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The History Channel Revoked My Press Credentials When I Tried to Review "Project Blue Book"

7/25/2018

47 Comments

 
Stop the History Channel
​To build excitement during the geek-fest of ComicCon, the History Channel recently released a trailer for its upcoming UFO conspiracy drama Project Blue Book, which is set to debut sometime in the winter of 2018-2019. Journalists and bloggers across the country and around the world immediately produced puff pieces celebrating the forthcoming series and speculating about the show. To be honest with you, I find it disingenuous since most of those reporters have access to the same press materials I do, and they’ve all seen the screener of the show’s pilot, just like I have. Pretending otherwise is just stupid. Yes, that’s how the sausage is made. The reporters have already seen the shows they pretend to wonder about, and everybody lies about it so the reporters can pretend to have “access” and the networks and producers can build up hype for their product by teasing upcoming revelations that have already been made
​Project Blue Book stars Aiden Gillen (Littlefinger from Game of Thrones) as Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the scientific advisor to the Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigation into UFOs. He is partnered with an Air Force officer played by Michael Malarkey from The Vampire Diaries, under the gruff and hammy supervision of Neal McDonough as an Air Force general looking to quash UFO reports. According to History’s press materials, each episode of the series will dramatize an unsolved case from the Project Blue Book files, alongside serialized conspiracy theory elements. While Robert Zemeckis’s name is attached to the project, the executive producer and writer of the series is Sean Jablonski, who ran Nip/Tuck on FX for six increasingly ludicrous seasons.
 
History released a screener for the pilot episode to television critics in advance of the Television Critics Association Press Tour, which is currently underway. A+E Networks, the parent company of History, has asked critics not to discuss the material in the Blue Book series screener until closer to the show’s air date. Or, rather, that’s the nice way of putting it.
 
After I viewed the screener and wrote up a review of the show, I contacted History’s publicity manager overseeing PR for the series, Kirby Dixon, a former fashion model and NBC page and communications coordinator who has been with History for a little less than two years. I wanted to know how long reviews of the show were embargoed since the press site and the screener omitted that important detail. She revoked my press credentials within 30 seconds of me asking how long the embargo runs, a pretty typical press question, and banned me from A+E Networks’ press site.
 
I have had press credentials with A+E Networks for the better part of a decade, and even during the months when A+E Networks threatened to sue me to protect America Unearthed from “audience confusion” over my critical reviews, they did not revoke my press access. I am dumbfounded that a potential future Project Blue Book review is a bridge too far for them. For most of the past decade, the powers that be at A+E Networks recognized that publicity is beneficial, even when the coverage is critical, since most of the trash they wallpaper their networks with would not otherwise spark online conversation and therefore generate audience interest. In terms of the bottom line, it doesn’t matter if viewers are watching a show because they love it or love to hate it as long as they tune in.
 
Nevertheless, because I have integrity where they do not, I will honor their restriction, to a point. Since they have released a trailer that gives you some of the flavor of the show, I will share with you the fact that the show is basically Dark Skies, the 1990s-era X-Files rip-off set in the 1960s and centering on the (fake) Majestic-12 conspiracy and their efforts to suppress knowledge of space aliens in the first half of the Cold War. (J. Allen Hynek is a character in both shows.) It is also a shittier version of Dark Skies, with some decidedly uninspired acting, cliché-ridden plotting, and clunky dialogue given over to too much exposition. Conceptually, the show is difficult for the audience to connect with because it lacks a true hero. If the show were to follow the real biography of Hynek he is, for most of the period the show will cover, a collaborator. The concept—UFO conspiracies are real!—does far too much of the heavy lifting.
 
None of this is anything you can’t pick up from the trailer, but when we are closer to the air date, I will explain more fully why this show is a disservice to UFO skeptics and believers alike, as well as fans of quality television. Let me put it this way: It’s probably important than nearly all of the footage in the trailer is not from the pilot. Indeed, and this is perhaps ironic, there is more material to work with in the three-minute trailer than there is in the hour-long pilot, and one could write a better think piece about the show from the highlight reel than from the first episode.
 
Sorry, History. I can’t un-see the show.
 
But I can talk about this: Major corporations are actively promoting pseudoscientific beliefs and profiting from the lies they foist on the public. Project Blue Book may be a drama, but its creator, David O’Leary, told Syfy Wire recently that the show was intended to serve, basically, as pro-UFO propaganda, stating that he wanted the audience to feel that the events they witnessed were “real.” He also said that part of the show’s mission is to depict Hynek’s conspiratorial conclusions several decades later, “One, that Bluebook became a misinformation campaign, a government front used to control the public perception to UFOs. And two, something of intelligence of an unknown origin — and he never said ‘alien’ definitively — but something unearthly, something that is not mankind is flying in our skies.”
 
Hynek, after leaving the Air Force investigation, ended up working with UFO researcher Jacques Vallée, who was then in a working partnership with paranormal researcher Hal Puthoff, and Hynek adopted Vallée’s and Puthoff’s belief that UFOs are a hybrid physical and psychical phenomenon that pop in and out of our reality from other dimensions and leave behind poltergeists. You know, science.
 
The History channel is essentially propagandizing for the very worst of ufology conspiracy theories, and they are not alone. It is hardly a coincidence that every major publishing house puts out bullshit books of anti-scientific and anti-rational propaganda. It is also no coincidence that both Taco Bell and McDonalds have employed ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos as a spokesperson. Over the years, the news divisions of the broadcast networks have loaned out their star anchors to deliver bullshit UFO “documentaries,” most broadcast on cable, to help promote movies and TV series about UFOs.
 
Imagine, just for a second, that it wasn’t ufology but creationism or anti-vaccine beliefs or the flat earth hypothesis that received this treatment. Could you imagine McDonalds endorsing a flat earth conspiracy theory as cute and fun? Could you imagine a network news anchor smiling and giggling while talking about how “wild” the hunt for vaccine dangers was? Could you imagine a major drama series about a government conspiracy to suppress the whereabouts of Noah’s Ark because Americans would panic if they realized God was really real and would spank them? (And lest you think that is an off-the-wall example, there are also declassified government documents about the Ark, just as there are for UFOs.)
 
Time and again corporations like A+E Networks, NBCUniversal, the Walt Disney Company (a co-owner of A+E), the New York Times Company, the major publishing houses, and many others have shown that they aren’t just passive conduits for UFO beliefs but put their money and their weight on the scales to keep even the shittiest UFO conspiracy theories alive and churning out profits. 
47 Comments
Joe Scales
7/25/2018 09:59:03 am

"Nevertheless, because I have integrity where they do not, I will honor their restriction, to a point."

Yeah. To the point of pettiness. So there you are with your integrity, and then you spill your conclusions about the series which if you're honest, you couldn't just get from the trailer. Way to prove them right, by the way.

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Jason Colavito link
7/25/2018 12:26:13 pm

Clearly, you are no fan of Cicero. There are times I wonder why I bothered studying rhetoric.

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Joe Scales
7/25/2018 01:13:09 pm

Well, if all your conclusions were apparent from only the trailer, it's clear you had already made them. Then you begrudge other reviewers for abiding by the protocols while you put yourself above them. The only thing you've revealed here is your own pettiness. Cicero be damned.

And for another friendly tip, it ain't your quest for truth that is putting people off.

David Bradbury
7/25/2018 01:48:36 pm

"it ain't your quest for truth that is putting people off"
A fair point. In 2018, presenting three mutually exclusive 'truths' in as many days is the height of fashion.

SteveStC
7/25/2018 10:30:01 pm

One of the few people - proven to not be an acolyte here - you should listen to among all your slobbering acolytes is Joe Scales. He seems to genuinely want you to be honest and to succeed at what you claim to be up to here. But you argue with him and ignore his advice.

My name showing up above this post will alert certain of your slobbering acolytes to leap to your defense. But just for a second, I invite them to read these important words from Joe Scales, in response to you (Jason) being turned down to be published once again -

“Now if I were to hazard a guess, I'd imagine you need to work on your people skills. Could it be your inflated self-valuation puts people off? If I had to be honest, and answer the age old question of who I'd rather go and have a beer with... it would probably be those who you attack, rather than you. That is not to say that I don't wholeheartedly agree with main points in regard to the distortion of history for profit by the frauds, liars and shills, and I appreciate how you point out the specifics in their regard; but you just don't seem to be that much fun.

“Successful authors are often quite colorful characters. Raconteurs, so to speak. Sure, I could dwell on the technical, in that you often play fast and loose with your own interpretations and wear your politics on your sleeve, but those qualities aren't holding you back. No, not at all. So don't be upset when your perceptions of being correct or being competent aren't enough. Sometimes it's all about who you like, and often enough that's beyond our control.”

And somewhat later in a response to another of your whining blog posts, your reply, “Nevertheless, because I have integrity where they do not, I will honor their restriction, to a point."

Joe Scales responded, “Yeah. To the point of pettiness. So there you are with your integrity, and then you spill your conclusions about the series which if you're honest, you couldn't just get from the trailer. Way to prove them right, by the way.”

Jason, others have said it - (1) your keyboard research is thin and agenda-drive, (2) keep your political tripe to yourself and (3) focus on your mission here to be a proper hate blog against those who want to explore alternative ideas. At least then you’d be honest. Instead, you so often lean over to political rants, personal attacks, and outright hate tactics.

Two minutes on any Google search turns up your unhinged political beliefs and personal attacks. Trust me, those considering working with you to publish your attacks are Google searching you and reading your political views. Take a break Jason. Consider your future. This isn’t it. A few recent examples -

“The History Channel Revoked My Press Credentials”

“Why I Can't Bring Myself to Finish My Next Book”

The New York Times did not include you “into the piece, nor any of the research material he asked me to provide about Ancient Aliens and the ancient astronaut theory.”

Regarding the NY Times story about the Pentagon UFO program story, “He said he was familiar with me and my work and suggested that my analysis was a “conspiracy” theory and that it was “potentially libelous.”

Take a break Jason. Consider your future. You’re not good at this.

An Anonymous Nerd
7/26/2018 10:48:03 am

[slobbering acolytes]

Within such an insulting and non-fact-based post as this one I have little choice but to take that as a complement in context. Based on your post it seems the alternative is an unpleasant, twisted, Fringe-based distortion of the real.

-An Anonymous Nerd

An Anonymous Nerd
7/25/2018 07:34:22 pm

[Way to prove them right, by the way.]

I assume, Mr. Scales, that you must mean that they were correct that Mr. Colavito, a great debunker and historical research, was unlikely to like a series that used history in this particular way.

As to pettiness, again, I only can assume you're referring to the actions of A&E. They could, after all, have just answered his question.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Gary Carlson link
8/4/2019 10:09:18 pm

The Blue Planet Project Book reveals that Aliens have been involved in human DNA manipulations throughout most of human existence and have been behind the Adam and Eve experiment that created us. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0991494245

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E.P. Grondine
7/25/2018 10:56:15 am

good morning, Jason

"Major corporations are actively promoting pseudoscientific beliefs and profiting from the lies they foist on the public."

" It is hardly a coincidence that every major publishing house puts out bullshit books of anti-scientific and anti-rational propaganda."

The plain fact is that people believe what they want to believe, and other people make money by telling them that what they believe is real.

This extends to the political realm, where it becomes dangerous, because of the consequences.

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Bertha
7/25/2018 11:03:41 am

_Major corporations are actively promoting pseudoscientific beliefs and profiting from the lies they foist on the public." _

Is science some kind of religion that holds monopoly on truth?

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Jason Colavito link
7/25/2018 12:27:13 pm

Fake science is by definition false, for if it were true it would just be science. Are you trying to tell me that you think it's OK to lie to people as long as they close their eyes and wish really hard?

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Aaa
7/25/2018 12:50:21 pm

Is it the same science that maintains that Giza pyramids were built using ropes and pulleys and the builder was Khufu because his name was painted in some obscure location?

Nick Lescobar
7/25/2018 12:52:27 pm

"Hynek adopted Vallée’s and Puthoff’s belief that UFOs are a hybrid physical and psychical phenomenon that pop in and out of our reality from other dimensions and leave behind poltergeists."

This is patently false and you are conflating Vallee's theories with Hynek. Hynek said the UFO phenomenon was real, but never once definitively said it was X or Y. Please find me one quote from J. Allen Hynek that says UFOs are poltergeists. I'll wait.

I'm also amused by the fact that you denigrate Hynek as a scientist, who worked on creating proximity fuses during World War 2, worked on Global Satellite Tracking Systems with Harvard Astronomer Fred Whipple for the International Geophysical Year, was the head of Astronomy at Ohio State and Northwestern, and worked for the Air Force from 1949-1969. What would he possibly know about science or whether the Air Force was covering things up? You do realize that General Hoyt Vandenberg ordered materials destroyed that suggested UFOs were extraterrestrial, specifically Project SIgn's "Estimate of the Situation Report" as noted in Captain Ed Ruppelt's book and many others? That. by definition, is a "cover-up." No other copies exist today. Was General Nathan Twining drunk or deluded when he wrote the Twining memo saying UFOs were real and not fictitious? Skepticism is your religion as much as believing all things UFO is for other people.

And you literally violated your agreement by tweeting and posting all kinds of reviews and commentary on the quality of the show. But in so doing, demand not to be held accountable. So on this lying thing, physician, heal thyself.

Jason Colavito link
7/25/2018 01:19:13 pm

Sure thing, Nick. Here's Hynek speaking at the June 1974 Canadian Conference on Psychokinesis:

"If now we look at the factors which constitute strangeness we find elements which strongly suggest a linkage, or at least a parallelism with poltergeist phenomena and with phenomena in general, rather than with actual solid items of nuts and bolts hardware. [...] But there are also similarities with poltergeist happenings, particularly electrical phenomena. [...] A feature of some UFO sightings which suggests a kinship to those poltergeist cases in which the principal person suffers from conversion hysteria..." etc. etc.

I did bother to look this shit up before saying it.

Rackham
7/25/2018 01:19:23 pm

"I'm also amused by the fact that you denigrate Hynek as a scientist, who worked on creating proximity fuses during World War 2, worked on Global Satellite Tracking Systems with Harvard Astronomer Fred Whipple for the International Geophysical Year, was the head of Astronomy at Ohio State and Northwestern, and worked for the Air Force from 1949-1969."

Nick, more than once in my life I've met peoples who were masters of their fields, completely dominating it, and at the same time entertaining the most childish opinions on other subjects. Now, I can hear you saying UFO and his field of competence are quite near, which isn't false. But they are still different topics generally studied differently.

Nick Lescobar
7/25/2018 02:08:49 pm

It seems you and I have different definitions of the words BELIEF vs.THEORY. Hynek said per your cited quote there is at least a "parallel" with documented poltergeist "electrical" phenomena, i.e. lights or power going out.

Parallel meaning "similar" or "analogous"

From your Hynek quote: "strongly suggest a linkage or at least a parallelism with poltergeist phenomena... similarities with poltergeist happenings, particularly electrical phenomena."

Does Hynek ever say what caused the phenomena, or that anything definitely pops in and out? No. Just that he believes that there are parallels or even linkages between the phenomena.

Why would Hynek say that? Because he investigated incidents like the November 1957 Levelland Texas UFO case where multiple witnesses claimed to see a brightly lit object flying overhead that which would shut down cars and power in close proximity. There were no lightning storms in the area at the time and 10 cars were stopped or de-powered knocked by the phenomenon.

Given it affected electrical systems, that incident is "parallel" to certain poltergeist phenomena. (But I'm sure they were all lying about their cars and what they saw though, right?)

Or is it just that Hynek used the words "poltergeist phenomena" that bothered you? Would you prefer he said "electrical anomalies?"

I'm still waiting for that quote where Hynek says, as you assert, that UFOs "are a hybrid physical and psychical phenomenon that pop in and out of our reality from other dimensions and leave behind poltergeists." He never once said UFOS were poltergeists, or ghosts, or even aliens, just that there were "parallels."

I notice you didn't touch the rest of what I said, but that's ok.




V
7/25/2018 12:27:15 pm

Yes. Because science is the methodology that gives you PROOF. If it can't be PROVEN, it is not fact, it is opinion, and opinions are not "truth." The funny thing about facts is that they don't stop being TRUE just because you don't BELIEVE them.

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Rackham
7/25/2018 01:21:45 pm

Exactly. I'm so tired of people equating science and truth. Science isn't truth, it's a method. Science matters because of two opinions, the one based on a decent methodology have more weight than one based on musings and "what ifs".

T. Franke link
7/25/2018 02:50:50 pm

Yes, science is a method, but not always about "facts" and "proof". Sometimes, you can only falsify with certainty, but not verify with certainty. Then you have to stick to most likely / probable hypotheses. Which is reasonable.

Or in other words: Science is simply about applying reason. Whereas non-science is always transgressing the rules of reason somewhere, and makes un-reasonable statements.

REPLY TO BERTHA
7/25/2018 01:00:47 pm

SCIENCE DEALS WITH FACTS, NOT WITH TRUTH

TRUTH IS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE

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An Anonymous Nerd
7/25/2018 07:31:56 pm

I'm obligated to tell you to calm down....But I also agree with your point. We should stop saying "truth" when it comes to science, or journalism for that matter.

We should say things like "accurate facts," "verified facts," "good analysis reasonably based on accurate facts," etc.

It just sounds better.

-An Anonymous Nerd

An Anonymous Nerd
7/25/2018 07:30:08 pm

[[Is science some kind of religion that holds monopoly on truth?]]

I think you're missing something.

Science, as a subject matter and philosophy, is about finding facts, verifying facts, developing good analyses based upon those facts and that fit those facts, seeking naturalistic explanations for such that happens, understanding the processes of nature and (in the case of the Social Sciences) humanity, all pursuant to rigorous methods. That sort of thing.

Religion is about the divine presence in people's lives, the divinely ordered moral significance of events, the proper way to praise the divine presence you think is there....That sort of thing.

The reasons that relatively few science types are religious is that the more they know about how the natural world works the less room there is for the divine in their world views; and/or the more they know about history the more they see religion as a potential persecutor; and/or if they have an historical focus the more they might blame historical crimes on Religion.....That sort of thing.

The way you phrased your question doesn't seem to me to fit either Science or Religion, let alone both.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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V
7/25/2018 12:32:21 pm

"Could you imagine a major drama series about a government conspiracy to suppress the whereabouts of Noah’s Ark because Americans would panic if they realized God was really real and would spank them?"

The really sad part is that I have ACTUALLY HEARD OF this EXACT conspiracy. With regards to the so-called "Mt. Ararat Anomaly" (which later, higher def. photos have shown to be...a very typical stone ridge). "The American Government won't let anyone go there and see in person because they're afraid it would cause panic if people knew that God was real." Never mind that it's the TURKISH government that put the mountain off-limits...nor that proving the existence of an ark does not prove GOD....no, it's all about the stupidity and egocentrism of American idiots. (Smart Americans would at least accuse the Turkish government of hoarding God.)

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Rackham
7/25/2018 01:25:10 pm

At least, it would make for a slightly difference TV series. Noah vs boring aliens!

"They're afraid it would cause panic if people knew that God was real."

Ahahah! Can't believe a few decades ago we would have said the exact contrary "if God wasn't real".

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John Carnahan
7/25/2018 01:13:32 pm

"Could you imagine McDonalds endorsing a flat earth conspiracy theory as cute and fun? " Yes, if it sold hamburgers.

This series is an good example of lack of imagination and repetition in TV.

Jason, I don't know if you are aware of an earlier network series called "Project U.F.O." This series was on NBC for 26 episodes over two years (1978-79), and was created and produced by Jack "just give me the facts, ma'am" Webb, based on Project Blue Book.

Each episode featured stalwart Air Force personnel who investigated UFO claims. No conspiracies involved, merely a matter of fact effort to determine the truth. I have not seen the show since its network run, but as I remember, some investigated cases were determined to be explanable as some sort of natural phenomenon or fake, while the show implied that others were real.

What I remember about the series was how Jack Webbian it was; there were no ulterior messages, other than showing members the US Air Force doing their job. The History(sic) Channel series simply seems to be a conspiritorially oriented update.

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Cesar
7/25/2018 01:16:26 pm

Colavitus contra mundum.

Am I mistaken or are you increasingly radical in your crusade against unscientific thinking? You will never be mainstream if you continue to use this language (shittier, bullshit). You are doing what they want you to do. Unless you do not want to be mainstream.

I believe that no one will deny that the four highest activities of the human mind are Art, Philosophy, Religion and Science. But you talk as if Science was the only worthy human activity. The difference is that there is no progress in Art, Philosophy and Religion

Art: Altamira cave.

Philosophy: Whitehead "All Western philosophy is a footnote to Plato".

Religion: by definition revealed religion does not progress.

Since there is progress in Science you seem mesmerized by it.

But continue your work on the best blog of the entire internet.

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Jason Colavito link
7/25/2018 01:23:23 pm

I literally wrote a book about one of the arts--"Knowing Fear"--covering the horror genre and making a case for its value as part of the literary and cinematic canon. I am hardly against the arts!

I also have nothing against dramas (or comedies!) that employ conspiracy theories and bizarre ideas. A show rises or falls on its entertainment value and its quality, not its intellectual pedigree. Here, though, the creator of the show said, basically, that it is intended as a piece of propaganda, and the History channel marketing materials ask us to view it as a dramatization of "real" events, so I have to judge it on the terms that they have set. If you want to claim your show is "true," then you are making a truth claim.

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Doc Rock
7/25/2018 01:33:00 pm

I'm confused here. If the press credential were revoked then wouldn't that mean all bets are off in terms of agreements regarding when to discuss the series? That is, unless there was a formal agreement. But if that was the case, then information needed to be provided on how long the "embargo" would be.

Or, is this an issue of simply trying to play somewhat nice to avoid burning bridges with them since the credentials may be restored at some point?

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Jason Colavito link
7/25/2018 01:41:27 pm

I'm not a lawyer, but when you view a screener, there are terms and conditions, so in theory they apply regardless of what later happens. The problem is that A+E Networks didn't actually say there was an embargo on the press site and didn't clearly lay out what was permitted.

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Doc Rock
7/25/2018 02:19:14 pm

Sounds like a sort of ill-defined nodding agreement oriented in their favor. Especially if there are terms and conditions but which omit info on how long before review material can be discussed.


But if the mutually agreed upon conditions were specific that you would not release info until they tell you you can (regardless of lack of a specific time frame) then I can see where you might feel bound to the agreement.


On the other hand, if they will no longer communicate with you (if that is the case) then how are you to know when it is okay to release review material?

T. Franke link
7/25/2018 02:12:59 pm

The story you present here is also valuable and could sell to a certain degree, or at least, it is a step towards the necessary counterbalance to crazy messages of profit-oriented broadcasters.

The question is why these things sell so well in these years? We surely live in a time of confusion where stable authorities lost their credibility (not without reasons). The presidency of Trump is surely marking a kind of transition from paradigm to paradigm, the question is, where does it lead to? Trump is not the answer, he is the transition.

And Russia (and China? the Europeans?) is / are surely trying to influence public views and perceptions, either directly, or by undermining certain views. But as in Cold War, Soviet influence could only work on a basis which was already there. The 1968 movement was not created by the Soviets but heavily supported and exploited.

Concerning the reason why your credentials were removed: This is most probably an irrational decision. They themselves will not be happy with this action, in the long run.

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orang
7/25/2018 03:00:38 pm

In 1977, Hynek actually talked about 3 hypotheses that he considered for the phenomenon: These were the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Hypothesis (the ETH remains my favorite), the Extradimensional Intelligence Hypothesis (self explanatory, in my opinion), and the Material and Mental Hypothesis (which I believe fits with Vallee's theory.) This was the best he could do after 29 years in the UFO mainstream. He was hedging his bets.

Yes, he was mainly a collaborator with respect to UFOs; e.g. the inventor of the swamp gas explanation in which he struggled with mitigating a sighting in Michigan.

For a collectively exhaustive categorization of UFO theories, go to:
http://ufonalyzer.blogspot.com/2013/06/ufo-believers-are-mixed-bag.html

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Americanegro
7/25/2018 03:36:10 pm

Wow, what a fuss. Funny that Jason got in trouble for trying to *comply with* the embargo.

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Nick Lescobar
7/25/2018 09:13:03 pm

I'm not sure how tweeting reviews of the show and its acting, writing, and plotting, then comparing the very episode to "Dark Skies" isn't a basic violation of any review embargo.

There's lots of weasel-wording in this victim manifesto, but a "review embargo" pretty much does not mean start tweeting your review as you watch it, which is literally what was done here.

Claiming "I only asked a question and that's why they banned me!" seems an inaccurate and self-serving excuse. Clearly the review embargo doesn't mean "wait 5 minutes and then tweet your opinions." There are also no other tweets or reviews on the internet reviewing the first episode but his (I checked). Its likely more accurate to say someone at History Chennel saw Jason had tweeted a review, then banned him when they read it. That would also be consistent with Jason's twitter feed timeline.

He broke obvious rules everyone else abided by, and got his hand slapped.

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Jason Colavito link
7/25/2018 11:13:04 pm

A+E did not indicate that there was an embargo on the press site or in the press release. The screener said only that distribution and copying of the screener was prohibited. Most embargoed material has it clearly spelled out, as hundreds of press releases I've received have made clear. I checked with them out of professional courtesy. Neither the tweets nor the above offer thoughts beyond what the trailer and publicly available press releases and press coverage already include.

Joe Scales
7/25/2018 11:57:38 pm

"A+E did not indicate that there was an embargo on the press site or in the press release."

And yet on your twitter feed you told your followers "Technically, I'm not supposed to review it until it's on the air this winter...". So obviously you understood the protocol.

"I checked with them out of professional courtesy."

Why, because you already went on about it on twitter and you also knew "technically" what was expected from you.

"Neither the tweets nor the above offer thoughts beyond what the trailer and publicly available press releases and press coverage already include."

What, that it was "badly written", as you told your twitter followers. You got that from the trailer or the press releases? Or that it had "no heroes". Which was that from, the trailer or was that press promotion? That's just part of it. You couldn't hold back, could you. Got the scoop on all those other competing reviewers who lacked the courage in their convictions in pretending they hadn't seen the pilot yet. Yeah... they're the bad guys here.

When in a hole Jason... quit digging. This ain't one of your best moments. Take responsibility and just admit you messed up. Then try to learn from it.

Jason Colavito link
7/26/2018 01:13:17 pm

Vox's Todd VanDerWoff posted his thoughts about Project Blue Book on Twitter. Nobody threw a snit fit about it.

Joe Scales
7/26/2018 05:00:44 pm

So rather than address your false statements above, you point to this:

https://twitter.com/tvoti/status/1022528782651908096

Really? I mean... Really??? Now that you could arguably say wasn't anything that didn't come from press releases. And you know what else Jason... why did you link that executive's contact page? Do you want people to harass her on your behalf? I mean... why else post it.

Sinking fast in that hole young man. Sinking fast.

Kal
7/25/2018 04:00:29 pm

History was probably just stuffy and didn't want someone who wasn't working for a professional newspaper getting a presskit for their show.

In journalism school, I had encountered this when related to a studio call where the comedy the studio was pitching was not known to me, and they refused to send a presskit because who cares about some college newspaper, right? The comedy went on to utterly bomb at the box office, but it was not my doing.

Do you have an agent for this type of thing? Are there other rules related to citizen journalism and editorial blogs?

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An Anonymous Nerd
7/25/2018 07:40:58 pm

I'm disappointed to see that they feel comfortable reaching out to my People (Nerds, geeks, etc.), with this stuff.

We Nerds need to lead the charge against this stuff. It isn't funny anymore.

Those Fringe types need to leave our awesome fiction alone. Leave fiction in fiction. Stop pretending it's real.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Machala
7/25/2018 09:51:57 pm

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, Jason. You aren't the first and you won't be the last to run afoul of the minions of The Mouse. Back in the days when A&E was the Arts & Entertainment Channel before it became A&E Networks, and later when History actually produced historical programs, I enjoyed a pleasant, and profitable, nodding acquaintance with both. Then along came Disney....

Not only did they, with help from Hearst, pervert the original intent of viewers, they completely changed the audience demographic and mental acuity level of their viewers, dumbing down content and substituting sensationalism for genuine facts and quality programing.

My previous "history" with the Disney mafia, automatically made me persona non grata - for which I am grateful. I was subtly requested never to darken A&E Network's toilet paper, again !

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Tom mellett
7/26/2018 01:41:32 pm

Jason,

You’ve earned the sympathy of Nick Pope.

Someone posted your article link on the Facebook group called UFO Updates where Nick is a member and here is what he wrote:


NICK POPE: I sympathize with this guy, but public relations folks can be notoriously prickly, and media has changed. Network PR staff now have to deal not just with traditional journalist reviewers, but with 'influencers' and bloggers.

These latter two categories can certainly be worth engaging with (particularly with niche topics), but ufology has more than its fair share of nuts, and busy PR folks are understandably short with approaches from people playing the 'I'm a journalist' card, if they think they fall more into the 'some UFO guy with a blog' category.

My apologies if this offends, but whether you think it's right or wrong, that's how marketing and PR people tend to view such things nowadays.

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Hal
7/26/2018 02:29:17 pm

Jason Colavito is mad because his hate blog is now recognized as a hate blog.

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The Last Unicorn
7/26/2018 11:38:22 pm

Dear Hal,

I fear that you dwell too much on the negative. So might you have any positive suggestions for Mr. Jason Colavito, which would help him to transform his hate blog into a love blog?

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Rachel Stamper
7/26/2018 06:52:33 pm

I have struggled to log in with my credentials since I was approved and if you click reset password, nothing happens. Their press site is junk over and above the issues you're seeing.

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11/7/2018 09:46:12 pm

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Gary Carlson link
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      • 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
          • Babylonian Creation Myth
          • 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
          • Inventory Stela
          • Manetho
          • Eratosthenes' King List
          • The Story of Setna
          • Leon of Pella
          • Diodorus on Egyptian History
          • On Isis and Osiris
          • Famine Stela
          • Old Egyptian Chronicle
          • The Book of Sothis
          • Horapollo
          • Al-Maqrizi's King List
        • Teshub and the Dragon
        • Hermetica >
          • The Three Hermeses
          • Kore Kosmou
          • Corpus Hermeticum
          • The Asclepius
          • The Emerald Tablet
          • Hermetic Fragments
          • Prologue to the Kyranides
          • 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
        • Fragments of Panodorus
        • 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
          • Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah
          • 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 >
            • Timaeus
            • Critias
          • Fragments on Atlantis
          • Panchaea: The Other Atlantis
          • Eumalos on Atlantis (Hoax)
          • Gómara on Atlantis
          • Sardinia and Atlantis
          • Santorini and Atlantis
          • The Mound Builders and Atlantis
          • 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
          • The Lost City of Paititi
          • Manuscript 512
          • The Idolatrous City of Iximaya (Hoax)
          • The 1885 Moberly Lost City Hoax
          • The Elephants of Paredon (Hoax)
        • OOPARTs
        • Oronteus Finaeus Antarctica Map
        • Caucasians in Panama
        • Jefferson's Excavation
        • Fictitious Discoveries in America
        • Against Diffusionism
        • Tunnels Under Peru
        • The Parahyba Inscription (Hoax)
        • Mound Builders
        • Gunung Padang
        • Tales of Enchanted Islands
        • The 1907 Ancient World Map Hoax
        • The 1909 Grand Canyon Hoax
        • The Interglacial Period
        • Solving Oak Island
      • Religious Conspiracies >
        • Pantera, Father of Jesus?
        • Toledot Yeshu
        • Peter of les Vaux-de-Cernay on Cathars
        • Testimony of Jean de Châlons
        • Rosslyn Chapel and the 'Prentice's Pillar
        • The Many Wives of Jesus
        • Templar Infiltration of Labor
        • Louis Martin & the Holy Bloodline
        • The Life of St. Issa (Hoax)
        • On the Person of Jesus Christ
      • Giants in the Earth >
        • Fossil Origins of Myths >
          • Fossil Teeth and Bones of Elephants
          • Fossil Elephants
          • Fossil Bones of Teutobochus
          • Fossil Mammoths and Giants
          • 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
        • Ararat and the Ark
        • 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 >
        • Roman Empire Hoax
        • 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
      • The Bathtub Hoax
      • Crown Prince Rudolf's Letters
      • Position of Viking Women
      • Employment of Homosexuals
      • James Dean's Scrapbook
      • James Dean's Love Letters
      • The Amazing James Dean Hoax!
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