• The Truth about Betty Hill’s UFO Star Map

    The Truth about Betty Hill’s UFO Star Map

    Published by Armagh Observatory and Planetarium on August 19, 2011 On a dark September night in 1961, Barney and Betty Hill had a frightening experience in the mountains of New Hampshire. Later they came to believe that they had been captured and studied by beings from another world. During their ordeal on the spaceship, Betty saw a star

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  • Alien Abduction Part II

    Alien Abduction Part II

    Are reports of alien abduction more common than you think? Source: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Norris awakens and senses the presence of some kind of being nearby. It reaches out and touches his forehead. He finds himself floating up to the ceiling. He is no longer in his room and can see stars through

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  • Alien Abduction, Part 1

    Alien Abduction, Part 1

    Are people really being abducted by aliens? I was recently on the windswept, beautiful, and remote island of Islay in Scotland. It is an island that is mysterious and isolated. Here can be found the famous “walking stones.” These tall stones have flat sides and were most likely directional markers left by people in the early Bronze

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  • Experimental Parapsychology

    Experimental Parapsychology

    This is a general overview of the attempts by scientists and scholars to apply experimental methods to claims of psychic experiences, from spiritualist séances in the second half of the nineteenth century to the statistical methods employed in present-day parapsychology. The Early Period The physicist William Crookes, FRS, investigated séances over several years in the early

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  • ESP: What can science say?

    ESP: What can science say?

    Ever answer a phone call, only to hear the person you were just thinking of on the other end? Ever had a dream about something that later actually happened? Ever felt like somebody read your mind? Some people may interpret these sorts of experiences as extrasensory perception, or ESP. ESP is defined as an awareness

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