Saturday, June 27, 2020

Interesting blogs: Bad UFOs

Robert Sheaffer has a long-running blog, Bad UFOs. taking a skeptical look at claims of UFOs and related stuff,or, as the subtitle puts it, "Reflections on UFOs, skepticism, and practically anything else by Robert Sheaffer, author of the book "Bad UFOs," plus the "Psychic Vibrations" column in The Skeptical Inquirer)."
I don't follow UFOs much any more, because the late Phil Klass' curse on UFO researchers, "You will never know any more about UFOs thank you do now," has basically been proven. We don't. We have curious incidents (the Navy videos, for which conventional explanations have been advanced but are still a little startling), but nothing new, just endless internet claims and images and just plain crud.  No dead aliens, no live aliens, not a scrap of metal that can't be of Earth origin. Ho hum.  
Sheaffer has never lost interest.  He has the blog and also has the UFO Skeptic's Page. (He also houses papers by James Oberg here: Oberg has debunked all the"astronaut UFO sighting" claims.)

So if you get interested in a claim or report, you might want to pop over and check out his work. He doesn't cover all the reports - no one could - but the big oft-repeated claims of abductions and so forth are treated. 

NOTE: None of this is to say there are no UFOs. There obviously are observations of things not yet identified and which may never be identified.  But there is no good evidence any are alien spaceships, or that they are all technically "flying," or"objects." I suspect there are some electromagnetic or atmospheric phenomena hiding in the data, but we're unlikely to see it among the "spaceship" craze.  .


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