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).

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Quintillions and Quintillions of Alien Probes - Or None at All?

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The question of SETI and Extraterrestrial Intelligence has now been debated at length for more than fifty years. Are there other intelligent...

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The Enigma of the Calvine-Like UFO Photos

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The Calvine UFO photo was said by Nick Pope to be "the most spectacular photo ever sent to the Ministry of defence. It's also missi...

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Sunday, September 11, 2022

Whither Calvine??

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In the last post, we looked at the legendary, long-lost Calvine UFO photo, one print of which has just recently been found! As you might im...

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Calvine 1990 Photo: Missing Rumored 'Most Spectacular' UFO Photo Found!

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It was only a week or so ago that I posted on a UFO group, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, "the Calvine UFO photo is the best 'classic...

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Monday, July 18, 2022

UFOs Blitz Mexico!

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This is story of my 1996 Tour of 'UFO Hotspots' in Mexico. It is adapted from Chapter 21 of my 1998 book UFO Sightings - The E...

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Thursday, June 30, 2022

"Skinwalkers at the Pentagon" - a Book Review about Ghosts and Werewolves

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This book came out last October, and I confess that for quite a while I paid little attention to it. 'Oh great,' I thought, 'mo...

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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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