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Send us Fan Mail What Did Frame 300 Capture? The Cote UFO Photo On September 4, 1971, a Costa Rican government mapping flight photographed something unexpected above Lake Cote. Nobody aboard reported seeing it, but one frame contained a mysterious disc-shaped image that would become the subject of decades of investigation. Michael Ryan interviews filmmaker Adam Pillon about his documentary, The Co...

Send us Fan Mail The Secret Ruppelt Tape: Battelle’s Hidden UFO Connection UFO Talker returns with the premiere episode of Season 5 —and we are beginning the new season with one of our most revealing historical investigations. Michael Ryan and Christine Scott examine a remarkable recording from a confidential 1952 meeting featuring Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the first director of the U.S. Air Forc...

Send us Fan Mail UFO Talker Returns for Season 5 For more than four years, UFO Talker has explored UFO reports through research, investigation, and conversations with the people closest to the stories. Michael Ryan and Christine Scott look for compelling cases that deserve a closer look, including accounts you may not have heard before. In Season 5, we’ll bring you more witness interviews, new gue...

Send us Fan Mail THE FORGOTTEN UFO INVESTIGATOR: WILLIAM STEINMAN, AZTEC AND THE SECRETS OF WHITE SANDS This week’s summer rerun is a very personal episode for host Michael Ryan. Our guest is the late Dr. Frank Thayer—author, UFO researcher, professor emeritus at New Mexico State University and co-author of The Aztec UFO Incident . Long before appearing on UFO Talker, Frank was Michael’s journalis...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the UFO Talker Podcast, we return to one of the most intriguing—and largely forgotten—chapters in Ontario UFO history: a series of unidentified objects reported over and around the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station during the mid-1970s. Michael Ryan examines the work of Southern Ontario UFO researcher Dennis Prophet, a former member of the Royal Air Force who becam...

Send us Fan Mail What Did Captain Thomas Mantell Chase? An Interview With His Grandson, Terry Mantell This week, UFO Talker returns to one of the most important—and tragic—cases from the early history of the UFO phenomenon. Originally released as Season 1, Episode 21, on January 18, 2023 , this episode features an in-depth interview with Terry Mantell , grandson of Captain Thomas F. Mantell. On Ja...

Send us Fan Mail SUMMER “BEST OF” REPEAT SERIES Season 3, Episode 5 — Originally aired November 7, 2024 Two aircraft. Two encounters near Gander International Airport. Three experienced pilots—and an unidentified object that appeared to pace their aircraft. In this summer repeat, Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott revisit a remarkable series of UFO encounters over central Newfoundland in...

Send us Fan Mail Originally released as Season 3, Episode 17 on February 19, 2025. Three women reported seeing an enormous UFO hovering over their Calgary apartment complex on January 2, 1975. According to statements taken by the RCMP, the silent grey craft approached from the distance before stopping approximately 350 feet above them. Using the apartment building as a reference, the investigating...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 12 — Originally Aired December 3, 2025 Why was the Canadian military so interested in a UFO sighting over the tiny hamlet of Vidora, Saskatchewan? In this episode of UFO Talker , Michael Ryan and Christine Scott examine a remarkable 1967 RCMP case involving multiple witnesses who observed two mysterious aerial objects over two separate nights. One witness reported...

Send us Fan Mail The UFO Case That Silenced Airline Pilots What happens when a respected airline captain publicly reports a UFO... and refuses to change his story? In this Summer "Best Of" repeat from Season 2, Episode 16 , Michael Ryan and Christine Scott revisit one of the most significant—and often overlooked—cases in UFO history. On the night of February 24, 1959 , Captain Peter Kill...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2, Episode 10 (Originally Released on November 8, 2023) What would you do if something enormous, silent, and impossible drifted across the night sky while you were on duty? In this Summer "Best Of" episode of UFO Talker , Michael Ryan is joined by retired Halifax Police officers Rick Prescott and Rob Furlong , who recount one of Canada's most compelling polic...

Send us Fan Mail This episode originally aired in Season 4, Episode 19 of the UFO Talker Podcast. In the summer of 1973, two young sisters were playing outside their family home in rural northern Maine when they looked up and saw something extraordinary—a huge, silent, saucer-shaped object hovering above them. The older sister became frightened and grabbed her younger sister, pulling her toward th...

Send us Fan Mail Author Bill Rountree Talks About His 50-Year Journey of Alleged Alien Encounters Season 2 Episode 31.  From the Summer rerun series.  What would you do if you believed something unexplained had been visiting you since childhood? In this episode of UFO Talker , Michael Ryan sits down with author Bill Rountree to discuss the extraordinary experiences detailed in his book, Aliens Are...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 8.  From the UFO Talker Summer "Best Of' repeat series What really happened after the witnesses of the Rendlesham Forest Incident reported what they had seen? In this episode of UFO Talker , host Michael Ryan welcomes former British detective Gary Heseltine , one of the world's foremost researchers of the Rendlesham Forest Incident and author of the...

Send us Fan Mail Season 1 Episode 32.  On this Summer rerun episode of UFO Talker, host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into one of the most famous and controversial UFO photo cases ever documented—the Rex Heflin photographs of August 3, 1965. For more than half a century, the four photographs taken by Orange County road maintenance worker Rex Heflin near Santa Ana, C...

Send us Fan Mail Season 3 Episode 11. As part of UFO Talker's Summer "Best Of" Repeat Series, we revisit one of the most fascinating and little-known Canadian UFO encounters on record. On October 24, 1970, near MacGregor, Manitoba, a young farmer named Gerald Adams reported an extraordinary experience that would eventually attract the attention of the RCMP, the Canadian Military, an...

Send us Fan Mail Summer Rerun Series.  This episode is from Season 3 Episode 27.  The Zodiac Killer's infamous 340 Cipher remained unsolved for more than 51 years. Governments, intelligence agencies, professional cryptologists, and amateur codebreakers all attempted to solve it. In December 2020, a three-person team finally succeeded. One of those team members was cryptologist and software de...

Send us Fan Mail Summer "Best of" repeat Series.  This episode originally aired May 14, 2025.  Season 3 Episode 29.  Host Michael Ryan interviews retired RCMP Sergeant Craig Cochrane about one of the most compelling UFO cases ever investigated in Northern Manitoba—the Island Lake Incident . On the night of October 3, 1981 , Albert Punch, his wife, and their three children were travelling...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 37.  This is our 150th episode of UFO Talker.  Host Michael Ryan interviews the co-founders of UAP-PD, retired Arizona police officers Marianne Robb and Dave Rich.  During this special 150th episode of UFO Talker, Dave Rich discusses a chilling 911 Ghost Call he investigated at an Arizona high school - a case that continues to raise disturbing questions about what...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 36.  Ron James joins host Michael Ryan to discuss his new documentary, Accidental Truth: Next , a follow-up to his acclaimed exploration of the UFO phenomenon and the growing movement toward disclosure. In this new film, James examines the latest developments surrounding UAP investigations, government transparency, whistleblower testimony, and the expanding scient...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 35.  Host Michael Ryan interviews David Barnett who was the sonar operator the night of The Southland Encounter.  During the third week of February 1987 the New Zealand Frigate HMNZS Southland was 175 miles off the coast of the North Island of New Zealand.  At 1 am the ship started tracking a USO that was 20 kms behind the vessel.  After 30 minutes the USO went fr...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 34.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take on the mystery of the scientists and military personnel that have been murdered or have just walked away from their lives and have disappeared.  Retired police officers Rick Prescott and Rob Furlong share their thoughts on what has taken place.  From their decades of policing they point out information th...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 33.  Host Michael Ryan interviews retired NASA scientist Dr. Richard F. Haines about cases he researched for his unpublished book on UFOs witnessed during the Vietnam War.  His book covers the time period from June 1966 to October 1973.  Cases include a soldier who is taken aboard a craft near his fire base at Chu Chee.  There is also the incredible incident at Nh...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 32.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Dr. Irena Scott about her new book: Pascagoula-The Ultimate Close UFO Encounter.  The central topic of her book is the UFO Flap of 1973.  This Flap, one of the largest and most intense UFO Flaps ever spread all across North America.  Cases like the Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker Abduction in Pascagoula, Mississippi, The Coyne H...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 31. Host Michael Ryan interviews author Linda Zimmermann about her book Animal Reactions to UFOs.  In her book she asks readers to look at animal/UFO encounters with "new eyes".   In the interview she describes the many cases where animals have a strong reaction to UFOs, reactions that can only be thought of as real.  Linda Zimmermann's books can be...