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Dr David Clarke is a Principal Lecturer/Reader in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He teaches media law and journalism investigation skills. Before he entered academia he worked as a news reporter for The Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post and spent four years working as a Press Officer in local government. His Ph.D in Folklore and was completed at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, in 1999. From 2008-13 he acted as consultant and curator of the MoD UFO files project with The National Archives. His books include The Angel of Mons (2004) and How UFOs Conquered the World: the history of a modern myth (2015). In 2016 he became one of the founders of the Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University. This blog covers his twin research interests in journalism and folklore. The views expressed in the contents are entirely his own.
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- Magonia Blog
- MYTH SPOTTING March 28, 2020
- FRIDAY THE 13th AND ALL THAT March 22, 2020
- FIRE AND GOLD March 16, 2020
- IN THE BEGINNING March 14, 2020
- CURSES ANCIENT AND MODERN March 10, 2020
- 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
- Breaking the Silence: AATIP's Secret Partner Speaks March 23, 2020
- The Pentagon UFO Program’s Secret Partner March 17, 2020
- Cash-Landrum UFO Documents and Ancient Aliens February 17, 2020
- AATIP's UFO Medical Study and the Cash-Landrum Case February 14, 2020
- Remembering Donald Keyhoe and the Birth of Ufology December 23, 2019
- 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
- Synchronicity, Irish Style September 9, 2019
- 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
Tag Archives: Guinness Book of Records
UFOs and the mythical ‘acclimatisation programme’
Every so often the release of archive documents throws up another gem from the bygone era when flying saucers really were taken seriously by world governments. The most recent turned up in a collection of papers produced by Irish diplomats … Continue reading →
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Tagged acclimatisation programme, Anthony Eden, CIA, Colin Powell, Disclosure project, Donald Keyhoe, flying saucers, Guinness Book of Records, H.G.Wells, Kenneth Arnold, Leonard C. Lewin, literary hoaxes, Lou Cannon, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mirage Men, MJ-12 hoax, National Archives of Ireland, operation Majestic 12, Professor Robert Segal, ronald reagan, Roswell incident, Royal Irsih Academy, Stanton Friedman, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Flying Saucers are Real, The Report from Iron Mountain, The War of the Worlds, UFO cover-up, UFO myth, UFOs, USAF
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