WASHINGTON (AP) — DNA from a man accused in the slayings of wealthy Washington family and their housekeeper was found on a construction vest inside a car stolen from the family's home, and a man driving the car was seen wearing a similar vest in the …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) It's the most wonderful time of the yearSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)I was actually thinking about renewing my subscription to Time magazine the other day, just to stay connected to what passes for news among corporate giants. But last week, a little Time.com blurb titled “This Is Why People Think UFOs Look Like 'Flying …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) Let's just forget this ever happenedSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)“To Bn from Bde,” the account goes on, “Spooky 23 [AC-47 gunship] will be in vicinity of LZ Laura for any possible engagement of UFO's. Spooky arrived at 0407.” Wisely, the intruder was gone by time the gunnery platform showed up, but the UFO reappeared …

Viva UFO romance weekSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)Yvonne and I met at a Travis Walton UFO Abduction Seminar in Arizona, and we caught the soul-mate bug. A few weeks later, she flew to Florida for a visit, where we got into a surprisingly spirited debate over the origins of Walton's abductors. We both agreed …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) The hunt for missing piecesSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)The Air Force maintains it shuttered Project Blue Book in 1969 because, among other things, UFOs didn't constitute a national security issue. But we've known that was a snow job since 1979. That's when public-records sleuth Robert Todd excavated the …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) The weeds of curiositySarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)CEFAA, Chile's federal UFO study project, recently brought its resources to bear on a September 2012 incident over Santiago. The cell phone videos were poor quality and the object(s) left no radar clues. But government researchers, operating under the …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) And that's the way it isSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)De Void called John Schuessler, Mutual UFO Network co-founder and board member, for his take on “Hangar 1.” As a McDonnell Douglas' erstwhile director of engineering and project manager for Space Shuttle Flight Operations at Johnson Space Center, …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) Makes sense, but prove itSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)The second-season premiere of “Hangar 1: The UFO Files” last Friday night on The History Channel's H2 subsidiary was, as feared, a stylistic rehash of season one's attention-deficit-jangled format — overproduced, amped up with gratuitous audio elements, …

One more small thingSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)Hate to be a pedantic nag, especially because the detailed first-person piece written by airline captain Andrew Danziger for the New York Daily News last week was pleasantly surprising in its fearlessness. Getting a commercial pilot to go on record with a …and more »

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) There's no business like …Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)Lesser known is how, also during the Nineties, while Hubbell conducted his snipe hunt for UFO data, Brandon actually located Roswell documents buried in The Agency's Historical Intelligence Collection archives. Or at least he said he did, during a national …