Curt Collins

Blue Blurry Lines

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

The Cash Landrum #UFO case is a fascinating riddle. This definitive unembellished overview of the saga of the witnesses was written by Curt Collins. https://t.co/LOrBggVnZP

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

Inventor Otis T. Carr said it came to him in a vision. With the help of investors, he set out to build a flying saucer. #UFO #UAP https://t.co/hnbmZwdGYu

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@MiddleOfMayhem They should revisit the classics. https://t.co/pkdCXxLbAX

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

Knowledge of #UFOs and their history is hard to come by. Unless you open a book. Here's a list of recommended books put together by researcher Paul Dean. Recently revised to include links to where you can read most of them for free.
https://t.co/niBfID4Y5V

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@MiddleOfMayhem @Zigmanfreud The news media returned to the UFO topic for the AATIP story for 2 key reasons: the newsworthy (bankable) elements: The involvement of Government and Millions of $. That sold; they sold out.

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@mrjeffknox Battle of LA? That's another tall tale. https://t.co/FmLsVOIdbF

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@ShipsSmall More on Einstein and Rev. Gardner. https://t.co/YBWhOaxl3l

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@JasonColavito Not Ancient Aliens, they were aware of Charles Fort and merely acknowledged the history of strange things seen in the sky. Similar remarks from Gen. Samford from the same day. https://t.co/fav3mwjmnI

[D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson]

ADVISORY REGARDING DEFAMATORY AND POTENTIALLY DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS BY MATT FORD AND OTHERS

For the record, including any record introduced in future proceedings: A statement published by Matt Ford earlier today (May 10, 2026) on his @GoodTroubleShow X account, stating that I have engaged in “forging documents,” is false and defamatory.

I have never forged any document, including but not limited to the fake Joint Chiefs of Staff document publicly released by the Department of Defense on May 8, 2026, which I publicly debunked hours after its release. Matt Ford's accusation today was fabricated, published and disseminated with reckless disregard for the truth.

Moreover, with respect to Ford's separate allegation that I am "working for the deep state," I have never been employed by, or paid in any way by, any component of the federal government (including military), nor ever acted as an agent of any federal government component. Nor, to the best of my knowledge and belief, have I ever in my life been employed by or paid by any entity under contract with any component of the federal government (including military), with the possible exception of part-time work in cafeterias and shuttle-bus driving for public universities a half-century ago.

For years now I have been retired. I am fully independent. I have no employer, client, funder, sponsor, platform monetization revenue, or other source of payment for my work. Nor do I receive direction from any source. On any given issue, the findings or opinions that I express--whether they are on the mark or in error--are the product of my own research and thinking, subject to no outside authority or direction.

Be advised that any future public claims that I am paid by, or acting at the direction of, or as the agent of, any government entity or government contractor, will be regarded as defamatory, and will be regarded as having been published or uttered with reckless disregard for the truth.

(On occasion I have given free advice and/or UFO-related research findings or research assistance to people of all sorts, including employees of different branches of government, sometimes in response to specific requests and sometimes unsolicited. Some recipients have expressed appreciation and some have disregarded. I will continue to offer free advice whenever I choose, and the recipients will continue to accord it whatever weight they think it deserves.)

While I have worked professionally in the past on behalf of non-profit, non-governmental organizations, in different capacities including as a "lobbyist" as defined in federal law, none of that work had any direct or indirect relationship to subjects such as UFOs, UAP, mystery drones, the intelligence community, weapons systems, purported secret government technology programs, paranormal phenomena, or anything remotely similar. Some of those subjects I have intermittently studied privately, based on personal interests, going back many years, as I have related in some detail in articles and posts in the past.

Another thing: In federal law, "lobbyist" is a legally defined term with serious legal implications. Under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (2 U.S.C. §§ 1601–1614), for a person to act as a "lobbyist" without the required registration and periodic filing of detailed reports (publicly available) is a felony if done knowingly and corruptly (and it could hardly be done unknowingly by a former registrant such as myself). Under 2 U.S.C. § 1606(b) and 18 U.S.C. § 3571(b)(3), this offense is punishable by up to 5 years of imprisonment and a fine of up to $250,000 or both. Since professional retirement, I am not registered as a lobbyist. Therefore, any public statement that I am currently a "lobbyist" will be regarded as implying concealed and therefore illegal lobbying activity, which is obviously reputationally damaging and defamatory. Moreover, any such implication would be published or uttered in reckless disregard of the truth, considering the ease of ascertaining my lack of current registration.

If any reader does not understand the legal meaning of some of the phrases used above, it is best to consult an attorney before, rather than after, publishing a defamatory or potentially defamatory statement. Keep in mind that one of the legally pertinent factors is whether you had a factual basis for the statement when you published it, or just popped off with "reckless disregard for the truth" because you disliked the person the statement was about.

It should go without saying that my advisory statements above do not cover expressions of opinion about my work or me personally, however wrong-headed I might sometimes consider them--for example, calling me a very bad person for critiquing statements by some popular storyteller who promotes grandiose claims that collapse under critical scrutiny; or calling me a naive fool for accepting as factual some specific statement by a disliked current or former government official, when the statement checks out; or perhaps even assigning me a place in the ranks of credulous nitwits just because I stubbornly assess some UFO events to resist prosaic explanations and reports of some types of "paranormal" phenomena to be reality-based.

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

The FBI got into the UFO business in 1947, but they wanted nothing to do with it, mostly stuck doing the legwork for low-level cases, chasing down rumors and hoaxes for the Air Force. Here's a look at some of the FBI UFO investigations.
https://t.co/53kOhpvcki

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@JoseACaravaca It is! I'll be using these to update some articles, including this one on the subject of that clipping. https://t.co/Fxu7sPd7Lq

[Theo Paijmans @memizon]

And another great UFO resource. Remember the 1980 Cash-Landrum sighting involving a huge diamond shaped ufo emitting fire, pursued by 23 helicopters and the alleged radiation burns of the eyewitnesses? Huge digitized document collection here: https://t.co/7LhJjTJfp3

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@RobertSkvarla Here's a pretty good article on that 1946 UFO sighting. https://t.co/gp8ymw20ge

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

The FBI UFO files contain a new scan of something previously accidently cropped: Kenneth Arnold's first known drawing of the one crescent-shaped object unlike the others. Page 11 of https://t.co/QCuDyI1wev

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@ParaN_rmal Check out this history of the meme. https://t.co/kfyHka3UMS

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@AlchemyAmerican Even before Richard Shaver, there were some Amazing Stories being told of ancient and advanced civilizations here on the planet. https://t.co/vDvf9oKoQy

[Jen_Karney @Patent_ThisJK]

"The Pentagon released its UFO videos – so I went to the US to chase aliens. This is what I found" - The Guardian #SmartNews https://t.co/eMqXtjEcnv

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@ParaN_rmal Fake it 'til you make it, they say.
There have been real hearings since, but there's still a lot of make-believe involved.

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@MiddleOfMayhem I think the last time this happened, it was in a movie, with scientists being collected to prepare a space ark to save a fraction of humanity from the earth’s destruction.

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@rgh_ufos I wrote a piece on the McDonnell UFO project, but have little on the efforts of the other companies mentioned. https://t.co/rEvpel7KiT

[Curt Collins @CurtCollins579]

@RareUFOVault @TBrighamPhd Men in Black was one of the many invented UFO-related accessories created to fill saucer zine pages when the news was slow.