There's a depressing new trend in London where all new cars must now be the same flat, non-metallic grey as the city’s street furniture: utility cabinets, lamp poles, and wheelie bins.

“What’s that with the big crazy eyes?” 👽

My essay about Margaret Keane and some alternative ideas about what inspired her lifelong obsession with painting big-eyed creatures.
gideonreid.co.uk/category/the... #ufo #folklore

One of the details I got slightly wrong was to say Cynthia Hind was a British expat, when in fact she'd grown up in South Africa, moved to the UK, then returned to Africa and lived in Zimbabwe.

Episode 9.6B: Podcast Episode · Paranoid Planet · 16 April · 2h 40m

My recent long-form conversation with historian Michel Gagné, where we talked about science fiction's influence on alien contact stories, Ariel School, and the art and life of Margaret Keane.
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#ufo #folklore

Hey Grok is this rea...oh shoot...

Protection in the Nuclear Age YouTube video by CONELRAD6401240

"Our Government will do everything in its power to keep the peace"...
'Protection the the Nuclear Age' (1978) youtu.be/8j6K1dh53Uk?...

Protection In the Nuclear Age - Defense Civil Preparedness Agency Dept of Defense (1977)
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"The American people are being deliberately misled by their government, which is providing false information about the possibility of protection from the
effects of nuclear explosions."

'Staying Ignorant About Nuclear War'
Editorial by John Mack, 1985.

www.jstor.org/stable/37910...

I don't know but it looks important.

That copy was on a family bookshelf. I was looking at it just last week. Love how each colour illustration has a tissue paper cover with the title.

#0063 - Dan Farah: UFO Disclosure Podcast Episode · The Know Rogan Experience · 14 April · 1hr 31min

Michael Marshall & Cecil Cicirello are consistently meticulous in covering the wild claims made by Rogan & his guests. Here they cover Dan Farah's UFO propaganda film 'The Age of Disclosure.'
Bonus: They mention my recent article about Ariel School! #ufo podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Oahspe the "strange new bible" lead to the founding of a breakaway colony in New Mexico. It struggled to establish itself and was plagued by tragedies. This unfortunate death was news to me:

The Mysteries of Under Plum Lake - Gideon Reid In 1980, British novelist Lionel Davidson, best known for his crime thrillers, published an uncharacteristic children’s novel: Under Plum Lake. On the surface, it is a whimsical story about a 12-year-...

It's beyond coincidence that "tricky" Lionel Davidson opens Under Plum Lake with "I went down" — the same as Plato's Republic. In both, an analogous journey through a cave, one ascending, the other descending — leads toward ontological shock & revelation. gideonreid.co.uk/the-mysterie...

Wee Willie Winkie — Arthur Rackham

“The White Rabbit splendidly dressed, came trotting along in a great hurry.” — Gwynedd M. Hudson (illus.)

Russian Rocket Over Africa - Gideon Reid An investigation of the lights seen in the sky over Southern Africa on 14 Sept 1994, that explains what the lights really were, and why decades later the event and its sensationalist media coverage ar...

What the lights in the sky actually were: gideonreid.co.uk/russian-rock...

Lights in the Sky Over Zimbabwe: Contemporaneous Newspaper Stories From 1994 - Gideon Reid Lights in the Sky over Zimbabwe: Contemporaneous Newspaper Stories from The Herald newspaper in Zimbabwe in 1994. These clippings show how the reports about the reentry of the upper stage rocket that ...

Other local newspaper stories at the time show the confusion about what the lights actually were lasted for several weeks.
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One of the first tabloid newspaper reports in The Manica Post on the Russian rocket booster reentry over Zimbabwe on 14 Sept '94. Printed on 16 Sept, the day of the Ariel School disturbance. Local media did little to explain the actual cause of the lights seen in the sky. #ufo

One of the Ariel School drawings showing a "flying saucer" with landing gear, and an advertisement run on the front page of The Herald, Zimbabwe's largest newspaper, for a local clothing store in Harare named "U.F.O. (United Factory Outlet)”
For more: www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/03/the-...

The Mysteries of Under Plum Lake - Gideon Reid In 1980, British novelist Lionel Davidson, best known for his crime thrillers, published an uncharacteristic children’s novel: Under Plum Lake. On the surface, it is a whimsical story about a 12-year-...

Before most researchers linked alien abduction to shamanic initiation, Lionel Davidson had already done so in a children's book about alien contact, recovered memories, ontological shock, and the fear of not being believed. My essay explores: gideonreid.co.uk/the-mysterie... #UFO #UAP

A Closer Look at Encounters and the Ariel School Sighting | Skeptical Inquirer The second episode of the Netflix docuseries Encounters (“Believers”) features the mass UFO sighting and close encounter of the third kind alleged to have o ...

My recent Skeptical Inquirer feature examines Netflix’s 'Encounters' and its treatment of the 1994 Ariel School sighting — and exactly what the episode left out. Now free to read or listen to:
skepticalinquirer.org/2025/10/a-cl...

UFOs - Miracle of the Unknown (1992)

The influence of sci-fi media on Zimbabwe's Ariel School UFO sightings - The Skeptic When a dozen children at Ariel school Zimbabwe reported seeing aliens in 1994, ufologists falsely assumed they'd had no exposure to UFO and sci-fi media.

My latest for @skeptic.org.uk about UFO pop culture on terrestrial TV in 1990s Zimbabwe, and the claimed extraterrestrial sighting at Ariel School. www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/03/the-...

Liminal London

So late to the party that the dishwasher has almost finished its cycle.

The Russian's tried this already with their Znamya project.

I haven't read a single Vox article since it put up its paywall.

Operation Epstein Fury