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The Case of the Time Traveling Ohio Airplane

1/14/2015

I was doing some reading today, and I came across the following report from the June 1963 edition of The Saucer News which somehow or another found its way into the Project Bluebook files. At the time Saucer News was edited by the late James W. Moseley, the famous ufologist, who in the 1960s was one of the field’s best known names and was then a close friend of James Randi, whom he later declared an enemy when Randi became a more dedicated skeptic. The story in question comes from a piece on anomalous aerial phenomena written by Sandy Moseley, his onetime wife. Here is what she reported:

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Review of In Search of Aliens S01E03 "The Mystery of Loch Ness"

8/9/2014

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After last week’s anti-Semitic debacle, In Search of Aliens turns to a less controversial subject, the Loch Ness Monster. Yes, episode S01E03 “The Mystery of Loch Ness” plumbs the depths of that utterly uninteresting cryptozoological search for a dinosaur-like creature in a small Scottish lake. What does this have to do with aliens? Good question. I think they ride on its back like Aquaman, or perhaps they signed a peace treaty with the monster to ensure its survival during the K-T boundary event that wiped out the dinosaurs. Show host Giorgio Tsoukalos once asserted that the Grey aliens signed just such a treaty with the coelacanth, so why not also with what Tsoukalos calls “the beast, the monster of Loch Ness”?

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Greg Little Is Still Mad about My 2013 Post on Giant Bones

7/29/2014

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Guess who is still angry with me. Did you guess Scott Wolter? Well, OK, yes, he did post a response a couple of months ago to an Amazon.com book review of his Hooked X® that referred to me and falsely claims that I was wrong about his honorary master’s degree not existing: “Just what exaggerated credentials are you talking about? You obviously didn't read my response to the misleading and incorrect blogger’s post in the Internet about my academic credentials.” We here “in the Internet” know the difference between a master’s degree and a cup of coffee, which is what he was actually awarded, but I don’t want to talk about him. Instead, Dr. Greg Little is the one who’s still mad at me this week!

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Kewaunee Lapseritis: Bigfoot Told Me He Works the Mines for Inter-Dimensional Alien Environmentalists

5/21/2014

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This morning Jane-Anne Shaw, a PhD student in Classics in Britain, posted a five-star review of my Jason and the Argonauts through the Ages on Amazon.co.uk. Hers is, so far as I know, the first review of my book, and I’m glad it was a nice one:

This is an extremely readable new paperback volume on an old myth. To examine, classify and rationalise the ancient figure of Jason (aka Iason - no ‘J’ in Classical Greek) Colavito has amassed a huge amount of material from the archaic Greek Mycenaean period down to our own era. […] It is not a heavy read - Colavito is clear and lucid - albeit stylistically I would place it towards the academic end of the Classical Studies spectrum. This does not detract from it at all - it is not a specialist book, and I imagine it will be of use to students as well as any general reader interested in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts.

A bit of disclosure: Several weeks ago Shaw asked me to put her in contact with my publisher so she could request a review copy. We did not discuss my book or my thoughts on Jason before she reviewed the book.

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Tuesday Grab-Bag: Bat Creek Update, Tsoukalos Tweets, and Reincarnation Evidence

2/11/2014

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First, for those of you who did not see the update I made to my earlier blog post about the Bat Creek Stone, I want to make sure everyone is aware of what I learned yesterday from the curator of archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society, Brad Lepper. After reading Scott Wolter’s recent claim that the Smithsonian had turned over ownership of the Bat Creek Stone to the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, Lepper contacted Dr. Bruce D. Smith, the Smithsonian’s curator of North American archaeology, who confirmed that the Bat Creek Stone remains the property of the Smithsonian Institution and was not returned to the Cherokee. Instead, it is on loan to the Cherokee for a temporary exhibit. Therefore, debate about how to best exploit the stone or whether to bury it is moot since it does not belong to the Cherokee and cannot be altered or destroyed without Smithsonian permission.

This is very good news because the Bat Creek Stone is an important artifact in the history of nineteenth century archaeological fraud and deserves to be protected.

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A Few Ghostly Christmas Monsters

12/25/2013

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Merry Christmas! I’m celebrating the holiday today, so in lieu of a lengthy blog post today, I’m going to share a few of the strange images I’ve found in the British Library’s release of one million pre-1900 engravings, drawings, photographs, and other illustrations. Christmas was traditionally the time for stories of ghosts and other spirit monsters, so today’s selection is an appropriate way to honor the spectral tradition of Christmas with some monstrous imagery.

Before anyone complains: Look up the tradition of the Christmas ghost story. It’s real.

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Odds and Ends: Congo Dinosaur and Hitler-Mobile Edition

12/23/2013

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This week I’m going to be taking it a little easier since it is Christmas week, and I have other priorities besides writing about the latest crackpot ideas. My blog posts will probably be a bit on the short side this week. However, I do have a couple of thoughts to share today.

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Alan Butler: Moon Built by Time-Traveling Humans, Washington Monument Signals Mithras Worship

11/8/2013

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I thought about holding this for Sunday, but I think it is important to get a debunking of this nonsense into the public record. Alan Butler, that faithful friend of Scott Wolter who once tried to sue me for reviewing one his books, has taken on a new persona. According to his Facebook page, he is now “Alan Butler, Time Messenger,” and he aims to tell us that time travelers built the moon and invented the conspiracy guarded by the Freemasons.

Butler and Scott Wolter, with whom he is working on the Freemason part of his new ideas, assert that the Washington Monument was deliberately positioned in downtown D.C. by Freemasons to produce two remarkable effects. First, it is designed to have its shadow reach the U.S. Capitol on September 17—Constitution Day—to celebrate the Constitution. It is also designed to repeat the feat on March 25, to celebrate Mithras and Attis, the secret gods of their hidden star-goddess cult.

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Doug Woodward Says I Am Wrong Because Nephilim Infected Our Y Chromosomes with Evil Angel DNA

11/8/2013

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A self-proclaimed member of the “Christian community,” Doug Woodward, author of a book on the coming threat of the Antichrist to America, has challenged my recent discussion of the Nephilim and the ancient astronaut theory, particularly as presented by L.A. Marzulli. Before reading Wooward’s discussion, it’s probably a good idea to review my original blog post, which examined Marzulli’s upset and outrage at Ancient Aliens’ recent episode arguing that Satan was a cosmic defender of humanity against nefarious aliens masquerading as Yahweh.

The crux of Woodward’s claim is that I am insufficiently deferential to biblical infallibility, which is not a critique so much as a philosophy. Woodward maintains that the Nephilim are real angel-human hybrids who continue to pose a threat to humanity today. On the other hand, he views me as “pseudo-sophisticated” and says I am employing distortions and falsehoods to deny these creatures’ existence. He also makes a very serious legal claim that I committed “defamation” in my remarks about Marzulli by suggesting that his views were not intellectually sound.

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Wolter Oreo Update and Jersey Devil News

10/20/2013

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The Paradigm Symposium, a gathering primarily of alternative historians, ancient astronaut theorists, and other assorted New Age types, is taking place in Minnesota, and yesterday PZ Myers attended Scott F. Wolter’s lecture on Mary Magdalene’s secret Oreo cookies recipe (it features partially hydrogenated soybean oil and Holy Blood) and was dumbfounded by Wolter’s “revelations,” which are old news to regular readers of this blog after I reviewed Wolter’s Akhenaten to the Founding Fathers a week ago.

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The Case of the Time Traveling Ohio Airplane

Review of In Search of Aliens S01E03 "The Mystery of Loch Ness"

Greg Little Is Still Mad about My 2013 Post on Giant Bones

Kewaunee Lapseritis: Bigfoot Told Me He Works the Mines for Inter-Dimensional Alien Environmentalists

Tuesday Grab-Bag: Bat Creek Update, Tsoukalos Tweets, and Reincarnation Evidence

A Few Ghostly Christmas Monsters

Odds and Ends: Congo Dinosaur and Hitler-Mobile Edition

Alan Butler: Moon Built by Time-Traveling Humans, Washington Monument Signals Mithras Worship

Doug Woodward Says I Am Wrong Because Nephilim Infected Our Y Chromosomes with Evil Angel DNA

Wolter Oreo Update and Jersey Devil News

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