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).

Monday, March 28, 2022

Jacques Vallee's " Invisible College" Teaches "Metalogic."

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This is the review I wrote of The Invisible College by Jacques Vallee, appearing in The Zetetic (which later became The Skeptical Inquire...

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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Drs. Hynek and Vallee Totter on the Edge of Reality!

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( Revision March 27, 2022: I have moved Hynek's reply here. Vallee's reply is in the second part .) Now that Jacques Vallee is back ...

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Galileos Galore - Now including Jacques Vallee!

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A belated Happy New Year to all our readers. Not much new has been happening, just a lot of arguing about the politics of government UFO inv...

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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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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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