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
- THE SUPERNATURAL IN WARTIME February 12, 2019
- SLENDERMAN - LIVING THE LEGEND February 8, 2019
- MAD ABOUT MONSTERS February 2, 2019
- THE WORLD OF SCIENCE January 22, 2019
- THE FALL AND RISE OF MODERN MAGIC January 17, 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
- 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
- UFOs and Alien Monsters from Outer Space October 24, 2018
- Jessie Roestenburg’s 1954 UFO Encounter and Beyond October 19, 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: UFOs
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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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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Yorkshire UFO crash mystery solved – after 60 years
THE wreckage of a miniature UFO that ‘crash landed’ on the North York Moors sixty years ago has been found – hidden in the archives of a London museum. The story has been claimed by some as Britain’s answer to … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Ministry, Anthony Parker, archives, Britain's Roswell, Broxa Forest, Cold War, Frank Dickenson, hieroglyphics, IRA, Jenny Randles, Lord Dowding, Manchester University, Ministry of Defence, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, Philip Longbottom, Roswell, Scarborough, Scarborough Evening News, Sheffield Hallam University, Silpho Moor, Silpho Moor Object, Silpho Saucer, Sputnik, The National Archives, The Natural History Museum, The Science Museum, The X-Files, UFO crash, UFOs, Ullo, Yorkshire Post
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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
