UFO Talker

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 36.  Host Michael Ryan interviews UK ufologist Alan Foster.  Mr. Foster covers many topics including The Night of Triangles which happened in Southern Wales in January, 1983.  He also talks about an RAF pilot who chased a huge UFO over Cyprus.  If you would like to find out more about Alan Foster you can check out UK Pilots Reporting UAP here .  If you would like...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 35.  Michael Ryan interviews legendary ufologist Jan Aldrich about Lt. Col. Wayne Mattson.  Mattson is a mysterious and little-known figure in the UFO world.  However, he may have known more about UFOs than  anyone else.  Jan also talks about an important UFO encounter that Mattson had while flying during the Vietnam war.  He also talks about Project Have Fear in...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 34.  Host Michael Ryan interviews documentary filmmaker Joe Tury about his film Grand Tower UFOs and Other High Strangeness.  His film covers the event that happened on March 22, 1973 when a UFO was hovering over the Grand Tower Illinois Power Plant.  Grand Tower is also the site of a lot of other high strangeness over the years.   You can also donate to the film...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 33.  No, this isn't the headline from a supermarket tabloid...this really happened.  Host Michael Ryan and Commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into RCMP reports from March 4, 1969 and June 5, 1969.  High strangeness was overhead on the night of March 4 and June 5, 1969.  We discuss the reports of RCMP personnel as they try to come to terms with what...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 32. Host Michael Ryan interviews Irish ufologist Chris Gaffney.  Chris Gaffney takes us on a deep dive of all things relating to UFOs in Ireland.  From the 2004 encounter that an Aer Lingus 737 had with a triangle UFO.  The encounter caused damage to the wing of the aircraft.  We also play a conversation between Shannon Air Traffic Control and three passenger airc...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 31.  Host Michael Ryan interviews author Bill Rountree.  Mr. Rountree spent most of his life as project manager on large information technology projects for major companies like Sprint and Coca Cola, but for over 50 years he kept a secret.  He had been having alien encounters since he was 7 years old.  Bill Rountree talks about his experiences and his book: Aliens...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 30.  Host Michael Ryan and Commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into The Prochner Farm Incident.  During the early morning hours  of August 4, 1968 three members of the Prochner family witnessed a large UFO hovering over their house and their barn.  The farm was located near Qu'appelle, Saskatchewan.  The three family members were father William Proch...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 29.  Host Michael Ryan interviews retired Major Harold Skaarup.  Major Skaarup spent 40 years in Canadian Army Intelligence and he was deployed in Cyprus, Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Afghanistan.  He was also stationed at the NATO base in Lahr, Germany and the NORAD base at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.  He talks about NORAD and UFOs, his long friendship with Stanton...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 28.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into The Bear Point Incident.  Five witnesses from two location see between 5 and 6 UFOs from two different locations in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Lawrence Smith and his brother Gene first see the UFOs near Bear Point (which is not that far from Shag Harbour).  The second set of witnesses, Cpl. Ti...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2  Episode 27.  In part 2 of Michael Ryan's interview with Jan Aldrich, Jan talks about UFO researcher Ted Blocher and John Musgrave from British Columbia.  He also gives his thoughts of Jackie Gleason's UFO research and his experiences with James McDonald and Ann Druffel.  He also talks about recent research into UFOs during the Vietnam war and why saving UFO his...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 26.  Host Michael Ryan interviews UFO legend Jan Aldrich about his 60 plus years in ufology.  In part 1 of a 2 part interview, Jan talks about the people and places that he has met in his UFO journey.  The highlight of part 1 is his explanation of the 1968 Minot Air Force Base UFO case that had many witnesses, multiple radar confirmations and visual sighting by th...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 25.  Host Michael Ryan interviews author Paul Schatzkin about his biography of Thomas Townsend Brown The Man Who Mastered Gravity: A Twisted Tale of Space, Time and the Mysteries in Between.   Townsend Brown was a man of mystery.  Were his inventions classified? Why was  he dropped behind German lines near the end of WWII?  What did he know about UFOs?  If you wou...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 24.  Host Michael Ryan interviews PEI UFO investigator David Ross.  They talk about The UAP 53 Team, Ross' UFO Facebook page and a few PEI UFO cases including the little known Ebenezer UFO Incident.  What crashed into a forest at Ebenezer, PEI?  The RCMP was there and Canadian military helicopters and something was taken away on a flat bed truck covered in a...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 23.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Benny Grandahl who represents Scandinavian UFO Information a UFO organization that has been operating in Denmark since 1957.  Benny talks about the UFO scene in Denmark and the case of Danish police officer Evald Maarup who was hit with a beam of light from a 50 foot wide UFO.  To find out more about Benny and the Danish UFO scene...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 22. Host Michael Ryan interviews author Linda Powell about her biography of Major Donald E. Keyhoe.  Her book not only covers Keyhoe, but also many of the people and events in ufology in the early days.  She pays special attention to Townsend Brown, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt and groups like APRO.  She opens up on the history of NICAP and how it was always on the b...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 21.  Host Michael Ryan talks about secrecy the shrouds the subject of UFOs around nuclear generating stations.  He talks about investigative journalist Daniel Otis and his struggles to get info out of Ontario Power Generation.   He also talks about Ontario ufologist Dennis Prophet and his booklet which highlight cases of UFOs over Pickering Nuclear power plant.  A...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 20.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Robert Spearing the Director of International Investigations for MUFON.  Robert talks about MUFON's Project Aquarius which will put thousands of UFO documents online for the first time.  Robert also talks about the 2019 case of a FedEx plane that was followed by glowing ball for over 33 minutes.  Also from March, the sighting...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2  Episode 19.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott talk about the people and events that could shape ufology in 2024.  We also look back on the people we expected a lot from in 2023 and...what happened?  Our audio excerpt this week is from Dr. Richard F. Haines' book, Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War.  This book is out of print.  Yo...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 18.  Host Michael Ryan interviews ufologist Preston Dennett.  He talks about his new book Humanoids and High Strangeness: Twenty True UFO Encounters.  The interview covers a lot of topics.  Preston talks about two cases from his book and how he believes the cover up is still on in the U.S. government.  He also talks about a little known case from 1971 that involve...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 17.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Mark Rodeghier, President of J. Allen Hynek's Center for UFO Studies.    Rodeghier talks about his 50 years at CUFOS and his working relationship to J. Allen Hynek.   He also talks about Major Donald Keyhoe, Father Gill and David Grusch.  He also covers the new CUFOS website and briefly covers Project Blue Book and CE5 contac...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 16.  Host Michael Ryan and Christine Scott take a deep dive into the Killian Incident.  The Killian Incident is named after American Airlines pilot Peter Killian who was Captain of Flight #937 flying from Newark, New Jersey to Detroit, Michigan on the night of Tuesday, February 24, 1959.  Captain Killian along with co-pilot John Dee witnessed three large UFOs flyi...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 15.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Clas Svahn who has been investigating and researching UFOs in Sweden for 50 years.  Clas talks about many aspects of UFOs and talks about a Swedish abduction case where a husband tried to fight off Greys who were abducting his wife.  Clas is the head of UFO Sweden and also AFU (Archives for the Unexplained).  AFU has a great websi...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 14.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott look into the sinking of patrol boat PCF-19 during the Vietnam War.  In June of 1968 the DMZ was plagued by low flying bright lights.  Were they UFOs or were they North Vietnamese helicopters?  If you would like to read more about this case check out Jon Wyatt's work here .  Also check out the very well r...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 13.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Raymond Szymanski about his book, 50 Shades of Greys and his 40 years working as an engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.  Ray talks about many aspects of the base including his theories on where the alien bodies could be buried.  You can purchase Ray's books, Alien Shades of Greys, 50 Shades of Greys and Swamp Gas My...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 12.  Host Michael Ryan talks with UK author Mark Olly about his new book Europe's Roswell: 40 Years Since Impact.  What was it that crashed into a farmer's field in Llanilar, Wales almost 40 years ago?  Was it a UFO or was it a super secret aircraft?  Mark talks about this and his personal UFO encounter.  You can buy all of Mark Olly's books on Amaz...