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, July 31, 2019

A Skeptic at MUFON's 50th Anniversary Symposium, Part 1

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This year's MUFON Symposium returned to southern California, in Irvine, so I signed up. Other than it being MUFON's 50th anniversa...

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Friday, July 26, 2019

The Source of "To The Stars" 'UFO Debris' Revealed - Art Bell!

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So, we have finally nailed down the history of that supposedly anomalous sample of "groundbreaking metamaterials" that "To...

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Thursday, July 25, 2019

To The Stars Finishes its Series "Unidentified" - What Happens Next?

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As noted in my previous posting, the six episode (First? Only?) season of "Unidentified" has ended. What is the fallout from it...

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Sunday, July 7, 2019

"To The Stars" Closes its Series "Unidentified" Triumphantly Proclaiming Long-Debunked Italian Claims

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The sixth and final episode of "Unidentified," produced by Tom DeLonge, started off with a bang. "Unidentified" airs on...

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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Bigelow's NIDS was Interested In the "Roswell Crash" and the "Alien Autopsy" Video

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A very interesting 11-page document was recently posted anonymously to Imgur (in the form of eleven separate JPG images). These clearly...

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Saturday, June 1, 2019

To The Stars' Cable TV Series "Unidentified" Launches Amid a Frenzy in the Credulous Media

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Watching the long-anticipated premiere of the series "Unidentified" on the "History" Channel, I saw little that was ne...

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

It's Tic vs. Tac as the Media Goes Into a Frenzy

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Back on December 16, 2017, the New York Times published a now-famous article on about the previously unknown Pentagon UFO study program, ...

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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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