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.
Snopes.com – Rumour has it…- Paddington Bear Creator Michael Bond Dies at 91 June 29, 2017
- Cyberattack May Not Have Been Meant to Get Money June 29, 2017
- Limits on Travel to U.S. Issued After Supreme Court Ruling June 29, 2017
- Is the American Heart Association Misleading the Public About Coconut Oil? June 29, 2017
- Former Television Host’s Husband Petitions For Her to Replace ‘Aunt Jemima’ as Syrup Brand’s Face June 28, 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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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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