Jim Sullivan was the kind of California character who seemed to have stepped straight out of a Pynchon or DeLillo novel — a 6-foot-2 singer and songwriter known as Sully with a magnetic personality and a handlebar mustache. His dramatic psych-folk songs were spacious, cinematic and edged with mystic, lonesome brooding. His social circle included actors and Hollywood hangers-on, and he'd had brushes with fame, including an uncredited part in "Easy Rider" with his friend Dennis Hopper.
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ET View: Supreme Court gives fair warning to ‘UFO’ conspiracy theorists in Rafale
Sleeper Agents, UFOs And Conspiracy At The Top: The Cinematic History Of Unfounded Doubt And Fear
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Film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes join host Frank Stasio to talk about conspiracy films for this edition of Movies on the Radio.
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People constantly quote and misquote cinema — sometimes without ever having seen the referenced film. Think about lines like "You had me at hello"; "Hasta la vista, baby"; or "Play it again, Sam." Sometimes the words many of us repeat are never spoken in the movie, and other times they are phrases that actors made up on the spot.
U.S. Navy Wants Pilots to Report UFOs, Despite Stigma - The Atlantic
Pilots are about to receive a new memo from management: If you encounter an unidentified flying object while on the job, please tell us.
In some cases, pilots—many of whom are engineers and academy graduates—claimed to observe small spherical objects flying in formation. Others say they've seen white, Tic Tac–shaped vehicles. Aside from drones, all engines rely on burning fuel to generate power, but these vehicles all had no air intake, no wind and no exhaust.
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UFO Investigations: Revealing Documents from HISTORY's 'Unidentified' - HISTORY
Why did Luis Elizondo, director of the Pentagon's hush-hush program investigation UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena, step down from his post? "It was because of my allegiance to the Department of Defense and the American people," Elizondo told HISTORY. For the full letter, read below:
This map was adapted from a brief created for the Deputy Secretary of Defense in 2009. It gives a birds-eye view of the UFO activity near Department of Defense and foreign military facilities over the last several decades.
How Blink-182's Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher - The New York Times
For decades, the discussion of whether or not U.F.O.s exist has been debated in American pop culture and within science communities.
That all reached a fever pitch last week when the United States Navy confirmed that three widely shared videos captured by naval aviators in 2004 and 2015 were indeed real and showed what it called "unidentified aerial phenomena." The "unidentified" part of that statement sparked excitement among U.F.O. enthusiasts.
Navy: No release of UFO information to the general public expected - The Washington Post
The U.S. Navy has drafted a procedure to investigate and catalogue reports of unidentified flying objects coming in from its pilots. But the service doesn't expect to make the information public, citing privileged and classified reporting that is typically included in such files.
Joe Gradisher, a spokesman for the office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, said in a statement that the Navy expects to keep the information it gathers private for a number of reasons.
UFO sightings are on rise in western Pennsylvania - The Morning Call
While the Kecksburg UFO sighting has become a quaint part of local lore, more recent reports of unexplained aerial phenomena are getting serious attention from Congress, the U.S. military and longtime UFO watchers.
"It's not going away," retired journalist Bob Gatty said. "Whether you believe or don't believe in this stuff, the fact remains there is a lot happening for some reason."
Gatty, who originally reported on the Kecksburg incident for the Tribune-Review in 1965, recently noted on his blog NotFakeNews.biz that the Navy issued new guidelines to fighter pilots regarding UFO sightings, and members of Congress are seeking more frequent briefings on the subject.
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