Amid a new flurry of media coverage, we revisit some of our favorite stories about ufologists and close encounters.
conspiracy theories
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Star Reporter’s Break With Reality
“Lara Logan was once a respected 60 Minutes correspondent. Now she trades in conspiracy theories that even far-right media disavow. What happened?”
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The Wildfire, the Hunter, and a Decade of Conspiracy Theories
“Looking back now, a decade later, the Rim Fire feels like a prelude to disaster — a cleared throat ahead of an End Times scream.”
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Conspiracy Theorists Made Tiffany Dover into An Anti-Vaccine Icon. She’s Finally Ready to Talk About It.
“The Tennessee nurse stayed quiet in hopes that her silence would quiet false claims of her death. Now, she says it only hurt.”
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The Untold Story of the Insular Texas Family That Invaded the U.S. Capitol
“The Munns became a national curiosity after five of them were indicted for participating in the insurrection. But the full scope of their malignant behavior is little known—including to the federal prosecutors tasked with investigating their crimes.”
Posted inReading List
Stranger Things: A Reading List of Unsolved Mysteries
Tales of odd phenomena stoke our imagination even as they tease us.
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What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers’ Brains?
“Social media platforms are sucking a generation into a misinformation rabbit hole.”
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Standout, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Two: The Hunter and the Bomb
The story was that a radical man set off a bomb in the desert. But what about everything else that happened?
Posted inNonfiction
United States of Conspiracy: An Interview with Anna Merlan
“Most people in America believe in one conspiracy to some extent, but the far end of the pool … is this desire to show that you really do reject all knowable authority.”
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Story
The Politics of UFOs
In the past few years the world of UFO “researchers” has been afflicted by the kinds of conspiratorial cracks that have appeared throughout American culture: Who can be trusted?