Yankee Blue, a purported Air Force disinformation program aimed at its own officers to convince them that the military was working on captured alien technology (or was it a hazing ritual that went too far?) was revealed to the public in a June 2025 Wall Street Journal article and had been reportedly discovered by AARO in its investigations. It has set off a debate about how much of the UFO mythos from the 1980s onwards has been down to a government deception. An important ca

Ever wondered why Lue Elizondo, self-described "torture czar" at Gitmo and "head of AATIP" ( he wasn't ; he was "head" of his own...

Long-term researcher Vincente-Juan Ballester Olmos and I have released a new paper delving into the confusion surrounding AATIP and...

Some recent items in the world of ufology: AARO released its Historical Record Report Volume 1 reviewing the US government's historical interactions with the UAP/UFO topic, going back to 1945 (the impetus for 1945 as the starting point harks back to the completely debunked Trinity story pushed by Jacques Vallee and Paola Harris in their book "Trinity: The Best Kept Secret" ). An observation in the report was that UFO crash retrieval/reverse-engineering narratives are likely

New: please download this excellent and extensive volume, edited by Vicente-Juan and Richard W. Heiden: https://www.academia.edu/10192261...

It is apparent to anyone unfortunate enough to have spent any significant amount of time on social media, or who is masochistic enough to...

In any complex narrative, it can be tricky to keep track of all the players, who is talking to who, and where everyone fits in. Visual aids can help, so I've endeavored to map out narratives that I read about in books and articles using association charts. At a glance, one can be reminded of the links among the various players and the possible common threads of interest among them or the institutions involved. These charts do not necessarily tell us what's causally taking pla