UFO Religions

Prometheus and Zeta Reticuli

MSH — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:05:37 +0000

Silver Screen Saucers has a nice post on the zealous promotion of the ancient alien fantasy that seems to be guiding the soon-to-be-released Prometheus, the prequel to the Alien film franchise. Here’s a short excerpt:

Just as you thought the Ancient-Astronaut-inspired Prometheus couldn’t get any more ‘UFOey,’ a new featurette for the movie reveals that the alien planet to which the human characters travel to meet their makers is none other than Zeta(2) Reticuli.

The link in the quotation leads to another SSS post about Prometheus that features the opinions of Alex Jones (“the high priest of the conspiracy community”). For those who don’t know Alex Jones, he’s also famous for being the guy who saw Charlie Sheen’s hernia.

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Majestic Documents and MJ12: 25th Anniversary

MSH — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:39:19 +0000

Nick Redfern marks the 25th anniversary of the infamous Majestic-12 mystery over at Mysterious Universe. I don’t put much stock in the MJ-12 documents since I had them tested by a computational linguist specializing in authorship attribution studies.

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Roswell, Body Snatchers, and Chronology of Events

MSH — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:52:57 +0000

For those who have not read Nick Redfern’s book, Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story, shame on you … but now you can catch up a bit very quickly. Nick just posted a summary of the timeline that underlies the major points of his contention, that the event at Roswell was very human, and inhumane, hence the cover-up. (Note: I reviewed Nick’s book on this blog).

Technorati Tags: balloon, bodies, body snatchers, experimentation, Fugo, Japanese, progeria, redfern, Roswell, UFO, Unit 731

Ancient Aliens Debunked: The Official Trailer

MSH — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:22:07 +0000

I’m guessing all UFO Religions readers know about the Ancient Aliens series put out by the Fantasy Channel (still though of by many as the History Channel). I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be interviewed later this summer for the documentary film response, Ancient Aliens Debunked. If you visit the link you can sign up for email notification when the documentary is released. It will be FREE and viewable online. The trailer is below. The film is being produced by Chris White. Since the documentary will be free, all of the expense incurred by Chris is his own. This has been true of his online and YouTube ministry since its inception. Please visit his site to donate and help support this project!

Technorati Tags: aliens, ancient aliens, Anunnaki, archaeology, Bible, chris white, cuneiform, documentary, hatcher childress, history channel, michael heiser, nibiru, Sitchin, Sumerian, tsoukalos, UFOs, von Daniken

Validating Signs of Intelligence (Where We Want to Anyway)

MSH — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:09:46 +0000

What if someday we detect a signal from outer space that turned out to be the Fibonacci sequence? Would that be proof of extraterrestrial intelligence?

Be careful how you answer!

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Can Christianity Accommodate An Extraterrestrial Reality? Dr. Heiser’s 2003 God, Man, ET Lecture

MSH — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:33:50 +0000

I just came across my lecture from the 2003 God, Man, and ET Conference on YouTube. The event was hosted at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. I participated in the planning of the event. Aside from myself, the speakers were Dr. Hugh Ross, Dr. Paul Nelson, Richard Hoagland, and the late David Flynn.Cheryl Jones was MC and my good friend and former teaching colleague Doug Vardell served as moderator.

I had no idea it was on YouTube. You can watch it below (be patient, it takes 8-9 minutes to actually get to the lecture, and the whole thing is one hour and twenty minutes long).

I also found the panel discussion from the event (also over an hour long). Enjoy!

Technorati Tags: Christianity, conference, David Flynn, ET, extraterrestrial life, fundamentalism, God, Heiser, Hoagland, Hugh Ross, judaism, man, Paul Nelson, religion

Extraterrestrial Life Comes from Earth?

MSH — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:10:56 +0000

The Uncommon Descent blog has some pull quotes from an article from the Technology Review/Physics Archiv blog entitled, “The Amazing Trajectories of Life-Bearing Meteorites from Earth” that make that point.

This is the idea that, when earth was struck by space objects in the distant past (e.g., asteroids), material from earth was ejected up into space from the impact, and that material held living organisms. The material was then drawn out into space by various forces. The implication is that if some of that debris made it to various moons or back to earth and was discovered today, it might mistakenly be interpreted as ET life, but it actually originated on earth.

As the Uncommon Descent link notes, astronomer Hugh Ross has been saying this for many years. I recall it from the God, Man, and ET Conference where we were both speakers, as well as some of his radio appearances. But I’d never seen (probably because I never felt compelled enough to look) any journal literature on it. Very interesting.

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Mirage Men Trailer

MSH — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:16:59 +0000

I wasn’t aware that the Mirage Men, a book I reviewed here some months ago, was being made into documentary film. I liked the book, so hopefully the film will be well done. Here’s a look at the recently released teaser-trailer.

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Hippies Waiting for Alien Ark for 2012 Rescue

MSH — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:16:49 +0000

I think I’ve seen this in a movie.

Camper loads of happily deluded new-age pilgrim-hippies (pippies sounds like a good term to coin here) have descended upon the Pyrenean village of Bugarach, where a mountain overshadowing the tiny hamlet has been labeled the landing spot for an extraterrestrial Noah’s Ark that believers expect to arrive on December 21, the mythical Mayan doomsday.

I’ve been reading about this sort of nonsense for years, but I’m still amazed at how people can be so detached from reality and, in this case, normalcy. Honestly, would anyone you know give up their lives to go camp out at a mountain waiting for ET? I’ve been to several UFO conferences and can honestly say I’ve never met anyone who expressed this kind of wish (out loud, anyway). Then again, there really is a flat earth society.

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Of Starseeds and Hayseeds

MSH — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 03:40:07 +0000

I wanted to call the attention of readers to this informative and humorous post from Skeptophilia entitled, “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Starseed.” The post is about the nonsensical new-age fantasy maintained by some people that they are actually extraterrestrials in human guise. The post is especially adept at making two items clear: (1) the deeply flawed and self-delusional logic that convinces these poor souls that they are really aliens; and (2) the contrived “research” on the part of people like Brad Steiger aimed at reinforcing the delusion (and selling books).

Granted, I don’t think all of Steiger’s work is this bogus. And to be fair, Steiger doesn’t seem to do research; rather, he “reports” things found somewhere (where?). But this material gets re-cast as though it were empirical, when the string of statistics drawn from his work in this post has absolutely no basis in empirical research. Without citations of actual studies or at least peer-reviewed article references, or URLs to lab reports for these “findings,” the enterprise is irresponsible. Less academically: it’s faked statistical BS that leads to reinforcing a false view of reality and, for these folks, themselves.

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