Welcome to my website
I am course leader and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University where I teach media law and investigation skills. Prior to teaching journalism skills I worked as a news reporter for The Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post and spent four years working as a Press Officer in local government. My Ph.D is in Folklore and was completed at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, in 1999. My interest in folklore and the supernatural goes back to my childhood and I've been researching and writing about strange phenomena for as long as I can remember. Since 2008 I have been working with The National Archives (TNA) as their consultant for the ongoing release of the UFO files created by Britain's Ministry of Defence. My book, The UFO Files, was published by TNA in September 2009.
Magonia Blog- WATCH THE SKIES - AND YOUR BACK! May 27, 2012
- LIFE BEFORE DEATH May 22, 2012
- HAUNTED SKIES - ENTER THE SEVENTIES May 19, 2012
- GHOST OF A SCIENCE May 16, 2012
- A VERY PALE UTOPIA May 14, 2012
- Bob Sheaffer’s Bad UFOs
- "Top Ten" UFO Case - Yukon, Canada, 1996 - BUSTED! April 30, 2012
- Archive Documents Show Klass Did NOT Try to Bribe Travis Walton Witness April 17, 2012
- Leslie Kean Update: the Fly is Still Flying High! April 14, 2012
- The Day the Skeptics Society Wasn't Skeptical - "Best Evidence for UFOs" April 2, 2012
- Flying Saucer, or Fly? Is this the case UFO skeptics have been dreading? March 21, 2012
- Andrew May’s Forteana blog
- Alien skull simulacrum May 27, 2012
- Bacchus and Ariadne May 20, 2012
- Futuristic gadgets of the 1930s May 13, 2012
- Ambiguous Symbolism May 6, 2012
- Enigmatic Art April 29, 2012
Tag Archives: Daily Telegraph
FBI ‘not interested’ in UFOs, shock revelation
“News organizations across the world were taken in — once again — by a hoax that was perpetrated more than 50 years ago….” Jesse Emspak, International Business Times The silly season has arrived early this year. Either that or news … Continue reading
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Tagged Aztec UFO crash, Ben Radford, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daniel Webster, FBI, Frank Scully, J. Edgar Hoover, New Mexico, Paratopia, Roswell, Silas Newton, The Sun
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Churchill did not ‘order a UFO cover-up’
In Bad Science this week Ben Goldacre asked “Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?”. He opined that if readers were directed to the original sources of headlines like ‘wind farms blamed for the stranding of whales’ (Daily Telegraph), they … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Science, Ben Goldacre, Daily Telegraph, foo fighters, MoD, National Geographic, UFO, V2, Winston Churchill
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