Rich Reynolds thinks that consumers of UFO-writing are, by and large, just folks who want to be amused by the surface features of the reports, avoiding asking the “deeper” questions the tales might pose. In light of the recent revelations about the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Mark Russell Bell seems to think that learning […]

Three posts on very different angles of the UFO subject. David Halperin’s article is a delightful retrospective–almost a reverie–dealing with Halperin’s earliest adventures in the UFO publishing world. Michael Grosso’s article about Robert Hastings’ book and film UFOs and Nukes pairs the hard-edged account of purported UFO encounters at nuclear bases with Grosso’s own takeaway […]

Milton Grover tackles the subject of the controversial “Collins Elite,” a group supposedly created in July 1952 by intelligence officials who began by evaluating the threat of UFOs as one based on actual machines but who came to think, due to their own fundamentalist beliefs, that UFOs were not extraterrestrial but demonic. Grover traces the […]

We should all relax; Rich Reynolds isn’t sick of the venerable old, iconic cases like Socorro, or Roswell, Kenneth Arnold, or maybe even Rendlesham. His target seems rather the accretion of poorly-researched and ill-thought speculations intended to make “names” for their creators, at the expense of further obscuring such events. In UFOs: InterDimensionality and the […]

Rich Reynolds presents his brief on why old UFO cases “enliven” some of us “UFO buffs,” even those minds enervated by the “golden oldies” that are now under review, detail by detail, by others. Maybe those of us interested in archaeology are the only “sane” ones in the bunch? But for all of us buffs, […]

Hurriyet Daily News Turkish university launches ufology classes to prepare for extraterrestrial contactHurriyet Daily NewsErhan Kolbaşı, the tutor of the class and deputy chair of the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center, told the Doğan News Agency that humankind could make contact with extraterrestrial beings “within 10 or 15 years.” “We believe representatives from …

Jacques Vallee has produced some truly seminal books on the UFO subject, perhaps the most well known being Passport to Magonia. But as Greg Taylor kindly points out, “Equally important, in my opinion, but often overlooked, are Jacques’ more recent memoirs, Forbidden Science, published in three volumes.” Originally self-published by Vallee in expensive hardcovers, these […]

This is one of the most important posts we’ve read in a long time, and anyone serious about ufology should read and reflect upon it. Those who have self-assumed the title of “researcher” would do well to copy it–with appropriate attribution–and keep it for future reference. Rich Reynolds has hit squarely upon a fundamental tenet […]

Rich Reynolds deals with the matter of delineating UFOs more clearly from a number of phenomena generally lumped in with them, arguing rightly that such would focus the efforts of researchers far better than trying to account for every “light in the sky” and appearances seen too far off for identification. One likely benefit: “tightening […]

Madness, as in insanity, has been a consistent Rich Reynolds theme of late and, well, for some time–eleven years, at least. In this first of four examples Rich laments his and others’ addiction to “the triviality of ufology,” arguing that it’s a pretty worthless pursuit compared to the exigencies of everyday life. In Madness and […]