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This is the most important project in the history of ufology, in my opinion: it’s the first serious and transparent effort to collect modern precision scientific data of this phenomenon in real time for subsequent analysis by scientists and technicians in the public sector. We’ve needed this...

Statements like this show that you have good instincts, but you have to study physics more deeply to make better use of them: you just very successfully described the central concept of quantum field theory (QFT). In QFT , the prevailing model of particle physics today, the universe is...

Honestly I've never spent much time browsing through the untold thousands of clips on YouTube to see if anyone just happened to catch an unearthly maneuver on video; it might be out there somewhere. What burns my bagel is that the military certainly has such footage - for example Captains...

Or, they still have work to do checking their sources and uncovering relevant facts because journalism takes a lot of time and effort. I'm so sick of the pathological level of cynicism plaguing this thread (and the last thread about this story, which had to be shut down because of it). It's...

The first one is too devoid of surrounding context to comment on, but the second one looks a lot like infrared footage that Richard Dolan has shown in some of his talks, which was taken through a telescopic lens at night. In his footage you can make out the triangular shape of the objects as...

The main problem that I have with this perspective is the absence of a plausible alternative explanation. Every non-ETH explanation depends on facts not in evidence, like alternate realities or supernatural entities or some kind of magic – those are all serious problems for an alternative...

I don't really care about the terminology - people understand what we're talking about, generally, without getting technical about the terms that we use. In the UK they prefer UAP (unidentified aerial phenomenon), in the States UFO is far more common, and lately we've been hearing the term AAV...

That's a straw man argument Bob: nobody supports the hoaxers who are associated with every one of the subjects that we discuss here. Just because some detestable frauds create fake ufo photos/videos and others produce fake Bigfoot photos/videos, doesn't mean that there are no legitimate ufos or...

First of all, @sasysquatchgirl, that was hilarious =) And secondly: Bob - this is a paranormal forum. If we had the empirical evidence to prove any of this stuff (ufos, ghosts, cryptids, slenderman, whatever) then none of us would be here to talk about these things - we'd be debating them on...

That’s an interesting comment. My initial reaction was very dubious of this idea because there is no consensus in the academic arena that telepathy is even a real phenomenon. But after thinking about for awhile, I have to admit that telepathy is a very common recurring feature of a wide range...

It's possible that the laws of physics consist of an infinite Taylor series of fundamental forces - the four strongest ones that we're familiar with, plus an infinite number of subtler additional forces (the dark matter effect and the dark energy effect could be examples of such subtler physical...

It's quite possible that physical understanding of our universe will be a perpetual process of refinement, and I'm rather fond of that idea because it would be disappointing to future generations if we answered all of the big questions and left them with mere fine tuning of an existing wholly...

This was an enjoyable newsletter, thank you Gene. I don't share your pessimism expressed in this closing statement though: I miss the "can do" spirit of America 50-70 years ago - that heroic attitude to face new challenges with a sense of "once more unto the breach, dear fiends," even when...

I think it's mistaken to argue against his use of a specific term when it's the phenomenon itself that's in question. I've also read some compelling accounts of...I don't what to call it...perhaps "intentional manifestation of transient objects" in a number of intriguing metaphysics books...

It looks like our old friend and former moderator mike has found a new forum to call home, and he’s written an excellent post about one of my favorite subjects: synthetic telepathy. Maybe this is how our creepy little willowy alien visitors/abductors are exhibiting telepathic abilities, as is...

Actually I don't understand why anyone would be surprised that today's physics is the actualization of yesterday's metaphysics - that's always how these things go. Understanding begins with a question, and our first faltering attempts at understanding tend to fall into the realm of...

Whoa. You kinda buried the lead, MrBeliever: Isaac Koi has located two of the 38+ research papers generated by the AATIP and confirmed their provenance with Dr. Eric Davis, and then uploaded them to a filesharing service for anyone to download: Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the manipulation of...

Very funny: the first person who can describe it with mathematical precision will not simply win a Nobel Prize, but will supersede Einstein as the greatest mind in scientific history. And probably throw open the doors to superluminal spaceflight and new mechanisms to harness huge magnitudes of...

As I pointed out in The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: Fact and Fallacy, the sentiment that we often hear - that various kinds of sightings and paranormal phenomena are likely to be related, is an example of a logical fallacy known as the conjunction fallacy. Applied here the conjunction fallacy...

That is an excellent article Chris; I can’t argue with your core thesis. But honestly I find the timing of this article to be a bit insensitive. I mean, the man has just died, and whatever you can say about the failings of his judgment, he was one of the greats, and those of us who loved his...