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 These were interesting, not so much for the content, but because some of them were so out of date.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

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Disappearing Aircraft – Part 1 – Stardust

Disappearances: Disappearing Aircraft – Part 1 – Stardust There is, in UFO history, a number of reports of aircraft disappearing into the mists of time. In 1947 the Stardust, a passenger plane on its way to Santiago, Chile disappeared allegedly in sight of the airfield. The search, conducted over the next week found no sign … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: The Disappearance of Oliver Lerch

Disappearances: The Disappearance of Oliver Lerch I first became aware of the story of Oliver Lerch as I was studying the strange case of the Allende Letters. These documents, or letters, including an annotated copy of Morris K. Jessup’s The Case for the UFO, arrived at the Office of Naval Research in the mid-1950s. The … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Anthropomorphic Dummies

The Mogul Perspective: Anthropomorphic Dummies Since Tony opened the door again, let’s run through it. We have the Air Force’s second final report on Roswell cleverly titled Roswell — Case Closed which suggests those reporting bodies were fooled by anthropomorphic dummies (seen here in the center) dropped as tests some ten years later. When first … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Mogul and OPSEC

The Mogul Perspective: Mogul and OPSEC You have to love the skeptics. No matter what evidence surfaces, they’ll find a way to spin it to their advantage. As many of you know, I have been suggesting for quite a while that the Project Mogul answer doesn’t work to explain the Roswell UFO crash because it … Read more

Roswell, UFOs and the Unusual: Another Dust Up

The Mogul Perspective: Another Dust Up Well, it’s happened again and I find myself in the middle of a controversy that I seemed to have started but didn’t mean too… well, not completely. I did send out the original question, but I thought the tone of my missive was reasoned and restrained but some of … Read more