ABOVE: Sue and I on our 2023 road trip. Susan and I have finally organized our annual Road Trip for…
The Last Picture Show – I Finally Retire from the D.B. Cooper Case. This Time for Good.
Written by Robert Blevins, Adventure Books of Seattle This month (May 2024) will be the 15th anniversary since I first…
Why I Don’t Care About ‘Cooper Websites’ and Their Banning of my Content on Them
Although I have been banned from practically every discussion forum going on the D.B. Cooper case, I gave up caring…
D.B. Cooper: Why Wasn’t Any of the Ransom Money Ever Found in Circulation?
One of the Big Questions in the D.B. Cooper case from people is this one: “How come no one has…
D.B. Cooper – 2023 Yearly Report
(Header Image – The current owners of the Ariel General Store and Tavern in Ariel, WA where the famous Cooper…
Cooper Con 2023 at the Museum of Flight? Wasn’t Invited.
Hell, no. They never try to get Geoff Gray or yours truly to attend. We have the top two best-selling…
D.B. Cooper: Our Theory on how $5,800 of the Ransom Ended up on a beach along the Columbia River
(Image credit: Reid Blackburn, Associated Press.)FBI agents and others dig along the Columbia River at Tina Bar, the location the…
Cooper/UFO Road Trip: Home At Last!
After a trip of exactly 3,048 miles covering four US western states, Sue and I finally returned home on Sunday,…
Cooper/UFO Road Trip – Vegas
From Goldfield, Nevada we started south again toward Las Vegas, because some of my family lives in that area and…
Cooper/UFO Road Trip: First Stop, Goldfield, Nevada
With the Infiniti QX4 loaded with everything but the sink, including an inflatable alien, we headed south out of Yakima,…
Prepping for the DB Cooper/UFO/Alien Road Trip
This author has been busy this week for sure. Sue and I are prepping for the Big Road Trip on…
Best Video We Have done on the Cooper case? That’s Easy. The Craziest One of All
We took scores of images and crammed them into a three-minute video, using (with permission) Blink 182’s most famous song.…
Banned From the Reddit Site on Cooper, but still standing.
(ABOVE: The rig AB of Seattle staff members Rob and Sue are using on their DB Cooper/UFO road trip later…
Crazy Cooper Road Trip With Aliens on the Side
Adventure Books of Seattle staff members Rob and Sue are going on a 3,000 mile road trip hitting interesting spots…
Adventure Books of Seattle Main Website has moved to WordPress
From Robert Blevins, managing editor and co-founder of AB of Seattle: Two months ago our site host for sixteen years,…
D.B. Cooper Campout and UFO Skywatch Party in September
It’s been a tough year. I have traveled the Great Northwest from Washington to Nevada since January. Many projects, much…
Base Camp Number 5: Stranded!
From March 3rd to March 21, 2023 I was thrown into a survival situation that nearly killed me. People say…
Road Trip – Base Camp 4: Water Canyon Recreation Area, Winnemucca, Nevada
After a long, mostly empty drive through the desert of eastern Oregon, I finally said goodbye to no stores and…
Road Trip – Base Camp Number 3, Adel, Oregon
After getting stuck in the snow and having to dig my way out in the National Forests near Paisley, Oregon…
Road Trip Base Camp Two, Bend Oregon
It must be seen to be believed. As I approached the border of the Deschutes National Forest in Bend, all…
Road Trip – I Set Up My First Base Camp
After some delays due to late deliveries by Amazon, I finally got the gear loaded into my SUV and headed…
Adventure Books of Seattle’s Robert Blevins Takes Extended Road Trip
For the New Year, this writer has decided to hit the road and see the country for a few months.…
D.B. Cooper/UFO Skywatch Party Preliminary Report
(NOTE: Because of the lack of support from the so-called ‘experts’ in D.B. Cooperland for this fun event, we have…
Crazy Trip to Darland Mountain – They Don’t Call Us ‘Adventure Books’ for Nothing
They said it couldn’t be done. The Department of Natural Resources guys, the Forest Service guys, four-wheelers, and some of…
D.B. Cooper – Second SUFON Skywatch Party Planned for 2022?
Due to the success of this year’s DB Cooper/Seattle UFO Network Skywatch Party that happened in July, Adventure Books of…
D.B. Cooper – Why the Prints the F.B.I. Obtained Might Be Useless to Them
After NWA Flight 305 landed in Reno, the F.B.I. searched the plane thoroughly for evidence, they also dusted for fingerprints…
D.B. Cooper – How the Seattle FBI Blew Their One Chance to Catch Him on the Ground in Seattle
Believe it or not, there WAS one narrow moment of opportunity for the Seattle FBI to catch D.B. Cooper on…
D.B. Cooper – Review of the Netflix Four-Part Limited TV Series
D.B. Cooper, Where Are You? is entertaining if nothing else. This writer watched all four episodes today in preparation for…
D.B. Cooper – FBI File Releases Now Available in a Single Searchable File Meeting PDF – X-1A Standards
Complicated title for this article, ain’t it? Some background. A few weeks ago, Dr. Bob Edwards of Great Britain (who…
Cooper Case Witness Tina Mucklow – Why She Won’t Speak to Armchair Investigators
(ABOVE: Northwest Airlines stewardess Tina Mucklow at a press conference shortly after the hijacking. The parody reference refers to the…
D.B. Cooper: He Wasn’t the ONLY U.S. Skyjacker to Get Away With It. Meet Cathy Kerkow
Fifty years after she and her boyfriend Roger ‘Willie’ Holder hijacked Western Airlines Flight 701 between Los Angeles and Seattle,…
D.B. Cooper – Five Myths Some Cooper Investigators STILL Believe are True
Fifty-plus years after D.B. Cooper pulled his little stunt on Northwest Airlines and was never seen again, many armchair investigators…
Equal Time for the UFO Folks – Why We Don’t Buy NASA’s Explanation on the ‘Mars Doorway’
NASA recently released four progressively-closer blowups of the now-famous image from Mt. Sharp on Mars, using them to convince people…
D.B. Cooper – Public Interest in Famous Case Reaches Lowest Level in Fifty Years. Here’s the Ten Reasons WHY
The year 2021 was a disappointing high-water mark for people interested in, or exploring the Cooper case. The 50th anniversary…
Cooper Investigator Dr. Bob Edwards Uploads Keyword-Searchable FBI Files on Hijacking Investigation
Dr. Bob Edwards of Bedford, England has a book out there on the Cooper case. D. B. Cooper and Flight…
D.B. Cooper – Wrapping Up Our Investigation Into the Cooper Case and Moving Forward – Part 1 of 2
Submitted by Robert Blevins: A Short History of Our Involvement in the D.B. Cooper Case – October, 2008: After reading…
D.B. Cooper – Wrapping Up Our Investigation Into the Cooper Case and Moving Forward – Part 2 of 2
Submitted by Robert Blevins: In Part One, this writer discussed the history of Adventure Books of Seattle as it relates…
D.B. Cooper – Parody – The Ballad of Kenny Christiansen
(A parody song about D.B. Cooper suspect Kenny Christiansen and his buddy Bernie Geestman, who we suspect were the brains…
D.B. Cooper – How Senior FBI Agent Dr John Jarvis Leaked to Friends that Kenny Christiansen was Indeed D.B. Cooper
After five years of secrecy, Adventure Books of Seattle has decided to release the full text of the famous emails…
D.B. Cooper – 2021 Year in Review
1….Surprisingly, the 50th anniversary of the D.B. Cooper case saw relatively little progress in the case itself, and the highly-touted…
A Break from the Cooper Case – Our Opinions on the War in Ukraine
While NATO waffles and imposes sanctions on Russia, on the ground the REAL fight is happening in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin…
D.B. Cooper – The Five Biggest Myths You Hear About Adventure Books of Seattle and the Investigation Into Suspect Kenny Christiansen
(in no particular order) We say Kenny Christiansen bought a house for cash shortly after the Cooper hijacking. The Truth:…
D.B. Cooper – A Tribute to the Passing of Bryan Woodruff, Owner of the Ariel Store and Tavern
(ABOVE: Promotional photo done by the author, prior to sponsoring the final ‘D.B. Cooper Days’ party at the Ariel Tavern.…
Suspects 101 – Seven Good Reasons Why Suspect Sheridan Peterson ISN’T D.B. Cooper
Sheridan Peterson, a retired teacher from Santa Rosa, California, was once a suspect in the Cooper hijacking. He is an…
D.B. Cooper – The Parachute Found in Amboy, WA – and Why The FBI’s Explanation Makes No Sense
In late March of 2008, a story broke in the press that some kids from the town of Amboy, WA…