Disclosure Warriors Uncover a Vast UFO Coverup Conspiracy: Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia!
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
1M ago
We have just recently witnessed one of the funniest episodes of UFOlogical stupidity in recent memory: Some of UFO's top Disclosure Warriors dramatically announce they have uncovered a "secret cabal" manipulating Wikipedia articles about UFOs. Matt Ford of the Good Trouble Show posted this dramatic announcement on TwitX on January 21:   This was followed up the next day by the following: TODAY 530pm Pacific. @RobHeatherly1 joins us as he exposes the Secret Cabal of debunker Wikipedia Editors run by a non-profit 501(c)3 targeting Wikipedia pages on UFOs with a written statement by @LueEl ..read more
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The Strange Life and Death (?) of Al Seckel (Part 2)
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
2M ago
(Continued from Part 1) Seckel was enjoying a lot of success posturing as an “expert,” or at least as a “collector,” of illusions, primarily visual. He spoke before many audiences, wrote (or plagiarized) articles and books, and traveled across the globe to share his presentations. Many of the illusions Seckel presented were invented by the magician Jerry Andrus (1918 – 2007). Andrus was a well-known and well-loved figure in the skeptic community, as well as with magicians, and often spoke at skeptic conferences. I learned that, following Andrus' death, Seckel's Eye Wonder wanted to buy the rig ..read more
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The Strange Life and Death (?) of Al Seckel (Part 1)
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
2M ago
This article veers just a bit from our usual dose of UFOlogy to talk about a man who was both a skeptical activist and a con-man, whose exploits sound like the script of an implausible movie – except it all really happened. Al Seckel was (or perhaps still is?) a very strange and interesting character. He founded the Southern California Skeptics in 1985, as a local affiliate of CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, now just “CSI”). He claimed to be a “physicist,” sometimes a “cognitive neuroscientist,” but never completed even a year of college. He clai ..read more
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Netflix's "Encounters", Episode 2, Promotes Sensational Claims but Ignores Answers
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
6M ago
In the previous posting, we examined how the first episode of Encounters presented the 2008 sightings in Stephenville, Texas in loving detail, but ignored the already-known explanation for all of it. Second verse, same as the first! Episode 2 of Netflix's Encounters (one of whose Executive Producers was.Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television) covers the alleged 1994 UFO and alien sightings by as many as 62 school children (but no adults) at the Ariel School in Zimbabwe. A great deal has been written about this case, I won't try to repeat that in any detail. One of the children drew this Sp ..read more
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Netflix's "Encounters", Episode 1, Leaves Out Something Important - The Explanation!
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
6M ago
So much has been happening in UFOOLogy of late, stuff that is so silly and so widely-reported elsewhere, that I can't see any reason to write about it. Many have finally woken up to the fact that David Grush and other "whistleblowers" tell dramatic tales, but have no proof at all - a situation that has persisted for decades. (In the 1970s and 80s, Len Stringfield of MUFON was telling almost identical tales - also without proof). The Peruvian "alien mummies," presented to the Mexican Congress by Jaime Maussan, are being soundly and deservedly mocked as the frauds they are. These mummies have be ..read more
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More Credible Eyewitness Testimony about Crashed Saucers & Dead Aliens!!!
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
9M ago
Since UFO "confidential sources" and "whistleblowers" are now all over the news, let's examine some cases you might not have heard about. "Psychic" spoon-bender Uri Geller recounts how he was supposedly taken by his good friend Dr. Wernher Von Braun to see the alien bodies from a saucer crash.  Friends I saw them with my very own eyes I was there in a refrigerated vault with Dr Wernher Von Braun, I had an encounter with them when I was 5, there are none human built vehicles, there are bodies and there are living aliens among us. The Israeli government knows about everything I have seen so ..read more
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He Sees Dead People. "The Key – A True Encounter" By Whitley Strieber
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
9M ago
Now that Whitley Strieber has come forward to talk with Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp, taking advantage of the current UFO infatuation to peddle his usual woozy stuff, it made me recall the review I wrote of Strieber's later book, The Key. I am wondering how much of Whitley's wacky claims Corbell and Knapp even know about. Do they still think that Strieber is credible? By the way, in this interview posted June 27, Whitley says, "I think we're right on the edge of the truth coming out, I think we're very close" to UFO Disclosure. Let's add this to the long, long list of Disclosure prediction ..read more
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8 Foot Tall Aliens Land in Las Vegas Back Yard!!!!
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
10M ago
So, you've probably seen wild stories about this on the news: "Big, shiny eyes. Towering nearly 10 feet tall. 100% not human." the Los Angeles Times. "Vegas police respond to report of '10-foot creature' in yard after green flash across sky." CNN. "Aliens among us? Vegas UFO report latest in UAP sightings investigated worldwide." USA Today. And many other places. UFO stories are good for "clicks", for ratings, and the wilder, the better. Note the time stamp: 2023 May 1, 06:49 UTC But let's look at this carefully. From this video, it is obvious that the object is a brilliant meteor fi ..read more
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Story of Dramatic New "UFO Whistleblower" Begins to Crumble
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
10M ago
So, unless you have been living under a rock these past few days, you have seen the breathless, uncritical news coverage about the latest "UFO whistleblower" making extraordinary claims. His is a former Intel guy named David Grusch, who has recently been turning up all over the credulous media, making claims of 'secret government crashed UFO retrieval programs.' How to know which reporters are credulous and foolish? That's easy: if they ran with this story on the basis of no evidence at all, that's them. And Grusch admits all this is only hearsay - he says he hasn't seen any crashed saucers, o ..read more
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"Trinity UFO Crash" Story Crashes - and Vallee Melts Down!
Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe
by Robert Sheaffer
11M ago
Those who follow developments in UFOdumb are probably familiar with the book Trinity, The Best-Kept Secret, self-published by Paola Harris and Jacques Vallee. I wrote only a little about it early last year. It's the story of a supposed saucer crash in New Mexico in August, 1945 not far from the site of the Trinity nuclear test, the world's first. It's primarily based on the accounts of two young boys who supposedly witnessed the saucer crash, saw still-living aliens, and then watched as the army carried it all off. The Second Edition Paola Harris and Jacques Vallee   ..read more
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