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- LABOURING UNDER A DELUSION? June 18, 2013
- INVENTING UFOLOGY June 17, 2013
- CERTIFIABLY SERPO June 16, 2013
- NO COMMENT June 13, 2013
- THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY June 11, 2013
- Mark Pilkington & John Lundberg – Folklore & Deception in the UFO Age
- Untitled May 11, 2013
- Coming soon October 3, 2012
- Area 51 Viewers Guide August 4, 2012
- From the vaults August 4, 2012
- Ebe’s Paranoia July 20, 2012
- Bob Sheaffer’s Bad UFOs
- Guerilla Skepticism - Now We Have Klass' Wikipedia Back June 9, 2013
- That "Citizens Hearing" on UFO Disclosure Got the Respect it Deserved - (Very Little) May 13, 2013
- Greer's "Sirius" Documentary - no "Bombshell," just Nonstop UFO Claims April 23, 2013
- That "Citizen Hearing" on UFO "Disclosure" April 16, 2013
- Greer Documentary "Sirius" Promises Free Energy and a Dead Alien April 4, 2013
- The Skeptic magazine
- One Life: BHA Event this Friday June 18, 2013
- My latest Guardian Science column June 18, 2013
- Volume 24 Issue 3: Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou June 17, 2013
- Alasdair Hopwood & Kim Wade on False Memories, Warwick Arts Centre, 1 pm, 13/6/13 June 11, 2013
- One-day conference on hypnosis, 28 June 2013 June 10, 2013
- Andrew May’s Forteana blog
- Agatha Christie’s Séances June 16, 2013
- Not Even Wrong June 9, 2013
- Precog Fiction June 2, 2013
- Spooky Action at a Distance May 26, 2013
- Paranormal Shakespeare May 19, 2013
Tag Archives: Roswell
Mirage Men premiers at DocFest
Sheffield’s annual DocFest is one of the highlights of the year for documentary film-makers and investigative journalists. 2013 marks the festival’s 20th anniversary and many of the movers and shakers from the industry will be gathering at venues in the city centre, based in … Continue reading
UFOlogy: Dead Again?
On 4 November The Sunday Telegraph posed the question that has been asked many times before: What is the point of UFOlogy (the ‘study of UFOs’). “Having failed to establish any evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life, Britain’s UFO watchers are … Continue reading
The Scottish Roswell?
Picture the scene: A shepherd visiting a remote area stumbles upon strange wreckage strewn across the ground which could be the remains of a crashed spaceship. The debris consists of pieces of unusual metal and strange drawings. On reporting his find … Continue reading
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
