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Stephen Hawking: Another Frickin’ Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in UFOs!
Stephen Hawking thinks that the universe made itself from nothing and that there are no intelligent civilizations within several hundred light years of our own. In short, Hawking basically shoots down, in ten minutes, two recent speculative obsessions of this … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, aliens, atheism, atheist, civilization, God, milky way, philosophy, physics, science, Stephen Hawking, UFOs
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The Morristown UFO Sightings (2009)
Something creepy in the sky akin to what people saw in the 1997 Phoenix Lights incident: The UFOs did not appear on local radar and a pilot who witnessed them insisted that they were not aircraft: But, alas, it was … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, aliens, atheist, hoaxes, reason, science, skeptic, skeptic magazine, ufo hoax, UFO sightings, UFOs, weird things
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Iron Mountain
I didn’t know about this place. Interesting.
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Tagged aliens, hiding place, iron mountain, secrecy, top secret, UFOs
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Hanger 18: 1950s Military Clerk-Typist, June Crane, Claims That There Were Alien Bodies Stored at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
And June Crane says she had a high level clearance for her job. At the age of 72, she decided to break her silence. Her testimony, from a History Channel UFO Files segment, starts at 2:20 in this clip: . What are … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, claims, eyewitness testimony, Halloween, hanger 18, june crane, psychology, scary, UFOs, weird things
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Did NASA Mission STS-48 Videotape a UFO Dodging Our Star Wars Defense System?
A researcher into UFOs that I respect (Richard Dolan) thinks that there might be something to this curious 1991 UFO incident video recorded by Space Shuttle Mission STS-48: I suspect the two flashes that initiate the video sequence are the shuttle … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, earth, NASA, reason, richard dolan, Ronald Reagan, science, space, star wars, sts-48, UFOs
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Blogging UFOs: Schisms! And My Discovery of Jeremy Vaeni!
In my ongoing quest, the past few weeks, to discover what I think of UFOs and the UFO-believing community, I purchased a copy of UFO Magazine (Issue #150) at my local Barnes & Noble and found something that surprised me. There … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Christianity, cults, eschatology, exopolitics, fringe movements, jeremy vaeni, pop culture, ufo, ufo magazine, UFOs
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Blogging UFOs: What Do You Make of Professor Robert Jacobs’s Bizarre UFO Testimony?
This segment of the UFO documentary, Out of the Blue , features in its first half the UFO testimony of Professor Robert Jacobs. Jacobs, in the 1960s, was in the military and he recounts an amazing UFO event that changed his … Continue reading
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Tagged abductions, aliens, are we alone?, reason, robert jacobs, rockets, scary, science, spacecraft, UFO sightings, UFOs
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UFOs, Witchcraft, and Young Goodman Brown
I mean no disrespect of abductees or eyewitnesses who have had vivid and life-disrupting UFO encounters, and know things that a UFO nonexperiencer (like myself) does not, but as I’ve thought about UFOs in a serious fashion these past few weeks, … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, atheist, history, psychology, science, skeptic, social psychology, UFOs, witchcraft, witches, Young Goodman Brown
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The Famous Tether UFOs Explained
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Tagged aliens, Michael Shermer, reason, science, skeptic, tether ufos, UFOs
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Swamp Gas?
Well, no. But probably not alien spacecraft caught in passing either. What’s likely being imaged in these NASA photos are probably human-generated debris orbiting from previous space missions, but they certainly look otherworldly, don’t they? NASA has removed these pictures from its site. How … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, contact, extraterrestrials, figure ground, grays, NASA, photographic evidence, space, UFO sightings, UFOs, we are not alone
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Thinking about UFO Abductees with Harvard Psychologist John Mack
This is a segment from a documentary on Harvard pychologist John Mack and some of the UFO abductees that he has interviewed and worked with. I thought that this segment was especially interesting and informative: Hat tip: Atrueoriginall
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Tagged abduction, aliens, demons, grays, psychology, skeptic, space, ufo abductees, ufo abduction, UFO sightings, UFOs
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Blogging UFOs: Alien Invasion and the Asian Giant Hornet?
If UFOs with aliens in them are really starting to visit our planet in greater earnest (as UFO believers claim, most notably Temple University professor, David Jacobs), and if those aliens do not, in fact, have warm and cuddly intentions toward us (as … Continue reading
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Tagged abductions, agnostic, alien abductions, aliens, atheist, bees, jerry coyne, psychology, science, science fiction, UFOs, wasps
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Blogging UFOs: Are UFO Memories Even Reliable?
In recent posts I know I’ve been raining on the UFO believers’ parade, and I’m trying to keep an open mind about what I’ve discovered after a few weeks of looking into the UFO phenomenon, but the fact that eyewitness testimony … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, memory, New Age, occult, paranormal, philosophy, psychology, religion, ufo, UFO sightings, UFOs
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Blogging UFOs: Aliens, Bigfoot, and Epistemic Justification
What happens when UFO eyewitness testimony contradicts expert scientific testimony? What do you do? Well, if you’re a reasonable person, it would seem that wherever eyewitness testimony and expert scientific testimony are at odds, you’ve got to considerably lower your … Continue reading
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Tagged bigfoot, bigfoot community, epistemology, paradigm shift, paradigms, philosophy, psychology, reason, skepticism, ufo community, UFOs
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Blogging UFOs: A Fresh Baked Alien Cookie
This afternoon it occurred to me that aliens, being a source of sexual and nightmare anxiety for a lot of people, might lead them to make images of aliens into food. You can’t be too scared of something that you can fashion … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, atheist, baking, cookies, grays, occult, psychology, religion, Satan, the devil, UFOs, witches
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Blogging UFOs: What’s the Evangelical Christian Take on Extraterrestrial Visitations?
In the early 1990s, an Evangelical filmmaker produced a pretty good documentary on UFOs. Below is part 1 of 8 from YouTube. As a teenager, I actually saw the first person interviewed (Dave Hunt) at my church a couple of times. Hunt was … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Christianity, dave hunt, jacques vallee, Jesus, jesus and ufos, occult, paranormal, religion, skepticism, UFOs
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The UFO Hypothesis: Strong v. Weak Versions, and the Skeptic’s Retort
In researching UFOs over the past several weeks, and trying to decide what I think about the claims surrounding them, I’ve noticed that there are strong and weak versions of the UFO hypothesis. In general, people who believe in the strong … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, aliens, apologetics, atheist, hypotheses, hypothesis testing, psychology, religion, skeptic, social psychology, UFOs
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Blogging UFOs: The UFO Hypothesis (and Tom Cruise) on Trial
These past few weeks, as I’ve thought about UFOs as a phenomenon, I’ve found myself confused, going back and forth between the value of testimony v. the value of expert scientific opinion, and then it occurred to me: Juries frequently encounter the exact same dilemma. In … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, ETs, law, logic, Out of the Blue, reason, science, skepticism, tom cruise, ufo, UFOs
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