Robert Sheaffer has been writing the “Psychic Vibrations” column in Skeptical Inquirer for forty years. He has decided it is time to retire this column. He still blogs at www.BadUFOs.com.
W e recently reported (“‘UFO Disclosure’ Happening Again This Year,” September/ October 2016) about the excitement being generated by rumors of imminent “UFO Disclosure.” John Podesta, Hillary Clin ton’s campaign manager, is widely known to be a believer in UFOs and aliens. With the expectation of Clinton’s victory, lobbyist Steven Bassett of Paradigm Research Group (PRG) proclaimed that UFO disclosure “will be a reality this year and across the front pages of newspapers across the world.”
But Clinton was not elected, and activists scrambled to recover some scraps of hope that their longed-for revelations might still occur. Bassett wrote on November 17: