Rich Reynolds is taken by a strange little book, ostensibly a published manuscript written by a successful Victorian English carpenter and builder named William Robert Loosley, about a strange October 3, 1871, encounter with, apparently, robots dropped off by an alien spacecraft. Reading the book settles some of the differences in the two accounts Rich […]

Rich Reynolds has been putting out a lot of interesting posts from his “UFO Hoard” lately, and here’s a quartet of them. The first is a review of Captain Edward Ruppelt’s attitudes towards the August 19, 1952, Florida Scoutmaster CEII case. In spite of suspicions about the witness’ character, this case remains intriguing for several […]

Rich Reynolds pairs two articles in the January/February 2017 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review to suggest that the notion that extraterrestrials may have inadvertently created religion may not be as “loopy” as such speculation seems. This certainly is thought-provoking, though it would seem a “reach” that an alien incursion as far back as Sagan and […]

We’re intrigued by Rich Reynolds’ post, although the other tukah ceremonial “mask” examples we were able to access incline us against his creative suggestion regarding what is depicted and symbolized. Reynolds certainly does make the larger case that ufologists “must be careful in interpreting what witnesses say they see in UFO sightings and, especially, alleged […]

Rich Reynolds is onto something here in discussing reasons for the general “burnout” we so often see in ufologists, who cannot long tolerate the ambiguity inherent in the field and its apparent lack of progress. A Commenter does take respectful issue with Rich’s remark that “only the psychopathic remnant of the phenomenon will continue to […]

Rich Reynolds returns to a subject he had discussed on January 4th in The Villas Boas Symbol, providing thoughts on the markings Antonio Vilas-Boas reportedly saw on a wall of the spacecraft that he claimed abducted him in 1957. As usual, Rich gives suggestions for further information on the subject; see particularly the Comments, with […]

Rich Reynolds muses on the fact that people have been seeing and, in various ways, reporting, things outside the norm for centuries. He avers “that people report what they see rather accurately, even taking into account the vicissitudes of observational malfunction,” and that discounting these reports is neither scientific nor sensible. Whatever their ultimate origin, […]

Rich Reynolds discusses his fascination with the spectrum of different UFO stories that have been recorded over the ages, says odds are there’s something behind many of them, holds that rafts of these are credible enough for further real research, and again challenges those who affect an affection with UFOs to animate themselves actually to […]

Rich Reynolds once again comments upon his madness with the UFO topic; it’s a lament we’ve often heard in ufology, perhaps stemming from years-long frustration in one’s inability to unravel a mystery, or set of mysteries, that may ultimately prove, at least in part, beyond human ability. Perhaps ufology, as with chemistry and astronomy, will […]

Rich Reynolds’ short post is something of a useful position paper on just what phenomena of those generally termed “UFOs” really interest him. In the process, he also provides some thoughts on how the investigation of such phenomena should proceed. We wonder what Rich would make of the report from Peru: Unidentified Flying Object at […]