Cystic Detective Update #8

Ruminating Further on Fort Bragg & Bledsoe, a "Paramilitary Panda" Tip, and Recent Book Finds (Including a Strange Fascist’s Self-Hypnosis Book)

Sep 3 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

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August 2025

The Parapolitical Scooby-Doo #1

Spooky Space Kook, Extraterrestrial Psyops, Real Estate Schemes, and the Ghastly Quest for Capital

Aug 27 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

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[Spook]Housekeeping, August 2025

The future of Getting Spooked + Thinking about Seth Harp’s “The Fort Bragg Cartel” and UFO contactee Chris Bledsoe

Aug 20 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

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[#19] Forbidden Science Dispatches #9-10 Read-through

Listen now | Continuing on, we follow some threads in the 1990s as Jacques Vallée brushes up against weird intelligence networks, rampant paranoia, and…

Aug 13 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

5

1:17:22

Holding Out for a UFO Hero, No Matter the Cost

The VP Acknowledges UFOs and the New Air Force Undersecretary Believes That the Military is Marxist & Anomalous Orbs are Plasma-Based Beings from…

Aug 6 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

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July 2025

Cystic Detective Update #7

The best podcasts I’ve heard lately, a confusing conversation about UFOs between D.W. Pasulka & Ross Douthat, and succumbing to the grip of the Octopus

Jul 30 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

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Fabulist, Fraud, or Phenom? A Critique of Paul Schatzkin’s The Man Who Mastered Gravity (2023)

A conventional biography about a fringe scientist/UFO researcher turns to tales of antigravity, espionage, sketchy sources, & time travel + the Octopus…

Jul 23 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

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[#18] The Gnomeiary, Phase II: Epstein Approximately

The gnome gang links up again to talk about Epstein, hypocrisy, the dissemination of nonsense in ufology and conspiracy, and adjacent DoD misery-making.

Jul 16 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

, 

Bradley W Plaisier

, 

Emily

, and 

Reid

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2:06:26

Cystic Detective Update #6

COM-12, Michael Younger, and More Octopus Tentacles, Plus Current Reading on T. Townsend Brown with Frustrating Footnotes

Jul 9 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

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How Jacques Vallée Was Targeted by a Tentacle of Danny Casolaro's Octopus

In Forbidden Science Dispatches #10, We Look at a Mystery Caller with a Finance Ploy, Robert Booth Nichols, Bob Lazar, the Sam Israel III Ponzi Scheme…

Jul 2 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

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June 2025

Cystic Detective Update #5

A company town in the jungle, Cleveland Rocks, strange UFO tomes, that one Wall Street Journal article, and other recent reads, thoughts, & happenings

Jun 9 • 

Tanner F. Boyle

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May 2025

Radioactive Toothpaste and Conspiranoia: The Strange Saga of Ufologist John Ford, Pt. 2

The rise of the Long Island UFO Network (LIUFON), the people involved, and its subsequent tumult

May 28 • 

Emily

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