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, July 30, 2021

Travis Walton - The Empire Strikes Back!

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As we have seen in the past few postings , the 45-year old "UFO abduction" story of Travis Walton ("Fire in the Sky") is...

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Thursday, July 22, 2021

Travis Walton and Ryan Gordon Chat Like Old Friends

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Travis Walton, whose claim of a famous UFO abduction in 1975 is increasingly under scrutiny as a hoax , has been publicly saying bad things...

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Saturday, July 17, 2021

The Travis Walton 'UFO Abduction' Story - Meltdown!

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Forest Service CL-100 lookout tower (same model as Gentry Tower in Apache-Sitgreaves Natl. Forest) My, how quickly things have been happenin...

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Saturday, July 3, 2021

Crew Chief Mike Rogers Confesses the Travis Walton Hoax!

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For almost forty-five years, many UFOlogists have held up the Travis Walton “five day UFO abduction” story, the subject of the 1993 movie...

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Friday, June 25, 2021

The Pentagon's Long-Awaited 'Preliminary Assessment' - What Does It Say?

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So, just before 5 PM Eastern Time on a Friday, the Pentagon's Director of National Intelligence released its Preliminary Assessment re...

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Thursday, June 17, 2021

Why 'Oumuamua is NOT an "Alien Probe," and Why SETI Will "Fail"

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The first object in our solar system confirmed to have come from interstellar space was discovered in 2017. It was named 'Oumuamua. And ...

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Monday, May 24, 2021

UFOs Explode in the Credulous Media

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May 14, 2021. Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the past month, you have no doubt noticed that the major media have been filled w...

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About Me

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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