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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

W hen Erich von Däniken died in Interlaken, Switzerland, at the age of 90 on 10 January, I was offline for the weekend. My parents had come to visit their grandson after a major snowstorm had delayed

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

David Farrier Nature’s Genius Evolution’s lessons for a changing planet 288pp. Canongate. £20. In David Farrier’s latest book, he warns us that humanity is endangering every facet of life on Earth thr

It is probably fair to say that without Erich von Däniken, Fortean Times would not have found the receptive audience it did when launching in 1973. While UFOs, earth mysteries and the like were thrivi

We mark a particularly notable fortean departure this month with the death of Erich von Däniken, whose bestselling books about ancient astronauts and gods from outer space – starting with Chariots of