Volume 18 Archive
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 18 • Issue 1 • January 3, 2021 •
It’s been a busy three weeks in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! As we get ready to begin yet another depressing year of claims about history, I invite you to take a look back at the past year in fringe history with my year in review blog post. It was a dark year, and there were few signs that things will improve significantly in the coming months. The COVID-19 pandemic and Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have driven conspiracy theories to new heights, and the cross-pollination of political conspiracy theories with pseudoscientific and pseudohistorical ones has reached a fever pitch. The man alleged to have bombed Nashville on Christmas was a Trump supporter obsessed with 5G, Reptilian, and alien conspiracies. A former treasure hunter from The Curse of Oak Island is now a leading “voter fraud” expert for conservatives in Georgia.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of December 14-January 3:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• JasonColavito@outlook.com • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
• Vol. 18 • Issue 1 • January 3, 2021 •
It’s been a busy three weeks in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! As we get ready to begin yet another depressing year of claims about history, I invite you to take a look back at the past year in fringe history with my year in review blog post. It was a dark year, and there were few signs that things will improve significantly in the coming months. The COVID-19 pandemic and Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have driven conspiracy theories to new heights, and the cross-pollination of political conspiracy theories with pseudoscientific and pseudohistorical ones has reached a fever pitch. The man alleged to have bombed Nashville on Christmas was a Trump supporter obsessed with 5G, Reptilian, and alien conspiracies. A former treasure hunter from The Curse of Oak Island is now a leading “voter fraud” expert for conservatives in Georgia.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of December 14-January 3:
- The Year in Review: 2020 in Ancient Mysteries, Modern Conspiracies, and Aliens
- Review of The Believer by Ralph Blumenthal
- Review of Ancient Aliens S16E05 “The Forbidden Bible”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• JasonColavito@outlook.com • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 18 • Issue 2 • January 10, 2021 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, this was a week, wasn’t it? The mob of insurrectionists who invaded the U.S. Capitol building included many individuals who subscribed to QAnon conspiracy theories spread online. One of the invaders, Jake Angeli, appears to be the same man who posted a video on several websites discussing his belief that he had psychic powers that the government had deployed to combat Lovecraftian mind-parasites from other dimensions, destroying their ships with powers secretly disclosed in Marvel comic books. In 1954, Robert Lindner, the author of the psychological study Rebel without a Cause, reported a case (“The Jet-Propelled Couch”) of a mentally ill scientist who believed science fiction books were accounts of his own life in other dimensions, where he engaged in epic space battles against aliens on other planets. At the time, critics accused Lindner of making it up. I never thought I’d see it in real life.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of January 4-10:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• JasonColavito@outlook.com • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
• Vol. 18 • Issue 2 • January 10, 2021 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, this was a week, wasn’t it? The mob of insurrectionists who invaded the U.S. Capitol building included many individuals who subscribed to QAnon conspiracy theories spread online. One of the invaders, Jake Angeli, appears to be the same man who posted a video on several websites discussing his belief that he had psychic powers that the government had deployed to combat Lovecraftian mind-parasites from other dimensions, destroying their ships with powers secretly disclosed in Marvel comic books. In 1954, Robert Lindner, the author of the psychological study Rebel without a Cause, reported a case (“The Jet-Propelled Couch”) of a mentally ill scientist who believed science fiction books were accounts of his own life in other dimensions, where he engaged in epic space battles against aliens on other planets. At the time, critics accused Lindner of making it up. I never thought I’d see it in real life.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of January 4-10:
- NH Union Leader Newspaper: Cable TV Conspiracy Shows “Deserve Condemnation”
- Capitol Invader “Q-Shaman” Claims to Be Secret Military Psychic Space Warrior
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• JasonColavito@outlook.com • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 18 • Issue 3 • January 17, 2021 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of January 11-17:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• JasonColavito@outlook.com • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
• Vol. 18 • Issue 3 • January 17, 2021 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
- Federal prosecutors actually wrote the following sentence about “QAnon shaman” Jacob Chansley (a.k.a. Jake Angeli) in a court filing this week: “Chansley has spoken openly about his belief that he is an alien, a higher being, and he is here on Earth to ascend to another reality.” So, it’s been that kind of week in politics. The mainstream media finally started to acknowledge Chansley’s space alien beliefs, a week after I first reported them.
- Meanwhile, my agent and I have settled on a working title for my new book. We’re calling it The Unlighted Road: James Dean, Flying Saucers, and the Cold War Culture of Fear. The title derives from the title of Dean's last TV appearance but also references where he died, where people see UFOs and get abducted by aliens, and the dark path of McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia. The manuscript will start making the rounds of publishers in the coming week.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of January 11-17:
- NBC News Runs Story Exposing Anti-Semitic Origins of Reptilian Conspiracy Theory
- Fashion Designer Creates Map of QAnon / History Channel History Conspiracies
- Austrian Metal Band Releases Habsburg / Black Magic Alternative History Album
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• JasonColavito@outlook.com • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 18 • Issue 4 • January 24, 2021 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Almost as if once the fever dream of the Trump/QAnon conspiracy world had broken suddenly all the usual conspiracies that make up the standard media diet came flooding back, like a river refilling its banks once the dam holding it back breaks. This week we had UFOs and immortality in the New York Times, ancient astronauts in The New Yorker, and Atlantis on the History Channel. It’s almost like old times again. Or, more to the point: The media learned jack shit from four years of bottomless, dangerous conspiracy theories and is right back to pushing the same lies that got us here in the first place.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of January 18-23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• JasonColavito@outlook.com • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
• Vol. 18 • Issue 4 • January 24, 2021 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Almost as if once the fever dream of the Trump/QAnon conspiracy world had broken suddenly all the usual conspiracies that make up the standard media diet came flooding back, like a river refilling its banks once the dam holding it back breaks. This week we had UFOs and immortality in the New York Times, ancient astronauts in The New Yorker, and Atlantis on the History Channel. It’s almost like old times again. Or, more to the point: The media learned jack shit from four years of bottomless, dangerous conspiracy theories and is right back to pushing the same lies that got us here in the first place.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of January 18-23:
- New York Times Puff Piece Celebrates Robert Bigelow’s Hunt for Life after Death
- The New Yorker Interviews Erich von Däniken, Whitewashing His Bigotry
- Review of The UnXplained S02E10 “The Search for Atlantis”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• JasonColavito@outlook.com • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
