"'Unexplained' doesn't mean alien, as the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson emphasised on CNN after the footage was released: 'Just because you don't know what it is you're looking at doesn't mean it's intelligent aliens from another planet.' Well, yes, but credible alternative explanations are … [Read more...]
Michael Shermer – A Skeptic’s Story of Alien Abduction
"On Monday, August 8, 1983, I was abducted by aliens." That's how Michael Shermer, founder and director of The Skeptics Society, opens the chapter on UFO abductions in his book Why People Believe Weird Things. You just know, don't you, that he's speaking tongue-in-cheek? He intends his story … [Read more...]
The “Roswell Slides” and Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Roswell Alleged Alien Photos Are Fake Says Neil deGrasse Tyson," proclaimed the "BizTek Mojo" website on May 8, three days after the anticlimactic unveiling of the so-called "Roswell Slides" in Mexico City. But Neil deGrasse Tyson didn't say that at all. What the distinguished astrophysicist … [Read more...]
