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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 1 • June 30, 2019 •

It’s been a busy few weeks in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
The summer doldrums seem to be hitting fringe TV, with ratings down across the board for shows like America Unearthed, Ancient Aliens, and Unidentified. That hasn’t stopped To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science from seeding the media with “insider” accounts from “former Pentagon officials” who conveniently happen to be in their employ.  The mainstream media treats the subject of UFOs with bemusement and have been remarkably uninterested in considering the motives of those who claim to be “revealing” truth. I’ll give them this: They’ve done a remarkable job of creating the illusion that the Pentagon is the process of UFO disclosure, even though it’s just To the Stars personnel talking about their own pet projects.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of June 17-30:
  • Review of America Unearthed S04E04 “The Ripper Unmasked”
  • Review of America Unearthed S04E05 “Phoenicians in America”
  • Review of America Unearthed S04E06 “The Spy Who Saved America”
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E04 “The Star Gods of Sirius”
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E05 “They Came from the Sea”

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 2 • July 7, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
On Friday, Unidentified, the joint project of the History Channel and To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, brought its first season to an end. Far from changing the conversation on UFOs, the show blew its was in the runup to its debut, leaving it to trail off in viewership, with declining ratings until the finale ended with more of a whimper than a bang. History was already busy promoting its replacement, William Shatner’s UnXplained. In the end, Unidentified and its TTSA backers managed to do the impossible: They turned anti-government UFO conspiracy theorists into cheerleaders for the Pentagon by making them think that they had a stake in the success of a minor, unproductive vanity office created by the intervention of a U.S. senator for the benefit of a UFO-obsessed campaign donor.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of July 1-7:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E06 “Secrets of the Maya”
  • Review of America Unearthed S04E07: “Bigfoot of the Bayou”
  • David Wilcock Claims YouTube Is Part of an Anti-Trump, Population-Reduction Plot

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 3 • July 14, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
I spent the week moving to a new house, which was an adventure and a half. No matter how carefully I planned, it seemed like things inevitably went wrong, and I ended up with much less time available than I thought I would have. I was able to squeeze out a review of America Unearthed, but I was thrilled that Ancient Aliens was off this week so I could get some extra sleep. Moving with a toddler and a cat is a lot harder than it looks, and I do not recommend it.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of July 8-14:
  • Review of America Unearthed S04E08 “Drake’s Lost Treasure”
  • Tom DeLonge Talks Ancient Astronauts, Claims “No One Really Cares” about UFO Sightings

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 4
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 4 • July 21, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
This week, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science launched another round of stock sales in the hope of raising more cash to fund their multimedia projects. According to a social media posting from TTSA leader Tom DeLonge, they had a boffo first week of stock sales, and I can’t imagine it’s a coincidence that the sale occurred only a week after TTSA’s History Channel series, Unidentified wrapped its first season—and generated all the attendant media coverage.
 
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of July 15-21:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E07 “The Druid Connection”
  • Review of America Unearthed S04E09 “Chicago's Mystery Bomber”
  • Ex-CIA “Weird Desk” Official Kit Green Claims Alien Autopsy Emails from the Future “To the Stars” Crew Are Authentic

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 5
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 5 • July 28, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
In an article published on Friday, Nick Redfern alleged that a cache of “new” Majestic-12 documents publicized in recent years were the product of Russian propaganda. The documents contain anti-American statements, alleging that space aliens needled American officials for the hypocritical way the U.S. preached equality while pursuing racial discrimination. If Redfern’s analysis is true, this would provide further confirmation of the fingerprints of Russian propaganda efforts that I have noted in UFO stories dating back decades. You can read Redfern’s article here.
 
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of July 22-28:
  • Review of America Unearthed S04E10 “Exodus of the Templars”
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E08 “The Reptilian Agenda”
  • Friday Roundup: New Alien-Hunting TV Show, a Metamaterials Update, and Malta’s Ancient Astronaut Investigation

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 6
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 6 • August 4, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
This week I had another meeting with a TV producer, as I reported on my blog, and it went exactly like all the others. The production company and the cable network want a yes-man who will say crazy stuff about aliens and Atlantis, and I don’t want to play along. The ritual is depressing in its sameness, but I do wonder what it’s like for the people who actually do like saying crazy stuff on TV for attention and money. Are these discussions more pleasant? If producers don’t really believe the alien conspiracy crap they put on TV, do they have to pretend in order to lure the zaniest UFO-circuit “personalities”? Or does everyone simply laugh about how they are purposely lying for profit? These sorts of situations raise so many questions…
 
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of July 29-August 4:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E09 “The Alien Infection”
  • FBI Designates Belief in Conspiracy Theories as a Motivator for Domestic Terror
  • Scott Wolter and the Secret Templar Fish Code

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 7
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 7 • August 11, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
Have you checked out cable TV lately? The sheer volume of fringe programming on the usual suspects—History, Travel, Destination America, etc.—has reached a volume not seen since the post-Ancient Aliens fringe TV explosion of the early 2010s. It’s far too much even for me to sample, but it is perhaps interesting that the new flavor of fringe programming is leaning more toward twentieth century history rather than ancient mysteries. One might hazard a guess that such topics are more familiar to cable’s core audience of aging Baby Boomers, but more likely it’s just a weird trend that spontaneously generated when producers all copied one another as their project pitches circle through a slowly evolving (or devolving) list of potential topics. Worst of all? It’s spreading to network TV. The CW, which previously did a special promoting fake Roswell UFO mysteries, is launching a new fringe series about the unexplained this week.
 
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of August 5-11:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E10 “Project Hybrid”
  • Review of Code of the Wild S01E01 “El Dorado”
  • Martin Sweatman Claims Göbekli Tepe Was a “University” Teaching Civilization to Africa, Europe, and Asia

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 8
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 8 • August 18, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
This week a casting call went out looking for archaeologists to join the hunt for a lost civilization as part of a new cable TV documentary series. It turns out that it’s yet another effort to “find” Atlantis. I can’t say that I am looking forward to yet another effort to try to find the imaginary. Imagine how much good might have been done using all the money spent creating fake documentaries about imaginary mysteries to pursue actual science or historical research.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of August 12-18:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E11 “The Trans-Dimensionals”
  • Review of Code of the Wild S01E03 “Lost Race of Giants”
  • Barnes Review Claims “White Leadership” from Ancient Egypt Ruled the Maya

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 9
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 9 • August 25, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
Graham Hancock announced on social media this week that he has begun work on a new ten-part documentary series exploring “mysterious ancient Egypt” for Gaia TV, the online streaming service specializing in New Age and ancient astronaut content. If this were airing on cable or broadcast, like his 1990s-era series did, this might have been a major fringe history event. But the most recent financial disclosures from Gaia TV show that the streaming service has 548,000 subscribers, and if the experiences of other streaming services like Netflix are any guide, only a small fraction of the audience watches any particular series.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of August 19-25:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E12 “Islands of Fire”
  • Tom DeLonge Asks If “Ultra-Terrestrials” Arrived in “Lemuria and Atlantis” Time
  • Why Italian Archaeologists Did Not Really Discover Circe’s Cave on the Italian Coast

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 10
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 10 • September 1, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
It turns out that I am never more than a degree or two of separation from space aliens. I was surprised to discover that when I broke my usual format this week to analyze the new season of 13 Reasons Why, the number of people who read the post was 10% higher than my monthly average. It surprised me less to discover that during a promotional interview for the series, an interviewer asked Brando Flynn, the actor who plays Justin on the show, his views on space aliens. Because that is apparently what we do now in the post-Ancient Aliens world: talk about space aliens in otherwise unrelated contexts. In case you care, he is very excited by the thought that aliens might visit us, and then realized halfway through the answer that it would probably end up coming back to haunt him.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of August 26-September 1:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E13 “The Constellation Code”
  • Review of Code of the Wild S01E05 “Aztecs in America”
  • Reflections on Brotherhood and Redemption in 13 Reasons Why

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 11
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​THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 11 • September 8, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
This week I obtained a copy of Denisovan Origins, the new book by Andrew Collins and Greg Little. I will be reviewing the book on Tuesday, but in the meantime I wanted to share with you the fact that the authors thought it was a good idea to quote me on the problematic accounts of “giant” skeletons in Victorian newspapers and then accuse me of being in thrall to “eugenicist” dogma designed to “demean” and suppress Native Americans. The argument, put forward by Little, is that by finding no evidence that there were Bible giants walking among Native Americans, I “deny” Native peoples their true superhuman history and thus consign them to what he calls “racial inferiority.” The argument is bizarre, and the book is stranger. Tune in Tuesday for more.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of September 2-8:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E14 “The Nuclear Agenda”
  • The Strange Tale of Cursed Mummies and the Ship They Nearly Destroyed
  • Taking a Book-Writing Break; Plus: An Unexpected Clarification

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 12
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 12 • September 15, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
As I reported this week on my blog, my computer’s hard drive gave out last Sunday, so I have spent the week without a computer while I wait for mine to be repaired and returned. Consequently, my blogging was sparse this week. However, I did want to use this space today to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Scooby-Doo, which debuted on CBS on September 13, 1969. While later incarnations of Scooby-Doo went native and embraced the supernatural, the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? series remains an influential depiction of skepticism and rationalism in the face of supernatural mysteries. There is certainly a lesson in there about the way every ghost, demon, and space alien is really some greedy huckster in disguise. Who would have thought in 1969 that placing four kids and a dog in The Mysteries of Udolpho would revive the Ann Radcliffe Gothic tradition of the supernatural explained?

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of September 9-15:
  • Review of Denisovan Origins by Andrew Collins and Gregory L. Little
  • Unveiling the Cover for My New Book
 
Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 13
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 13 • September 22, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
This week, a group of people alternately described in the media as “sci-fi enthusiasts” and “UFO believers”—since fact and fiction are now interchangeable—gathered outside the Groom Lake, Nev. Area 51 facility for an extraterrestrial-themed party dubbed the “storming” of Area 51. The event garnered derisive media coverage and, bizarrely, prompted the Ancient Aliens television program to provide live coverage of the festivities on its Instagram account, which it promoted across its social media channels by aping the style of TV news promotions.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of September 16-22:
  • The “Antediluvian” Osirion at Abydos: A Century of Deceptively Copied Claims
  • Tuesday Terrors: Reviews of Truth or Dare and Head Count 

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 14
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 14 • September 29, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
A lot of stuff happened this week that I wasn’t able to write about because I am busy proofreading and indexing my mound builder book for the publisher. I can only briefly mention that the New York Times delivered yet another puff piece about UFOs, this time praising Tom DeLonge and To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science. Something is wrong at the Times, and it would be fascinating to find out why they have developed such a pro-UFO (and anti-fact) agenda. Also, pseudohistory writer Andrew Collins found himself driven out of Göbekli Tepe and his book From the Ashes of Angels banned in Turkey. On Facebook, Collins blamed the bans on his crackpot ideas, which he claims came into conflict with Turkey’s Islamist efforts to reimagine Göbekli Tepe as the temple of idols visited by Abraham in the Qur’an, but the real problem seems to be his support for the Kurdish people and a proposed Kurdish state, which conflicts with Turkey’s hardline policy against Kurdish autonomy. There are no winners here.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of September 23-29:
  • Review of Cryptic Code of the Knights Templar by Scott F. Wolter (Part 1)
  • Review of Cryptic Code of the Knights Templar by Scott F. Wolter (Part 2)

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 15
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 15 • October 6, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
America’s Stonehenge suffered vandalism when someone defaced the colonial cider-pressing stone that the New Hampshire tourist attraction calls a “sacrificial stone” using power tools. The vandal carved letters into the stone and left a wooden cross decorated with photographs of young people. A local newspaper reported the story but did so by accepting the site owners’ false claims that it was built by Old World people more than 4,000 years ago.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of September 30-October 6:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E15 “The Alien Mountain”
  • Andrew Collins Is Having Trouble in Turkey
  • Is Payton Hobart from Netflix’s The Politician Too Unrealistic? Not Really. I Used to Be Him

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 16
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 16 • October 13, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
Last week, I reported that America’s Stonehenge had been vandalized, and the symbols carved onto the so-called “sacrificial table” were related to the pro-Trump Q-Anon conspiracy theory. Of course, America Unearthed host Scott F. Wolter blamed me for the vandalism in an ill-considered blog post, but then he doubled down on the claim after being called out on the ridiculous accusation. “I have already explained the negative effects of ‘Hate Bloggers’,” he wrote on Friday, “some of whom partner with close-minded academics, that embolden fanatics to deface and destroy historical artifacts and sites that are not fully understood yet. […] The fact that I have enemies is evidence we are making positive contributions and I am proud of that.”

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of October 7-13:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E16 “The Alien Brain”
  • Vandal Damages “America’s Stonehenge” Cider Press Known as “Sacrificial Table”
  • Ex-Skinwalker Ranch Employees Reveal Underwhelming Supernatural Experiences

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 17
Volume 15
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 17 • October 20, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
This week, To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science made news by announcing that they have partnered with the U.S. Army to develop secret technologies, including new methods of camouflage, which they allege will be derived from the so-called “metamaterials” that TTSA is studying (i.e., “Art’s Parts”). UFO groups were torn over whether to be excited for the official recognition of TTSA by the U.S. government or horrified that TTSA sold out their “investigation” to the military-industrial complex. I think the answer is simpler: TTSA is staffed by ex-government agents and contractors. Does anyone really find it surprising that they are continuing their previous government work on a new contract under a new name? (TTSA is not being paid, per government regulations, except in publicity.)

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of October 14-20:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E17 “The Secrets of Stonehenge”
  • Did Donald Trump Really Say America Had a Relationship with the Roman Empire?
  • Whitley Streiber Confirms To the Stars’ Alien Metal Is Just 1990s-Era “Art’s Parts”

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 18
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 18 • October 27, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
This week, Edward Snowden told Joe Rogan that he found no evidence of any U.S. government interest in or records of extraterrestrials visiting the Earth. (a) This shouldn’t really surprise anyone. (b) We live in a world now where a fugitive leaker of national security secrets discusses space aliens with an ex-game show host turned podcaster for an audience of Gen Z ditto-heads who believe in conspiracy theories. (c) The audience is actually mad that the truth isn’t a horrifying conspiracy. Good times.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of October 21-27:
  • Now with Fewer than 750K Viewers, Can Ratings for Ancient Aliens Recover?
  • Stanford Professor Says the Fall of Rome Was the “Best” Thing to Happen to Europe
  • Review of Daybreak: A Netflix Apocalypse Comedy That’s Really About TV

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 19
Volume 15
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 19 • November 3, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
A new report from MJ Banias in Vice magazine discusses the incipient merger between ufology and the pro-Trump Q-Anon conspiracy theory. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise since the close ties between ufology and extreme right-wing politics started forming in the 1980s, and scholars have documented the resulting world of right-wing ufology since the early 2000s. This latest convergence is just another phase of a long-simmering process, albeit a grossly unpleasant one.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of October 28-November 3:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E18 “Food of the Gods”
  • The 1643 Murder of Newbury’s Surfing “Witch”

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 20
Volume 15
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 20 • November 10, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
This week Nexstar Media Group launched Mystery Wire, a UFO and paranormal news service revolving around the reporting of KLAS-TV reporter and UFO circuit regular George Knapp. Mystery Wire contains a mass of Knapp’s old reporting and other paranormal features from Nexstar stations, but what is disturbing is that the operation, which is promoted as Knapp’s venture, is owned and operated by one of the largest owners of local broadcast television outlets in the United States. Nexstar seems to have decided to exploit the perceived paranormal market with a dedicated news outlet, but not one that they feel is strong enough to be, you know, actual news. It’s a cynical cash grab and shameless pandering masquerading as a public service, and one that calls into question the quality of Nexstar’s journalism as an FCC licensee. It’s not really that much different than NBC sending its newscasters to do pseudo-documentaries for the company’s Syfy channel, but we really should expect better of those who operate on the public airwaves.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of November 4-10:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E19 “Human Hieroglyphs”
  • Army Explains Interest in To the Stars’ Metal; Plus: Jacques Vallée Challenges Reality
  • Ashley Cowie Appropriates Minoan Archaeology for Atlantis

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 21
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 21 • November 17, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
I will be so happy when I am finally done with book manuscripts for a while. Spending most of this year writing, editing, formatting, and indexing books has been enormously challenging, and working on two at once taxed even my ability to get things done. After The Mound Builder Myth went off to press, that helped lighten the burden some, but I still have Legends of the Pyramids to wrap up, and it’s turning out to be a bigger pain in the ass. Writing the book was fairly easy. Even editing and revising it wasn’t very hard. But the formatting requirements are so time-consuming that I am getting sore annoyed. The worst of it is the photo requirements. Each picture has to have a special code in the manuscript, a caption formatted to standards, an alphanumeric file coding system, and a spreadsheet entry with five data categories. It takes forever to enter all the data for each picture, and heaven forfend I need to move one. When this is over, I am taking a good long break from this kind of mindless busywork.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of November 11-17:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E20 “The Storming of Area 51”
  • Steve Quayle Claims Fallen Angels Will Return Soon to Kill Us All
  • Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned Turns 100

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 22
Volume 15
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 22 • November 24, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
If you didn’t see it on my blog, in this month's edition of The SAA Archaeological Record, a publication of the Society for American Archaeology, there is a special section organized by John Hoopes in which a number of authors, including several friends of this blog and me, have pieces examining aspects of Graham Hancock's America Before, pseudoarchaeology, and popular understandings of the past. My piece focuses on racism and the Mound Builder myth, in anticipation of my forthcoming book on the subject. The special edition can be read for free in its entirety here, and my piece also appears on my website by permission of the SAA. In lieu of a lengthy post today, please enjoy my article.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of November 18-24:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E21 “Countdown to Disclosure”
  • Were the Knights Templar Hunting Hermetic Knowledge in Harran?
  • Is the Paranormal Proof We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 23
Volume 15
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 23 • December 1, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
The good news this week is that we are rid of Ancient Aliens for a little while. The show is going on a holiday hiatus until it returns alongside History’s other alien conspiracy show, Project Blue Book, in January. The bad news is that the History Channel will be filling the gap with more conspiracies, including a White House-themed presidential UFO conspiracy pseudo-documentary next week. Worse, the network has arranged for two former U.S. presidents, a former network news anchor, and an award-winning historian to appear at elaborate parties that the channel will be throwing for itself on the east and west coasts early next year to celebrate 25 years of lying about history. The west coast event, with superstar historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, will also feature the stars of Ancient Aliens. The complicity of American elites in the dumbing down of our culture could not be on better display than this constellation of American elites celebrating ancient astronaut theorists and pawn shop owners and a network whose mission is to grind the very concepts of truth and honesty into dust for cash.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of November 25-December 1:
  • Review of Ancient Aliens S14E22 “Secrets of the Exoplanets”
  • Review of Unexplained + Unexplored S01E03 “Knights Templar in America”
  • Graham Hancock Reacts to SAA Archaeological Record Articles on America Before

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 24
Volume 15
THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 24 • December 8, 2019 •

It’s been a busy week in the world of xenoarchaeology. Let’s see what’s new…

News
This week I read the new Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda book from To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, and if you haven’t read my review, be sure to check it out. For all the hype and hysteria over TTSA, it’s legitimately surprising that their flagship intellectual endeavor, billed as the company’s mission and vision statement for their understanding of UFOs and the paranormal, is a bunch of warmed over content recycled from old episodes of Ancient Aliens, with some factual errors and freshman year dorm-room bull-session philosophy to tie it all together. What dreck.

On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the week of December 2-8:
  • Review of Gods, Man, & War 2: Man by Tom DeLonge with Peter Levenda
  • Pre-Modern UFOs and the Power of Dreams
  • Deep Prasad Describes Totally Not a Dream Alien Encounter

Until next week, keep watching the skies!

Jason Colavito

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Issue 25
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THE SKEPTICAL XENOARCHAEOLOGIST
• Vol. 15 • Issue 25 • December 15, 2019 •
 
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 29. 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… And don’t forget that my new book, The Mound Builder Myth, is available for preorder from your favorite retailer for a February release.
 
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts for the weeks of December 9-15:
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  • In New Interview, Scott Wolter Claims Jesus and Akhenaten As His Ancestors
  • Review of Unexplained + Unexplored S01E05: “Hunt for the Ark of the Covenant”

Until next week, keep watching the skies!
 
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        • Fragments on Giants
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        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
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      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
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