Volume 20 Archive
THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 1 • January 2, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! As the old year came to an end, former Trump aide and accused insurrection planner Steven Bannon devoted part of this streaming talk show to praising rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and playing a clip of Jones alleging that “intergalactic” space demons had taken over human bodies and were invading the Earth, as ancient texts had described. As much as I would like to be surprised by this confluence of rightwing extremism, ancient astronaut theory, and religious paranoia, I can’t say it was unexpected. Apparently, an invasion of space demons is on track to become part of the Trumpist articles of faith only a few days after Trump’s son, Don Jr., asked what following the teachings of Jesus ever did for conservatives and encouraging listeners to follow the aggressive path of Trump instead. I hope cable TV executives are happy with the death cult their paranoid programing created.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of December 20-January 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 1 • January 2, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! As the old year came to an end, former Trump aide and accused insurrection planner Steven Bannon devoted part of this streaming talk show to praising rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and playing a clip of Jones alleging that “intergalactic” space demons had taken over human bodies and were invading the Earth, as ancient texts had described. As much as I would like to be surprised by this confluence of rightwing extremism, ancient astronaut theory, and religious paranoia, I can’t say it was unexpected. Apparently, an invasion of space demons is on track to become part of the Trumpist articles of faith only a few days after Trump’s son, Don Jr., asked what following the teachings of Jesus ever did for conservatives and encouraging listeners to follow the aggressive path of Trump instead. I hope cable TV executives are happy with the death cult their paranoid programing created.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of December 20-January 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 2 • January 9, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Britain’s The Telegraph ran a puff piece interview with Erich von Däniken in which the paper presented the aging author as a cuddly inspiration for Marvel movies (Jack Kirby modeled the Eternals on Chariots of the Gods) rather than a problematic figure with a history of racist, sexist, transphobic, and Islamophobic statements—part of the continuing normalization of extremist ET lunatics. Chris Mellon posted a blog in which he asked why the Pentagon hasn’t offered Lue Elizondo his old job back yet. But in so doing, Mellon admitted that Elizondo broke unspecified Pentagon rules during his UFO advocacy and conceded for the first time that Elizondo pursued UFO investigation “on his own time” at the Pentagon and thus not as part of his assigned duties, as Pentagon spokespeople have insisted. Then, to add insult to injury, the CBS Evening News had on a psychic to give America a tarot card reading foretelling the course of the upcoming year. I couldn’t help but think of Network (1976), when producers add Sybil the Soothsayer to Howard Beale’s show to predict the news. Walter Cronkite would roll in his grave.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 3-9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 2 • January 9, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Britain’s The Telegraph ran a puff piece interview with Erich von Däniken in which the paper presented the aging author as a cuddly inspiration for Marvel movies (Jack Kirby modeled the Eternals on Chariots of the Gods) rather than a problematic figure with a history of racist, sexist, transphobic, and Islamophobic statements—part of the continuing normalization of extremist ET lunatics. Chris Mellon posted a blog in which he asked why the Pentagon hasn’t offered Lue Elizondo his old job back yet. But in so doing, Mellon admitted that Elizondo broke unspecified Pentagon rules during his UFO advocacy and conceded for the first time that Elizondo pursued UFO investigation “on his own time” at the Pentagon and thus not as part of his assigned duties, as Pentagon spokespeople have insisted. Then, to add insult to injury, the CBS Evening News had on a psychic to give America a tarot card reading foretelling the course of the upcoming year. I couldn’t help but think of Network (1976), when producers add Sybil the Soothsayer to Howard Beale’s show to predict the news. Walter Cronkite would roll in his grave.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 3-9:
- Uri Geller Claims to Have Divined the Location of the Ark of the Covenant
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E01: The Disclosure Event
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 3 • January 16, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a new podcast interview, Leslie Kean, the UFO journalist who joined Robert Bigelow’s consciousness study group after writing a book about the afterlife, announced—to no great surprise—that she is working on a new UFO documentary TV series and that she now believes that UFOs are linked to consciousness and the afterlife. What a complete and total shock that she has come to fully embrace the same looney tunes idea that her patron, Robert Bigelow, has been trying to find for decades. The idea, of course, is an old one, going back to the middle 20th century, but as I discussed in The New Republic last year, the effort to conflate objects seen in the sky with proof of survival after death and the primacy of consciousness is part of a larger program of discontent with reality that seeks to disprove materialism in hope of resurrecting a quasi-Gnostic spirituality in place of science while retaining science’s name.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 10-16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 3 • January 16, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a new podcast interview, Leslie Kean, the UFO journalist who joined Robert Bigelow’s consciousness study group after writing a book about the afterlife, announced—to no great surprise—that she is working on a new UFO documentary TV series and that she now believes that UFOs are linked to consciousness and the afterlife. What a complete and total shock that she has come to fully embrace the same looney tunes idea that her patron, Robert Bigelow, has been trying to find for decades. The idea, of course, is an old one, going back to the middle 20th century, but as I discussed in The New Republic last year, the effort to conflate objects seen in the sky with proof of survival after death and the primacy of consciousness is part of a larger program of discontent with reality that seeks to disprove materialism in hope of resurrecting a quasi-Gnostic spirituality in place of science while retaining science’s name.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 10-16:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E02 “Mystery of the Standing Stones”
- UFO Twitter Is Talking about an Old Air Force Textbook on Ancient Aliens and UFOs
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 4 • January 23, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
For a while this week, it felt like pre-pandemic times, with bonkers pseudohistorical and ufological news coming fast and furious. Linda Moulton Howe walked out of a Theory of Everything podcast interview when she was faced for the first time with skeptical questions about her nutty claims about lost pyramids, alien photographs, and cattle mutilations! CNN gave Leslie Kean a five-episode order to rehash her self-aggrandizing account of the government’s UFO research in a documentary series to complement the dramatization of the same on sister service HBO Max! The Galileo Project hired Jacques Vallée! Scott Wolter had a new (fake) artifact! A racist new book about the white Master Race of Atlantis came out with an endorsement by ex-Nazi leader Frank Joseph! I think I liked it better when they were all quiet and in lockdown.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 17-23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 4 • January 23, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
For a while this week, it felt like pre-pandemic times, with bonkers pseudohistorical and ufological news coming fast and furious. Linda Moulton Howe walked out of a Theory of Everything podcast interview when she was faced for the first time with skeptical questions about her nutty claims about lost pyramids, alien photographs, and cattle mutilations! CNN gave Leslie Kean a five-episode order to rehash her self-aggrandizing account of the government’s UFO research in a documentary series to complement the dramatization of the same on sister service HBO Max! The Galileo Project hired Jacques Vallée! Scott Wolter had a new (fake) artifact! A racist new book about the white Master Race of Atlantis came out with an endorsement by ex-Nazi leader Frank Joseph! I think I liked it better when they were all quiet and in lockdown.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 17-23:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E03: “Beneath the Sacred Temples”
- Scott Wolter Claims “Antique” Journal Contains Templar and Oak Island Secrets
- Review of The Empires of Atlantis by Marco M. Vigato
- Galileo Project Hires Jacques Vallée as It Morphs into BAASS/AAWSAP 2.0
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 5 • January 30, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Since I am bored with UFOs this week and have no interest in commenting on the astonishing display of mutual ignorance in Joe Rogan’s interview with Jordan Peterson, I will instead use this space to call to your attention an excerpt from culture critic Isaac Butler’s new book The Method, a history of Method acting, which ran in Vulture this week. The excerpt focuses on James Dean, whom Butler dismisses a failed imitator of Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. It’s a great example of the school of writing that characterizes James Dean as nasty, evil, and demonic. (Don Graham’s Giant, from 2018, is another exemplar.) Butler, for example, none-too-subtly selects anecdotes to depict Dean as vile, sexually immoral, and therefore also a bad actor by dint of being a bad person, contrasting him with Marlon Brando, whom he depicts heroically. Brando, of course, was just as difficult and unpleasant, more pugnacious, and infamous for his sexual profligacy. Everything you need to know about Butler’s judgment can be summed up in his conclusion that East of Eden and Rebel without a Cause are ineffective, hysterical films, while the dull, overlong Giant was both James Dean’s best film and finest performance.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 24-30:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 5 • January 30, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Since I am bored with UFOs this week and have no interest in commenting on the astonishing display of mutual ignorance in Joe Rogan’s interview with Jordan Peterson, I will instead use this space to call to your attention an excerpt from culture critic Isaac Butler’s new book The Method, a history of Method acting, which ran in Vulture this week. The excerpt focuses on James Dean, whom Butler dismisses a failed imitator of Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. It’s a great example of the school of writing that characterizes James Dean as nasty, evil, and demonic. (Don Graham’s Giant, from 2018, is another exemplar.) Butler, for example, none-too-subtly selects anecdotes to depict Dean as vile, sexually immoral, and therefore also a bad actor by dint of being a bad person, contrasting him with Marlon Brando, whom he depicts heroically. Brando, of course, was just as difficult and unpleasant, more pugnacious, and infamous for his sexual profligacy. Everything you need to know about Butler’s judgment can be summed up in his conclusion that East of Eden and Rebel without a Cause are ineffective, hysterical films, while the dull, overlong Giant was both James Dean’s best film and finest performance.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 24-30:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E04 “The World on Alert”
- Scott Wolter Claims the Pyramids Ran on Ark Power
- James Dean Death Car Horror Movie in the Works
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 6 • February 6, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend former Defense Department official Chris Mellon went on The Hill’s morning show, Rising, to discuss an article he published in The Debrief blasting the Air Force for failing to fully cooperate with those in government investigating UFOs and stonewalling attempts to get information about flying saucers from them. As a lifelong UFO enthusiast, he of course skipped over the seemingly obvious reason for this—that the Air Force was protecting its own assets under the cover of UFOs—and instead asserted on Rising that space aliens are the best explanation for UFO sightings. This was a rather dramatic change from the early days when he forcefully asserted that no one was speaking of aliens in order to justify the national security threat narrative he sold to Congress. Now that he got what he wanted, a government-mandated permanent UFO office, he seems happy to let his true freak flag fly.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 31-February 6:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 6 • February 6, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend former Defense Department official Chris Mellon went on The Hill’s morning show, Rising, to discuss an article he published in The Debrief blasting the Air Force for failing to fully cooperate with those in government investigating UFOs and stonewalling attempts to get information about flying saucers from them. As a lifelong UFO enthusiast, he of course skipped over the seemingly obvious reason for this—that the Air Force was protecting its own assets under the cover of UFOs—and instead asserted on Rising that space aliens are the best explanation for UFO sightings. This was a rather dramatic change from the early days when he forcefully asserted that no one was speaking of aliens in order to justify the national security threat narrative he sold to Congress. Now that he got what he wanted, a government-mandated permanent UFO office, he seems happy to let his true freak flag fly.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 31-February 6:
- Peter Thiel’s UFO Interests; Plus: Garry Nolan Wants Your Money to Test UFO Parts
- Discovery+ and Travel Channel Claim Vampires Are Real, Control the Media
- Researchers Behind Ice Age Comet Claim Say a Comet Destroyed the Hopewell, Too
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 7 • February 13, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week was another depressing step downward as Stanford researcher Garry Nolan speculated about interdimensional space poltergeists infecting the brains of the very intelligent with space inflammation, as Nolan angled to get government funding to study mind parasites and their psychic space powers. Theil Capital’s Eric Weinstein interviewed Hal Puthoff, who claimed that aerospace companies are hoarding secret physics secrets unknown to academia (this is the claim that all reality is really consciousness, not matter and energy) and that the Pentagon is trying to stop UFO research because they believe “American taxpayer dollars should not be spent on pursuing demonic technology.” And Discovery+ ghost-hunter Zak Bagans opened his new James Dean supernatural “curse” exhibit, and fabricated material from the exhibit, faking even what he didn’t need to fake.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 7-13:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 7 • February 13, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week was another depressing step downward as Stanford researcher Garry Nolan speculated about interdimensional space poltergeists infecting the brains of the very intelligent with space inflammation, as Nolan angled to get government funding to study mind parasites and their psychic space powers. Theil Capital’s Eric Weinstein interviewed Hal Puthoff, who claimed that aerospace companies are hoarding secret physics secrets unknown to academia (this is the claim that all reality is really consciousness, not matter and energy) and that the Pentagon is trying to stop UFO research because they believe “American taxpayer dollars should not be spent on pursuing demonic technology.” And Discovery+ ghost-hunter Zak Bagans opened his new James Dean supernatural “curse” exhibit, and fabricated material from the exhibit, faking even what he didn’t need to fake.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 7-13:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E05: “Recovering the Ark of the Covenant”
- Garry Nolan Goes Full UFO, Talks Shape-Shifting, Psychic Projections, Nonsense
- Zak Bagans Opens James Dean Exhibit
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 8 • February 20, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Jacques Vallée received a glossy profile in Wired hailing him as a hero, despite his failure to make progress hunting UFO truth for more than half a century. Lue Elizondo once again got caught misrepresenting government documents to heighten the drama of his claims. This time, citing The Sun tabloid, he falsely claimed that a transcript of a 1960s public speech using a fictitious alien message as a hypothetical code-breaking exercise was a formerly classified NSA report on communicating with space aliens. It’s not the first time Elizondo has misrepresented documents. He falsely told CNN a couple of years ago that a CIA collection of newspaper clippings were classified agency reports of contact with aliens, and he later blamed Fox News for showing the wrong document when he falsely claimed to have obtained a classified report on UFOs that had been in the public domain for decades. He never did share the supposedly “correct” document. Elizondo took to Twitter Saturday night to issue a belated correction and to ask why ufologists were creating “drama” around his misrepresentations since “we are all on the same team.” And here I thought it was supposed to be about truth, not group identity.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 14-20:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 8 • February 20, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Jacques Vallée received a glossy profile in Wired hailing him as a hero, despite his failure to make progress hunting UFO truth for more than half a century. Lue Elizondo once again got caught misrepresenting government documents to heighten the drama of his claims. This time, citing The Sun tabloid, he falsely claimed that a transcript of a 1960s public speech using a fictitious alien message as a hypothetical code-breaking exercise was a formerly classified NSA report on communicating with space aliens. It’s not the first time Elizondo has misrepresented documents. He falsely told CNN a couple of years ago that a CIA collection of newspaper clippings were classified agency reports of contact with aliens, and he later blamed Fox News for showing the wrong document when he falsely claimed to have obtained a classified report on UFOs that had been in the public domain for decades. He never did share the supposedly “correct” document. Elizondo took to Twitter Saturday night to issue a belated correction and to ask why ufologists were creating “drama” around his misrepresentations since “we are all on the same team.” And here I thought it was supposed to be about truth, not group identity.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 14-20:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E06: “Secrets of the Star Ancestors”
- Gillibrand Demands DoD IG Nominee Commit to Investigating UFO Investigations
- Avi Loeb Sees Galileo Project Preparing the Way for Global Unity
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 9 • February 27, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Thanks to events in the Ukraine, it was a slow week for flying saucers and ancient mysteries. Diana Pasulka claimed to know scientists who have made contact with entities from another dimension. Lue Elizondo drew a half-remembered alchemical symbol and used his slow cadence and dramatic pauses to imply that he had revelations about the human soul being independent of the body. Meanwhile, the History channel announced that Giorgio Tsoukalos, David Childress, and William Henry are the stars of Ancient Aliens LIVE: Project Earth, a new traveling 90-minute Ancient Aliens stage show in which the three “perform” the TV show’s greatest hits in front of a live audience.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 21-27:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 9 • February 27, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Thanks to events in the Ukraine, it was a slow week for flying saucers and ancient mysteries. Diana Pasulka claimed to know scientists who have made contact with entities from another dimension. Lue Elizondo drew a half-remembered alchemical symbol and used his slow cadence and dramatic pauses to imply that he had revelations about the human soul being independent of the body. Meanwhile, the History channel announced that Giorgio Tsoukalos, David Childress, and William Henry are the stars of Ancient Aliens LIVE: Project Earth, a new traveling 90-minute Ancient Aliens stage show in which the three “perform” the TV show’s greatest hits in front of a live audience.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 21-27:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 10 • March 6, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
A retired architect claimed that piles of granite ships’ ballast in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast are the remains of a Graham Hancock-style 12,000-year-old sunken pyramid city “related” to the Great Pyramids of Giza. He also alleges that his imaginary pyramid city gives off massive amounts of pyramid energy that can stop electronics on the surface. It’s fairly obvious that his cranky ideas are straight out of Hancock and internet fever swamps, but WWL-TV spread the story far and wide by mislabeling George Gelé as an “archaeologist” on social media and “amateur archaeologist” in their online article reporting the “news” of the so-called city’s discovery.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 28-March 6:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 10 • March 6, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
A retired architect claimed that piles of granite ships’ ballast in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast are the remains of a Graham Hancock-style 12,000-year-old sunken pyramid city “related” to the Great Pyramids of Giza. He also alleges that his imaginary pyramid city gives off massive amounts of pyramid energy that can stop electronics on the surface. It’s fairly obvious that his cranky ideas are straight out of Hancock and internet fever swamps, but WWL-TV spread the story far and wide by mislabeling George Gelé as an “archaeologist” on social media and “amateur archaeologist” in their online article reporting the “news” of the so-called city’s discovery.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 28-March 6:
- Archaeologist Argues Stonehenge Was an Egyptian-Influenced Solar Calendar
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E08 “The Shadow People”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 11 • March 13, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I haven’t been writing much this past week. I’m committed to some work projects, which is reducing the time I have available. But it’s also not terribly exciting to see that the same nonsense keeps cycling around. On the heels of Avi Loeb’s recent and naively simplistic article claiming that the movie Arrival has lessons for how to communicate with space aliens, Loeb then announced that the director of the movie has teamed up with him to create a UFO documentary. Then, Diana Pasulka, fresh off claiming scientists are in touch with interdimensional poltergeists using a mysterious “technology,” signed a book deal with St. Martin’s Essentials for a new book on scientific “contact” with interdimensional beings. Afterward, Ross Coulthart promised that the truth about UFOs would be coming soon, and then announced that he, too, in negotiating a media deal for a U.S. UFO documentary TV series. See a theme?
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 7-13:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 11 • March 13, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I haven’t been writing much this past week. I’m committed to some work projects, which is reducing the time I have available. But it’s also not terribly exciting to see that the same nonsense keeps cycling around. On the heels of Avi Loeb’s recent and naively simplistic article claiming that the movie Arrival has lessons for how to communicate with space aliens, Loeb then announced that the director of the movie has teamed up with him to create a UFO documentary. Then, Diana Pasulka, fresh off claiming scientists are in touch with interdimensional poltergeists using a mysterious “technology,” signed a book deal with St. Martin’s Essentials for a new book on scientific “contact” with interdimensional beings. Afterward, Ross Coulthart promised that the truth about UFOs would be coming soon, and then announced that he, too, in negotiating a media deal for a U.S. UFO documentary TV series. See a theme?
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 7-13:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 12 • March 20, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I have now finished the majority of the work for my work projects, which I hope means that I will be able to free up time to get back to writing my own things again. I’m not sure how much of that will be blogging, though, since I will need begin the process of rewriting my book manuscript since my agent and I have decided that a different focus is needed to make it a success. We’ll see how it goes!
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 14-20:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 12 • March 20, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I have now finished the majority of the work for my work projects, which I hope means that I will be able to free up time to get back to writing my own things again. I’m not sure how much of that will be blogging, though, since I will need begin the process of rewriting my book manuscript since my agent and I have decided that a different focus is needed to make it a success. We’ll see how it goes!
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 14-20:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 13 • March 7 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Weird even by the standards of ufology, this week Lue Elizondo sat down with cattle mutilation queen Linda Moulton Howe to talk UFOs. The two discussed some odd topics, with Howe pressing Elizondo to agree with some of her most bizarre conspiracy theories about multiple alien races competing to control the Earth and Elizondo, at one point, arguing that “few” recent secretaries of defense, like his old boss, former defense secretary Gen. Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, and the current defense secretary, Gen. Lloyd Austin, were “actual warriors” or had national security experience. This, he said, was why they had not been read in on the super-secret UFO work Elizondo had done and therefore why they could not confirm that his UFO program, AATIP, had any formal existence during the years he supposedly ran it.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 21-27:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 13 • March 7 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Weird even by the standards of ufology, this week Lue Elizondo sat down with cattle mutilation queen Linda Moulton Howe to talk UFOs. The two discussed some odd topics, with Howe pressing Elizondo to agree with some of her most bizarre conspiracy theories about multiple alien races competing to control the Earth and Elizondo, at one point, arguing that “few” recent secretaries of defense, like his old boss, former defense secretary Gen. Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, and the current defense secretary, Gen. Lloyd Austin, were “actual warriors” or had national security experience. This, he said, was why they had not been read in on the super-secret UFO work Elizondo had done and therefore why they could not confirm that his UFO program, AATIP, had any formal existence during the years he supposedly ran it.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 21-27:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 14 • April 3, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The Salt Lake Tribune ran a piece this week profiling Mormon pseudo-archaeology enthusiast Wayne May, the longtime publisher of Ancient American magazine, in the context of a battle within the Mormon archaeology community about whether a lost and massive ancient Jewish civilization existed in North America or Central America. May, a so-called “heartlander,” favors a North American location, but as Ken Feder noted in the Tribune piece, both camps are engaging in a fact-free fantasy unsupported by archaeology. I was disappointed that the Tribune, in flattering Mormon religious beliefs, neglected to note that May was the longtime employer of the former head of the American Nazi Party, Frank Joseph (né Collin), who used his position editing May’s magazine to spread repugnant fringe history ideas about ancient white supermen and their fabulous globe-spanning prehistoric empire.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 28-April 3:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 14 • April 3, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The Salt Lake Tribune ran a piece this week profiling Mormon pseudo-archaeology enthusiast Wayne May, the longtime publisher of Ancient American magazine, in the context of a battle within the Mormon archaeology community about whether a lost and massive ancient Jewish civilization existed in North America or Central America. May, a so-called “heartlander,” favors a North American location, but as Ken Feder noted in the Tribune piece, both camps are engaging in a fact-free fantasy unsupported by archaeology. I was disappointed that the Tribune, in flattering Mormon religious beliefs, neglected to note that May was the longtime employer of the former head of the American Nazi Party, Frank Joseph (né Collin), who used his position editing May’s magazine to spread repugnant fringe history ideas about ancient white supermen and their fabulous globe-spanning prehistoric empire.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 28-April 3:
- Review of The UnXplained S03E08 “Mysterious Ancient Ruins”
- Fox Nation's Lara Logan Claims Rothschilds Paid Darwin to Fabricate Evolution
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 15 • April 10, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend, I was interviewed in Salon magazine alongside a roster of experts on LGBTQ issues and American culture to discuss the rightwing conservatives’ obsession with policing public bathrooms. Meanwhile, Galileo Project head Avi Loeb traveled to Miami to speak at a cryptocurrency conference, Bitcoin 2022. Theil Capital’s UFO-believing executive Eric Weinstein interviewed Loeb about aliens and outer space, and during the chat Loeb trotted out his ersatz philosophy, claiming that the discovery of alien life would bring humanity together as a single species in mutual harmony and that humanity must focus on “spirituality” in order to “save” humanity from existential threats. I told you he sees himself as a guru. Now he openly admits that his hunt for space aliens is spirituality by other means.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 4-10:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 15 • April 10, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend, I was interviewed in Salon magazine alongside a roster of experts on LGBTQ issues and American culture to discuss the rightwing conservatives’ obsession with policing public bathrooms. Meanwhile, Galileo Project head Avi Loeb traveled to Miami to speak at a cryptocurrency conference, Bitcoin 2022. Theil Capital’s UFO-believing executive Eric Weinstein interviewed Loeb about aliens and outer space, and during the chat Loeb trotted out his ersatz philosophy, claiming that the discovery of alien life would bring humanity together as a single species in mutual harmony and that humanity must focus on “spirituality” in order to “save” humanity from existential threats. I told you he sees himself as a guru. Now he openly admits that his hunt for space aliens is spirituality by other means.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 4-10:
- News Roundup: William Shatner Is Mad at Archaeologists, Nick Pope Says Will Smith’s Slap Stopped an Alien Invasion, and Bryan Bender Finally Says I’m Right
- Tabloids, Abductions, and Porn: New Documents Unveil Pentagon UFO “Research”
- The Incomplete Horrors of Indecent Advances
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 16 • April 17, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
A lot of noise came out of UFO world this week, but nothing of substance, and since it is my birthday tomorrow, I don’t feel like engaging with pointless interpersonal drama as Lue Elizondo grandiosely claimed that all his enemies would suffer similar fates now that his personal bête noire, Pentagon official Garry Reid, either was or was not fired, depending on whom you ask, and his alleged sexual wrongdoing exposed. Instead, I would prefer to note that as I work on revisions to my James Dean book, it was a big week for James Dean news. The racecar he purchased but did not receive before his death went on display for the first time in sixty years. A new 4K restoration of his movie Giant is set to premiere at the TCM festival and later this year on HBO Max, and Dean’s last surviving girlfriend, Liz Sheridan, died at the age of 93.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 11-17:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 16 • April 17, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
A lot of noise came out of UFO world this week, but nothing of substance, and since it is my birthday tomorrow, I don’t feel like engaging with pointless interpersonal drama as Lue Elizondo grandiosely claimed that all his enemies would suffer similar fates now that his personal bête noire, Pentagon official Garry Reid, either was or was not fired, depending on whom you ask, and his alleged sexual wrongdoing exposed. Instead, I would prefer to note that as I work on revisions to my James Dean book, it was a big week for James Dean news. The racecar he purchased but did not receive before his death went on display for the first time in sixty years. A new 4K restoration of his movie Giant is set to premiere at the TCM festival and later this year on HBO Max, and Dean’s last surviving girlfriend, Liz Sheridan, died at the age of 93.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 11-17:
- Review of The UnXplained S04E03: “What Lies Below”
- Kit Green Says Supposed “UFO” Injuries Aren’t Alien After All
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 17 • April 24, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was my birthday this week, so I didn’t spend a lot of time writing blog posts. Most of this week’s energy in the world of space aliens and lost civilizations revolved around Lue Elizondo’s daily podcast appearances and tabloid newspaper interviews in which he made a series of rather boisterous claims taking credit for getting a Pentagon official fired (he was not actually fired) and asserting that anyone who interfered with the Pentagon UFO research he had induced Congress to require would be struck down through his vindictive wrath. Everybody else was trapped in the past. Graham Hancock was tweeting out nineteenth century claims that the Olmec were Egyptian, for example. Garry Nolan spent several hours on a podcast trying to resurrect 1970s psychical research as the key to understanding UFOs, going so far as to suggest that E! and Netflix TV psychic Tyler Henry has extraordinary powers. (Yeah, the “power” of cold reading and hot reading.)
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 18-24:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 17 • April 24, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was my birthday this week, so I didn’t spend a lot of time writing blog posts. Most of this week’s energy in the world of space aliens and lost civilizations revolved around Lue Elizondo’s daily podcast appearances and tabloid newspaper interviews in which he made a series of rather boisterous claims taking credit for getting a Pentagon official fired (he was not actually fired) and asserting that anyone who interfered with the Pentagon UFO research he had induced Congress to require would be struck down through his vindictive wrath. Everybody else was trapped in the past. Graham Hancock was tweeting out nineteenth century claims that the Olmec were Egyptian, for example. Garry Nolan spent several hours on a podcast trying to resurrect 1970s psychical research as the key to understanding UFOs, going so far as to suggest that E! and Netflix TV psychic Tyler Henry has extraordinary powers. (Yeah, the “power” of cold reading and hot reading.)
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 18-24:
- The Apocalyptic Fringe Theory Behind Tucker Carlson’s Homoerotic Documentary
- Avi Loeb Wants to Search the Pacific Ocean for Crashed Alien Tech
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 18 • May 1, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Nick Pope told a tabloid newspaper that seagulls might be working for space aliens as spies. The Galileo Project consultant then walked back the claim, alleging he had meant it as a thought experiment that the tabloid misrepresented. Then, Lue Elizondo did a podcast nearly every day this week to say that he wasn’t going to be doing more podcasts, a promise he reinforced by doing still mor podcasts released over the weekend. Meanwhile, I spent the week drafting sample chapters for the new version of my book that I am working on. It’s going well, but it takes a lot of time.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 25-May 1:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 18 • May 1, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Nick Pope told a tabloid newspaper that seagulls might be working for space aliens as spies. The Galileo Project consultant then walked back the claim, alleging he had meant it as a thought experiment that the tabloid misrepresented. Then, Lue Elizondo did a podcast nearly every day this week to say that he wasn’t going to be doing more podcasts, a promise he reinforced by doing still mor podcasts released over the weekend. Meanwhile, I spent the week drafting sample chapters for the new version of my book that I am working on. It’s going well, but it takes a lot of time.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 25-May 1:
- Turkish Official Claims Göbekli Tepe Depicts Space Aliens
- A Weird New Italian Musical Tribute to James Dean
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 19 • May 8, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, actually, it wasn’t much of a busy week. Avi Loeb offered another bit of ersatz philosophy about how aliens can help us live better lives. Lue Elizondo accused his critics of being part of an organized gang of criminals who beat women. And Regnery Gateway publishing began promoting the upcoming publication of a new book, Bruce Gilley’s In Defense of German Colonialism, a rather evil little book in which the author argues that German civilized the savages of the world by bringing them government and culture. Gilley, a professor, is a right-wing provocateur who has capitalized on controversy over previous work calling for the West to recolonize the Global South. Even though Regnery is a right-wing publishing imprint, it is still shocking to see a publisher release an open defense of genocidal racist imperialism. But that’s where we are in America today.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 2-8:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 19 • May 8, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, actually, it wasn’t much of a busy week. Avi Loeb offered another bit of ersatz philosophy about how aliens can help us live better lives. Lue Elizondo accused his critics of being part of an organized gang of criminals who beat women. And Regnery Gateway publishing began promoting the upcoming publication of a new book, Bruce Gilley’s In Defense of German Colonialism, a rather evil little book in which the author argues that German civilized the savages of the world by bringing them government and culture. Gilley, a professor, is a right-wing provocateur who has capitalized on controversy over previous work calling for the West to recolonize the Global South. Even though Regnery is a right-wing publishing imprint, it is still shocking to see a publisher release an open defense of genocidal racist imperialism. But that’s where we are in America today.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 2-8:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 20 • May 15, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I got coronavirus, so I am doing my best to soldier on as I recover. The symptoms haven’t been too bad so far, but I feel quite run down. Meanwhile, Rep. André Carson gave the game away on the upcoming UFO hearing he’s holding in the House of Representatives, telling Bloomberg that his hearings are meant to get to the bottom of … crap he saw on TV. “There are ways that we can raise questions that UFO-logists have raised for many years, and just average everyday citizens have raised -- for decades now,” Carson told Bloomberg. “We all watch television, we’ve heard things, we’ve read things,” he said. “We want to see the footage and have it explained to us. That’s what we want to accomplish.” He wants to use Congress to help him understand Ancient Aliens and TMZ. Ugh.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 9-15:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 20 • May 15, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I got coronavirus, so I am doing my best to soldier on as I recover. The symptoms haven’t been too bad so far, but I feel quite run down. Meanwhile, Rep. André Carson gave the game away on the upcoming UFO hearing he’s holding in the House of Representatives, telling Bloomberg that his hearings are meant to get to the bottom of … crap he saw on TV. “There are ways that we can raise questions that UFO-logists have raised for many years, and just average everyday citizens have raised -- for decades now,” Carson told Bloomberg. “We all watch television, we’ve heard things, we’ve read things,” he said. “We want to see the footage and have it explained to us. That’s what we want to accomplish.” He wants to use Congress to help him understand Ancient Aliens and TMZ. Ugh.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 9-15:
- Weekly Roundup: A House UFO Hearing, Prehistoric Phallic “Civilization,” and More!
- The Basement Office Lays Bare the Deception Behind the AAWSAP/AATIP Story
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 21 • May 22, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week we saw the media mangle coverage of the first Congressional UFO hearing in decades, hyping a mystery that the hearing’s witnesses denied had anything to do with aliens. Meanwhile, Lue Elizondo announced his withdrawal from UFO podcasts, saying he would not do more media appearances for a while. On his way out the door, he appeared on Fox News and CNN to misrepresent the UFO hearing and then did a couple more podcasts in which he (a) claimed due to the dubious “Admiral Wilson memo” that criminal charges would be forthcoming for those who covered up the reverse-engineering of the Roswell flying saucer and (b) confirmed that he was brought into AAWSAP (a program he denied being part of) so his counterintelligence training could be applied “into the UFO community.” We’ll next see the lying manipulator when his book is released, or when Tucker Carlson needs to distract from another white nationalist mass shooting incident.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 16-22:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 21 • May 22, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week we saw the media mangle coverage of the first Congressional UFO hearing in decades, hyping a mystery that the hearing’s witnesses denied had anything to do with aliens. Meanwhile, Lue Elizondo announced his withdrawal from UFO podcasts, saying he would not do more media appearances for a while. On his way out the door, he appeared on Fox News and CNN to misrepresent the UFO hearing and then did a couple more podcasts in which he (a) claimed due to the dubious “Admiral Wilson memo” that criminal charges would be forthcoming for those who covered up the reverse-engineering of the Roswell flying saucer and (b) confirmed that he was brought into AAWSAP (a program he denied being part of) so his counterintelligence training could be applied “into the UFO community.” We’ll next see the lying manipulator when his book is released, or when Tucker Carlson needs to distract from another white nationalist mass shooting incident.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 16-22:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 22 • May 29, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a team of scientists from Stockholm University published an article discussing what it would mean if nine whit blotches on a 1950 photograph of the night sky were an alien signal. They admitted that the spots could be a photo processing artifact, but instead of investigating it, they preferred to generate media coverage by speculating on what it could be if it weren’t. Meanwhile, the Debrief published a lengthy, poorly written article about the Department of Homeland Security’s encounters with UFOs, backed up with breathless accounts of a new video of flying saucers making “impossible” maneuvers that have baffled the Debrief’s source, a DHS official who is an admitted lifelong UFO junkie. Despite leaving DHS baffled and UFO believers in the Department of Defense impressed, it took only minutes after publication for readers to correctly identify the UFOs in the video as birds.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 23-29:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 22 • May 29, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a team of scientists from Stockholm University published an article discussing what it would mean if nine whit blotches on a 1950 photograph of the night sky were an alien signal. They admitted that the spots could be a photo processing artifact, but instead of investigating it, they preferred to generate media coverage by speculating on what it could be if it weren’t. Meanwhile, the Debrief published a lengthy, poorly written article about the Department of Homeland Security’s encounters with UFOs, backed up with breathless accounts of a new video of flying saucers making “impossible” maneuvers that have baffled the Debrief’s source, a DHS official who is an admitted lifelong UFO junkie. Despite leaving DHS baffled and UFO believers in the Department of Defense impressed, it took only minutes after publication for readers to correctly identify the UFOs in the video as birds.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 23-29:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 23 • June 5 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Graham Hancock celebrated a recent scientific article announcing that a LiDAR survey demonstrated that two previously known archaeological sites in the Bolivian Amazon were larger than previously known, with extensive pyramid mounds around a ceremonial center. Archaeologists have known for decades that the western Amazon had been home to a large population before the Spanish arrival, and articles about the mounds of these collapsed cultures have appeared at regular intervals since 2000. Hancock describes the mounds as “the remnants of a truly monumental civilization.” However, he is not so thrilled with the dating of the sites to 500-1400 CE and implies that some previous culture must have had still greater civilization in the deeper past: “such a sophisticated civilization – no lesser word will do — does not simply spring up out of nowhere. There must be a background to it, either beneath the earliest platform buildings or in the as-yet unexcavated sites that the LiDAR survey has pinpointed in the surrounding jungle.” We don’t know where this particular culture came from, whether it emerged indigenously or from nearby highlands. Nothing about this suggests a hypothetical Atlantis in 10,500 BCE influenced Amazonian mounds in 1000 CE.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 30-June 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 23 • June 5 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Graham Hancock celebrated a recent scientific article announcing that a LiDAR survey demonstrated that two previously known archaeological sites in the Bolivian Amazon were larger than previously known, with extensive pyramid mounds around a ceremonial center. Archaeologists have known for decades that the western Amazon had been home to a large population before the Spanish arrival, and articles about the mounds of these collapsed cultures have appeared at regular intervals since 2000. Hancock describes the mounds as “the remnants of a truly monumental civilization.” However, he is not so thrilled with the dating of the sites to 500-1400 CE and implies that some previous culture must have had still greater civilization in the deeper past: “such a sophisticated civilization – no lesser word will do — does not simply spring up out of nowhere. There must be a background to it, either beneath the earliest platform buildings or in the as-yet unexcavated sites that the LiDAR survey has pinpointed in the surrounding jungle.” We don’t know where this particular culture came from, whether it emerged indigenously or from nearby highlands. Nothing about this suggests a hypothetical Atlantis in 10,500 BCE influenced Amazonian mounds in 1000 CE.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 30-June 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 24 • June 12 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, NASA announced that it would conduct a study of preexisting data to determine how best to use the information previously collected to evaluate UFO claims. Despite the press release announcing the unclassified study explicitly stating that no evidence indicates any extraterrestrial visitors, the media immediately mischaracterized NASA’s actions as “joining the hunt for UFOs,” misrepresenting the study as a UFO-hunting program. NASA didn’t help itself by sending out officials who undercut their own official messaging by winking and nodding to space aliens and teasing about ET spacecraft on the news. Meanwhile, an actual UFO case promoted by Jeremy Corbell as pyramid-shaped spacecraft was solved: It was quadcopter drones.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 6-12:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 24 • June 12 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, NASA announced that it would conduct a study of preexisting data to determine how best to use the information previously collected to evaluate UFO claims. Despite the press release announcing the unclassified study explicitly stating that no evidence indicates any extraterrestrial visitors, the media immediately mischaracterized NASA’s actions as “joining the hunt for UFOs,” misrepresenting the study as a UFO-hunting program. NASA didn’t help itself by sending out officials who undercut their own official messaging by winking and nodding to space aliens and teasing about ET spacecraft on the news. Meanwhile, an actual UFO case promoted by Jeremy Corbell as pyramid-shaped spacecraft was solved: It was quadcopter drones.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 6-12:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 20 • Issue 25 • June 19, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Lue Elizondo announced his intention to explore a run for Congress in the next five years. After discussing his political views, it is obvious he intends to run as a conservative Republican—yet another reason to dislike and distrust him.
As is my tradition, I am taking a summer break from my newsletter, so there will be no newsletter next week.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 13-19:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 20 • Issue 25 • June 19, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Lue Elizondo announced his intention to explore a run for Congress in the next five years. After discussing his political views, it is obvious he intends to run as a conservative Republican—yet another reason to dislike and distrust him.
As is my tradition, I am taking a summer break from my newsletter, so there will be no newsletter next week.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 13-19:
- The Week in UFOs: Hunting Space Aliens Takes a Spiritual Turn
- Lue Elizondo Wants to Run for Congress, Makes Weird Comments on Nazis, Slurs
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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