Reviews and predictions

Chariots of the Gods (see pp28-35) came out when I was a young teenager, and like many others I was impressed by Erich von Däniken’s bestseller. It popularised the idea of ancient aliens for a mass au

The interstellar comet or spacecraft, 3I/Atlas (FT465:27) excited the world of ufology in 2025. Despite Avi Loeb’s best efforts, most experts regarded it as an unusual object but not a 33-billion-ton

Helen McCaw, formerly a senior financial security analyst at the Bank of England, has written to the Bank’s current governor, Andrew Bailey, to urge him to plan for the financial crisis she believes w

A new generation of unmanned crafts is set to transform air combat, teaming with next-generation jets to deliver speed, agility and power

The future of Greenland has dominated the headlines in recent weeks, but increasingly the real action, both commercially and militarily, is taking place hundreds, even hundreds of thousands of miles a

The 1956 book When Prophecy Fails, by Leon Festinger, Henry W Riecken and Stanley Schachter has been one of the most influential books of the last century in the fields of new religious studies, cult