Sample chapter from "Dawn of the Flying Saucers"...
The following sample chapter comes from my forthcoming book "Dawn of the Flying Saucers", which deals with aerial UFO encounters between...
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cherskiylowlevel
- May 9, 2022
- 14 min
Quatermass II (1955): A Flawed Gem
Title and writing credit for the first episode of Quatermass II, written and performed live on the BBC in October and November 1955. It...
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cherskiylowlevel
- May 7, 2022
- 10 min
The Quatermass Experiment (1953): An Incomplete Masterpiece
The title card for the first of six episodes of the BBC TV serial "The Quatermass Experiment", devised and written by Nigel Kneale to...
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cherskiylowlevel
- May 3, 2022
- 6 min
Death of a Superfortress...
The crash site of B-29 Superfortress 44-62276 can be found on the col below Beinn Thairsuinn, some 2.5 miles west of Lochgoilhead. The...
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cherskiylowlevel
- May 2, 2022
- 3 min
"466 pages? How do you do it?"
Someone recently asked me on Twitter how I manage to write something like "Flying Saucer Fever". I'd be lying if I said it was easy,...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
Sure, of course the Russians have advanced drone technology...
When the reports of UAP swarms around US Navy vessels were hitting the media last year, some were only too keen to write the objects off...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Apr 16, 2022
- 1 min
Another one in the bag....
The "Unidentified Aerial Podcast" logo, designed by my good friend Dan Zetterstrom (The Zignal). Well, Dave Partridge (editor of Shadows...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Apr 16, 2022
- 2 min
Drama? On #UFOTwitter? Surely not?
See if you can spot me in this cast photograph for the Little Theatre's production of "Allo' Allo'" (based on the hugely popular BBC TV...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Apr 16, 2022
- 2 min
How did I get into UFOs?
People often ask me how I became interested in UFOs... so here's the story behind the fascination. I was reading from an early age - I...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Feb 3, 2022
- 1 min
"Add a catchy title", it says...
Sometimes, less is more. My aviation books have fairly straightforward titles. I prefer to let the research and content speak for itself....
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 20, 2021
- 2 min
It's not the same as it once was...
Yes, that is a German Army anti-tank missile launcher, carried by MBB 105 helicopters. A friend received it as a present from one of the...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 18, 2021
- 1 min
UFO!
How cool looking are these? (Totally impractical for space battles, though - I mean, just one missile and then you're out of ammunition?)...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 18, 2021
- 1 min
Right, where's the coffee and the matchsticks?
On the other channel, it's "Watching Paint Dry"... sounds appealing! If it wasn't for HR4350 being voted on, there's no way I would have...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 17, 2021
- 1 min
It's suddenly snowballing...
You can add more names to this list of co-sponsors now! ...and it's not even snowing yet (at least here in Northumberland). Just when...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
SA3867 becomes SA4593
Here it is in black and white - the revised amendment, now sponsored by Kirsten Gillibrand, Marco Rubio and Martin Heinrich. It has...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
International Space Station Safety
Is the ISS under threat from space junk? Of course. Many of you will have recently read about the Russian anti-satellite weapon test that...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
Do I Miss Working Full-Time?
When I'm not researching or writing, I use Northumberland as a playground. This is Simonside, near Rothbury. When I tell people I took...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 15, 2021
- 3 min
When I'm not writing Foo Fighter books...
...I'm coming up with ones dealing with the aviation history of Northumberland, the county I was born and currently live in. There's some...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Storming the National Archives!
"I'd like to see your UFO archives, please." "Security? There's a lunatic at reception...." Okay, it didn't really go down like that,...
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cherskiylowlevel
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
First Post! (Can't Think Of A More Snazzy Title, Sorry)
"Everyone's doing it, so why can't I?" So (nearly) went the name of the 1993 debut studio album by the Irish band The Cranberries. In a...
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