Kevin Randle’s musings about a CEIII featuring a fly-eyed alien, “the exposure of Area 51,” and Oumuamua begin a Ufological spirited commentary foursome. Kevin promises an upcoming interview with Dr. Avi Loeb, Oumuamua’s biggest promoter as an “Arthur Clarkeian” Rendezvous with Rama probe. Nick Redfern challenges us with Why the Roswell Affair Wasn’t Extraterrestrial — […]
Our “Randlefest” of articles by Kevin begins with some particulars behind an early Jesse Marcel interview, and links to more background information. In MADAR–Instrumentality and UFOs Kevin discusses an important technology for collecting objective data about UFOs. (For more information go to Fran Ridge’s MADAR: Multiple Anomaly Detection & Automated Recording.) With Belt, Montana UFO […]
Roswell is the quintessential UFO story that keeps on giving, but the dissatisfying conclusion to History’s three-parter left loose threads. Kevin Randle details some of the (in some cases surprising) weaknesses in that episode. Rich Reynolds was also disappointed in The History Channel’s Final Airing of its Greatest Mystery Roswell Series, Number 3. Rich too […]
The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) was active in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s and was primarily focused on prying UFO secrets from the US government. “The overlapping of NICAP and the Intelligence community” is the focus of this piece from The UFO trail, which considers the role of […]
All too often ufology is more a contest of egos than of ideas. Such may be the case as Kevin Randle details a kerfuffle between Dr. David Clarke and Nick Pope reminiscent of the Luis Elizondo AATIP-head controversy. Rich Reynolds comments upon the tempest here and in his article Dastardly Foolishness in the UFO Community. […]
Many with a UFO interest love to loathe Col. Richard L. Weaver as the man in charge of the Air Force report debunking the Roswell UFO event as a wayward Project Mogul balloon. Whatever one’s opinion(s) on Roswell, Weaver became an important figure in its aftermath and there’s much in Kevin Randle’s interview with Weaver […]
Veteran ufologist and MUFON Virginia State Director Sue Swiatek brings an impressive array of expertise and experience outside as well as inside ufology to this dialogue. Topics considered include some of the back story to the Stanton Friedman/Don Berliner Roswell book Crash at Corona, the Ramey Memo, and their personal approaches to the whole Roswell […]
Kevin Randle dissects “UFoJoe” Murgia’s monumental 4-part essay that commences with The Wilson/Davis Documents – My Twenty-Three Year Journey – Part 1. This promotes notes allegedly taken in 2002 by astrophysicist Eric Davis of a conversation with Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson. The subject: Wilson’s stymied efforts to learn about UFO crash-retrieval programs, at least […]
Kevin Randle throws water on a new conjecture about the CE2em effects reported in the November 1957 Levelland, Texas, multiple sightings. Kevin asserts the various weather accounts for the night of November 2-3 don’t support “that the air was full of dust and was charged with electricity,” as alleged in Larry Robinson’s theory. Kevin examines […]
More commentary on The New York Times weekend UFO story. Kevin Randle notes weaknesses in both the article and in the claims made by Eric Davis about UFO history, which latter suggest “that Davis might not be as inside as he would like us all to believe.” Jason Colavito seizes upon a New York Times […]