Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Miscellaneous Mysteries – Tubal Cain and the OOPARTs

Miscellaneous Mysteries: Tubal Cain and the OOPARTs There is a class of ancient artifacts such as iron nails found in solid rock, a delicate gold chain found in a lump of coal in the 1890s, or an ornate bell-shaped vessel inlaid with silver blasted from rock in a Massachusetts that are called Out Of Place … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Miscellaneous Mysteries – Out of Place Artifacts (OOPARTS)

Miscellaneous Mysteries: Out of Place Artifacts (OOPARTS) I am always surprised when what I write, which I believe to be clear and unmistakable is misunderstood. For example, I was not suggesting that the Masons were running around the world planting OOPARTs (see the following article) but that they might have planted this particular article, or … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: In Search of… Anastasia – Part 3

Miscellaneous Mysteries: In Search of… Anastasia – Part 3 YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Nov. 25) — On the outskirts of this burly industrial center, off a road like any other, on a nowhere scrap of land — here unfolded the final act of one of the last century’s most momentous events. A short way through a clearing, … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Miscellaneous Mysteries: In Search of… Anastasia Part 2

Miscellaneous Mysteries: In Search of… Anastasia Part 2 Back when I began this blog, I had in mind that I would explore those things that interested me, especially in the realm of the unusual and the paranormal. I have, in the past, talked about global warming on Mars (and, apparently on Pluto), how many planets … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Miscellaneous Mysteries: The Assassins

Miscellaneous Mysteries: The Assassins The assassins first took the bodies to a mineshaft and tossed them in. Later they were recovered, some were burned and others covered with acid. Eventually they were buried in a forest, the location hidden by the Soviet government. There were rumors that one of the Czar’s children survived. In fact, … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Miscellaneous Mysteries: In Search Of… Answers

Miscellaneous Mysteries: In Search Of… Answers Not all that long ago the History Channel repeated a number of the old “In Search Of” episodes. These were interesting, not so much for the content, but because some of them were so out of date. Answers to questions that were once puzzling and mysterious have been found … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Miscellaneous Mysteries – The Allende Letters

Miscellaneous Mysteries: The Allende Letters I had been going to do a brief overview of the Allende Letters episode and move on and while this is still brief, it is more detailed than I planned. For those interested, more information can be had about the case, and I had no trouble finding the Fatemagazine article … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Miscellaneous Mysteries – Alien Bases, Area 51 and UFOs

Miscellaneous Mysteries: Alien Bases, Area 51 and UFOs While I was at the Illinois MUFON Symposium at the end of May, I was asked, a couple of times about underground alien bases and what, exactly, is at Area 51. I gave the same answers there that I have given for more than a decade, or … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Disappearing Aircraft Part 3 – Kinross

Disappearances: Disappearing Aircraft Part 3 – Kinross When I had the chance, back in 1976, to look at the then recently declassified Project Blue Book files, one of the first cases I asked to see was that on the disappearance of an F-89 over Lake Superior on November 23, 1953. This was the story of … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Disappearing Aircraft – Part 2 – The 440th C-119

Disappearances: Disappearing Aircraft – Part 2 – The 440th C-119 The Bermuda Triangle is a place out in the Atlantic that supposedly swallows ships and aircraft with frightening regularity. These aircraft, according to legend, are often in radio contact with some kind of flight following agency, or in sight of land or airfields, and are … Read more