A new book by authors Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel explores what might happen if UFOs turned out to really be from another world. There are some insightful ideas contained in this book, regrettably packaged with credulity-straining aspects of the ‘disclosure’ movement. The consequences of extraterrestrial contact are much more important and vital...

Annie Jacobsen’s recent bestseller is a curiously unbalanced book: on one hand it reads as a sober historical account of one of America’s most prevailing twentieth-century mysteries; on the other hand it relishes in the intrigue and mythology surrounding Area 51 to such an extent that one isn’t sure by the end if they are closer or...

One of the memes that help to constitute the modern UFO myth has it that craft piloted by extraterrestrials have crashed on Earth, the crash debris being secretly recovered by military authorities acting without democratic oversight. Indeed, the modern Roswell myth has been so thoroughly traveled that it now frequently stands in as a metonym for the...

Enrico Fermi was a physicist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1950s. Following a discussion about extraterrestrial intelligence with colleagues, he apocryphally posed the question, ‘Where are they?’. By which he meant that it seemed impossible, if life existed elsewhere in the universe, that we had not yet seen evidence of it given...

Nick Redfern is an alternative historian and author of a number of books on UFOs and government secrecy. Unlike a lot of conspiracy theorists, however, Redfern brings a thoughtful and critical eye to these questions and complements his speculation with methodical archival research. That’s why the title of his most recent book is likely misleading....