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Review of Hangar 1: UFO Files S01E01 "Presidential Encounters"

3/2/2014

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Most regular readers know that I’m not terribly interested in the modern UFO phenomenon except where it intersects with ancient astronauts, folklore, and modern science fiction and/or horror. Nevertheless, I decided to subject myself to H2’s newest excuse for a “documentary,” called Hangar 1: The UFO Files, a program that claims to be an investigation into the files of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) but which is in reality a badly acting piece of fiction, composed of talking heads who say things they know to be untrue, historical reenactments that depict events that never occurred, and fabricated documents that the show apparently mocked up themselves using Microsoft Word and are attempting to pass off as historical artifacts. Lies, misdirection, and fraud? Why it must be an H2 “history” show!

Seriously: This is the absolute worst H2 “documentary” I have yet seen. It actually makes America Unearthed look responsible and Ancient Aliens seem accurate.
Hangar 1 S01E01 “Presidential Encounters” opens with a note that the “following incidents are taken from real case files.” This reminds me of the opening the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which claimed to be based on true events; however, I have no doubt that “these are actual UFO investigations” as the next slide informs us. That doesn’t make them true, of course. I have in my “case files” and email from a delusional and disturbed person who claimed that a UFO led him to discover Atlantis beneath the lava of an active volcano. It should be obvious that though this file exists, the story cannot be true.

The dateline is February 20, 1954: Palm Springs, California. Dwight Eisenhower vacations in Palm Springs “for no reason,” according to MUFON official John Ventre. Apparently MUFON official is this show’s version of “ancient astronaut theorist” on Ancient Aliens. A UFO historian tells us that Eisenhower “disappeared” for twelve hours during which time he allegedly met with aliens at Edwards Air Force Base. Dwight Equitz does not believe the official story, given out the next morning, that the president had emergency dental surgery even though the dentist himself made an appearance. Equitz has a self-satisfied smirk when he reports that the Air Force base was shut down to outsiders during Eisenhower’s trip to Palm Springs. He does not present the obvious: that it was shut down because of the President’s trip, perhaps as a secure retreat zone for the presidential party, or to house the presidential aircraft. Instead, he insinuates that the shutdown was to allow for aliens to land. Richard Dolan shows up next, and this saddens me. I thought he was supposed to have turned himself over to investigating the “truth” behind horror movies for the Chiller channel. I guess it depends on who’s paying for his time.

It seems, too, that this show has its own catchphrase: “MUFON files suggest…” This is almost as good as “ancient astronaut theorists believe…” from Ancient Aliens, but not quite. OK, well I have secret U.S. government alien files, too. So does that mean that I can say “Jason Colavito’s secret government files suggest…”?

I would like to see the text of this alleged Eisenhower “policy” of “absolute secrecy” about extraterrestrials that they talk about. They show a document on screen labeled “MANDATE 0463” from 1 March 1954, but I can find no record that this paper actually exists outside of the show. When I paused the video, I also noticed spelling errors in the document, such as “United State” for “United States,” and the language used in the letter matches no other DOD documents. I can’t even find a record for the supposed “Military Council” that created it. I am also pretty sure that on “1 March 1954” (a date system not used in memos of the time, which followed the March 1, 1954 format in the 1950s), documents weren’t written by computer in Times New Roman but by typewriter. Of course, it turns out I’m right: The memo isn’t just a computer-generated fake for illustration on this show; it’s also using language from the MAJESTIC-12 hoax to generate the fake memo without acknowledging this.

Here’s the MAJESTIC-12 language attributed to “Chapter 5: Extraterrestrial Biological Entities” of the Group Special Operations Manual dated April 1954, reformatted on this show to fabricate a “1 March 1954” memo, by computer, in Times New Roman. I quote from Stanton Friedman’s Top Secret/Majic, an unimpeachably pro-UFO source: “Any encounter with entities known to be of extraterrestrial origin is to be considered to be a matter of national security and therefore classified TOP SECRET. Under no circumstances is the general public or public press to learn of the existence of these entities. The official government policy is that such creatures do not exist, and that no agency of the federal government is now engaged in any study of extraterrestrials or their artifacts. Any deviation from this stated policy is absolutely forbidden.” This is the same text Hangar 1 uses, but they excerpt only some sentences from the MJ-12 manual in crafting their own fake memo.

The whole thing we see on screen appears to be a complete fabrication from this passage of the fictional MJ-12 documents, and no one on this show acknowledges or addresses the deception involved in creating this fake document as an “illustration.” I’m sure as far as the show is concerned, it’s just another “reconstruction” like reenactments featured during the show, but they present it as though it were true, quote from the fake document as real, and give a fake date not supported by the “actual” files in the MUFON archive.

Seven minutes into the show, and I’m ready to bail because it has already tried to deceive me and showed a blatant disregard for truth and disrespect for the audience.

Following this, we get another review of the Roswell Incident and the claim that Harry Truman was the first president to “publicly” deal with UFOs. The incident never reached his desk because no one involved ever though it was an alien spacecraft, and a crashed balloon or disc simply did not warrant presidential involvement. It’s a bit funny to hear the show claim that Truman decided to “keep this incident from the public” when the military put the story in the newspapers. Dolan has no doubt that the Roswell aliens were real and that Truman was hiding the truth. Truman’s “public” handling of UFOs came in 1952, during the so-called Washington UFO Flap. When asked if he had discussed flying saucers with the Joint Chiefs, Truman replied that he had: “They never were able to make me a concrete report on them.” A wire service called the International News Service put out a story that Truman ordered the Air Force to shoot down the UFOs, but no documents exist to confirm any such order. The Air Force held a press conference after the stories ran to explain that the UFOs were not material objects and therefore did not pose a threat to national security.

Contrary to the show’s claims, the panel chaired by Howard Percy Robertson was not a top secret meeting to discuss UFO strategy. Instead, the group concluded that there was no evidence UFOs were alien spacecraft, that aerial phenomena posed no threat, and that hysterical media accounts (like, ahem, the one we’re watching) “does, in these parlous times, result in a threat to the orderly functioning of the protective organs of the body politic.” They felt UFOs should be stripped of their aura of mystery and discussed as common aerial phenomena. Dolan calls this “justification” for suppressing the truth about aliens.

Along the way, another fake computer-generated memo is given as “illustration.”

And this was just the first ten minutes.

After the break I decide to pay less attention to the show. It will take me too long to review this if I try caring about all of it. The show states that JFK was assassinated because he was going to reveal UFO secrets and that future presidents keep UFOs secret to avoid being assassinated. It also claims that Americans were concerned that aliens could unwittingly create a nuclear war if the Soviets mistook a UFO for an American plane. Not surprisingly, after telling us that the Soviets and Kennedy discussed UFOs, the show then backpedals and tells us that we have no idea if they actually did any of the things the show just finished telling us they did. Then we see a typewritten National Security Memorandum about US-Soviet space cooperation, which for once is absolutely genuine. Of course it makes no mention of UFOs, but Richard Dolan is fairly convinced that Kennedy is a martyr to UFO disclosure.

So, just to be clear: H2 is telling us that the Kennedy assassination was a conspiracy, that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone assassin, and that the Cigarette-Smoking Man from the X-Files actually did kill Kennedy because of aliens.

The show claims that the Accident Measures Agreement of 1971 discusses “unidentified objects” and that these are UFOs. You can see from the full text that this is not referring to spacecraft but to any object that sets off early warning detection systems before it is identified—bird, vimana, wheel of Ezekiel, model rocket, guy in a chair with 1,000 helium balloons attached—anything. There’s no evidence this referred to UFOs.

After the break, we hear claims that Richard Nixon shared America’s UFO secrets with Jackie Gleason, from The Honeymooners, taking him—alone, without Secret Service!—to a Florida Air Force Base, where he saw aliens. How do I even try to dignify this claim? It comes from the National Enquirer, back when it published fake stories later given to the Weekly World News. The story ran in August of 1983, and the story entered UFO lore thanks to the sloppy research of…wait for it…MUFON itself, which never checked the source!

Then Richard Dolan tells us that Bill Clinton’s aide Webster Hubbell was stonewalled part of an effort to keep Clinton from learning UFO secrets. We hear a secondhand account that Bill and Hillary Clinton saw UFOs and that Bill found UFOs interesting, but no one asks either for a statement because this show is to journalism what cheese food product is to cheese. The show concludes that Clinton’s effort to release information about the Roswell Incident “fail[ed]” because it turned up no aliens. One might more fairly conclude, since the Roswell: Case Closed report did expose an actual cover-up—of an advanced balloon—that this might be a success, unless you’re desperate for aliens

After the break we are only halfway through this giant turd. We hear about the time Jimmy Carter mistook the planet Venus for a UFO in 1969. He did not believe it was a spacecraft, but somehow the show concludes anyway that this was a defining moment in his life and drove him to obsess on UFO disclosure. Dolan and Grant Cameron assert that George H. W. Bush, then CIA director, prevented Carter from learning about UFOs. Cameron smugly said that Bush told the president that he was not on a need-to-know basis with the CIA’s UFO division. This is ridiculous, of course, since the CIA is an executive department and the president could dismiss any CIA director who refused direct orders. The pompous jerks on this show seem to think they know things they couldn’t know, along with the secrets that presidents somehow were forbidden.

Did California governor Ronald Reagan see a UFO in 1974? Do I care? The show implies that Reagan believes in UFOs and was “profoundly influenced” by the UFO experience, thus resulting in his selection of Bush as running mate. Um, no. Even a moment’s check of the facts would show that Bush had no love for Reagan before his selection as running mate. All of the pundits, however, agree that Bush is America’s “gatekeeper” of UFO secrets and masterminded the secret plot to suppress alien truth. Cameron calls him a member of Majestic-12, the nonexistent UFO government agency. I am disturbed that this yet another H2 show promoting the idea that the U.S. government is actively working against the American citizenry, contributing to the paranoia we see in society today. They slip dangerously close to the wide-ranging Bush family conspiracy theories bubbling through the left wing conspiracy zone.

The show makes much of an alleged “slip” in 1988 when Bush said that “Yes I know some; I know a lot” in response to a question about whether as CIA director he had access to UFO files. The show interprets this as the smoking gun that Bush knew of aliens, but it much more likely refers to Bush knowing that the UFO phenomenon was a bunch of hot air and Cold War propaganda created to hide CIA spy planes and their Soviet counterparts, as actual CIA and NSA documents have repeatedly shown—and as I’ve discussed before and repeatedly.

The narrator then asks if Barack Obama will reveal UFO secrets. After the final break they answer the question: No. The MUFON team are very disappointed that Obama did not bring hope and change to UFO research. Ventre is upset that the White House said that there is no evidence of alien life. “How can they make that statement?” Ventre asks, citing MUFON documents and alien abductees as evidence of alien life.

The narrator concludes from this that presidents “adhere to a policy of UFO secrecy.”

Here’s the thing: Dolan says he has a “well-placed” government source who told him about secret government UFO briefings. I don’t usually like to play this card, but I know a lot of people who know people, and I went to school with a current U.S. senate staffer, and his uncle, whom I have also met, is a high ranking official in the Obama administration. I can’t share his name because I don’t want to bring the wrath of UFO nuts down on him, but suffice it to say that he has been in government for two decades and has a top security clearance, as well as a job that involves working with intelligence agencies. I asked him point blank about this a long time ago, in the U.S. Capitol no less, and he laughed at the very idea. He told me that, no, there just isn’t any of this imaginary UFO evidence. Now, you may say that he was lying to me or that he was part of the conspiracy, but why would he lie to me (is his nephew in on it, too?) while some secondhand source went on to tell Dolan the truth decades after the fact? What makes Dolan’s source better than mine? Secondhand oral statements aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

The show concludes that the government is hiding things from us and that only the dedicated team of MUFON officials and UFO historians can be trusted to give us the truth that the government is hiding—by sitting on their asses in front of a camera blathering about secondhand statements from people they’ve never met.

Frankly, I expected this show to be more investigative, perhaps involving fieldwork or interviews with actual witnesses and informants. I should have known better! This is H2, and that kind of crap is expensive! Instead, we go the worst of all possible worlds: Ancient Aliens: The Next Generation.

111 Comments
CHV
3/1/2014 01:06:42 pm

Although I am a UFO skeptic, I have no problem whatsoever believing that if an actual ET spacecraft were discovered (with or without alien bodies) that the US government would have every possible motivation to cover it up - both from a strategic military, socio-economic and religious POV.

I quote Tommy Lee Jones: "A person is smart, yes. But people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

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Jason Colavito link
3/1/2014 01:14:02 pm

Then why didn't civilization collapse when everyone thought life had been discovered on the Moon (1835) or on Mars (1890s)? Are people stupider and more panicky now than they were then?

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CHV
3/1/2014 01:32:34 pm

Let me answer a question with a question: have you ever seen Fox News?

Pat Themaras
3/8/2014 11:44:19 am

Jason...as a long time MUFON member, and a UFO experiencer, u r THE biggest ass I ever had the misfortune to read about...just discredit,disavow and disinform...and I bet u never have seen a mile long UFO either because if u had.......

Jason Colavito link
3/8/2014 11:57:02 am

Pat, please do explain why you support fabricating documents from bits and pieces of other texts and passing them off as real. How do you expect me to believe in UFO conspiracies if the evidence is intentionally falsified?

BillUSA
3/9/2014 10:28:25 am

Jason - One thing that grinds my gears when we hear of government conspiracies to cover up UFO's is that despite the public record indicating the government can't keep its house in order, the ufologist crowd expects us to believe that the government can manage to ace keeping the public in the dark about such things for decades. Worse yet is the arrogant supposition that being a ufologist entitles such enthusiasts to a measure of professional respect that is better applied to legitimate scientists.

Mark L
3/10/2014 02:12:51 am

CHV, why don't you answer the question with an answer instead?

Jeff K
3/20/2014 09:44:15 am

Bill, You know one thing that grinds my gears? Whenever someone mentions the point you do. About how our incompetent government could not possibly keep such a big conspiracy secret. You know what? Your exactly right, that couldn't, and obviously they can't and don't. Otherwise we wouldn't be talking about it. There would not be all this information out there. There would not be all these whistleblowers and witnesses that have came forward. Just look at all the former military/government people that have come forward with there stories to the disclosure project, amongst others. So you are right about them not being able to keep it secret. Wrong about the rest. The ufo community does not expect the government to be able to keep it secret. Obviously

Marc
4/21/2014 05:46:49 am

maybe you'd might want to check out an actual credible source about UFO, such as Michio Kaku.. although 95%+ can be discredited, it's that small 5% percent that makes your really think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pw13F7ahjY

TOH
4/30/2014 01:32:11 am

I'm not a scientists, professor, or college grad. Or anything and you could probably just put me in a category of the average person who just believes anything on TV but that's not the case. Hanger 1 and other shows on H2 are obvisouly fake and reanacted, fabricated, just like any other reality show and shows/series that talk about events in the past. Of course they are going to say everything's true on shows like hanger 1 and "come-off" like what their saying is true, but of course any attentive/knowledgable person like yourself will notice/see that things are fabricated, but that doesn't discredit if UFO's are real or even aliens. Obvisouly it's to make money and grab viewers like everything else but at the end of the day it's going to keep people wondering. In my personal opinion the show is a joke but I do believe in UFO's and that there are other types of beings in the universe. It's illogical to think that humans are the only life forms in the Universe, and over the history of the years there's been to Many relating incidents, sitings, of identical stories. Iv grandfather was is 92 years old and was in the Air Force, sometimes the most credible source are people, not books or documentaries. But have you ever heard the story on bob lazar? You probably have but check this link out. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvpRislFE4

Zap Rousedower
11/1/2014 02:17:34 pm

Let me answer a question with a question: have you ever seen MSNBC?

Carl R
8/11/2015 02:22:25 pm

Did we forget about Orson Wells reading of "War of the Worlds" on radio. People panic, freaked out and some killed themselves.

KIF
3/1/2014 01:54:13 pm

They would never successfully get away with covering up the existence of a crashed flying saucer

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CHV
3/1/2014 02:01:11 pm

It would depend on how remote the crash site was. However, with mass media I do agree that it would be much harder to conceal than 30 years ago.

KIF
3/1/2014 02:30:32 pm

However "remote", there's always someone, in whatever position, out there with a story to sell for a fast buck

Matt Mc
3/2/2014 12:28:19 am

" story to sell for a fast buck"

Hence why we have a ton of shows like HANGER 1, AA, AU, Ghost Hunters, ect ect ect....

I think I made it about 10 minutes into this one and deleted it from my DVR, Nothing of any interest and the warehouse did not even look interesting, Bad reshashing of already told stories.

KIF
3/2/2014 12:59:25 am

"factual story to tell"

RC
3/5/2014 04:12:43 am

Do you know what is going on as a result of the BP oil disaster along the coast, not to mention the illnesses that have occurred for many in the population there? And that is right here and now and involves so many people.

Just one example. I find your comment rather naïve.

WWG
4/18/2014 07:10:11 pm

I know that there are things we are not told, there are choices the American public never find out were made, and documents that were utterly destroyed by the government, but I'm more apt to believe that most of what 'slips' out of the government is for *&its and giggles of those in the government and occasionally a method of covering some politicos sex life than UFOs, unless it stands for Unresolved F&&%ing Offenses. If the government found or downed an alien craft you can bet your ass that they would keep it secret, they'd sterilize the entire area, go in with HAZMAT suits, yes even in 47 and ensure everything that came out was pictures and drawing or raw material that would withstand heat and wasn't radioactive. Was there a flying saucer of alien design? I have no clue but if there was there would be no factual paperwork leaked about it, not when we have enemies on the planet that could use that accurate information. No, I don't doubt government conspiracy or presidential involvement, but I bet that most of the documents if not all of them were fabricated by the government and 'leaked' to people they knew would use them, possibly even years down the road. It makes me question any proof they have, even proof they personally believe is accurate. The catch phrase any UFO nut should have is Trust But Verify, and that's usually done with those like Jason here that have an eye for details and contradiction, don't let the mirror of mirrors fool you, don't let what is known but unproven and unfounded be the foundation that you set your beliefs upon. To tell the truth when i watched Hanger 1 first episode I felt like i was reading a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfic, it was entirely too focused on the files with out any foundation below that and the fact alone should be enough to detour the show from running a full season.
Don't mind me, I'm a cynical believer who calls myself a realist, don't confuse theory with fact no mater how pretty it's cloths are.

Pfffft
3/1/2014 04:15:48 pm

Alternately, the US would have every possible motivation to scream out to the world that aliens came HERE first--also from a strategic military, socio-economic and religious POV. It would be rather a major coup for capitalism over, say, Chinese communism, for instance. Just sayin'. And if they didn't come to the US, how, particularly in these days of global Internet, would the US government manage to censor it from every person within our borders? They couldn't even have done that in the 1940s and 50s, what with ham radio and all. Hell, they didn't manage real well even during the Revolutionary War, thanks to private couriers and spies!

It's not actually that likely that the US government would even try to cover it up. Not even the military. Reverse engineering is a hell of a lot harder than most people think it is, and the corporations that control the economy would absolutely jump at the chance for a whole new set of rubes--or at the chance to sell a whole new set of anti-alien weapon tech to the public. Either one. Or both!

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Brian
3/9/2014 03:43:32 pm

I agree. I mean, think of the logic here... people who believe that show say that Nixon was in the know on alien beings. However, he spends countless effort to go wire tapping democrat phone lines looking for communists and agitators? If you happened to know that aliens existed, how would communists and sympathizers even be on your radar, as president? It's like knowing your car has a bomb in it, and worrying about windshield whippers being a tad heat cracked.

But there's a sucker born every....

Tara Jordan link
3/2/2014 02:13:09 am

"the US government would have every possible motivation to cover it up - both from a strategic military, socio-economic and religious POV."

Quite the opposite.Understanding the American mindset,the establishment would use the extraterrestrial issue as an external existential threat to reinforce national unity & cohesion.

“Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
Ronald Reagan speech before the United Nations in 1987.

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CHV
3/2/2014 09:52:12 am

It would be a moot point. If an alien force had the technology and power to span the vast distances between the stars, no amount of human unity or resistance would stop them if they wanted to ransack Earth's resources.

Tara Jordan link
3/2/2014 10:52:33 am

CHV
You are evading the initial point.Where is the threat,where is the so called "civilizational collapse"?.If you follow the rational among ufo buffs,new agers & individuals who believe in the existence of extra terrestrials,the vast majority of them consider Aliens as "benevolent space brothers".They see potential "landing & contacts" are paradigm shifting,the nec plus ultra in universal consciousness awakening.

RLewis
3/2/2014 06:47:34 am

With the thousands of satellites, radars, and telescopes pointed at the sky it would be virtually impossible for anything of any size to hit the earth unnoticed.
Also, the military use of alien technology would likely be very limited. If we were to transport a modern battleship to the18th century, there's nothing they could do with it. Even if we explained all of the technology to them, they would not have the infrastructure to create fuel, ammunition, and a boatload of other items/technologies to keep it afloat. If the US found a spaceship it would require the cooperation of thousands of people (among other resources) to reproduce.

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JChamberlin
4/8/2015 08:04:38 am

With the March 2014 dissappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, it makes me re-consider how adequate our existing radar, telescope, and satellite tracking systems are. If commercial airlines flying in earth's atmosphere can in fact dissappear with out a trace even with todays array of radar and gps devices, then it seems possible that other objects could maneuver in our skies without our knowledge.

shotgun1
4/18/2014 06:03:29 am

While the Mufon organization may be real, this TV show is complete fiction.

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abductedbyaliens
3/1/2014 02:01:11 pm

@Jason - I noticed a couple of mistakes in your review. The paragraph that begins "I would like to see....," second line from the bottom, should read "using language from" not form, and the paragraph that begins "After the break I decide....," five lines from the bottom, should read "things the show," not how.

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Brian M
3/2/2014 04:10:39 am

I noted several obvious typos in this review. My reaction to it was that Jason was so disgusted with the shallowness deceit of this program that he was actually agitated writing this and was simply careless in the preparation. I can't believe I watched the whole thing. Kudos to those of you who turned it off early!

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Jason Colavito link
3/2/2014 04:18:47 am

The truth is that I am pressed for time on weekends, and I wrote this late on Saturday night when I was already tired. I proofread better in the mornings.

Will
3/1/2014 02:28:55 pm

The Wheel of Ezekiel reference had me in stitches!

Awesome work as usual Jason!

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KIF
3/2/2014 01:01:22 am

"Wheel of Ezekiel"

So so obvious what that represents
Ezekiel also had great things to say about the Temple

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Snarky Snarkgrass
3/1/2014 03:08:00 pm

Jason I fear that you will soon be receiving threats from the Velveeta Lovers Fan Club.

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Michio Snarko
3/1/2014 03:15:41 pm

Next thing you know, Jason will be insulting my favorite processed meat product...... Spam!

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Gunn
3/2/2014 02:26:59 am

Anything or anyone from Minnesota will do. (Just joking; it only seems so.)

Velveeta Lover
3/1/2014 04:04:38 pm

Yes, and hear is the first one: SERIOUSLY, Jason, this is not to journalism what pasteurized cheese product is to cheese. It contains not even the tiniest scrap of actual journalism as its seed in the way pasteurized cheese product contains scraps of real cheese at its core. Also, Velveeta is tasty, while this show is assuredly not. And I am certain this show makes a TERRIBLE queso!

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Lord Snarkington
3/2/2014 12:49:53 pm

I say, good show, old chap!

Snarkvetta
3/2/2014 12:52:21 pm

Velveeta + Rotel Tomatos + Wolf Brand Chili = Yum Yum!!!!!

Only Me
3/1/2014 03:25:36 pm

Now I know why the number two is in the channel's logo. Number two seems to be the only thing they can crank out as programming.

On a positive note, tonight's premiere of The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved was quite enjoyable, so there are exceptions.

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Titus pullo
3/2/2014 12:42:36 am

Where is Scott wolter when you need him.

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Phil
3/2/2014 05:30:19 am

Even Scott Wolter has more self respect than to be credited by National Enqiirer? It took about 3 seconds to find the Jackie Gleason story originated from that rag. It is geat entertainment and humor but, really? Does anyone take what they publish as fact?

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Harry
3/2/2014 12:55:11 am

It sounds like this show was produced by members of the Meritorious Official Response Obfuscation Network (one guess what its acronym is).

The World Weekly News also claimed that there were aliens in the U.S. Senate, including Nancy Landon Kassebaum (born 1932), daughter of FDR's 1936 Republican opponent, Alf Landon. So, evidently, aliens were here before Roswell. I wonder if this show will do an episode on aliens in government.

Your Velveeta analogy might not work because Velveeta is a dairy product.

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Jason Colavito link
3/2/2014 01:00:17 am

As a technical matter, Velveeta is only one of many cheese food products. My point was that the show has the form of journalism and some of the parts of it--witnesses, documents, etc.--but is so processed and contains so much adulteration that it only resembles the original in form, not substance. This show does have some dairy in it, to use the cheese food product analogy, but it's drowned out by all the vegetable oil: fake, non-cheese stuff.

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Matt Mc
3/2/2014 01:29:50 am

So you are sating we need a 100% natural all organic and GMO free show about aliens. Somehow I don't think that will happen

Jason Colavito link
3/2/2014 01:34:18 am

I'd settle for one with no artificial ingredients.

PaulN. link
3/23/2014 09:00:13 am

Velveeta is to cheese, as Pringles are to potato chips. Ground up ingredients, processed with additives, and packaged as facsimile of the real thing.

Graham
3/2/2014 02:43:44 am

Actually this reminds me more of the film Hanger 18 which in it's advertising claimed to be a documentary based on 'supressed information' but which turned out to be a not very good SF thriller that nethertheless incorporated much flying saucer lore into it's plotline.

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SAK
3/2/2014 02:08:11 am

It is very foolish to think that Carter and 10 people saw Venus.
The information offered in this blog is terse and bleak.

Very misleading...and somewhat ignorant...just a tit-4-tat...since that's what skeptics call the ufo folks..of whom I am NOT one...FYI.

It's apparent that omission of info is present in the blog...

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Gunn
3/2/2014 02:37:28 am

SAK: Back to your SPACESHIP, you alien and UNFASHIONABLE troublemaker!

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Jesse
3/2/2014 04:08:04 am

Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare that seeing is believing!

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Tom
3/3/2014 08:30:27 pm

They didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.

abductedbyaliens
3/5/2014 03:32:02 pm

@Tom - My favorite X-Files episode. RIP Jose Chung.

jim oberg
3/9/2014 06:31:24 am

SAK: "It is very foolish to think that Carter and 10 people saw Venus." The trick on the MUFON show is to FALSIFY the date of the sighting as "October 1969" when the Lions Club records -- and witnesses -- agree it was in January. And since Venus was burning BRILLIANTLY in the sky exactly in the position Carter recalls a 'strange light', and he did NOT describe it as "a strange light up there near Venus", it is foolhardy to NOT admit the likelihood he and the others [whe were unimpressed with the light] were seeing Venus. But the MUFON files, and the TV program, must be falsified to make people like YOU avoid the real explanation. Now, who's feeling foolish?

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B
3/9/2014 03:57:58 pm

Bravo. This is becoming a big problem. We used to have movies and fringe magazines post this kind of fakery. Today it's so insane that our trusted science channels are making fake shows with faked data to build upon a mythology of UFO's to garner more viewers.

these viewers will accept it as fact, then tell their kids the facts... and in a few generations this will be the mythology believed in as truth.

Reid
3/2/2014 03:31:53 am

@Jason-Thank you for continuing to watch this mess. I gave up at the first commercial break. One clarification in your report; George W. Bush was not CIA director. That was W's dad, George H.W. Bush.

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Jason Colavito link
3/2/2014 03:49:35 am

It was me typing too fast. Sometimes my fingers don't catch up to my brain. I fixed the typo.

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jim oberg
3/9/2014 06:40:06 am

Jason, great analysis, especially re the documents. That is a useful analysis technique in detecting anachronistic terms and technology in fake documents posing as much OLDER documents.

I suggest you overlooked an excellent reason why a CIA director would know things about "UFOs" unrelated to them being real. As my own research on Russian space and missile activities has shown, all major Soviet-era "UFO flaps" widely reported in official news media there turned OUT to have been sparked by public misperceptions of top secret Soviet missile and space events, such as the 1967 "crescent UFO wave" that actually described space-to-earth nuclear warhead delivery tests. The "UFO" details were an extraordinary window to the visual perceptions of thousands of observers across the USSR of activities of FUNDAMENTAL interest to the CIA, DIA, etc. -- missile and warhead flights. After a few years, even the Soviets realized this, to their shock, and clamped a TOTAL embargo on reporting "UFOs" in their media. Of course, even THAT was trumpeted as 'proof' UFOs were real. CIA analysts would have known better, and laughed for years. Details at www.jamesoberg.com/ufo.html

THANK YOU for sitting through this travesty and applying your intellect to it. I and many others are grateful for your service to the truth.

Gunn
3/2/2014 04:25:20 am

At any rate, either Hillary or Jeb will effectively keep the JFK assassination cover-up going quite effectively. Looking back at the general Bush/Clinton part, one can almost follow the chain-of-custody for the cover-up, keeping in mind, once a cover-up, always a cover-up. I'll go on record early as predicting a Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton victory.

By the way, this is a weird thought, but just exactly what could be done if two Italian rifles with the same serial number were used in the PLOT? It is known that duplicate serial numbers occurred because different factories sometimes kept their own serial numbers during productions. The cheap rifles came to America through Mafia-controlled ports, such as New York. The weapon "breaks down" into two parts, basically, the rifle portion and the stock portion. Did Oswald think he was acting for the FBI when he took his copy of the rifle to the book depository to plant? (Oh yeah, he was a patsy alright.)

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El Snarko
3/2/2014 01:00:57 pm

I think the upcoming presidential election comes down to who can carry the processed cheese food vote.

How's that for lightening up, Rev Phil?

Robert Sheaffer link
3/2/2014 08:54:28 am

"Richard Dolan tells us that Bill Clinton’s aide Webster Hubbell was murdered as part of an effort to keep Clinton from learning UFO secrets."

Um, Web Hubbell is still alive. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Hubbell

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Jason Colavito link
3/2/2014 09:01:03 am

Indeed he is. I was thinking of Vince Foster. I'll fix the mistake.

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Josh
3/2/2014 01:06:11 pm

Did I miss something or did you skip the part where numerous missiles went offline when a ufo appeared? (not the first time this has been reported) If so, why? Thank you.

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Jason Colavito link
3/2/2014 01:29:07 pm

No, you didn't miss anything. I skipped it because it bored me. The claim was just on Ancient Aliens a couple of weeks ago, and we discussed it then. I didn't think it was worth repeating again so soon.

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Colin Hunt
3/3/2014 05:39:49 am

Why goes the US Government provide funding to S.E.T.I. if it wants to cover up potential findings of extra-terrestrial activity? SETI is a non-government organisation the Government does not control and I am sure would be ecstatic to publish any real findings of such life and UFOs. What does that say about a Government cover-up conspiracy?

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nablator
3/4/2014 12:27:17 am

http://www.seti.org/faq#obs7

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Jeff K
3/20/2014 10:32:50 am

They don't. SETI stopped receiving any federal funding in 1993 I believe. It is supported by donations

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Ken Partyka
3/3/2014 09:11:09 am

Your article on the show " Hangar 1" is right to the point and I agree with almost everything you write. However, the reference to the Air Force's response to the Roswell UFO Incident "Roswell: Case Closed" is off base with the comment "of an advanced balloon". The book written by Jesse Marcel, Jr, "The Roswell Legacy" helps to substantiate allot of what his Father, Jesse Marcel, Sr had encountered with the debris field in Roswell. In addition, Jesse Marcel Jr offers the extensive background training, education and experience his Father attained that would have surely helped him to differentiate between the material he found and that which comprised the equipment and balloon of Project Mogul. Yes , "Hangar 1" is comedic at best however "Roswell: Case Closed" is a highly suspicious response to a still very mysterious situation. A situation that has its roots originating from the government but a still highly classified experiment.

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RC
3/5/2014 04:24:57 am

Ken, As I have often reflected upon the Roswell incident, I do have to share something from my social psychology books.

During WWII a technique for propaganda/manipulation was devised by the good old USA. This was as follows. The gov't announces facts which are true, however they do not want the public to believe. Then, within a short time frame, they announce that they were incorrect and plant a different story.

Look it up. It isn't obscure. It is in text books. Interesting correlation to Roswell.

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RC
3/5/2014 04:25:14 am

Ken, As I have often reflected upon the Roswell incident, I do have to share something from my social psychology books.

During WWII a technique for propaganda/manipulation was devised by the good old USA. This was as follows. The gov't announces facts which are true, however they do not want the public to believe. Then, within a short time frame, they announce that they were incorrect and plant a different story.

Look it up. It isn't obscure. It is in text books. Interesting correlation to Roswell.

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RC
3/5/2014 04:25:29 am

Ken, As I have often reflected upon the Roswell incident, I do have to share something from my social psychology books.

During WWII a technique for propaganda/manipulation was devised by the good old USA. This was as follows. The gov't announces facts which are true, however they do not want the public to believe. Then, within a short time frame, they announce that they were incorrect and plant a different story.

Look it up. It isn't obscure. It is in text books. Interesting correlation to Roswell.

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RC
3/5/2014 04:25:36 am

Ken, As I have often reflected upon the Roswell incident, I do have to share something from my social psychology books.

During WWII a technique for propaganda/manipulation was devised by the good old USA. This was as follows. The gov't announces facts which are true, however they do not want the public to believe. Then, within a short time frame, they announce that they were incorrect and plant a different story.

Look it up. It isn't obscure. It is in text books. Interesting correlation to Roswell.

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Ken Partyka
3/6/2014 08:21:26 am

I will certainly review this specifically. Media manipulation, spin control, denial attempts, etc...are all true and obvious answers to many military and government responses. With the 15 to 20 years after the end of World War II, an easy solution as the general populace were open to believing the response or different responses to the same event - Trust. And why Not ? The enemy of the time was plain to see, all was Black and White. No one really expected deceptive tactics from certain areas of our own government and / or the military. The merits of National Security demand secrecy and deception, at times, for obvious reasons. However, the government has used this theme to generally explain away ALL UFO sightings while UFO organizations have used this to substantiate theories of conspiracy and cover-up. There are arguments for both sides. However, these arguments are pointless - conspiracies do occur, coverups, do happen and yes, people in general use duplicity including governments. This does not mean that there is a Nationwide or Worldwide UFO coverup, far from it. Nor do I think all sightings can be explained, there is truth there. What that truth is, only the the facts will guide us there. Thanks for the topic of propaganda / manipulation. I will look it up.

B
3/9/2014 03:55:05 pm

RC while what you say is true about disinformation, it does not make UFO "coverups" credible. We are at a time where I think the many TV watchers in the US believes in UFO's. Discovery Channel, Nat Geo, History channel all have shows that have built upon the UFO mythos (yes mythos)... stating their info as a point of fact.

It makes no sense a this point in time to cover this up. It is entirely illogical to tell people the sky is not blue, when 60% of society says the sky is blue.

What's really sad is that the so called science channels have adopted fiction in order to garner viewers... and their push of this fakery is convincing more of society that it's all true... leading to a generation that will 100% believe in UFO's even though it's just a modern myth.

When will the science channels go back to ... i dont know... science?

Garymac
3/3/2014 11:40:09 am

Jason, thank you for taking the time to watch this and those other terrible shows so we don't have to. When I hear people talk about them it makes me crazy. Which reminds me when talking about them with my brother who said "Hey if you think the BS is deep in those shows, just wait until the elections come around again."

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yakko
3/4/2014 04:34:35 pm

I love it when I'm right! I made a prediction about the worth of this program when it was brought up on a couple of other threads, and it appears I was right (short version: same old BS). As someone else put it apropos of a different subject: that's why books have covers.

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Omar Reginaldy
3/7/2014 02:20:30 am

I'm a hard news journalist and am skeptical of UFO government cover-ups. But while this show doesn't quite make it out of the slush pile, I think your indictments are a bit on the presuming side themselves. There's no clear and present threat to any truth or truths, and questions are posed rather than answers imposed. It simply exploits intrigue, which by nature is neither benign nor malicious, only energizing.

Speaking of intriguing, the show speculates that some presidents may have been involved in UFO cover-ups while others were completely left in the dark. The truth is, we'll never know because we'll never have a "disclosure president". No president will ever stand at a podium and reveal to the world that they personally viewed alien bodies recovered from a space ship, no matter how honest, bold or pure of heart. Why? Because a revelation of that magnitude would immediately and forever dub them the UFO president. Whatever they were or would have gone on to be would be erased, stamped out, rewritten. Nothing else they cared about would matter, whatever else they accomplished remembered. What President would relegate themselves to a single gray dot in some dusty history book?

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Jason Colavito link
3/7/2014 02:23:57 am

I'm sorry, but I can't accept that any "hard news journalist" would be OK with a program that fabricated documents.

Contact with intelligent life on other planets would be a bit more important than negotiating an expansion to entitlements, and I can't imagine that first contact would be an asterisk in history.

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Mufonlies
3/25/2018 09:20:46 am

Well from my research MUFON really only are FBI DEA and Police informants using a NASA hoax to cover up them snitching on people Rosewell was what NASA said chimps burned and crashed. Really MUFONs bone heads would have been locked up for treason if any of they're information was actually "top secret". When we questioned MUFON about things all they could say is we work for the government but we don't we have caught MUFON snitching on people to the law out here in New England many times now no. Even one of them got caught snitching in Wal-Mart in Claremont but then the security guard caught her stealing while she was snitching on some guy pointing at him and telling on him to some law enforcement not sure which branch but MUFON are nothing more then a huge group of scum bags who tell on people to avoid arrest and prison time!

Donna Fritz
3/9/2014 08:18:15 am

No, you didn't miss anything. I skipped it because it bored me. The claim was just on Ancient Aliens a couple of weeks ago, and we discussed it then. I didn't think it was worth repeating again so soon. - Jason Colavito

Or perhaps you skipped it because you're unable to refute it.

You make some valid points in your unfavorable review of Hangar 1. However, the Malmstrom Incident, which I've studied in depth, was as far as I can tell a real UFO incident.

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BillUSA
3/9/2014 10:53:45 am

Donna Fritz

Spoken like a true UFO enthusiast. Right down to the exaggeration of the words written by Jason.

If you poll a million different people on the body of UFO stories they would each surely choose a favorite among them and declare it something they find most plausible.

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Donna Fritz
3/9/2014 12:32:22 pm

Exaggeration? I cut & pasted it from his post. Just speculating why he really skipped it.

I was a UFO skeptic for decades; been following the topic off and on for 50 years. It's good to be skeptical. I admire skeptics.

The following presentation turned me into a believer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jUU4Z8QdHI

A wealth of info here on UFOs and nuclear weapons:

http://www.ufohastings.com/

Ken Partyka
3/13/2014 09:13:50 am

I understand what you are stating Donna...there are many responses and replies here that involve personal attacks and/or a presumption of " knowing the answer ". There are sightings and events that baffle and defy the conventional answers - The Malmstrom Incident is one of them though a possible terrestrial answer may be responsible. Regardless, these particular sightings and events (a small percentage) are why the UFO topic will not fizzle out. There is something happening. The sad part is shows like Hangar 1 or Ancient Aliens and others like them do not help the situation and leads UFO to be synonymous with Fakes and Lies which is wrong. There is nothing wrong with approaching this subject matter with real science.

Brian
3/9/2014 03:40:01 pm

Thanks for the great post. I was actually watching the same episode tonight and looked up the same file: mandate 0463 eisenhower... and like you found nothing on it... having worked in the entertainment industry for Warner Bros., I know that a lot of shows fake data for the show. These days it's not just tabloid shows faking data... now Discovery channel fakes data and information to make "Mermaids."

What is sadder then the fake data, is people commenting in anger at you pointing out the fabricated documents. Whether or not alien races are interacting with humanity, it's clear that this show faked data (such as that mandate 0463, with the spelling errors you noted.)

I like how Eisenhower has 12 hours where the public doesn't know where he is, and first reaction is "ok must be alien related." The logic just isn't there. There's probably a million reasons a president would be off radar for 12 hours.. military related, personal business, love affair... i mean come on, how do rational people jump to "oh president missing = alien meeting." "Oh but there were people who have come forward about being at the meeting..." right.... and these anonymous people are credible because...???

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Jeff K
3/20/2014 10:39:16 am

You do know those mermaid shows are entirely fake right? The difference being they never claimed ANY of it was real. It was entirely made up and that fact wasnt kept hidden, it was very clear. The case we have here is information being presented as fact , that was actually fake. I thought the mermaid shows were on Animal Planet, but i could be wrong, could be Discovery

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Justin
3/10/2014 11:03:03 pm

"... does that mean that I can say “Jason Colavito’s secret government files suggest…?"

Yes, yes it does!

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Smedley Butler Jr.
3/13/2014 03:14:42 pm

"Hanger 1: UFO files," like all of the recent alien TV shows, is government propaganda. Do you really think that the international mafia that runs this country would let some dipshit TV producer spill the beans on ET secrets? The New World Order is preparing us for a grand delusion. Exactly how this will play out is open for debate, but one thing is certain: if ET ever makes its presence known on a mass scale, DO NOT believe what the government says about it.

I don't believe in any religion, but it is obvious that the power elite are trying to destroy people's faith in Christianity and Judaism (upon which Christianity is based). They will try to replace it with a global religion of some sort, an ET religion perhaps. If some kind of ET epiphany, negative or positive or both, ever takes place, one way to know if its a shadow government hoax is if you will be required to give up your constitutional freedoms and if it requires that this nation surrenders its sovereignty.

In the 90's under Bush Sr. and Carter, this government murdered half a million Iraqi children via economic sanctions. Then Sec. of State Madeline Albright told Lesley Stahl on "60 MInutes" that the deaths of all those children was "worth it" (i.e., worth trying to oust Saddam, a dictator that WE put in power in the first place courtesy of the CIA - check it out for yourself if you don't believe me).

Our government is a mafia organization writ large and our fearless leaders are proven genocidal maniacs. They control what you watch on TV (a la the CIA's Operation Mockingbird which dates back to the 1950's). The point is, do you really think that these child-killing monsters would allow "National Security" secrets to be revealed on some TV show? They are propagandizing you and brainwashing you.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE

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Jason Colavito link
3/14/2014 02:39:34 am

In trying to fix a typo on this thread, I accidentally deleted a comment pointing out that typo. The commenter asked about a double negative, and the "not" should have read "now." I apologize for deleting the comment by mistake. My original response to the commenter was also in error, because I misread the comment, so this answer supersedes that one as well.

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Frank Stalter link
3/15/2014 12:38:08 am

The Webster Hubbell/Clinton and Jackie Gleason/Nixon UFO stories are legit. You can try to discredit the latter by mentioning the Nat'l Enquirer, but broken clocks are right twice a day. They got that story right, Mrs. Gleason did tell them the Nixon story. No reason at all to doubt that.

Nice short cutting on the Truman quote regarding the DC 1952 UFO case. Truman also stated they discuss UFOs on a regular basis. In fact, Truman had a meeting in the White House about that particular event involving members of the National Security Resources Board, the Rand Corporation and the Air Force.

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john oneil
3/15/2014 07:38:42 am

About 9 minutes into this video and speaking about the Roswell crash, a fake "UFO Researcher", Dwight Equitz (who is actually just an actor) says, "the best account comes from someone who was actually at the scene, Col. Philip J. Corso". Are you serious? Col. Corso writes in his book, "The Day After Roswell", on page 3 of the introduction, "I wasn't in Roswell in 1947, nor had I heard any details about the crash at that time....". Everyone knows this, except MUFON and (actor) "UFO Researcher" Dwight Equitz... and I'm supposed to continue watching this video and consider anything else they say as "credible"? Disappointing and embarrassing.
This is just one of those "mermaid" videos.

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Graham
3/15/2014 08:55:53 pm

For those who are interested a later episode bought in 1980's 'UFO Whistleblower' Bob Lazar. For a good rundown on Lazar's claims (& why they are total nonsense.) the 'Blue Fire' website (Saved on the Wayback Machine) is a good start.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070808004705/http://www.serve.com/mahood/bluefire.htm

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Jeff K
3/20/2014 10:52:51 am

First, I gotta give you alot of props and respect for the website. I have spent the last few days reading article after article. Some consider it strange for a person like me (who believes in ET/UFOs) to be a fan of skeptical websites. I dont agree, while they many times they also contain bias, you can generally say they contain more factual information then alot of pro-UFO websites (that many, like ufosightings/waring, put the nut in UFO nutjobs). Just because i believe in ufos, doesnt mean i have to believe every ridiculous video, or picture of a shadow on the moon, etc..Being open-minded is one thing, believing everything you see and read is another. Your website is a step above many other skeptic/debunker websites, and I find it very educating experience.
The only thing wrong with this review was the last 3 paragraphs. Most of the logic you use in them is as absurd as the logic you spend the whole review tearing down (for the most part, correctly), if not more. I mean, and im paraphrasing here, that there must not be an truth in this, because i asked my friends uncle, he is important, and he told me it wasnt, and there is no reason he would lie to me! i mean wtf? what kind of reasoning is that. Stick with the good detailed review of the shows, when you bring in person stuff, you tend to revert to the same kinda logic found in the shows your reviewing

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Jason Colavito link
3/20/2014 11:00:21 am

The bit you criticize was actually meant to call attention to the slipshod reasoning. I don't claim that my friend's uncle can be relied upon more than anyone else; my point was that I got told the opposite of what Dolan was told by someone even better placed than his source, which calls into question the entire premise of using secondhand testimony (his or mine) in support of a claim. You couldn't prove that what I said is in fact right, nor can you prove Dolan is telling the truth. As I said above, it's suggestive but worthless.

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Jeff K
3/20/2014 10:52:59 am

First, I gotta give you alot of props and respect for the website. I have spent the last few days reading article after article. Some consider it strange for a person like me (who believes in ET/UFOs) to be a fan of skeptical websites. I dont agree, while they many times they also contain bias, you can generally say they contain more factual information then alot of pro-UFO websites (that many, like ufosightings/waring, put the nut in UFO nutjobs). Just because i believe in ufos, doesnt mean i have to believe every ridiculous video, or picture of a shadow on the moon, etc..Being open-minded is one thing, believing everything you see and read is another. Your website is a step above many other skeptic/debunker websites, and I find it very educating experience.
The only thing wrong with this review was the last 3 paragraphs. Most of the logic you use in them is as absurd as the logic you spend the whole review tearing down (for the most part, correctly), if not more. I mean, and im paraphrasing here, that there must not be an truth in this, because i asked my friends uncle, he is important, and he told me it wasnt, and there is no reason he would lie to me! i mean wtf? what kind of reasoning is that. Stick with the good detailed review of the shows, when you bring in person stuff, you tend to revert to the same kinda logic found in the shows your reviewing

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Russell
3/29/2014 07:56:46 pm

You are so right... I just watched an episode and I'm floored how awful it is. Yikes... Makes me pity the poor yanks who buy into this shite! Good luck there mate! From a fellow transatlantic skeptic..

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Smedley Butler Jr.
3/29/2014 08:10:52 pm

Poor Yanks? Excuse me, but isn't David Icke one of your own, not to mention nerdy disinfo shill Nick Pope?

A sucker is born every minute, regardless of geography or time period. Having said that, conspiracy theorists have said for years that the government spies on us 24/7. You would think after Edward Snowden's revelations last year that the term "conspiracy theorist" would've ceased being used as a pejorative. Of course, the msm would never admit that conspiracies, are, in fact, business as usual for politicians and the billionaires that own them.

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Smedley Butler Jr.
3/29/2014 08:11:19 pm

Poor Yanks? Excuse me, but isn't David Icke one of your own, not to mention nerdy disinfo shill Nick Pope?

A sucker is born every minute, regardless of geography or time period. Having said that, conspiracy theorists have said for years that the government spies on us 24/7. You would think after Edward Snowden's revelations last year that the term "conspiracy theorist" would've ceased being used as a pejorative. Of course, the msm would never admit that conspiracies, are, in fact, business as usual for politicians and the billionaires that own them.

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Steve Burke
4/28/2014 01:41:25 pm

Sunday (4-27/2014) night I watched 2 shows of Hanger 1. The shows were just plain lousy. In the second show "The Shadow Govt.", the talked about jet fighters chasing UFOs in 1952, and what kind of fighters did they show? They were old P-39 AirCobras and P-40 Warhawks, which were were phase out of service at the end of World War Il in 1945. They even had a picture of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, hinting that he was involved with the "Mystical Twelve", which was just a plain out right lie!!! Suggestion to the History Channel, burn the serie in a trash can and forget it!!!!

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Martin
5/17/2014 08:59:23 am

Jason, have you ever served in the military?

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Jared
5/19/2014 08:22:13 am

Honestly, you are all just looking in the wrong places. while I do agree that there is no tangible evidence of any downed spacecraft, there is no denying the existence of UFO's. If I throw a rock at you, and you don't realize that it's a rock, that automatically makes that rock an unidentified flying object. If your goal is to find real stories that have not been fabricated, look elsewhere than the United States. Our government's so-called "job" is to protect us by lying to us. Take a look at Canada. Their ex-minister of defense openly acknowledges the existence of extra-terrestrial beings, and even goes into detail about the different species. How about the fact that the only reason Russia didn't drop a nuke on the US during the Cold War was because of "extra-terrestrial intervention?"

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Rab Quizmaster
7/13/2014 03:16:44 am

I find it really strange that people go along with what you say in your blog, they wont watch a programme because you state its a pack of lies or fabricated evidence, for thousands of years UFO,s have been seen and recorded by thousands and thousands of people around the world, are they all liars , hoaxers, or delusional ? I have seen 3 UFO's and at the time I was 12-13 years old , (now 62) this was at an age before I knew what a UFO was/is, I have read exstensively on the subject ever since, I do not "push" my beliefs on anyone else and let them decide for themselves , telling people that the stories are lies and fabricated is to me a bigger lie than anything else !
Let people watch what they want, without telling them its a load of rubbish, let them make up their own minds and then post on here.
I find your blog rather boring, just like the other people who "diss" believers , as a certain show once said.....WE ARE NOT ALONE !!!!!

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Mohan
7/20/2014 03:11:57 am

I used to be a ufo skeptic unless I heard the comment of ben rich.That guy is a billionare and has been the ceo of largest US defence contractor.He is very balanced guy,well aware of technicalities.He dont need to earn money from some false alien hype.....so why exactly he made those comments regarding the gov. having advanced aircraft tech?? That said,I m more convinced ufo s being human made advanced secret aircraft then alien tech.

And yes I do believe in them.Some of my closest friend in leh have seen it.

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jack writer link
9/29/2014 08:20:58 pm

the federal government uses sum kind of energy to torcher me every day the pain they give me is pretty bad sum days

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John Robinson link
1/1/2015 04:41:19 am

Can you shed some light on the underground bases episode?

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Richard Dessables
5/29/2015 03:16:21 pm

If shows like ancient Aliens or Hangar 1 real, and they discredit the Govt in pretty much everything they say, how come they are allowed to do so on tv which is regulated and sanctionned? this would be a conflict if interest by the Govt going backwards against their own interests..... illogical..

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Smedley Butler Jr.
6/1/2015 04:40:57 pm

Actually, it may not be illogical at all, at least if you believe that Big Brother does, in fact, control what we see in the media (which I happen to believe). IMO, Pravda has nothing on the American msm.

If that is indeed the case, then everything that is presented to us in the media is vetted by minions of the power elite. Everything that you see serves three basic purposes:

1) Mindless distraction.

2) Dumb us down.

3) Push a particular message on the public, i.e., brainwashing via propaganda.

Conspiracy TV shows, movies, articles in major publications, etc. that mention government corruption and/or cover-ups can have different effects on different people, depending on how they are presented and what the desired result is.

For example, if a particular conspiracy TV show has a very campy style and mixes truth with obvious errors and far out conjecture (like Ancient Aliens, as one example), then it will tend to make most people think that any topic on said show is fantasy and b.s. However, true believers will buy some or all of the b.s. and will be spurred on to continue their ET quest. Even those who don't buy it all still have those seeds planted in their brains, for possible manipulation purposes at some later date.

If a conspiracy TV show or movie treats a conspiracy theory in a serious and convincing manner, some people will actually become convinced and even become frightened. As one example, a TV show about Big Brother spying on everyone could have that effect. Many would become convinced that Big Brother is too powerful to fight, so we might as well resign ourselves to living in a police-state, Orwellian nightmare. "America's Book of Secrets" comes to mind (they also twist things, omit important facts and admit to something and then downplay it).

Re: the subject of UFO's and aliens, there has been a steady bombardment in the media of all things ET since Roswell in 1947. Indeed, this seems to have increased over the last several years.

Beyond the media inundation, several astronauts have stated over the last few years that there is indeed a government cover-up re: UFO's (some, if not all, of these particular astronauts are 33rd degree Masons); even the Vatican issued a statement that they would be fine with ET coming for a visit. There was the Disclosure Project in the early or mid noughts which seemed to produce a plethora of plausible witnesses who testified to the reality of alien visitation. It didn't seem to have much effect in D.C., but it's still in the historical record.

As I stated above in another post, I think it is possible that the Western mafia/corporatocracy that sometimes refers to itself or its goal as a New World Order, actually want people to believe in ET. They may be building up towards some kind of deception involving aliens (real or fake) that will somehow be used to bring about the completion of their desired one world government. Or, the increasing inundation of all things ET in the media may simply be one more mindless distraction for the masses as the power elite continue to ream us and finalize their plans for the great culling.

Or, I could be making a mountain out of a mole hill and all of these conspiracy shows and movies are simply about ratings and $$$$.


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j b s in ky link
6/5/2015 04:03:21 pm

First, I must admit my initial skepticism of all things other worldly. Second I may not be brilliant but I do hold degrees in Finance / Economics minors in Logic, Political science and world history (general) all with departmental honors. I've scored in top 5% of several MENSA sponsored tests. Finally, I was born, bred, raised and beaten into Irish / Roman Catholicism. Needless to say my early formative years were "believe what you are told, do not question, blind faith". Now that I have freed my mind to think on its own I question everything. Especially what our (U.S.) Government tells us to believe. Do you really think Kennedy was going to be allowed to withdraw from Southeast Asia, lose Cuba, wage war on Mafia without consequence, come on man. Do you believe James Earl Ray escaped from prison, executed MLK and made it to London England all by himself. Come on man. Do you just watch Fox or CNN or MSNBC etc or do you watch all of them and formulate your own views as I do. If you believe our government is "transparent", I got the deed to Golden Gate Bridge I'll sell ya real cheap. My views on life beyond this planet have come full circle. I watch credible people with nothing to gain and lots to lose (Lear of Learjet fame) admit they reverse engineered alien ships. I realize things like technological advances in computing (mainframe supercomputers that took up warehouse size space replaced by smartphones that can hold more data and perform quicker calculations) in a matter of a decade. Impossible leaps by mans typical standards. I propose that those who don't believe ancient alien astronaut theory are close minded and dogmatic. JMHO

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jbs in ky link
6/5/2015 04:41:05 pm

Couple of follow UPS to previous post. I do appreciate your site and skepticism for it can lead to healthy debates and discussion. Which is what swayed me over to the believers side. Age and life events can have an amazing affect on ones views, opinions and ideas. I do not believe there is some vast government conspiracy. I do believe there have been conspiracy's and cover-ups. I try not to bash others views and opinions, I do try to get people to see both sides (not always successful due to that damn Irish-Cherokee blood running through mu veins). Hope to join future discussions and listen, learn and share.

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Brian A
8/9/2015 05:20:28 pm

If the gov't had UFO information and/or evidence, wouldn't Snowden would have told us, by now.

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Smedley Butler Jr.
8/9/2015 05:32:02 pm

Snowden only had information re: a small portion of Big Brother's plans to enslave us. He was just a private contractor, he is not a Rockefeller or Rothschild telling us about the deep inner-workings of the Western global mafia.

As I mentioned above, if the global mafia that runs this country don't want us to know about the true origins and existence (or non-existence) of ET, we will not know about it. It is folly to think that we can glean the truth about UFO's from some TV show, because the Western global mafia (that sometimes refers to itself as the New World Order) owns the media and has owned it for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tzNGc7vH_ME

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Dave C.
8/11/2017 01:09:07 pm

Does anyone, anywhere know the actual location of the early 20th. century vintage re-purposed aircraft hangar used as the "MUFON Archives Hangar 1" used in the series??

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Robert Bosh
5/9/2020 12:27:27 am

Jason, great review. I was wondering if your position on aliens has changed in light of the recent announcement by the DOD regarding the "Tic Tac" UFOs filmed by Navy jet fighters. The Pentagon and the Navy have officially proclaimed that those UFOs are real and that they don't know what they are or where they're from. I was a skeptic until I saw those films which are all over the Internet. I have now changed my position on UFOs. They're real, Jason.

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    • Collection: The Lovecraft Legacy >
      • Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft
      • Lovecraft in Bergier
      • Lovecraft and Scientology
    • Collection: UFOs >
      • Alien Abduction at the Outer Limits
      • Aliens and Anal Probes
      • Ultra-Terrestrials and UFOs
      • Rebels, Queers, and Aliens
    • Scholomance: The Devil's School
    • Prehistory of Chupacabra
    • The Templars, the Holy Grail, & Henry Sinclair
    • Magicians of the Gods Review
    • The Curse of the Pharaohs
    • The Antediluvian Pyramid Myth
    • Whitewashing American Prehistory
    • James Dean's Cursed Porsche
  • The Library
    • Ancient Mysteries >
      • Ancient Texts >
        • Mesopotamian Texts >
          • Atrahasis Epic
          • Epic of Gilgamesh
          • Kutha Creation Legend
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          • Descent of Ishtar
          • Berossus
          • Comparison of Antediluvian Histories
        • Egyptian Texts >
          • The Shipwrecked Sailor
          • Dream Stela of Thutmose IV
          • The Papyrus of Ani
          • Classical Accounts of the Pyramids
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          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
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          • Famine Stela
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        • Hermetica >
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          • The Secret of Creation
          • Ancient Alphabets Explained
          • Prologue to Ibn Umayl's Silvery Water
          • Book of the 24 Philosophers
          • Aurora of the Philosophers
        • Hesiod's Theogony
        • Periplus of Hanno
        • Ctesias' Indica
        • Sanchuniathon
        • Sima Qian
        • Syncellus's Enoch Fragments
        • The Book of Enoch
        • Slavonic Enoch
        • Sepher Yetzirah
        • Tacitus' Germania
        • De Dea Syria
        • Aelian's Various Histories
        • Julius Africanus' Chronography
        • Eusebius' Chronicle
        • Chinese Accounts of Rome
        • Ancient Chinese Automaton
        • The Orphic Argonautica
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        • Annianus on the Watchers
        • The Watchers and Antediluvian Wisdom
      • Medieval Texts >
        • Medieval Legends of Ancient Egypt >
          • Medieval Pyramid Lore
          • John Malalas on Ancient Egypt
          • Fragments of Abenephius
          • Akhbar al-zaman
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          • Murtada ibn al-‘Afif
          • Al-Maqrizi on the Pyramids
          • Al-Suyuti on the Pyramids
        • The Hunt for Noah's Ark
        • Isidore of Seville
        • Book of Liang: Fusang
        • Agobard on Magonia
        • Book of Thousands
        • Voyage of Saint Brendan
        • Power of Art and of Nature
        • Travels of Sir John Mandeville
        • Yazidi Revelation and Black Book
        • Al-Biruni on the Great Flood
        • Voyage of the Zeno Brothers
        • The Kensington Runestone (Hoax)
        • Islamic Discovery of America
        • The Aztec Creation Myth
      • Lost Civilizations >
        • Atlantis >
          • Plato's Atlantis Dialogues >
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            • Critias
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          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
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          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
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          • Donnelly's Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Morocco
          • Atlantis and the Sea Peoples
          • W. Scott-Elliot >
            • The Story of Atlantis
            • The Lost Lemuria
          • The Lost Atlantis
          • Atlantis in Africa
          • How I Found Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Termier on Atlantis
          • The Critias and Minoan Crete
          • Rebuttal to Termier
          • Further Responses to Termier
          • Flinders Petrie on Atlantis
        • Lost Cities >
          • Miscellaneous Lost Cities
          • The Seven Cities
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          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
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        • Caucasians in Panama
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        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
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      • Religious Conspiracies >
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        • Toledot Yeshu
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        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
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        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
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          • Fossil Elephants
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          • Giants' Bones Dug Out of the Earth
          • Fossils and the Supernatural
          • Fossils, Myth, and Pseudo-History
          • Man During the Stone Age
          • Fossil Bones and Giants
          • American Elephant Myths
          • The Mammoth and the Flood
          • Fossils and Myth
          • Fossil Origin of the Cyclops
          • Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man
        • Fragments on Giants
        • Manichaean Book of Giants
        • Geoffrey on British Giants
        • Alfonso X's Hermetic History of Giants
        • Boccaccio and the Fossil 'Giant'
        • Book of Howth
        • Purchas His Pilgrimage
        • Edmond Temple's 1827 Giant Investigation
        • The Giants of Sardinia
        • Giants and the Sons of God
        • The Magnetism of Evil
        • Tertiary Giants
        • Smithsonian Giant Reports
        • Early American Giants
        • The Giant of Coahuila
        • Jewish Encyclopedia on Giants
        • Index of Giants
        • Newspaper Accounts of Giants
        • Lanier's A Book of Giants
      • Science and History >
        • Halley on Noah's Comet
        • The Newport Tower
        • Iron: The Stone from Heaven
        • Pyramid Facts and Fancies
        • Argonauts before Homer
        • The Deluge
        • Crown Prince Rudolf on the Pyramids
        • Old Mythology in New Apparel
        • Blavatsky on Dinosaurs
        • Teddy Roosevelt on Bigfoot
        • Devil Worship in France
        • Maspero's Review of Akhbar al-zaman
        • The Holy Grail as Lucifer's Crown Jewel
        • The Mutinous Sea
        • The Rock Wall of Rockwall
        • Fabulous Zoology
        • The Origins of Talos
        • Mexican Mythology
        • Chinese Pyramids
        • Maqrizi's Names of the Pharaohs
      • Extreme History >
        • American Antiquities
        • American Cataclysms
        • England, the Remnant of Judah
        • Historical Chronology of the Mexicans
        • Maspero on the Predynastic Sphinx
        • Vestiges of the Mayas
        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
          • Volume 1: Cosmogenesis
          • Volume 2: Anthropogenesis
        • Phoenicians in America
        • The Electric Ark
        • Traces of European Influence
        • Prince Henry Sinclair
        • Pyramid Prophecies
        • Templars of Ancient Mexico
        • Chronology and the "Riddle of the Sphinx"
        • The Faith of Ancient Egypt
        • Spirit of the Hour in Archaeology
        • Book of the Damned
        • Great Pyramid As Noah's Ark
        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
    • Alien Encounters >
      • US Government Ancient Astronaut Files >
        • Fortean Society and Columbus
        • Inquiry into Shaver and Palmer
        • The Skyfort Document
        • Whirling Wheels
        • Denver Ancient Astronaut Lecture
        • Soviet Search for Lemuria
        • Visitors from Outer Space
        • Unidentified Flying Objects (Abstract)
        • "Flying Saucers"? They're a Myth
        • UFO Hypothesis Survival Questions
        • Air Force Academy UFO Textbook
        • The Condon Report on Ancient Astronauts
        • Atlantis Discovery Telegrams
        • Ancient Astronaut Society Telegram
        • Noah's Ark Cables
        • The Von Daniken Letter
        • CIA Psychic Probe of Ancient Mars
        • Scott Wolter Lawsuit
        • UFOs in Ancient China
        • CIA Report on Noah's Ark
        • CIA Noah's Ark Memos
        • Congressional Ancient Aliens Testimony
        • Ancient Astronaut and Nibiru Email
        • Congressional Ancient Mars Hearing
        • House UFO Hearing
      • Ancient Extraterrestrials >
        • Premodern UFO Sightings
        • The Moon Hoax
        • Inhabitants of Other Planets
        • Blavatsky on Ancient Astronauts
        • The Stanzas of Dzyan (Hoax)
        • Aerolites and Religion
        • What Is Theosophy?
        • Plane of Ether
        • The Adepts from Venus
      • A Message from Mars
      • Saucer Mystery Solved?
      • Orville Wright on UFOs
      • Interdimensional Flying Saucers
      • Flying Saucers Are Real
      • Report on UFOs
    • The Supernatural >
      • The Devils of Loudun
      • Sublime and Beautiful
      • Voltaire on Vampires
      • Demonology and Witchcraft
      • Thaumaturgia
      • Bulgarian Vampires
      • Religion and Evolution
      • Transylvanian Superstitions
      • Defining a Zombie
      • Dread of the Supernatural
      • Vampires
      • Werewolves and Vampires and Ghouls
      • Science and Fairy Stories
      • The Cursed Car
    • Classic Fiction >
      • Lucian's True History
      • Some Words with a Mummy
      • The Coming Race
      • King Solomon's Mines
      • An Inhabitant of Carcosa
      • The Xipéhuz
      • Lot No. 249
      • The Novel of the Black Seal
      • The Island of Doctor Moreau
      • Pharaoh's Curse
      • Edison's Conquest of Mars
      • The Lost Continent
      • Count Magnus
      • The Mysterious Stranger
      • The Wendigo
      • Sredni Vashtar
      • The Lost World
      • The Red One
      • H. P. Lovecraft >
        • Dagon
        • The Call of Cthulhu
        • History of the Necronomicon
        • At the Mountains of Madness
        • Lovecraft's Library in 1932
      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
      • The Corpse on the Grating
      • The Second Satellite
      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
    • Classic Genre Movies
    • Miscellaneous Documents >
      • The Balloon-Hoax
      • A Problem in Greek Ethics
      • The Migration of Symbols
      • The Gospel of Intensity
      • De Profundis
      • The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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