Podcast UFO

by UFO History Buff &  Author , Charles Lear  Last week, we were looking into a case from Lewis County, Washington, involving Bigfoot and a UFO, and we came upon Flying Saucer News, published by James S. Rigberg, who ran the Flying Saucer News Bookstore (and Prosperity Clinic) at 359 West 45 th Street in Manhattan. The story we were looking at was covered in the May 1972 issue (page 5 of the p...

by UFO History Buff &  Author , Charles Lear  Bennewitz pic In December of 1979, Paul Bennewitz, a man who wrote he had been studying the UFO phenomenon since 1948, was told by his wife that she heard a high-pitched buzzing sound right over their house after being woken up by their small dog who was barking before dawn one morning. Bennewitz had been recently seeing strange lights over Archule...

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, & Rumble | Thursday, July 18, 2024 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-4GMT) Robert K. Wittman had a remarkable career as an FBI agent for 20 years, from 1988 to 2008. Specializing in art theft and cultural property crime, Robert became the FBI’s go-to expert for these types of cases. His impressive work undercover led to the recovery of over $300 billion...

by UFO History Buff &  Author , Charles Lear  In the midst of the excitement created by the publication in 1980 of The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William Moore, a set of documents reportedly came into Moore’s possession that seemed to support the story of a flying saucer recovery near Roswell and a secret government body, Majestic 12, that handled such things. These became known t...

In this episode, I’m joined by true crime podcaster, Kate from Nightmare Houses as she discusses her podcast episodes that include homes that one should feel safe in, but sometimes terrible things happen, from hauntings, to all kinds of twisted crimes, murders and mysteries. In particular, we delve into the Karen Read murder trial . Karen Read stands accused of murdering her boyfriend, Offic...

by UFO History Buff & Author , Charles Lear  In last week’s blog , we looked at the case of José Antônio Da Silva who, in 1969, reported that he was taken aboard a flying saucer by three hairy dwarves, one of whom shot a beam of light that hit him in the legs and paralyzed them. He said this took place in Bebedouro, near the Brazilian town of Pedro Leopoldo, that he was flown through space, th...

by UFO  Author , Charles Lear  The history of civilian UFO/flying saucer research in Brazil goes back as far as that of the United States. The first organization to be formed there was Civil de Objetos Aéreos Nao Identitificados (Civil Investigation Center for Unidentified Aerial Objects) founded by Húlvio Brant Aleixo in Belo Horizonte in 1954. Aleixo was a professor of psychology at the Catholic...

by UFO Author , Charles Lear  In the April 1971 issue (page 6 of the pdf) No. 1-2 of the Scandinavian Newsletter, published by UFO-Sweden, there is an article headlined “I met a flying saucer.” According to the abstract, the report that follows was first published in the Norwegian weekly magazine Hjemmet and translated into English by Anton Lidström of the Trondheim UFO Society. The case involves...

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook, & Rumble | Tuesday, June 03, 2024 @ 9:00 PM EDT (-4GMT) Join Martin as he interviews former CIA agent Andy Bustamante and investigative journalist Paul Beban as they discuss uncovering unusual and often disturbing phenomena in new high-strangeness locations beyond Skinwalker Ranch. With a team of respected professionals and veterans from The Secret of Skinwalker...

by  Author , Charles Lear  UFOs were big news in 1973. Besides the Pascagoula and the Coyne incidents, there were flaps all over the United States. One in Piedmont, Missouri, got started that year in late February with UFO reports involving cars stalling and radio interference. These caught the attention of a physics professor, Harley D. Rutledge, who was chairman of that department at Southeast M...

by  Author , Charles Lear  Seamans with Wernher von Braun and President Kennedy at Cape Canaveral 1963 On December 17, 1969, a news release from the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) announced the termination of Project Blue Book. According to the document, Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans Jr. stated in a memo to Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John D. Ryan that “...

by  Author , Charles Lear  In last week’s blog , we looked at UFO reports by Pennsylvania citizens that made their way from various agencies, including local police, to the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, which recently released records of these. On February 2, 2024, an article by Millie Emmett headlined “UFOs reported to Essex Police highlighted in data” was posted on the Daily Gazette...

by Author , Charles Lear  After Project Blue Book was deactivated in 1969, civilians were left with no official government body prepared to deal with UFO reports. This is still the case (the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office only takes reports from military personnel) and this has left local agencies, such as the police, as the organizations that people often turn to, and each one handles repor...

by Charles Lear, author of the new book: Crashed Saucers In our blog headlined “UFOs Over Scottsdale,” posted on April 15, 2024, we looked at a report of a blue, worm-like UFO captured on video over Scottsdale, Arizona. The main sources were two tabloid news agencies, Daily Mail and The US Sun, and their source was video footage posted on Instagram and Twitter/X. The reporters of both agencies fai...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”  & a new book to be released! Verrazano UFO Just this week, video of a UFO taken by a passenger on a plane coming in for a landing at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, made international news. Video footage of UFOs constantly appears online and more often than not leads to a dead end for researchers trying to identify witnesse...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” & a new book to be released! The February-March 1977 issue of the UFO Newsclipping Service, has four articles describing what would become “classic” UFO cases. One looks into the report (page 12 of the pdf) of nine-year-old Jose Cantu who said he saw “two greenish creatures about three feet tall, who rotated on a base instead of ha...

By Charles Lear (New book to be released!) This week, we were intrigued by a recent video of a UFO over Scottsdale, Arizona, that received some news coverage. As we looked into it, we were struck by the contrast between the coverage of UFO reports in the days where print journalism was dominant and the present. There is an article headlined “OUT OF THE BLUE Chilling moment pulsating blue cigar-sha...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” UFOs are often reported to have left behind evidence of their visits in the form of physical traces, but there are also reports of them taking something away and often it is water from tanks, pools, rivers, lakes, and oceans. There are enough of these sorts of reports that Linda Zimmermann and Michael Worden were able to devote an enti...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” There is an article headlined “The Taradale Car Crash” in the March-April 1969 Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 15, No. 7. It is described as an “adapted version” of an article written by Henk Hinfelaar and Claude Elmes of New Zealand Scientific Space Research that appeared in that organization’s newsletter Spaceview. It concerns a car accid...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” A pioneer saucerologist/UFOlogist, Ted Bloecher, who mostly went uncelebrated except among his peers and a small number of enthusiasts, passed away on January 22 of this year at the age of 94. He was not known because of book sales, lectures, appearances on television or in documentaries, but for his research with and contributions to...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” The FAA has been historically close-mouthed when it comes to pilot UFO sightings and pilots often avoid filing official reports, as they can be damaging to one’s career. However, with the availability of live air traffic control feeds such as liveatc.net , listeners have occasionally come upon pilots talking about a sighting in real ti...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” This is the last in a three-part series of blogs looking at a case from 2023 that involved Ikitu tribe members in the village of San Antonio de Pintuyacu in Peru who reported nighttime attacks by 7-feet-tall aliens with elongated heads wearing black body armor and masks that had yellow or green eye lenses. They were said to stand on so...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” TIMOTHY ALBERINO In Last week’s blog , we looked at a case from 2023 that involved Ikitu tribe members in the village of San Antonio de Pintuyacu in Peru who reported nighttime attacks by 7-feet-tall aliens with elongated heads wearing black body armor and masks that had yellow or green eye lenses. They were said to stand of some sort...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” 2023 was quite a year for aliens in the news which included reports of creatures in a backyard in Las Vegas , alleged alien mummies being presented to the Mexican Congress , and an alien invasion of a shopping mall in Florida . In between, there were reports from a remote village in Peru of harrowing encounters with aliens that moved o...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” Jim And Coral Lorenzen In 1968, the Condon Committee was wrapping up the UFO study at the University of Colorado that was commissioned by the Air Force. Coming too late for inclusion in that study was an incident in Gleeson, Arizona, that involved reported landings and possible traces left behind. It was investigated by Jim and Coral L...