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space age myths and legends
	Physics Forums: “This guy’s work was really impressive. I wouldn't have known where to start. This so beats our speculating about dubious news stories.” commentary on “Weird Space Cases” 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 He has researched UFO reports associated with space activities for more than 35 years. Recent work: 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. 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 Australian sky spiral -- coming soon
Norway UFO Day 2 [Russian ICBM Test Failure?] 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

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?
1980 - Smithsonian UFO Symposium: Oberg's remarks
06/1979 - OMNI: UFO Summit with Hynek and Oberg
Typical Pilot Misperceptions
NASA's "Moon Pigeons" Report (1971)
"Myths and Mysteries of the Moon" Chapter 4, "UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries", 1982 (large PDF - 7mb) Centuries of stories: Gruithuisen's 'Moon City' (1823), NY Sun's moon men (1835), the vanishing crater Linné, psychic predictions of the moon's hidden side, the vanishing "Soviet Mountains" of the Luna-3 images (1959), towering moon spires ("Blair Cuspids"), Joseph Goodavage's articles (1970's), Apollo-16 moonwalkers buzzed by UFOs, "Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon" by Don Wilson (1975) including Gordon Cooper's Mercury-9 UFO report and the moon's hollowness [based on a satirical prank Soviet story by Vasin and Shcherbakov], George Leonard's "Somebody Else is on the Moon" (1976), Jim Safran's moon critter drawings, William Kaysing's 'Apollo hoax' theory, the books of Morris Jessup, and others.