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I am a Research Fellow in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University where I specialise in teaching media law and investigation skills. Before I entered academia 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. 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 latest book, How UFOs Conquered the World: the history of a modern myth, was published in 2015.
Snopes.com – Rumour has it…- Does Donald Trump Have Fake ‘Time’ Magazine Covers Displayed at His Resorts? June 28, 2017
- Major Cyberattack Hits Government and Industry Across Europe, United States June 28, 2017
- Did Kellyanne Conway Try to Require NBA Champions to Visit the White House? June 27, 2017
- Was a Chinese Man Arrested in New York for Selling Hot Dogs Made from Dog Meat? June 27, 2017
- Bull Shark Spotted in Kentucky Lake? June 27, 2017
- Magonia Blog
- AFTER THE TWILIGHT June 24, 2017
- GEF BEEN IN? June 20, 2017
- PROBLEMS WITH POLTERGEISTS June 17, 2017
- ... ME NEITHER June 13, 2017
- A MAGICAL APPRENTICESHIP June 9, 2017
- Mark Pilkington & John Lundberg – Folklore & Deception in the UFO Age
- Mirage Men in The Guardian August 18, 2014
- Mirage Men Double Disc DVD June 16, 2014
- UFOs and F-14s over Iran May 2, 2014
- We have lift off! March 27, 2014
- Mirage Men revealed by Greenwald? February 25, 2014
- Bob Sheaffer’s Bad UFOs
- "Disclosure" Mania Flares Up Again June 26, 2017
- In Search Of "Progress" in UFOlogy - At the End of the Road? June 19, 2017
- William Tompkins Reveals Reptilians, Nordics, Nazi Saucers, and Much More May 22, 2017
- Tom DeLonge's "Sixtyish" Days to UFO Disclosure Become "Ninetyish" May 17, 2017
- Satellites Flash and Flare April 7, 2017
- The Skeptic magazine
- Ooops! TWO errors in previous message! October 1, 2015
- October Spookiness! October 1, 2015
- Empirical Sex Talk on Dacryphilia, tonight October 1, 2015
- Little Atoms 393 – Timothy Snyder & Black Earth September 30, 2015
- Ash Pryce on "How to talk to the dead" @ Greenwich SitP, 7:30 pm, 7/10/15 September 30, 2015
- Charles Fort Institute Blog
- Exciting news from Mr X August 13, 2016
- The First Forteans: The Light of Other Days August 11, 2015
- Edinburgh Fringe 2015 August 5, 2015
- A Baby Boy! August 5, 2015
- Fortean Approaches to the Study of Religion May 6, 2015
- Curt Collins on saucers in pop culture
- 1954 UFO Whistleblower: Frank E Keely June 23, 2017
- John Keel, Witness to the Birth of the UFO Subculture June 16, 2017
- UFOs: Reframing the Roswell Slides Fiasco June 12, 2017
- The Flying Saucers Are Real(ly Profitable) June 5, 2017
- Flying Saucer Musings May 28, 2017
- Andrew May’s Forteana blog
- Pseudoscience and Science Fiction October 9, 2016
- Astronomical debunking October 2, 2016
- Contradiction - the All-Video Murder Mystery September 25, 2016
- Sacred Porn September 18, 2016
- Astronomical computers (old ones) September 11, 2016
- Paul Kimball’s The Other Side of Truth: Don’t believe, don’t disbelieve. Think
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UFO Files I have loved and lost
The media feeding frenzy that greeted the release of the final tranche of British UFO files was a fitting end to my involvement in one of the most successful Freedom of Information projects in recent years. #UFO files began trending … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Neil, bbc news, BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Benjamin Radford, Britain's X-Files, Channel 4, conspiracy theories, Daily Mail, Guardian, ITV, Justin Webb, Lembit Opik, New York Times, Nick Pope, Sky News, The Daily Telegraph, The National Archives, Tim Good, Twitter, UFOs as a modern myth, Washington Post
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UFO Files make waves
The release of the ninth collection of MoD UFO files by The National Archives continues to make news across the world. On the first day of the launch (Thursday, 12 July) the website received almost 60,000 visitors – an uplift … Continue reading
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Tagged bbc news, BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Daily Mirror, Huffington Post, Lee Spiegel, Ministry of Defence, Richard Norton-Taylor, Sanchia Berg, Sky News, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The National Archives, The Sun, UFO files, USA Today, Voice of Russia
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Emails from the dead
Supernatural folklore is a dynamic force. It adapts to new technology but incorporates traditional beliefs that date back thousands of years. Soon after the invention of photography in the 1850s, the first photographs of spirits appeared. Following the invention of … Continue reading
More UFOlogy in a pond
Sightings of an underwater ‘saucer’ that resembles the legendary Loch Ness Monster are creating waves in the Lake District. It’s not the first time that a mysterious creature – dubbed ‘Bownessie’ – has been sighted in the waters of Windermere. … Continue reading
