Robert Sheaffer
Robert Sheaffer's "Psychic Vibrations" column has appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer for the past thirty years. He is also author of UFO Sightings: The Evidence (Prometheus 1998). He blogs at www.badUFOs.com.
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‘Mirage Men’—Disinformation Agents or Just a Mirage?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 41.1, January/February 2017
Psychic Vibrations
The ‘Phoenix Lights’ Become an ‘Incident’
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 40.4, July/August 2016
Psychic Vibrations
Until now, the Phoenix Lights were simply that: they were just lights in the sky, skeptics and proponents could agree.
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MUFON Gets into the Bigfoot Business
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 40.6, November/December 2016
Psychic Vibrations
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‘UFO Disclosure’ Happening Again This Year
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 40.5, September/October 2016
Psychic Vibrations
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New X-Files Renews Cover-Up Conspiracy Claims
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 40.3, May/June 2016
Psychic Vibrations
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Missiles and Saucers
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 40.2, March/April 2016
Psychic Vibrations
On Her Majesty’s Secret Saucers
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 39.6, November/December 2015
Review
A Review of How UFO's Conquered the World by David Clarke
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Hanging Out with Hangar 1
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 40.1, January/February 2016
Psychic Vibrations
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Invasion of the Pod People
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 40.1, January/February 2016
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The Rendle-Sham Case: Phony and Phonier
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 39.6, November/December 2015
Psychic Vibrations
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The ‘Roswell Slides’ Fiasco: UFOlogy’s Biggest Black Eye
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 39.5, September/October 2015
Psychic Vibrations
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UFO Conspiracies at the UFO Congress
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 39.4, July/August 2015
Psychic Vibrations
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Were Half of Recently Declassified UFO Reports CIA Flights?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 39.3, May/June 2015
Psychic Vibrations
The Trent UFO Photos—‘Best’ of All Time—Finally Busted?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 39.1, January/February 2015
Psychic Vibrations
Once again, farmer Paul Trent’s famous UFO photos from McMinnville, Oregon, are a hot topic in UFOlogy.
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Scientist Photographs Plastic Alien at Area 51
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 39.2, March/April 2015
Psychic Vibrations
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JAL 1628: Capt. Terauchi’s Marvelous ‘Spaceship’
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.6, November/December 2014
Psychic Vibrations
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Carl Sagan, Laurance Rockefeller, and UFOs
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.5, September/October 2014
Psychic Vibrations
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MUFON Jumps the Shark
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.4, July/August 2014
Psychic Vibrations
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Earthquake Lights Shine Again!
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.3, May/June 2014
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Saucer, Saucer, Who’s Got the Saucer?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.3, May/June 2014
Review
A review of Inside the Real Area 51: The Secret History of Wright Patterson, by Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt.
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Between a Beer Joint and a Highway Warning Sign: The ‘Classic’ Cash-Landrum Case Unravels
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.2, March/April 2014
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Australian Man Films Giant Glowing Object in the Sky and Then Deletes Comments Explaining What It Is
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.1, January/February 2014
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Delving into the Abduction Files
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.1, January/February 2014
Review
A review of The Alien Abduction Files by Kathleen Marden and Denise Stone
UFO Hoaxes? There’s an App for That!
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.6, November/December 2013
Psychic Vibrations
I knew that it was possible to create all manner of digital UFOs in photographs. What I did not realize was just how easy it has become.
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You Can’t Possibly Be Sirius!
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.5, September/October 2013
Psychic Vibrations
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UFOs in the Desert, 2013
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.4, July/August 2013
Psychic Vibrations
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Is Interstellar Travel ‘Preposterous’?
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.3, May/June 2013
Psychic Vibrations
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UFOs Infest Denver, Says Fox TV Affiliate
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.2, March/April 2013
Psychic Vibrations
Pretentious Whit
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.1, January/February 2013
Review
A review of Solving the Communion Enigma: What Is to Come by Whitley Strieber.
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Smithsonian-Affiliated National Atomic Testing Museum Promised to Reveal ‘UFO Secrets’
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 37.1, January/February 2013
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