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Do you have a specific rational and informed reason for not accepting the mainstream view of pyramid construction, or is it just a gut feeling? After all, I don't understand how planes are built, so clearly they are constructed by extraterrestrials. We have the graves of the builders, their...

If this holds up I have two reactions, in order: 1) Cool!!! 2) Martian Scum!

Now I'm starting to confuse David Jacobs with David Vincent... I'm extremely uneasy at the use of hypnosis in a therapeutic or evidentiary setting by people who with the best will in the world are not trained mental health professionals. Wherever truth may lie I don't think we'll find it in...

One thing however that's always troubled me is the popular idea that science fiction films (especially Spielberg's) are used as a means of drip-feeding true information. Frankly this looks too much like wishful thinking: take Close Encounters of the Third Kind, for instance - the story is...

"In 1998 the Australian researcher Ronald Pegg identified this non-divine object, conducted investigations, and subsequently found the basis for all the above religious subject matter not to be of a divine origin." Usual grandiose claims from yet another ittle man with delusions of genius...

I had a thought about sleep paralysis while I while listening to this one - in all honesty I've long thought there was a good chance that sleep paralysis actually accounts for possibly the majority of abduction reports, but another possibility struck me: what if a susceptibility to sleep...

And more on Whitley Strieber... You know, I've never seen Whitley and Shirley Maclaine in the same room at the same time. Coincidence? You decide.

I'd just turned 8 years old when Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the Moon: I was hoping against hope that I'd get to feel that feeling again before I die, and that we'd have something to help humanity pull its head out of its rear end. Now our species can continue with the serious business of...

I have it on good authority that Bill Knell is Herpes on his father's side.

Try anything you can do. If some of the money that is thrown at the arms industry was channelled into space exploration there'd be plenty. And on that subject...if the Chinese carry through with their stated intention to land men on the moon, which they may well follow up with a permanent...

Even if that were true, a Communist is not the same as a Nazi: it is possible for a decent, well-meaning and intelligent person to be a Communist - they just have to be blind to the fact that it's absurd to believe in historical inevitability, immoral to believe that the end justifies the means...

Common ancestry accounts for some of it: all terrestrial vertebrates are descended from amphibians that were themselves descended from fish with four bony fins Even earlier than that, most complex animals are descended from a wormy thing: the basic plan of a tube with sensory organs and mouth at...

Of course, what he's saying amounts to "look like us" in the same way that an iguana looks like us (although that analogy is muddied by common ancestry), not the Star Trek version.

I remember when I was much younger and richer in hair watching the TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. When the Infinite Improbability Drive was introduced I thought "Holy shit, that could actually work". It's really a very similar concept. One of the implications of such an...

Yikes that was annoyingly shouty woman. But no, I don't think he was bullshitting: he was effectively being asked if he knew of evidence of alien spacecraft. That is not the same as being asked if he'd ever seen an object he couldn't identify (where the assumption might be "don't know what it...

While I think there's more to it, it's hard to escape the conclusion that in at least a proportion of cases people having misunderstood Arnold's "saucer" analogy (or hearing news reports that used the term out of context) simply saw what they expected to see. It's also possible that we're...

It's good to get some technical input on this one, especially since so many seem to accept them without question. I often hear people involved in ghosthunting talking blithely and routinely about recording EVPs as if they were simply going into the woods and recording birdsong...but what most...

That gives me an idea...Korff would make a wonderful Scientologist: he's got the paranoia, the delusions of grandeur, the complete disconnect from rational thought. Can't you just see him doing a little couch jump? Come to think of it he also has the characteristically strained relationship with...

The trouble with StringField's work is that while it's all interesting, with no hope of verifying identities and backgrounds it amounts to no more than anecdotal evidence. And while I'm very hesitant to use the "D" word, I do think there's a strong chance he might have been the target of a...

That's a shame. When reading about all the pre-release hype I wondered if the plot might have been influenced by the events in Colares, Brazil. Oh well. More crap.