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![Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake? [UFO Cult Fashion]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/2/7/5/d/3/3/a/b/c/c/1ed546526fde821004af3a.jpeg) |
Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake? [UFO Cult Fashion]io9 - Nov 8, 2008 Rumors are swirling that Nike discontinued work on this sweet black-and-purple prototype Dunk shoe because it reminded consumers too much of the Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide. Really? On the Nike Skateboarding blog … Also tagged: nike, cults, heaven s gate, sci fashion, ufo cult fashion |
![Firefighters' Manual Teaches First Reponders to Deal with UFO Attacks [Ufos]](http://imageserver.news.speeple.com/e/6/8/f/c/9/9/8/8/3/d62825e8cfdf2f30c81626.jpeg) |
Firefighters' Manual Teaches First Reponders to Deal with UFO Attacks [Ufos]io9 - Nov 7, 2008 No, I'm not kidding: A recent ABC newscast focuses on how a commonly-used firefighters' manual from FEMA has an entire chapter devoted to UFO preparedness. Hey, it's a good idea to be ready for anything, right? If … |
io9 - Oct 23, 2008
There's some spooky/hilarious new footage of a UFO hovering over Montevideo in Uruguay. It's fun to watch, though it's hard not to think it's fake given that the UFO seems to have brought its own new age chill music …
io9 - Oct 20, 2008
Declassified documents from Britain's Ministry of Defence reveal that a pilot ordered to shoot down a UFO over Norwich was unable to do so. Not because he had a crisis of conscience about killing nice ETs, but because …
io9 - Sep 25, 2008
If you're a sociology nerd, you know that back in the 1930s the New School for Social Research in New York City was a haven for serious-minded lefty intellectuals. But by the 1960s, it was apparently renting out its …
Also tagged: sociology
io9 - Sep 19, 2008
Robert Sawyer, the much-awarded scifi author of novels like Rollback and Hominids writes on his blog that, for some reason, scifi publishers are not interested in UFO stories. He says that he advised a friend writing …
Also tagged: books, robert j sawyer, ufo publishing prejudice
io9 - Sep 19, 2008
In February 2000, John McCain admitted that the famous "lights over Arizona" were in fact UFOs during a press conference broadcast over Fox News. Specifically, he was asked about the lawsuit from Peter Gersten to open …
Also tagged: politics, aliens, john mccain, presidential campaign, political science fiction, night skies
io9 - Aug 26, 2008
The holidays are nearly over, and it's time to start going back to school or return to work after a summer vacation. What you probably didn't know is that it's also the end of UFO season for the Northern Hemisphere. So …
Also tagged: aliens, tourism, conspiracy, spaceships, fringe science
io9 - Aug 7, 2008
Imagine how the U.S. government would have reacted during the Cold War had they discovered the USSR was developing a flying saucer. The EKIP (“Ecology and Progress”; the project was also referred to as “Tarielka”) …
Also tagged: technology, retro futurism, ekip, tarielka
io9 - Aug 4, 2008
What can you do with a PhD in UFOs? Martin Plowman is about to find out. This Saturday, the University of Melbourne will award Plowman Australia's first-ever graduate degree in ufology. Do you wish you could write your …
Also tagged: alien, abduction, extraterrestrial, ufology