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).

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Añjali and her Aliens - Another Black Eye for UFOOL-ogy

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Every time UFOlogy seems to be succeeding in promoting itself as a serious field of study, it then proves that it isn't. It seems that f...

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Harvard's "Galileo Project" Meets Tom DeLonge's "To The Stars"

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From 2017 until the end of last year, the attention of the UFO world was focused almost solely on the "To The Stars Academy of Arts and...

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Monday, October 4, 2021

Is the O'Hare Airport UFO Case still "A Great Case"?

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Previously UFO blogger David Bates posted part one of his reply to my long, three-part article about " The New Yorker's Credulous A...

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Thursday, September 9, 2021

A "Professional Skeptic" Replies to Kecksburg Defense

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On April 30, 2021 the normally serious New Yorker has dropped a very misleading article titled "How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O....

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Sunday, August 15, 2021

The Case of the Missing Fetus, Starring Travis Walton

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In another startling development in the unraveling of the Travis Walton story , Travis was the guest on August 7 on the Theory of Everyth...

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Monday, August 9, 2021

Some Thoughts on the new Galileo Project

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By now, most readers have heard about The Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technologi...

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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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