This week the conclusion of our two-part examination of the group of paranormalists who successfully

convinced the world media that the US government takes UFOs seriously.

It's one of the most successful PR campaigns in the history of pseudoscience, and its

actual roots should surprise and anger everyone.

Who are they?

Up next.

UnSkeptoid.

Bye bye everyone!

too hard to believe that the government could be duped into funding such nonsense? Well,

people forget, one does not need to fool the entire government to win a research grant.

One needs only to find the right person holding the right purse strings.

To briefly recap last week's episode, in chapter 1 we met the young paranormalist Hal

put off in 1978 while he was working at the Stargate project, testing psychic performers like

Erie Geller for the CIA, under the watchful eye of a fascinated government staffer named

Chris Mellon.

In chapter 2, put off was funded by the hotel billionaire and reincarnation official

in Auro, Robert Bigelow, at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, beginning in 1995, where they called

themselves the National Institute for Discovery Science. They tantalized Bigelow's friend,

Senator Harry Reid, that poltergeist and flying saucers were the same manifestation of interdimensional

beings and talked him into coughing up $22 million in taxpayer money to fund such an exploration,

which he began dispersing to Bigelow in 2008.

In chapter 3, 4 and 5, covered the transfer of this $22 million to at least three different

...