Chasing Aliens

 

I have been to a second event at Conway Hall, London in the space of a month; see here for the first: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/04/strange-central.html. This new event was on a Friday evening. Despite being billed as just ninety minutes it was far more expensive than Strange Central which was an all-day one. It was called "Chasing Aliens" and was set up to launch a new book of the same name by Daniel Lavelle. The proceedings consisted of a dialogue between him and somebody I'm very familiar with, Jon Ronson. I used to watch Ronson's documentaries in the late '90's when I was first getting into the Conspirasphere. For several years I was a very active member of his forum and I made a few friends there whom I'm still in touch with. This is all despite disliking Ronson's early works. Them and Secret Rulers of the World was distorted and misleading, especially the one about David Icke. I was far more enthusiastic about his later book The Men Who Stare at Goats and its accompanying documentary Crazy Rulers of the World. However, I was deeply frustrated that at the very moment Jon broke into something truly revealing and extraordinary, he failed to grasp the significance of his own discovery and pulled back. The project was reduced to the level of a joke and even ended up being adapted into a comedy movie with George Clooney. Now Daniel Lavelle has written a book about his own attempt at gonzo journalism, probably inspired by Ronson. A few years ago he was going through a difficult time in his life, suffering from a mental breakdown and eventually he spent some time homeless and sleeping rough. He found solace and healing in a strange place, but one not entirely unique. He is a 2017er with no previous interest in UFO's, but he developed one after reading the famous New York Times article in December 2017. His life story reminded me of Steven Cambian who also went through a period of terrible mental health and addiction. He also managed to cling on to the dregs of his sanity by watching X-Con videos, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/06/david-grusch-reply-to-steven-cambian.html. Lavelle's path down the rabbit hole of UFOlogy did not last long. He was pulled back from complete belief by a disappointingly unoriginal process. He discovered that the "gimbal" footage merely showed jet engines and that the "go fast" was a seagull. He also came across and accepted the theory that alien abduction is just a form of sleep paralysis. All these propositions are extremely formulaic. They came off the skeptic production line many years ago from people like Mick West. I am convinced that they are also completely false.

The evidence of the Nimitz footage, including detailed interviews with the witnesses, discredits the mundane explanation. The idea that alien abduction is sleep paralysis was comprehensively debunked by many experts, including the research psychologist Andrew Hodrien, brother of David, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2024/03/hpanwo-show-541-podcast-dave-hodrien.html. As somebody affected by SP myself, I can vouch for that, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/03/sleep-paralysis-and-shadow-people.html. Daniel is also convinced that the missing scientists mystery is just coincidence and a misunderstanding of statistics. Again, this is another off-the-shelf skepper cope, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/05/ufo-disclosure-2026-may-surprise.html. I had no doubt by the end of the dialogue that the audience question-and-answer session would be the most interesting part of the evening. I'm pleased to say that one of the attendees took Lavelle and Ronson to task for embracing the Nimitz cop-out. I gave him a long and hearty clap, which felt strange because nobody else did. Everybody turned to look at me, but I'm glad I did it. The other questioners were a bit more Ronsonian, but they did bring up a few interesting points. Why are UFO's primarily an American phenomenon? The answer is that they are not. It appears that way because the US publicized and popularized UFO's long before any other country did. The politics of the Cold War emphasized this apparent American exceptionalism. Jon Ronson unhappily raised the issue of why UFO culture seems to consist of "mostly white men". I cringed! I have addressed this idiocy myself before, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/08/women-in-ufology.html. There was a long discussion over whether belief in aliens was harmful. They raised the Heaven's Gate cult, the Q-Shaman and mental healthcare for people reporting alien contact. Miles Johnston was also there and has published his own brief coverage, see: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1354555423243623. I got to ask the panel a question myself and I simply asked Jon if he'd heard that Marcus Allen had died. Jon said he knew the name, but hadn't heard. He said he was sorry to hear it. Marcus took part in Ronson's documentary For The Love Of... in 1997, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/02/hpanwo-show-618-marcus-allen-in-memoriam.html. Miles was also in another episode. After the event I went to the pub with Miles and Colin Woolford.

Ironically this was the same day that the big UAP file release happened, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/05/uap-files-release-livestream.html. I wish I had stayed at home instead to report on it. The "Chasing Aliens" event was unfortunately very boring and hackneyed. It was so repetitive that I could almost have written the script myself. I don't object to it being very skeptical in theme; what bothers me is that its skepticism was not more original. It just echoed the mistakes so many others have made. I'm glad Mr Lavelle has recovered from his malaise though. Even if he found a cure in falsehood, I'm happy for him. Colin, Miles and I had far more fun going through the fresh US Department of War data drops over a pint or three. I left early, long before the others, because I had to get all the way back to Oxford and I had work the following day. It was a good job I did because for some reason the coach left the motorway somewhere just beyond High Wycombe and went on a random jaunt through the darkest countryside before rejoining the A40 just before Oxford. I had no idea where it went or why; the driver never announced it. I didn't get home until almost one AM.

See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2017/01/is-david-icke-dangerous.html.

Area 51 Earthquakes

 

Something very strange and worrying has been going on in the western United States. Geologists have detected a series of earthquakes emanating from the Nevada National Security Site. They took place during the last two days of last month. The epicentres of these earthquakes are quite close to Area 51, but because of the secrecy surrounding the location, no official announcement has been made from the facility. The quakes are unusual in that they appeared in a place thought to be seismically stable and they are strangely shallow; just a couple of miles down. Most natural earthquakes are much deeper, twelve miles of so. The tremours measured from 2.5 to 4.4 on the Richter scale, not powerful enough to cause damage, but enough to be physically felt by sensitive people in some places close by. Avi Loeb calculated that an average tactical device has a big enough yield to create those shockwaves. Source: https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/unusual-earthquake-swarm-strikes-near-area-51-sparking-fears-of-secret-testing/ar-AA226LV3. The cause of the earthquakes is unknown, but there has been some understandable speculation considering the Nevada test site nearby was used for over nine hundred detonations of test nuclear bombs from 1949 until the test ban in 1992. The public health impact is still being calculated to this day. When I visited the Atomic Museum, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/11/meadows.html, I saw photos taken in Las Vegas in the 1950's showing mushroom clouds in the distance. How many people got ill? How many died? The 1996 nuclear test ban expired last year so technically the US could begin them again in accordance with its international legal obligations; but nothing has been announced, there has been no debate in Congress and the local population has not been consulted. Are secret detonations being carried out like the original one at the Trinity site in 1945? Alternatively do the earthquakes have another cause, some other technology is being tested at the secret base? Some commentators have suggested there's a connection to the missing scientists, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/05/ufo-disclosure-2026-may-surprise.html. I see no reason to suppose that. I don't know what it is, but obviously something strange is going on and I'm willing to bet that whatever it is, it's bad news for the people, especially if you are a local resident.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/12/area-51-portal.html.

Why I Voted Reform

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/05/meeting-reform-candidate.html.
The results of last Thursday's election are in. The votes in all 136 councils, mayorals and the Welsh and Scottish legislatures have been counted and it has been, as predicted, a massive grand slam for Reform UK. Their victory dwarfs even last years coup, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/why-i-did-not-vote-reform.html. Reform gained 1,453 seats, mostly at the gross expense of Labour and the Tories. Labour barely cleared a thousand, reducing them virtually to a second tier party. The Green Party and independents did well. Many leftwing and Muslim voters have abandoned Labour for the Greens. "Great Yarmouth First" which is a local front for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, has scooped up all the area's seats, I'm pleased to say. West of the border, Reform have wiped out Labour in the Senedd. They couldn't quite beat Plaid Cymru to the leadership, but they are a close opposition, making it hard for Plaid to win future votes. Eluned Morgan has had the negative honour of being the first head of government in British history to be ousted in an election. She only got about 6000 votes while Plaid beat her with 31,000. As soon as a successor is chosen she will step down as First Minister of Wales and leader of the Welsh Labour Party. Unlike Boris Johnson, there were no contingency plans to parachute her into another seat via a by-election; I don't think you can do that in the Welsh government. The immovable mountain that it the Scottish National Party has held onto power, but it has lost a few seats. The Conservatives lost nine seats (I didn't know there was such a thing as a Scottish Tory anymore!) and only Reform and the Greens have gained. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cr45k7vqw1pt.

I voted for Reform UK. Yes, I know I promised I never would, and I am still not sure if I did the right thing. The problem is when I got to the polling station I was dismayed to find there was no IOA candidate at all. I was shocked; I had not researched beforehand because I assumed there would be one just like last year. The Alliance only have five people on the polls this time round and none of them were in my ward. I was left with the choice of the uniparty or nothing... or Reform. I was tempted to abstain, but then I remembered my conversation with the Reform candidate last Wednesday, see the link above. I know she is just a sample of one, but could it really be that she is not unusual? Are the ranks of Reform really packed with closet Loweists? If so then a genuinely dissident party lies in the form of great potential in Reform, just under the surface; and that Farage and his cronies are a very vocal and brash, but ultimately very thin and weak cage door trying to hold it back. If I am right then I predict we may see the long knives come out at some point and a revolution from below will oust Nigel with all his dithering and deception. Maybe the new Reform could form a coalition with Restore. What will I do next election? I'm not sure, but this is one of the most remarkable elections I've ever seen in this country. Our latest democratic exercise has really made me reconsider a lot of things.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

Meeting a Reform Candidate

 

Today I met a candidate for tomorrow's local government election, none of the people depicted in the illustration. In fact I don't think I should name this candidate or reveal her seat because we were speaking privately and informally, and she said a few things to me I doubt she would raise at the hustings. She wasn't canvassing at the time, but was just sitting on a park bench trying to work out how to find her way around. She seems to be quite bad at map reading; in fact I had seen her a few days ago in the area doing the same so I guided her to her destination. She had a huge suitcase of flyers for her campaign and I helped her carry it because she is a small woman. She is running for Reform UK. Because of this, she engaged me in a discussion about politics. I told her that eighteen months ago I would probably have voted for her, but I wouldn't now because I don't trust Nigel Farage. I was honest and said I preferred Restore Britain. I dislike the way Nigel has treated Rupert Lowe, Ben Habib and many of his other former supporters. I consider them far more honest men than Nigel. I expected her to become scornful at that point, but she did not. She said "I completely agree with you" and then went on to explain that despite her agreement she thinks Reform UK are still the best hope for the country. This is not an uncommon position. Many people I know are voting Reform despite knowing full well that Farage's latest incarnation is something deceptive; possibly set up deliberately by the Deep State to be a controlled counterproposition. It's the usual dilemma of tactical voting: do we vote for the right thing and lose or the wrong thing and win? Reform may be false opposition, but it is the only opposition we have. It's our only chance of beating the uniparty. It currently has enormous momentum behind it; and no doubt tomorrow it will be the principle winner of the election. All the opinion polls are clear on this. Labour and the Tories are going to be eviscerated, justly so, and Reform is the weapon that will achieve it. Last year I also did not vote Reform for the same reasons, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/why-i-did-not-vote-reform.html. What happened to me today paints a very different picture that I didn't know existed because this lady is not just some average voter; she is an actual activist and official of the party who has been selected to contest a council seat. I wonder how many other people in Reform feel the same way as her; not just the voters, but the members, maybe even people quite senior and close to the centre. Is it possible that the only true blue Reformers could be Nigel himself and his inner circle, Richard Tice, Zia Yusuf etc. (I won't include their current influx of opportunistic ex-Tories.) Maybe this is what Landeur meant when he said "Reform's support is a hundred miles wide, but only an inch thick", see: https://www.youtube.com/@BritishLandeur. I'm tired of voting for deformed and watered down forgeries of what I really want. A Reform vote is just a vote for another proto-establishment centrist bureaucracy in waiting. Should Farage become prime minister he will backtrack, U-turn and shift his position very quickly on everything; in fact he has already started. There will be a "Nigel wave" and he will not save the House of Lords or repeal the Online Safety Act; in fact he will deliver none of the goodies we all hoped he would. I myself will probably back the IOA again. They won last time in my own ward, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/05/i-backed-winner.html.

The Tragedy & The Triumph Tour 2

 

There will be a second 2026 Oxford walking tour hosted by Mark Devlin and myself. It will be themed on Mark's allegorical novel trilogy. He has just published the third and concluding book, The Tragedy & The Triumph. We will be visiting many of the locations featured in the story. We will be giving alternative information about this fascinating city which is the world's primary Illuminati education centre. It will take place on Saturday 30th of May starting at 6.30 PM. To join the tour, come to the Oxo Bar, 48 George Street. Please book in advance if possible. Tickets coming soon. The whole event is outdoors so we will have to postpone if the weather is too bad. See here for details and tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/109869.
See here for a HPANWO TV film of the event: (coming soon).
See here for my accompanying HPANWO Radio interview with Mark: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2026/03/hpanwo-show-623-mark-devlin.html.
See here for a HPANWO TV film of the previous tour: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/04/mark-devlin-oxford-tour-3.html.

Missing 411- National Parks, Washington State

David Paulides is becoming more and more prolific as a filmmaker. It was only a couple of months ago that I reviewed his Bigfoot research movie American Sasquatch, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/02/american-sasquatch.html. Now he has released a new Missing 411 documentary, the fourth. Paulides understands that people who mysteriously vanish are a global phenomenon, but he has centred his research on the US national parks. There are sixty-three of these in the United States and they cover a combined area of 82,000 square miles. These parks are beautiful places, containing grand scenery and unspoilt wilderness. They are perfect for the traditional American pastime of outdoor sports and recreations. Millions of people visit them every year to go hunting, fishing, swimming, skiing, mountaineering, rambling, camping and sightseeing. In this new project Paulides teams up with somebody I have collaborated with myself, David Mason, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/05/programme-464-podcast-dave-altman-and.html. Mr Mason is an engineer who has invented many of the new tools used by modern skywatchers. He has helped find part of an aeroplane that crashed on Mount Rainer in 1946 killing thirty-two members of the US Marine Corps. He wonders if maybe it suffered a midair collision. If so, with what? Considering that six months later Kenneth Arnold had his famous sighting there that launched the modern UFO era, it makes me wonder too. The UFO presence has never left the mountain and still exists today, eighty years later. As Paulides explained in the previous Missing 411 film, there is a connection between UFO's and some of the disappearances. Like with the research of Nik Hayes, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-invisibles.html, Mason and Paulides discover that some UFO's cannot be seen in normal light and only manifest outside the band of the electromagnetic spectrum that our eyes can see.
 
As in his previous productions, Paulides emphasises the human cost of this phenomenon. We, who love paranormal mysteries, talk about quirky and fun high strangeness stories all the time; but this particular element of it is frightening and heartbreaking. A young man called Jacob Gray vanished in the Olympic National Park and his father has left his bicycle trailer where his son abandoned it as a memorial. When Laura Macke vanished in the same region searchers found a few items of her clothing and equipment, and nothing else. This is a common recurring factor. We see it with last year's disappearance of Monica Reza, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/05/ufo-disclosure-2026-may-surprise.html. You could argue that there are mundane explanations for some of these disappearances. It is possible that Laura and Jacob fell into rivers. Another man, Bryan Lee Johnston, might have drowned in the sea while walking across to a tidal island; but Paulides takes that into consideration and weighs it up against other "profile points", strange anomalies that normal missing persons cases don't have. Not listed as one of the profile points, but still noteworthy, is the unusual reaction from the authorities. Vincent Dije, a student who vanished in 2020 on Mount Rainier, was declared officially dead prematurely. Despite the assistance of remote viewers, he has never been seen since. In his previous works, Paulides has noted how agencies get involved in the search-and-rescue missions that don't normally meddle in such matters, like the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We saw this also with the Fillipidis case; which, I'm glad to say, ended happily, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/02/missing-skier.html.
 
The National Parks Service is inexplicably evasive when it comes to commenting on missing people. Absurdly, they once offered to help in exchange for an extortionately high price. Whatever is behind these disappearances is not new and predates research into it considerably. Paulides has a very well documented case from 1999, the journalist and writer Joseph Wood. Missing 411- National Parks, Washington State hearkens back to the first two films in the series in that there is no explicit theory about the cause of these disappearances. In some of the cases Paulides hints that supernatural forces might be at work, but this time different mysteries are nominated too. One of the phenomenon's victims, Gilbert Gilman, is something of a man of mystery. He was involved in the intelligence services, but it's unclear what his exact role was. He vanished in the Olympic in 2006. It's possible this was deliberate on his part because of his involvement. If he had disappeared more recently he may well have been added to "the list", see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/03/ufo-disclosure-2026-bring-neil-home.html. Obviously there are many reasons why people die or vanish in the wilderness. They fall and break bones so they can't move and succumb to exposure. They drown in water or are eaten by predators. These tragedies are far more numerous than the unexplained Missing 411 cases; and it is these Paulides focuses on. One man even vanished from a climbing rope while scaling a glacier. There are some reconstruction scenes in the documentary, one of which shows a man literally fading away into nothing. Either way, as they say on Crimewatch, don't have nightmares. For every person on the Missing 411 list there are a million who have a wonderful time in the countryside; rambling, fishing, hunting, bird watching; enjoying the great outdoors. The phenomenon is extremely rare and I wouldn't want to scare people away. Sometimes strange phenomena actually help people who are lost. One of them was Christopher Wearstler. He was led to safety by an esoteric helper. This film is a worthy addition to the Missing 411 canon and carries on neatly from the previous ones. It's a touching narrative, probably inspired by the fact that David Paulides has suffered his own ultimate tragedy, the loss of a child. The film was funded with the help of donors who are all named in the credits. Missing 411- National Parks, Washington State is available on streaming platforms for rental or purchase. I recommend purchasing it because the rental fee, at least in my country, is not much lower.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/01/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-58.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/03/portal-caught-on-film.html.

UFO Truth Magazine- Issue 78

 

UFO Truth Magazine Issue 78 is now available. It can be purchased on this page as a single copy, but please subscribe and save money if you want to read it regularly, see: https://www.ufotruthmagazine.co.uk.
Issue 78 includes an article in my column entitled Crediting the Conman- Can we
Learn Anything from Hoaxes?.
 
Also you will find in Issue 78: Westall 66 2026 reunion, Nick Pope obituary, Trump UFO files release and much much more.
Also in this HPANWO Show programme I interview the UFO Truth Magazine's editor Gary Heseltine: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2023/06/hpanwo-show-514-podcast-gary-heseltine.html.
See here for details on UFO Truth Magazine Issue 77: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2026/02/ufo-truth-magazine-issue-77.html.