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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.
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- Magonia Blog
- SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF EXISTENCE March 17, 2019
- COWBOYS AND ALIENS March 14, 2019
- HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE SCIENCE March 10, 2019
- PASSING THROUGH PASCAGOULA March 4, 2019
- HOLY GHOST February 23, 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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- Little Atoms 393 – Timothy Snyder & Black Earth September 30, 2015
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- 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: RAF Woodbridge
Who Dares Wins?: Britain’s Roswell meets the SAS
‘If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise…’ (Anne Murray) Christmas 2018 marks the 38th anniversary of the mysterious events in the Rendlesham forest near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk that became Britain’s best known … Continue reading
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Tagged Col Ted Conrad, Cold War, legends, Lt Col Charles Halt, NASA, RAF Bentwaters, RAF Woodbridge, Rendlesham, Robin Horsfall, SAS, SBS, Sony Pictures, Special Air Service, Suffolk, UFOs, Who Dares Wins
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Common Sense About UFOs – The Unopened File
Britain’s Ministry of Defence is often accused of hiding ‘top secret’ files on UFOs or not being entirely honest about what it knows about the subject. Conspiracy-minded UFO truthers got excited last year when the ministry announced it had found … Continue reading
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Tagged Brinsley le poer Trench, Chinese lanterns, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Colonel Patrick Stevens OBE, Common Sense About UFOs, D-Day, drones, fireballs, Fred Mulley, Freedom of Information, Greenwich Planetarium, House of Lords, Jodrell Bank, Lord Clancarty, meteorological balloons, Ministry of Defence, New World Order, Paddy Stevens, RAF Woodbridge, Rendlesham forest UFOs, Richard Whiteley, Royal Marines 41 Commando, Sir Eric Gairy, The National Archives, UFO cover-up, UFO desk, UFO myth, UFOs, United Nations UFO debate, Yorkshire TV
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If you go down to the woods (again)
The Rendlesham forest UFO mystery is back in the headlines, after the Sunday Telegraph published a summary of my exclusive interview with the former Bentwaters Base Commander, Ted Conrad. Col Conrad, now retired to his native Texas, has broken a quarter … Continue reading
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Tagged Blair Witch Project, Conrad, folklore, Halt, Ian Ridpath, Ministry of Defence, RAF Bentwaters, RAF Woodbridge, Rendlesham, Sherlock Holmes, Sunday Telegraph, UFO, USAF
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