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In English-language media, we're accustomed to using the terms, "UFO" and "Alien" interchangeably. While this may seem harmless enough, it is detrimental to a focused, data-conscious debate on UFOs. Here is why.

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Over the past 45 years, researchers have amassed a sizable body of literature attesting to the human ability to "sense" things in the future. The data are controversial, but they've proven tough to explain as anything but evidence that there's a lot more to consciousness than we'd previously assumed.

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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

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Sources:

Cerdena, Etzel, John Palmer and Avid Marcusson-Clavertz. "Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century." Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2015.

Bierman, Dick and Dean Radin. “Anomalous anticipatory response on randomized future conditions.” Perceptual and Motor Skills 84.

Kennedy, James and Jerry Levin. “The Relationship of Slow Cortical Potentials to Psi Information Man, Journal of Parapsychology," 39, 1975.

Mossbridge, Julia, Patrizio Trespoli and Jessica Utts. “Predictive physiological anticipation preceding seemingly unpredictable stimuli: a meta-analysis.” Frontiers in Psychology 3:390, 2012: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00390

Radin, Dean. “Unconscious Perception of Future Emotions: An Experiment in Presentiment.” journal of Scientific Exploration 11, no. 2, 1997.

Tressoldi, Patrizio. "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: The Case of Non Local Perception, a Classical and Bayesian Review of Evidences.” Frontiers in Psychology 2 (no. 117) (2011).

Vassy, Zoltan. “Method for Measuring the Probability of 1 bit extra-sensory information transfer between living organisms." Journal of Parapsychology 42, no. 2, 1978.

While it's commonly dismissed as a hoax, the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film of 1967 is in fact one of the greatest pieces of evidence in the hunt for the Sasquatch. It has withstood decades of scientific scrutiny, and even come to define the image of the Bigfoot in the public imagination.

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Sources:

Jeff Meldrum. "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science." New York: Tom Doherty, 2006.

Rupert Matthews. Sasquatch: North America's Enduring Mystery. London: Arcturus, 2008.

The Sandown “ghost clown” is a name assigned to a bizarre entity seen by two British children on the Isle of Wight in 1973. It is known for its highly unusual appearance, which may actually be an important clue in understanding anomalous entity encounters, including those with so-called “aliens.”

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Special thanks to @JustAnotherTinFoilHat for finding the similar Metal Hut case in The Mothman Prophecies (1975): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpgcXUlm-WQ

​American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. “Lying and Children.” No. 44, Updated July 2017.

Bord, Janet and Colin. Modern Mysteries of Britain: One Hundred Years of Strange Events. London, Diamond Books, 1991. https://archive.org/details/modernmysterieso0000jane_k0f9/mode/2up.

British UFO Research Association. BUFORA website: https://bufora.org.uk/Home.php.

CollinsDictionary.com. “Pied definition and meaning.” https://collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/pied.

Davis, Isabel, Ted Bloecher. Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955. Center for UFO Studies, 1978.

Giovinco, Mike. “HOBO AND TRAMP – HISTORY VS. PRACTICUM.” MichaelGiovinco.com. May 12, 2016.

Hynek, J. Allen. The UFO experience: A Scientific Inquiry. Ballantine Books: New York, NY, USA, 1972. https://archive.org/details/ufoexperience00jall/mode/2up.

Kadushin, Raphael. “The grim truth behind the Pied Piper.” BBC.com. September 3, 2020.

Keel, John. The Mothman Prophecies. Tor: New York, NY, USA, (1975) 2002.

Merriam-Webster.com. “Pied Definition & Meaning.”

Oliver, Norman. “Report - Extra! Ghost or Spaceman ‘73?” British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) Journal. January/February 1978. Vol. 6, No. 5. 9 - 13.

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For 8 months in 1896 and 1897, people in the US and Canada saw mysterious lights in the sky, and sometimes, spectacular, winged airships and dirigibles. The airships are early examples of UFOs, after the "wonders" of ancient times, and before the modern mythology of extraterrestrial spacecraft dominated UFO discourse.

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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

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Selected Sources:

Jacobs, David. The UFO Controversy In America. Indiana University Press, 1975.

Reece, Gregory L (August 21, 2007). UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007.

Daniel Cohen. The Great Airship Mystery: A UFO of the 1890s. New York: Dodd Mead, 1981.

Wallace Chariton. The Great Texas Airship Mystery. 1991

Rudolph Umland. “Phantom Airships of the Nineties.” Prairie Schooner 12 (winter 1938): 247-260.

Loren E. Gross. Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, & Unidentified Flying Objects. 2st ed. Fremont, CA: Loren E. Gross, 1976.

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Several weeks before Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting, two men from Washington state claimed to have encountered several flying saucers on Maury Island, and later, a Man in Black. The incident is commonly dismissed as a hoax, but a few details of the case point to something more sinister than a mere prank...

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Sources:

Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson. "The Maury Island UFO Incident: the Story behind the Air Force’s first military plane crash." Seattle: LeFevre and Lipson, 2014.

George Dudding. "The Maury Island UFO Encounter." Spencer, WV: GSD, 2015.

Kenn Thomas. "Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy." San Francisco: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 1999.

Kenneth's Arnold's famous sighting in 1947 has often been called the "first" UFO sighting in history. While this is far from the truth, the reaction from the US government, and society at large, makes Arnold's encounter a turning point in the history of UFOs.

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Sources:

Radio Interview with Kenneth Arnold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPdN8WpzLxg

Ted Bloecher. Report on the UFO Wave of 1947. NICAP, 1967:

https://nicap.org/waves/Wave47Rpt/ReportOnWaveOf1947.pdf

Curtis Peebles. Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth. New York: Berkley, 1995.

Richard Dolan. UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2002.

Edward Ruppelt. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1956.

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When J. Allen Hynek was first hired by the US Air Force to consult on their UFO research, he was reluctantly complicit in their debunking agenda. But as he investigated more and more baffling cases, he eventually changed his mind on the UFO question, and led the world in the effort to create a true science of UFOs.

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Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau.

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Music by Josh Chamberland.

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Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland.

Sources:

Mark O'Connell. "The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs." New York: Harper Collins, 2017.

Edward Ruppelt. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. New York: Doubleday, 1956).

Richard Dolan. UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941-1973. Charlottesville: Hampton Roads, 2002. 1938): 247-260.

David Jacobs. The UFO Controversy in America. Don Mills, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1975.

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In the mid seventeenth century, a woman in Pavia, Italy, was hounded in the night by a soft, seductive voice and a strange, small man. Hieronyma's experiences, though certainly unique, are also not unlike the experiences of those who suffer from modern-day sleep paralysis, or alien abductions.

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Sources:

Ludovico Maria Sinistrari de Ameno. Demonality, Incubi and Succubi. Translated from the original Latin. Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1879. Available online: https://archive.org/details/demonialityorinc00sinirich/page/n11/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater

David Gordon White. Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Jeffrey Kripal and Whitley Strieber. The Super Natural. New York: Tarcher/ Penguin, 2016.

Jacques Vallée. Passport to Magonia. Brisbane: Daily Grail Publishing, 2014.

Interview with David Hufford:

https://www.academia.edu/4041334/_From_Sleep_Paralysis_to_Spiritual_Experience_An_Interview_with_David_Hufford_Paranthropology_vol._4_no._3_2013_

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In 1991, two British men shocked the world when they confessed to hoaxing all the famous crop circles found in England in recent years. However, a detailed examination of their claims shows that these men could not possibly have started the crop circle phenomenon, and probably had nothing to do with the famous circles in Wiltshire, England, or anywhere else.

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Special thanks to Terry Wilson for all his work on this case and for reviewing the script of this video for accuracy. Visit his website for an exhaustive debunking of the Bower and Chorley story at www.menwhoconnedtheworld.weebly.com.

Also thank you to Van Hunt for contributing important research: VanHunt.com

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Some sources:

Terry Wilson. Men Who Conned the World. Accessed Dec 12, 2018: https://menwhoconnedtheworld.weebly.com.

Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews. Circular Evidence: a Detailed Investigation of the Flattened Swirled Crops Phenomenon. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., 1989.

Terry Wilson. The Secret History of Crop Circles: Recording the Phenomenon In Days of Old. Paignton, UK: Terry Wilson, 2015.

Crop Circles: The Human Experience. Interview with Colin Andrews, by Diane M. Cooper: http://spiritofmaat.com/archive/dec2/andrews.htm.

Interview with David Chorley on CBC radio (Canada), September 9, 1991. Full transcript: https://menwhoconnedtheworld.weebly.com/canadian-radio-interview.html.

Interview with Doug Bower and George Wingfield by DJ Nicky Campbell on Into the Night, BBC Radio 1, Sept 10, 1991: https://youtube.com/watch?v=47IF1DPiiTY.

John Rand Capron, letter to the editor, Nature 22 (May - October, 1880): 290 - 291.