The Skeptical Perspective: When Debunking Goes Bad I know that I said I was done with responding to Kal Korff, and I know that when I watch Count down with Keith Oberman, I get tired of his rants about Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, but sometimes it’s just so much fun. Take the latest rant. … Read more
The Skeptical Perspective: Klass, Shandera and DuBose The debate over the events near Roswell, New Mexico of July 1947 have taken several subtle turns over the years. For those not familiar with them, arguments from the skeptical community can be convincing. The problem is that many of these arguments are often founded, not in research, … Read more
The Skeptical Perspective: Klass, Shandera and DuBose It should also be noted that DuBose hasn’t actually changed his testimony at all. The real confusion comes from his statement that the debris on the floor in Ramey’s office was not switched. We had suggested that the debris Marcel brought to Ramey’s office was switched with the … Read more
The Skeptical Perspective: I Understand Kent Jeffrey Back in the mid-1990s, airline pilot Kent Jeffrey developed an interest in the Roswell case. He believed, at that time, that something alien had fallen there and that the cover up of it should be broken. He believed that we all had the right to know what happened … Read more
The Skeptical Perspective: Phil Plait Strikes Again Well, I see that good old Phil Plait (seen here) of the Bad Astronomy web site has struck again. I’m not sure why, if he is so convinced there is nothing to UFO reports, he feels the compulsion to return to the subject so often, but he does. … Read more
The Skeptical Perspective: Amateur Astronomers, Bad Astronomy and UFOs Not all that long ago we had a couple of discussions about amateur astronomers and UFOs, meaning here, alien spacecraft. I had mentioned a couple of instances in which amateur astronomers had seen UFOs, in this case meaning something unidentified which, of course could also mean … Read more
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
