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26 Aug 2026

My Time With the Malmgrens, Part 1: An "Atomic" Whiz Kid

Douglas Dean Johnson pulled Harald Malmgren's certified job applications and called his career a grandiose fantasy. I met Malmgren weeks after he said a CIA man had briefed him on otherworld technologies. Here is what the documents say about both.

134 min read David Burkett
12 Jul 2026

The Base Rate Doesn't Mean What Shermer Thinks It Means

Skeptic Michael Shermer recently discussed the base rate in a UFO debate, a genuinely useful tool, but he pointed it at the wrong question. How rare a thing is only sets where you start and low base rate raises evidentiary the bar. It doesn't lower the evidence.

30 min read David Burkett

Lies Above is out now.

Seventy years of government secrecy, and every word of it cited.

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