Plenty of room in the big tentSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)So far, the evidence seems to suggest the Hessdalen lights, which technically qualify as UFOs, or UAP, embody a terrestrial phenomenon, maybe some weird convergence of geological and meteorological forces, who knows? Next month, Erling Strand – a …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) I'm there in spiritSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)Bear in mind, it's been nearly three months now since the press has bothered to ask Hillary Clinton — who's abandoned all campaign instincts in her willingness to discuss The Great Taboo — about her stated plans for declassifying UFO records if she …

Can open science and secrecy coexist?Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)And it wasn't like the Air Force was asking for instructions on how to dispose of corpses; it just wanted the Agency to see if it could obtain 70 feet of UFO footage taken by a TV crew in Louisville, Ky. Sixty-six years later, the request for …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) Can we get a pulse?Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)The story about how Hillary's 2016 campaign vows to unseal classified UFO documents were set in motion by now-deceased billionaire Laurance Rockefeller goes back 20 years. And it's been growing stale in the fringe-news bin for at least half that long.and more »

The Trump spin's gonna rockSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)Did you catch Time magazine's profile on John Podesta this week? Sweet weeping Mother Mary, they blew it again. Not word one about the risky and historic conversation on UFOs that Hillary's campaign director has convinced his boss to join. This is …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) Maybe it's the Indians …Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)So yeah, another chance to transfer UFOs into political language, where they've really been all along — wasted without so much as a constipated grunt. But wait. Hang on. Maybe Syracuse New Times columnist Cheryl Costa has a workable angle.and more »

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) Fish in a barrel againSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)This installment finds the Ed Helms wannabe shooting fish in a barrel in Scottsdale, Ariz., where the International UFO Congress went down last month. Up and running for 25 years and billing itself as “The Guinness World Record holding largest UFO …

Pushing for a game changeSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)Podesta's UFO offensive is so unprecedented and counterintuitive that De Void can't even come up with an analogy. There's no demographic constituency here, no political capital, certainly no way to monetize this elephant in the room. The only parallel …

Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) The way of the explorerSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)I first met moonwalker Edgar Mitchell in late 1995, at a restaurant in the back yard of Kennedy Space Center, which was getting ready to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Apollo 14. Given how NASA types tended to treat UFO questions like warlocks and …and more »

Some ideas about diggingSarasota Herald-Tribune (blog)NBC didn't take the Hillary Clinton UFO bait during Sunday night's primary debate, staged just a couple of weeks after the former Secretary of State vowed to “get to the bottom of” The Great Taboo. As per tradition, the mainstream media tossed a lot of …