Much of what underlies belief in space visitors is a dissatisfaction with the standard categories of material science and a desire to extract from it, along with the experiences had by many people, a spiritualist meaning that links us (both as individuals and as a species) to the wider cosmos. While many believers see things…… Continue reading The role of consciousness in the UFO and alien mythos

Heatmap shows succession of activity between four accounts operated by Moran Lerner, from July 2020 to July 2022. Moran Lerner, a UK man identified by the BBC in 2016 as the CEO of tech startup Chirp, has been deceiving a small Twitter community dedicated to discussing UFOs for the past two years. Using at least four…… Continue reading Moran Lerner’s UFO Twitter deception

Fantastical hypotheses often overshadow unexplained observations in the physical sciences, and the same is true in the modern UFO subject. Since the Royal Society established “take nobody’s word for it” as their motto in 1660 there have been countless breakthrough discoveries of rare and elusive natural phenomena, and important lessons can be drawn from this…… Continue reading Accepted Logical Limits: The Invisible College, Dispelling Demons & Selling Mystery

The Hudson River Valley, comprising Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam, New York, and Fairfield and New Haven, Connecticut, experienced a wave of UFO sightings throughout the 1980s. Thousands of witnesses described, with little variation, an enormous, boomerang-shaped cluster of lights, quietly gliding over highways and neighborhoods. Some 5,000 people witnessed these events.  Today, bloggers and UFO…… Continue reading Hudson Valley: How the media really reacted to a 1980s UFO flap