Welcome to my website
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.
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- Magonia Blog
- INTO THE TWILIGHT ZONES April 17, 2019
- THE WORM IN THE APPLE April 12, 2019
- TAKEN TO EXTREMES April 6, 2019
- COMPLETING INTCAT April 4, 2019
- AMAZEMENT AND AMUSEMENT March 30, 2019
- 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
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- 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
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- Curt Collins on saucers in pop culture
- The US Government’s Cash-Landrum UFO Investigations, Part Two March 7, 2019
- The US Government’s Cash-Landrum UFO Investigations March 7, 2019
- Philip Klass on the Cash-Landrum UFO case February 8, 2019
- The Cash-Landrum-McDonald UFO Incident of 1980 December 14, 2018
- Skeptoid Challenges the Cash-Landrum UFO Incident December 7, 2018
- 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
- Project Blue Book - A Review January 28, 2019
- Stan Friedman Retires March 13, 2018
- Halifax gets Haunted! September 29, 2017
- Haunted Extra, Vol. 1.01 - Queen's County Museum Revisited August 17, 2017
- 2017 East Coast Paraconference - Remote Viewing Panel August 15, 2017
Tag Archives: Daily Telegraph
UFO New Religious Movements and the Millennium
‘It might sound more like a plot for The X-Files than a case for the real-life detectives of Scotland Yard but secret Special Branch files have revealed the Met regarded Mulder and Scully, not to mention Captain Kirk and his … Continue reading
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
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Tagged British Sea Power, Daily Telegraph, DocFest, From the sea to the land beyond, Jarvis Cocker, John Lunberg, Library Theatre, Mark Kermode, Mirage Men, Paul Bennewitz, psychic spies, Richard Doty, Roswell, Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, Sheffield Hallam University, Showroom cinema, The Big Melt, UFO myth, Uri Geller
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Ghost Rockets from Erehwon
It sounds like a “mission impossible.” But in a few days’ time a Swedish film crew will dive into a remote lake in search of wreckage from one of the mysterious “ghost rockets” that have plagued Scandinavia since the end … Continue reading
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Tagged Clas Svahn, Daily Telegraph, ghost rockets, spook bombs, The National Archives, UFO Sweden, V2
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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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