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| #1 | 4/3/2024 | Pentagon shrugs off all UFO reports (Bob Gaydos) The Defense Department investigating the Defense Department on a matter of wide public interest and controversy is probably not the best way to resolve long-standing questions. |
| #2 | 3/15/2024 | UFOs: Don't Expect The Truth From Government
(Thomas Knapp) The US government isn't telling us everything it knows about UFOs. And we can be certain that at least some of what it IS telling us is untrue.5  |
| #3 | 8/14/2023 | "We Deny It!" "Conspiracy Theory!" Versus "The True Cause Scale" (Gary Brumback) Are you skeptical about what the power elite of industry and government tell you? If so, try the True Cause Scale |
| #4 | 7/19/2023 | Gillibrand puts UFOs on her radar (Bob Gaydos) Recent balloon sightings and public comments by a high-level intelligence officer that the government has had a long-standing secret program of crash retrieval of unidentified spacecraft of "non-human origin," have given sudden urgency and immediacy to Kirsten Gillibrand's Senate post. And she's taking it seriously. |
| #5 | 6/29/2023 | Every Order Needs a Story
(Bart Klein Ikink) Every social order needs a story, and to protect the social order, the elites use propaganda. Every story contains falsehoods, and so does the liberal story that underpins our current order. The alternatives are often worse. But the liberal story is falling apart, so we may need a new powerful story we can believe in.1 |
| #6 | 6/17/2023 | UFOs: I Want to Believe, But I Trust No One (Well, No One from the Government, Anyway)
(Thomas Knapp) I truly do want to believe that at least some "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (aka UFOs) are spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin.
But to really believe it, I'd need to see real proof, not just claims un-backed by physical evidence, no matter how seemingly credible the source.3 |
| #7 | 4/24/2023 | Conspiracy Theories: The Public Trust Skepticism Factor (Fred Gransville) OpEdNews just published the excellent article by Michael Morrisey, From Transparent Conspiracy to In-Your-Face Fascism not only want us to know, but know we know. OpEdNews readers will be interested in this article that has been on the front page of any article you click on to read at the high traffic website whatdoesitmean since 2015, because it was inspired by Michael Morrisy. |
| #8 | 4/19/2023 | From Transparent Conspiracy to In-Your-Face Fascism
(Michael Morrissey) How recent history has changed what I used to see as "transparent conspiracy" to in-your-face fascism. They not only want us to know, but know we know.2 |
| #9 | 3/9/2023 | Nothing up here but us, uh, balloons (Bob Gaydos) Bottom line for the Pentagon? Don't patronize people who want to know what the heck is roaming around our atmosphere and don't act as if shooting down, never mind just seeing, a few UAPs or UFOs is no big deal. Local or interstellar, tell us what's going on out there. |
| #10 | 8/11/2022 | Recent Congress, Media Sensationalizing UFO "Sightings" Defuses Real Work When "Objects" Likely Not Extraterrestrial (Robert Weiner) The press ignores that UFOs are likely foreign spy satellites or asteroids of varied shapes. The "flashes of light" are likely sunlight reflections. The media and congress are pandering on the unproven instead of focusing on future missions to the moon and Mars. NASA and the press should quit pandering to UFO thrill seekers and consider UFOs as serious security threats to our country. |
| #11 | 6/22/2022 | Climate Alarmists, Amateurs, Hobbyists and Conspiracy Addicts
(Kevin Tully) There is little more annoying than amateurs, hobbyists and conspiracy addicts posting line after line of information they have found somewhere to prove their, uneducated and typically emotional, point.2 |
| #12 | 4/12/2022 | The Golden Age of Stupidity
(Dan Cooper) A romp in the world of the stupid, wherein we explore conspiracy theories and such, and the lack of mental acuity required to believe them.9 |
| #13 | 9/14/2021 | 9/12: The Greatest Regret of My Life
(Edward Snowden) "9/12: The Greatest Regret of My Life." Ed Snowden provides an excerpt from his fantastic memoir, Permanent Record.5 |
| #14 | 9/11/2021 | 9/11: Conspiracy Theorists vs. Fearists: The Fight Fight Club
(John Hawkins) 9/11: Conspiracy Theorists vs. Fearists: The Fight Fight Club. Here's all I'll ever say about 9/11. Time to return to the search for the Lost Chord, the portal out of here.5 |
| #15 | 8/23/2021 | Things We Can Do To Make the World Better (John Hawkins) Things We Can Do To Make the World Better. Let's be positive and at the same time assertive. We can make this better. |
| #16 | 6/21/2021 | Licensed Astrologers (James A. Haught) Astronomy - especially astrophysics - is a profoundly important branch of science. But astrology is silly nonsense, little different from palm-reading or Tarot card predictions. |
| #17 | 12/6/2020 | Playing musical monoliths, but with whom?
(Bob Gaydos) The three monoliths all popped up, seemingly out of nowhere, in remote areas of the planet, at the same time the Arecibo Radio Observatory, our famed ear to the universe, was falling down on itself in Puerto Rico. It's almost as if there's a silent message in the monoliths: Get your act together.1 |
| #18 | 6/24/2020 | Can one be a vegetarian and yet be masculine?
(Fakeer Ishavardas) One need not be a meat-eating being to be masculine. It is a wrong perception, perpetuated by obstinate men and by obsolete -isms. Confucius, Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci, Nikolai Tesla, Thomas Edison, Paul McCartney, the American civil-rights activist Rosa Parks, Steve Jobs, Abraham Lincoln, and the current Indian Prime Minister Narendera Modi are vegetarians. Dare one doubt the masculinity of the above cited? I think not.4 |
| #19 | 6/1/2020 | Thinking It Through: Conspiracy Theory Self-Defense (Peter Barus) A view is whatever you see from a certain point. A worldview does not involve an actual point in space-time: Only what we call "here". Another name for that location is "where I stand". We have dominion over that. |
| #20 | 5/21/2020 | Conspiracy-Theory Theory
(Peter Barus) As to identifying an evil perpetrator, you and I have nothing to go on, and no knowledge, and no access, and no tools or weapons with which to do anything at all about that. And most of the people who claim such knowledge have a vested interest in our believing them, and scant actual credibility, except maybe a large following. Like the President. That's not going to make me drink the Clorox.5 |
| #21 | 5/18/2020 | The Online Double-bind (Edward Curtin) The creation of the Internet and its near monopolization of news and information has created an addictive double-bind that has resulted in social schizophrenia. It is a magic show where words and images appear and disappear in an instant. Has it made life better or worse? Who runs the show? |
| #22 | 5/3/2020 | Some fishy loans and flashy UFOs (Bob Gaydos) Pandemic questions: What banks approved loans to major corporations from a federal program intended for small businesses? Also, why has the Pentagon been sitting on UFO videos? Who is in the hearse? And do you like Beyond burgers? |
| #23 | 4/2/2020 | Let's Outgrow Fairy Tales (James A. Haught) All religion consists of supernatural fairy tales. Modern, educated, intelligent, science-minded people are beyond such childishness. |
| #24 | 1/21/2020 | How Guide Dogs Really Work (Fred Gransville) Have you ever wondered how guide dogs know when to cross the road or how they know where to go? Most people believe that dogs know the difference between red and green traffic lights. In fact, some people even think guide dogs can tell time. Here's how guide dogs really work. |
| #25 | 12/27/2019 | Hunter finds Schuylkill: The "Hidden Trap Street" (Fred Gransville) I found scientific research that supported my conclusion that telepathic human and animal communication is possible, so I formed the hypothesis; Hunter can only find a location that either I knew consciously or subconsciously, or someone I was connected to, knew consciously or subconsciously. |
| #26 | 12/21/2019 | Hunter and My Hippocampus: The Real "House Hunters" (Fred Gransville) When I wrote about Hunter finding where I worked in 1972, I didn't understand the implications of Hunter accessing my implicit memory of the exact location. |
| #27 | 11/1/2019 | We are All Connected Including Whales and Dogs
(Fred Gransville) I am looking for enlightened people visiting OpEdNews who believe there is a metaphysical energy in the Universe that produces meaningful coincidences. Carl Jung's force of synchronicity, Unus mundus, is the theory that there is an underlying order and structure to reality: a network that connects everything and everyone.1 |
| #28 | 10/30/2019 | My Dog Found Where I Worked in 1972, Part 2
(Fred Gransville) I have been writing about Hunter, the Border Collie I got six weeks ago from Border Collies in Need. Hunter finds things, according to me, telepathically. The night I brought him home and parked 3 houses away, he found my house.5 |
| #29 | 10/27/2019 | The Trouble with Modernity
(James Hunter) Materialism is one of the main pillars of the modern mentality. This fact has real consequences. The materialist foundation of our science, our technology and our politics leads us to treat other people, other societies, other species and the ecological order itself as complex objects to be controlled, manipulated and exploited rather than conscious purposeful beings that must be respected and with whom we must negotiate.5 |
| #30 | 9/18/2019 | The US Navy's Attitude About Releasing UFO Videos is More Disturbing Than the UFO Videos
(Thomas Knapp) The US Navy confirms that three online videos showing two military air encounters with what it calls "unexplained aerial phenomena," and the rest of us call "unidentified flying objects" are authentic, Popular Mechanics reports.
The videos are interesting, and some might find them disturbing. What's more disturbing to me is that the Navy thinks they're none of our business 15, or even four, years later ...10 |
