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keith kloor
@keithkloor
scribbler, editor, NYU journalism adjunct
May 24, 2022 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Here's a story about my interaction with Travis Taylor, a scientist who works in intel community.

Taylor also does a LARP with Ancient Aliens and Skinwalker Ranch shows.

I met him when he was a speaker at the first @ExploreSCU in 2019.

Let's go. 1/

explorescu.org/aapc-2019 In his 2019 @ExploreSCUtalk, Taylor was very dubious of the DeLonge/Elizondo TTSA venture--and of UFO narratives in general. Said he wanted hard data, not stories.

(I look forward to seeing the Skinwalker Ranch hard data. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.) 2/
Jan 28, 2022 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
I published my first feature in Science in 1999--about a lynx reintroduction program in Colorado.

I could never have imagined then that I might one day write a long piece about UFOs for the same magazine.

It's worth unpacking how this came to be. 1/

To start, as many are aware, UFOs have been a hot media story since 2017, when the NYT ran a front page story on a "shadowy" UFO Pentagon program.

As @ManvBrain pointed out immediately, there were glaring problems with the piece. 2/

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
May 18, 2021 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
It's impossible to overstate the massive journalism fail we're seeing today with the elevation of supposedly mysterious UFOs as a legitimate news story. 1/

As @ScolesSarah asks (in a short thread about that 60 minutes segment: 2/

May 19, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
In his Q & A with Leslie Kean, @Horganism asks: What is the best single piece of evidence that UFOs have an extraterrestrial origin? This is the answer from the person who, incredibly, the NYT keeps assigning to write its UFO stories. 1/

blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/sh… It's amazing that the NYT doesn't assign an actual science reporter or one of its esteemed national security reporters to cover a story about Navy pilots getting hounded by unidentified objects.

Instead it assigns a freelancer who had a UFO blog.
huffpost.com/author/leslie-…
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Jun 5, 2019 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
As I mentioned in a recent thread, a big reason I've been writing about UFOs of late is b/c they are back in the headlines. Why is that? It fascinates me b/c today's breathless stories are the same as those from 50 & 60 yrs ago, esp the military angle. 1/
Today, we see all the mainstream news coverage of Navy pilots & military personnel and what they say is no different than what their brethren said 50 yrs ago. 2/
Feb 5, 2019 • 46 tweets • 13 min read
If you want to know how the media created and then fueled a phenomenon that is embedded in popular culture, this thread for you. I’m piggybacking off a story I wrote for the Feb issue of @medium magazine. 1/
medium.com/s/reasonable-d… What follows is an elaboration and supporting material. But before I get into all that, let’s look at a related, present-day story making a splash today. I’m referring to this piece and catchy headline. 2/
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…