Volume 13 Archive
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 1 • July 1, 2018 •
It’s been a busy few weeks in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Over the past few weeks, controversy arose anew over the claims first put forward in the New York Times that billionaire Robert Bigelow had modified a Las Vegas building to house samples of unusual metals he believed were spare parts that had fallen from flying saucers. It was widely implied that these metal samples were collected by the U.S. government as part of a UFO research program. However, recent revelations from To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, currently staffed by former Bigelow associates, confirmed that the pieces of metal in question were never part of the government’s research and Bigelow had collected them privately, with help from Hal Puthoff. Bigelow’s employee, Eric Davis, said that. One of the pieces of metal Puthoff himself identified as part of the collection had been analyzed by a non-Bigelow researcher before Bigelow got hold of it. He found that it was earthly material, probably industrial waste. I tried bringing this to the attention of the Times, and the author of the original story accused me of potentially libeling Puthoff and of indulging in conspiracy theories for citing the actual words of the men involved.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of June 18-July 1:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 1 • July 1, 2018 •
It’s been a busy few weeks in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Over the past few weeks, controversy arose anew over the claims first put forward in the New York Times that billionaire Robert Bigelow had modified a Las Vegas building to house samples of unusual metals he believed were spare parts that had fallen from flying saucers. It was widely implied that these metal samples were collected by the U.S. government as part of a UFO research program. However, recent revelations from To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, currently staffed by former Bigelow associates, confirmed that the pieces of metal in question were never part of the government’s research and Bigelow had collected them privately, with help from Hal Puthoff. Bigelow’s employee, Eric Davis, said that. One of the pieces of metal Puthoff himself identified as part of the collection had been analyzed by a non-Bigelow researcher before Bigelow got hold of it. He found that it was earthly material, probably industrial waste. I tried bringing this to the attention of the Times, and the author of the original story accused me of potentially libeling Puthoff and of indulging in conspiracy theories for citing the actual words of the men involved.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of June 18-July 1:
- I Spoke with the New York Times Reporter Who Broke the Pentagon UFO Program Story. It Wasn't What I Expected.
- Another Bizarre Claim from the Bigelow / To the Stars Team, This Time about Underground Humanoids and Mind-Altering UFOs
- EARLY REVIEW: Zachary Quinto’s In Search Of Is a Lightweight Reboot for the Reality TV Era
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 2 • July 8, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Late on Friday, Ancient Aliens talking head Laura Eisenhower posted a copy of what she said was a verified letter from Ancient Aliens star David Wilcock to the management of Gaia TV, the New Age streaming service where he has worked for the past six years. In the letter, Wilcock terminated contract negotiations and asked to be let out of his current contract due to what he claimed was a culture of harassment and intimidation and efforts by Gaia to promote worship of Lucifer, which Wilcock found offensive and damaging to his brand as a Christian occult guru. “I have willfully ignored an enormous number of offensive, disrespectful and abusive situations in order to do this job the last six years – primarily out of a sense of financial dependency,” he is said to have written. He also lamented that he was contractually forbidden from offering conservative political commentary. Eisenhower quickly removed the letter from her Facebook page to avoid what she called “dark energies” emanating from Gaia TV, and conspiracy believers began speculating that Gaia had been “infiltrated” by evil space aliens.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 2-8:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 2 • July 8, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Late on Friday, Ancient Aliens talking head Laura Eisenhower posted a copy of what she said was a verified letter from Ancient Aliens star David Wilcock to the management of Gaia TV, the New Age streaming service where he has worked for the past six years. In the letter, Wilcock terminated contract negotiations and asked to be let out of his current contract due to what he claimed was a culture of harassment and intimidation and efforts by Gaia to promote worship of Lucifer, which Wilcock found offensive and damaging to his brand as a Christian occult guru. “I have willfully ignored an enormous number of offensive, disrespectful and abusive situations in order to do this job the last six years – primarily out of a sense of financial dependency,” he is said to have written. He also lamented that he was contractually forbidden from offering conservative political commentary. Eisenhower quickly removed the letter from her Facebook page to avoid what she called “dark energies” emanating from Gaia TV, and conspiracy believers began speculating that Gaia had been “infiltrated” by evil space aliens.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 2-8:
- UFO Researcher Publicizes Another Piece of the Mysterious “Alien” Metal Handled by Bigelow Advanced Aerospace Space Systems and Hal Puthoff
- How Jacques Vallée Helped Create the Myth that Space Aliens Mutilate Cattle
- Review of The Domestics: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Cobbled from Spare Parts
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 3 • July 15, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Graham Hancock expressed his exasperation at David Wilcock’s claim in a letter to his employers at Gaia TV last week alleging that Hancock had “come out of the closet” as a Luciferian who denied the primacy of the Judeo-Christian god, Yahweh. Hancock pointed out that he was summarizing the argument of the Gnostics, who believe that Yahweh is an evil archon and not the true god. But the crowning moment had to come when Hancock tweeted out a link to an interview Wilcock conducted with him on Gaia TV in 2015 in which they discussed Gnosticism and Wilcock openly endorsed the Gnostic view of an evil Yahweh.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 9-15:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 3 • July 15, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Graham Hancock expressed his exasperation at David Wilcock’s claim in a letter to his employers at Gaia TV last week alleging that Hancock had “come out of the closet” as a Luciferian who denied the primacy of the Judeo-Christian god, Yahweh. Hancock pointed out that he was summarizing the argument of the Gnostics, who believe that Yahweh is an evil archon and not the true god. But the crowning moment had to come when Hancock tweeted out a link to an interview Wilcock conducted with him on Gaia TV in 2015 in which they discussed Gnosticism and Wilcock openly endorsed the Gnostic view of an evil Yahweh.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 9-15:
- Friends of David Wilcock Say He Resigned from Gaia TV over Bad Pay, Poor Working Conditions, and Lucifer
- A Reconstruction of Annianus’ Account of the Watchers
- How Did Enoch Come to Be Identified with Hermes Trismegistus?
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 4 • July 22, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Ancient Aliens talking head and ufologist Richard Dolan took to YouTube for a session devoted to conspiracy theories. During the talk, Dolan discussed the Q-ANON conspiracy theory, a pro-Trump fantasy in which Trump is the mastermind behind a multipronged secret effort to take down the Deep State and a criminal liberal establishment. “This is very interesting,” Dolan said. Dolan did not outright endorse the conspiracy but refused to deny the obvious absurdity of it either, suggesting that there were elements worth investigating and that Trump is the target of neoconservatives because he opposes their policies.
He also contradicted the assessment of seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies, reluctantly confirmed by the White House, that Russians meddled in the U.S. election, and Dolan announced that he has felt “for a very long time” that America should develop closer ties to Russia. “Have Americans lost their minds?” he asked of people who distrust Russia. Dolan said it was a “laughing” matter to believe that the Russians attempted to sway the election, though he purposely conflated election meddling with outright vote tampering in order to discredit the assertion. “Maybe you should thank Russia,” Dolan said for hacking the Democratic National Committee, and he asserted that, while he doubts the Russians did anything at all, Russian propaganda is of no concern so long as the Russians release only “accurate” information.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 16-22:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 4 • July 22, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Ancient Aliens talking head and ufologist Richard Dolan took to YouTube for a session devoted to conspiracy theories. During the talk, Dolan discussed the Q-ANON conspiracy theory, a pro-Trump fantasy in which Trump is the mastermind behind a multipronged secret effort to take down the Deep State and a criminal liberal establishment. “This is very interesting,” Dolan said. Dolan did not outright endorse the conspiracy but refused to deny the obvious absurdity of it either, suggesting that there were elements worth investigating and that Trump is the target of neoconservatives because he opposes their policies.
He also contradicted the assessment of seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies, reluctantly confirmed by the White House, that Russians meddled in the U.S. election, and Dolan announced that he has felt “for a very long time” that America should develop closer ties to Russia. “Have Americans lost their minds?” he asked of people who distrust Russia. Dolan said it was a “laughing” matter to believe that the Russians attempted to sway the election, though he purposely conflated election meddling with outright vote tampering in order to discredit the assertion. “Maybe you should thank Russia,” Dolan said for hacking the Democratic National Committee, and he asserted that, while he doubts the Russians did anything at all, Russian propaganda is of no concern so long as the Russians release only “accurate” information.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 16-22:
- The New York Times Runs Major Feature on Ancient Aliens, Casts Ancient Astronaut Theorists as Friendly, Lovable Rogues Searching for God
- Review of Ancient Aliens S13E07 “Earth Station Egypt”
- Heinrich Himmler and the Ancient High Technology of the Lost Civilization of the Norse Gods
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 5 • July 29, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Miami-Dade County Public Schools have a lesson plan for teachers to misinform students that Africans, Arabs, and the Chinese explored and colonized the Americas prior to Columbus. The lesson plan, which is posted to the school district’s official website (PDF), relies on long-debunked claims from Afrocentrist writers like Ivan Van Sertima and pseudo-historians like Gavin Menzies. The lesson plan asks teachers to have students read articles about fringe history claims and then write a letter to the editor of their textbook demanding that pseudohistorical claims about pre-Columbian Old World exploration of the Americas be included in the next edition of the text. The school district also endorses that idea that the colossal stone heads of the Olmec, which depict indigenous people like those still living in the Oaxaca region in Mexico, are actually depictions of Africans, a claim made first in the nineteenth century and made famous by Van Sertima.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 23-29:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 5 • July 29, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Miami-Dade County Public Schools have a lesson plan for teachers to misinform students that Africans, Arabs, and the Chinese explored and colonized the Americas prior to Columbus. The lesson plan, which is posted to the school district’s official website (PDF), relies on long-debunked claims from Afrocentrist writers like Ivan Van Sertima and pseudo-historians like Gavin Menzies. The lesson plan asks teachers to have students read articles about fringe history claims and then write a letter to the editor of their textbook demanding that pseudohistorical claims about pre-Columbian Old World exploration of the Americas be included in the next edition of the text. The school district also endorses that idea that the colossal stone heads of the Olmec, which depict indigenous people like those still living in the Oaxaca region in Mexico, are actually depictions of Africans, a claim made first in the nineteenth century and made famous by Van Sertima.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 23-29:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S13E08 “Island of the Giants”
- Hermes Trismegistus and the Greco-Egyptian Culture of Late Antique Akhmim
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 6 • August 5, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In an interview published Saturday on the Mysterious Universe website, To the Stars vice president Hal Puthoff, who also runs Earth Tech, explained that the two companies have a “very straightforward contractual relationship” where Hal Puthoff at To the Stars pays Hal Puthoff at Earth Tech with company money to “analyze” so-called “alien” metals. More importantly, Puthoff contradicted his own claims from June and those of Tom DeLonge from last year that the supposed UFO wreckage was made up of metamaterials with anti-gravity and other astounding properties. DeLonge even showed a video he claimed was a test of the metal’s properties. The metal fragments, Puthoff now says, have not been studied: “technical evaluation of them is yet to be carried out” on the metals, which are now merely “materials with interesting claimed histories.” Let the backtracking begin!
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 30-August 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 6 • August 5, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In an interview published Saturday on the Mysterious Universe website, To the Stars vice president Hal Puthoff, who also runs Earth Tech, explained that the two companies have a “very straightforward contractual relationship” where Hal Puthoff at To the Stars pays Hal Puthoff at Earth Tech with company money to “analyze” so-called “alien” metals. More importantly, Puthoff contradicted his own claims from June and those of Tom DeLonge from last year that the supposed UFO wreckage was made up of metamaterials with anti-gravity and other astounding properties. DeLonge even showed a video he claimed was a test of the metal’s properties. The metal fragments, Puthoff now says, have not been studied: “technical evaluation of them is yet to be carried out” on the metals, which are now merely “materials with interesting claimed histories.” Let the backtracking begin!
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of July 30-August 5:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S13E09 “The Taken”
- J. Allen Hynek and the Invention of the Poltergeist-UFO Connection
- Alien Metal Update: 2009 Harry Reid Letter Released as To the Stars Launches “Project ADAM” to Study Supposed Extraterrestrial Metals
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 7 • August 12, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Later tonight the History Channel will broadcast a new pseudo-documentary entitled The Last Pope in which former America Unearthed host Scott Wolter will appear in order to discuss the St. Malichy hoax, a set of alleged prophecies about the future of the papacy attributed to an eleventh century monk but actually written and published in the late sixteenth century. For believers in the hoax like Wolter, Pope Francis is the final pope because pseudo-Malichy’s list runs out after 112 popes and Francis is (by the usual count, antipopes and disputed papacies notwithstanding) the 112th pope. The Church doesn’t actually number popes because of the antipope problem. Wolter has been wrong about this “prophecy” since he discovered it in 2013, as I wrote five years ago, and the documentary—from former America Unearthed producers Committee Films and partially funded by Minnesota tax dollars—looks to be no more accurate. We shall see.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of August 6-12:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 7 • August 12, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Later tonight the History Channel will broadcast a new pseudo-documentary entitled The Last Pope in which former America Unearthed host Scott Wolter will appear in order to discuss the St. Malichy hoax, a set of alleged prophecies about the future of the papacy attributed to an eleventh century monk but actually written and published in the late sixteenth century. For believers in the hoax like Wolter, Pope Francis is the final pope because pseudo-Malichy’s list runs out after 112 popes and Francis is (by the usual count, antipopes and disputed papacies notwithstanding) the 112th pope. The Church doesn’t actually number popes because of the antipope problem. Wolter has been wrong about this “prophecy” since he discovered it in 2013, as I wrote five years ago, and the documentary—from former America Unearthed producers Committee Films and partially funded by Minnesota tax dollars—looks to be no more accurate. We shall see.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of August 6-12:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S13E10 “The Sentinels”
- Review of The Sky Is Falling by Peter Biskind
- Italy’s Most Prominent Ancient Astronaut Theorist Asks Whether Jews Planned the Holocaust as a “Passport” to the Creation of Israel
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 8 • August 19, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week All About History magazine in the United Kingdom published their September issue, and I am proud to have the cover story in the magazine. It’s the first piece I’ve written that’s made the cover, and I am very proud of the way my article on “Hitler’s Super-Weapons” turned out. The magazine is on newsstands in the U.K. now, and it is available for shipping internationally from the magazine’s website. This Tuesday, I’ll write a bit more about the article and share some online exclusive material that was cut for space from the print version.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of August 13-19:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 8 • August 19, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week All About History magazine in the United Kingdom published their September issue, and I am proud to have the cover story in the magazine. It’s the first piece I’ve written that’s made the cover, and I am very proud of the way my article on “Hitler’s Super-Weapons” turned out. The magazine is on newsstands in the U.K. now, and it is available for shipping internationally from the magazine’s website. This Tuesday, I’ll write a bit more about the article and share some online exclusive material that was cut for space from the print version.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of August 13-19:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S13E11 “Russia Declassified”
- Review of The Last Pope: A Fear-Mongering Appeal to Christian Viewers
- The Book of Quinte Essence and Hermes' Divine Books of Wisdom
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 9 • August 26, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The end is nigh! Well, sort of. On Friday, Ancient Aliens announced that next week’s two-hour episode on evil robots will be its season finale. That means we’ll get at least a couple of quiet months until they start up again with another batch of episodes. Honestly, I can’t imagine how they keep stretching the same two or three thoughts out for so many years, but I guess that’s why they get paid the big bucks. Imagine having only one thought in your head but getting paid over and over again to repeat it.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of August 20-26:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 9 • August 26, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The end is nigh! Well, sort of. On Friday, Ancient Aliens announced that next week’s two-hour episode on evil robots will be its season finale. That means we’ll get at least a couple of quiet months until they start up again with another batch of episodes. Honestly, I can’t imagine how they keep stretching the same two or three thoughts out for so many years, but I guess that’s why they get paid the big bucks. Imagine having only one thought in your head but getting paid over and over again to repeat it.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of August 20-26:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S13E12 “They Came from the Sky”
- Nazi Wonder Weapons and Their Impact on Ufology
- Great Moments in Hermeticism: Ibn Umayl’s Visit to a Temple of Imhotep
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 10 • September 2, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Ancient Aliens ended its thirteenth season this week with a two-hour instant rerun that basically recreated at double length and earlier episode about aliens and robots. Beyond this, there was another outbreak of claims that the Sphinx is 800,000 years old, based on the flawed work of some Ukrainian researchers. While this claim circulated on social media, few seemed to remember that it had previously circulated in 2015, and before that in 2008. I wrote about it in 2015.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of August 27-September 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 10 • September 2, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Ancient Aliens ended its thirteenth season this week with a two-hour instant rerun that basically recreated at double length and earlier episode about aliens and robots. Beyond this, there was another outbreak of claims that the Sphinx is 800,000 years old, based on the flawed work of some Ukrainian researchers. While this claim circulated on social media, few seemed to remember that it had previously circulated in 2015, and before that in 2008. I wrote about it in 2015.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of August 27-September 2:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S13E13 “The Artificial Human”
- Astrological Calculations of the Flood and the End Times in Medieval Literature
- The Same Russian Troll Accounts Tweeting Election Propaganda Were Also Tweeting about UFOs and Ancient Mysteries
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 11 • September 9, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, we saw a bit of action from some of the members of the To the Stars / Bigelow Aerospace axis, including both Luis Elizondo and George Knapp. The former complained that the Pentagon isn’t doing enough to investigate the technology behind UFOs and suggested that there was a culture of unwarranted fear toward learning about them. Knapp, on the same day, explicitly said that a group of fundamentalists in the U.S. government believes UFOs are satanic and worked to stop any study of them, lest the adventure invoke demons. Together, the two men pain a bizarre picture, and one that deserves much greater scrutiny from reporters with more contacts and greater resources than I have.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of September 3-9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 11 • September 9, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, we saw a bit of action from some of the members of the To the Stars / Bigelow Aerospace axis, including both Luis Elizondo and George Knapp. The former complained that the Pentagon isn’t doing enough to investigate the technology behind UFOs and suggested that there was a culture of unwarranted fear toward learning about them. Knapp, on the same day, explicitly said that a group of fundamentalists in the U.S. government believes UFOs are satanic and worked to stop any study of them, lest the adventure invoke demons. Together, the two men pain a bizarre picture, and one that deserves much greater scrutiny from reporters with more contacts and greater resources than I have.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of September 3-9:
- Luis Elizondo Offers UFO Opinions But Few Facts in New Blog Post
- What Did Abu Ma‘shar Know about Surid and the Pyramids?
- How Abu Ma‘shar Accidentally Inspired “Hamlet’s Mill” and the Modern Myth of the Amazing Science of a Lost Civilization
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 12 • September 16, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I received hate mail from Skinwalker Ranch super-fans, who were upset that I found a new documentary about the supposed interdimensional mysteries of the Utah property wanting. I must admit to being a bit surprised at how strident believers in the Skinwalker Ranch “mystery” are, but I am not surprised that after telling me that cast members from the documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker would be available for interviews this week, George Knapp declined to speak with me, to judge by the silence from the PR rep after he “inquired” whether Knapp would talk to me.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of September 10-16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 12 • September 16, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I received hate mail from Skinwalker Ranch super-fans, who were upset that I found a new documentary about the supposed interdimensional mysteries of the Utah property wanting. I must admit to being a bit surprised at how strident believers in the Skinwalker Ranch “mystery” are, but I am not surprised that after telling me that cast members from the documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker would be available for interviews this week, George Knapp declined to speak with me, to judge by the silence from the PR rep after he “inquired” whether Knapp would talk to me.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of September 10-16:
- Review of Hunt for the Skinwalker, a New Documentary about Skinwalker Ranch
- Review of In Search Of S01E09 and S01E10: "The Empire of Atlantis" Parts 1 and 2
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 13 • September 23, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Perhaps this week’s most depressingly familiar refrain from the world of fringe history, paranormal science, and ufology was the claim from the director of global security (ha!) for To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial threat identification program. Elizondo promised that over the next six months “data” about the organization’s research into otherworldly phenomena would begin to be made public. While this is the same claim that To the Stars has teased for the past eleven months of its existence, this time Elizondo says it’s a make-or-break moment, so important, in fact, that he utterly refused to give Newsweek any data whatsoever despite having a national media platform to deliver something big that would draw in the investors the company so desperately wants. As of this writing, they claim to have just over 2,500 investors, which is a remarkably small number considering that somewhere around 150 million American or more claim to be ET or UFO believers of some kind, according to recent polls.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of September 17-23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 13 • September 23, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Perhaps this week’s most depressingly familiar refrain from the world of fringe history, paranormal science, and ufology was the claim from the director of global security (ha!) for To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial threat identification program. Elizondo promised that over the next six months “data” about the organization’s research into otherworldly phenomena would begin to be made public. While this is the same claim that To the Stars has teased for the past eleven months of its existence, this time Elizondo says it’s a make-or-break moment, so important, in fact, that he utterly refused to give Newsweek any data whatsoever despite having a national media platform to deliver something big that would draw in the investors the company so desperately wants. As of this writing, they claim to have just over 2,500 investors, which is a remarkably small number considering that somewhere around 150 million American or more claim to be ET or UFO believers of some kind, according to recent polls.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of September 17-23:
- The Hermetic History of the Giants in Alfonso X’s General Estoria
- Ashley Cowie Mangles Dracula in an Attempt to Trace the Origin of Vampires
- Newsweek Profiles Luis Elizondo, Asks Why “To the Stars” Hasn't Shown Its Data
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 14 • September 30, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science closed their stock sale at the same time that they have retconned their business, dropping discussion of UFO disclosure in favor of a new tack—to “unlock revolutionary innovation.” According to an SEC filing from June, “We have an accumulated deficit at June 30, 2018 of $37,432,000” against cash reserves of just $129,000. According to figures posted by To the Stars itself, they have just 2,547 investors as of today, and as of June it had raised just one million dollars through its Regulation A stock sales. Nevertheless, the company has provided around $29 million in compensation in the form of stock to its executives, and according to its balance sheets, paying its executives has been the company’s single largest expense. How do you lose $37 million with nothing to show for it but a couple of YouTube videos and some paperbacks?
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of September 24-30:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 14 • September 30, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science closed their stock sale at the same time that they have retconned their business, dropping discussion of UFO disclosure in favor of a new tack—to “unlock revolutionary innovation.” According to an SEC filing from June, “We have an accumulated deficit at June 30, 2018 of $37,432,000” against cash reserves of just $129,000. According to figures posted by To the Stars itself, they have just 2,547 investors as of today, and as of June it had raised just one million dollars through its Regulation A stock sales. Nevertheless, the company has provided around $29 million in compensation in the form of stock to its executives, and according to its balance sheets, paying its executives has been the company’s single largest expense. How do you lose $37 million with nothing to show for it but a couple of YouTube videos and some paperbacks?
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of September 24-30:
- Why I Don't Think Ibrahim ibn Wasif Shah Is the Author of the Akhbar al-zaman
- Andrew Lawler Responds to My Review of The Secret Token
- Review of Spooky Archaeology by Jeb J. Card
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 15 • October 7, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I had something of a busy week this week. I had a nice conversation with an editor for a major university press about commissioning a book on the myths and legends associated with the Giza Pyramids. We are in the very preliminary stages of discussing the possibility, but I am excited about the idea of starting to put together much of the research I’ve conducted on pyramid myths over the past few years into a somewhat coherent form. I will keep you updated if and when things progress.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 1-7:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 15 • October 7, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I had something of a busy week this week. I had a nice conversation with an editor for a major university press about commissioning a book on the myths and legends associated with the Giza Pyramids. We are in the very preliminary stages of discussing the possibility, but I am excited about the idea of starting to put together much of the research I’ve conducted on pyramid myths over the past few years into a somewhat coherent form. I will keep you updated if and when things progress.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 1-7:
- Dissecting This Past Weekend’s Faulty Claims about Ancient History
- BBC Journalist’s Error Sparks Claims of Ice Age Migration from Africa to India
- Review of Reach: An Unconvincing Teen Drama You've Already Seen Before
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 16 • October 14, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I had several productive conversations this week regarding a few different publishing opportunities, and I am happy to say that my current project—the book on the myth of the mound builders—and my next one, a book on myth and legends of the Egyptian pyramids, have both taken significant steps forward. I don’t have anything specific to announce, but I do hope that in the coming weeks I’ll be able to share more details about the plans for both of these volumes.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 8-14:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 16 • October 14, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I had several productive conversations this week regarding a few different publishing opportunities, and I am happy to say that my current project—the book on the myth of the mound builders—and my next one, a book on myth and legends of the Egyptian pyramids, have both taken significant steps forward. I don’t have anything specific to announce, but I do hope that in the coming weeks I’ll be able to share more details about the plans for both of these volumes.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 8-14:
- Review of The Search for Atlantis by Steve P. Kershaw
- Nimitz Carrier Group UFO Witness Claims Seeing “Tic Tac” Craft Gave Him “Advanced Cognition” and Apocalyptic Dreams
- The Claim of Flash-Frozen Mammoths Is Older Than I Thought
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 17 • October 21, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
With the release of this year’s Chapman University survey of Americans’ paranormal beliefs, I feel like I should move to Europe. It’s enormously exhausting to watch “the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked … angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night…”. I simply cannot fathom how 57% of Americans can claim to believe in Atlantis and 41% in ancient astronauts, or how those numbers have doubled in the past five years. It simply cannot be that American minds are so impressionable that deep-seated understandings of the universe can be thrown aside with every passing cultural fad. And yet… those numbers dovetail so perfectly with George Knapp’s claim that the Pentagon has factions that believe in space alien invasions and that think UFOs are Satan’s chariots.
I hope Allen Ginsberg’s ghost will forgive me for the ironic misappropriation of his poem.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 15-21:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 17 • October 21, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
With the release of this year’s Chapman University survey of Americans’ paranormal beliefs, I feel like I should move to Europe. It’s enormously exhausting to watch “the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked … angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night…”. I simply cannot fathom how 57% of Americans can claim to believe in Atlantis and 41% in ancient astronauts, or how those numbers have doubled in the past five years. It simply cannot be that American minds are so impressionable that deep-seated understandings of the universe can be thrown aside with every passing cultural fad. And yet… those numbers dovetail so perfectly with George Knapp’s claim that the Pentagon has factions that believe in space alien invasions and that think UFOs are Satan’s chariots.
I hope Allen Ginsberg’s ghost will forgive me for the ironic misappropriation of his poem.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 15-21:
- Review of The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
- George Knapp: Christian Fundamentalists in the Pentagon Shut Down Government Paranormal and UFO Probes Due to Demon Fears
- W. Scott Poole Is Back at It, Claiming the Horror Genre's Origins in World War I
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 18 • October 28, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, this was a bit of an interesting week. It started with Las Vegas journalist and UFO reporter George Knapp insulting me as an ignorant, arrogant basement-dweller desperate for his attention, and it ended with promises from some important contacts in publishing that I would have a final decision on the placement of my manuscript for my book on the myth of the mound builders before Thanksgiving. I do spend an unusual amount of time in the basement, but that’s because my son makes an absurd amount of laundry, and there are days it feels like I’m tied to the washing machine.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 22-28:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 18 • October 28, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, this was a bit of an interesting week. It started with Las Vegas journalist and UFO reporter George Knapp insulting me as an ignorant, arrogant basement-dweller desperate for his attention, and it ended with promises from some important contacts in publishing that I would have a final decision on the placement of my manuscript for my book on the myth of the mound builders before Thanksgiving. I do spend an unusual amount of time in the basement, but that’s because my son makes an absurd amount of laundry, and there are days it feels like I’m tied to the washing machine.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 22-28:
- Review of Lost Amazon: Project Z, a Racist Travel Channel Exploitation of Peru
- George Knapp Lectures Me on Ethics, Calls Me Arrogant, Ignorant Basement-Dweller
- Did the Minoans Record the Name of Atlantis in Cretan Hieroglyphs?
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 19 • November 4, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Despite my Samsung television’s attempt to stop me from using Netflix, I managed to watch The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina this week, and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. I loved the lush aesthetics, the allusions to classic horror (here’s looking at you, Dr. Phibes), and the depth that the series brought to Archie Comics characters. I was also quite surprised that the series was much darker than I would have expected and went to some disturbing places. But perhaps most interesting of all is the way that it used Satanism as an analog for traditional WASP culture and its corruption and decay in the face of a more diverse and multicultural future. I think this was the first time that I thought Netflix didn’t give us enough episodes rather than too many.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 29-November 4:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 19 • November 4, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Despite my Samsung television’s attempt to stop me from using Netflix, I managed to watch The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina this week, and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. I loved the lush aesthetics, the allusions to classic horror (here’s looking at you, Dr. Phibes), and the depth that the series brought to Archie Comics characters. I was also quite surprised that the series was much darker than I would have expected and went to some disturbing places. But perhaps most interesting of all is the way that it used Satanism as an analog for traditional WASP culture and its corruption and decay in the face of a more diverse and multicultural future. I think this was the first time that I thought Netflix didn’t give us enough episodes rather than too many.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of October 29-November 4:
- Scott Wolter Discusses His Role in Publicizing the Alleged Henry Sinclair Journals
- Bad Data Dump: “To the Stars” Takes Italy, and Brien Foerster Releases Elongated Skull DNA Results
- Review of The Teenage Slasher Movie Book (2nd ed.) by J. A. Kerswell
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 20 • November 11, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It’s Alien Con time again. When the Ancient Aliens fan convention started last year, it seemed like a major event worth covering in detail, but in a case of diminishing returns, each subsequent edition has been a little less noteworthy. Sure, lots of celebrities show up to unwittingly or wittingly endorse pseudoscientific and quasi-racist nonsense. But the convention has become little more than an episode of Ancient Aliens as live theater in the round, making very little news and providing little that we didn’t know before it happened. In an interview to promote the convention, Ancient Aliens star and erstwhile Taco Bell and McDonalds pitchman Giorgio Tsoukalos conceded that the show isn’t really about ancient astronauts anymore but is now a catchall for supposed “mysteries.” “Frankly, I’m embracing that change because I think that the ancient aliens never really left,” he said, claiming that aliens can be found in all times and all places, all without leaving any physical evidence of their presence.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of November 5-11:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 20 • November 11, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It’s Alien Con time again. When the Ancient Aliens fan convention started last year, it seemed like a major event worth covering in detail, but in a case of diminishing returns, each subsequent edition has been a little less noteworthy. Sure, lots of celebrities show up to unwittingly or wittingly endorse pseudoscientific and quasi-racist nonsense. But the convention has become little more than an episode of Ancient Aliens as live theater in the round, making very little news and providing little that we didn’t know before it happened. In an interview to promote the convention, Ancient Aliens star and erstwhile Taco Bell and McDonalds pitchman Giorgio Tsoukalos conceded that the show isn’t really about ancient astronauts anymore but is now a catchall for supposed “mysteries.” “Frankly, I’m embracing that change because I think that the ancient aliens never really left,” he said, claiming that aliens can be found in all times and all places, all without leaving any physical evidence of their presence.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of November 5-11:
- Giorgio Tsoukalos Offers More of the Same in New Interview
- More Sinclair Diaries Claims; Plus: Freemasons and Templar Worship of Baphomet
- The Mutual Reinforcement of Dubious Templar Documents; Plus: Travel Channel Teases Megan Fox’s Legends of the Lost
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 21 • November 18, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week The Curse of Oak Island returned for another year of digging pointless holes with a two-hour season premiere episode. The latest outing did well, garnering 2.9 million viewers and ranking as the second most-watched cable show of the night among advertiser-covered viewers aged 18 to 49, behind only WWE Smackdown. In terms of total viewers, it managed a hitherto impossible feat of besting Fox News’s Hannity by about 100,000 viewers. Hannity typically rules the 9 PM slot thanks to his dominance of the old white male demographic, the same demo Oak Island attracts. Consider this: Oak Island attracts nearly double the viewers of media darling American Horror Story and three times that of South Park. It even has twice the ratings of Ancient Aliens. So why does Ancient Aliens get a splashy convention and coverage in the New York Times, while Oak Island barely registers in pop culture? It’s probably the same reason I can’t sit through an episode of the show: the boring sameness of it all.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of November 12-18:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 21 • November 18, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week The Curse of Oak Island returned for another year of digging pointless holes with a two-hour season premiere episode. The latest outing did well, garnering 2.9 million viewers and ranking as the second most-watched cable show of the night among advertiser-covered viewers aged 18 to 49, behind only WWE Smackdown. In terms of total viewers, it managed a hitherto impossible feat of besting Fox News’s Hannity by about 100,000 viewers. Hannity typically rules the 9 PM slot thanks to his dominance of the old white male demographic, the same demo Oak Island attracts. Consider this: Oak Island attracts nearly double the viewers of media darling American Horror Story and three times that of South Park. It even has twice the ratings of Ancient Aliens. So why does Ancient Aliens get a splashy convention and coverage in the New York Times, while Oak Island barely registers in pop culture? It’s probably the same reason I can’t sit through an episode of the show: the boring sameness of it all.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of November 12-18:
- Review of Truth or Double Dare (TODD) (2018)
- Erich von Däniken Promotes New Swiss-Based Ancient Astronaut Research Group
- Newspaper Roundup: The Daily Mail Seeks Atlantis in Spain, While the Boston Globe Hunts the Westford Knight
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 22 • November 25, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
While it was Thanksgiving week in the United States, that didn’t stop news from happening. At a conference in Denver this past week, an interdisciplinary team of scientists presented evidence that the Bronze Age civilization of the Dead Sea area was destroyed by a meteorite explosion similar to the 1908 Tunguska Event. The findings were immediately linked to the Biblical narrative of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, which are traditionally placed in the same region, and were said to have been felled by a rain of fire and brimstone from the heavens. Should such a link be proved, it would give the lie to fringe claims that space aliens destroyed the cities with nuclear weapons.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of November 19-25:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 22 • November 25, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
While it was Thanksgiving week in the United States, that didn’t stop news from happening. At a conference in Denver this past week, an interdisciplinary team of scientists presented evidence that the Bronze Age civilization of the Dead Sea area was destroyed by a meteorite explosion similar to the 1908 Tunguska Event. The findings were immediately linked to the Biblical narrative of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, which are traditionally placed in the same region, and were said to have been felled by a rain of fire and brimstone from the heavens. Should such a link be proved, it would give the lie to fringe claims that space aliens destroyed the cities with nuclear weapons.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of November 19-25:
- Erich von Däniken Says He Is “Not Happy” with Some Ancient Aliens Claims
- David Wilcock Tries to Link Q-Anon Conspiracy, Space Aliens, and Hamlet’s Mill While Promoting New Documentary
- Review of The Curse of Oak Island by Randall Sullivan
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 23 • December 2, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I know I’ve been teasing this for what seems to be forever, but I have been promised that the final decision on where my book about the myth of the Mound Builders will be published will come down this week. I am looking forward to finalizing this very long-gestating project, which I have been working on since 2011 or 2012. Granted, I wrote 50% of it in 2012 and 50% of it this spring, but it has still been a long road between conception and completion.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of November 26-December 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 23 • December 2, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I know I’ve been teasing this for what seems to be forever, but I have been promised that the final decision on where my book about the myth of the Mound Builders will be published will come down this week. I am looking forward to finalizing this very long-gestating project, which I have been working on since 2011 or 2012. Granted, I wrote 50% of it in 2012 and 50% of it this spring, but it has still been a long road between conception and completion.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of November 26-December 2:
- David Childress: Aliens Living in the Hollow Moon Created Bigfoot to Serve as Missing Link Between Humans and Apes
- Peruvian Congressman Brings Ufologist and Fringe Scientists to Congress to Promote Nazca "Alien" Mummies
- Scott Wolter: Masonic Expert Says “Sinclair Journals” Not Consistent with the Latin and English of Their Alleged Time Period
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 24 • December 9, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I am happy to announce that I have been commissioned to write a book about the myths and legends of the Giza pyramids, tentatively titled Legends of the Pyramids. You can find full details in the link below, but don’t get too excited too soon. It will be more than a year before the book will be ready. Next week, I should have information about the publication of my Mound Builder book, once the contract details are finalized. It looks like 2020 will be a big year for me… But it’s still a long way away.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of December 3-9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 24 • December 9, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I am happy to announce that I have been commissioned to write a book about the myths and legends of the Giza pyramids, tentatively titled Legends of the Pyramids. You can find full details in the link below, but don’t get too excited too soon. It will be more than a year before the book will be ready. Next week, I should have information about the publication of my Mound Builder book, once the contract details are finalized. It looks like 2020 will be a big year for me… But it’s still a long way away.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of December 3-9:
- Adrienne Mayor Says Talos Was an Ancient Fantasy Robot, But I’m Not So Sure
- Review of Legends of the Lost S01E01: “Viking Women Warriors”
- Announcing My New Book: Legends of the Pyramids
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 13 • Issue 25 • December 16, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of December 10-16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 13 • Issue 25 • December 16, 2018 •
It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…
News
- As we move into the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, I’m taking my traditional week off from writing a newsletter. Just like last year, due to a calendrical quirk, this doesn’t quite work out perfectly for freeing me up for the holidays like most years, so my next newsletter will theoretically come out on December 30. We’ll see if I can manage that! I will continue to update my blog throughout the holidays, so be sure to check in frequently for the latest posts!
- As you prepare for the holiday season, however, be sure to think about whether someone in your life might enjoy a book or two from my long list of books. Overnight shipping will get the book to you in time for Christmas, and most have e-book versions for instant download! My books also are the perfect way to use that Amazon gift card you know you’re getting in your stocking…
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of December 10-16:
- Help Support This Website with Your Contribution This Holiday Season
- Review of Legends of the Lost S01E02: “Stonehenge: The Healing Stones”
- Legends of the Lost Loses Viewers; Plus: Previewing Next Year’s Fringe History Books
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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