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Giorgio Tsoukalos

If you like “Ancient Aliens,” then you probably recognize Giorgio Tsoukalos’ name. If not, you’ll definitely recognize him when you see his face. He has a distinctive look: Skin that glows orange, dark...

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Brains … braaaains!

A spate of bizarre crimes has people wondering if zombies walk among us. “First came Miami: the case of a naked man eating most of another man’s face,” according to an Associated Press account in the...

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Help beam a message into space

About 35 years ago, Earth came as close as it’s ever come to communicating with extraterrestrials. At 11:16 p.m. eastern time on Aug. 15, 1977, the Big Ear radio telescope in Ohio detected a narrow...

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Robot ethics

Can robots be programmed to behave in an ethical manner? That was the key issue in a story I wrote last year for The Oklahoman. In case you missed it, here’s the full text: ———— “Scientists are...

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Roswell, part one

Earlier this summer, while en route to Taos, my wife, niece and I stopped by Roswell, N.M., to check out its annual UFO Festival. It was beastly hot, and I was already developing pneumonia, so I didn’t...

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Roswell, part two

For my money, this is the coolest display in Roswell's International UFO Museum and Research Center. Several grays stand outside a hovering space craft. From time to time, the aliens are surrounded by...

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Roswell, part three

Frankly, I have no idea what this is supposed to be. It's one of the displays from the UFO museum, but that's all I know. Maybe we should have a caption contest. Offer up your explanation for this pic....

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Roswell, part four

My lovely niece poses with an alien outside the Roswell Space Center, which sells all kinds of UFO swag. It's also home to the Roswell Space Walk, described online as "an immersive art installation in...

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Roswell, part five

All right, so I Instagrammed this. Here you see my niece reacting with faux fear to the alien display at the museum. Hokey? Yes. But deal with it. In point of fact, the only thing my niece found truly...

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Roswell, part six

Here's one of the cutest contestants in the Roswell pet costume contest. I wrote down the name of the dog and its owner, but like I said, I was fuzzy headed; I don't remember what I did with that...

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