James W. Moseley | |
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 James Moseley at the 1980 National UFO Conference in New York | |
| Born | James Willett Moseley August 4, 1931 |
| Died | November 16, 2012 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Known for | Newsletter Saucer Smear |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | UFOlogist |
James Willett Moseley (August 4, 1931 – November 16, 2012) was an American observer, author, and commentator on the subject of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Over his nearly sixty-year career, he exposed UFO hoaxes and engineered hoaxes of his own. He was best known as the publisher of the UFO newsletters Saucer News and its successor Saucer Smear, which became the longest continuously published UFO journal in the world.
Many in the UFO community considered Moseley to be a skeptic, as Moseley reported that over the years he accepted, then rejected, a number of explanations for UFOs.[1][2] According to Jerome Clark, he "entertained just about every view it is possible to hold about UFOs,"[1] and according to Antonio Huneeus, "Moseley was critical and sarcastic regarding just about everything and everybody in UFOlogy. Yet Jim did believe a core of the UFO phenomenon was real and truly unexplained after filtering out all the hoaxes, conspiracy theories, mis-identifications and just plain nonsense that pervades much of the field."[3][4]
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Clark_1998was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Story, Ronald D. (editor); Greenwell, J. Richard (consulting editor) (1980). *The Encyclopedia of UFOs (1st ed.). Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-13677-3.
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Huneeuswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Collins, Curtis. "BIOGRAPHY James W. Moseley (August 4, 1931 – November 16, 2012)". Retrieved 26 May 2014.