Our Strange Skies: UFOs Throughout History

When most people think of Bigfoot, they think of the Pacific Northwest, of vast forested land untouched and uncharted by man. It is the west coast where the legend of large hairy humanoids took shape and entered the American Zeitgeist.  The Legend of Bigfoot began in northern California on August 27, 1958. A tractor driver named Jerry Crew drove out to a worksite where a large road was being built...

In 2013, a man by the name of Christopher Knight was arrested while he was trying to burgle the Pine Tree Camp in Rome, Maine. He had done it many times before over the years, and had broken into a number of camps, earning the nickname the North Pond Hermit. Knight had committed at least a thousand break-ins, but he always felt searing guilt about it. Knight had taken to the woods when he turned 2...

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Eyes as bright as a starless night. That is how Jack Weiner described the eyes of the beings that would appear in his dreams. On this edition of the OSS Addendum, I take a look at a handful of experiences from Jim and Jack’s childhood, including their experiences with “Harry the ghost,” an abduction involving Jim while he was sledding, and an abduction event that Jack and Mary experienced in their...

To reach the remote parts of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, you need to be flown in by plane, and paddle by canoe. There are few roads in this remote wilderness area, and many of them are former logging roads that have long since been abandoned. In 1976, four men, Jim and Jack Weiner, Charlie Foltz, and Chuck Rak embarked on a week-long camping trip in the Allagash. During the trip, the men wer...

WARNING: THIS EPISODE IS NSFW: For the month of October, we here at the Our Strange Skies podcast are paying tribute to Unsolved Mysteries . This week, I'm joined by Brian Hastie of the Double Density Podcast and Spencer Wirth-Davis , AKA Big Cats of the What If? Podcast to reminisce about growing up with Robert Stack in our young lives. We discuss the more memorable cases featured on the show, in...

Every year, a handful of cars take a stroll down a dirt road just off of Clay Point Road in Colchester, Vermont. They’re often lured their by the nostalgia of a former all-girls camp known as Buff Ledge. For 25 years, the camp produced many undefeated swim teams, as well as state and regional champions.  In 1968 the camp earned a reputation as a place where an alien abduction had taken place. It w...

As we conclude our brief series on a few key UFO incidents from Brazil, we end on what may be it’s most well known incident. Varginha sits in the same state that saw the Villas Boas incident occur, Minas Gerais. Varginha is one of the major producers of coffee in Brazil, and exports its products all over the world. In 1996, a story would coagulate and form into a narrative involving a crashed UFO,...

Every so often I'm asked to recommend books to those new to the UFO topic. Here’s a bonus episode devoted to book recommendations. Prepare to get book wrecked!  Beginners: The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs by Mark O’Connell UFOs for the 21st Century Mind: A Fresh Guide to an Ancient Mystery by Richard Dolan Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to an Alien Phe...

Toward the tail end of the flap in Colares, Brazilian ufology would undergo a transformation into something supremely darker. Reports of Brazilian residents would continue to come in during the flap, which lasted into 1978. Dr. Carvalho would treat over 35 patients during the year long flap, and would have a few sightings of her own. Operação Prato team members would have sightings of their own, r...

In the December 1967 issue of Flying Saucer Review , there appeared an article written by Jerome Clark titled “Why UFOs Are Hostile.” In it, he presents a few cases and a load of speculation as to why UFOs are hostile. One of the stories presented is that of James Flynn, a Florida resident who had been sleeping in a swamp when he was awoken by his dogs barking. He witnessed a craft, and claimed th...

The 1950s saw the rise of the contactees, a group of ordinary people that had been chosen by aliens from Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn to deliver a message to the citizens of earth: save the planet from atomic fallout. The message was always the same, and their cultures were strikingly similar.  In 1957, a UFO event would change all that. In October, a young Brazilian farmer was forced on board...

There are certain areas across the United States that seem to draw UFOs. Catalina Island, off the coast of Southern California, is a place where you can see UFOs coming in and out of the water, and where, in 2014 it was rumored that one Google Earth image showed an underwater alien base under the water. Well, that claim turned out to be bunk, but the area is still known as UFO hot spot. On Septemb...

Brazil always seemed to be a step ahead of all other countries when it came to UFO sightings. While the U.S. was seeing objects in the sky, Brazilians were encountering humanoids of various types. Within a matter of years, the country garnered a reputation for having some of the most violent UFO encounters on record. This story, though, is a bit different. The UFO miracle sits in stark contrast to...

Terry Lovelace lived an average life until 2012. He had put most of the strange incidents during his life out of his mind until the day he went in for an x-ray. Looking at the image, he was forced to confront the notion that he had had contact with alien beings all his life. From the age of 8 all the way up to his 60s, they took on various forms. When he was young, they were the monkey men, but th...

John E.L. Tenney has been investigating the anomalous for nearly 30 years. He returns to the Our Strange Skies podcast to talk UFOs and other various topics, including a spate of humanoid sightings that he has been investigating, his thoughts on TTSA, and the state of ufology, the value of looking into the past for UFO data, and he answers a bunch of listener questions. If you loved this interview...

In 1973, the United States was experiencing a wave of humanoid reports. The creatures that were seen varied in size and appearance. Sometimes they were seen in the vicinity of UFOs, and sometimes they abducted eyewitnesses. Nearly 20 years before the "Year of the Humanoids" France was rocked by a wave of UFO activity, and sightings of short humanoid beings wearing what came to be known as "diving...

To most, a personal experience is nothing more than an anecdote that cannot be followed up on. On this episode, I share a myriad of my personal experiences with strange and anomalous phenomenon. You will hear about my spirit encounters, UFO sightings, an encounter with a strange creature, and much more. I don't claim to know what these experiences are or mean, but in some ways I hope that you will...

In our final part of the Ed Walters saga, and that of the Gulf Breeze Sightings, Sam and Jason of the Not Alone Podcast and I reconvene to talk about Ed's hypnosis sessions and strange "in sleep you know memories." We also touch on all the other madness that was occurring in Gulf Breeze, Florida during the flap of sightings. Is Ed Walters the White Whale the aliens have been searching for? Can you...

In the 1980s, people started to come forward with their accounts of abduction at the hands, and technology, of alien beings. They were spurred on by one book to share their stories of kidnappers from the sky and the experiences on board their crafts. Communion by Whitley Strieber became a hugely successful book, thrusting alien abduction into the pop culture spotlight. The history of abductions go...

What's up, ufonauts? We're back with part 2. The mystery deepens as the aliens become more persistent, Ed's story becomes more convoluted, and I'm pretty sure Jason is at his wits end. Find out how Ed's story with the aliens ends and whether or not he finds definitive evidence of their existence in the second part of our three part series on Ed Walters and the Gulf Breeze Sightings with Sam and Ja...

What's up, ufonauts? Today, we embark on a Journey to Gulf Breeze, Florida with Sam and Jason from the Not Alone Podcast to explore the story of Ed Walters. Starting on November 11th, 1987, Ed would have twenty encounters with a UFO that he would photograph nearly 40 times. The UFO had one singular mission: bring Ed on board the craft. Over the course of the next hour and a half, we tell you just...

What's up, ufonauts? This week, my friend Matt Sanderson stops by to talk about Ancient Astronaut Theory, and why it's a troubling and lazy area of pseudoscience. We also delve into the men in black phenomenon, and Matt asks me various questions relating to the UFO phenomenon, including why do the aliens give a shit about earth? All this and more on this weeks episode! Link : All That Glitters Is...

What's up, ufonauts?! On this weeks Minisode, we look at one of the strangest cases featuring anomalous phenomenon ever recorded. Across the United States, there are certain areas where Bigfoots, UFOs, and ghosts exist in the same spaces. In October of 1973, all of these types of phenomenon descended on a rural farm in southwestern Pennsylvania, in an area that could easily be compared to the Brid...

I'm joined by Brian Hastie of the Double Density podcast for an intense discussion of the 2002 film, Signs , directed by M. Night Shyamalan. From bad acting, to the comically inept aliens, and a non-existent plot, Signs brings all of the logical fallacies you've ever needed to a film. Does M. Night Shyamalan drive home the point of the movie, literally? Is the best cultural equivalent of Signs the...