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commentary on “Weird Space Cases”

 

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

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

Recent work:

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Jim's work on UFO sightings:

 
Myths of ‘Dead Russian Cosmonauts’
08/01/2008 - MORE ON THE NEW JUDICA-CORDIGLIA CLAIMS
3/1/2007: WHY I DON’T BELIEVE THE CLAIMS OF THE JUDICA-CORDIGLIA BROTHERS
1988 - Dead Cosmonauts, Gemini UFOs and Others
1/1975 - Space World Magazine: Phantoms of space - The secret dead Russian Comsonauts
 
Myths of the ‘Faked Space Missions’
04/2004 - Skeptical Inquirer: Lesson of the "Fake Moon Flight" Myth
 
Gordon Cooper UFO-related stories
2008 Note-of-Interest: Why Would Cooper Tell Such Tales?
Reply to Cohen critique (2003)
Cooper saves shuttle with relayed telepathic warning from space aliens
Cooper’s Gemini Stories Versus NASA History Archives
Cooper’s Imaginary Gemini-5 Meteor Attack
Cooper Garbles McDivitt’s UFO Story
Massive Effort To Locate Cooper UFO Report
1997 - Wall Street Journal on Cooper’s Business Disasters
1984 - The Hunt For Gordon Cooper's UFOs
Area 51 and Gordon Coopers "Confiscated Camera"
 
Mystery Spacecraft and Alternate Failure Theories
01/15/2010 - MSNBC.com: Did missile test spark Chinese UFO reports?

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

01/02/2007 - MSNBC.com:UFOs make holes in clouds – maybe….
03/06/2006 - MSNBC.com: Did Pentagon create orbital space plane?
07/08/2005 - MSNBC.com: Arabs claim comet probe is ‘space weapon’ (Deep Impact)
02/2000 - Space sex hoax rises again
06/30/2000 - Space.com: The Strange Case of Fobos-2
03/31/1999 - Purdue University (speech): The STS-48 "Zig Zag UFO" -- A Prosaic Explanation (large 12mb file - smaller version coming soon)
 
Soviet/Russian UFO Mysteries
Skeptical Inquirer, Jan-Feb 2009 -- Classic Soviet 1984 UFO was Top Secret Sub Missile Launch
10/1982 - MUFON UFO Journal: The Great Soviet UFO Coverup
1983 - FATE: Giant UFO Over Two Continents
12/1994 - OMNI: Rocket Launching Caused Famous 1984 Soviet UFO
04/1994 -OMNI Magazine: Soviet Saucers
Review of TNT "Soviet KGB UFO Files" program (1998)
08/08/2000 - Russian Report Says Most UFOs are Rocket Launches
08/20/2004 - MSNBC.com: Buffs Cling to Faded UFO Camouflage Stories
08/27/2007 - Caucasus Military Shoots at Re-entering Russian Satellite
05/15/2008 - MSNBC: How to crack a case from the UFO files (Soviet military missile event)
 
Miscellaneous Myths
03/29/2007 -- Fireball fears stoked by space history
11/2004 - Skeptical Inquirer: “New twist to old Tunguska UFO myth
08/28/2004 - Time: Strange Doings at Tunguska
08/12/2004 - MSNBC.com: Russians add new twist to old UFO myth
06/2002 - Astronomy magazine: UFO sightings caused by venting satellites
"STS-75 Non-Smoking Non-Gun"
Larry King Live Transcripts
Oberg/Hynek Debate
On Greer's 'Disclosure' Effort (1999)
02/1999 - STS-80 Alleged Space UFOs
1998 - OMNI Magazine: Quest For Evidence
The Gemini 4 UFO
Gemini 7 - Lessons and Legends
NASA STS-48 "UFO" Video June 1992

STS-48 Data Files

"My Original Report"

"Mike Bara's Critique"

"My Refutation of Bara's Critique"
The 'Null Hypothesis' (1985) also called 'The Black-Box Perception Model"
The Apollo-11 UFO Incidents UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries, 1982, Chapter 3
The Sirius Mystery UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries, 1982, Chapter Six
Tunguska Echos UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries, 1982, Chapter Seven
"The Failure of The Science of Ufology" (1979)
NASA's CL-862 "Space UFOs" video (1979)
Sky Dragons Behind the Media Curtain: UFOs in China
Shadowcraft: UFOs, Spy Planes, or Something Else?
Canary Islands UFOs of the 1970s - Were US Missiles
What are the flying triangles?
Space Vehicles Arrive -- But Whose?
Typical Pilot Misperceptions
NASA's "Moon Pigeons" Report (1971)



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