A sceptical investigator, often writing in Skeptical Inquirer, whose name turns up again and again in the debate that follows the famous cases. In 2000 he took on the Flatwoods Monster. The bright light was a meteor, he argued, and the creature a startled barn owl. In 2006 he gave Kelly-Hopkinsville a similar reading, with great horned owls standing in for the visitors. With James McGaha he pointed to a KC-97 tanker at Exeter and to F-16 formations over Stephenville. He also studied the Alien Autopsy Film, noting that the examiner held the scissors like a tailor.
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Pro earlySkeptical Inquirer investigator who argued for a female fur seal (2017)
Sceptical investigator who read the story as Masonic folklore
Sceptical investigator who compared the case to the poltergeist-faking syndrome
Sceptical investigator who proposed a pod of narwhals
Pro earlySceptical investigator who called it the earliest known newspaper account of a wild man
Pro earlySkeptical investigator of the Champ legend
Pro earlySceptical investigator; proposed a pod of narwhals
Pro earlySceptical investigator, "In Search of Fisher's Ghost", Skeptical Inquirer, 2001
Pro earlySceptical investigator; proposed the contagion explanation (1996)
Pro earlySceptical investigator, Skeptical Inquirer 1999
Pro earlySceptical investigator who wrote that Mumler was exposed as a fraud
Pro earlySkeptical Inquirer investigator who traced the story and doubted it
Sceptical investigator who proposed a sunlight reflection theory in 2017
Pro earlySkeptical investigator of the Champ legend
Pro earlySkeptical Inquirer author; called Patience a persona of Curran
Skeptical investigator who visited in 2014
Skeptical Inquirer investigator; proposed retinal and atmospheric explanations
Skeptical Inquirer writer who called it imagination
Investigator who worked with Smith on the cut-and-paste edges
Pro earlySceptical investigator, co-author of Lake Monster Mysteries (2006)
Sceptical investigator who proposed double exposure
Sceptical investigator, Skeptical Inquirer (2018)
Pro earlySceptical investigator who proposed thin cloud and retinal distortion for sun miracles
Pro earlyCo-author of Lake Monster Mysteries (2006) and author of a 2005 Live Science article
Sceptical investigator who proposed the meteor, beacon and barn owl explanation
Skeptical investigator who proposed the meteor, beacon and barn owl explanation
Skeptical investigator who proposed the great horned owl explanation
Pro earlySkeptical investigator, proposed the owl explanation
Sceptical investigator who reviewed the police file
Skeptical investigator, author of Looking for a Miracle
Skeptic investigator; reported the buried track-making shoe in Skeptical Inquirer (2001)
Pro earlyForensic document examiner and sceptical critic, 2015
Sceptical author, Looking for a Miracle (1993)
Skeptical investigator on the 2005 Is It Real? re-measurement
Skeptical investigator who proposed black bears as the explanation
Pro earlyInvestigator who proposed a manatee
Sceptical investigator, Skeptical Inquirer
Pro earlySceptical investigator who proposed mangy black bears as the explanation for skunk ape sightings
Skeptical Inquirer author who proposed a snowy owl
Pro earlySceptical investigator who proposed a snowy owl in 2023
Sceptical investigator, co-author of Lake Monster Mysteries
Pro earlySceptical investigator, co-author of Lake Monster Mysteries
Pro earlySkeptic investigator and co-author, Skeptic magazine 2013
Pro earlySceptical investigator, Skeptical Inquirer, 2009
Sceptical investigator who proposed a barred owl
Pro earlySceptical investigator; proposed otters swimming in a line
Pro earlyCo-author of Lake Monster Mysteries (2006), interviewed Arlene Gaal in 2005
Pro earlySkeptical Inquirer writer on the case
Pro earlyCSICOP skeptic who proposed sleep paralysis in December 1995
Pro earlySkeptical Inquirer columnist who proposed sleep paralysis in 1995
Pro earlySkeptic investigator who tested the heartbeat statue
Pro earlySceptical investigator who called it a "Rorschach Icon"
Pro earlySceptical investigator, LiveScience columnist
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry investigator, 2014
Skeptical investigator who sought an expert opinion