THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 1 • June 28, 2026 •
It’s been a busy two weeks. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was a big week in the world of UFOs. Rep. Eric Burlison pursued his new obsession, getting MIT to release a film from the 1950s of a Project Blue Book investigator briefing a group of scientists on UFOs. Burlison seems to think there was secret information conveyed, even though Cpt. Edward J. Ruppelt left detailed notes, published long ago, explaining the contents of the briefing and the questions MIT scientists asked. Meanwhile, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said on a podcast that she is working with Trump Administration official Steven Miller to secure immunity for UFO whistleblowers who claim to know where the alien bodies are hidden. Coincidentally, Sky in the UK is currently airing a multipart documentary called The Alien Autopsy Scandal about the notorious 1990s alien autopsy hoax.
New in My Library
This week in my Library, I posted an original translation of a classic investigation into the lost manuscript that introduced the claim that the Apostle St. Thomas traveled to the Americas after the Resurrection, a claim that later mutated into the infamous assertion that white Atlanteans brough culture to ancient America.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of June 15–28:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 1 • June 28, 2026 •
It’s been a busy two weeks. Let’s see what’s new…
News
It was a big week in the world of UFOs. Rep. Eric Burlison pursued his new obsession, getting MIT to release a film from the 1950s of a Project Blue Book investigator briefing a group of scientists on UFOs. Burlison seems to think there was secret information conveyed, even though Cpt. Edward J. Ruppelt left detailed notes, published long ago, explaining the contents of the briefing and the questions MIT scientists asked. Meanwhile, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said on a podcast that she is working with Trump Administration official Steven Miller to secure immunity for UFO whistleblowers who claim to know where the alien bodies are hidden. Coincidentally, Sky in the UK is currently airing a multipart documentary called The Alien Autopsy Scandal about the notorious 1990s alien autopsy hoax.
New in My Library
This week in my Library, I posted an original translation of a classic investigation into the lost manuscript that introduced the claim that the Apostle St. Thomas traveled to the Americas after the Resurrection, a claim that later mutated into the infamous assertion that white Atlanteans brough culture to ancient America.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the weeks of June 15–28:
- Review of Ancient Aliens S22E08 “Secrets of the Vedas”
- Review of Ancient Aliens S22E09 “The Wars of the Gods”
- Professor Who Claimed Satan Was an Asteroid Says Dante Predicted Plate Tectonics
- News Roundup: Luna's "Interdimensional" UFOs and Biondi's "Second Sphinx" Scan
- Trump Administration Names Avi Loeb to Head UFO Advisory Council
- Stan Laurel and the Potato-Onion That Wasn’t
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 2 • July 5, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, the same members of Congress who have been pushing UFO hearings on the legislative body held a hearing into MKULTRA, a wildly unethical Cold War-era CIA mind-control program. MKULTRA was exposed in 1975. Congress held hearings and released documents in 1977, and the CIA published most of its remaining MKULTRA documents in 2001. (Most were destroyed on the orders of the CIA director, in a coverup exposed in the ’70s.) This week’s hearing had no new revelations and no real purpose, and even as an exercise in history it quickly went off the rails, with GOP representatives veering into all manner of anti-science conspiracy theories, suggesting that the real purpose of the hearing was to sow doubt about science, especially vaccines. I recommend Mother Jones’ insightful write-up of the farcical hearing.
At the end of the week, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who chaired the MKULTRA hearing, must have realized it was a bust because she went on Glenn Beck’s show to talk UFOs and tease a supposed forthcoming official announcement that “the phenomenon is real,” while her partner in lunacy, Eric Burlison, told podcaster Jesse Michels that he believes Trump has been briefed on alien-human hybrids walking among us.
New in My Library
New in my Library this week, I have a collection of early Spanish documents recording the alleged Aztec story of the Tower of Babel, though these are not entirely what they seem. I also have posted my translation of the first eight fragments of John of Antioch’s seventh-century Chronicle, presenting a euhemerist history of Assyria, Egypt, and Greece.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 29–July 5:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 2 • July 5, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, the same members of Congress who have been pushing UFO hearings on the legislative body held a hearing into MKULTRA, a wildly unethical Cold War-era CIA mind-control program. MKULTRA was exposed in 1975. Congress held hearings and released documents in 1977, and the CIA published most of its remaining MKULTRA documents in 2001. (Most were destroyed on the orders of the CIA director, in a coverup exposed in the ’70s.) This week’s hearing had no new revelations and no real purpose, and even as an exercise in history it quickly went off the rails, with GOP representatives veering into all manner of anti-science conspiracy theories, suggesting that the real purpose of the hearing was to sow doubt about science, especially vaccines. I recommend Mother Jones’ insightful write-up of the farcical hearing.
At the end of the week, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who chaired the MKULTRA hearing, must have realized it was a bust because she went on Glenn Beck’s show to talk UFOs and tease a supposed forthcoming official announcement that “the phenomenon is real,” while her partner in lunacy, Eric Burlison, told podcaster Jesse Michels that he believes Trump has been briefed on alien-human hybrids walking among us.
New in My Library
New in my Library this week, I have a collection of early Spanish documents recording the alleged Aztec story of the Tower of Babel, though these are not entirely what they seem. I also have posted my translation of the first eight fragments of John of Antioch’s seventh-century Chronicle, presenting a euhemerist history of Assyria, Egypt, and Greece.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of June 29–July 5:
- Ross Coulthart Accuses Lue Elizondo of Being a Front Man for the UFO Coverup
- Avi Loeb Alleges Lockheed Martin Executive Confirmed Crash Retrievals
- Review of Ancient Aliens S22E10: “UFO Sightings” (Special Edition)
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 3 • July 12, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Defense released another tranche of UFO files, and to no one’s surprise, they included still more videos of balloons that pilots could not recognize and mistook for alien spaceships, prompting the government to investigate possible aliens. To underscore just how seriously the Trump Administration is taking the release, they gave early access to the files to Dr. Phil McGraw, the controversial talk show host, who released a series of videos claiming he is now convinced alien abductions are real, that UFOs are targeting nuclear facilities, and that the government (which, remember, just gave him exclusive early access to the files) is conspiring against the public to cover it all up. The release came only a day after journalist Michael Shellenberger revealed (in a subscription-only X post) that in the 1970s, the CIA funded experiments on teenagers aimed at turning them into psychic warriors—research that led into Project Stargate, the psychic spy program that had Lue Elionzdo convince he could kill with astral projection. Stargate’s failure sent some of the looney pseudoscientists behind it into ufology where they continued hunting supernatural monsters on the government’s dime.
Meanwhile, gigantologist Jim Vieira is Graham Hancock’s author of the month, promoting his new book Footprints of the Gods in which he alleges that polydactyly is diagnostic of giants and universally recognized among ancient peoples. This is untrue. Most stories of giants have no mention of extra fingers, and many mentions of polydactyly in ancient times have nothing to do with giants. (Mesopotamian omen literature, for instance, discusses it as a sign of positive or negative future events, depending on which limbs in a newborn have extra fingers.) It did however become a common thread in Victorian (fake) newspaper accounts of giant bones, modeled after the Biblical giant of Gath. Vieira has promised to send me a copy of the book, which he says has new evidence overlooked by academics, and I will have more to say when I have had a chance to read it.
New in My Library
New in my Library this week, I have added a translation of the first publication of the Turpan (Turfan) Manichaean fragments from the initial 1904 article by Karl Müller.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 6–12:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 3 • July 12, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Defense released another tranche of UFO files, and to no one’s surprise, they included still more videos of balloons that pilots could not recognize and mistook for alien spaceships, prompting the government to investigate possible aliens. To underscore just how seriously the Trump Administration is taking the release, they gave early access to the files to Dr. Phil McGraw, the controversial talk show host, who released a series of videos claiming he is now convinced alien abductions are real, that UFOs are targeting nuclear facilities, and that the government (which, remember, just gave him exclusive early access to the files) is conspiring against the public to cover it all up. The release came only a day after journalist Michael Shellenberger revealed (in a subscription-only X post) that in the 1970s, the CIA funded experiments on teenagers aimed at turning them into psychic warriors—research that led into Project Stargate, the psychic spy program that had Lue Elionzdo convince he could kill with astral projection. Stargate’s failure sent some of the looney pseudoscientists behind it into ufology where they continued hunting supernatural monsters on the government’s dime.
Meanwhile, gigantologist Jim Vieira is Graham Hancock’s author of the month, promoting his new book Footprints of the Gods in which he alleges that polydactyly is diagnostic of giants and universally recognized among ancient peoples. This is untrue. Most stories of giants have no mention of extra fingers, and many mentions of polydactyly in ancient times have nothing to do with giants. (Mesopotamian omen literature, for instance, discusses it as a sign of positive or negative future events, depending on which limbs in a newborn have extra fingers.) It did however become a common thread in Victorian (fake) newspaper accounts of giant bones, modeled after the Biblical giant of Gath. Vieira has promised to send me a copy of the book, which he says has new evidence overlooked by academics, and I will have more to say when I have had a chance to read it.
New in My Library
New in my Library this week, I have added a translation of the first publication of the Turpan (Turfan) Manichaean fragments from the initial 1904 article by Karl Müller.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 6–12:
- Unpacking Heather Lynn’s Bizarre Zecharia Sitchin and Jefferey Epstein Conspiracy
- Lue Elizondo Claims NASA Has Photos of Alien Monoliths on the Moon
- Review of Ancient Aliens S22E11: “Alien A.I.”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 4 • July 19, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Recently, my web hosting service announced that it has begun a phased discontinuation of service. It will cease operations in 67 countries by the end of the summer. This does not currently affect the United States, and they claim that they will continue operations in the United States for the foreseeable future. However, they have stopped updating their web publishing tools. It seems obvious that the writing is on the wall. I have started to look into alternatives, but I face the same problem I faced when they tried pricing me out of their service years ago: I have more than 15 years’ worth of blog posts, which constitute the majority of my writing output over that time, and that archive can’t easily transfer to a new service because they were produced with a blogging app. Additionally, I have long been under a lifetime price lock that I have had for more than a decade. Many competing services that claim to be able to port over my whole site in a compatible format would triple (or more) my hosting costs, making it unaffordable. So, I have a range of not very good options to avoid having my website—including thousands of blog posts and millions of words of translations and scholarship—disappear from the internet.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 13–19:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 4 • July 19, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Recently, my web hosting service announced that it has begun a phased discontinuation of service. It will cease operations in 67 countries by the end of the summer. This does not currently affect the United States, and they claim that they will continue operations in the United States for the foreseeable future. However, they have stopped updating their web publishing tools. It seems obvious that the writing is on the wall. I have started to look into alternatives, but I face the same problem I faced when they tried pricing me out of their service years ago: I have more than 15 years’ worth of blog posts, which constitute the majority of my writing output over that time, and that archive can’t easily transfer to a new service because they were produced with a blogging app. Additionally, I have long been under a lifetime price lock that I have had for more than a decade. Many competing services that claim to be able to port over my whole site in a compatible format would triple (or more) my hosting costs, making it unaffordable. So, I have a range of not very good options to avoid having my website—including thousands of blog posts and millions of words of translations and scholarship—disappear from the internet.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 13–19:
- Now Voyager Publishes Joint Profile of Graham Hancock and Flint Dibble
- Review of Ancient Aliens S22E12: “Hidden Messages” (Special Edition)
- Heather Lynn Is Upset with Me
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 5 • July 26, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Thanks in part to a pseudoscience kick from podcaster Joe Rogan, it was a busy week in the world of UFOs, lost civilizations, and the paranormal—as you will see from the list of blog posts below. It was also the week that Steven Spielberg’s UFO film Disclosure Day arrived on streaming, and I finally saw it (though not through any fault or money of my own). I was deeply disappointed by the rushed, vague script which somehow managed to spend two and a half hours only hinting at a story it never fully developed. The film felt like watching the last few episodes of a season of a Netflix show whose pilot I never saw. Far from sparking interest in UFO disclosure, the utterly ridiculous final half-hour, made by a believer blind to how utterly stupid UFO lore has become, probably did more to discredit UFO conspiracy theories and the mythology surrounding ufology than any skeptic could.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 20–26:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 5 • July 26, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Thanks in part to a pseudoscience kick from podcaster Joe Rogan, it was a busy week in the world of UFOs, lost civilizations, and the paranormal—as you will see from the list of blog posts below. It was also the week that Steven Spielberg’s UFO film Disclosure Day arrived on streaming, and I finally saw it (though not through any fault or money of my own). I was deeply disappointed by the rushed, vague script which somehow managed to spend two and a half hours only hinting at a story it never fully developed. The film felt like watching the last few episodes of a season of a Netflix show whose pilot I never saw. Far from sparking interest in UFO disclosure, the utterly ridiculous final half-hour, made by a believer blind to how utterly stupid UFO lore has become, probably did more to discredit UFO conspiracy theories and the mythology surrounding ufology than any skeptic could.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 20–26:
- Ross Coulthart Says He Can’t Disclose Why He Thinks Another Hoax Is Secretly True
- Joe Rogan Talks Lost Super-Civilizations with Yet Another Pseudoscience YouTuber
- Review of Ancient Aliens S22E13: “Secrets of the Amazon”
- Timothy Alberino Resurrects the “Kandahar Giant” in Joe Rogan Appearance
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 6 • August 2, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
To think, Ancient Aliens was just a little bit too early. Back on July 23, the show devoted an episode to the mysteries of the Amazon and earthworks that LiDAR had discovered beneath eh rainforest canopy. A week later, Nature published an article announcing the discovery of more than 20,000 Amazon earthworks across southwestern Amazonia, including geometric enclosures. The authors of the study estimate that around 100–300 CE, this section of the Amazon was home to an astonishing 1.25–3 million people. Had Ancient Aliens aired its Amazon episode this week instead, they might have garnered a bit more publicity for aligning with the news. It must be the first time in the show’s twenty-two seasons that they were actually ahead of events, even if only by accident!
Meanwhile, “Dr. Phil” McGraw has doubled down on his newfound role as Trump’s UFO mouthpiece. He interviewed statistician and political commentator Jennice Vilhauer, who called for a government commission to plan for the psychological effects of UFO Disclosure. Adopting the UFO terminology “ontological shock” (a theological term John Mack once applied to alien abductions, but which was rarely used in UFO circles until David Grusch deployed it in 2023), Vilhauer claimed that alien disclosure would lead to widespread panic and depression among a subset of Americans, threatening to overwhelm mental health services.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 27–August 2:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 6 • August 2, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
To think, Ancient Aliens was just a little bit too early. Back on July 23, the show devoted an episode to the mysteries of the Amazon and earthworks that LiDAR had discovered beneath eh rainforest canopy. A week later, Nature published an article announcing the discovery of more than 20,000 Amazon earthworks across southwestern Amazonia, including geometric enclosures. The authors of the study estimate that around 100–300 CE, this section of the Amazon was home to an astonishing 1.25–3 million people. Had Ancient Aliens aired its Amazon episode this week instead, they might have garnered a bit more publicity for aligning with the news. It must be the first time in the show’s twenty-two seasons that they were actually ahead of events, even if only by accident!
Meanwhile, “Dr. Phil” McGraw has doubled down on his newfound role as Trump’s UFO mouthpiece. He interviewed statistician and political commentator Jennice Vilhauer, who called for a government commission to plan for the psychological effects of UFO Disclosure. Adopting the UFO terminology “ontological shock” (a theological term John Mack once applied to alien abductions, but which was rarely used in UFO circles until David Grusch deployed it in 2023), Vilhauer claimed that alien disclosure would lead to widespread panic and depression among a subset of Americans, threatening to overwhelm mental health services.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of July 27–August 2:
- Review of The Others by D. W. Pasulka
- Diana Pasulka Can’t Answer Simple Joe Rogan Query: “How Do You Know It’s True?”
- Review of Ancient Aliens S22E14: “Alien Investigators” (Special Edition)
- Deconstructing Another Wild James Dean Claim
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 7 • August 9, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, the Trump Administration released another tranche of UFO documents and videos, with the usual inconclusive mix of blurry blobs, balloons, and oral accounts of things seen but unrecorded. The release came only hours after Time magazine posted the cover story for its August 17 issue entitled “The New Case for Aliens.” The author, Time editor-at-large Jeffrey Kluger, gave far too much weight to the opinions of interested UFO believers without indicating their financial ties to the UFO media circuit and defense contractors (or to each other for that matter), and far too little space to skeptics, who appear in passing to spoil the “fun.” Instead, Kluger, who relies primarily on the opinions of the circle surrounding Lue Elizondo (including former colleague Chris Mellon, frenemy David Grusch, and his congressional supporter Eric Burlison), argues by implication that public opinion and government interest are sufficient to demonstrate the likelihood of aliens—a ridiculous claim, as scientific facts are not determined by popular referendum or even by government fiat (RFK Jr. notwithstanding). The piece, however, omits another key fact: just how few people in government are pushing for this. It’s mostly a handful of lower-ranking radicalized House members looking for media hits and a couple of Trump Administration officials who may or may not actually believe the lies. The Time piece is a perfect example of how the “new” case for aliens isn’t anything new at all; with no convincing alien evidence to share, it is nothing but a report on the ways a small cadre of UFO believers and the wealthy patrons like Robert Bigelow and Peter Thiel who support them are shifting the Overton Window through selective targeting of legislators and through credulous media reports rooted in interviews with the same believers.
New in My Library
New in my Library is a rare and interesting selection, whose German-language original has just been adapted as a Danish-language motion picture. Manor by Karl Hienrich Ulrichs is the first romantic queer vampire story. You can read my translation of the 1885 tale as plain text on my website or with vintage nineteenth century illustrations (though not original to the story) on my Substack.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 3–August 9:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 7 • August 9, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, the Trump Administration released another tranche of UFO documents and videos, with the usual inconclusive mix of blurry blobs, balloons, and oral accounts of things seen but unrecorded. The release came only hours after Time magazine posted the cover story for its August 17 issue entitled “The New Case for Aliens.” The author, Time editor-at-large Jeffrey Kluger, gave far too much weight to the opinions of interested UFO believers without indicating their financial ties to the UFO media circuit and defense contractors (or to each other for that matter), and far too little space to skeptics, who appear in passing to spoil the “fun.” Instead, Kluger, who relies primarily on the opinions of the circle surrounding Lue Elizondo (including former colleague Chris Mellon, frenemy David Grusch, and his congressional supporter Eric Burlison), argues by implication that public opinion and government interest are sufficient to demonstrate the likelihood of aliens—a ridiculous claim, as scientific facts are not determined by popular referendum or even by government fiat (RFK Jr. notwithstanding). The piece, however, omits another key fact: just how few people in government are pushing for this. It’s mostly a handful of lower-ranking radicalized House members looking for media hits and a couple of Trump Administration officials who may or may not actually believe the lies. The Time piece is a perfect example of how the “new” case for aliens isn’t anything new at all; with no convincing alien evidence to share, it is nothing but a report on the ways a small cadre of UFO believers and the wealthy patrons like Robert Bigelow and Peter Thiel who support them are shifting the Overton Window through selective targeting of legislators and through credulous media reports rooted in interviews with the same believers.
New in My Library
New in my Library is a rare and interesting selection, whose German-language original has just been adapted as a Danish-language motion picture. Manor by Karl Hienrich Ulrichs is the first romantic queer vampire story. You can read my translation of the 1885 tale as plain text on my website or with vintage nineteenth century illustrations (though not original to the story) on my Substack.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 3–August 9:
- Chris Sharp Claims Trump Is Preparing to Announce Aliens Pilot UFOs
- Robert Bigelow Urged Trump to Declare UFOs Piloted by Non-Human Intelligence
- Review of Ancient Aliens S22E15: “Africa’s Extraterrestrial Contact”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 8 • August 16, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Earlier this week, Ross Coulthart claimed that the U.S. military shot down a UFO over White Sands. Though he provided no source for the allegation nor proof of it, Avi Loeb leaped into action on Thursday. The head of the UAP Scientific Advisory Council took to the internet and posted a video from an office festooned with pictures of himself stating that the council should be allowed to examine the UFO remains to determine if it is extraterrestrial. Since David Grusch claimed on the Dr. Phil podcast this week to have seen classified photos of dead aliens and crashed saucers, UFO documentary filmmaker James Fox posted a video of Eric W. Davis claiming that he, too, had seen the same photos and wanted “immunity” from Pres. Donald Trump to discuss what he knows. If the photos were truly classified, Grusch and Davis would be breaking federal law in discussing their contents. And yet they have not been arrested or prosecuted for the alleged violation of national security. Funny how that works.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 10–16:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 8 • August 16, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
Earlier this week, Ross Coulthart claimed that the U.S. military shot down a UFO over White Sands. Though he provided no source for the allegation nor proof of it, Avi Loeb leaped into action on Thursday. The head of the UAP Scientific Advisory Council took to the internet and posted a video from an office festooned with pictures of himself stating that the council should be allowed to examine the UFO remains to determine if it is extraterrestrial. Since David Grusch claimed on the Dr. Phil podcast this week to have seen classified photos of dead aliens and crashed saucers, UFO documentary filmmaker James Fox posted a video of Eric W. Davis claiming that he, too, had seen the same photos and wanted “immunity” from Pres. Donald Trump to discuss what he knows. If the photos were truly classified, Grusch and Davis would be breaking federal law in discussing their contents. And yet they have not been arrested or prosecuted for the alleged violation of national security. Funny how that works.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 10–16:
- Ross Coulthart Claims Trump Authorized Military to Shoot Down UFOs
- In Brief: Journal Retracts Filippo Biondi's Remote Sensing Pyramid Paper
- UFO News Roundup: Rubio’s “Diversionary Tactic,” Grusch’s “Pilot” Photos, and More
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 9 • August 23, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria published an odd column—clearly cobbled together to fill space—in which he attempted to argue that Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has important lessons for liberals because Nolan replaced the terrible morals of that nasty old pagan Homer with good quality Christan humility. Zakaria argues that the ancient world recognized only “dominance” and “blood, gore and conquest,” while Christianity ushered in “universal human dignity, compassion and empathy.” He concedes, in passing, that this was more of a development of the Enlightenment than one practiced by the Christian kingdoms that waged war on one another, launched crusades, conquered the Americas, and colonized the world at the end of a gun. The ancients were not as universally evil as Zakaria asserts, nor were Europeans as committed to human rights as their high-minded rhetoric might have made it seem. The real problem in Zakaria’s argument about ancient history is that he takes the post-World War II world—and, really, just the post-Cold War world—as the standard against which to measure history, but that 35-year period is so brief that one can’t really pull from it a comparison with the five thousand years that preceded it. But that isn’t really Zakaria’s point. He is deploying history for polemical reasons, to attack tech bros for using ancient history to support illiberal policies by denigrating ancient history and celebrating instead the period Zakaria prefers to use to support liberal policies, the era of muscular liberal dominance in America from the 1930s through the late 1960s. Unfortunately, the past doesn’t map neatly onto modern political disputes, and attempts to force it into those boxes makes the advocate look like a simple-minded propagandist.
Meanwhile, Tom DeLonge said at the San Diego ComiCon that he is “actively consulting” with the U.S. government to advise them on the release of UFO files. “I’m an active consultant on all of that stuff right now with the U.S. government, and it’s just the beginning. […] There’s a lot more coming. This is just the beginning,” said DeLonge, who does not hold a security clearance and is not authorized to see any classified files he is allegedly advising the government about. Who better to ask about how to release UFO files than a rock musician with a failed UFO-exploitation company who made a bad UFO movie?
In the Media
I appeared this weekend on the Things Visible & Invisible podcast to discuss the secret life of James Dean and the darker side of fame. You can check out my interview here.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 17–23:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 9 • August 23, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
On Friday, Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria published an odd column—clearly cobbled together to fill space—in which he attempted to argue that Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has important lessons for liberals because Nolan replaced the terrible morals of that nasty old pagan Homer with good quality Christan humility. Zakaria argues that the ancient world recognized only “dominance” and “blood, gore and conquest,” while Christianity ushered in “universal human dignity, compassion and empathy.” He concedes, in passing, that this was more of a development of the Enlightenment than one practiced by the Christian kingdoms that waged war on one another, launched crusades, conquered the Americas, and colonized the world at the end of a gun. The ancients were not as universally evil as Zakaria asserts, nor were Europeans as committed to human rights as their high-minded rhetoric might have made it seem. The real problem in Zakaria’s argument about ancient history is that he takes the post-World War II world—and, really, just the post-Cold War world—as the standard against which to measure history, but that 35-year period is so brief that one can’t really pull from it a comparison with the five thousand years that preceded it. But that isn’t really Zakaria’s point. He is deploying history for polemical reasons, to attack tech bros for using ancient history to support illiberal policies by denigrating ancient history and celebrating instead the period Zakaria prefers to use to support liberal policies, the era of muscular liberal dominance in America from the 1930s through the late 1960s. Unfortunately, the past doesn’t map neatly onto modern political disputes, and attempts to force it into those boxes makes the advocate look like a simple-minded propagandist.
Meanwhile, Tom DeLonge said at the San Diego ComiCon that he is “actively consulting” with the U.S. government to advise them on the release of UFO files. “I’m an active consultant on all of that stuff right now with the U.S. government, and it’s just the beginning. […] There’s a lot more coming. This is just the beginning,” said DeLonge, who does not hold a security clearance and is not authorized to see any classified files he is allegedly advising the government about. Who better to ask about how to release UFO files than a rock musician with a failed UFO-exploitation company who made a bad UFO movie?
In the Media
I appeared this weekend on the Things Visible & Invisible podcast to discuss the secret life of James Dean and the darker side of fame. You can check out my interview here.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 17–23:
- The Secret History of Dick Cheney’s Prison for Space Aliens
- In Brief: Eric Davis Tells NewsNation the U.S. Has Bodies from Four Alien Species
- Survey Finds UFO News Coverage Driving Increase in Alien Beliefs
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 10 • August 30, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week was supposed to have seen the release of UFO disclosure advocate Lue Elizondo’s new book, Reckoning, the sequel to his 2024 bestseller Imminent. However, not only did the book not come out, but it has also been scrubbed from the publisher’s website and from retailers. A social media post from a UFO influencer from May claimed that Elizondo told him that the book would be indefinitely delayed because the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review has not completed its review and there is no timetable for doing so.
Meanwhile, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller celebrated his birthday this week with a cake depicting a crashed flying saucer and little green space aliens. The design was a nod to Miller’s role overseeing the so-called “UFO portfolio” for the Trump Administration, a role he inherited from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Miller, according to published accounts, is personally interested in UFO conspiracy theories—because of course he is.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 24–30:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 10 • August 30, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week was supposed to have seen the release of UFO disclosure advocate Lue Elizondo’s new book, Reckoning, the sequel to his 2024 bestseller Imminent. However, not only did the book not come out, but it has also been scrubbed from the publisher’s website and from retailers. A social media post from a UFO influencer from May claimed that Elizondo told him that the book would be indefinitely delayed because the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review has not completed its review and there is no timetable for doing so.
Meanwhile, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller celebrated his birthday this week with a cake depicting a crashed flying saucer and little green space aliens. The design was a nod to Miller’s role overseeing the so-called “UFO portfolio” for the Trump Administration, a role he inherited from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Miller, according to published accounts, is personally interested in UFO conspiracy theories—because of course he is.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 24–30:
- Noah’s Ark Researchers Claim Normal Geological Scan Is Proof Durupınar Is Ark
- Jack Osbourne Claims President Trump Said UFOs Are “in the Ocean”
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 11 • September 6, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, UFO writer Chris Sharp’s Liberation Times ran an article about a recent podcast in which a veteran journalist claimed he heard from a congressional staffer that the United States has possession of crashed saucers and dead aliens. Tom O’Neill, the author of a book about the Manson Family murders, was in Washington on June 30 to testify at the House Oversight Committee’s MKUltra hearing. On the Heretics podcast, he said that in the run-up to the hearing, he attended the June 25 Disclosure Forum organized by the Disclosure Foundation. A congressional staffer tasked with taking O’Neill to meet with the Democratic staff allegedly told O’Neill enroute that he had seen disturbing things in a classified SCIF. “I go in, and I see what they see, and it’s terrifying,” O’Neill quoted the staffer as saying. The staffer alleged that the classified information included “recovered crafts and recovered beings,” and that it was so disturbing that those who saw it suffered nightmares. While this is a highly dramatic claim, it seem highly doubtful since it is unlikely that a congressional staffer would volunteer highly classified information—a crime—to a journalist of all people, and that journalist, given the scoop of a lifetime, chose not to publish the shocking revelation but instead to tell it as an amusing anecdote on a YouTube podcast.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 31–September 6:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 11 • September 6, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, UFO writer Chris Sharp’s Liberation Times ran an article about a recent podcast in which a veteran journalist claimed he heard from a congressional staffer that the United States has possession of crashed saucers and dead aliens. Tom O’Neill, the author of a book about the Manson Family murders, was in Washington on June 30 to testify at the House Oversight Committee’s MKUltra hearing. On the Heretics podcast, he said that in the run-up to the hearing, he attended the June 25 Disclosure Forum organized by the Disclosure Foundation. A congressional staffer tasked with taking O’Neill to meet with the Democratic staff allegedly told O’Neill enroute that he had seen disturbing things in a classified SCIF. “I go in, and I see what they see, and it’s terrifying,” O’Neill quoted the staffer as saying. The staffer alleged that the classified information included “recovered crafts and recovered beings,” and that it was so disturbing that those who saw it suffered nightmares. While this is a highly dramatic claim, it seem highly doubtful since it is unlikely that a congressional staffer would volunteer highly classified information—a crime—to a journalist of all people, and that journalist, given the scoop of a lifetime, chose not to publish the shocking revelation but instead to tell it as an amusing anecdote on a YouTube podcast.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of August 31–September 6:
- Ufologists Predict “Holy Cow” Moment When an Alien “Armada” Arrives in 2027
- Scott Wolter Plans to “Save the World” Through Templar Conspiracy Theories
- Tim Gallaudet Says Guy Who Claims Aliens Built Moon Towers Has Found Atlantis
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 12 • September 13, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Wired magazine ran a piece claiming that excitement for a hypothetical Donald Trump speech confirming the presence of space aliens on Earth is at an all-time high. However, when you read through the article, it’s immediately apparent that it is simply describing speculation by major UFO-themed X accounts and UFO influencers, with no underlying factual evidence. The White House denied the claim, and even UFO disclosure advocates like Tim Gallaudet called it far-fetched. But once again we find the major media giving undo credence to UFO speculators. Wired reporter Nathaniel Janowitz misstated some UFO history (Roswell had no impact, for instance, on 1940s and ’50s ufology) and inflated the credentials and publishing power of Chris Sharp’s blog, which he grandly labels the Liberation Times. He even lets Sharp discuss his secret source for the Trump speech claim without pressing for any evidence that the person exists or holds a government job. It’s the lack of critical investigation into people making outlandish claims that galls me.
You may have noticed that I have been quiet this week. That’s because I have been working on a new project. I have been writing a book proposal, and my agent is excited about it. It’s taking quite a bit of time, though, and I will likely have a more limited online presence for a couple of more weeks at least as I work on writing the sample chapter to accompany it.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 7–13:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 12 • September 13, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week, Wired magazine ran a piece claiming that excitement for a hypothetical Donald Trump speech confirming the presence of space aliens on Earth is at an all-time high. However, when you read through the article, it’s immediately apparent that it is simply describing speculation by major UFO-themed X accounts and UFO influencers, with no underlying factual evidence. The White House denied the claim, and even UFO disclosure advocates like Tim Gallaudet called it far-fetched. But once again we find the major media giving undo credence to UFO speculators. Wired reporter Nathaniel Janowitz misstated some UFO history (Roswell had no impact, for instance, on 1940s and ’50s ufology) and inflated the credentials and publishing power of Chris Sharp’s blog, which he grandly labels the Liberation Times. He even lets Sharp discuss his secret source for the Trump speech claim without pressing for any evidence that the person exists or holds a government job. It’s the lack of critical investigation into people making outlandish claims that galls me.
You may have noticed that I have been quiet this week. That’s because I have been working on a new project. I have been writing a book proposal, and my agent is excited about it. It’s taking quite a bit of time, though, and I will likely have a more limited online presence for a couple of more weeks at least as I work on writing the sample chapter to accompany it.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 7–13:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 13 • September 20, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week we learned that UFO personality Lue Elizondo is suing his business partner over the failure of the military-themed bar they opened in Buffalo, Wyoming. Elizondo accused his business partner of trying to cheat him out of money, but the root of the problem is that the two men invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into opening a theme bar in a town of just over 4,400 people and expected it to pay off. Amid personal attacks between the two, Elizondo is asking for the business to be dissolved and its assets used to repay his investment.
Meanwhile deputy director of national intelligence Aaron Lukas took to X this week to thank eccentric UFO personalities, including Avi Loeb and his UFO council, as well as Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars, for their help in crafting the intelligence community’s response to UFOs. “The American people are fortunate to have such expert counsel,” Lukas said of the Harvard professor who mistook industrial waste for microspherule alien technology and the rock star who mistook a completely separate type of industrial waste for metamaterial alien technology.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 14–20:
Archival Tape Shows Alex Jones’s 9/11 “Prediction” Was Just a “Lone Gunmen” Recap
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 13 • September 20, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week we learned that UFO personality Lue Elizondo is suing his business partner over the failure of the military-themed bar they opened in Buffalo, Wyoming. Elizondo accused his business partner of trying to cheat him out of money, but the root of the problem is that the two men invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into opening a theme bar in a town of just over 4,400 people and expected it to pay off. Amid personal attacks between the two, Elizondo is asking for the business to be dissolved and its assets used to repay his investment.
Meanwhile deputy director of national intelligence Aaron Lukas took to X this week to thank eccentric UFO personalities, including Avi Loeb and his UFO council, as well as Tom DeLonge’s To the Stars, for their help in crafting the intelligence community’s response to UFOs. “The American people are fortunate to have such expert counsel,” Lukas said of the Harvard professor who mistook industrial waste for microspherule alien technology and the rock star who mistook a completely separate type of industrial waste for metamaterial alien technology.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 14–20:
Archival Tape Shows Alex Jones’s 9/11 “Prediction” Was Just a “Lone Gunmen” Recap
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 14 • September 27, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Noah’s Ark Scans began drilling in the Turkish geological formation they believe to be the remains of Noah’s Ark, but I was disturbed to learn that the organization isn’t just a kooky group of creationists but is affiliated with associates of white nationalist Nick Fuentes. The group’s marketing and fundraising director is Lauren Witzke, an antigay, antisemitic, ultranationalist—and a flat earth believer to boot. She accused Israel and the Jews of conspiring to stop work on the scan of the alleged Ark. According to Ryan Mauro, a rightwing analyst accused of Islamophobic rhetoric, Witzke is not the only far-right antisemite in the ranks of the Noah’s Ark Scans project. “I can’t be a part of turning a possible Biblical site into a platform for evil,” Mauro wrote on X.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 21–27:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 14 • September 27, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
This week Noah’s Ark Scans began drilling in the Turkish geological formation they believe to be the remains of Noah’s Ark, but I was disturbed to learn that the organization isn’t just a kooky group of creationists but is affiliated with associates of white nationalist Nick Fuentes. The group’s marketing and fundraising director is Lauren Witzke, an antigay, antisemitic, ultranationalist—and a flat earth believer to boot. She accused Israel and the Jews of conspiring to stop work on the scan of the alleged Ark. According to Ryan Mauro, a rightwing analyst accused of Islamophobic rhetoric, Witzke is not the only far-right antisemite in the ranks of the Noah’s Ark Scans project. “I can’t be a part of turning a possible Biblical site into a platform for evil,” Mauro wrote on X.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 21–27:
- In Brief: New Documentary Seeks Atlantis in Scandinavia
- In Brief: Noah’s Ark Researchers Claim “100% Confirmed” New Proof, with Big Caveat
- In Brief: Dan Farah Hires “Sopranos” Writer to Adapt Jay Stratton UFO Memoir for TV
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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THE JASON COLAVITO NEWSLETTER
• Vol. 29 • Issue 15 • October 4, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
David Grusch caused an online stir this week with an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience that saw the so-called UFO whistleblower bloviating about how every part of UFO mythology is true and known to the U.S. government. I wrote about some of his claims earlier in the week, linked below, but one of the funnier sidelights was Rep. Eric Burlison, Grusch’s employer, and his response to Grusch’s Rogan appearance. He posted to social media that he watched it, and “yes, I can confirm that he is an Alpha.” He was trying to refer to Grusch’s claim to be an “alpha dog,” but his post accidentally slid into manosphere slang for a toxically masculine dude-bro and gay slang for a dominant partner in a BDSM-style encounter.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 28–October 4:
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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• Vol. 29 • Issue 15 • October 4, 2026 •
It’s been a busy week. Let’s see what’s new…
News
David Grusch caused an online stir this week with an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience that saw the so-called UFO whistleblower bloviating about how every part of UFO mythology is true and known to the U.S. government. I wrote about some of his claims earlier in the week, linked below, but one of the funnier sidelights was Rep. Eric Burlison, Grusch’s employer, and his response to Grusch’s Rogan appearance. He posted to social media that he watched it, and “yes, I can confirm that he is an Alpha.” He was trying to refer to Grusch’s claim to be an “alpha dog,” but his post accidentally slid into manosphere slang for a toxically masculine dude-bro and gay slang for a dominant partner in a BDSM-style encounter.
On the Blog
In case you missed them, here are my best blog posts and Substack articles for the week of September 28–October 4:
- Politico Runs Credulous Piece Profiling UFO Council and Its Alien Fantasies
- News Roundup: AJ Gentile Sues Ex-Manager; Plus: Jay Stratton's Nuclear Ambitions
- David Grusch Claims He Saw Government Video of “Beautiful” Dead Aliens
- The New East of Eden and a New Rebel without a Cause Claim
Until next week, keep watching the skies!
Jason Colavito
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