Open Minds UAP News

Today's show features nearly a dozen guests! Out last guest, Morgan Beall, who is the MUFON State Director for Florida and is helping to coordinate this year's MUFON Symposium, provided us with audio clips from 12 of the speakers at this year's event. They all answer questions about their what they will be presenting and about their interest in the UFO topic. The clips provide some great insight a...

Morgan is the Florida State Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and a member of the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU). SCU was the group that investigated the Homeland Security UFO video from Puerto Rico. Currently, Morgan is busy helping coordinate the MUFON Symposium, which will be held in Florida in a month. In this episode, Morgan and I discuss the speakers for the 2016 MUFON Symp...

In 1991, Greg Bishop co-founded a magazine called The Excluded Middle, which was a journal of UFOs, the paranormal, conspiracy, psychedelia and new science. His first book, Wake Up Down There! anthologized many of the articles and features.  Greg's second book was Project Beta, which documented a government campaign of disinfo perpetrated against an unsuspecting researcher. His third book, Weird C...

Paul Stonehill is a UFO researcher and author with a focus on Russian Ufology. He is the author of The Soviet UFO Files (1998), Paranormal Mysteries of Eurasia (2010), and co-author of several books with Philip Mantle. His latest book is titled Russia's USO Secrets: Unidentified Submersible Objects in Russian and International Waters. It has often been said that we know more about the surface of t...

Paul Dean is an Australian who has been uncovering U.S. military secrets via the Freedom of Information Act. Although the U.S. government claims they have not been investigating UFOs since the close of the U.S. Air Force's official UFO study, Project Blue Book, government records show otherwise. What has been difficult to track is who is collecting these reports and where are they going? Even duri...

Mike Clelland is an author, blogger and illustrator who, for the last few years, has been exploring ideas that even he finds peculiar. Mike has always had an interest in UFOs, and he has had some unusual experiences. In 2009, he began blogging about his ideas and experiences in an effort to understand them. Synchronicities,  memories of aliens, UFO sightings and the appearance of owls has lead him...

Finian Handley is one of the administrators of the Open Minds UFO News Group on Facebook, and a UFO enthusiast. He approaches the topic with skepticism and tries to stay grounded in a field that can include some far out claims. He is also a UFO witness, and realizes that the details of his shocking UFO encounter can seem far out to those who were not there to see it. On the evening of September 26...

Cheryl Costa is a two-service military veteran, a retired aerospace security engineer and a published playwright. She has had a lifelong interest in UFOs. From 1998-2001 she hosted “The X Factor” talk radio program in Washington, DC, covering UFOs and many other paranormal topics. In 2013 she began writing NEW YORK SKIES a weekly newspaper blog for SyracuseNewTimes.com. In the column she shares li...

Robert Davis, Ph. D is an internationally recognized scientist in his field, and served as a professor at the State University of New York for over 30 years.  He graduated with a B.A. and M.A. from the City University of New York and with a Ph. D in Neuroscience from The Ohio State University. Dr. Davis has published over 40 articles in scholarly journals and several book chapters on various topic...

Richard Hoffman is an IT professional who has researched the UFO phenomenon since 1964, when he was in the eighth grade. He is currently the Alabama and Mississippi state director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), as well as their director for strategic projects. He is also part of the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU), an organization that examined a mysterious video captured by the Depart...

Although most people are completely unaware of its existence, the UFO-Nukes Connection is now remarkably well-documented. U.S. Air Force, FBI, and CIA files declassified via the Freedom of Information Act establish a convincing, ongoing pattern of UFO activity at American nuclear weapons sites extending back to December 1948. Over the past four decades, Robert Hastings has interviewed more than 15...

Canadian, as well as U.S., news has been ablaze with stories about the 2015 Canadian UFO Report released by UFO researchers in Canada. Chris Rutkowski has been inundated with interviews about the 1267 sightings reported last year, and we have him on Open Minds UFO Radio this week to talk about those sightings. Chris is a Canadian science writer and educator with degrees in astronomy and education....

Antonio Paris is a Professor of Astronomy at St. Petersburg College and the Chief Scientist at the Center for Planetary Science – a science outreach program promoting astronomy, planetary science, and astrophysics to the next generation of space explorers. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The City University of New York and a Master’s of Science in Planetary Science from the A...

Shawn had an amazing UFO sighting of a black triangular craft over the highway between Las Vegas and Area 51 in March of 1996. The sighting changed his mind about the origins of these mysterious craft being reported worldwide. He has since had a great interest in these type of sightings in particular and has created a Black Triangle UFOs Facebook page to follow them. Shawn is also interested in a...

Erica Lukes is a UFO researcher and podcaster. She is the former state director for the Utah chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and a MUFON field investigator. She is currently working on a fascinating UFO case reported by an American Airlines pilot. A UFO researcher in Utah first heard the report on HAM radio. Erica and other MUFON investigators then were able to find the audio online and...

Nick Pope worked at the UK's Ministry of Defence UFO desk for several years in the 1990s. Since then Nick has remained a UFO expert and has been involved with the release of large batches of UFO files from the UK government. Although they say they have released their files, Nick says there is one more batch to come. Nick was a speaker at the 2016 International UFO Congress, he participated in a pa...

Chris Aubeck was born in London. His interest in the historical and sociological aspects of unexplained phenomena began at an early age. He moved to Spain aged 19 and after teaching in Cáceres and Madrid for 24 years now lives in Granada. A student of language and folklore, he has helped compile the largest collection of pre-1947 UFO cases in the world through Magonia Exchange, a remarkable collab...

We talk UFO news and give you the inside story on some of the interesting talks and incredible stories related to the speakers of the 2016 UFO Congress. This year will be the 25th anniversary of the Guinness World Record holding large UFO conference. Fore more information, visit: UFOCongress.com   Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/sup...

It is that time again! Now that we move into a new year, it is time to look at the previous year's UFO news stories. Open Minds UFO Radio host Alejandro Rojas is joined by Podcast UFO's Martin Willis and The Huffington Post's Lee Speigel to take a look at their list of top stories from 2015. To read the stories reviewed in this episode, visit OpenMinds.tv. For more about Martin Willis, visit Podca...

David Marler is a UFO researcher and author. His book Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation focuses on cases of triangular UFOs that have been reported for decades. However, more recently, Marler has turned his focus on a mass-UFO sighting that took place in Farmington, New Mexico in 1950. We talk to Marler about his research into this case, including insights from living witnesses and nev...

Don Meers is an Australian filmmaker who has created and worked on several paranormal documentaries. His latest is called Australien Skies and focuses on UFO witnesses in Australia, including those the film calls "photographic contactees." These are people who believe they get a sense of when a UFO is going to show up and are able to photograph them when they do. One of these individuals, Damien N...

Dave Cote is heading up a team of techies who are planning to launch a UFO hunting satellite into space. Their project is called “CubeSat for Disclosure – Low-Earth Orbit Satellite” and is seeking crowd funding via Indiegogo.com for financing. Thus far they have raised over $11,000 and there are still 24 days left in the campaign. Although their goal is $50,000, they already have enough to launch...

Lee Speigel is a reporter for the Huffington Post covering UFOs and other non-conventional stories in the Huffington Post's Weird News section. He has been covering the UFO phenomenon since 1975. In this interview we talk about Lee's personal UFO encounter, and a very exciting announcement regarding the 2016 International UFO Congress. Lee will be conducting a live interview on-stage with UFO rese...

Conceived by Tapio Kangas and featuring a host of stellar musical legends, Spacer aims to inform and educate the world on the existence of extra terrestrial life. Born in Helsinki and currently residing in London, Tapio has written many major TV show tunes and top 10 songs whilst making frequent appearances on Finnish TV and his own TV show. His classical training enables him to intersperse tradit...

Keith Arem is the president of Los Angeles based PCB Productions and PCB Entertainment. He is one of the leading creative directors and producers in the gaming industry, specializing in talent performance, writing, sound design, and music. His most recent project is a movie based on the Phoenix Lights mass UFO sightings in Phoenix, Arizona in 1997. Keith wrote and directed the movie, which is titl...