​This week, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson released a new book about extraterrestrials, Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter, which was greeted with fairly negative reviews for its superficial combination of science trivia and movie references. Somehow, Tyson (…)

On Sunday, Corsetti released his promised video attacking Zahi Hawass. During his appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Friday, Hawass had stated that nothing had been found in the Osiris Shaft sarcophagus, which was empty when it was opened in 1999. Corsetti correctly notes that when Hawass (…)

​On Friday, Piers Morgan Uncensored aired an hour-long episode featuring an interview with Egyptologist Zahi Hawass and a debate between Hawass and three fringe history social media agitators. The episode was a sequel to one that aired last year that found the host asking if debunking fringe (…)

Last week, a professor of English claimed that Satan’s fall to Earth in Dante’s Inferno was an accurate description of a meteor strike on the planet. Timothy Burbery of Marshall University made the claim that Dante engaged in a thought experiment in impact physics to the European Geosciences (…)

​More than a quarter-century ago, the CIA released a 1952 archival document listing archived photographs taken in 1950. According to the heavily redacted 10-page document, a couple whose names were withheld—but were certainly anthropologist and Afghanistan scholar Louis Dupree and his first (…)

Archaeologists racing to excavate the bones of a lost race of giants in a remote wilderness. Hints of a lost civilization. An attack by hostile Natives, and sensational dispatches from a reporter on the scene. But how much of it really happened?​When the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (…)

​This week, Josh Gates’s Expedition Files, the Expedition Unknown spinoff composed of CGI and stock footage as Gates narrates rehashed content against a greenscreen, devoted its final half-hour to “new” discoveries that allegedly suggest Atlantis is a real place. Or, rather, Gates teased a (…)

Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet had a distinguished career in the Navy and in oceanography before he became obsessed with UFOs and the paranormal. Now he’s better known for his frequent appearances on the UFO podcast circuit and on cable news channels to promote UFO conspiracy theories, especially (…)

​It’s been a busy couple of days across across the world of lost civilization, ancient astronaut, and UFO conspiracies. Scott Wolter put out a new conspiracy theory on Facebook, bringing in the dubious Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis to now claim that the comet that believers imagine struck the (…)

​In the wake of an FBI investigation into the statistically unremarkable deaths and disappearances of a handful of government scientists linked to nuclear secrets and UFOs, I sarcastically observed in an earlier blog post that proportionally more cast members from Ancient Aliens had died this (…)