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 This a Whale in a Venice Canal? July 24, 2017
- Charlie Gard’s Parents End Legal Battle for Experimental Treatment July 24, 2017
- Man With Chainsaw Wounds Five People in Swiss City, Sparking Police Manhunt July 24, 2017
- SNOPES.COM COMMUNITY: WE NEED YOUR HELP July 24, 2017
- Marijuana Business Offers Weed for Weeds on Cleanup Day July 24, 2017
- Magonia Blog
- PICTURING PHILOSOPHY July 23, 2017
- AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES July 21, 2017
- NORTHERN ECHOES: 50 YEARS ON July 18, 2017
- SIGNPOSTS TO UTOPIA July 16, 2017
- GOD'S BLACK EYE July 12, 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
- "Disclosure" Mania Flares Up Again June 26, 2017
- In Search Of "Progress" in UFOlogy - At the End of the Road? June 19, 2017
- William Tompkins Reveals Reptilians, Nordics, Nazi Saucers, and Much More May 22, 2017
- Tom DeLonge's "Sixtyish" Days to UFO Disclosure Become "Ninetyish" May 17, 2017
- Satellites Flash and Flare April 7, 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
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- Curt Collins on saucers in pop culture
- UFOs, Sea Serpents, Ridicule and Disinformation July 17, 2017
- The Saucers That Time Forgot July 11, 2017
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Ufology is a Mess June 30, 2017
- 1954 UFO Whistleblower: Frank E Keely June 23, 2017
- John Keel, Witness to the Birth of the UFO Subculture June 16, 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
- Political Paul July 24, 2017
- Haunted - Stalking Dillon July 24, 2017
- Haunted July 23, 2017
- I Went to a Hockey Game and Some Synchronicity Broke Out! January 17, 2016
- A New Era for Physics? January 16, 2016
Tag Archives: UFOs
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
UFO Files exclusive: Cold War spyplane incident
The release by Britain’s Ministry of Defence of 15 of its last remaining UFO files at the UK’s National Archives has revealed details of a stunning Cold War close encounter witnessed by the entire crew of a US Air Force spy-plane. Formerly secret … Continue reading
Katharine Briggs award shortlist
My book How UFOs Conquered the World: the history of a modern myth was shortlisted by The Folklore Society for the Katharine Briggs book award for folklore scholarship in 2015. The judges described the book as ‘a lucid account based on 30+ years of … Continue reading
The Warminster Syndrome
It is 50 years since the Wiltshire town of Warminster, 15 miles west of Stonehenge, first became a centre of pilgrimage for British UFO watchers. As flying saucerers gather for a convention and skywatch to mark the anniversary of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Shuttlewood, British UFO Research Association, BUFORA, Cradle Hill, Dr Who, History of a Mystery, How UFOs Conquered the World, In Alien Heat, John Ries, ley-lines, Loch Ness Monster, New Age, Salisbury Plain, Steve Dewey, The Thing from Another World, The Warminster Journal, The Warminster Mystery, The Warminster Thing, UFOs, Warminster
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The Visit: an alien encounter
My personal highlight from the 2015 Sheffield’s International Documentary Film Festival is an experimental film that poses a fundamental human question – if aliens were to land on Earth, what would happen? What plans do governments and other agencies have in place to … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiral of the Fleet Lord Michael Boyce, alien visitations, Chief of Defence Staff, CNES, David Attenborough, David Cameron, Doug Vakoch, Lise Lense-Moller, Lord Boyce, Michael Madsen, Ministry of Defence, Paul Beaver, SETI, Sheffield Doc/Fest, The Visit: an alien encounter, UFOs, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, UN Security Council, United Nations, UNOOSA, Vickie Sheriff
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