Rich Reynolds discusses the contention that the 1957 Antonio Vilas-Boas abduction event was a “psy-ops” activity. We would hope Rich follows through with his offer to put his documentation online. This is not ignoring Reynolds’ particular focus upon the symbol he (and we) now learn that Vilas-Boas claimed to have seen on the craft involved. […]

Rich Reynolds treats of three photographs claimed by a History Channel documentary to have been the trio taken by an American press photographer during the allied Operation Mainbrace of September 14-25, 1952. Though said to be “excellent” by Edward Ruppelt, what the documentary shows seems rather less impressive to Reynolds and to us. However, the […]

As we’ve noted, Rich Reynolds often recommends books and articles useful on a variety of subjects, in this case three more from Albert Rosales’ indefatigable, ongoing work to chronicle humanoid encounters reports. Reynolds praises Rosales’ heavy lifting in making available the data needed to study “a phenomenological puzzle, worthy of study and investigation.” Amen. Along […]

Rich Reynolds attacks a key problem in ufology (“besides its inherent madness and delusion”): researchers spending their time on insignificant side issues and not probing the core mystery. Rich suggests that many UFO cases could at least be more intelligently understood if investigators spent more time digging for answers to their core issues and less […]

Rich Reynolds uses Carl Jung’s Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky to continue his theme that ufology is either dead or on undeserved life support. Along the way, Rich rather minimizes the significance of the 1896/7 airship sightings, the 1930s “ghost fliers” of Scandinavia, and the 1946 wave in approximately […]

The focus of the Ancient Astronauts camp on stories of alien “sky gods” teaching humans such things as civilization and technology ignores much other data which does not support their case. A wider reading of ancient religions reveals the roles that earth and water divinities played in how people viewed their origins and environment. Rich […]

We’ve long believed that the “Ancient Astronauts” topic is at one and the same time one of the most interesting, and yet poorly researched, areas in ufology. So we were interested in Rich Reynolds’ views on The Book of Enoch. Turns out Reynolds is no fan of the Book, either as evidence of alien involvement […]

Rich Reynolds puts out a plea for any information, especially online, about a supposed very strange film that Kenneth Arnold shot while on his aerial way to interview Maury Island figures Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman. Anybody out there have a lead? David Gilmour tells us that WikiLeaks Reveals Failed Plan to Make the U.N. […]

Rich Reynolds supplies another theory that may help understand UFO reports and sightings. False Consciousness posits an inability to see things as they really are, stemming from an inability to comprehend how the human mind is developed and shaped by its environment. This was first applied by Marxists to explain why people often could not […]

A recurrent feature of ufology is the large amount of time spent upon old and famous events. Rich Reynolds wonders why no one has used a NASA computer program called VISAR to declutter the famous Roswell Ramey memo. Rich modifies this particular proposal in Another (Better?) Way to Decipher the Ramey Memo. In Did Lonnie […]