Southern Television was an English regional station, broadcasting to an area bordered by Weymouth in the west, Newbury in the north, and Brighton in the east. On Saturday the 26th of November 1977, at eleven minutes past five in the afternoon, news anchor Andrew Gardner was relating the headlines when viewers of the Southern Television broadcast noticed something strange. His image wavering, Gardner’s sober tones were replaced with a gargling, unearthly voice, which began to relate the following message: This is the voice of Vrillon, a representative of the Ashtar Galactic Command, speaking t ..read more

Encounters: Experiences with Non Human Intelligences is professor of religious studies Diana Walsh Pasulka’s second foray into the UFO topic, after she made her debut with American Cosmic in 2019. American Cosmic gathered much success not only because it rode on the wave (or rather, the tsunami) of the massive sea change in the perception of UFOs (now rebranded as ‘UAP’ for more palatable consumption) caused by the New York Time articles written by Kean/Blumenthal in 2017-2018; but also because it represented the iceberg-tip of renewed interest in a subject which had long suffered stigmatizat ..read more

Perhaps one of the most bizarre events in modern music history occurred on August 23, 1994, when the British band The KLF burned £1,000,000 of their music career earnings in the fireplace of a boathouse on the remote Scottish island of Jura. The burning of the cash occurred just two years after The KLF – the band name of artist-musicians Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty – had abruptly quit the music industry at the peak of their success, after being the biggest-selling singles act in the world for 1991, producing a chaotic headlining performance at the Brit awards where they performed with thrash ..read more

The above image (the idea for which came to me in a flash yesterday,)was created to encapsulate the state of popular UFOlogy for the past few weeks. Sean Kirkpatrick (pictured right) was the former head of AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) and after stepping down from his position in the Pentagon by the end of 2023, he’s now written a few op-eds and conducted a few incendiary interviews, in which he has basically ascribed the current interest in UFOs among Washington politicians to a small group of influential individuals trying to convince these lawmakers that UFOs are not only evi ..read more

Of all the global events which have surfaced in our news feeds in the last ten years, few are as enigmatic as the cluster of mysterious health issues suffered by dozens of United States operatives stationed abroad, which are commonly referred to as “Havana Syndrome.” An ill-fitting term picked by the press and popular culture, since reports of State Department attachés (and CIA agents working undercover) affected by something which is literally capable of leaving permanent brain injuries, have been gathered from all around the world. But who is behind these ‘attacks’, and —the most puzzling qu ..read more

Ong’s Hat. For those who were on the early internet and into Grail-like topics, those two words likely spark a heady sense of conspiracy, alternative science and history nostalgia. Across websites, email lists and forums devoted to those topics, there was discussion about how much of the mythos behind the many-threaded, multi-media story of Ong’s Hat was fiction, and how much might be based in truth. Could the rumours of portals to alternative dimensions have any truth? Were conspiracy theories about it being hushed up? In retrospect, thirty years later, it all seems a little quaint. We now kn ..read more

Last week NASA released their UAP report, which nobody would have categorized as ‘highly anticipated’, because nobody was expecting any major bombshells coming out of this 36-page document, which frankly could have been trimmed to just four or five pages including the front and back covers —remember how in high school you needed to ‘pad’ a 5000-word essay when you only had a couple of paragraphs of useful information, hoping the teacher wouldn’t notice? That is exactly what it felt like reading through this… NASA UAP independent team So aside from mentioning a tantalizing proposal to analyze a ..read more

Last month on my news feed I came across an article that caught my eye. The article was reporting on a scientific paper submitted by a group of computer researchers from the UK and Canada on the online science portal Arxiv, which were warning about the impending probability that the massive proliferation of large language models or LLM’s —the technical term for the artificial intelligence programs which have become so popular lately —like Midjourney or ChatGPT — which are ‘trained’ through incredibly large datasets ‘crawled’ from the Internet (artists and creators of original content call that ..read more

This short documentary was released a couple of weeks ago on the Theories of Everything (TOE) Youtube channel hosted by Curt Jaimungal, a young filmmaker who also has a background in science and mathematics and therefore is uniquely suited to tackle some of the hardest questions in the field of UFOlogy, to which he shows a great deal of interest and a fresh open-minded skepticism. The film is intended to explore the rather spooky entanglement (pardon the pun) between the modern theories of quantum gravity and the controversial albeit —at the time— very serious search for the key to counteract ..read more

While the QAnon phenomenon may have (thankfully) dissipated in the last couple of years after playing a prominent part in the the January 6 debacle, conspiracy culture in general has shown no signs of following the same path. Indeed, if anything, the online world is even more full of beliefs in grand secretive schemes by the elite to enslave or even kill the general populace, thanks perhaps largely to the COVID pandemic. Another important contributor to the spread of conspiracy theories in recent years though is the rise of the online ‘influencer’. From COVID denialists through to the seeming ..read more