Volume 26 Archive
THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 1 • December 29, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! It’s been a very long year once again, and it is time for my annual year in review column to sort it all out. Each year in pseudohistory and the paranormal seems a little darker and grimmer than the one before, though this year we saw a few rays of hope when Graham Hancock lost a debate to Flint Dibble on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Hancock’s Netflix show and Ancient Aliens tanked in the ratings, and the mainstream media finally started to push back on the UFO craze.
If you received an Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card for the holidays, may I suggest purchasing a copy of my new book, Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean?
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of December 16–December 29:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 1 • December 29, 2024 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Happy New Year! It’s been a very long year once again, and it is time for my annual year in review column to sort it all out. Each year in pseudohistory and the paranormal seems a little darker and grimmer than the one before, though this year we saw a few rays of hope when Graham Hancock lost a debate to Flint Dibble on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Hancock’s Netflix show and Ancient Aliens tanked in the ratings, and the mainstream media finally started to push back on the UFO craze.
If you received an Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card for the holidays, may I suggest purchasing a copy of my new book, Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean?
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of December 16–December 29:
- A Dull Slog: 2024 in Review
- A Christmas Mystery: Hancock, Bauval, and the “Three Kings of Orion”
- Watch Me on Fox News!
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 2 • January 5, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
With the New Year holiday smack-dab in the middle of the week, and most of this week dominated by sports, terrorism, and politics, it was relatively quiet in the world of the paranormal and the weird. In other news, I have some exciting promotional appearances coming up on behalf of Jimmy. I’ve booked a couple of podcast appearances and two radio interviews for this month, and I’ll be sharing more information about these as they happen.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of December 30–January 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 2 • January 5, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
With the New Year holiday smack-dab in the middle of the week, and most of this week dominated by sports, terrorism, and politics, it was relatively quiet in the world of the paranormal and the weird. In other news, I have some exciting promotional appearances coming up on behalf of Jimmy. I’ve booked a couple of podcast appearances and two radio interviews for this month, and I’ll be sharing more information about these as they happen.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of December 30–January 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 3 • January 12, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
If you are a resident of the United States, you can enter to win a free copy of my book Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean courtesy of Erie Gay News. They are running a giveaway now through the end of the month, and you can enter for your chance to win here.
Meanwhile, I have an essay this weekend in Air Mail, Graydon Carter’s culture, lifestyle, and entertainment magazine going behind the scenes in writing Jimmy. Carter also featured my essay in his weekend Air Mail newsletter.
People magazine also published a feature on Jimmy this weekend focusing on James Dean’s friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, which you can read here.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 6–12:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 3 • January 12, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
If you are a resident of the United States, you can enter to win a free copy of my book Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean courtesy of Erie Gay News. They are running a giveaway now through the end of the month, and you can enter for your chance to win here.
Meanwhile, I have an essay this weekend in Air Mail, Graydon Carter’s culture, lifestyle, and entertainment magazine going behind the scenes in writing Jimmy. Carter also featured my essay in his weekend Air Mail newsletter.
People magazine also published a feature on Jimmy this weekend focusing on James Dean’s friendship with Elizabeth Taylor, which you can read here.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 6–12:
- Tucker Carlson for UFO Czar? Plus: David Frum’s Descent into Historical Revisionism
- California Fires Destroy Priceless Theosophical Archive
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 4 • January 19, 2025 •
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News
Today is publication day for Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean in the United Kingdom! If you are in the U.K., be sure to pick up a copy. I appeared on Talk Radio Europe on Friday to promoted the U.K. launch, so be sure to give it a listen. (It is available until January 24 here by selecting the 1/17/25 episode and the 1500-1600 hour.)
Canada also released its preliminary UFO report this week, and it was … underwhelming. While ufologists were excited to see another country going down the UFO rabbit hole, the report was little more than a thinly veiled argument for more bureaucracy and more government funding, with very little to justify it beyond the U.S. government’s interest in the subject.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 13–19:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 4 • January 19, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Today is publication day for Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean in the United Kingdom! If you are in the U.K., be sure to pick up a copy. I appeared on Talk Radio Europe on Friday to promoted the U.K. launch, so be sure to give it a listen. (It is available until January 24 here by selecting the 1/17/25 episode and the 1500-1600 hour.)
Canada also released its preliminary UFO report this week, and it was … underwhelming. While ufologists were excited to see another country going down the UFO rabbit hole, the report was little more than a thinly veiled argument for more bureaucracy and more government funding, with very little to justify it beyond the U.S. government’s interest in the subject.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 13–19:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 5 • January 26, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I am very pleased to announce that this week I signed a contract with Tantor Media for an audiobook release of Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean. The audiobook will likely be out later this year, and I will share more details after they have been released.
Meanwhile, Sky History, the joint venture between Britain’s Sky broadcasting and the History channel, announced the launch of a new series, Egypt’s Cosmic Code, starring Doctor Who actor and game show host Bradley Walsh. According to a press release promoting the series, which debuts this March, Walsh has a lifelong fascination with the ancient astronaut theory and will be using this series to “challenge” the “orthodoxy” of Egyptology by looking at alternative explanations (i.e. ancient astronauts, Atlantis, the Orion Correlation, etc.) and questioning whether and how the Egyptians could possibly have build the pyramids and the Sphinx 4,500 years ago. All in all, it’s both a bog-standard TV fringe fest and also deeply disappointing that the History channel is poisoning history with original programming in other countries, too.
It’s also probably worth noting that the U.S. media utterly ignored the fact that film producers announced this week that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is appearing in a UFO documentary at SXSW alongside psychics, UFO witnesses, people who claimed to meet werewolves, and assorted looney tunes. I guess that’s just normal stuff by today’s standards.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 20–26:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 5 • January 26, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I am very pleased to announce that this week I signed a contract with Tantor Media for an audiobook release of Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean. The audiobook will likely be out later this year, and I will share more details after they have been released.
Meanwhile, Sky History, the joint venture between Britain’s Sky broadcasting and the History channel, announced the launch of a new series, Egypt’s Cosmic Code, starring Doctor Who actor and game show host Bradley Walsh. According to a press release promoting the series, which debuts this March, Walsh has a lifelong fascination with the ancient astronaut theory and will be using this series to “challenge” the “orthodoxy” of Egyptology by looking at alternative explanations (i.e. ancient astronauts, Atlantis, the Orion Correlation, etc.) and questioning whether and how the Egyptians could possibly have build the pyramids and the Sphinx 4,500 years ago. All in all, it’s both a bog-standard TV fringe fest and also deeply disappointing that the History channel is poisoning history with original programming in other countries, too.
It’s also probably worth noting that the U.S. media utterly ignored the fact that film producers announced this week that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is appearing in a UFO documentary at SXSW alongside psychics, UFO witnesses, people who claimed to meet werewolves, and assorted looney tunes. I guess that’s just normal stuff by today’s standards.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 20–26:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 6 • February 2, 2025 •
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News
Mad Man actor Jon Hamm is currently reading Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean and talked about it this week in the Boston Globe. It’s always fun to see someone reading one of my books in the wild, but this is the first time I’ve had an A-list celebrity mention my book!
Meanwhile, Scott Wolter is back again. This time, he is issuing a challenge to Minnesota archaeologist David Mather to debate him on the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone. Mather made headlines recently when he concluded in an academic paper that the so-called “Du Luth Stone,” a boulder bearing an alleged 1679 inscription from a French explorer, was likely authentic. Wolter now wants him to declare his favorite inscriptions authentic, too.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 27–February 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 6 • February 2, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Mad Man actor Jon Hamm is currently reading Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean and talked about it this week in the Boston Globe. It’s always fun to see someone reading one of my books in the wild, but this is the first time I’ve had an A-list celebrity mention my book!
Meanwhile, Scott Wolter is back again. This time, he is issuing a challenge to Minnesota archaeologist David Mather to debate him on the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone. Mather made headlines recently when he concluded in an academic paper that the so-called “Du Luth Stone,” a boulder bearing an alleged 1679 inscription from a French explorer, was likely authentic. Wolter now wants him to declare his favorite inscriptions authentic, too.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of January 27–February 2:
- Lue Elizondo Appears to Seeking a Government Job from Trump
- Listen to Me Discuss Jimmy on WNYM AM 790
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 7 • February 9, 2025 •
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News
It’s hard to believe that it’s already that time of the year again, but Ancient Aliens is back after a months-long hiatus for the first episode of its twenty-first season. Shortly after I first started reviewing Ancient Aliens in 2011 (!), I began the practice of reviewing the show in real time and posting the reviews a few minutes after the show aired. I was younger then and didn’t yet have a kid, and it was a good exercise to debunk bad ideas within minutes and to demonstrate that Ancient Aliens was so poorly constructed that it took no time at all to expose its falsehoods and fabrications. More than once I was accused of having “stolen” access to episodes before they aired because I was able to write rebuttals before an episode had finished airing. But I am a lot older now, and the show is a pale imitation of its former self, and very few people read my reviews the night they are posted. I think it’s time to stop burdening myself with trying to stay awake and churn out copy when I’m too tired for it. I will try to review the new season, but it’s going to be sometime over the weekend after it airs, not the same night.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week February 3–February 9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 7 • February 9, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It’s hard to believe that it’s already that time of the year again, but Ancient Aliens is back after a months-long hiatus for the first episode of its twenty-first season. Shortly after I first started reviewing Ancient Aliens in 2011 (!), I began the practice of reviewing the show in real time and posting the reviews a few minutes after the show aired. I was younger then and didn’t yet have a kid, and it was a good exercise to debunk bad ideas within minutes and to demonstrate that Ancient Aliens was so poorly constructed that it took no time at all to expose its falsehoods and fabrications. More than once I was accused of having “stolen” access to episodes before they aired because I was able to write rebuttals before an episode had finished airing. But I am a lot older now, and the show is a pale imitation of its former self, and very few people read my reviews the night they are posted. I think it’s time to stop burdening myself with trying to stay awake and churn out copy when I’m too tired for it. I will try to review the new season, but it’s going to be sometime over the weekend after it airs, not the same night.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week February 3–February 9:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E01: “The Top Ten Extraordinary Discoveries”
- In Brief: UFO News Roundup
- Is That Really Le Point You Want to Make?
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 8 • February 16, 2025 •
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News
This week the House of Representatives released the written questions representatives submitted to the participants in November’s UFO hearing, including the written responses the participants sent back. The written responses were not made under oath, but they were telling nonetheless. Lue Elizondo asserted that the United States possessed spacecraft made by otherworldly beings as well as biological remains from said beings. However, he failed to provide any evidence for these claims other than having heard them from unnamed people. He similarly responded to a question about whether the beings were interdimensional rather than extraterrestrial in the affirmative by citing claims made by “several scientists within AATIP,” by which he almost certainly meant Hal Puthoff and friends, known purveyors of interdimensional speculation. However, the most important response came when asked directly about how he confirmed that Lockheed Martin was hiding a crashed saucer: “I am unable to answer this question due to a lack of direct knowledge.” That was the bottom line on all the questions: Lots of stories, decades of speculation, and no direct knowledge.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week February 10–16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 8 • February 16, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week the House of Representatives released the written questions representatives submitted to the participants in November’s UFO hearing, including the written responses the participants sent back. The written responses were not made under oath, but they were telling nonetheless. Lue Elizondo asserted that the United States possessed spacecraft made by otherworldly beings as well as biological remains from said beings. However, he failed to provide any evidence for these claims other than having heard them from unnamed people. He similarly responded to a question about whether the beings were interdimensional rather than extraterrestrial in the affirmative by citing claims made by “several scientists within AATIP,” by which he almost certainly meant Hal Puthoff and friends, known purveyors of interdimensional speculation. However, the most important response came when asked directly about how he confirmed that Lockheed Martin was hiding a crashed saucer: “I am unable to answer this question due to a lack of direct knowledge.” That was the bottom line on all the questions: Lots of stories, decades of speculation, and no direct knowledge.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week February 10–16:
- YouTube Megastar Mr. Beast Explores Giza, Asks about Ancient Astronauts
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E02 “The Top Ten Mysterious Monoliths”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 9 • February 23, 2025 •
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News
Since former America Unearthed host Scott Wolter broke up with his wife Janet and began seeing “researcher” and tour guide Hayley Ramsey, I have mostly stayed away from commenting on the situation. The exception has been when their personal relationship crossed into professional collaboration, such as their Outlander-themed tours of Scotland. This week, Ramsey stepped out onto the podcast circuit to announce that she is an alien abductee who has had multiple encounters with space aliens. Ramsey appeared on Paranormal 360 and claimed that she encountered aliens while under anesthesia for surgery, had alien “implants” removed from her body, and her father also had contact with aliens. It’s worth noting that since Wolter became involved with Ramsey, he has shifted from a skeptic of ancient astronaut claims to a full-throated believer in ancient aliens and UFO conspiracies.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week February 17–23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 9 • February 23, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Since former America Unearthed host Scott Wolter broke up with his wife Janet and began seeing “researcher” and tour guide Hayley Ramsey, I have mostly stayed away from commenting on the situation. The exception has been when their personal relationship crossed into professional collaboration, such as their Outlander-themed tours of Scotland. This week, Ramsey stepped out onto the podcast circuit to announce that she is an alien abductee who has had multiple encounters with space aliens. Ramsey appeared on Paranormal 360 and claimed that she encountered aliens while under anesthesia for surgery, had alien “implants” removed from her body, and her father also had contact with aliens. It’s worth noting that since Wolter became involved with Ramsey, he has shifted from a skeptic of ancient astronaut claims to a full-throated believer in ancient aliens and UFO conspiracies.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week February 17–23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 10 • March 2, 2025 •
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News
Earlier this month, on February 18, Lue Elizondo delivered a whopper at a paid event in Chicago. Before an audience that forked out up to $65 per ticket, Elizondo falsely claimed that the CIA leaked so-called UFO whistleblower David Grusch’s “military medical records” within “24 hours” of his public UFO claims as part of a revenge scheme. “That’s the retribution people like us face,” Elizondo said. In fact, none of that was true. As Grusch himself conceded, a month after Grusch’s first public comments in 2023, journalist Ken Klippenstein obtained police records about Grusch from the Loudun County, Viriginia sheriff through a FOIA request. These records contained some medical information about Grusch’s mental health struggles. Elizondo also told his audience that he now has to travel with a bulletproof vest because he and Grusch receive so many threats.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week February 24–March 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 10 • March 2, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Earlier this month, on February 18, Lue Elizondo delivered a whopper at a paid event in Chicago. Before an audience that forked out up to $65 per ticket, Elizondo falsely claimed that the CIA leaked so-called UFO whistleblower David Grusch’s “military medical records” within “24 hours” of his public UFO claims as part of a revenge scheme. “That’s the retribution people like us face,” Elizondo said. In fact, none of that was true. As Grusch himself conceded, a month after Grusch’s first public comments in 2023, journalist Ken Klippenstein obtained police records about Grusch from the Loudun County, Viriginia sheriff through a FOIA request. These records contained some medical information about Grusch’s mental health struggles. Elizondo also told his audience that he now has to travel with a bulletproof vest because he and Grusch receive so many threats.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week February 24–March 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 11 • March 9, 2025 •
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News
On Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, the contrarian comedian offered a bitter “New Rules” segment in which he attacked Native American, indigenous, and ancient cultures as part of a broad-based repudiation of both land acknowledgement statements and, in more general terms, efforts to respect and honor non-Western people and cultures. Maher argued that the Left has gone too far in valorizing pre-Columbian cultures, which he described as violent, ignorant, and primitive. He argued that there is no reason to honor other cultures because material conditions are “better now” than in pre-Columbian times. In his diatribe, Maher conflated several issues, notably the material comfort of modern society with the freedom of self-determination. But even so, at many points before Columbus, American communities were larger and more prosperous than their European counterparts.
It's certainly true, as Maher complained, that human sacrifice on a mass scale is a stain on Mesoamerican cultures, just as industrialized mass death stains many countries of the past century. I don't happen to like land acknowledgment statements (they read as performative), and there is a degree of Noble Savage condescension in valorizing traditional indigenous practices as “natural” and superior, but those criticisms hardly justify ranting against basically all non-white cultures of the past. The thing is, you can actually learn from other cultures and in seeing how they differ from our own, we can discover ways to improve our own practices and better our lives.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week March 3–9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 11 • March 9, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, the contrarian comedian offered a bitter “New Rules” segment in which he attacked Native American, indigenous, and ancient cultures as part of a broad-based repudiation of both land acknowledgement statements and, in more general terms, efforts to respect and honor non-Western people and cultures. Maher argued that the Left has gone too far in valorizing pre-Columbian cultures, which he described as violent, ignorant, and primitive. He argued that there is no reason to honor other cultures because material conditions are “better now” than in pre-Columbian times. In his diatribe, Maher conflated several issues, notably the material comfort of modern society with the freedom of self-determination. But even so, at many points before Columbus, American communities were larger and more prosperous than their European counterparts.
It's certainly true, as Maher complained, that human sacrifice on a mass scale is a stain on Mesoamerican cultures, just as industrialized mass death stains many countries of the past century. I don't happen to like land acknowledgment statements (they read as performative), and there is a degree of Noble Savage condescension in valorizing traditional indigenous practices as “natural” and superior, but those criticisms hardly justify ranting against basically all non-white cultures of the past. The thing is, you can actually learn from other cultures and in seeing how they differ from our own, we can discover ways to improve our own practices and better our lives.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week March 3–9:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E05: “The Top Ten Secret Projects”
- Age of Disclosure Filmmaker Teases Supposed Revelations Ahead of Film’s Debut
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 12 • March 16, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The UFO documentary Age of Disclosure received a glamorous launch at the SXSW film festival this past week, with UFO personalities who spoke in the film posing on the red carpet like celebrities and mugging for the camera—as serious people who think they have been touched by the mind-shattering revelation of extraterrestrial visitation are wont to do. The film itself received mixed reviews, with some publications swallowing the oft-repeated claims of the usual set of UFO talking heads at face value and others emphasizing how “boring” a flying saucer film can be when it is made up almost entirely of old men talking with no new UFO footage and no physical evidence. The majority of critics had a neutral to negative take on the film, but the bottom line is obvious at a glance: Not a single viewer found any objectively conclusive evidence of aliens in the film, despite its director’s grand promises, and in the end, it was just another UFO documentary.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week March 10–16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 12 • March 16, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
The UFO documentary Age of Disclosure received a glamorous launch at the SXSW film festival this past week, with UFO personalities who spoke in the film posing on the red carpet like celebrities and mugging for the camera—as serious people who think they have been touched by the mind-shattering revelation of extraterrestrial visitation are wont to do. The film itself received mixed reviews, with some publications swallowing the oft-repeated claims of the usual set of UFO talking heads at face value and others emphasizing how “boring” a flying saucer film can be when it is made up almost entirely of old men talking with no new UFO footage and no physical evidence. The majority of critics had a neutral to negative take on the film, but the bottom line is obvious at a glance: Not a single viewer found any objectively conclusive evidence of aliens in the film, despite its director’s grand promises, and in the end, it was just another UFO documentary.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week March 10–16:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E06: “The Top Ten Mysterious Mountains”
- IN BRIEF: Sol Foundation Launches $25,000 Annual Memberships
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 13 • March 23, 2025 •
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News
This week, CNN ran an interview with Lue Elizondo in which Elizondo expressed his belief that Donald Trump, who he reportedly is hoping will appoint him UFO czar, will oversee the long-promised “disclosure” of an alien presence. “This Administration is very proactive on trying to get to the bottom of this,” Elizondo said. When asked if the U.S. possesses alien “bodies,” Elizondo responded that the government has “biological samples” taken from “crashes,” which is not the same thing, and took pains to distance his assertion from claims about “intact bodies.” Partway through the superficial puff piece, CNN’s Nick Valencia, who seemed woefully unprepared on any of the specifics of Elizondo’s claims (for instance, not mentioning that Elizondo’s recent work for a defense contractor and Space Force after Elizondo denied any current involvement with government or a so-called “psy-op”), accidentally revealed why Elizondo sat down for this interview—he’s promoting a nationwide speaking tour in which he presents his UFO PowerPoint presentation to paying customers.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week March 17–23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 13 • March 23, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, CNN ran an interview with Lue Elizondo in which Elizondo expressed his belief that Donald Trump, who he reportedly is hoping will appoint him UFO czar, will oversee the long-promised “disclosure” of an alien presence. “This Administration is very proactive on trying to get to the bottom of this,” Elizondo said. When asked if the U.S. possesses alien “bodies,” Elizondo responded that the government has “biological samples” taken from “crashes,” which is not the same thing, and took pains to distance his assertion from claims about “intact bodies.” Partway through the superficial puff piece, CNN’s Nick Valencia, who seemed woefully unprepared on any of the specifics of Elizondo’s claims (for instance, not mentioning that Elizondo’s recent work for a defense contractor and Space Force after Elizondo denied any current involvement with government or a so-called “psy-op”), accidentally revealed why Elizondo sat down for this interview—he’s promoting a nationwide speaking tour in which he presents his UFO PowerPoint presentation to paying customers.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week March 17–23:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E07: “Mysteries of the Aztecs”
- Italian Fringe Researchers Claim to Find Massive Structures Beneath Giza
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 14 • March 30, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order attempting to seize control over the presentation of history in the Smithsonian Institution and in museums owned and operated by the U.S. government. The March 27 executive order specifically attacked exhibits at museums dedicated to social justice issues, transgender people, and racial minorities. Trump singled out the scientific conclusion that race is a social construct for condemnation. Instead, Trump ordered all government museums to become “solemn and uplifting public monuments that remind Americans of our extraordinary heritage, consistent progress toward becoming a more perfect Union, and unmatched record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing.” To that end, Trump ordered Vice President J. D. Vance to “remove improper ideology” from all museums and to specifically ban all acknowledgment of transgender women unless they are labeled as men.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week March 24–30:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 14 • March 30, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order attempting to seize control over the presentation of history in the Smithsonian Institution and in museums owned and operated by the U.S. government. The March 27 executive order specifically attacked exhibits at museums dedicated to social justice issues, transgender people, and racial minorities. Trump singled out the scientific conclusion that race is a social construct for condemnation. Instead, Trump ordered all government museums to become “solemn and uplifting public monuments that remind Americans of our extraordinary heritage, consistent progress toward becoming a more perfect Union, and unmatched record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing.” To that end, Trump ordered Vice President J. D. Vance to “remove improper ideology” from all museums and to specifically ban all acknowledgment of transgender women unless they are labeled as men.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week March 24–30:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E08 “The Glowing Orb Phenomenon”
- Apple Lands UFO Disclosure Thriller with David Grusch Attached as Producer
- Are There Secret James Dean Tapes?
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 15 • April 6, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I was taken a bit by surprise that Ancient Aliens went on hiatus so early into its season, or at least what seemed to be early in the season. After I counted, I realized the show aired eight episodes, about one-third of its annual total, but only two of them were original, the rest being clip shows. That means there are probably only between twelve and fourteen episodes to last us through the end of the year, to judge by the past few seasons’ episode orders.
Anyhow, I should probably take this opportunity to note that this month marks twenty-five years since I posted by first article online, on my very primitive Tripod website, and fifteen years since I migrated to my own domain and started the current iteration of my blog. I will probably write a longer reflection on this milestone in the coming week, but I did not want to let the anniversary pass without noting it here.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 31–April 6:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 15 • April 6, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I was taken a bit by surprise that Ancient Aliens went on hiatus so early into its season, or at least what seemed to be early in the season. After I counted, I realized the show aired eight episodes, about one-third of its annual total, but only two of them were original, the rest being clip shows. That means there are probably only between twelve and fourteen episodes to last us through the end of the year, to judge by the past few seasons’ episode orders.
Anyhow, I should probably take this opportunity to note that this month marks twenty-five years since I posted by first article online, on my very primitive Tripod website, and fifteen years since I migrated to my own domain and started the current iteration of my blog. I will probably write a longer reflection on this milestone in the coming week, but I did not want to let the anniversary pass without noting it here.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of March 31–April 6:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 16 • April 13, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Last week I mentioned that I had been writing online for twenty-five years, and I had planned to do an anniversary post. But it turns out that my earliest online writing was on now-defunct forums, not my first personal website, which I did not start until 2001, so I suppose I will need to wait until next year to celebrate my silver publishing anniversary. In the meantime, later this year I’ll be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of my first book, The Cult of Alien Gods.
Meanwhile, the 2021 scientific paper claiming that an airburst caused by a comet destroyed the Biblical city of Sodom (identified with Tall el-Hammam) appears to be heading toward retraction—at least according to Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis supporter George Howard. Writing in a bitter Cosmic Tusk blog post this week, Howard reported that Scientific Reports had taken the decision to retract the controversial and flawed paper. Howard is hopping mad about skeptics challenging the paper. “No doubt these mewling cretins are popping champagne tonight, but their corruption of the scientific process will ultimately be their downfall,” he wrote.
The paper received a note about “concerns” in 2023, but as of this writing the paper has not yet been retracted.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 7–13:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 16 • April 13, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Last week I mentioned that I had been writing online for twenty-five years, and I had planned to do an anniversary post. But it turns out that my earliest online writing was on now-defunct forums, not my first personal website, which I did not start until 2001, so I suppose I will need to wait until next year to celebrate my silver publishing anniversary. In the meantime, later this year I’ll be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of my first book, The Cult of Alien Gods.
Meanwhile, the 2021 scientific paper claiming that an airburst caused by a comet destroyed the Biblical city of Sodom (identified with Tall el-Hammam) appears to be heading toward retraction—at least according to Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis supporter George Howard. Writing in a bitter Cosmic Tusk blog post this week, Howard reported that Scientific Reports had taken the decision to retract the controversial and flawed paper. Howard is hopping mad about skeptics challenging the paper. “No doubt these mewling cretins are popping champagne tonight, but their corruption of the scientific process will ultimately be their downfall,” he wrote.
The paper received a note about “concerns” in 2023, but as of this writing the paper has not yet been retracted.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 7–13:
- Review of The Occult Elvis by Miguel Connor
- Italian Researchers Now Claim Pyramids 38,000 Years Old, Submerged in Great Flood
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 17 • April 20, 2025 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was my birthday on Friday, which fell during my son’s spring break and the Easter holiday. With a family trip to Legoland this week, I didn’t have time to write much this week.
Believe it or not, it was a relatively quiet week this week in the world of the weird. There was some squabbling on social media, as always happens, and Flint Dibble commemorated the one-year anniversary of his Joe Rogan Experience debate with Graham Hancock. The media got hot and bothered for a few hours over a CIA document released 25 years ago that was simply a transcript of a tabloid magazine article about an alleged Soviet UFO encounter. And Jimmy Corsetti spread accusations that archaeologists are mishandling Göbekli Tepe, with a promise to discuss his rage-bait YouTube videos with Hancock at a seminar in Sedona, Arizona later today. But, generally, Donald Trump takes up so much of the oxygen in both traditional and social media that the people who would otherwise be talking about aliens, Atlantis, and monsters just aren’t.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 14–20:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 17 • April 20, 2025 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was my birthday on Friday, which fell during my son’s spring break and the Easter holiday. With a family trip to Legoland this week, I didn’t have time to write much this week.
Believe it or not, it was a relatively quiet week this week in the world of the weird. There was some squabbling on social media, as always happens, and Flint Dibble commemorated the one-year anniversary of his Joe Rogan Experience debate with Graham Hancock. The media got hot and bothered for a few hours over a CIA document released 25 years ago that was simply a transcript of a tabloid magazine article about an alleged Soviet UFO encounter. And Jimmy Corsetti spread accusations that archaeologists are mishandling Göbekli Tepe, with a promise to discuss his rage-bait YouTube videos with Hancock at a seminar in Sedona, Arizona later today. But, generally, Donald Trump takes up so much of the oxygen in both traditional and social media that the people who would otherwise be talking about aliens, Atlantis, and monsters just aren’t.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 14–20:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 18 • April 27, 2025 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week saw the release of a four-hour interview with the late Harald Malmgren, a presidential aid in four administrations and later a lobbyist, in which Malmgren made some rather astonishing claims about his alleged involvement with UFOs. Malmgren, appearing unsteady (he was 89 and in failing health), claimed among other things to have personally handled material from a crashed flying saucer. The claims Malmgren made in this interview differed from previous statements in which he claimed to have had no direct involvement with UFO research (“I cannot be treated as a source of confirmation of UAP info,” he wrote last August), but they were in keeping with a series of social media posts he made last year claiming to have been briefed on UFO matters in the 1960s, when he was a Pentagon economist. His daughter, Pippa Malmgren, is a longtime UFO advocate and conspiracy theorist (she claims there is a “planned disclosure” currently occurring) who endorsed Karl Nell and Tim Gallaudet and seems connected to the so-called “Invisible College” group. Given that the elder Malmgren’s story seems somewhat implausible and in places inaccurate, it’s difficult to assign much credibility to his more outlandish claims. The resulting flap over the interview resulted in a dogfight over Malmgren’s Wikipedia page after some skeptics deleted large chunks of information about Malmgren’s career, prompting UFO podcaster Matt Ford of The Good Trouble Show to demand a RICO investigation of the Center for Inquiry, alleging that the humanist group is a criminally corrupt organization benefit from foreign money. Lue Elizondo’s attorney claimed there were ways to prosecute skeptics for editing Wikipedia pages.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 21–27:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 18 • April 27, 2025 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week saw the release of a four-hour interview with the late Harald Malmgren, a presidential aid in four administrations and later a lobbyist, in which Malmgren made some rather astonishing claims about his alleged involvement with UFOs. Malmgren, appearing unsteady (he was 89 and in failing health), claimed among other things to have personally handled material from a crashed flying saucer. The claims Malmgren made in this interview differed from previous statements in which he claimed to have had no direct involvement with UFO research (“I cannot be treated as a source of confirmation of UAP info,” he wrote last August), but they were in keeping with a series of social media posts he made last year claiming to have been briefed on UFO matters in the 1960s, when he was a Pentagon economist. His daughter, Pippa Malmgren, is a longtime UFO advocate and conspiracy theorist (she claims there is a “planned disclosure” currently occurring) who endorsed Karl Nell and Tim Gallaudet and seems connected to the so-called “Invisible College” group. Given that the elder Malmgren’s story seems somewhat implausible and in places inaccurate, it’s difficult to assign much credibility to his more outlandish claims. The resulting flap over the interview resulted in a dogfight over Malmgren’s Wikipedia page after some skeptics deleted large chunks of information about Malmgren’s career, prompting UFO podcaster Matt Ford of The Good Trouble Show to demand a RICO investigation of the Center for Inquiry, alleging that the humanist group is a criminally corrupt organization benefit from foreign money. Lue Elizondo’s attorney claimed there were ways to prosecute skeptics for editing Wikipedia pages.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 21–27:
- Smithsonian Magazine Asks if Talos Was an Ancient A.I.-Powered Robot
- André Thevet and the "Evidence" for Atlantis in America
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 19 • May 4, 2025 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
How can you tell that it’s time for Congress to work on the annual budget appropriations for military and intelligence spending? Why, you can tell from the explosion of stupid UFO news as ufology’s A-team launches a blitz of bullshit to convince Congress to fund their “research” for another year. (Appropriations bills, while often late, are supposed to start moving through Congress this month with the goal of passage by summer’s end.) This week, Avi Loeb openly asked for $1 billion from Congress for UFO research, and everyone from Hal Puthoff to Lue Elizondo was out in the media flooding the zone with easily debunked claims to gin up another wave of media coverage that might create a sense of danger and crisis for legislators.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 28–May 4:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 19 • May 4, 2025 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
How can you tell that it’s time for Congress to work on the annual budget appropriations for military and intelligence spending? Why, you can tell from the explosion of stupid UFO news as ufology’s A-team launches a blitz of bullshit to convince Congress to fund their “research” for another year. (Appropriations bills, while often late, are supposed to start moving through Congress this month with the goal of passage by summer’s end.) This week, Avi Loeb openly asked for $1 billion from Congress for UFO research, and everyone from Hal Puthoff to Lue Elizondo was out in the media flooding the zone with easily debunked claims to gin up another wave of media coverage that might create a sense of danger and crisis for legislators.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of April 28–May 4:
- UFO News Roundup: Jellyfish UFO Balloons, Garry Nolan’s Major Interview, and More
- Misinformation Abounds in a Busy Week for Government UFO Fantasies
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 20 • May 11, 2025 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Despite the whole world being on fire with crises of the current Administration’s making, the House of Representatives was pushing forward with plans to waste time hunting flying saucers, at least until last week’s debacle over Lue Elizondo’s fake UFO photo and Eric Davis’s weird claims to Congress about multiple alien species. Despite excitement around David Grusch having his security clearance restored, a highly anticipated classified briefing scheduled for May 12 is not going forward, according to a statement an Oversight Committee spokesperson gave to Douglas Johnson. Meanwhile, the UAP Disclosure Fund made some major personnel changes. Garry Nolan, Lue Elizondo, and Matt Ford left the advocacy group this week, while Chris Mellon received a promotion and became its chairman. Nevertheless, I also learned that yet another Bob Lazar documentary, S4: The Bob Lazar Story, featuring George Knapp, is in the work, set for a summer release, and promising “new revelations” about Area 51.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 5–11:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 20 • May 11, 2025 •
It’s been a (not so) busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Despite the whole world being on fire with crises of the current Administration’s making, the House of Representatives was pushing forward with plans to waste time hunting flying saucers, at least until last week’s debacle over Lue Elizondo’s fake UFO photo and Eric Davis’s weird claims to Congress about multiple alien species. Despite excitement around David Grusch having his security clearance restored, a highly anticipated classified briefing scheduled for May 12 is not going forward, according to a statement an Oversight Committee spokesperson gave to Douglas Johnson. Meanwhile, the UAP Disclosure Fund made some major personnel changes. Garry Nolan, Lue Elizondo, and Matt Ford left the advocacy group this week, while Chris Mellon received a promotion and became its chairman. Nevertheless, I also learned that yet another Bob Lazar documentary, S4: The Bob Lazar Story, featuring George Knapp, is in the work, set for a summer release, and promising “new revelations” about Area 51.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 5–11:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 21 • May 18, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It's been a big week. Jimmy Donaldson, better known as Mr. Beast, followed up his tour of the Giza pyramids with a new video touring the Maya ruins of Mexico and exposed 63 million viewers (as of this writing) to the wonders of pyramids and temples, including parts of them that are not typically available to tourists. This time, there wasn’t as much discussion of ancient astronaut theory, which was good, and the thumbnail didn’t include any fictional monsters or aliens, unlike his Egypt video. Meanwhile, Zahi Hawass appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and Graham Hancock announced the subject of his new book.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 12–18:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 21 • May 18, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It's been a big week. Jimmy Donaldson, better known as Mr. Beast, followed up his tour of the Giza pyramids with a new video touring the Maya ruins of Mexico and exposed 63 million viewers (as of this writing) to the wonders of pyramids and temples, including parts of them that are not typically available to tourists. This time, there wasn’t as much discussion of ancient astronaut theory, which was good, and the thumbnail didn’t include any fictional monsters or aliens, unlike his Egypt video. Meanwhile, Zahi Hawass appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and Graham Hancock announced the subject of his new book.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 12–18:
- Zahi Hawass Stumbles Through a Discussion of Occult Egyptology on Joe Rogan
- From Iraq, Graham Hancock Announces New Book on Mesopotamian Mysteries
- In Brief: Whistleblower “Reveals” Ultimate UFO Secret: “God Is Real”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 26 • Issue 22 • May 25, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Rep. Eric Burlison said in an online discussion that Lue Elizondo was deeply embarrassed by the flap over the photograph of irrigation circles that he passed off to Congress as flying saucers and has retreated from the public eye to regroup. “I think he needs to take a break,” Burlison said in an streaming interview. “He feels personally responsible for showing the photo that proved to be a fake image so he’s trying to take some time away.” I’m not entirely sure how that squares with Elizondo’s claim this week that he missed a classified SCIF meeting with legislators because he needed to attend a UFO festival in Oregon, where he posed with costumed attendees, but there you have it: For the first time in UFO history, a ufologist claims to feel shame at flogging a fake photo.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 19–25:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 26 • Issue 22 • May 25, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Rep. Eric Burlison said in an online discussion that Lue Elizondo was deeply embarrassed by the flap over the photograph of irrigation circles that he passed off to Congress as flying saucers and has retreated from the public eye to regroup. “I think he needs to take a break,” Burlison said in an streaming interview. “He feels personally responsible for showing the photo that proved to be a fake image so he’s trying to take some time away.” I’m not entirely sure how that squares with Elizondo’s claim this week that he missed a classified SCIF meeting with legislators because he needed to attend a UFO festival in Oregon, where he posed with costumed attendees, but there you have it: For the first time in UFO history, a ufologist claims to feel shame at flogging a fake photo.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of May 19–25:
- 1843 Magazine Profiles Graham Hancock, “Conspiracy Theorists’ Favourite Historian”
- In Brief: Harald Malmgren’s History of Serial Fabrication Revealed
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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