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Review of Ancient Aliens S18E07: Alien Air Force

2/25/2022

Note: Due to technical problems, half of this review did not display properly. I have (finally) fixed the technical errors.

On That UFO Podcast this week, American Cosmic author Diana Pasulka said that scientists she is working with believe that they have pierced the veil between dimensions and are in communication with entities from alternate realities. “They believe they’re in contact, and they’re doing this through “technology” (which, in UFO circles, can mean anything from a machine to psychic powers) in order to tether into these other worlds.” This bizarre claim comes only days after UFO advocate Lue Elizondo delivered a strange digression about consciousness during a podcast interview, alleging that the human soul is independent of body and part of another reality, a claim he illustrated with geometric shapes invoking medieval alchemical symbolism for the Philosopher’s Stone.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S18E06: "Secrets of the Star Ancestors"

2/18/2022

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This week, Wired magazine gave Jacques Vallée the glamour treatment, with a glossy profile praising the aging deacon of ufology for his six decades of failure to find the answer to UFOs. Vallée made some mouth noises about “the phenomenon” being too smart for humanity, claiming that the entities purposely embrace humor and absurdity in order to break down humanity’s rational mind. At a certain point, it stops being anything even science-adjacent and instead becomes an expression of philosophy and faith. Vallée admits that his UFO obsession originated in an adolescent interest—but of course—and Wired treated far more respectfully than you’d think his bizarre claim from last year that the U.S. government recovered an avocado-shaped UFO staffed by miniature space aliens in 1945. His image makeover as grand master of science and worthy future recipient of government patronage is a rather amazing turnaround from a man denounced as dotty and past-his-prime by his own ufology colleagues just last year.

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Gillibrand Demands DoD IG Nominee Commit to Investigating UFO Investigations

2/16/2022

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In an appearance on Jimmy Church's radio show last night, Lue Elizondo reported that he and Chris Mellon had just returned from Washington, D.C., where they had been involved in activities surrounding the forthcoming creation of a Pentagon UFO office. Elizondo called it their most successful lobbying trip yet. By sheer coincidence, only hours earlier one of the people Elizondo praised effusively last night, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), grilled the nominee for Pentagon inspector-general on Elizondo's pet issue of UFO oversight during a confirmation hearing. Gillibrand's office has refused to say how closely she has been working with Elizondo and Mellon, but Elizondo alleged that the highest levels of government were taking their claims seriously. Mellon recently announced on Rising, the Hill's morning show, that he believes UFOs to be the work of space aliens, while Elizondo told Church that he personally holds the agreement with the Army to test alleged space alien UFO wreckage negotiated with the defunct To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science.

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Avi Loeb Sees Galileo Project Preparing the Way for Global Unity

2/15/2022

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Avi Loeb’s towering ambitions came into clearer focus after his latest missive appeared on his Medium blog yesterday. The Galileo Project leader envisions his organization as the vanguard for creating a unified response to what he presumes will be the Galileo Project’s proof of extraterrestrial visitations to Earth.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S18E05: "Recovering the Ark of the Covenant"

2/11/2022

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Ancient Aliens is going in search of the Ark of the Covenant. … Again. If the topic sounds familiar, it should. Back in 2013, Ancient Aliens did this same episode under the title “Aliens and the Lost Ark.” This time, they justify the repeat by skewing the focus a tiny bit, shifting a bit more to the hunt for the Ark rather than its alleged electrical alien superpowers. But that material has already been covered in the last two segments of the previous version, so I’m not sure that there is enough of a difference to warrant a whole other episode repeating the same material.

Since the episode both repeats the same claims and also recycles footage from the earlier episode, I will not be discussing each claim in detail, since I have already covered the same material. Below are the highlights of this bizarre instant-rerun.

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Garry Nolan Goes Full UFO, Talks Shape-Shifting, Psychic Projections, Nonsense

2/8/2022

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This morning KHMO Radio in Hannibal, Missouri ran a story inviting the audience to believe that the Smithsonian and unnamed government “authorities” are covering up the existence of a lost city of Bible Giants under Moberly, Missouri—a story recognized as a fake only days after the April Fool’s hoax was first printed in 1885. The Love Money clickbait site ran a piece, picked up by Microsoft’s MSN News and delivered to millions of Microsoft Edge users, presenting a made-up story that James Dean had been cast in Rebel without a Cause after being discovered living as a handyman in the basement of a Spanish-style Hollywood hacienda. (Nicholas Ray cast him on the strength of East of Eden. His casting in both movies took place in New York.) The house in question was never his home, and its celebrity connection is actually that it was Doris Roberts’s house.

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Researchers Behind Ice Age Comet Claim Say a Comet Destroyed the Hopewell, Too

2/6/2022

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The people behind the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis—the claim that a comet struck the Earth during the last Ice Age, often alleged to have destroyed an Atlantis-like civilization—are at it again with a new claim alleging that another comet hit Ohio in the early centuries CE and destroyed Ohio’s Hopewell civilization, who conveniently commemorated their own incineration with a comet-shaped earthwork.

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Discovery+ and Travel Channel Claim Vampires Are Real, Control the Media

2/2/2022

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The Discovery+ and Travel Channel two-hour special Vampires in America is one of those pieces of garbage media that reaches such depths of awfulness that it crosses over into unsavory, potentially dangerous territory. According to Discovery, the show is intended as a serious documentary about vampire hunters in Arizona who believe that missing persons and victims of violent crime have actually been seized by a hive of newly awakened vampires who descend from a blood-drinking hominid species that evolved 68,000 years ago before settling in Translyvania. They intend to find and kill the vampires. With a sword.

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Peter Thiel's UFO Interests; Plus: Garry Nolan Wants Your Money to Test UFO Parts

2/1/2022

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A recent Reddit post laid out the case that Peter Thiel, the billionaire rightwing venture capitalist who flirts with white nationalism, has succeeded Robert Bigelow as the new patron of the UFO industry. As you might be aware, Thiel is the sponsor of Hereticon, a conference for “weird” fringe types, notably those interested in the usual Bigelow-style topics of consciousness, immortality, and UFOs. Nick Pope spoke at the most recent Hereticon a few weeks ago. Thiel has funded immortality research for a decade and may have moved into ufology as a result of Bigelow-circle claims about the survival of consciousness being linked to interdimensional poltergeists. Thiel is friends with Jacques Vallée groupie Diana Pasulka, the American Cosmic academic who celebrates ufology’s religious elements, and Pasulka called Thiel a “genius” in a recent interview.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S18E07: Alien Air Force

Review of Ancient Aliens S18E06: "Secrets of the Star Ancestors"

Gillibrand Demands DoD IG Nominee Commit to Investigating UFO Investigations

Avi Loeb Sees Galileo Project Preparing the Way for Global Unity

Review of Ancient Aliens S18E05: "Recovering the Ark of the Covenant"

Garry Nolan Goes Full UFO, Talks Shape-Shifting, Psychic Projections, Nonsense

Researchers Behind Ice Age Comet Claim Say a Comet Destroyed the Hopewell, Too

Discovery+ and Travel Channel Claim Vampires Are Real, Control the Media

Peter Thiel's UFO Interests; Plus: Garry Nolan Wants Your Money to Test UFO Parts

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