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
- 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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- 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: Star Wars
Why Britain’s MoD closed the UFO files: exclusive new evidence
Newly-released British intelligence files reveal the hidden agenda behind the MoD’s decision to close down their 50 year investigation of UFOs. The last three UFO files produced by the UK’s defence intelligence branch DI55 were originally with-held from the records earmarked … Continue reading →
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Tagged AATIP, Adam Ingram MP, Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, atmospheric plasmas, Condign project, D-Notice, DI55, ETOs, extraterrestrial objects, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, GCHQ, GEC-Marconi, Ministry of Defence, NATO, Nick Pope, Norman Baker MP, Occam's Razor, Old War Office building, Pentagon, secrecy, Secretariat (Air Staff) 2A, Star Wars, The National Archives, UAP, UAPs in the UK Air Defence Region, UFO desk, UFOs, UK Eyes Only, unidentified aerial phenomena, unidentified flying objects, Winston Churchill
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Close Encounters of the Playground Kind
My latest book UFO Drawings from The National Archives is published by Four Corners books on 18 September. It contains 40 colour and black and white images selected from the Ministry of Defence files at the archives in Kew. From … Continue reading →
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Tagged BBC, British UFO Files, Broad Haven primary school, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Doctor Who, flying saucers, Ministry of Defence, MoD UFO desk, Star Wars, steven spielberg, The National Archives, The Robots of Death, Tom Baker, UFO Drawings at The National Archives, UFOs, Welsh triangle
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UFOs Conquer The World
My new book How UFOs Conquered the World was published on 14 May and is reviewed by The Sunday Times here. In his review James McConnachie says UFO believers will not like this book, ‘it is not a classic debunking. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Andrew May, Andy Owens, Brian Clegg, British UFO Research Association, BUFORA, Carl Jung, Daily Mail, David Clarke, Ezekiel, flying saucers, folklore, How UFOs Conquered the World, James McConnachie, Jenny Randles, John Pilger, Jon Ronson, Louis Theroux, Magonia, Magonia Review of Books, Marcus Berkmann, myth, Peter Rogerson, Popular Science, Star Wars, Sunday Times, the UFO syndrome, UFO myth, UFOs
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