill view of...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 8
Readers will recall that we're looking at elements of Christian eschatology as preparatory to me getting into my concerns as to the marriage of one specific view of eschatology to the UFO / ET question on the part of Christians into UFOs and ETs. Here is the latest...
New Book on the Great Airship of 1897
The Magonia blog posted a review today of a new book on the great airship sightings of 1897: The Great Airship of 1897: A Provocative Look at the Most Mysterious Aviation Event in History. Amazon has the publication date as February 11, 2010, but I'm guessing you can...
Aliens, Abductions, and the Jinn
Nick Redfern recently posted this story about a possible connection between abductions and the Jinn, supernatural creatures known from the Quran. There are a number of things said about the Jinn in the Quran that fit abductee narratives. That said, the article Nick...
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...
Conservative Christian Ufology and Other Views: How Can a Joint Dialogue Be Advanced?
The comments to my post about stopping abductions through prayer has me asking myself where the dialogue goes from here (or, from Roswell 2008). It's not an easy question. I think there is a willingness on both sides to dialogue, but the issues (obstacles?) are...
Secret Defense Department Investigation into UFOs
Here's a pretty compelling UFO video -- from the cockpit of a Navy F/A 18 Super Hornet: As the captioning notes the UFO video comes to the public via the Department of Defense (DOD). I found it reading an article in the NY Times about the DOD's secret program to...