Volume 27 Archive
THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 1 • June 29, 2025 •
It’s been a busy two weeks. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I’ve been contemplating some changes to the way I do things, but I’m not sure how well they might work. Currently, I run both a blog and a free Substack newsletter, but I make no money from either. I am considering turning the Substack into a paid newsletter that would mix free content with subscription content. Most of my writing would then shift to the newsletter, and I would (if paid) produce more regular content. However, I could only do this if a critical mass of readers were willing to pay $3 or $5 per month to subscribe to my newsletter. In the coming week, I may send out a survey or perhaps post one to social media to try to gauge interest in a subscription.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of June 16–29:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 1 • June 29, 2025 •
It’s been a busy two weeks. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I’ve been contemplating some changes to the way I do things, but I’m not sure how well they might work. Currently, I run both a blog and a free Substack newsletter, but I make no money from either. I am considering turning the Substack into a paid newsletter that would mix free content with subscription content. Most of my writing would then shift to the newsletter, and I would (if paid) produce more regular content. However, I could only do this if a critical mass of readers were willing to pay $3 or $5 per month to subscribe to my newsletter. In the coming week, I may send out a survey or perhaps post one to social media to try to gauge interest in a subscription.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of June 16–29:
- Graham Hancock Asks If Gilgamesh Dates Back to the Neolithic
- A New Rune Stone Found in Canada Is Yet Another Nineteenth Century Fake
- On the Names of Sesostris, Vesozes, and Vezosis
- James Dean, Queerness, and the Problem of Overstatement
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 2 • July 6, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I am excited to announce that the audiobook version of Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean will be released this Tuesday, July 8. Read by Daniel Henning, the audio version clocks in at 9 hours, and it will be available wherever you buy your audiobooks, or directly from the publisher, Tantor Media.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 30–July 6:
What Richard Dolan Got Wrong about the Spanish “USO” of 939 CE
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 2 • July 6, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
I am excited to announce that the audiobook version of Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean will be released this Tuesday, July 8. Read by Daniel Henning, the audio version clocks in at 9 hours, and it will be available wherever you buy your audiobooks, or directly from the publisher, Tantor Media.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 30–July 6:
What Richard Dolan Got Wrong about the Spanish “USO” of 939 CE
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 3 • July 13, 2025 • It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new… News I am excited to announce that I have received some of the details about the upcoming Polish publication of Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean, which will be published in Poland this September under the title James Dean: Sekret Życia (James Dean: Secret Lives). The cover is a rather striking combination of black-and-white with a splash of unexpected chartreuse. I like it. On the Blog In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 7-13:
Until next week, keep watching the skies! Jason Colavito • [email protected] • JasonColavito.com • @JasonColavito • |
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 4 • July 20, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a pair of researchers published an academic study of a copyist’s error in a thirteenth-century manuscript and its impact on our understanding of the sole surviving fragment of the Tale of Wade, a once universally known but now lost medieval legend. I can’t say I had ever given much thought to the Tale of Wade, best know today, if at all, from Chaucer’s brief mention of it in the Canterbury Tales. But when I looked into the story, it turned out to be interesting enough that I put together a collection of basically everything that is known about the lost tale.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 14-20:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 4 • July 20, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, a pair of researchers published an academic study of a copyist’s error in a thirteenth-century manuscript and its impact on our understanding of the sole surviving fragment of the Tale of Wade, a once universally known but now lost medieval legend. I can’t say I had ever given much thought to the Tale of Wade, best know today, if at all, from Chaucer’s brief mention of it in the Canterbury Tales. But when I looked into the story, it turned out to be interesting enough that I put together a collection of basically everything that is known about the lost tale.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 14-20:
- Piers Morgan Asks If Debunking Bad Pyramid Ideas Is Racist Against “White Guys”
- In Brief: Avi Loeb Teases Discovery of New Alien Spaceship, But It’s Just a Comet
- Movses Khorenatsi and the Sibyl of Berossus
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 5 • July 27, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
You can tell that it’s appropriation and budgeting season in Washington again since the UFO believers have come out in force to start spreading more rumors about new whistleblowers, blockbuster hearings, and existential threats from outer space. After months of relative quiet, this week we saw retired U.S. soldiers claim they saw space monsters in England, the Boston Globe report that Roswell residents care more about Trump’s broken Disclosure promise than the Epstein files, a California doorbell camera capture a supposed “alien”, Mitch Randall pitched Ross Coulthart on a new invention he wants funded to help track flying saucers, and another inventor told the Times of London that aliens are real and China is trying to steal our reverse-engineered UFO technology. And that was before (see links below) Coulthart put the U.S. Senate on notice and the New York Times devoted an hour-long podcast to an enraptured discussion of UFOs’ supposed spiritual power.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 21-27:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 5 • July 27, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
You can tell that it’s appropriation and budgeting season in Washington again since the UFO believers have come out in force to start spreading more rumors about new whistleblowers, blockbuster hearings, and existential threats from outer space. After months of relative quiet, this week we saw retired U.S. soldiers claim they saw space monsters in England, the Boston Globe report that Roswell residents care more about Trump’s broken Disclosure promise than the Epstein files, a California doorbell camera capture a supposed “alien”, Mitch Randall pitched Ross Coulthart on a new invention he wants funded to help track flying saucers, and another inventor told the Times of London that aliens are real and China is trying to steal our reverse-engineered UFO technology. And that was before (see links below) Coulthart put the U.S. Senate on notice and the New York Times devoted an hour-long podcast to an enraptured discussion of UFOs’ supposed spiritual power.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 21-27:
- In Brief: Ross Coulthart Says He Will “Call Out” Senators Who Hide UFO Truths
- In Brief: The New York Times Lets Diana Pasulka Spread UFO Mystification
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 6 • August 3, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I’ve been preoccupied with business problems. This has been my worst business year yet. Almost every organization I provided writing and communication work for has stopped paying for those services and has pivoted to using A.I., and the government’s assaults on science and education are further shrinking my opportunities. I'm not sure how I'm going to make money now that my entire skillset and all of my areas of expertise have been subsumed beneath the inferior tidal wave of A.I. slop. I can't even monetize the audience for my online writing since Google’s “A.I. summaries” atop searches and ChatGPT strip-mining my work to provide “answers” have destroyed my web traffic, which is down almost 90% year-over-year, on top of a 50% loss the previous year. They have eaten my content, serve it up for profit, and have left me nothing. Even this newsletter has been losing nearly 1% of its readers each week. I’m not sure how I can keep providing new quality content like my recent translation of Franz Cumont’s seminal work on Manichaean Cosmology or my massive translation of the Manichaean chapter of the Fihrist if it’s just going to immediately go to feed Google’s A.I. and ChatGPT and work to keep people away from my work.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 28-August 3:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 6 • August 3, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I’ve been preoccupied with business problems. This has been my worst business year yet. Almost every organization I provided writing and communication work for has stopped paying for those services and has pivoted to using A.I., and the government’s assaults on science and education are further shrinking my opportunities. I'm not sure how I'm going to make money now that my entire skillset and all of my areas of expertise have been subsumed beneath the inferior tidal wave of A.I. slop. I can't even monetize the audience for my online writing since Google’s “A.I. summaries” atop searches and ChatGPT strip-mining my work to provide “answers” have destroyed my web traffic, which is down almost 90% year-over-year, on top of a 50% loss the previous year. They have eaten my content, serve it up for profit, and have left me nothing. Even this newsletter has been losing nearly 1% of its readers each week. I’m not sure how I can keep providing new quality content like my recent translation of Franz Cumont’s seminal work on Manichaean Cosmology or my massive translation of the Manichaean chapter of the Fihrist if it’s just going to immediately go to feed Google’s A.I. and ChatGPT and work to keep people away from my work.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 28-August 3:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 7 • August 10, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a posting on X Thursday, UFO advocate Ryan Graves said that he “enjoyed discussing the investment space of the budding UAP industry” on The Vertical Space podcast, and that about said it all. Now that UFOs have become the “UAP industry” and a network of defense contractors, parasitic think tanks, and media outlets have latched on to the government UFO investigations created by UFO advocates’ pro-alien media campaign, there is now an “industry” devoted to laundering speculation and mythology into government contracts and business deals. Inevitably, as more UFO claims resolve themselves into prosaic answers, the “industry” will need to generate more false claims to justify its continued attachment to the government’s financial teat. Fortunately, they have an entire media arm for that now.
Meanwhile, artist Trevor Paglen is staging a show of allegedly genuine UFO photos at Pace, though the Wall Street Journal suspects they are fakes. And in an interview with a local Fox affiliate, Avi Loeb compared aliens to the Messiah and said that the arrival of ETs will lead to an unprecedented time of peace and prosperity on Earth. I have been saying for years that Loeb, who seems to see himself as a guru, was going down this path.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 4-10:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 7 • August 10, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
In a posting on X Thursday, UFO advocate Ryan Graves said that he “enjoyed discussing the investment space of the budding UAP industry” on The Vertical Space podcast, and that about said it all. Now that UFOs have become the “UAP industry” and a network of defense contractors, parasitic think tanks, and media outlets have latched on to the government UFO investigations created by UFO advocates’ pro-alien media campaign, there is now an “industry” devoted to laundering speculation and mythology into government contracts and business deals. Inevitably, as more UFO claims resolve themselves into prosaic answers, the “industry” will need to generate more false claims to justify its continued attachment to the government’s financial teat. Fortunately, they have an entire media arm for that now.
Meanwhile, artist Trevor Paglen is staging a show of allegedly genuine UFO photos at Pace, though the Wall Street Journal suspects they are fakes. And in an interview with a local Fox affiliate, Avi Loeb compared aliens to the Messiah and said that the arrival of ETs will lead to an unprecedented time of peace and prosperity on Earth. I have been saying for years that Loeb, who seems to see himself as a guru, was going down this path.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 4-10:
- Comet Research Group Claims New Evidence of Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
- In Brief: Scott Wolter Preps New Book about (Fake) Medieval Journals
- New in my Library: Inca Stone-Dissolving Plants
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 8 • August 17, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was another dark week for history—and not just because Lue Elizondo opened a tacky WWII-themed bar in Wyoming—as the current Administration announced its plans to exert more control over the Smithsonian Institution in the name of ideological purity. The announcement, building on an earlier demand that the museum complex remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion, came only a few days after news broke that a close Trump ally, Rep. Eric Burlinson (R-Mo.), is looking to have Congress investigate the Smithsonian to find out whether it is hiding the bones of Bible giants—a claim the Smithsonian itself refuted when it disproved the existence of a lost white race of gigantic Mound Builders in 1892. While superficially unconnected, both efforts reflect the same impulse to revise history to return to Victorian ideas about American history.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 11-17:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 8 • August 17, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was another dark week for history—and not just because Lue Elizondo opened a tacky WWII-themed bar in Wyoming—as the current Administration announced its plans to exert more control over the Smithsonian Institution in the name of ideological purity. The announcement, building on an earlier demand that the museum complex remove anything associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion, came only a few days after news broke that a close Trump ally, Rep. Eric Burlinson (R-Mo.), is looking to have Congress investigate the Smithsonian to find out whether it is hiding the bones of Bible giants—a claim the Smithsonian itself refuted when it disproved the existence of a lost white race of gigantic Mound Builders in 1892. While superficially unconnected, both efforts reflect the same impulse to revise history to return to Victorian ideas about American history.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 11-17:
- Rep. Eric Burlinson Wants to Find the Smithsonian’s Bones of Bible Giants
- Trump Administration to Review Smithsonian Exhibits for Ideological Purity
- A New Video Asks: How Bad Is Graham Hancock at Research? Worse Than You Know
- Why Wednesday Doesn't Really Work
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 9 • August 24, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
My new piece for The New Republic ran on Thursday. In it, I look at the super-weird origins of the Right’s hatred of the Smithsonian, tying in the Enola Gay, Bible Giants, the History Channel, and racism. I also take a moment to point out the dark side of Rep. Eric Burlinson’s close connection to Timothy Alberino and the “Nephilim hunters.” Be sure to check it out.
You might also notice that my website and my newsletter look a little different this week. That’s because I’m giving them a small refresh as I prepare to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of my first book and the fifteenth anniversary of my blog and website. Look for more on the celebrations in the coming weeks.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 18-24:
Review of History’s Greatest Mysteries S06E20 “Lost Places of the Old Testament”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 9 • August 24, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
My new piece for The New Republic ran on Thursday. In it, I look at the super-weird origins of the Right’s hatred of the Smithsonian, tying in the Enola Gay, Bible Giants, the History Channel, and racism. I also take a moment to point out the dark side of Rep. Eric Burlinson’s close connection to Timothy Alberino and the “Nephilim hunters.” Be sure to check it out.
You might also notice that my website and my newsletter look a little different this week. That’s because I’m giving them a small refresh as I prepare to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of my first book and the fifteenth anniversary of my blog and website. Look for more on the celebrations in the coming weeks.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 18-24:
Review of History’s Greatest Mysteries S06E20 “Lost Places of the Old Testament”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 10 • August 31, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
If you can believe it, it’s been five full months since Ancient Aliens was last on the air with new episodes, and if you don’t count the clip shows (the “Top Ten” compilations) or the repackaged reruns with added commentary, the show only had two original episodes in 2025 until Friday night, when a third aired. This must be the fewest original Ancient Aliens episodes to air in a calendar year in the show’s more than fifteen-year run. Even during the pandemic, they were airing more content. I gather that this second pod of episodes, which will take us to the holidays, will have more original content, but even if they are all brand new with no clip shows, it will still be the smallest original episode count I can find in my records. Maybe the end is truly nigh, finally.
Meanwhile, I’ve added some new and interesting material to my library:
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 25-31:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 10 • August 31, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
If you can believe it, it’s been five full months since Ancient Aliens was last on the air with new episodes, and if you don’t count the clip shows (the “Top Ten” compilations) or the repackaged reruns with added commentary, the show only had two original episodes in 2025 until Friday night, when a third aired. This must be the fewest original Ancient Aliens episodes to air in a calendar year in the show’s more than fifteen-year run. Even during the pandemic, they were airing more content. I gather that this second pod of episodes, which will take us to the holidays, will have more original content, but even if they are all brand new with no clip shows, it will still be the smallest original episode count I can find in my records. Maybe the end is truly nigh, finally.
Meanwhile, I’ve added some new and interesting material to my library:
- If you are interested in medieval Shroud of Turin documents after reading the recent news about a newly discovered medieval reference to Shroud being a fraud, I have posted translations of the ecclesiastical and papal records of the Shroud from 1389 and 1390 in my Library.
- For a few weeks, I've been intrigued by Manichaeism, which I knew vaguely as a dualist faith but discovered was heavily rooted in the myth of the Enochian Watchers and Giants. I've collected and translated a large number of relevant texts. It amazes me that there was once a world religion with a rich but bizarre mythology and cosmology that completely vanished. You'd think the Ancient Aliens types would be into its spaceships and alien beings, but that would have required doing more than superficial research.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 25-31:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E09: “The Legacy of J. Allen Hynek”
- Graham Hancock Posts New Video Attacking So-Called “Debunking Industry”
- Getting to the Bottom of Jimmy Corsetti’s Göbekli Tepe Olive Tree Conspiracy
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 11 • September 7, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will hold yet another UFO hearing, featuring guest of (dis)honor George Knapp, the celebrity UFO journalist who made his name puffing up the story of UFO grifter Bob Lazar and popularizing the threadbare mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch. In an astonishing coincidence, his Congressional testimony will come just in time to provide a perfect capper to the Hollywood biopic currently in production about his life as a UFO “investigator.” It’s almost like it was made to order. Meanwhile, former AARO officials, including ex-director Sean Kirkpatrick, who called the hearing’s sponsors “lunatics,” and former deputy director Tim Phillips, who called the hearing “political theater.” The law of diminishing returns applies, however, and it’s unlikely that this new hearing will generate anywhere near the media interest of the previous ones.
Meanwhile, former America Unearthed host Scott F. Wolter’s X account was hacked and is now posting anti-Elon Musk memes and scam links to crypto grifts. Wolter said X has been unable to restore his access, and he is now exploring legal action. On Instagram, Wolter alleged that the hacking could be connected to the secret contents of an antique bottle he recently dug up in an undisclosed wooded location.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 1-7:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 11 • September 7, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will hold yet another UFO hearing, featuring guest of (dis)honor George Knapp, the celebrity UFO journalist who made his name puffing up the story of UFO grifter Bob Lazar and popularizing the threadbare mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch. In an astonishing coincidence, his Congressional testimony will come just in time to provide a perfect capper to the Hollywood biopic currently in production about his life as a UFO “investigator.” It’s almost like it was made to order. Meanwhile, former AARO officials, including ex-director Sean Kirkpatrick, who called the hearing’s sponsors “lunatics,” and former deputy director Tim Phillips, who called the hearing “political theater.” The law of diminishing returns applies, however, and it’s unlikely that this new hearing will generate anywhere near the media interest of the previous ones.
Meanwhile, former America Unearthed host Scott F. Wolter’s X account was hacked and is now posting anti-Elon Musk memes and scam links to crypto grifts. Wolter said X has been unable to restore his access, and he is now exploring legal action. On Instagram, Wolter alleged that the hacking could be connected to the secret contents of an antique bottle he recently dug up in an undisclosed wooded location.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 1-7:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E10 “The Volcano Factor”
- In Brief: Congressional UFO Hearing Witness List Revealed
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 12 • September 14, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week saw the release of the Polish translation of my book Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean, known in Polish as James Dean: Sekret życia. The 400-page tome is available in both print and audiobook editions. The publisher, Harde, has done a bang-up job promoting the book across Poland, running an excerpt in one the country’s biggest publications, providing publicity material for several Polish blogs, and creating social media graphics for a promotional campaign across their social media platforms. If only the release hadn’t been overshadowed by Russia’s drone incursion into Polish airspace, which took over the Polish news this week.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 8-14:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 12 • September 14, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week saw the release of the Polish translation of my book Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean, known in Polish as James Dean: Sekret życia. The 400-page tome is available in both print and audiobook editions. The publisher, Harde, has done a bang-up job promoting the book across Poland, running an excerpt in one the country’s biggest publications, providing publicity material for several Polish blogs, and creating social media graphics for a promotional campaign across their social media platforms. If only the release hadn’t been overshadowed by Russia’s drone incursion into Polish airspace, which took over the Polish news this week.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 8-14:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E11: “The Birdman Mystery”
- Third Congressional UFO Hearing Bores with Same Old Stories, Little Evidence
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 13 • September 21, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This was another week in which the current administration’s actions overshadowed virtually everything else. Nevertheless, amidst the chaos, political blogger Matt Laslo claimed that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told him that she and former Rep. Matt Gaetz saw the bodies of space aliens but that they are not allowed to say so publicly, and Speaker Mike Johnson other powerful Republicans are preventing her from holding a hearing about the bodies. Laslo added that dozens of so-called whistleblowers want to testify but feel that they can’t trust Luna. Uh-huh. Meanwhile, Rep. Tim Burchett (who has appeared on Ancient Aliens) ranted on a D.C. street about space aliens living under the sea after coming to Earth untold millennia ago from another dimension, apparently not realizing that he is summarizing the Cthulhu Mythos.
New in My Library
I have collected for the first time nearly all of the major versions of the prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl, the ancient (but ex post facto) prophecy that claimed to predict the coming of Christ and ends with the Antichrist and the end of the world. I have translated the Latin, Greek, Arabic, Ge’ez, and Garshuni versions and posted them alongside previously published Welsh and Slavonic versions.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 15-21:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 13 • September 21, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This was another week in which the current administration’s actions overshadowed virtually everything else. Nevertheless, amidst the chaos, political blogger Matt Laslo claimed that Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told him that she and former Rep. Matt Gaetz saw the bodies of space aliens but that they are not allowed to say so publicly, and Speaker Mike Johnson other powerful Republicans are preventing her from holding a hearing about the bodies. Laslo added that dozens of so-called whistleblowers want to testify but feel that they can’t trust Luna. Uh-huh. Meanwhile, Rep. Tim Burchett (who has appeared on Ancient Aliens) ranted on a D.C. street about space aliens living under the sea after coming to Earth untold millennia ago from another dimension, apparently not realizing that he is summarizing the Cthulhu Mythos.
New in My Library
I have collected for the first time nearly all of the major versions of the prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl, the ancient (but ex post facto) prophecy that claimed to predict the coming of Christ and ends with the Antichrist and the end of the world. I have translated the Latin, Greek, Arabic, Ge’ez, and Garshuni versions and posted them alongside previously published Welsh and Slavonic versions.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 15-21:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 14 • September 28, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I spent most of my time working on a new magazine feature, “The James Dean Deification of Charlie Kirk,” which looks at the uncanny parallels between the personality cults surrounding Charlie Kirk and James Dean and, crucially, the important way they differ.
Additionally, there was a nice review of my book Jimmy’s Polish edition, James Dean, on a Polish book influencer’s Instagram feed. In translation, it reads: “This book surprises, moves, and compels reflection on [James Dean’s] true nature, on how his career might have unfolded, and on the irony of fate.”
New in My Library
I found a very interesting 1922 French anthology of excerpts from occult texts, and I translated selections on Hermetic alchemy and magic and grimoires to add to my library. In another time, I might have translated the whole book, but I don’t have that kind of energy anymore.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 22-28:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 14 • September 28, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, I spent most of my time working on a new magazine feature, “The James Dean Deification of Charlie Kirk,” which looks at the uncanny parallels between the personality cults surrounding Charlie Kirk and James Dean and, crucially, the important way they differ.
Additionally, there was a nice review of my book Jimmy’s Polish edition, James Dean, on a Polish book influencer’s Instagram feed. In translation, it reads: “This book surprises, moves, and compels reflection on [James Dean’s] true nature, on how his career might have unfolded, and on the irony of fate.”
New in My Library
I found a very interesting 1922 French anthology of excerpts from occult texts, and I translated selections on Hermetic alchemy and magic and grimoires to add to my library. In another time, I might have translated the whole book, but I don’t have that kind of energy anymore.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 22-28:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 15 • October 5, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week marked the seventieth anniversary of the death of James Dean, who was the subject of my 2024 book Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean. While the anniversary has become less of a media event when compared to the commemorations at 25 years, 50 years, or even 60 years, as the last people who knew Dean in life pass on, there were still some big media pieces. I earned a mention in People magazine’s coverage, as well as several European outlets’ reports. Polish media ran a two-part series of excerpts from the Polish translation of my book to mark the occasion.
TCM marked the occasion by showing all three of the films in which Dean starred, East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause, and Giant. They prefaced these with a rare showing of “Life Sentence,” a 1953 episode of Campbell’s Soundstage in which Dean starred as a prisoner working in the warden’s garden who falls for the unhappy housewife next door. The episode was long thought lost but was rediscovered in a collection of kinescopes and preserved at the Paley Center. I hadn’t seen it before, and while it was no great shakes as TV (few dramas from that era were) despite a strong performance from Dean, the commercials were hilarious. The pitchman delivered an ad for restaurants—not a specific one, just “restaurants”—to encourage men to take their wives and kids out to eat. According to the ad, women and children almost never ate out, while men dined out regularly. The pitch concluded by telling the audience that they might enjoy eating food in a different location. Surely, it was a different time.
It’s still strange to me that Dean is one of the very few figures who are remembered on the days of their deaths rather than their birthdays. One might think that after seventy years we would move on from venerating him as a martyr, but it seems that he is destined to be remembered mostly for dying.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 29-October 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 15 • October 5, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week marked the seventieth anniversary of the death of James Dean, who was the subject of my 2024 book Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean. While the anniversary has become less of a media event when compared to the commemorations at 25 years, 50 years, or even 60 years, as the last people who knew Dean in life pass on, there were still some big media pieces. I earned a mention in People magazine’s coverage, as well as several European outlets’ reports. Polish media ran a two-part series of excerpts from the Polish translation of my book to mark the occasion.
TCM marked the occasion by showing all three of the films in which Dean starred, East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause, and Giant. They prefaced these with a rare showing of “Life Sentence,” a 1953 episode of Campbell’s Soundstage in which Dean starred as a prisoner working in the warden’s garden who falls for the unhappy housewife next door. The episode was long thought lost but was rediscovered in a collection of kinescopes and preserved at the Paley Center. I hadn’t seen it before, and while it was no great shakes as TV (few dramas from that era were) despite a strong performance from Dean, the commercials were hilarious. The pitchman delivered an ad for restaurants—not a specific one, just “restaurants”—to encourage men to take their wives and kids out to eat. According to the ad, women and children almost never ate out, while men dined out regularly. The pitch concluded by telling the audience that they might enjoy eating food in a different location. Surely, it was a different time.
It’s still strange to me that Dean is one of the very few figures who are remembered on the days of their deaths rather than their birthdays. One might think that after seventy years we would move on from venerating him as a martyr, but it seems that he is destined to be remembered mostly for dying.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 29-October 5:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E13 “The Giants”
- James Lacatski Publishes Book with New List of Skinwalker Ranch Monster Sightings
- Marking the 70th Anniversary of James Dean’s Death: His Final Days
- James Dean Jokes about Falling in Love with a Man in Newly Auctioned Letter
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 16 • October 12, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It turns out that the reason that I have not received my copy of the Polish edition of Jimmy is—wait for it—Donald Trump. The chaos the administration has wrought has made it difficult to ship materials from Poland to the United States. First, Poland ended postal shipments in direct response to Trump’s actions. Then, courier services like UPS began either returning or destroying packages that ran afoul of the byzantine and changeable customs regulations. My Polish publisher is trying again this week after two failed attempts, and I gather from the tracking information that it might actually arrive this time.
If you don’t normally read my Ancient Aliens reviews, you should still check out this week’s, if only to see the depths of deception this show will go to, intentionally running an episode falsely claiming aliens for a UFO sighting AARO debunked as balloons six months ago. They did not acknowledge the analysis despite knowing their own claims were false. It was a shockingly unethical choice.
New in My Library
New in my Library is my translation of selections from Swiss philologist Karl Meuli’s classic German-language study Odyssee und Argonautika (Odyssey and Argonautica) from 1921, in which the author argued that Homer’s Odyssey was largely composed of rewritten incidents taken from a now-lost oral version of the Argonautica, a position later adopted by Classical scholar M. L. West and now considered standard. To the best of my knowledge, the book has never been translated into English before now. In 1879, F. A. Paley had made a similar argument, and it is surprising how long it took for Classical scholars to accept the idea that Homer may not have been wholly original.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 6–12:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 16 • October 12, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It turns out that the reason that I have not received my copy of the Polish edition of Jimmy is—wait for it—Donald Trump. The chaos the administration has wrought has made it difficult to ship materials from Poland to the United States. First, Poland ended postal shipments in direct response to Trump’s actions. Then, courier services like UPS began either returning or destroying packages that ran afoul of the byzantine and changeable customs regulations. My Polish publisher is trying again this week after two failed attempts, and I gather from the tracking information that it might actually arrive this time.
If you don’t normally read my Ancient Aliens reviews, you should still check out this week’s, if only to see the depths of deception this show will go to, intentionally running an episode falsely claiming aliens for a UFO sighting AARO debunked as balloons six months ago. They did not acknowledge the analysis despite knowing their own claims were false. It was a shockingly unethical choice.
New in My Library
New in my Library is my translation of selections from Swiss philologist Karl Meuli’s classic German-language study Odyssee und Argonautika (Odyssey and Argonautica) from 1921, in which the author argued that Homer’s Odyssey was largely composed of rewritten incidents taken from a now-lost oral version of the Argonautica, a position later adopted by Classical scholar M. L. West and now considered standard. To the best of my knowledge, the book has never been translated into English before now. In 1879, F. A. Paley had made a similar argument, and it is surprising how long it took for Classical scholars to accept the idea that Homer may not have been wholly original.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 6–12:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 17 • October 19, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
(Note: This piece was cross-posted on my blog.) In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a controversy is brewing over the expansion of a local museum because of its connection to bizarre fringe theories. Last week tiny Baraga County, with a population of just 8,000 people, broke ground on a massive expansion of their local historical museum. The $2 million expansion would quadruple the size of the 2,200-square-foot museum is ostensibly in service of presenting the history of the local Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, as the L’Anse Indian Reservation of the Ojibwa is located within the county. However, the 6,400-square-foot expansion is funded with a donation from Jay Wakefield, 82, and the Ancient Artifact Preservation Society, who stipulated that the museum must present the fringe theory that millions of pounds of copper is “missing” from Michigan and had been removed by Phoenicians in pre-Columbian times. (Readers with a long memory will remember that America Unearthed did an episode about this fictitious allegation back in 2013.) The expanded copper-themed section of the museum, which will feature dubious “artifacts” alongside genuine ones, will be named for Fred Rydholm, a former middle school teacher who wrote several books promoting fraudulent archaeological claims, including the Burrows Cave hoax and the “missing” Phoenician copper of Michigan. Rydholm wrote in a 1993 Ancient American article, reprinted in his book Michigan Copper: The Untold Story (2006), that Michigan had originally been inhabited by “the Caucasian race” and “another group of inferior culture, resembling the Indians of today” who fought each other until the extinction of the white race. (This, of course, is an early nineteenth century pseudohistorical fantasy.) But money talks, so Baraga is getting a museum of fake history named for a man with Victorian ideas about prehistoric race wars.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 13–19:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 17 • October 19, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
(Note: This piece was cross-posted on my blog.) In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a controversy is brewing over the expansion of a local museum because of its connection to bizarre fringe theories. Last week tiny Baraga County, with a population of just 8,000 people, broke ground on a massive expansion of their local historical museum. The $2 million expansion would quadruple the size of the 2,200-square-foot museum is ostensibly in service of presenting the history of the local Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, as the L’Anse Indian Reservation of the Ojibwa is located within the county. However, the 6,400-square-foot expansion is funded with a donation from Jay Wakefield, 82, and the Ancient Artifact Preservation Society, who stipulated that the museum must present the fringe theory that millions of pounds of copper is “missing” from Michigan and had been removed by Phoenicians in pre-Columbian times. (Readers with a long memory will remember that America Unearthed did an episode about this fictitious allegation back in 2013.) The expanded copper-themed section of the museum, which will feature dubious “artifacts” alongside genuine ones, will be named for Fred Rydholm, a former middle school teacher who wrote several books promoting fraudulent archaeological claims, including the Burrows Cave hoax and the “missing” Phoenician copper of Michigan. Rydholm wrote in a 1993 Ancient American article, reprinted in his book Michigan Copper: The Untold Story (2006), that Michigan had originally been inhabited by “the Caucasian race” and “another group of inferior culture, resembling the Indians of today” who fought each other until the extinction of the white race. (This, of course, is an early nineteenth century pseudohistorical fantasy.) But money talks, so Baraga is getting a museum of fake history named for a man with Victorian ideas about prehistoric race wars.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 13–19:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E15 “Britain’s UFO Files”
- The New Yorker Goes in Search of the Oldest Layer of Mythology
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 18 • October 26, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
After nearly two weeks of waiting to get my copy of the Polish edition of Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean out of customs, and several rounds of documents I had to fill out, it finally arrived this week. I was delighted to see what a beautiful edition James Dean: Sekret życia has a beautiful cover, and I was delighted to see that the end papers were a matching shade of lime green. (The reason, I learned, that the book’s cover text looks chartreuse in some photos and green in others is that the printed edition is a reflective lime green that photographs differently depending on the angle and light.) The book clocks in at more than 100 pages longer than the English-language edition, due to a larger font, fewer lines per page, and the addition of translator’s footnotes explaining American cultural references for Polish readers.
Meanwhile, I was taken aback when The Price Is Right gave away a Bigfoot-hunting trip as part of its showcase prize package on Thursday, along with a boat that announcer George Gray said could be used to search for the lost city of Atlantis. Paranormal and conspiracy nonsense is everywhere, so it’s no wonder belief is so widespread.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 20–26:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 18 • October 26, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
After nearly two weeks of waiting to get my copy of the Polish edition of Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean out of customs, and several rounds of documents I had to fill out, it finally arrived this week. I was delighted to see what a beautiful edition James Dean: Sekret życia has a beautiful cover, and I was delighted to see that the end papers were a matching shade of lime green. (The reason, I learned, that the book’s cover text looks chartreuse in some photos and green in others is that the printed edition is a reflective lime green that photographs differently depending on the angle and light.) The book clocks in at more than 100 pages longer than the English-language edition, due to a larger font, fewer lines per page, and the addition of translator’s footnotes explaining American cultural references for Polish readers.
Meanwhile, I was taken aback when The Price Is Right gave away a Bigfoot-hunting trip as part of its showcase prize package on Thursday, along with a boat that announcer George Gray said could be used to search for the lost city of Atlantis. Paranormal and conspiracy nonsense is everywhere, so it’s no wonder belief is so widespread.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 20–26:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 19 • November 2, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, the Discovery Channel ran a three-part documentary called Bigfoot Took Her, which advertised itself as claiming that Sasquatch was responsible for the disappearance of a teenager forty years ago. In actuality, Theresa Bier disappeared while on a secret Bigfoot-hunting hike with a 43-year-old acquaintance of her uncle who had a history of creepy behavior with young girls. The man, who was investigated but never charged with a crime, claimed Bier went off with a light-haired Bigfoot. Many true crime aficionados and cold case investigators assume the man was responsible, and the show, after teasing Bigfoot in its media campaign, eventually reached the same conclusion. The problem is that the three-hour show framed the Bigfoot hypothesis as a serious possibility before eventually conceding it was not.
Meanwhile, Dan Farah, the producer and director of The Age of Disclosure, a new UFO documentary featuring politicians and the usual Pentagon-aligned ufologists, appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher to discuss the film. Even with the friendly questions from Maher, who is a UFO believer, Farah struggled to provide even basic evidence. When asked what technologies, specifically, derived from reverse-engineered spacecraft, he had no answer. Similarly, he saw no flaw in the logic that U.S. presidents have the truth hidden from them while Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a senator at the time of filming, claimed knowledge of this. Nor could he answer the question of who, exactly, was running the “atom bomb program on steroids” in each country of the world if their leaders were in the dark. He simply returned to the talking point that “insiders” say there is “a crash retrieval program.” In other words: It’s stories without proof, told by people who have proved time and again to be unable to distinguish fact from fiction, or, worse, to not care to.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 27–November 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 19 • November 2, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, the Discovery Channel ran a three-part documentary called Bigfoot Took Her, which advertised itself as claiming that Sasquatch was responsible for the disappearance of a teenager forty years ago. In actuality, Theresa Bier disappeared while on a secret Bigfoot-hunting hike with a 43-year-old acquaintance of her uncle who had a history of creepy behavior with young girls. The man, who was investigated but never charged with a crime, claimed Bier went off with a light-haired Bigfoot. Many true crime aficionados and cold case investigators assume the man was responsible, and the show, after teasing Bigfoot in its media campaign, eventually reached the same conclusion. The problem is that the three-hour show framed the Bigfoot hypothesis as a serious possibility before eventually conceding it was not.
Meanwhile, Dan Farah, the producer and director of The Age of Disclosure, a new UFO documentary featuring politicians and the usual Pentagon-aligned ufologists, appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher to discuss the film. Even with the friendly questions from Maher, who is a UFO believer, Farah struggled to provide even basic evidence. When asked what technologies, specifically, derived from reverse-engineered spacecraft, he had no answer. Similarly, he saw no flaw in the logic that U.S. presidents have the truth hidden from them while Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a senator at the time of filming, claimed knowledge of this. Nor could he answer the question of who, exactly, was running the “atom bomb program on steroids” in each country of the world if their leaders were in the dark. He simply returned to the talking point that “insiders” say there is “a crash retrieval program.” In other words: It’s stories without proof, told by people who have proved time and again to be unable to distinguish fact from fiction, or, worse, to not care to.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of October 27–November 2:
- Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of The Cult of Alien Gods
- In Brief: Vice President Vance Thinks UFOs Could Be “Demons” or “Angels”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 27 • Issue 20 • November 9, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Filmmaker James Fox has begun promoting his latest UFO documentary, and he released footage to Ross Coulthart’s NewsNation podcast featuring the claim that a neuroscientist saw a live space alien in military custody for a few minutes in 1996 after the alleged UFO crash in Varginha, Brazil. The doctor claims that the alien spoke with him telepathically, and Fox also found pathologists who claim to have studied the aliens’ bacteria. Of course, there is no proof of the story, no photos of the alien nor samples of the bacteria to prove its existence, only stories. And as Dr. Mehmet Oz can tell you, no doctor has ever said anything that wasn’t true. Fox has been promoting this story for years, and it previously appeared in a 2003 UFO book by Roger Leir, so this is not a new story, and one that after 22 years still has no proof for it, no matter how breathlessly Coulthart pretends that it is breaking news.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 3–9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 27 • Issue 20 • November 9, 2025 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Filmmaker James Fox has begun promoting his latest UFO documentary, and he released footage to Ross Coulthart’s NewsNation podcast featuring the claim that a neuroscientist saw a live space alien in military custody for a few minutes in 1996 after the alleged UFO crash in Varginha, Brazil. The doctor claims that the alien spoke with him telepathically, and Fox also found pathologists who claim to have studied the aliens’ bacteria. Of course, there is no proof of the story, no photos of the alien nor samples of the bacteria to prove its existence, only stories. And as Dr. Mehmet Oz can tell you, no doctor has ever said anything that wasn’t true. Fox has been promoting this story for years, and it previously appeared in a 2003 UFO book by Roger Leir, so this is not a new story, and one that after 22 years still has no proof for it, no matter how breathlessly Coulthart pretends that it is breaking news.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of November 3–9:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S21E17: “Secrets of Japan”
- Filmmaker Claims “New Evidence” of Egyptian Atlantis Knowledge, But It’s Just Plato
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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