Podcast UFO

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” In Part I of this blog, we looked at a case from 1968 that involved sightings of a UFO on October 24, 1968, by ground observers stationed at the ICBM missile complex surrounding Minot AFB in North Dakota. A B-52 was flying in the area and the pilot was requested to change course and investigate. The result was a UFO encounter that was...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” Minot Air Force Base Entrance At the suggestion of Mr. Martin Willis, this week we are looking at a report involving a UFO incident on October 24, 1968, at Minot AFB in North Dakota. It involved sightings reported by ground observers stationed at the surrounding Minuteman ICBM complex as well as the crew of a B-52. What gives this case...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” In 1986, Jim Speiser of Fountain Hills, Arizona, got the urge to create an electronic forum dedicated to a discussion of paranormal topics. He started a BBS (bulletin board system) using six personal computers located at various locations in the U.S. and Canada linked together with a Fidonet system. Speiser called his new BBS “The Para...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” In 1986, Jim Speiser of Fountain Hills, Arizona, got the urge to create an electronic forum dedicated to a discussion of paranormal topics. He started a BBS (bulletin board system) using six personal computers located at various locations in the U.S. and Canada linked together with a Fidonet system. People would dial a number that woul...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” In 1975, after the Travis Walton Incident on November 5, because of the attention it received in the press and among the UFO community, there were two flaps in Florida that fell through the cracks and have all but been forgotten. The first one was in the area of Miami- Dade County that started on the same day as the Walton incident, an...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” George Knapp (left) Recently, on July 26, KLAS Chief Investigative Reporter George Knapp attended the House Oversight Committee hearing on UFOs. He submitted a written statement describing his interest in and involvement with the subject that was read into the record. A part of his statement that has made headlines is a description of...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” On March 30, and 31, 1993, reports of a UFO over Southern England came in to the Ministry of Defense. Nick Pope was manning the “UFO desk” at the time, and he described that “the phones were ringing off the hook.” He posted a description of the most dramatic reports on February 20, 2007, on the Physics Forum website. He appeared in a 2...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” Bowles and Pratt This is the third part in a series looking at two separate encounters in Winchester, England, with UFOs and humanoids reported by two friends, 42-year-old Joyce Bowles and 58-year-old Ted Pratt. They reported that as Bowles was driving with Pratt in the passenger seat prior to their first encounter, Bowles’s Cooper Min...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” Joyce Bowles In last week’s blog, we looked at a case involving two friends, 42-year-old Joyce Bowles and 58-year-old Ted Pratt, who reported an encounter on November 14, 1976, in Winchester, England. They claimed they saw a cigar-shaped craft hovering 18 inches above the ground with three humanoids, sitting lined up as if they were on...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” Joyce Bowles and Ted Pratt On November 15, 1976, 42-year-old Joyce Bowles, and her 58-year-old friend, Ted Pratt, appeared on the BBC television program South Today.  They were interviewed about their reported encounters with UFOs and humanoids the night before. Their case got the interest of researchers from various organizations and...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” In the November 1978 Vol. 24, No. 3, Flying Saucer Review, there is an article (page 9 of pdf) by W. K. Allan headlined, “The Fort St. James Sightings,” that details Allan’s investigation of a case in British Columbia, Canada, along with the editor of the Canadian UFO Report, John Magor. Allan describes becoming interested in the case...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” In October 1970, the publishers of the British magazine Flying Saucer Review put out the first issue of FSR Case Histories. Editor Charles Bowen explains at the beginning of that issue that readers had “suggested that FSR should be a monthly journal.” According to Bowen, the FSR staff worked in their spare time to put out the magazine,...

by Charles Lear, author of  “The Flying Saucer Investigators.” In 1966, John Keel, longtime fortean and author of several books on UFOs, including his most famous book published in 1975, The Mothman Prophecies, was just beginning to focus on the UFO phenomenon. At this time in his life, he was writing articles for the British publication, Flying Saucer Review and sharing his research with Jim and...

Guest host Dean Alioto interviews actor/comedian and ufo researcher, Dave Foley. Dave will talk about his lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon as well as his recent very first UFO sighting while hanging with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and much more Show Notes

Guest host Dean Alioto interviews Kevin Day about the post effect of his 2004 USS Princeton/ Nimitz tic-tax encounter, The upcoming congressional hearing at the end of October and more. Show Notes

Guest Ben Hurle discusses the 1993 Kelly Cahill Case, which is intriguing as well as other Australian UFO encounters. Show Notes

Guest Peter Robbins discusses the evolving UFO/UAP world as well as his research into the controversial life of Wilhelm Reich and his connection to UFOs. This show is dedicated to longtime listener (since 2012), firefighter, Lea MacDonald, who passed away this year. Show Notes

Guest Dr. Jacques Vallée discusses what has changed in the last few years in the UFO field, his work with Bigelow’s government contract to research UFOs, his latest book, TRINITY: The Best Kept Secret Breakthrough, in this book Research Reveals the Earliest Evidence of US Government’s UFO RecoveryHard evidence has existed since 1945 for the actual recovery of unidentified flying craft in the...

Clinical hypnotherapist, Laurie McDonald speaks on her abduction research, consciousness, reality and the extraterrestrial phenomenon and much more. Show Notes

Guest Randall Nickerson speaks on the aftermath of his brilliant film, Ariel Phenomenon, betrayal of an online streaming platform, plus people he met on the journey of filming in Africa and their unheard of encounters and a lot more. Show Notes

Guests Matthew Szydagis, Keven Knuth, & Gary Voorhis discuss the non-profit organization taking an approach of collecting UAP/UFO data and analyzing it through scientific means. Discussed certain cases, and opinions of how science should approach this topic, and how the changes have been positive overall.   Show Notes

This week’s guest was a no-show. A few days ago I sat in on the Basement Hangout Podcast with Chad & Bob, Chad reached out to me when he saw my guest did not show up, and offered the podcast for our listeners. This show is on the lighter side, I hope you enjoy.  

Karen Brard stops in to talk about the International UFO Congress (see links in show notes) Then guest Dr. Michael Masters discusses the premise that UFOs and Aliens could simply be our distant human descendants, returning from the future to study us in their own hominin evolutionary past. Michael is a returning guest and he will update us on what he has learned in the last three years since he ha...

Guest Senior Planetary Astronomer at SETI Institute, Dr. Franck Marchis, on UFOs/UAP and what SETI’s current thoughts on the topic and what they are doing these days to keep up the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life, the James Webb Space Telescope and more. Show Notes

Enjoyable conversation with repeat guest, Lee Speigel on what he has been up to lately, he will also be discusses what it was like to put together a 1976 vinyl album of solid witness accounts including astronaut Gordon Cooper, US Army Maj. Larry Coyne, and opinions from icons of the day such as J. Allen Hynek, Maj. Donald Keyhoe and more. http://www.leespeigel.com   Show Notes