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Info on UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle Images of UAVs -- looks like there are lots of different types: http://www.google.com/images?q=uav&hl=en&safe=off&gbv=2&tbs=isch:1&ei=ax5zTNapDY70swPrtsWFDQ&sa=N&start=18&ndsp=18...

Shostak is OK on scientific stuff (although a little too much in love with his own ideas), but his attitude toward the paranormal seems to be that only idiots have weird experiences they can't explain. It's not so much that he's a skeptic. More like if everybody was as smart and rational as he...

Thanks for the replies. I didn't know that studies like this had been done with cattle. It rocked me when I heard about the human Body Farm, but when you think about it that's the sort of knowledge investigators would need to have.

Seems like a good way to resolve the whole "cattle mutilation" issue would be to do a Body Farm-type study. Leave some dead cows lying around and watch what happens to them. This would show what changes are the results of decomposition and scavengers (the usual explanations for the phenomena)...

"at least at the quantum level" This whole future-creating-the-past thing is probably only true at the quantum level. At the scales we live in the past is fixed (although always being re-interpreted...). There was a book several years ago called "Einstein's Dreams" which describes several...

"Blehhh Dude! That's "put a gun in your mouth" depressing. Nihilism sucks. Give me a self deluded fantasy in Lala-land anyday over that! Yeeeeesh." Well, that's kinda my point. It's why I don't think skeptics like Phil Plait are fully thinking through the implications of their philosophy. They...

I think skepticism is the right perspective when you're considering scientific or pseudo-scientific claims; e.g. how the world works on a physical basis, historical facts, etc. Insofar as religions or other belief systems make claims about this they should be evaluated skeptically. I'm less...

I posted this on another thread but I didn't see it posted here (which doesn't mean it wasn't!) What may be the original published version of the picture is here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...es_LATimes.jpg The caption appears to read: "SEEKING OUT 'OBJECT' -- Scores of...

I haven't read her book, but even if she has credible evidence I doubt the government would fund any UFO research. After all, SETI funding (which had support from the scientific establishment) got cancelled after only a year. You might slide something through if you could put a military/defense...

Yup, it was cloudy where I live Thursday night (the peak). Sat out for a little while after midnight on Friday and Saturday but didn't see anything. I saw a lot of meteors when I was a kid and could sleep outside all night, but can't do that where I'm at now.

Not necessarily a hallucination, but it could have been a very vivid dream (chasing a cat maybe?). When our dog was asleep she would sometimes jerk or move her legs. Never as much as in the video though!

Here in Hawaii some people believe that dogs can see spirits. And my (late) dog occasionally would stare at something where I couldn't see anything. But dogs and people have different sense abilities (their senses of smell and hearing are better than ours, but their eyesight is worse) so it...

I'm with the guys who are wondering what space planes (any space planes) can do better than conventional rockets/missiles. As for aircraft carriers, I suspect that they were outmoded long ago. It's just that we haven't had to fight a country with a serious navy or air force that could make it...

The photo in the original newspaper looks the same as the enlarged version. If the link to the newspaper image is accurate, any retouching must have been done shortly after the picture was taken. lancemoody says this was a common practice though and the idea that it might have been a UFO...

There may be a political/economic angle here. Drs Radasky and Fry appear to have a large personal stake in EMP: About Us EMPACT America, Inc. Butt's personal interest appears to be less: "Yousaf Butt is a staff scientist at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, where he worked...

Almost all scientists are specialists working on problems suggested by current theory in their fields. They aren't in the business of investigating every anomalous experience that comes along. Skepticism aside, most paranormal events aren't well-defined enough to attract the attention of any...

What may be the original published version of the picture is here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Battle_of_Los_Angeles_LATimes.jpg The caption appears to read: "SEEKING OUT 'OBJECT' -- Scores of searchlights built a wigwam of light beams over Los Angeles early yesterday...

Well, as someone says here, it fits the pattern. "Simonton...could see several instrument panels" Yet another UFO that looks like what someone at the time of the sighting would think advanced technology should look like. Not what our technology actually looks like (40 years later) or what it...

I'm sporadic -- my interest in the paranormal waxes and wanes. Besides here, the Fortean Times website and The Anomalist (mentioned above) are the main ones I've visited. There's also a site called Liminal Nation, but it's aimed more at paganism and magick than the paranormal (but it was where...

The earthquake theory sounds nuttier than the attack theory. On the other hand, if it was something like an anti-ship missile it's surprising the tanker wasn't destroyed. My (ignorant) guess is a problem with the ship itself.