Volume 21 Archive
THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 1 • July 3, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News: Celebrating 10 Years of My Newsletter
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been writing this newsletter for a decade now, but this issue marks the start of year eleven, coinciding with the seventy-fifth anniversaries of Kenneth Arnolds flying saucer sighting in June 1947 and the Roswell Incident in July 1947. Thank you to all of you who have read this newsletter over the previous decade. I wish the news I reported in these pages had been more cheerful, but we make the best of the circumstances. “May you be cursed to live in interesting times.”
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 20-July 3:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 1 • July 3, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News: Celebrating 10 Years of My Newsletter
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been writing this newsletter for a decade now, but this issue marks the start of year eleven, coinciding with the seventy-fifth anniversaries of Kenneth Arnolds flying saucer sighting in June 1947 and the Roswell Incident in July 1947. Thank you to all of you who have read this newsletter over the previous decade. I wish the news I reported in these pages had been more cheerful, but we make the best of the circumstances. “May you be cursed to live in interesting times.”
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 20-July 3:
- Travis Taylor Admits to Being a Paid Government UFO Researcher
- The Travis Taylor Saga Grows Stranger and Stupider
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 2 • July 10, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, two congressmen submitted a UFO amnesty bill that read like Lue Elizondo’s wet dream, probably because the Elizondo UFO crew influenced the legislation, details of which had been leaked on UFO Twitter weeks ago. The legislation would void the NDAs of anyone with UFO information to allow them to speak to the new Pentagon UFO office, but more importantly for Elizondo, it also allows anyone who claims the government retaliated against them for their UFO claims to sue the government for damages. Unsurprisingly, Elizondo has made exactly that kind of retaliation claim.
Meanwhile, a YouTuber and Animal Planet host named Coyote Peters caused a fuss when he passed off what appeared to be a cast of a gorilla as a primate skull discovered in British Columbia.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 4-10:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 2 • July 10, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, two congressmen submitted a UFO amnesty bill that read like Lue Elizondo’s wet dream, probably because the Elizondo UFO crew influenced the legislation, details of which had been leaked on UFO Twitter weeks ago. The legislation would void the NDAs of anyone with UFO information to allow them to speak to the new Pentagon UFO office, but more importantly for Elizondo, it also allows anyone who claims the government retaliated against them for their UFO claims to sue the government for damages. Unsurprisingly, Elizondo has made exactly that kind of retaliation claim.
Meanwhile, a YouTuber and Animal Planet host named Coyote Peters caused a fuss when he passed off what appeared to be a cast of a gorilla as a primate skull discovered in British Columbia.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 4-10:
- Georgia Guidestones Bombed; Plus: Congressmen File UFO Amnesty Amendment
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E11: “Incredible Structures”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 3 • July 17, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Bob Bigelow gave bigot Ron DeSantis $10 million to ensure DeSantis’s anti-LGBTQ policies continue in Florida. In a new interview with the UFO rag Liberation Times, rightwing aspiring politician Lue Elizondo confirmed that Chris Mellon was directly responsible for the Senate legislation that will give the force of law to a series of UFO Twitter grievances, from the right of UFO whistleblowers to sue for cash payouts to mandating a hunt for undersea vehicles from Atlantis and Lemuria to demanding a full historical review of the government’s involvement in ufology from January 1, 1947 onward. A “source,” undoubtedly another of the usual suspects told Liberation Times that congressional staffers have been working with the interdimensional space poltergeist / History Channel lunatics to shape UFO legislation. These are very dark, very stupid times.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 11-17:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 3 • July 17, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Bob Bigelow gave bigot Ron DeSantis $10 million to ensure DeSantis’s anti-LGBTQ policies continue in Florida. In a new interview with the UFO rag Liberation Times, rightwing aspiring politician Lue Elizondo confirmed that Chris Mellon was directly responsible for the Senate legislation that will give the force of law to a series of UFO Twitter grievances, from the right of UFO whistleblowers to sue for cash payouts to mandating a hunt for undersea vehicles from Atlantis and Lemuria to demanding a full historical review of the government’s involvement in ufology from January 1, 1947 onward. A “source,” undoubtedly another of the usual suspects told Liberation Times that congressional staffers have been working with the interdimensional space poltergeist / History Channel lunatics to shape UFO legislation. These are very dark, very stupid times.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 11-17:
- Ancient Aliens S18E12: “Extraordinary Encounters”
- Graham Hancock and Mike Tyson Rave About Psychedelics and the Supernatural
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 4 • July 24, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The news this week was rather depressing. Chris Mellon and Lue Elizondo convinced a member of the House of Representatives to add language to proposed legislation compelling the Comptroller General to investigate whether the government recovered flying saucer wreckage and tried to hide it in a defense contractor’s warehouse to keep it from being on the government’s books. This is a conspiracy theory straight from the ufology fever-swamps and now it’s going to be law. Meanwhile, Pentagon officials met with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to learn what she expects the new UFO office to do, presumably again reflecting the grievances of Mellon and Elizondo that she helped to write into law, the same Mellon and Elizondo who continue to push unfounded narratives about time-traveling interdimensional cosmic entities and their consciousness-based science. It’s very much like the Habsburg emperors patronizing quack alchemists to investigate angels and demons.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 18-24:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 4 • July 24, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The news this week was rather depressing. Chris Mellon and Lue Elizondo convinced a member of the House of Representatives to add language to proposed legislation compelling the Comptroller General to investigate whether the government recovered flying saucer wreckage and tried to hide it in a defense contractor’s warehouse to keep it from being on the government’s books. This is a conspiracy theory straight from the ufology fever-swamps and now it’s going to be law. Meanwhile, Pentagon officials met with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to learn what she expects the new UFO office to do, presumably again reflecting the grievances of Mellon and Elizondo that she helped to write into law, the same Mellon and Elizondo who continue to push unfounded narratives about time-traveling interdimensional cosmic entities and their consciousness-based science. It’s very much like the Habsburg emperors patronizing quack alchemists to investigate angels and demons.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 18-24:
- Congress Poised to Require Investigation of Ufology’s Crash Retrieval Conspiracy
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E13: “Decoding the Alien Glyphs”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 5 • July 31, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I covered this week’s UFO news in my blog posts, so I thought I might break format a bit and talk about the trailer for the new Netflix movie Blonde, a fictionalized biopic of Marilyn Monroe. The trailer is an artistic triumph, one I’m not sure the movie can live up to. It’s beautiful, captivating, and intriguing as it probes the conflict between the character of Marilyn Monroe and the human Norma Jean inside. But I can’t help but think of the irony of searching for the “real” Marilyn Monroe through two layers of artifice, the movie and the novel by Joyce Carol Oates it is based upon, neither of which is (by intention) true to life.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 25-31:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 5 • July 31, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I covered this week’s UFO news in my blog posts, so I thought I might break format a bit and talk about the trailer for the new Netflix movie Blonde, a fictionalized biopic of Marilyn Monroe. The trailer is an artistic triumph, one I’m not sure the movie can live up to. It’s beautiful, captivating, and intriguing as it probes the conflict between the character of Marilyn Monroe and the human Norma Jean inside. But I can’t help but think of the irony of searching for the “real” Marilyn Monroe through two layers of artifice, the movie and the novel by Joyce Carol Oates it is based upon, neither of which is (by intention) true to life.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 25-31:
- Congress Set to Approve Endless Make-Work Paranormal Program for UFO Grifters
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E14 “The UFO Investigations”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 6 • August 7, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, this was something. After I received an email informing me from the voluntary personal testimony of a participant in the research Garry Nolan and Kit Green are conducting that this research involves psychics, Nolan and his online fan club accused me of HIPAA violations and called for a federal investigation. When they realized that I am not covered by HIPAA laws, Nolan suggested that I either stole a “medical laptop” or received a stolen laptop and therefore should be prosecuted. This is so very silly, especially since (a) I have no medical data of any kind, (b) patients (not researchers) decide when their data are disclosed, (c) Garry Nolan openly admitted to involvement with psychics in a public interview three months ago, and (d) Joe Murgia posted transcripts of parts of the same material two years ago.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 1-7:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 6 • August 7, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, this was something. After I received an email informing me from the voluntary personal testimony of a participant in the research Garry Nolan and Kit Green are conducting that this research involves psychics, Nolan and his online fan club accused me of HIPAA violations and called for a federal investigation. When they realized that I am not covered by HIPAA laws, Nolan suggested that I either stole a “medical laptop” or received a stolen laptop and therefore should be prosecuted. This is so very silly, especially since (a) I have no medical data of any kind, (b) patients (not researchers) decide when their data are disclosed, (c) Garry Nolan openly admitted to involvement with psychics in a public interview three months ago, and (d) Joe Murgia posted transcripts of parts of the same material two years ago.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 1-7:
- Hal Puthoff Publishes Pitiful Paper Proposing Plans to Probe Ultraterrestrials
- Garry Nolan Talks UFOs, Aliens, and Conspiracies on “Tucker Carlson Today”
- Capsule Review of Ancient Aliens S18E15: “Mysterious Artifacts”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 7 • August 14, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I’m not sure what I found more ridiculous this week, the discovery that the target-shaped “alien” skin markings Jacques Vallée spent decades studying on UFO experiencers for their extraterrestrial symbolism are indistinguishable from hair dryer burns, or the reveal of the so-called Calvine UFO photo, long-rumored to be the “best” UFO evidence ever seen in the United Kingdom, but which when seen this week appeared to depict a rock in a pond.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 8-14:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 7 • August 14, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I’m not sure what I found more ridiculous this week, the discovery that the target-shaped “alien” skin markings Jacques Vallée spent decades studying on UFO experiencers for their extraterrestrial symbolism are indistinguishable from hair dryer burns, or the reveal of the so-called Calvine UFO photo, long-rumored to be the “best” UFO evidence ever seen in the United Kingdom, but which when seen this week appeared to depict a rock in a pond.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 8-14:
- Why Did a Vice Cop Report Crashed Saucers and Dead Aliens to the FBI in 1950?
- Capsule Review of Ancient Aliens S18E16: “Evidence of Alien Life”
- “They’re Cute, of Course”: An Academic Journal Discovered It Published a Pederast’s Sex Fantasies
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 8 • August 21, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, the Department of Defense awarded $4.8 billion in contracts to defense contractors for “creation, evaluation, and analysis of intelligence data on foreign developments in current and future weapon systems, subsystems, and technologies,” according to Radiance Technologies, one of four recipients. Radiance recently hired Travis Taylor and Jay Stratton from the Pentagon UFO program and to conduct similar research, and surely this is all just coincidence. Meanwhile, alleged Space Command UFO consultant Lue Elizondo retained a new attorney, Todd McMurtry, to advise him on potential action against “commentators” and public officials he accuses of defaming him by asking him for evidence of his claims, according to McMurtry. McMurtry is a notorious right-wing attorney who represented Kyle Rittenhouse and made a number of racist statements on social media—a perfect fit for Elizondo, a conservative who recently tried out right-wing talking points about Nazis in his apparent bid to endear himself to Republicans ahead of a congressional run he teased for 2024.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 15-21:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 8 • August 21, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, the Department of Defense awarded $4.8 billion in contracts to defense contractors for “creation, evaluation, and analysis of intelligence data on foreign developments in current and future weapon systems, subsystems, and technologies,” according to Radiance Technologies, one of four recipients. Radiance recently hired Travis Taylor and Jay Stratton from the Pentagon UFO program and to conduct similar research, and surely this is all just coincidence. Meanwhile, alleged Space Command UFO consultant Lue Elizondo retained a new attorney, Todd McMurtry, to advise him on potential action against “commentators” and public officials he accuses of defaming him by asking him for evidence of his claims, according to McMurtry. McMurtry is a notorious right-wing attorney who represented Kyle Rittenhouse and made a number of racist statements on social media—a perfect fit for Elizondo, a conservative who recently tried out right-wing talking points about Nazis in his apparent bid to endear himself to Republicans ahead of a congressional run he teased for 2024.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 15-21:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 9 • August 28, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was a big week for UFO news, with Ross Coulthart broadcasting a ridiculous UFO special on Australian television last Sunday and Kirsten Gillibrand promising to root out all the secret UFO data the lying Pentagon has hidden from Congress—and, apparently, itself, if her own words are to be taken literally. Meanwhile, in happier news, the James Dean Gallery in Fairmount, Indiana acquired James Dean’s 1954 oil painting of Miles Davis, which had been put up for auction recently, ensuring that the painting will be on public display instead of locked away in a private collection, as it has been for decades.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 22-28:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 9 • August 28, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was a big week for UFO news, with Ross Coulthart broadcasting a ridiculous UFO special on Australian television last Sunday and Kirsten Gillibrand promising to root out all the secret UFO data the lying Pentagon has hidden from Congress—and, apparently, itself, if her own words are to be taken literally. Meanwhile, in happier news, the James Dean Gallery in Fairmount, Indiana acquired James Dean’s 1954 oil painting of Miles Davis, which had been put up for auction recently, ensuring that the painting will be on public display instead of locked away in a private collection, as it has been for decades.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 22-28:
- Garry Nolan Alleges Imminent End to UFO Coverup in Ross Coulthart UFO Special
- Garry Nolan’s Kindergarten Alien Encounter
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E18 “Journey to Immortality”
- “Slimy Insinuations”: The First Tabloid Story about the James Dean Queer Rumors
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 10 • September 4, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a number of closely allied ufologist and their stenographers pushed the claim that the United States Congress had located secret flying saucer crash retrieval programs and that a number of “whistleblowers” were standing by to testify about crashed saucers and dead alien bodies, if only Congress would pass the bill letting them out of their non-disclosure agreements. Chris Sharp of the Liberation Times UFO fan site alleged that unnamed sources told him of this, as did Garry Nolan. Neither indicated where the information came from. Chris Mellon repeated the claim, though it contradicted his own prior assertions about such programs not existing suggesting the only reasonable evidence of such programs was the memories of two small children who, as geezers, claimed to have chased space aliens in New Mexico in 1945. I guess we weren’t supposed to remember that part.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 29-September 4:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 10 • September 4, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a number of closely allied ufologist and their stenographers pushed the claim that the United States Congress had located secret flying saucer crash retrieval programs and that a number of “whistleblowers” were standing by to testify about crashed saucers and dead alien bodies, if only Congress would pass the bill letting them out of their non-disclosure agreements. Chris Sharp of the Liberation Times UFO fan site alleged that unnamed sources told him of this, as did Garry Nolan. Neither indicated where the information came from. Chris Mellon repeated the claim, though it contradicted his own prior assertions about such programs not existing suggesting the only reasonable evidence of such programs was the memories of two small children who, as geezers, claimed to have chased space aliens in New Mexico in 1945. I guess we weren’t supposed to remember that part.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 29-September 4:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 11 • September 11, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a few days after telling a Spanish newspaper that aliens are in contact with humans, Chris Mellon attended a UFO conference in Spain and gave a press briefing where he appeared to launch a new effort to tamp down expectations for UFO “disclosure” after his team of current and former government employees and contractors achieved their end goal, securing a congressionally mandated path to perpetual government contracts. Mellon told the gathered media that the Pentagon and Congress have no plans for “disclosure” and no admission of aliens would be forthcoming, nor any partial disclosure. He also said that the lineup of officials eager to testify to crash retrievals were now merely “considering” whether they would speak. Combined with Lue Elizondo and Sean Cahill publishing lengthy pieces this week blaming ufologists for scaring the government away from disclosure, it’s increasingly clear that the real goal of the Lue Crew was likely never revealing aliens but rather securing bottomless contracts for themselves and their friends, however incompetent they are at their stated aim of investigating flying saucers.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 5-11:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 11 • September 11, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a few days after telling a Spanish newspaper that aliens are in contact with humans, Chris Mellon attended a UFO conference in Spain and gave a press briefing where he appeared to launch a new effort to tamp down expectations for UFO “disclosure” after his team of current and former government employees and contractors achieved their end goal, securing a congressionally mandated path to perpetual government contracts. Mellon told the gathered media that the Pentagon and Congress have no plans for “disclosure” and no admission of aliens would be forthcoming, nor any partial disclosure. He also said that the lineup of officials eager to testify to crash retrievals were now merely “considering” whether they would speak. Combined with Lue Elizondo and Sean Cahill publishing lengthy pieces this week blaming ufologists for scaring the government away from disclosure, it’s increasingly clear that the real goal of the Lue Crew was likely never revealing aliens but rather securing bottomless contracts for themselves and their friends, however incompetent they are at their stated aim of investigating flying saucers.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 5-11:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E19: “Secrets of Inner Earth”
- Chris Mellon: Aliens Have Landed and Contacted Witnesses
- Lue Elizondo Pens Angry Op-Ed Blasting Ufology and Blaming Cultish Ufologists for Waning Government UFO Interest
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 12 • September 18, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Garry Nolan gave a podcast interview in which he speculated that space aliens engaged in eugenics by inducing wars between human tribes in order to cull the weak and select for “strong” and “aggressive” humans. Shortly after, his colleague Travis Taylor spoke at PhenomeCon, a UFO convention, where he alleged that skeptics of his team’s UFO and paranormal claims have an “economic motivation,” adding in an interview that paranormal truths are suppressed because there is a “shadow group behind the curtain that’s driving this, paying this, funding this” and that he wants to see the conspirators jailed. He failed to mention, of course, his own economic motivations, which include his TV and government contracts, or his own conspiracy of silence, which saw him hide his secret government UFO work from the public and his television employers for years while pretending to be an independent analyst of paranormal and UFO mysteries.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 12-18:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 12 • September 18, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Garry Nolan gave a podcast interview in which he speculated that space aliens engaged in eugenics by inducing wars between human tribes in order to cull the weak and select for “strong” and “aggressive” humans. Shortly after, his colleague Travis Taylor spoke at PhenomeCon, a UFO convention, where he alleged that skeptics of his team’s UFO and paranormal claims have an “economic motivation,” adding in an interview that paranormal truths are suppressed because there is a “shadow group behind the curtain that’s driving this, paying this, funding this” and that he wants to see the conspirators jailed. He failed to mention, of course, his own economic motivations, which include his TV and government contracts, or his own conspiracy of silence, which saw him hide his secret government UFO work from the public and his television employers for years while pretending to be an independent analyst of paranormal and UFO mysteries.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 12-18:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S18E20: “Return of the Egyptian Gods”
- Review of How Antigravity Built the Pyramids by Nick Redfern
- Resurrecting James Dean
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 13 • September 25, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Truthfully, this was a difficult week for me between an overload of work, a broken hot water heater, and other unforeseen problems. Since I have little to share this week, please enjoy John Greenewald, Jr.’s video outlining the contradictory claims Lue Elizondo and Chris Mellon have made about whether Elizondo was the “official” who “bent the rules” (at the very least) in “sneaking” UFO videos out of the Pentagon to give to the New York Times.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 19-25:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 13 • September 25, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Truthfully, this was a difficult week for me between an overload of work, a broken hot water heater, and other unforeseen problems. Since I have little to share this week, please enjoy John Greenewald, Jr.’s video outlining the contradictory claims Lue Elizondo and Chris Mellon have made about whether Elizondo was the “official” who “bent the rules” (at the very least) in “sneaking” UFO videos out of the Pentagon to give to the New York Times.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 19-25:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 14 • October 2, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
OK, I lied. It’s been another very quiet week as the major names in ufology went radio silent ahead of the final push to institutionalize the new UFO office and its budget in the legislation due to be voted on after the October recess. Nobody wants to jeopardize lucrative government contracts with ill-timed lunacy, as evidenced by the warnings Lue Elizondo and his crew issued a month ago to shut up and let the paid contractors work in secret. Indeed, this week Chris Mellon tried to stomp out a flap that occurred when a low-level staffer erroneously posted an unapproved seal featuring a clip-art flying saucer to an official military intelligence website and the seal was removed a day later. In damage control mode, Mellon told online ufology fans to stop reading grand narratives into random events: “You then won’t be disappointed or surprised when it turns out to be just another random, trivial bureaucratic artifact.” He seemed to be laying the groundwork for there to be silence and secretive business as usual once his friends get back into the Pentagon and pull up the ladder behind them.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 26-October 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 14 • October 2, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
OK, I lied. It’s been another very quiet week as the major names in ufology went radio silent ahead of the final push to institutionalize the new UFO office and its budget in the legislation due to be voted on after the October recess. Nobody wants to jeopardize lucrative government contracts with ill-timed lunacy, as evidenced by the warnings Lue Elizondo and his crew issued a month ago to shut up and let the paid contractors work in secret. Indeed, this week Chris Mellon tried to stomp out a flap that occurred when a low-level staffer erroneously posted an unapproved seal featuring a clip-art flying saucer to an official military intelligence website and the seal was removed a day later. In damage control mode, Mellon told online ufology fans to stop reading grand narratives into random events: “You then won’t be disappointed or surprised when it turns out to be just another random, trivial bureaucratic artifact.” He seemed to be laying the groundwork for there to be silence and secretive business as usual once his friends get back into the Pentagon and pull up the ladder behind them.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 26-October 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 15 • October 9, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Today I am scheduled to shoot an interview for an international documentary production investigating UFOs. The documentary is supposed to air around the world sometime next year and will look at the dark side of ufology and its influence on government, media, and society. I will share more details about the documentary and when it will be available for viewing when I get them.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 3-9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 15 • October 9, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Today I am scheduled to shoot an interview for an international documentary production investigating UFOs. The documentary is supposed to air around the world sometime next year and will look at the dark side of ufology and its influence on government, media, and society. I will share more details about the documentary and when it will be available for viewing when I get them.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 3-9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 16 • October 16, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In another unusually quiet week where the big-name ufologists kept their mouths shut while Congress prepares to codify the new UFO office and, presumably, the contracts and funding they all want, Galileo Project director Avi Loeb made a series of weird blog posts. In one (see below) he openly compared his hunt for space aliens to religious longing, nakedly casting ufology in spiritual terms, while in another he grandiosely claimed to offer as State of the Universe address after being barred by American law from ever delivering a State of the Union. The wannabe guru then transitioned into a strange paean to technology that will, he believes, allow for human immorality. His discussion was strangely similar to the ideas of billionaire right-wing extremist Peter Thiel, who similarly is looking to be immortal and developed his UFO interests under the impression that space alien technology can yield life-extension secrets.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 10-16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 16 • October 16, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In another unusually quiet week where the big-name ufologists kept their mouths shut while Congress prepares to codify the new UFO office and, presumably, the contracts and funding they all want, Galileo Project director Avi Loeb made a series of weird blog posts. In one (see below) he openly compared his hunt for space aliens to religious longing, nakedly casting ufology in spiritual terms, while in another he grandiosely claimed to offer as State of the Universe address after being barred by American law from ever delivering a State of the Union. The wannabe guru then transitioned into a strange paean to technology that will, he believes, allow for human immorality. His discussion was strangely similar to the ideas of billionaire right-wing extremist Peter Thiel, who similarly is looking to be immortal and developed his UFO interests under the impression that space alien technology can yield life-extension secrets.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 10-16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 17 • October 23, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In the upcoming December 2022 Reason magazine, Mick West has a lengthy article explaining how a small group of UFO enthusiasts and paranormal believers infiltrated the Pentagon and is on the verge of showering contractors and startups with government money thanks to the new UFO office their efforts generated. Similar to the pieces that I published The New Republic last year and many others have run in other publications, this piece, sadly, is unlikely to make any headway since government officials have no shame and too many people are now financially invested in the outcome.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 17-23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 17 • October 23, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In the upcoming December 2022 Reason magazine, Mick West has a lengthy article explaining how a small group of UFO enthusiasts and paranormal believers infiltrated the Pentagon and is on the verge of showering contractors and startups with government money thanks to the new UFO office their efforts generated. Similar to the pieces that I published The New Republic last year and many others have run in other publications, this piece, sadly, is unlikely to make any headway since government officials have no shame and too many people are now financially invested in the outcome.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 17-23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 18 • October 30, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week the New York Times ran a story sourced to anonymous Pentagon officials revealing that once UFO research stopped being the sole province of a task force managed by a Skinwalker Ranch true believer with scientific advice from a Secret of Skinwalker Ranch and Ancient Aliens star, unsurprisingly most UFOs turned out to be Chinese drones and aerial debris. Previewing the UFO report due to be delivered to Congress by Halloween—right before Congress legislates a new UFO office that Skinwalker Ranch acolytes hope to staff—the Pentagon refuted the UAP Task Force’s 2021 report to Congress, delivered through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and concluded that most UFOs are of explainable earthly origin and there is no evidence of aliens. My, how Times UFO coverage has changed since bouncing Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal since Kean admitted in a documentary last year to strategically omitting important facts from her Times stories for political and propaganda reasons, to make UFO research seem more serious and respectable.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 24-30:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 18 • October 30, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week the New York Times ran a story sourced to anonymous Pentagon officials revealing that once UFO research stopped being the sole province of a task force managed by a Skinwalker Ranch true believer with scientific advice from a Secret of Skinwalker Ranch and Ancient Aliens star, unsurprisingly most UFOs turned out to be Chinese drones and aerial debris. Previewing the UFO report due to be delivered to Congress by Halloween—right before Congress legislates a new UFO office that Skinwalker Ranch acolytes hope to staff—the Pentagon refuted the UAP Task Force’s 2021 report to Congress, delivered through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and concluded that most UFOs are of explainable earthly origin and there is no evidence of aliens. My, how Times UFO coverage has changed since bouncing Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal since Kean admitted in a documentary last year to strategically omitting important facts from her Times stories for political and propaganda reasons, to make UFO research seem more serious and respectable.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 24-30:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 19 • November 6, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The other day, an entertainment industry trade publication carried an announcement from a Los Angeles literary/talent agency that an Emmy-nominated TV producer had begun work on an adaptation of William Bast’s 2006 memoir Surviving James Dean, which would focus on telling the story of Dean’s same-sex relationships through his friend and onetime lover Bast’s eyes. It probably goes without saying that I have mixed feelings about this development. My agents thinks it might be good news and prompt interest in my own much more thorough and rigorous manuscript on the subject, so I will hope that is the case.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 31-November 6:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 19 • November 6, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The other day, an entertainment industry trade publication carried an announcement from a Los Angeles literary/talent agency that an Emmy-nominated TV producer had begun work on an adaptation of William Bast’s 2006 memoir Surviving James Dean, which would focus on telling the story of Dean’s same-sex relationships through his friend and onetime lover Bast’s eyes. It probably goes without saying that I have mixed feelings about this development. My agents thinks it might be good news and prompt interest in my own much more thorough and rigorous manuscript on the subject, so I will hope that is the case.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 31-November 6:
- UFO Enthusiasts Push Back After Pentagon Concludes Most UFOs Are Drones, Debris
- The Jerusalem Post Recycles Old Claims about Goliath's Skull at Golgotha
- Avi Loeb Should Stop Opining Beyond His Expertise
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 20 • November 13, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Netflix released all eight episodes of Graham Hancock’s new speculative history nonfiction series Ancient Apocalypse, which Hancock promoted with an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. Judging from the reaction on social media and the notices in the TV columns, this series had more engagement than most of Netflix’s quasi-science documentaries, so I probably did not waste my effort watching and reviewing the whole of Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods retread on release day.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 7-13:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 20 • November 13, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Netflix released all eight episodes of Graham Hancock’s new speculative history nonfiction series Ancient Apocalypse, which Hancock promoted with an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. Judging from the reaction on social media and the notices in the TV columns, this series had more engagement than most of Netflix’s quasi-science documentaries, so I probably did not waste my effort watching and reviewing the whole of Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods retread on release day.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 7-13:
- Review of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse
- The New York Times Accuses Author of Fabricating History, Except He Didn’t
- Don’t, Ask Don’t Tell
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 21 • November 20, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was certainly quite a week for Graham Hancock. To my immense surprise, his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse became a global phenomenon, rocketing into the Netflix top ten and sparking intense social media conversation, news media coverage, and celebratory tweets from celebrities like Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The “lost civilization” topic hasn’t been a hot-button issue since Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods back in the ’90s, but this week it overtook the stalled UFO narrative to become the biggest thing in esoterica.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 14-20:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 21 • November 20, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was certainly quite a week for Graham Hancock. To my immense surprise, his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse became a global phenomenon, rocketing into the Netflix top ten and sparking intense social media conversation, news media coverage, and celebratory tweets from celebrities like Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. The “lost civilization” topic hasn’t been a hot-button issue since Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods back in the ’90s, but this week it overtook the stalled UFO narrative to become the biggest thing in esoterica.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 14-20:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 22 • November 27, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Things slowed down a little bit thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States this week. However, that didn’t stop the media from discussing Ancient Apocalypse, with the British papers being especially rowdy. The Sun—a Murdoch paper, the same Rupert Murdoch who employs conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson—called the series “absurd,” while another Murdoch paper, the Times, called it “fishy,” and the Mirror called it the “most dangerous” show on Netflix. In Norway, I was interviewed for a major newspaper’s feature on Hancock’s “conspiracy-theory pseudoscience.”
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 21-27:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 22 • November 27, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Things slowed down a little bit thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States this week. However, that didn’t stop the media from discussing Ancient Apocalypse, with the British papers being especially rowdy. The Sun—a Murdoch paper, the same Rupert Murdoch who employs conspiracy theorist Tucker Carlson—called the series “absurd,” while another Murdoch paper, the Times, called it “fishy,” and the Mirror called it the “most dangerous” show on Netflix. In Norway, I was interviewed for a major newspaper’s feature on Hancock’s “conspiracy-theory pseudoscience.”
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 21-27:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 23 • December 4, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 28-December 4:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 23 • December 4, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
- I have a new magazine piece coming out tomorrow (Dec. 5), so be sure to check my blog or social media feeds for a link once it’s published.
- This week, Ye, the musician formerly known as Kanye West, went on an antisemitic tirade, praising Hitler in an interview with InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Ye then got suspended from Twitter after posting what the media described as an “antisemitic image.” While Ye, Twitter owner Elon Musk, and major news outlets like NBC News and the New York Times assumed the swastika-emblazoned Star of David referred to Nazis and Jews, it is actually the symbol of the Raëlian UFO cult, which advocates a form of the ancient astronaut theory. You can’t make this stuff up.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 28-December 4:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 24 • December 11, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I published a piece in The New Republic analyzing the context behind and fallout from Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse. The article generated quite a bit of conversation on social media, and many other news outlets around the world, from Australia to Germany, added their voices to the mix, blasting the show—but also raising its profile far above other Netflix garbage documentaries and making a second season that much more likely.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of December 5-11:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 24 • December 11, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I published a piece in The New Republic analyzing the context behind and fallout from Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse. The article generated quite a bit of conversation on social media, and many other news outlets around the world, from Australia to Germany, added their voices to the mix, blasting the show—but also raising its profile far above other Netflix garbage documentaries and making a second season that much more likely.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of December 5-11:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 21 • Issue 25 • December 18, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of December 12-18:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 21 • Issue 25 • December 18, 2022 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
- News
- This week, the Pentagon held a media conference call to discuss its new UFO office and impending legislation requiring more UFO research. The thrust of the discussion was (a) there is no evidence of space aliens or “transmedium” vehicles, (b) the Pentagon is primarily focused on identifying drones and unmanned aerial vehicles, and (c) military sensors are calibrated for enemy aircraft so many anomalies are likely due to sensors picking up data they were not designed to handle. With that, it sounds like UFOs are going to fade back into boring. I wonder how Team Space Ghost will handle it. Their silence the past few months has been deafening.
- This will be my last newsletter for 2022. My traditional holiday break is coming up. I won’t be writing a newsletter, and I will probably be taking time off of blogging. However, I plan to post my annual year in review column sometime prior to New Year’s.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of December 12-18:
- New Evidence Points to a 19th Century Origin for Kensington Runestone Alphabet
- Sirius Mystery Author Claims Universe Is a Giant Living Alien Species
- “It Would Not Have Helped Either of Us”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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