Skeptical Inquirer
Editor: Kendrick FRAZIER
Magazine:Skeptical Inquirer
Language:English


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Year:2018
Issue:Vol. 42 No. 3 May/June
Contents
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Commentary
Craig A. FOSTERFlat-Earth Anxieties Reflect Misplaced Priorities10-11

Special Report
Yaël NAZÉA Doctoral Dissertation on a Geocentric Flat Earth
‘Zetetic’ Astronomy at the University Level
11-14

Investigative Files
Joe NICKELLNavy Pilot’s 2004 UFO: A Comedy of Errors16-18

Notes on a Strange World
Massimo POLIDORODoes the Vatican Hold a Painting of a UFO?19

Skeptical Inquiree
Benjamin RADFORDThe Case of the Curious Christmas Light24-25

Matthew J. SHARPSPercival Lowell and the Canals of Mars
The ‘canals’ of Mars don’t exist, and they never did; yet they were repeatedly reported and defended as scientific realities by many great astronomers. Why?
41-46

Osczevski. Randall J.The 1849 Balvullich Ice Fall
A mass of solid ice weighing nearly a ton fell on a Scottish farm on the estate at Ord during a thunderstorm on July 30, 1849. Theories abound as to its origin, some more fanciful than others. New analysis suggests that the ice originated locally and did not fall from the sky, as has long been thought.
54-57