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Stan Romanek is the author of the book Messages, which chronicles his life as an abductee. Romanek’s experiences began with the video recording of some incredible mass UFO sightings, although a skeptic Romanek began having strange dreams and physiological effects leading him to believe he was dealing with extraterrestrials. His strange experiences escalated at an incredible rate, and continue to t...

Ban Hansen is the team leader on the SyFy channel’s Fact or Faked. Early in his youth, Ben developed a fascination with UFOs and secret government projects. Ben has been looking for the real-life X-Files since he was a child and decided he would dedicate his career to investigations. After obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Criminology, he went to work for the State of Utah on a county...

Robert Dean retired from the US Army as a command sergeant major after a 28 year career. He has appeared on radio programs, TV documentaries and at conferences discussing UFOs. Dean claims he saw a "Cosmic Top Secret" NATO briefing document on UFOs called "The Assessment" when he worked on the General Staff at Strategic Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). We'll talk to him about what he sa...

Ross Hemsworth is a TV and radio presenter, currently studying law in the UK. He has worked on paranormal shows for ITV and BBC Worldwide. For many years he has presented the TV and radio show called Now That’s Weird, and has spoken about his research of anomalous phenomena at conferences all over the world. He is the UK adviser for the International UFO Congress, and lives in the Crop Circle hots...

Jeff Willes has been researching UFOs for over 25 years. He has had many sightings and since he bought his first video camera in 1995, UFO hunting has become a full time activity. He has obtained many UFO videos; some featured on the TV show UFO Hunters, and the documentary Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs. Recently he was featured on the SiFy channel’s Fact or Faked, while their crew tried to replic...

Richard Dolan is considered by many to be the pre-eminent historian of the UFO phenomenon in the world. He is the author of two volumes of history, UFOs and the National Security State, as well as an analysis of the future, A.D. After Disclosure: The People’s Guide to Life After Contact. We will talk to Richard about AD, the upcoming UFO Congress, and the third and final volume of UFOs and the Nat...

Kathleen is the niece of Betty and Barney Hill and along with Stanton Friedman wrote the book Captured!, a case study of the Hill’s abduction. She has taught adult education classes on UFO and abduction history, and for 10 years volunteered as the Mutual UFO Network’s Director of Field Investigator Training. She is currently a full time writer and lecturer. She has written papers on the use and mi...

Travis Walton claims that in 1975, while working as a logger in Arizona, he and several co-workers came across a UFO in the forest which shot a beam of light at Travis. Frightened, his friends fled the scene, when they returned Walton was gone. Walton recalled waking up on the side of the road, he thought only a few hours had past, but he had actually been missing for 5 days. He later recalled bei...

Michael Schratt, military aerospace historian, has lectured across the country on the subject of “Mystery Aircraft” and classified propulsion systems buried deep within the military industrial complex. He has also researched and illustrated many UFO case files. He has been writing for Open Minds magazine for over a year now and we will talk about some of his stories, such as the German UFOs, Barry...

Lester Velez is the Vice President of the Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support (OPUS), is a part of MUFON’s Abduction Experiencer Research Committee (AERC) and is the assistant director for MUFON in Northern California. He has assisted in psychological studies of abductees, including the Omega project which was featured in the October/November Issue of Open Minds Magazine. We will...

T.L. Keller is the author of The Total Novice’s Guide to UFOs: What you need to know…. Keller is an aerospace engineer who has always has an interest in space exploration and extraterrestrial intelligence. He was a computer systems analyst at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary explo...

11/29/2010: Charles Halt Colonel Charles Halt, USAF, retired, is the highest ranking U.S. military officer speaking out about his personal UFO experiences while in the military. In December of 1980, while the deputy base commander at the Bentwaters Royal Air Force base in England, he took a crew out into the Rendlesham forest to investigate mysterious lights that were seen in the forest. He was sk...

Ann Eller was the secretary to Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who researched UFOs for the U.S. Air Force’s project Blue Book and served as an adviser for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She has also recently authored her own book titled, Dragon in the Sky: Prophecy from the Stars. We will talk to her about some of the very interesting stories she had regarding Dr. Hynek’s later years,...

Linda Moulton Howe, is an Emmy Award-winning TV producer, investigative reporter and author who goes directly to the men and women at the forefront of science and environmental challenges and to firsthand eyewitnesses of high strangeness. In 1983 she was invited to Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque, NM where she was shown secret government documents regarding UFOs and extraterrestrials. In th...

Jacques Vallée is a French-born venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, UFO researcher and former astronomer. He was a major proponent for the idea that UFOs were the result of highly advanced extraterrestrial civilizations; however he eventually began to expand his views and now believes the explanation may be inter-dimensional in nature. Having been a prominent figure in UFO research he...

Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading expert on the paranormal and supernatural. She conducts original field investigations of haunted and mysterious sites. She has written more than 40 books – including 9 encyclopedias – and hundreds of articles in print on a wide range of paranormal, spiritual and mystical topics, and possesses an exceptional knowledge of the field. She has approximately one millio...

Keith Chester is the author of Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II. Strange Company is the first in-depth account of unconventional aircraft observed and reported by the military during World War II. It includes the reactions by military commands, their viewpoints, and theories as they struggled to make sense of the observations. Strange Company presents one of the great...

We are honored to be able to welcome a man of Hellyer’s stature on Open Minds Radio. Beginning in 1963, Hellyer served as the Minister of National Defence for Canada. During this time he oversaw the unification of their Navy, Army, and Air Force into a single organization called the Canadian Forces. After his retirement, influenced by a Peter Jennings special on UFOs, Hellyer read Col. Corso’s boo...

George Filer is a retired Air Force intelligence officer. While serving in the Air Force, Filer was on-board an aircraft tanker over the UK when he and his crew were asked to check out a UFO on radar. When they got close to the large object it flew off at extraordinary speed. Later, while serving at Ft. Dix he was asked to brief Generals on an incident involving the shooting of an alien that had l...

Bryce Zabel is an American television producer, director, writer, industry leader and occasional actor. He is widely known as the chairman/CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences who was forced to twice postpone the Emmy Awards following the September 11 attacks. He has received the "created by" or "developed by" credit of five network and syndicated television series. He developed pr...

EXCLUSIVE, his first American interview. For many years now piles of a very fine-grained white powder have been appearing in conjunction with a number of strange events around Robbert van den Broeke of Holland. The first incident occurred in 1997 when a large light-ball suddenly appeared, rotating outside the balcony of Robbert's bedroom. When it was gone there were burn marks left on the overhang...

Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist and Director of Investigations for The Coalition for Freedom of Information. She recently released her latest book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials go on the Record, with papers written by a host of high-level sources – including Fife Symington III, former governor of Arizona and Nick Pope, former head of the British Defence Ministry’s UF...

Marc D’Antonio is MUFON’s photo and video analyst. He runs FX models, making precise scale models. His models are often used by government contractors. We will discuss cases he has investigated, and his views on the UFO phenomena. Although he is often labeled a debunker, he has his own interesting experiences and perspectives to share. He is a fun guy, and this should be a great show. Become a sup...

Smith began researching the UFO phenomenon in the late 1980's and in 1990 [after 2 years of studies and 1000 hours of internship] received her certification from the California Hypnosis Motivation Institute. In 1990 she expanded her practice to include "abductees," assisting them and encouraging them to work through and cope with their PTSD. [Many of her subjects are referred to her by physicians...

Antonio Huneeus, Open Minds editor and journalist, enlightened us on some hot news regarding new Foreign UFO news. We talked about new information regarding the famous Trinidade Island case and new French UFO research. We also discussed important foreign abduction cases. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support .