Jason Colavito is a writer whose voice turns up when old legends need checking. In the archive he mostly plays the critic. He traced how the 1897 Le Roy calf-napping hoax, long exposed, still appeared as genuine in the 1979 documentary UFOs: It Has Begun, hosted by Rod Serling. He read the 1952 Spitsbergen saucer crash against Cold War tensions over Svalbard. He also pointed to a 1968 NSA airgram marked "PLANT." He has called claims that the Tulli Papyrus is authentic false. He also raised concerns about Jake Barber's 2025 egg crash-retrieval video.
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Sceptical critic of the ancient UFO reading
Sceptical writer who argued the silver rain is not a UFO
Writer placing the story in the saint-versus-monster tradition
Researcher who traced the folk origins of Magonia and Vallée's reliance on the Comte de Gabalis
Author who checked the Latin in 2015 and exposed the mistranslation
Author of the 2015 analysis of the hoax
Author who proposed the illness and hallucination explanation
Writer who documented Fenoglio's record of fabricated texts
Sceptical author who calls the account a secondhand tall tale
Writer who traced how the exposed hoax ended up in a Rod Serling documentary
Author who traced Tomas's use of Roerich's account
Writer who reads the story as Cold War geopolitics
Writer who noted the material was long public
Critic who raised concerns about the story