space age myths and legends

11/09/2010 - SPECTRUM: Mystery Missile Wasn't a Missile at All

Jim featured on May 18, 2008, NBC Dateline special on UFO sightings

• Comments on Dateline program

Jim has researched UFO reports associated with space activities for more than 35 years.

Recent work:

• Huffington Post (quotes and comments): UFO Sightings At International Space Station On The Rise
• MSNBC (May 15) – Top Soviet UFO Sighting (1984) – Solved At Last
• MSNBC (Jan 15, 2010): Did missile test spark Chinese UFO reports? In an ironic encore, yet another secret military missile test - this time, in China - has sparked widespread UFO reports from surprised ground witnesses.
• RationalWiki entry on Jim
• June 8, 2012 -- ADVISORY -- Unusual Russian missile test sparks mideast UFO flap

Lecture Available:

• "Soviet Saucers and Space Secrets"
• Sample slides from lecture

Jim's work on UFO sightings:

• 07/23/1993 - Oberg NASA briefing: Mitigation of Hazards of Spacecraft-Generated Debris
• How Does the Shuttle External TV Camera Actually Work? part 1, part 2
• Jim's Assessment of "Kecksburg UFO Crash" stories (2008)
• Jim’s research on Soviet UFOs caused by missile/space activity
• Jim’s Perspective on ‘Ufology’ in light of prosaic causes
• More specific ‘astronaut UFO sightings’ explained
• Critiques of “Documentaries” and YOUTUBE Videos on ‘Astronaut UFOs’ (coming soon)
• Alleged astronaut-related UFO testimony
• Great East Coast Spiral UFO
• Other worldwide UFO reports sparked by human space activity

Kean book

Thursday morning Moscow papers are reporting on the Norway photos/videos and the speculation it's a failed Bulava launch, but so far no comment from the Defense Ministry. Only one TV channel, RenTV, has mentioned it -- a good indicator that the other state-owned broadcasters recognize the probability (or have received orders) that silence is best for potential military accidents.

Alan Boyle at MSNBC has a commentary on it.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:56 PM by Alan Boyle

Kommersant's ace aerospace reporter Ivan Konovalov reports in Thursday's paper that an MoD source says the failure was in the third stage.

My interview is here
Rachel Maddow show, Dec 9, 2009-12-09 (5:07 segment)
Dramatic spiral UFO explained

01/21/2008 - The Space Review: The dark side of space disaster theories

Richard Dolan's Tinfoil Hat; a General Systems Theory of Conspiracy
By: Michael R. Schuyler January, 2010

Schuyler comments: "This is a review of the second volume of Richard Dolan's "UFOs and the NationalSecurity State." The first, subtitled "Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941-1973," published originally in 2000, was greeted with near universal acclaim. Why? Because Dolan is seen as a meticulous writer. He actually uses footnotes. He cites his sources. He provides a comprehensive bibliography. He is not the only UFO author who has done this, but it's fair to say he comes across as the best and most scholarly-sounding writer who also appeals to those outside academia. Compared to the usual UFO books, the original really was a breath of fresh air. This second volume is "The cover-up exposed, 1973-1991," picking up where the earlier volume stopped. It's vintage Dolan."