As an MOD official in 2008 wrote in reply to yet another conspiracy theorist: 'There has been speculation that the decision to release the [MOD's] UFO files is part of an international agreement to prepare the world's population …

The worst scoldings are the reasonable ones where voices aren’t raised. Such is the case with Micah Hanks, southern gentleman and renowned fortean, taking William Saunderson-Meyer to task for a careless ad hominem attack. William’s poison pen serves to diminish the legacy of the late, great John Keel who wasn’t an airhead in the least. […]

Close encounters with UFO airheadsThought LeaderThis is a big month for UFO fans. No, not the metalhead followers of the English hard rock group of the same acronym. One's talking here about the airheads who believe in Unidentified Flying Objects. First, July 2 was International UFO day. Then Google …and more »

Then Google released a doodle to mark the 66th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, in which aliens were supposedly killed in a spacecraft crash outside the New Mexico town of Roswell. Finally, the British National Archives has released the final …