Lessons from the other side
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 12-21-2019 | 5 comments
On the night of 6/12/2018 my wife and I were in our living room watching TV when, to her shock and horror, she noticed that I was dead. I was sitting upright, e...

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Panspermia revisited
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 11-27-2019 | 7 comments
Are we all "aliens"? Did all life on Earth originate elsewhere, with one-celled extremophile bacteria (and perhaps more complex, multi-celled organisms) spreadi...

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The planets that never were
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 6-15-2019 | 3 comments
There has long been a theory that at least some UFOs are craft from one or more alien planets. But which planets? Decades ago it was possible to speculate about...

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The Time of Moses
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 7-30-2016 | 4 comments
A good many people used to be fairly familiar with the basic Biblical narrative: A people called the Israelites, more or less the ancestors of modern Jews, were...

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Lemuria
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 6-14-2014 | 2 comments
The legend of Atlantis dates all the way back to Plato, and, according to Plato, the Greeks learned of Atlantis from the Egyptians. By contrast, the legend of a...

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Forrestal
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 5-20-2014 | 4 comments
On 5/22/49 a man jumped, fell, or was thrown or pushed from a small window on the sixteenth floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington, D.C. A cord from a b...

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The Dirty Dozen
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 4-17-2014 | 6 comments
The term “UFO” means “Unidentified Flying Object.” It does not mean that we are being visited by Sirian Beamships or Pleiadeian Space Brothers. All it means is ...

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Cracks in the Earth
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 3-27-2014 | 0 comments
The current reigning paradigm in geology and geophysics is plate tectonics, the belief that the Earth’s crust is divided into a number of “plates,” which are in...

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The beginning of the end
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 2-5-2014 | 6 comments
Many of us suspected that some Earth-shaking event might take place on 1/1/2000 or, more likely, 12/21/2012; if not the end of the world, at least the end of th...

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Who killed the Kingfish ?
Columnist: William B Stoecker | Posted on 1-11-2014 | 1 comment
Huey Long (1893-1935), nicknamed the “Kingfish,” was a complex driven man, often ruthless, even unscrupulous. Governor of Louisiana and later Senator from that ...