The Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU) has now released its substantial and impressive report on the November 2004 encounters between a US Navy Carrier group and multiple “anomalous aerial vehicles.” The 268-page document clearly sets forth calculations and other rationales behind jaw-dropping acceleration, power, and velocity values for three different phases of those encounters. The […]

Scientific Coalition for Ufology Executive Board Member Rich Hoffman and Greg Bishop discuss the SCU, its first Scientific Conference on Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena, and other things ufological in a fascinating and ultimately hopeful dialogue. Hoffman, an Information Technology contractor working at the US Army Materiel Command HQ at Redstone Arsenal, was a main force behind […]

Two personal reflections of a deeper nature on UFO-tangential topics: In the lead article, David Halperin concludes his review of the Oxford University Press-published Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. Halperin is taken aback by the wonder of whatever is behind the visions of Mary the mother of Jesus reported from […]

The relationship of UFOs to the mystical is the theme of religious scholar-ufologist David Halperin’s post on the book Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. In this bridge to a Part 3 post, on its application to UFOs, Halperin sets forth his strong qualms with the philosophy that informs the mysticism […]

Open Minds UFO Radio: Rich Hoffman has been investigating the UFO phenomena for over 52 years. He grew up in Dayton, Ohio, the home of Project Blue Book, the US Air Force Project that was in place from 1952 to 1969. At age 15 Rich appeared on a Phil Donahue show in Dayton and became […]

Open Minds UFO News Ryan Sprague – State of Ufology – August 28, 2018Open Minds UFO NewsOpen Minds UFO Radio: Ryan is the author of Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to an Alien Phenomenon and is also a contributing writer to the anthology, UFOs: Reframing the Debate. He is the creator and host […]

University of Pennsylvania Professor Thomas Childers has remarked an American fascination with Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis). Jason Colavito’s All About History magazine article about Hitler’s Super-Weapons looks like an excellent example of just why–even the parts of Jason’s piece that got excised from the British publication. What used to […]

Roswell Daily Record (press release) Stanton Friedman explores future of ufology; Famous UFO lecturer celebrates retirement and conducts first lecture …Roswell Daily Record (press release)The International UFO Museum and Research Center was buzzing with visitors and even had a line out the door around 9:30 a.m. The smaller crowd came at 4 p.m. for his […]

Rich Reynolds links to an outstanding short study by Gilles Fernandez and then “pens” an even shorter piece on how personality dominates ufological discourse to the detriment of productive discussion. The Commenters mostly seem bent on proving out this observation, yet remain far more civil than occurs on other blogs, UFO-related or otherwise. Well, love […]

Jose Antonio Caravaca’s new post is a frontal assault on “The obsessive and omnipresent concern of ufologists to show that UFO sightings are produced by the visit to our planet of extraterrestrial beings.” While this assumption itself is subject to debate, Caravaca’s “external agent” is only a postulate and still imperfectly understood by many UFOlogists. […]