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).

Friday, October 26, 2012

"U.S. News" Proclaims UFOs a "Danger to Aviation"

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The next time you get on a plane, don't worry about the terrorist who might have smuggled explosives on board inside his rectum. Inst...

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

New Developments in the Frederick Valentich Disappearance: An Airplane Abducted by a UFO?

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Valentich and his aircraft A famous "unexplained" UFO case (or more precisely, a case where the solution is probable, but no...

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Smithsonian-Affiliated "National Atomic Testing Museum" Promises UFO "Secrets" Revealed

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The National Atomic Testing Museum is a relatively new, and seemingly professional, museum a few miles east of the Las Vegas Strip on Flami...

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Friday, August 24, 2012

CIA-CSI Connection Finally Laid Bare by Robert Hastings

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Often UFO proponents hint that the government, and the CIA in particular, must be behind skeptics' knee-jerk debunking of every major UF...

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Nick Pope and Alien Invaders

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Nick Pope is making an entire career out of having once been responsible for the UK's Ministry of Defense UFO investigations from 1991 t...

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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Steven Greer's 18 Inch Extraterrestrial, and Ghost Rockets

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Earlier I reported on the claim of Dr. Steven Greer, of CSETI and The Disclosure Project, to have seen and examined the body of a presumabl...

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Sunday, August 12, 2012

A Socorro Student Hoax Confirmed?

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Alleged UFO landing at Socorro, NM, 1964 On September 23, 2009, UFO investigator Anthony Bragalia wrote a Blog entry that generated huge ...

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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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