Volume 24 Archive
THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 1 • December 31, 2023 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! It’s been a very long year, and as I prepared my annual year in review column, the formerly amusing task has become a grim undertaking. Years ago, I generally wrote an amusing, if critical, chronicle of human folly. Now I am chronicling the collapse of expertise, reason, and science, none of which would have occurred if not for the media cynically enabling kooks, grifters, and frauds because lies are more profitable than truth.
Because my newsletter service provider is shutting down, I am switching to a new provider this week. I hope that this won’t cause any major disruptions.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of December 18–December 31:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 1 • December 31, 2023 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! It’s been a very long year, and as I prepared my annual year in review column, the formerly amusing task has become a grim undertaking. Years ago, I generally wrote an amusing, if critical, chronicle of human folly. Now I am chronicling the collapse of expertise, reason, and science, none of which would have occurred if not for the media cynically enabling kooks, grifters, and frauds because lies are more profitable than truth.
Because my newsletter service provider is shutting down, I am switching to a new provider this week. I hope that this won’t cause any major disruptions.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of December 18–December 31:
- A Dismal Revelation: 2023 in Review
- Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on Demon UFOs and “Spiritual” Attacks
- Russian Scholarly Journal Uses Ancient Alien Claims in Push for Crackdown on Sex
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 2 • January 7, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
TMZ and the free, advertiser-supported streaming service Tubi, a Murdoch company, announced the premiere of a three-part UFO documentary series next week featuring the usual suspects from UFO social media, like Jeremy Corbell, George Knapp, and Richard Dolan. This is a surprising downgrade for UFOs compared to last year when TMZ’s UFO coverage aired on the Murdochs’ Fox broadcast network and competing media like the premium cable channel Showtime offered UFOs the prestige TV documentary treatment. In the wake of David Grusch’s absurd claims about treaties with murderous space monsters and warehouses of secret crashed saucers, UFOs have fallen back from Congressional priority to their more traditional tabloid role. Meanwhile, social media and ufology circles lit up with ridiculous claims that a blurry video showed Nephilim in a Miami mall, and UFO-curious racecar driver Danica Patrick announced that a friendly conversation with Tucker Carlson, fresh off saying UFOs are evil demons, had convinced her to use her podcast for political punditry. Oh, and Eric W. Davis admitted this week what I had concluded a year ago, that he gave David Grusch his “secret” UFO information.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 1–7:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 2 • January 7, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
TMZ and the free, advertiser-supported streaming service Tubi, a Murdoch company, announced the premiere of a three-part UFO documentary series next week featuring the usual suspects from UFO social media, like Jeremy Corbell, George Knapp, and Richard Dolan. This is a surprising downgrade for UFOs compared to last year when TMZ’s UFO coverage aired on the Murdochs’ Fox broadcast network and competing media like the premium cable channel Showtime offered UFOs the prestige TV documentary treatment. In the wake of David Grusch’s absurd claims about treaties with murderous space monsters and warehouses of secret crashed saucers, UFOs have fallen back from Congressional priority to their more traditional tabloid role. Meanwhile, social media and ufology circles lit up with ridiculous claims that a blurry video showed Nephilim in a Miami mall, and UFO-curious racecar driver Danica Patrick announced that a friendly conversation with Tucker Carlson, fresh off saying UFOs are evil demons, had convinced her to use her podcast for political punditry. Oh, and Eric W. Davis admitted this week what I had concluded a year ago, that he gave David Grusch his “secret” UFO information.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 1–7:
- On Gunung Padang, the New York Times Turns to ... Graham Hancock?
- Review of Ancient Aliens S20E01: “The Top Ten Alien Influencers”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 3 • January 14, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a big week for UFO news, Murdoch-owned TMZ ran a UFO special on Murdoch-owned Tubi in which UFO podcaster Jeremy Corbell unveiled another “secret” military UFO video, this time of a balloon-like object, that someone leaked to him. How? We’ll never now because no one in government much cared about the supposed security breach. But when a military witness who had seen the video when it was taken in 2017 suggested it was not an alien probe, Corbell quickly contacted him and leaned on him to change his story. The man recanted by week’s end, sounding a bit like an intimidated witness at a mafia trial when he said Corbell had “persuaded him” to believe Corbell over the evidence of his own eyes. In a similar vein, Daniel Liszt, a UFO writer who goes by the name of “Dark Journalist,” claimed that David Grusch had told him that he (Grusch) would suffer reprisals from Chris Mellon, Grusch’s boss at the Sol Foundation, if he appeared in media outlets that would ask him tough questions.
Meanwhile, Congress had a classified briefing from the Intelligence Community Inspector General on Grusch’s claims. Representatives offered the usual mishmash of contradictory claims when leaving the meeting. Pro-UFO legislators like Tim Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna talked up the importance of what transpired, while others said the meeting was “wasting my time” and offered nothing new. CBS News reported that most legislators were “frustrated” by the Pentagon’s lack of information. In short, it was business as usual, but UFO social media seized on a few of the comments to proclaim that Grusch had been vindicated. Vindicated in what, though, since the Inspector General was investigating financial and reprisal claims, not space aliens? Newly released Inspector General documents showed that Grusch misrepresented himself as new to ufology and inspired by the 2017 New York Times piece. He had secretly told the IG that he had been a UFO fan and investigator since at least 2006.
The Peruvian government capped off the week by announcing that two tiny alleged alien bodies seized enroute from Peru to Mexico were not actual aliens but fakes made from paper mâché and human and animal bones.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 8–14:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 3 • January 14, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a big week for UFO news, Murdoch-owned TMZ ran a UFO special on Murdoch-owned Tubi in which UFO podcaster Jeremy Corbell unveiled another “secret” military UFO video, this time of a balloon-like object, that someone leaked to him. How? We’ll never now because no one in government much cared about the supposed security breach. But when a military witness who had seen the video when it was taken in 2017 suggested it was not an alien probe, Corbell quickly contacted him and leaned on him to change his story. The man recanted by week’s end, sounding a bit like an intimidated witness at a mafia trial when he said Corbell had “persuaded him” to believe Corbell over the evidence of his own eyes. In a similar vein, Daniel Liszt, a UFO writer who goes by the name of “Dark Journalist,” claimed that David Grusch had told him that he (Grusch) would suffer reprisals from Chris Mellon, Grusch’s boss at the Sol Foundation, if he appeared in media outlets that would ask him tough questions.
Meanwhile, Congress had a classified briefing from the Intelligence Community Inspector General on Grusch’s claims. Representatives offered the usual mishmash of contradictory claims when leaving the meeting. Pro-UFO legislators like Tim Burchett and Anna Paulina Luna talked up the importance of what transpired, while others said the meeting was “wasting my time” and offered nothing new. CBS News reported that most legislators were “frustrated” by the Pentagon’s lack of information. In short, it was business as usual, but UFO social media seized on a few of the comments to proclaim that Grusch had been vindicated. Vindicated in what, though, since the Inspector General was investigating financial and reprisal claims, not space aliens? Newly released Inspector General documents showed that Grusch misrepresented himself as new to ufology and inspired by the 2017 New York Times piece. He had secretly told the IG that he had been a UFO fan and investigator since at least 2006.
The Peruvian government capped off the week by announcing that two tiny alleged alien bodies seized enroute from Peru to Mexico were not actual aliens but fakes made from paper mâché and human and animal bones.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 8–14:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S20E02: “The Top Ten Extraordinary Creatures”
- Scott Wolter’s New Show Claims the Templars Sought the Secrets of Atlantis
- Richard Hoagland Blames Antisemitism on Jews’ Special Connection to Space Aliens
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 4 • January 21, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, former AARO administrator Sean Kirkpatrick published an op-ed in Scientific American announcing that the Pentagon’s UFO office, which he had run until December, did not find any evidence of space aliens or a decades-long coverup of alien arrivals on Earth. Instead, he blamed the usual suspects, whom he described as a small group of interconnected activists, many with ulterior motives, for crafting a science-fiction mythology and injecting it into the media and thus into Congress. Naturally, the Skinwalker Ranch spook crew were very upset, with Ancient Aliens and Secret of Skinwalker Ranch star Travis Taylor, who formerly analyzed UFOs badly for AARO’s predecessor, taking to Kirkpatrick’s LinkedIn page to attack Kirkpatrick and to claim that he (Taylor) had never identified UFOs as alien. I’m pretty sure we have many episodes of TV that clearly show he implied otherwise, but he had an answer for that, too, claiming that he only produces paranormal TV content to raise money for real ufology. I’m not sure hypocrisy is the defense he thinks it is.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy story covering what it called the “recent” scientific controversy over Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse, a show that aired in November 2022, and a group of academics promoted a prepublication journal article claiming that “humility” demands that we entertain the notion that UFOs are probes from a hidden underground race of high-tech non-humans, i.e. the Shaver Mystery. One of the authors, Michael Paul Masters of Montana Tech, previously claimed UFOs were time travelers, while another, Tim Lomas of Harvard, previously argued they were interdimensional. Neither has any evidence for any of this but feel that it’s arrogant to ask for any.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 15–21:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 4 • January 21, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, former AARO administrator Sean Kirkpatrick published an op-ed in Scientific American announcing that the Pentagon’s UFO office, which he had run until December, did not find any evidence of space aliens or a decades-long coverup of alien arrivals on Earth. Instead, he blamed the usual suspects, whom he described as a small group of interconnected activists, many with ulterior motives, for crafting a science-fiction mythology and injecting it into the media and thus into Congress. Naturally, the Skinwalker Ranch spook crew were very upset, with Ancient Aliens and Secret of Skinwalker Ranch star Travis Taylor, who formerly analyzed UFOs badly for AARO’s predecessor, taking to Kirkpatrick’s LinkedIn page to attack Kirkpatrick and to claim that he (Taylor) had never identified UFOs as alien. I’m pretty sure we have many episodes of TV that clearly show he implied otherwise, but he had an answer for that, too, claiming that he only produces paranormal TV content to raise money for real ufology. I’m not sure hypocrisy is the defense he thinks it is.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal published a lengthy story covering what it called the “recent” scientific controversy over Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse, a show that aired in November 2022, and a group of academics promoted a prepublication journal article claiming that “humility” demands that we entertain the notion that UFOs are probes from a hidden underground race of high-tech non-humans, i.e. the Shaver Mystery. One of the authors, Michael Paul Masters of Montana Tech, previously claimed UFOs were time travelers, while another, Tim Lomas of Harvard, previously argued they were interdimensional. Neither has any evidence for any of this but feel that it’s arrogant to ask for any.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 15–21:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S20E03 “The Top Ten Hidden Alien Bases”
- No, James Dean’s Porsche Was Not Cursed
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 5 • January 28, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
A week after publishing a Scientific American essay blasting the usual suspects for manipulating the government into investigating non-existent space alien incursions, former AARO administrator Sean Kirkpatrick appeared on Peter Bergen’s In the Room podcast to repeat his condemnation and more explicitly link ufology to an evidence-resistant religious belief: “It is basically a religion, a religious belief that transcends critical thinking and rational thought.” Many mainstream media outlets picked up the story and ran debunking pieces exposing the lies behind ufology—even though those same outlets promoted UFO “mysteries” right up until David Grush’s bizarre claims about dead aliens and treaties with murderous space monsters made everyone involved look unserious and silly.
As though to confirm Kirkpatrick’s claims, the core group threw a hissy fit on social media. Chris Mellon tried to defend the core group against accusations of being a small group of mutually reinforcing believers by posting to X, formerly Twitter, about how he personally introduced Kirkpatrick to a small group of believers, including Eric Davis, Hal Puthoff, and Lue Elizondo, who all shared information with each other. Elizondo ranted about the need to listen to more members of the core group to get to “the truth.” With lots of sound and fury, the bottom line was that ufologists’ blood ran cold at the idea that Kirkpatrick’s essay finally caused the media to cotton on to the notion that the emperor has no clothes.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 22–28:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 5 • January 28, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
A week after publishing a Scientific American essay blasting the usual suspects for manipulating the government into investigating non-existent space alien incursions, former AARO administrator Sean Kirkpatrick appeared on Peter Bergen’s In the Room podcast to repeat his condemnation and more explicitly link ufology to an evidence-resistant religious belief: “It is basically a religion, a religious belief that transcends critical thinking and rational thought.” Many mainstream media outlets picked up the story and ran debunking pieces exposing the lies behind ufology—even though those same outlets promoted UFO “mysteries” right up until David Grush’s bizarre claims about dead aliens and treaties with murderous space monsters made everyone involved look unserious and silly.
As though to confirm Kirkpatrick’s claims, the core group threw a hissy fit on social media. Chris Mellon tried to defend the core group against accusations of being a small group of mutually reinforcing believers by posting to X, formerly Twitter, about how he personally introduced Kirkpatrick to a small group of believers, including Eric Davis, Hal Puthoff, and Lue Elizondo, who all shared information with each other. Elizondo ranted about the need to listen to more members of the core group to get to “the truth.” With lots of sound and fury, the bottom line was that ufologists’ blood ran cold at the idea that Kirkpatrick’s essay finally caused the media to cotton on to the notion that the emperor has no clothes.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 22–28:
- Tucker Carlson Embraces Pyramid Conspiracies and Lost Race Mound Builder Myths
- The Implausible Revelations of a Hollywood Fixer
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 6 • February 4, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
My publisher, agent, and I have selected the official title for my forthcoming book. Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean will be published this fall!
Meanwhile, a new study concludes that the so-called foo-fighters of World War II were a type of aerial plasma that behaves similarly to living organisms, even though it is not alive, because of its attraction to electromagnetic radiation. The plasma globs were drawn to airplanes, leading to sightings. The plasma is related to the phenomenon of ball lighting and may well be responsible for some UFO sightings today. I have long suspected something like this, so it is not terribly surprising to me, but ufologists immediately tried to make a fascinating scientific question into an outrageous one by suggesting plasma is alive and acting consciously, despite no evidence of this and the obvious problem that plasma bubbles dissipate fairly quickly. Even mayflies last longer. Won’t it be weirdly ironic that the guy who claimed the most anomalous UFOs were actually giant flying jellyfish-like sky creatures might have been closer to the truth than the whole crack team of U.S. government researchers?
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 29–February 4:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 6 • February 4, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
My publisher, agent, and I have selected the official title for my forthcoming book. Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean will be published this fall!
Meanwhile, a new study concludes that the so-called foo-fighters of World War II were a type of aerial plasma that behaves similarly to living organisms, even though it is not alive, because of its attraction to electromagnetic radiation. The plasma globs were drawn to airplanes, leading to sightings. The plasma is related to the phenomenon of ball lighting and may well be responsible for some UFO sightings today. I have long suspected something like this, so it is not terribly surprising to me, but ufologists immediately tried to make a fascinating scientific question into an outrageous one by suggesting plasma is alive and acting consciously, despite no evidence of this and the obvious problem that plasma bubbles dissipate fairly quickly. Even mayflies last longer. Won’t it be weirdly ironic that the guy who claimed the most anomalous UFOs were actually giant flying jellyfish-like sky creatures might have been closer to the truth than the whole crack team of U.S. government researchers?
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 29–February 4:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S20E04 “The Top Ten Scariest Encounters”
- Discover Magazine Reports 110-Year-Old News about Fossil Origins of Greek Myths
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 7 • February 11, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend I received the edits to the manuscript for my new book, Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean. I now have a massive amount of work to do to review the changes, complete revisions and rewrites, and incorporate the final batch of material. As a result, you will likely see less of me over the next few weeks as I power through the revision process and finalize the manuscript for publication.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 5–11:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 7 • February 11, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This weekend I received the edits to the manuscript for my new book, Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean. I now have a massive amount of work to do to review the changes, complete revisions and rewrites, and incorporate the final batch of material. As a result, you will likely see less of me over the next few weeks as I power through the revision process and finalize the manuscript for publication.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 5–11:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S20E05: “The Top Ten Alien Codes”
- Whoops, “Disclosure” Happened and It Turns Out There Was Nothing to Disclose
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 8 • February 18, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, things didn’t quite run according to plan because my editor did not send the final edits last weekend as expected, so I spent the week waiting in vain. Instead, we all watched with resignation as Congress lurched toward more ufology nuttiness. With the UFO-industrial complex reeling from Sean Kirkpatrick’s press tour and the upcoming AARO report that is expected to find no evidence of an alien coverup, the core group of believers dispatched Lue Elizondo to Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers. Rep. Ralph Norman, a supporter of the “demon sperm” doctor, and Rep. Eric Burlinson, who thinks UFOs are demons and angels, said that Elizondo confirmed David Grusch’s allegations. No one stopped to think about how curious that was. Elizondo, in appearances on 60 Minutes and other media claimed to have no direct knowledge of space aliens or what UFOs “really are,” nor did he claim to have found any proof of a vast conspiracy while puttering about in his unofficial UFO investigation, but now he backs up Grusch? So, was he lying then, to everyone, or lying now? That Congress is so easily led down the garden path by transparently problematic people is probably par for the course in this season of unevidenced impeachments.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 12–18:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 8 • February 18, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, things didn’t quite run according to plan because my editor did not send the final edits last weekend as expected, so I spent the week waiting in vain. Instead, we all watched with resignation as Congress lurched toward more ufology nuttiness. With the UFO-industrial complex reeling from Sean Kirkpatrick’s press tour and the upcoming AARO report that is expected to find no evidence of an alien coverup, the core group of believers dispatched Lue Elizondo to Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers. Rep. Ralph Norman, a supporter of the “demon sperm” doctor, and Rep. Eric Burlinson, who thinks UFOs are demons and angels, said that Elizondo confirmed David Grusch’s allegations. No one stopped to think about how curious that was. Elizondo, in appearances on 60 Minutes and other media claimed to have no direct knowledge of space aliens or what UFOs “really are,” nor did he claim to have found any proof of a vast conspiracy while puttering about in his unofficial UFO investigation, but now he backs up Grusch? So, was he lying then, to everyone, or lying now? That Congress is so easily led down the garden path by transparently problematic people is probably par for the course in this season of unevidenced impeachments.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 12–18:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S20E06 “The Top Ten Alien Disasters”
- Avi Loeb Says the Messiah Is an Alien; Plus: David Grusch’s UFO “Spiritual Awakening”
- “The Best Possible Denial”: Vogue Tries to Rescue James Dean from Homosexuality
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 9 • February 25, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In this week’s episode of TTS Talks, the podcast of Tom DeLonge’s rump To the Stars entertainment company, the Blink-182 band member spoke about the Djinn and the Watchers, identifying ancient mythological creatures with space aliens. “Like, it seems like all these religions have this same kind of entity that can move from point to point, can inhabit your body, take over your body, that plays tricks on you, that’s trying to deceive you, and so on and so forth. And you start to see these patterns, they’re just kind of described in different ways, but they’re all...every religion is describing the same thing.” DeLonge said that these messengers of deception are trying to manipulate humanity into using our free will to unconsciously change our own DNA to be more like them. (No, it doesn’t make any sense.) He also wondered if ancient space aliens “change[d] our skin color” before suggesting that space aliens can possess human bodies like demons and claiming that religion exists to make us forget we have free will. On the other hand, Rep. Anna Luna said this week that she has a Christian perspective on UFOs and therefore believes they are interdimensional beings, presumably referring to aliens or demons.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 19–25:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 9 • February 25, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In this week’s episode of TTS Talks, the podcast of Tom DeLonge’s rump To the Stars entertainment company, the Blink-182 band member spoke about the Djinn and the Watchers, identifying ancient mythological creatures with space aliens. “Like, it seems like all these religions have this same kind of entity that can move from point to point, can inhabit your body, take over your body, that plays tricks on you, that’s trying to deceive you, and so on and so forth. And you start to see these patterns, they’re just kind of described in different ways, but they’re all...every religion is describing the same thing.” DeLonge said that these messengers of deception are trying to manipulate humanity into using our free will to unconsciously change our own DNA to be more like them. (No, it doesn’t make any sense.) He also wondered if ancient space aliens “change[d] our skin color” before suggesting that space aliens can possess human bodies like demons and claiming that religion exists to make us forget we have free will. On the other hand, Rep. Anna Luna said this week that she has a Christian perspective on UFOs and therefore believes they are interdimensional beings, presumably referring to aliens or demons.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 19–25:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S20E07: “Secrets of the Sumerians”
- Read an Interview with Me about James Dean in Closer Magazine
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 10 • March 3, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, Tom DeLonge announced the launch of a new UFO-themed novel, entitled Trinity, which presumably ties in to fantastical claims about 1940s-era UFO encounters such as the hoax of the same name promoted by Jacques Vallée. UFO fans immediately greeted the book as a potential drop of UFO secrets under the guise of fiction. Meanwhile an unnamed source told Ask a Pol that an active-duty military member showed Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Rep. Matt Gaetz “videos” of “bodies” in connection to their UFO inquiry but Ask a Pol failed to provide enough information to evaluate the credibility of the source, any details of how and why this allegedly transpired (if it really did), or even what “bodies” is supposed to mean—anything from 1950s-era space chimps to the Mexican hoax mummies could easily meet the criteria.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 26–March 3:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 10 • March 3, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Well, Tom DeLonge announced the launch of a new UFO-themed novel, entitled Trinity, which presumably ties in to fantastical claims about 1940s-era UFO encounters such as the hoax of the same name promoted by Jacques Vallée. UFO fans immediately greeted the book as a potential drop of UFO secrets under the guise of fiction. Meanwhile an unnamed source told Ask a Pol that an active-duty military member showed Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Rep. Matt Gaetz “videos” of “bodies” in connection to their UFO inquiry but Ask a Pol failed to provide enough information to evaluate the credibility of the source, any details of how and why this allegedly transpired (if it really did), or even what “bodies” is supposed to mean—anything from 1950s-era space chimps to the Mexican hoax mummies could easily meet the criteria.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of February 26–March 3:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 11 • March 10, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, the government’s UFO office, AARO, released the unclassified version of the first volume of its historical survey of UFOs. Unsurprisingly, AARO concluded that there is no evidence of aliens, has never been any evidence of aliens, and the rumors and conspiracies attributing to the U.S. government a massive cover-up of space aliens are nothing more than fantasies born of science fiction, misunderstandings, and paranoia. “The proliferation of television programs, books, movies, and the vast amount of internet and social media content centered on UAP-related topics most likely has influenced the public conversation on this topic, and reinforced these beliefs within some sections of the population,” AARO wrote. The report went on to report what I have long told you in these pages, that nearly all of the claims made since 2017 about “off-world technology” and “beings” originate with “the same group of individuals” with ties to AAWSAP and To the Stars, i.e. the various phases of the Skinwalker Ranch spook crew. Overall, the report is a massive win for reason, history, and science, and in a sane world it would crush demand for UFO content for a generation.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 4–10:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 11 • March 10, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, the government’s UFO office, AARO, released the unclassified version of the first volume of its historical survey of UFOs. Unsurprisingly, AARO concluded that there is no evidence of aliens, has never been any evidence of aliens, and the rumors and conspiracies attributing to the U.S. government a massive cover-up of space aliens are nothing more than fantasies born of science fiction, misunderstandings, and paranoia. “The proliferation of television programs, books, movies, and the vast amount of internet and social media content centered on UAP-related topics most likely has influenced the public conversation on this topic, and reinforced these beliefs within some sections of the population,” AARO wrote. The report went on to report what I have long told you in these pages, that nearly all of the claims made since 2017 about “off-world technology” and “beings” originate with “the same group of individuals” with ties to AAWSAP and To the Stars, i.e. the various phases of the Skinwalker Ranch spook crew. Overall, the report is a massive win for reason, history, and science, and in a sane world it would crush demand for UFO content for a generation.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 4–10:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S20E09: “Mysteries of Scotland”
- NYT Magazine Rehashes Younger Dryas Claims, Continues Graham Hancock Fixation
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 12 • March 17, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a busy week for space aliens, a new study reported that Avi Loeb mistook the vibrations of a passing truck for the seismograph signal of an interstellar meteor, a claim Loeb vigorously denied on his blog. Then, former AARO director Shawn Kirkpatrick said in a Zoom interview for the National Security Space Association that ufology believers in government are, essentially, a national security risk: “The thing that is most troublesome to me are the number of people in government that I worked with, that I did not know held those beliefs. And they suddenly came to my office and said ‘I’m not working with you anymore because you're part of the UFO coverup.’ They said this without evidence. But they believe this anyway. This is disturbing. This is a big red flag. How can you trust these people to make rational decisions? How can you trust them with national secrets?” Naturally, key ufologists turned to Congress to try to override the Pentagon’s accurate conclusions, and Ross Coulthart said in his podcast that two senior senators approached him while he was flitting about the Capitol to praise him and share UFO conspiracy theories about an AARO coverup, thus proving Kirkpatrick’s point.
On a more personal note, I finished the revisions to Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean. It was a massive amount of work, and now the manuscript moves on to the next phase of becoming a book.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 11–17:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 12 • March 17, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a busy week for space aliens, a new study reported that Avi Loeb mistook the vibrations of a passing truck for the seismograph signal of an interstellar meteor, a claim Loeb vigorously denied on his blog. Then, former AARO director Shawn Kirkpatrick said in a Zoom interview for the National Security Space Association that ufology believers in government are, essentially, a national security risk: “The thing that is most troublesome to me are the number of people in government that I worked with, that I did not know held those beliefs. And they suddenly came to my office and said ‘I’m not working with you anymore because you're part of the UFO coverup.’ They said this without evidence. But they believe this anyway. This is disturbing. This is a big red flag. How can you trust these people to make rational decisions? How can you trust them with national secrets?” Naturally, key ufologists turned to Congress to try to override the Pentagon’s accurate conclusions, and Ross Coulthart said in his podcast that two senior senators approached him while he was flitting about the Capitol to praise him and share UFO conspiracy theories about an AARO coverup, thus proving Kirkpatrick’s point.
On a more personal note, I finished the revisions to Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean. It was a massive amount of work, and now the manuscript moves on to the next phase of becoming a book.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 11–17:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 13 • March 24, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Recently, Sidestone Press made available to read for free online an edited academic volume of papers, Alternative Egyptology, which examines various aspects of fringe Egyptology, from the Orion Correlation to the use of Egyptian gods in comics, and from the occult to Victorian pyramidology. In that volume is a rather off-topic and somewhat insincere piece by Jean-Pierre Pätznick about the life and times of Paul Schliemann, the alleged grandson of Heinrich Schliemann who claimed in 1912 to have found Atlantis. Atlantis skeptics and believers have long debated whether “Schliemann” even existed, let alone was a relative of the famous discoverer of Troy. Pätznick, a French Egyptologist who has spent many years discussing (badly) the supposed Egyptian source for the Atlantis story, which he believes to record real history, claims Paul Schliemann was real. He purports to use newspaper reports to trace his movements. However, most of the stories he cites as evidence of Schliemann’s globe-trotting were simply reprints in various papers as they borrowed copy from one another. Despite this basic error Pätznick did inform me of the existence of a second piece under Schliemann’s name that ran in 1924 and which claimed Schliemann visited Atlantis and documented its art and architecture. This piece, an obvious hoax, had long been hidden away because of U.S. copyright law, but now that it is in the public domain, I have republished the piece on my website to make it available online for the first time.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 18–24:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 13 • March 24, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Recently, Sidestone Press made available to read for free online an edited academic volume of papers, Alternative Egyptology, which examines various aspects of fringe Egyptology, from the Orion Correlation to the use of Egyptian gods in comics, and from the occult to Victorian pyramidology. In that volume is a rather off-topic and somewhat insincere piece by Jean-Pierre Pätznick about the life and times of Paul Schliemann, the alleged grandson of Heinrich Schliemann who claimed in 1912 to have found Atlantis. Atlantis skeptics and believers have long debated whether “Schliemann” even existed, let alone was a relative of the famous discoverer of Troy. Pätznick, a French Egyptologist who has spent many years discussing (badly) the supposed Egyptian source for the Atlantis story, which he believes to record real history, claims Paul Schliemann was real. He purports to use newspaper reports to trace his movements. However, most of the stories he cites as evidence of Schliemann’s globe-trotting were simply reprints in various papers as they borrowed copy from one another. Despite this basic error Pätznick did inform me of the existence of a second piece under Schliemann’s name that ran in 1924 and which claimed Schliemann visited Atlantis and documented its art and architecture. This piece, an obvious hoax, had long been hidden away because of U.S. copyright law, but now that it is in the public domain, I have republished the piece on my website to make it available online for the first time.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 18–24:
- Journal Retracts Paper Claiming Gunung Padang Is an Ice Age Mega-Pyramid
- Weekly Roundup: More Gunung Padang Claims and Chris Mellon’s Confession
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 14 • March 31, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was a rough week for me. A ice storm took out the power for almost two days and caused terrible damage to my town, including hundreds of downed trees. The heavy rains which followed made cleanup hard, and I still haven’t gotten all of the massive downed pine branches out of my yard. At the same time, my son came down with a virus and was terribly sick for three days. I am exhausted, and the only saving grace is that I didn’t have to deal with Ancient Aliens this weekend. Instead, I spent time working with my publisher’s publicity team on press materials to promote my new book, Jimmy, upon its release. I think we have a strong, news-making press release that will garner some media attention.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 25–31:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 14 • March 31, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was a rough week for me. A ice storm took out the power for almost two days and caused terrible damage to my town, including hundreds of downed trees. The heavy rains which followed made cleanup hard, and I still haven’t gotten all of the massive downed pine branches out of my yard. At the same time, my son came down with a virus and was terribly sick for three days. I am exhausted, and the only saving grace is that I didn’t have to deal with Ancient Aliens this weekend. Instead, I spent time working with my publisher’s publicity team on press materials to promote my new book, Jimmy, upon its release. I think we have a strong, news-making press release that will garner some media attention.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 25–31:
- Scott Wolter Says He Won’t Reveal Oak Island Secrets without a Big TV Payday
- A Plausible Explanation for the Lost City of Manuscript 512
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 15 • April 7, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a podcast appearance the day after Easter, former television personality Scott F. Wolter denied the resurrection of Christ and alleged that the Knights Templar stole Jesus’ bones and used them to blackmail the Catholic Church to allow them to amass the massive treasure whose location Wolter claims to have discovered. I wish I had more to say, but this has been a difficult week. My family got hit hard by an upper respiratory virus, and with everyone sick, in sequence, it’s been stressful and exhausting. What little free time I had I devoted to making a final round of edits and revisions to Jimmy, which now does into production.
Instead, please read my new piece on the history of eclipse panic for CNN in anticipation of Monday’s celestial event.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 1–7:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 15 • April 7, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a podcast appearance the day after Easter, former television personality Scott F. Wolter denied the resurrection of Christ and alleged that the Knights Templar stole Jesus’ bones and used them to blackmail the Catholic Church to allow them to amass the massive treasure whose location Wolter claims to have discovered. I wish I had more to say, but this has been a difficult week. My family got hit hard by an upper respiratory virus, and with everyone sick, in sequence, it’s been stressful and exhausting. What little free time I had I devoted to making a final round of edits and revisions to Jimmy, which now does into production.
Instead, please read my new piece on the history of eclipse panic for CNN in anticipation of Monday’s celestial event.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 1–7:
- Weekend Roundup: My New CNN Piece, Coulthart on Divine Aliens, and More!
- Was James Dean “Sexually Sadistic”?
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 16 • April 14, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Truthfully, it was a rather uneventful week in which no major controversies unfolded. It was a bit disconcerting to see the return in Pennsylvania, of the disgraced MUFON official John Ventre, who courted controversy in 2017 with racist social media postings claiming “Europeans” gave “civilization” to “f’ing blacks” who were otherwise incapable of culture. In 2022, Ventre ran unsuccessfully for the Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nomination, and this week he gave a presentation to the state’s MUFON conference. His topic? Well, you can’t make this up. His topic was Hitler. No one batter an eye, however, and Ventre’s subject—whether otherworldly intelligences had possessed Hitler—traces straight back to Morning of the Magicians.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 8–14:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 16 • April 14, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Truthfully, it was a rather uneventful week in which no major controversies unfolded. It was a bit disconcerting to see the return in Pennsylvania, of the disgraced MUFON official John Ventre, who courted controversy in 2017 with racist social media postings claiming “Europeans” gave “civilization” to “f’ing blacks” who were otherwise incapable of culture. In 2022, Ventre ran unsuccessfully for the Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nomination, and this week he gave a presentation to the state’s MUFON conference. His topic? Well, you can’t make this up. His topic was Hitler. No one batter an eye, however, and Ventre’s subject—whether otherworldly intelligences had possessed Hitler—traces straight back to Morning of the Magicians.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 8–14:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 17 • April 21, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This was the big week when Graham Hancock debated archaeologist Flint Dibble on The Joe Rogan Experience, and it seems that Hancock was expecting a repeat of his 2017 debate on Rogan with skeptic Michael Shermer, in which his condescending opponent offered superficial arguments and was unprepared with either evidence or a compelling story. Perhaps for the first time, Hancock faced an opponent in Dibble who was fully prepared with facts, evidence, arguments, and a convincing counter-narrative that left Hancock unable to muster much more than righteous indignation in favor of his Atlantis-like lost civilization. To judge by the reactions on social media, especially Reddit, Hancock’s fans were not happy and even true believers conceded that Hancock had failed to meet the moment. The problem—through no fault of anyone involved, scheduling and health issues being what they are—is that this debate happened eighteen months too late. It should have happened right after the 2022 release of Ancient Apocalypse, when the media’s attention was squarely on Hancock’s claims. This week, it was overshadowed by everything else happening in a world on fire.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 15–21:
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 17 • April 21, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This was the big week when Graham Hancock debated archaeologist Flint Dibble on The Joe Rogan Experience, and it seems that Hancock was expecting a repeat of his 2017 debate on Rogan with skeptic Michael Shermer, in which his condescending opponent offered superficial arguments and was unprepared with either evidence or a compelling story. Perhaps for the first time, Hancock faced an opponent in Dibble who was fully prepared with facts, evidence, arguments, and a convincing counter-narrative that left Hancock unable to muster much more than righteous indignation in favor of his Atlantis-like lost civilization. To judge by the reactions on social media, especially Reddit, Hancock’s fans were not happy and even true believers conceded that Hancock had failed to meet the moment. The problem—through no fault of anyone involved, scheduling and health issues being what they are—is that this debate happened eighteen months too late. It should have happened right after the 2022 release of Ancient Apocalypse, when the media’s attention was squarely on Hancock’s claims. This week, it was overshadowed by everything else happening in a world on fire.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 15–21:
- Graham Hancock and Flint Dibble Offer Few Fireworks in Joe Rogan Debate
- Documents Detail David Grusch’s Efforts to Avoid Speaking to AARO
- The Porthole Windows of James Dean and Marlon Brando
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 18 • April 28, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
After Tucker Carlson and John Oliver both made news by making weird claims about why UFOs are a transcendent mystery, the Pentagon’s UFO office, AARO, released its findings in the case of the “Eglin UAP,” a 2023 sighting where a military pilot claimed to have witnessed a silvery metallic object in the sky. Rep. Matt Gaetz popularized the sighting, and AARO determined it was most likely a balloon. The case is more evidence that pilots can and do make mistakes when it comes to seeing things they don’t immediately recognize in the sky.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 22–28:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 18 • April 28, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
After Tucker Carlson and John Oliver both made news by making weird claims about why UFOs are a transcendent mystery, the Pentagon’s UFO office, AARO, released its findings in the case of the “Eglin UAP,” a 2023 sighting where a military pilot claimed to have witnessed a silvery metallic object in the sky. Rep. Matt Gaetz popularized the sighting, and AARO determined it was most likely a balloon. The case is more evidence that pilots can and do make mistakes when it comes to seeing things they don’t immediately recognize in the sky.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 22–28:
- Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on “Supernatural” UFOs in Joe Rogan Appearance
- John Oliver Abandons Evidence to Promote the UFO “Mystery”
- Chris Mellon Releases Texts from Government Official Claiming a Crashed UFO
- The Fix Is In: The Fixer’s Dubious Claims about James Dean
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 19 • May 5, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was a busier week for me than for pyramids and flying saucers. I spent the week finalizing art for my book, negotiating the cover design, and arranging for my next major magazine feature. Meanwhile, the Salt Conference of financial investors in New York City announced David Grusch would be a featured speaker, the second year in a row that wealthy nerds turned their gathering over to their adolescent sci-fi fantasies. We should all be disturbed that the self-described masters of the universe take their faux-honorific so literally and think space aliens are the next financial frontier. Similarly, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced her intention to hold a Senate UFO hearing this summer, in the middle of the presidential election campaign. With Democrats trying to make the case that they are the sober, responsible alternative to a venal thug and his caravan of kooks, maybe putting the party’s UFO obsessives front and center for another flying saucer hearing when there are serious and immediate issues at stake affecting every American isn’t the best look.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 29–May 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 19 • May 5, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was a busier week for me than for pyramids and flying saucers. I spent the week finalizing art for my book, negotiating the cover design, and arranging for my next major magazine feature. Meanwhile, the Salt Conference of financial investors in New York City announced David Grusch would be a featured speaker, the second year in a row that wealthy nerds turned their gathering over to their adolescent sci-fi fantasies. We should all be disturbed that the self-described masters of the universe take their faux-honorific so literally and think space aliens are the next financial frontier. Similarly, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced her intention to hold a Senate UFO hearing this summer, in the middle of the presidential election campaign. With Democrats trying to make the case that they are the sober, responsible alternative to a venal thug and his caravan of kooks, maybe putting the party’s UFO obsessives front and center for another flying saucer hearing when there are serious and immediate issues at stake affecting every American isn’t the best look.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 29–May 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 20 • May 12, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Steven Greenstreet of the New York Post posted his interview with Sean Kirkpatrick, the recently retired head of the Pentagon’s UFO office who recently joined WestExec Advisors, a Democrat-aligned consulting firm, to consult on the “future of space.” In the interview, Kirkpatrick reiterated his belief that a small group of fervent alien believers has hijacked the UFO conversation and that they have a religion-like belief immune to evidence that has created a mythology of conspiracy and extraterrestrial contact which continues to corrupt military and congressional efforts to arrive at the truth.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 6–12:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 20 • May 12, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Steven Greenstreet of the New York Post posted his interview with Sean Kirkpatrick, the recently retired head of the Pentagon’s UFO office who recently joined WestExec Advisors, a Democrat-aligned consulting firm, to consult on the “future of space.” In the interview, Kirkpatrick reiterated his belief that a small group of fervent alien believers has hijacked the UFO conversation and that they have a religion-like belief immune to evidence that has created a mythology of conspiracy and extraterrestrial contact which continues to corrupt military and congressional efforts to arrive at the truth.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 6–12:
- Review of Think to New Worlds by Joshua Blu Buhs
- The Real Story Behind Danny Sheehan and Those $15,000 UFO “PhD” Degrees
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 21 • May 19, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week the Vatican produced new guidelines for how the Catholic Church would evaluate claims of supernatural encounters. In a change from the Church’s last set of rules, promulgated in 1978, the new guidelines will make it harder to declare events “supernatural” in an effort to cut down on fraud and exploitation of believers in the wake of growing supernatural claims spreading on social media. The new system will create six levels of conclusion about supernatural claims, ranging from declaring something a hoax to affirming that “nothing hinders” thinking about an event as supernatural. Notably, the Vatican will not positively affirm events are supernatural, and they will now require official approval from the Holy See before bishops can promote a supposedly supernatural event as having pastoral value.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 13–19:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 21 • May 19, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week the Vatican produced new guidelines for how the Catholic Church would evaluate claims of supernatural encounters. In a change from the Church’s last set of rules, promulgated in 1978, the new guidelines will make it harder to declare events “supernatural” in an effort to cut down on fraud and exploitation of believers in the wake of growing supernatural claims spreading on social media. The new system will create six levels of conclusion about supernatural claims, ranging from declaring something a hoax to affirming that “nothing hinders” thinking about an event as supernatural. Notably, the Vatican will not positively affirm events are supernatural, and they will now require official approval from the Holy See before bishops can promote a supposedly supernatural event as having pastoral value.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 13–19:
- Graham Hancock Associate Attacks Archaeology YouTuber in Rambling Rant
- Lue Elizondo Claims UFO Whistleblowers Like Him Are Under Assassination Threat
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 22 • May 26, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week my publisher sent me the copyedited manuscript for correction and review, and unfortunately, the brief window I have to complete the task coincides with the holiday weekend, leaving me short on time. I can only mention briefly therefore that this week white nationalist Stew Peters discovered the Tartarian Empire conspiracy theory, and America’s white nationalists and neo-Nazis now seem poised to embrace the bizarre, Russian-originated claim that Neo-Classical architecture is too amazing for mere humans to have constructed in Victorian period, so it is really the ancient antediluvian work of a lost race of giants. Tartarian conspiracy theorists want us to believe all humans are as stupid and incompetent as they are.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 20–26:
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 22 • May 26, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week my publisher sent me the copyedited manuscript for correction and review, and unfortunately, the brief window I have to complete the task coincides with the holiday weekend, leaving me short on time. I can only mention briefly therefore that this week white nationalist Stew Peters discovered the Tartarian Empire conspiracy theory, and America’s white nationalists and neo-Nazis now seem poised to embrace the bizarre, Russian-originated claim that Neo-Classical architecture is too amazing for mere humans to have constructed in Victorian period, so it is really the ancient antediluvian work of a lost race of giants. Tartarian conspiracy theorists want us to believe all humans are as stupid and incompetent as they are.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 20–26:
- UFO News Roundup: Lue Elizondo's New Book and Karl Nell's SALT Talk
- Game, Set Match: On the Ending of Challengers
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 23 • June 2, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
A few hiccups in the copyediting process meant that I spent most of this week dealing with book-related issues. It was just as well. This was a slow week in the world of space aliens and fringe history. Members of Congress made the usual noises about passing new laws to demand more UFO accountability, and the usual legislators spoke about new UFO hearings, and the usual UFO influencers demanded action, but it was all pretty much the same as it has been. A couple of interesting UFO year-in-review-style pieces ran in the Washington Spectator and the U.K. magazine The Skeptic, though these, too, had little in them we haven’t seen before. Over on NBC News Now, Gadi Schwartz invited oceanographer and ex-rear admiral Tim Gallaudet on to opine that, “There are non-human intelligences visiting us in all domains: of the sea, the sky, and we see reports over land.” His argument, however, was more of the usual, which is to say, “I don’t know; therefore, aliens.” The claim amounted to arguing that if someone can’t immediately identify a shadow in the sky or a signal on sensor, it is therefore a space demon from another dimension.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 27–June 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 24 • Issue 23 • June 2, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
A few hiccups in the copyediting process meant that I spent most of this week dealing with book-related issues. It was just as well. This was a slow week in the world of space aliens and fringe history. Members of Congress made the usual noises about passing new laws to demand more UFO accountability, and the usual legislators spoke about new UFO hearings, and the usual UFO influencers demanded action, but it was all pretty much the same as it has been. A couple of interesting UFO year-in-review-style pieces ran in the Washington Spectator and the U.K. magazine The Skeptic, though these, too, had little in them we haven’t seen before. Over on NBC News Now, Gadi Schwartz invited oceanographer and ex-rear admiral Tim Gallaudet on to opine that, “There are non-human intelligences visiting us in all domains: of the sea, the sky, and we see reports over land.” His argument, however, was more of the usual, which is to say, “I don’t know; therefore, aliens.” The claim amounted to arguing that if someone can’t immediately identify a shadow in the sky or a signal on sensor, it is therefore a space demon from another dimension.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 27–June 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• [email protected] • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 24 • June 9, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a scammer sold fake copies of Lue Elizondo’s upcoming memoir Imminent on Amazon more than two months ahead of the real book’s release date. It seems that the people who try to make money off A.I.-generated garbage on Amazon have decided that there will be serious interest in this book. I guess we’ll need to wait until August to judge how well the scammers chose their target.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 3–9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• [email protected] • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
• Vol. 24 • Issue 24 • June 9, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a scammer sold fake copies of Lue Elizondo’s upcoming memoir Imminent on Amazon more than two months ahead of the real book’s release date. It seems that the people who try to make money off A.I.-generated garbage on Amazon have decided that there will be serious interest in this book. I guess we’ll need to wait until August to judge how well the scammers chose their target.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 3–9:
- Ross Coulthart Claims Trump Under Assassination Threat Over UFO Knowledge
- The “Inevitable” Showdown That Wasn’t: James Dean vs. John Derek
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 24 • Issue 25 • June 16, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
More than a year and a half after Netflix scored big with Graham Hancock’s controversial nonfiction series Ancient Apocalypse, the streaming giant renewed the series for a second season. This was not a huge surprise given the show’s enormous media profile and viewership numbers. Staffers at ITN had been planning a second season since March 2023. Meanwhile, Tim Lomas and Brendan Case of Harvard, and Michael P. Masters of Montana Technical University are back with another wacky academic journal paper trying to make the Shaver Mystery into science. In a weird new paper for Philosophy and Cosmology, they claim that scientists need to take seriously the idea that fairy-like or angelic “cryptoterrestrials” have secretly been living unseen under the earth or disguised as humans. The paper fawns over UFO advocates like Hal Puthoff and David Grusch and expects us to believe that myths and legends about antediluvian civilizations have a cryptoterrestrial origin.
A quick reminder: Next week is my newsletter’s summer break. It will return on June 30.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 10–16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• [email protected] • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
• Vol. 24 • Issue 25 • June 16, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
More than a year and a half after Netflix scored big with Graham Hancock’s controversial nonfiction series Ancient Apocalypse, the streaming giant renewed the series for a second season. This was not a huge surprise given the show’s enormous media profile and viewership numbers. Staffers at ITN had been planning a second season since March 2023. Meanwhile, Tim Lomas and Brendan Case of Harvard, and Michael P. Masters of Montana Technical University are back with another wacky academic journal paper trying to make the Shaver Mystery into science. In a weird new paper for Philosophy and Cosmology, they claim that scientists need to take seriously the idea that fairy-like or angelic “cryptoterrestrials” have secretly been living unseen under the earth or disguised as humans. The paper fawns over UFO advocates like Hal Puthoff and David Grusch and expects us to believe that myths and legends about antediluvian civilizations have a cryptoterrestrial origin.
A quick reminder: Next week is my newsletter’s summer break. It will return on June 30.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 10–16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
• [email protected] • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito •
