Daily Archives: August 18, 2009

Blogging UFOs: Second Hand Testimony

In my ongoing attempt to get up to speed concerning UFOs, I’m discovering not just intriguing first hand testimony of flying saucers, but also interesting second hand testimony. How much weight should such second hand testimony be given? I don’t know, … Continue reading

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The Torture Debate, UFO Cults, and People Impervious to Changing Their Minds

Ryan Sager sees a connection: I have yet to see a single pundit or politician change his of her position on torture or “enhanced interrogation” based on anything that’s come out since the torture memos. Isn’t that odd? Well, not … Continue reading

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The Hell! I Missed This Too!

Somehow I’ve been totally oblivious to all sorts of interesting UFO information through the years. I never even paid attention when this Mexico sighting of UFOs (captured by Mexican pilots using infrared camaras) made the media rounds in 2004. This whole … Continue reading

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In Case You Missed It (Like I Did): UFO Over Chicago’s O’Hare Airport!

The promptness of my news reporting definitely sucks. I’m nearly three years late. But below, a Chicago Tribune reporter talks to a CLTV anchorman about an O’Hare Airport UFO sighting (which I believe occurred at the beginning of 2007). I completely missed … Continue reading

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Richard Dawkins: The B.F. Skinner of Our Time?

It occurred to me today that atheism has a lot in common with behaviorism. It will be recalled that B.F. Skinner, the 20th century champion of behaviorism, was a very stark reductionist, literally ignoring mind as an explanation for anything. He … Continue reading

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Apollo Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Says There’s a Monolith on Phobos!

I count at least three American astronauts who take UFOs seriously: Edgar Mitchell, Gordon Cooper, and Buzz Aldrin. On C-SPAN, for example, Buzz Aldrin recently made the bizarre claim that Mars’s satellite, Phobos, has a monolith on it. A monolith?! I … Continue reading

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Mental Health Break

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