Open Minds UAP News

Lee Speigel is a writer, reporter and media personality who has spent decades researching and presenting the world of unexplained phenomena and the paranormal to the public. Following seven years with ABC News, he has joined the popular Weird News team of AOL/Huffington Post. Lee is the former host of NBC Radio's "The Edge of Reality." Spanning eight years in the 1970s and 80s, Speigel produced, w...

Dr. Claude Swanson is a theoretical physicist who earned his degrees at MIT and Princeton. For many years he worked at high tech labs for large corporations and on US Defense projects. However, Dr. Swanson now focuses his efforts on the science of unconventional physics, such as those that relate to the UFO phenomena. He believes that there is a subtle energy some cultures have known about for man...

Clifford Mahooty is a Zuni elder and member of the Kachina Society. He is now retired after working as a chief engineer for the Department of Interior. Clifford says that Native American elders have a lot of knowledge about “Star Beings” that they choose to keep to themselves. He feels that it is now time that the knowledge be shared with the public. Clifford has recently been featured on cable do...

Norio Hayakawa is the leading Dulce researcher, and is the one who got me in contact with New Mexico state police officer Gabe Valdez. Norio and I will discuss Valdez’s life work and his recent passing, along with Norio’s work on investigating the legend of the underground base near Dulce, New Mexico. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161...

Gabe Valdez was a New Mexico state patrol officer assigned to areas plagued with cattle mutilations and UFO sightings. He investigated these mutilations and has come to some unique conclusions that he believes he has seen sufficient proof to support. Valdez also worked with Paul Bennewitz and retired Air Force Intelligence officer, Richard Doty, the two people who started the rumors that there was...

Jim Moroney has over 25 years of experience in UFO research and is an accomplished public speaker. A grounded highly proficient professional educator and international speaker, he has captivated audiences with his personal experiences and his insight into the UFO phenomenon. In 1987 Jim Moroney had an extraterrestrial encounter at a small lorry park just outside Manitoba, Canada. It changed his li...

Ted Peters teaches systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He also co-edits the journal, Theology and Science, at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. He has written a book titled,UFOs— GOD’s Chariots? Flying Saucers in Politics. Science, and Religion, and developed the ETI Religious Crisis Survey in whic...

Frank Kimbler works at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, NM, where he teaches Earth Science at the High School level and Geology at the College Level. The Roswell UFO crash piqued his interest enough to look into it. He examined satellite images of the area where the strange debris was found in 1947 and found an area that looked promising. Upon examination of the area he found material...

Tom Carey is part of the dynamic-duo, along with Don Schmitt, at the leading edge of the Roswell UFO crash research. The two have amassed a large amount of witnesses through the painstaking work of finding out who was where when, and the tracking the individuals or their family members down to find out if they have knowledge of the events and are willing to talk about it. Their years of work have...

Steve Volk spent 15 years as an investigative journalist, writing long features covering courts, crime, cops and politics, before producing his first book, Fringe-ology: How I tried to explain away the unexplainable--and couldn't. This first book is his attempt to reconcile his down to earth occupation as a reporter with an old family ghost story he grew up with as a child. He also tackles UFOs, p...

Grant Cameron is the founder of PresdientialUFO.com and is the leading authority when it comes to UFOs and the Presidents (even though he is Canadian). One of the stories he has been following closely is Steven Spielberg’s relationships with the Presidents. We will talk about this and the late breaking news that Spielberg has confirmed that Ronald Reagan made a comment after watching the movie ET:...

Joseph McMoneagle was involved in Remote Viewing experiments conducted by U.S. Army Intelligence and the Stanford Research Institute. He was one of the original officers recruited for the top-secret program now known as the Stargate Project. Along with Ingo Swann, McMoneagle is best known for the investigation of Remote Viewing and the use of paranormal abilities for military intelligence gatherin...

Derrel has spent the past three decades researching the world of alien beings. His area of focus has dealt primarily with medical and scientific evidence of human/alien contact. To that end, he has spent years studying and training in a broad range of areas that would provide him with a full array of skills necessary for his search to find evidence of these creatures. Derrel has also acquired cons...

Nancy Talbott of BLT Research, the premier scientific research group on crop circles, will be on again to talk about her latest findings. She has discovered scientific evidence of burning in a crop circle in Holland. We will also be joined by Robertt Van den Broeke from Holland. Nancy has been working with Robbert, documenting his amazing ability to predict crop circles formations, including sever...

Whitley Strieber is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty novels and works of nonfiction, including Communion, his account of a close encounter of the third kind. He is also the author of The Wolfen, The Hunger, and The Coming Global Superstorm, all of which were made into feature films. On May 12, he releases his latest book, The Key, a true story about a man who visited him...

David Eckhart believes he is being visited by strange entities that fit the descriptions of commonly depicted extraterrestrial. He doesn’t know where they come from but believes he has captured them on film and video. The television show Fact or Faked researched his case recently and walked away believing his story. Listen to his amazing experiences and judge for yourself. Become a supporter of th...

Don Schmitt is a preeminent UFO researcher. He has been working in this field for decades, including serving as a special investigator for Dr. J. Allen Hynek. He is one of the main researchers of the Roswell incident and continues to uncover evidence, and witnesses, all pointing to the crash of an extraterrestrial vehicle and possibly the recovery of a surviving occupant of that craft. We will tal...

James Moseley has been interested in UFOs since the beginning of the modern era of Ufology in 1947 when Kenneth Arnold had his highly publicized sighting. Since then he has been a controversial figure, often focusing on the personalities and conflicts in UFO research. Beginning in 1954 he published a magazine called Saucer News for many years. Currently he sends out a newsletter called Saucer Smea...

Greg Bishop is a writer, radio host, editor of Excluded Middle Magazine, and much more. He writes about UFO on his website UFOmystic, and is author of the book, Project Beta: The story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth. It seems that much of the modern mythology around UFOs comes from the mysterious relationship between Bennewitz, the Air Force, and the NS...

Truls and Terje Toftenes of New Pardigm Films. The Toftenese have made several UFO related films, the latest being The Day before Disclosure, which won the People’s Choice award at the International UFO Congress EBE Awards. Although based in Norway, they were able to attend the Congress and accept the award in person. Narrated by Terje, the film is a comprehensive documentary on UFO/ET secrecy wit...

John Alexander is a retired US Army Colonel and a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons. His new book, UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities, provides a Government insider’s look at the UFO phenomena. He discusses the organization he created while on active duty to explore this topic. Comprised of members across the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and aerospa...

John Schuessler was a founding member of MUFON. He was the second International Director and is still a board member. Schuessler spent many years working in the space industry and for NASA. It was during a Gemini mission that he discovered astronauts were having UFO sightings. This is was his impetus to investigate UFOs. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-min...

Chuck is a paranormal investigator, who along with his sister Debbie Ziegelmeyer, was featured in the Sci-Fi channel’s Roswell Digs. He has recently investigated a string of cattle mutilations in Colorado. He was recently terminated as a reserve deputy sheriff’s officer for his involvement in paranormal investigations. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds...

Suzanne Taylor is a filmmaker whose latest project was about crop circles. Her movie, What On Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery is a feature documentary, shot in England, that engages the lively community of visionary artists, scientists, philosophers, geometers, educators and farmers who have been profoundly touched by the crop circle phenomenon. It goes on to speculate about what would happe...

Carol Rosin, an award-winning educator, author, and space and missile defense consultant was the first woman Corporate Manager of an aerospace company, Fairchild Industries, where, among her other responsibilities, she was a spokesperson for “the father of rocketry,” Dr. Wernher von Braun who revealed information to her about conspiracies to keep the existence of ETs secret. She has testified befo...