Bad UFOs: Skepticism, UFOs, and The Universe

Reflections on UFOs, skepticism, and practically anything else by Robert Sheaffer, author of the book "Bad UFOs," plus the "Psychic Vibrations" column in The Skeptical Inquirer).

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Flying Saucer, or Fly? Is this the case UFO skeptics have been dreading?

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On March 13, 2012 the well-known UFOlogist Leslie Kean wrote a story for the Huffington Post titled "UFO Caught On Tape Over Santiago...

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

A Skeptic at the 2012 International UFO Congress - Part 5 of 5.

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[With revisions, May 2023]. On Friday evening I watched The Montauk Chronicles , a documentary on supposed sinister paranormal experiment...

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Monday, February 27, 2012

A Skeptic at the 2012 International UFO Congress - Part 4

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Written after the Friday sessions: The Friday sessions began with Rosemary Ellen Guiley - ETs, Shadow People, and Djinn . Of those three t...

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Friday, February 24, 2012

A Skeptic at the 2012 International UFO Congress - Part 3

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Written after the close of the Thursday sessions: The Thursday sessions began with Peter Robbins, who was the personal assistant to the la...

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

A Skeptic at the 2012 International UFO Congress - Part 2

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(Another posting in near-real time from Fort Macdowell, Arizona.) The sessions began Wednesday morning with Chuck Zukowski talking about t...

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

A Skeptic at the 2012 International UFO Congress - Part 1

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I am here at the 21st Annual International UFO Congress near Scottsdale, Arizona. The sessions begin tomorrow morning. Lots of major UFO pe...

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Jacques Vallee, J. Allen Hynek, and the "Pentacle Memorandum"

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I have just finished reading Jacques Vallee's diaries from 1957-69, published as Volume I of Forbidden Science . It tells the story of ...

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Robert Sheaffer: Robert Sheaffer is a writer with a lifelong interest in astronomy and the question of life on other worlds. He is one of the leading skeptical investigators of UFOs, and wrote the "Psychic Vibrations" column in The Skeptical Inquirer for almost 40 years. His book Psychic Vibrations reprints some of those columns. His most recent book is Bad UFOs (2016), which is also the name of his Blog that casts a skeptical eye on claims about UFOs. He is also the author of "UFO Sightings" (1998), and has appeared on many radio and TV programs. His writings and reviews have appeared in such diverse publications as OMNI, Scientific American, Spaceflight, Astronomy, The Humanist, Free Inquiry, Reason, and others. He is also a founding director and past Chairman of the Bay Area Skeptics, a local skeptics' group in the San Francisco Bay area. Mr. Sheaffer lives near San Diego, California. He has worked as a data communications engineer in the Silicon Valley, and sings in professional opera productions.

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