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Hallelujah!    Roswell has finally been solved!  Again.  Well that seems to be the main hot item getting splashed across the news services with the release of Annie Jacobsen's book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base. Before I say anything else, let me put all my cards on the table.  The book has just come out.  I have not had a chance to read the book (though I

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Both the high and the low of the paranormal field (if we can even call it a "field") is the strange degree to which it lives as a vast minefield of folkloric reports. There are numerous accounts that sound good, really really good, that are simply nothing more (nor less) than snippets from a campfire tale. Take for example the so-called Mudhouse Mansion that was recently presented in the Forbes

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Leslie Kean's book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record is now a best seller. Various retired military men have gone public with their reports of UFOs disabling nuclear missiles . A growing list of countries are releasing documents confirming that alien objects are real. All in all, it seems to be pretty earth shaking stuff. So naturally the national press is more

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Let's say you are the president of the United States and you are having a pretty lazy afternoon, just hanging around the Oval Office catching up on your soaps or whatever. Suddenly, all the phones start ringing as everybody from the State Department to the Joint Chiefs and even the D.C. police are calling about a large saucer shaped craft that just landed on the National Mall. What are you

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At the opening of the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Stilll, the alien had the common decency to plop right down on the Capital Mall and make himself known. OK, he got shot for his effort, but it was a nice enough of a straight forward gesture. But in reality, these critters from so far away just don't seem very interested in making such a grandstanding stunt. Not once have they popped up

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Stephen Hawking has just done the world a great favor. With his comments published today in the London Times the so-called smartest man on earth has just made it so of official that aliens exist and are lurking somewhere nearby. OK, he claims this on the basis of math and probability, but this is his area and he seems quite confident in his statement. Which means we can now get down to the

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Once, when I was working on an article about UFOs, I sent a letter to Jacques Vallee regarding any comments he wished to make concerning his current thoughts on the subject. A few weeks later, I received a photocopy of a newspaper article entitled "Kooks, Nuts and Weirdos" with a handwritten note that this is what he thought. Maybe I was missing something, but I kind of got the impression that

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There are some extremely intelligent people to be found in the field of UFO and paranormal research. There are many very sincere and honest folks searching for aliens, bigfoot critters, and assorted other things that go bump in the night. Then there are people like Sean David Morton. OK, I don't normally like to kick a guy while he is down, but the fraud charges brought against him by the

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I figured that one of the best ways to "bone up" was by interviewing a variety of people who just might be considered knowledgeable in an area where knowledge was both thin and open to debate. So I compiled a list of folks, both pro and con, and began calling.Most of the people I talked with made for pretty good, solid interviews. Peter Davenport of the National Center for UFO Reporting was

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The tape that Victor was peddling was the alleged interrogation of a supposed captured extraterritorial at Areas 51. Victor's claim was that he had smuggled it out of the facility and wanted to make it public because he was appalled at the government's treatment of the ET. Due to the top secret nature of the material, he had to maintain a high level of secrecy concerning himself and the

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Back in the mid-1990s, I was (briefly) the exclusive European correspondent for a news story about the capture of an extraterritorial alien. More precisely, I had (very briefly) the inside track for interviews with various people who claimed to have been directly and/or indirectly connected with a videotape purportedly smuggled out of the alleged Area 51. And if you think I just used a

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I saw my first flying triangle as a child. Actually, it has been my only flying triangle. I'm not even sure what I really saw. It was less a sighting and seemed more like a perceptual glitch. This was back in the mid-1960s (probably 1964) and a wave of UFO sightings had been taking place around the country. This was back in the days when newspapers and TV stations actually reported

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What exactly is a EVP? The mystery of Electronic Voice Phenomena has long flown under the paranormal radar. Yet it does exist, which is something I can state from first hand experience. I wish it didn't. For whatever reason, it is a phenomena that genuine spooks me. I think I was exposed to an episode of the old Twilight Zone at too impressible of an age (it was the one concerning phone

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A simple glance through the vendors room of any UFO convention would seemingly confirm that we are on a slippery ride to an irrational hell. Palm readers dressed in Star Trek uniforms sit demurely in a booth right next to a middle-aged housewife with a pyramid on her head. A professional Bigfoot hunter lectures on how he spends his weekend afternoons combing the woods for animal droppings while

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(Back in 1996, I wrote the following for a British magazine. However, my editor thought I was nuts for doing the article and was busy getting rid of all of the American writers from the staff. So the piece never saw the light of day. Though some of the information is outdated, I feel the need to present it. Call me stubborn.-WK) Man-eating reptiles from another planet are preparing to

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The world is a pretty straight forward place and material reality is all there is to it. Or so I tried to remind myself the first time I encountered a ghost. Unfortunately, the thought was neither convincing nor reassuring. Instead, I knew that I was witnessing something that was not scientifically suppose to exist but which was there no matter what and it didn't appear at all

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"Phony perhaps. Baloney, perhaps not." -Bela Lugosi (from the movie The Black Cat) Leave it to ol' Bela is perfectly sum up my own attitude toward the paranormal. Sometimes I really don't know which way I feel or think about the subject. There are many claims made which sound silly and, upon closer examination, turn out to be extremely silly. Then there are the reports

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