API Case Files

Our special guest is Erica Lukes of the Expanding Frontiers organization, and of UFO Classified. Links from the show: Expanding Frontiers: https://www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/ Support Expanding Frontiers on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ExpandingFrontiersResearch   The Saucer Life podcast: https://saucerlife.com/ Report your recent UFO sighting: https://reportaufo.org API witness FAQ: ht...

Episode 2 of API Case Files Live - the audio only version. We were joined by UFO historian Jeff Knox. Jeff Knox's work on Bluebook Unknowns: https://uapdiscovery.discourse.group/c/blue-book-unknowns/13 Jeff's show with Rachel:  https://www.youtube.com/@UCxSnv17MgEd5BOzIjugSmDQ   Video summary of the West Virginia case: https://youtu.be/KfNaWbHxHhs Contact us about becoming a panelist: https://aeri...

We went in depth with Marsha Barnhart on a high strangeness case that was big for us, case 12-058. The events in this case largely took place in Ocean City, Maryland. We play several audio clips from the primary witness and those close to him that had not previously been made public. Contact us about becoming a panelist: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/contact-us/ Become an API investigator: https:/...

Released : 30 July 2023 Duration : 54 Minutes 21 Seconds This is our first anonymous API Conversation, although we are using his real first name of our Witness. A former Air Force F111 technician tells us his story about a UFO encounter captured on RADAR at Cannon Air Force base in New Mexico in the mid 1970s, and what followed after that. If you served with Airman Pat at Cannon AFB in the mid 197...

Recorded: May 5, 2022 Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes Marsha Barnhart talks to Dr. Joan Bird, author of the book Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials: Extraordinary Stories of Documented Sightings and Encounters . \ Dr. Bird is a Zoologist who specialized in animal behavior. She moved to Montana in 1973 to pursue graduate studies in zoology at the University of Montana, and in 1983 she completed her Ph....

Released: 26 July 2021 Duration: 42 minutes, 41 seconds This episode of API Case Files covers three recent cases. Paul reports on a daylight sighting from the Isle of Man (Case 21-023) detailing how two men pursued three orbs until the lights disappeared. This encounter took place May 27 th , 2021 and is especially provocative because a day before some else on the Island of Man saw and reported a...

Released: 7 June 2021 Duration: 59 minutes, 30 seconds   Central Casting Saucer Spotted Outside Louisville ; a Colorado Campout Overhead Light Show ; and a Terrifying Idaho Orb Encounter Several really good cases to cover in this episode! A mother and daughter saw a right-out-of-central-casting flying saucer maneuvering over them in the early evening of December 11, 2020. They were in a large urba...

Released: 11 November 2020 Duration: 60 minutes Lots of cases to discuss! The API team is joined by two new members, Molly and Dan. Paul goes into detail on a dazzling Ohio sighting with terrific night vision camera footage, and talks about a recently reported 2014 close encounter experienced by a woman in San Francisco. Marsha presents cases in TN and GA that COULD be drones, but may be true unkn...

Recorded: 25 March 2020 Released: 26 March 2020 Duration: 69 minutes, 36 seconds A conversation with UFO blogger and researcher Curt Collins of the blog Blue Blurry Lines . Recently, together with Roger Glassel, Curt has published research into the complicated and ethically thorny relationship between the government's AAWSAP program, Bigelow Aerospace, and MUFON. Links: Blue Blurry Lines Tim McMil...

Recorded: 24 January2020 Released: 2 February 2019 Duration: 51 minutes, 27 seconds   Following up on Part 1 , Paul Carr and Eric Wojciechowski talk about cyborgs, ageing, self-driving cars, uncanny valleys, narrow vs. general AI, Elon Musk, Shazam, drug dealers, Henry Rollins in Iran, Charlie Hebdo, future fiction plans, Tolkien, virtual conferences, surprising endings to novels, and much more.  ...

Recorded: 24 January 2020 Released: 25 January 2020 Duration: 52 minutes, 45 seconds   Part 1 of Paul Carr's lightly edited conversation with author Eric Wojciechowski. We discuss virtual UFO conferences, Eric's early fascination with the Ancient Astronaut theories of Zecharia Sitchin, his difficult choices in writing Chasing Disclosure , sleep paralysis and false memories, a shadow person experie...

Released: 15 December 2019 Duration: 80 minutes, 3 seconds Marsha Barnhart deep-dives into a just-closed case in Medina, Ohio of a large V-shaped low-flying craft. Upon closer examination, the Witness in this case displayed common characteristics found in other "high strangeness" witnesses. Paul Carr discusses his presentation at this year's Mysteries of Space and Sky Conference held in Gambrills,...

Released: 20 January 2019 Duration: 65 minutes   A silent, truck-sized sphere zips past a startled Englishman; common tricks of the mind MAY explain weird creatures; API Training and Public Outreach videos await you at our website! Two recently closed Case Files are discussed: Marsha Barnhart presents an investigation that included an interesting early morning encounter in Suffolk, England, and Sa...

Recorded: 13 January 2019 Released: 13 January 2019 Duration: 54 minutes, 49 seconds   Kenny Biddle has investigated hauntings, cryptids, and UFOs for years, and has solved many of these cases. He is persistent, patient, and creative, just like any good field investigator. We talked about some of the principles he applies to his work and he gives some examples, from ghosts to Elvis Presley. These...

Recorded: 24 November 2018 Released: 3 December 2018 Duration: 70 minutes, 1 second While researching his book, the Justin reached out to Marsha in an attempt to get detailed information on API case 12-001 . The Witness in this case was the night manager at a hotel on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. On October 14, 2008, both he and the hotel night time security manager were outside talking whe...

  Recorded: 19 September 2018 Released: 22 September 2018 Duration:55 minutes 14 seconds   Paul Carr welcomes Simone Mendez, whose contact with what appeared to be an official document detailing detection of extraterrestrial spacecraft by the US Government when she was in the US Air Force caused her several months of grief and resulted in the loss of her Top Secret security clearance.  Here we giv...

Recorded: 8 August 2018 Released: 8 August 2018 Duration: 57 minutes, 58 seconds   Host Paul Carr welcomes author and blogger Jack Brewer to talk about everything except alien abductions and Gene Steinberg. In particular, we talk about the recent developments in the UFO field and concerns about disinformation. We also briefly discuss MK-ULTRA and the possible murder of bioweapons expert Frank Olso...

Released: 15 July 2018 Duration: 1 hour, 41 seconds Host and Producer Marsha Barnhart welcomes API investigators  Paul Carr and Savannah Dollison. The three cover a few of their recent investigations in-depth during a round-table discussion. They examine sightings in New Jersey, New York, Utah and Georgia, which covered the gamut from overhead "fly-by's" to unnerving close encounters! What do phot...

Recorded: 11 July 2018 Released: 12 July 2018 Duration: 51 minutes, 35 seconds   Host Paul Carr in conversation with Dr. Kevin Knuth , author of a recent article in The Conversation entitled "Are we alone? The question is worthy of serious scientific study ."  The conversation centers around strategies for lifting "the veil of ridicule" that surrounds UFO studies, and Kevin's own experience, and h...

Released: 18 April 2018 Duration: 66 minutes, 2 seconds Paul Carr is  joined by Chris Cogswell, recently resigned director of research at MUFON, about how he and his team are carrying on with an enterprise of scientific research into the UFO phenomena.   Links: The Mad Scientist Podcast MUFON Director of Research Resigns   API Case Files API Main Site Report A UFO   Credits: host and Producer: Pau...

Recorded: March 23, 2018 Released: 10 April 2018 Duration: 71 Minutes, 4 seconds   Marsha Barnhart arranged a part two conversation with Cheryl Costa, co-author of UFO Sightings Desk Reference. In part two, they pick up the conversation discussing how Cheryl became interested in writing an on-line UFO sightings column, New York Skies, for the Syracuse New Times , and how she developed mind/conscio...

Released: 24 March 2018 Duration: 62 minutes   Marsha Barnhart talks to Cheryl Costa, co-author of UFO Sightings Desk Reference. This is a one-of-a-kind reference book covering 15 years of UFO sightings within the United States. The information was gleaned from more than 120,000 raw reports made by citizens to either the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) or the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) betw...

Released 10 December 2017  Kiwi UFO—A blazing cylinder over New Zealand. Blank Spots on the Map "outs" spy satellites whose operations may trigger UFO reports. API introduces a new team member, chats about some interesting cases, and discusses explanations for common misidentifications. In Episode 12 of Case Files… API Director Paul Carr, Chief of Investigations Marsha Barnhart, and new Lead Inves...

Released: 3 August 2017 Duration: 61 minutes, 16 seconds   In this episode of Case Files, host Marsha Barnhart examines two Michigan UFO cases; she provides an excerpt of a recent interview with Dr. Mark Rodeghier on his role in the UFODATA Project. API's Deputy director, Paul Carr, presents another in his series Unidentified Science where he details some of the on-going efforts in the scientific...

Recorded: 12 June 2017 Released: 27 July 2017 Duration: 64 minutes, 59 seconds   Marsha Barnhart talks to Dr. Mark Rodeghier, President and Scientific Director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. The Center was founded originally by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who was a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, and later, chairman of the astronomy department at Northwestern University...