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
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
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
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
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
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
