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You're in the wrong place if all you want to do is declare something a hoax and walk away.

Both the contemporaneous illustrations (above) show featureless blobs. It's plausible that the "dome" on Joy's drawing is an artifact of her style, given she clearly went over the shape a few times with the pen. The description on the report she...

I meant: no mention of a small dome on top of the upper "saucer", as in a typical flying saucer.

I've interviewed him on my podcast and I had a nice chat over beers with him at AlienCon in Pasadena. Nice chap, even though we disagree about a lot, he was great to talk to.

Except when the experts might actually be wrong. The thing about conspiracy theories, at least good ones, is there is some amount of truth involved. The guy in your video thought the experts at Ford where wrong in their recommendations for the...

Given that I don't know of a "quart" such that two of them are 1.8L, my first guess was that the units on his bag-o-lube were different from the ones in the manuals (2 US quarts is 1.89L, so to 2 s.f. is "1.9L").. However, he is treating 3.8...

Competition to build a cult following drives many towards click bait topics. You’ve got to wonder how many of these people believe in what they are selling. There is a similar effect which can attract academics to publish papers on click-baity...

Yeah, they can fool people wholesale, while what we can do to unfool them is more of a hand-crafted artisinal activity, when it comes to how fast we can go. Still worth doing!

That may not be the case. I note here the successes the "point and laugh" debunkers of Flat Earth have had in making debunking entertaining, in attracting attention to the points they wanted to make, and even to converting a few former Flat...

The link policy requires a relevant quote from the site. Such as this: Based on the 2021 book by Adam Gorightly and directed by Christopher Graybill, Saucers, Spooks and Kooks digs into the origins of longstanding UFO myths that persist to this...

That is correct as far as I am aware. There was a Jewish and early Christian belief that angels/demons were disembodied spirits that roamed the air. Seen most directly in the epistle to the Ephesians. Ephesians 2:1-2 You were dead through the...

OK, but if they WERE demons, would they want to contact somebody who figured it out, or would the prefer somebody that was fooled into thinking that they were just aliens?

There'd be civil wars on Vance planets.. There would have been no science so things would have been brutal and primitive, making Earth's dinosaurs look like gentle butterflies by comparison. Ancient alien Vanceforms would have browbeaten each...

If they liked Vance, they wouldn’t exist; wouldn’t make it past the great filter of stupid.

I'm not confident we can assume something like that. If ETI exists, and is aware of our existence or at least that Earth might harbor life, any decision to attempt to contact us will be based on their own reasons and priorities, which might be...