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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
- YESTERDAYS' FUTURES October 14, 2019
- THE SCIENCE-FICTIONAL ROSWELL October 4, 2019
- MONSTER MASH September 25, 2019
- DIGGING UP GHOSTS September 19, 2019
- UFOLOGY MEETS KREMLINOLOGY September 6, 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 Cash-Landrum UFO Case Document Collection October 3, 2019
- Ufology's Legacy from Loch Ness August 29, 2019
- Documents Released via FOIA on the AATIP UFO Videos August 18, 2019
- Documenting Luis Elizondo's Leadership of the Pentagon's UFO Program June 13, 2019
- The US Government’s Cash-Landrum UFO Investigations, Part Two March 7, 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: UAPs
DRONES AND UFOs: new data reveals rise in close encounters with aircraft in UK airspace
Aircrew have a reported an increase in the numbers of close encounters between ‘unknown objects’ and passenger aircraft since a drone caused chaos at Gatwick Airport. A pattern of disturbing incidents has emerged from data obtained by a team of … Continue reading
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Tagged balloons, BBC Panorama, BBC Radio 4, Birmingham airport, CAA, Chris Woodroofe, Civil Aviation Authority, Det Chief Supt Jason Tingley, drones, Gatwick airport, Grimsby, Manchester airport, Ministry of Defence, MoD UFO desk, National Air Traffic Services, NATS, New York Times, Newsquest, RAF Coningsby, remotely piloted vehicles, RQ-4 Global Hawk, Simon Jack, Sussex Police, UAPs, UFOs, UK Airprox Board (UKAB), unmanned aerial vehicles
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Black Projects, UFOs and the mysterious MO D-Notice
Has the Ministry of Defence ever suppressed media stories about Black Project aircraft operating secretly over the British Isles? For many years conspiracy-minded aviation writers and UFOlogists have claimed the government has, on occasions, used its contacts in the Press … Continue reading
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Tagged Astra, Aurora, Black Projects, Calvine incident, Calvine UFO, Condign report, D-Notice, DA Notice, DA-Notice committee, Daily Record (Glasgow), Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee, Defence Intelligence Staff, DI55, DPBAC, DSMA notices, Freedom of Information Act, Jacob Ecclestone, JARIC, Ministry of Defence, MoD, National Union of Journalists, NUJ, Owen Hartop, RAF Boscombe Down, SR-71 Blackbird, TR-3 Black Manta, UAPs, UFOs, unidentified aerial phenomena
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The UFO Files: Our Man in Sheffield
I spent two decades on the trail of the UK Ministry of Defence’s cache of secret UFO papers. But little did I know that my FOI campaign triggered off a mole-hunt among the spooks – and a probe to discover … Continue reading
Finding Needles in the MoD Haystack – guest blog
I am pleased to welcome veteran British UFOlogist Jenny Randles for this guest blog reflecting on the release of the Ministry of Defence UFO files: After the furore over the release of the final MoD files the UFO debate may … Continue reading
Seeing Sprites
Six years ago I used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the release of a secret Ministry of Defence report on ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ (UAP). The study, codenamed ‘Project Condign‘, concluded that UAPs – as the MoD’s Defence Intelligence … Continue reading
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Tagged atmospheric plasmas, ball lightning, Defence Intelligence Staff, Freedom of Information Act, International Space Station, mesosphere, Ministry of Defence, NASA, National Archives of Australia, Operation Close Encounter, phys.org, Project Condign, RAAF, radar angels, RAF Bentwaters/Lakenheath UFOs, Royal Australian Air Force, running rabbits, Science Daily, sprites, Sunday Times, Sydney airport, UAPs, unidentified aerial phenomena, Washington DC UFOs
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