Side Quests of Reality

It is the first week of July 1947. Something comes down in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico. Ranch foreman Mac Brazel finds the debris field the next morning. It stretches across a significant portion of his land. He has never seen anything like it. Neither has anyone else. What follows involves a press release issued by Roswell Army Air Field that uses the word “disc,” a retraction issued h...

It’s 3 a.m. on Boxing Day, 1980. A security patrol near the east gate of RAF Woodbridge spots lights descending into Rendlesham Forest. They assume the worst. A plane has gone down. 🎧 Listen on: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music · YouTube Music They are wrong. What Sergeant Jim Penniston and Airman John Burroughs find in those woods that night is not wreckage. It is a triangular craft made...

It’s November 7, 1990. You’re floating on your back in a heated rooftop pool, 17 stories above downtown Montreal. The water is warm. The autumn air bites. And directly above you, hovering in complete silence, is a metallic object the size of five football fields emitting beams of green, amber, and yellow light. 🎧 Listen on: Spotify · Apple Podcasts · Amazon Music · YouTube Music This is not a mov...

The Great Pyramid of Giza has been studied longer than almost any other structure on earth. We have the papyrus diary of an official who transported its stones. We have the graffiti of the workers who built its sealed chambers. We have two and a half centuries of precision measurements. And in 2017, we found a room inside it that nobody knew existed. And still — after all of that — we cannot expla...

The Great Pyramid of Giza has been studied longer than almost any other structure on earth. We have the papyrus diary of an official who transported its stones. We have the graffiti of the workers who built its sealed chambers. We have two and a half centuries of precision measurements. And in 2017, we found a room inside it that nobody knew existed. And still — after all of that — we cannot expla...

On the evening of March 13, 1997, the Governor of Arizona watched something cross the sky above his state that he could not explain. He did not say so publicly for ten years. Between seven and ten thousand other witnesses had no such hesitation. They had seen it too. And for nearly three decades, their accounts have not changed. This is the largest collective witness event in the modern UAP record...

On the night of October 4, 1967, something crashed into the waters of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. No debris. No survivors. No missing aircraft. No conventional explanation that holds. Just a thick yellow foam floating on the cold surface of the Atlantic, eleven witnesses on the shore, and a Canadian government that investigated seriously, found nothing it could explain, said so in official document...

On the morning of July 8, 1947, a public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field sat down and typed a press release announcing that the United States Army Air Forces had recovered a flying disc from the New Mexico desert. By the following afternoon, it was a weather balloon. Someone told the truth for twenty-four hours. Someone else decided they should stop. What happened in between, and wha...

In this episode, we open the case files with the most documented anomalous event in history. Not the most dramatic. Not the most spectacular. The most documented. At three in the morning on December 26, 1980, a security patrol near RAF Woodbridge saw lights descending into Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England. What followed over the next three nights involves a deputy base commander of the United...