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…- Is Healthcare.gov Scheduled for Maintenance During Obamacare Enrollment? September 25, 2017
- Did an American Actor Take Part in a London Bomb Attack ‘Hoax’? September 25, 2017
- Aaron Rodgers Photographed Holding ‘Stand For the Flag, Kneel for the Cross’ T-Shirt? September 25, 2017
- Did Leland Melvin Pen an Open Letter to Donald Trump? September 25, 2017
- Prayer Request for 30 SEALs Killed in Afghanistan September 25, 2017
- Magonia Blog
- THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A UFO MAGAZINE September 23, 2017
- DEVIL OF A TALE September 21, 2017
- THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS August 29, 2017
- BRIEF LIVES August 19, 2017
- DIGGING THE DIRT August 15, 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
- Another Nonsensical "Explanation" for the Kecksburg Incident September 14, 2017
- A Skeptic on "UFO Classified" September 12, 2017
- Shadow Chasing August 30, 2017
- MUFON Unravels August 1, 2017
- "Disclosure" Mania Flares Up Again June 26, 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
- UFO Origins: Saucers That Time Forgot & The Outer Limit September 23, 2017
- The Cash-Landrum UFO Prime Suspect: The CH-47, Army Chinook September 15, 2017
- General John A. Samford's 1952 UFO Disclosure August 2, 2017
- UFOs, Sea Serpents, Ridicule and Disinformation July 17, 2017
- The Saucers That Time Forgot July 11, 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
- Haunted Extra, Vol. 1.01 - Queen's County Museum Revisited August 17, 2017
- 2017 East Coast Paraconference - Remote Viewing Panel August 15, 2017
- 2017 East Coast Paraconference - August 11, 12, 13 August 6, 2017
- Haunted - Cooper's Inn Outtake #2 August 3, 2017
- Haunted Outtake - Cooper's Inn (Part I) August 3, 2017
Tag Archives: Rendlesham
UFOlogy: Dead Again?
On 4 November The Sunday Telegraph posed the question that has been asked many times before: What is the point of UFOlogy (the ‘study of UFOs’). “Having failed to establish any evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life, Britain’s UFO watchers are … Continue reading
The UFO Files Rebooted
The second edition of The UFO files was published by Bloomsbury on 13 September 2012. You can order the book from Amazon here or via the publisher’s website here. The National Archives press release on the book can be found … Continue reading
Fireball lights up northern sky
Hundreds of people reported seeing a fireball meteor that lit up the night sky across parts of northern England at 9.40 p.m. on Saturday, 3 March. Some excellent footage of the fireball has been posted on YouTube and can be … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Cosford incident, meteor, Meteorwatch, Ministry of Defence, Rendlesham, UFO
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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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Lost in the land of Oz
The idea that UFO files have gone missing because governments are desperate to conceal evidence of alien contact has re-emerged as a cause celebre for conspiracy theorists. The controversy was stoked earlier this year when it emerged the British government … Continue reading
UFO Files break records
The release of the seventh collection of MoD UFO files has broken records for the The National Archives website. The number of hits on the UFO page has now reached 8.5 million, with almost 60 hits per second on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily Mail, DI55, Guardian, Ministry of Defence, Rendlesham, The National Archives, UFO files
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