Tyler Miller The Skeptical Perspective: Bad Astronomy and UFOs Part 2 Phil Plait (seen here) of Bad Astronomy fame strikes again. This time, rather than making a pronouncement that is not backed up by facts, he raises a couple points that are worth examining because I am nothing if not reasonable. He wrote, “What do I count … Read more
The Skeptical Perspective: Bad Astronomy and UFOs Here’s something that I find incredibly amusing. An expert in one subject being asked an opinion in an related subject and then answering the question with misinformation. You would think that a scientist would want to know the facts before he made a claim that is so easily … Read more
Miscellaneous Mysteries: V-2s and the Biological Samples The Roswell UFO crash story has seemed to have spawned another fake document. This one, supposed to have come from the CIA, comes to me via England, which always raises my suspicions. Why would a classified, American document find its way to British hands first? But even if … Read more
Miscellaneous Mysteries: The Airship Solution Since I have been accused of staying in the past when the solution for the UFO phenomenon rests in the present, I thought I’d point out that sometimes the past leads the way to the future. Back in 1896 and 1897 there was a wave of “UFO” sightings throughout this … Read more
Miscellaneous Mysteries: The Hippler Letter It seems that more often than not, as I put together the material for this blog, that it is negative. I have explanations for UFO sightings and I have information about aspects of the phenomenon that is more explanatory than mysterious. I believe that most people want information that advances … Read more
Miscellaneous Mysteries: The Best UFO Headline Ever I’m not sure why I haven’t posted this before. It is the best UFO headline ever. It is something right out of a science fiction movie. It refers, of course, to the sightings that took place in July 1952 over Washington, D.C. The Air Force eventually claimed that … Read more
Miscellaneous Mysteries: SETI and Nez I’m not a big fan of SETI but only because it seems to have made some early assumptions in its search for extraterrestrial intelligence that might be too human in nature. That is, originally, they were looking for radio signals at what the called the water hole or the most … Read more
Miscellaneous Mysteries: Saucer Smear, Jim Moseley and Me Jim Moseley of Saucer Smear (the second oldest continuously published UFO “zine” if you count its various incarnations, banner seen here)) and I have been in a bit of a dust-up about Jesse Marcel, Sr. and the champion of the Mogul theory, Charles Moore. The latest started … Read more
Miscellaneous Mysteries: Project Blue Book and NARA Back in the olden days, while I was still in college and a member of Air Force ROTC, I learned that the Project Blue Book files were available for study and review at the Air Force Archives at the what was then called Maxwell Air Force Base. The … Read more
Miscellaneous Mysteries: The Fermi Paradox A recent post I read suggested the writer did not accept the reality of UFOs because no one had come up with a good explanation for the Fermi Paradox. This was the idea that if there was other intelligent life in the galaxy it would already be here. I am … Read more
