The State Files Podcast

In this episode of The Dispatch, we’re jumping between UAP releases, strange retrieval claims, cryptid folklore, quantum weirdness, and one of the biggest questions hiding underneath the UFO topic: could advanced energy technology already exist? We break down the third UAP release, look at claims involving China and Russia’s alleged crash retrieval programs, revisit the strange legend of the Lovel...

Betty and Barney Hill were not looking for fame, attention, or a place in UFO history. But after a late-night drive through New Hampshire in 1961, their lives changed forever. In this episode, we break down the full Betty and Barney Hill case — the strange light over Route 3, the missing time, the buzzing sounds, the damaged clothing, the hypnosis sessions, Betty’s star map, and the debate that st...

In episode 005 of The Dispatch, we look at what happens when the unknown becomes familiar. We start with the Grey Alien — the face most people picture when they hear the word “alien.” Where did that image come from, why did it stick, and how did it become the default symbol of extraterrestrial life? Then we look at UFOs and plasma — not just as a possible natural explanation for some strange light...

In this episode of The Dispatch, we look at the strange places where science, UFO history, ancient speculation, and pop culture all start to overlap. We begin on Mars, where new discoveries continue to raise questions about the planet’s ancient past — including signs that water may have once shaped the Martian landscape in ways we’re still trying to understand. Then we turn back to Earth, where th...

In this episode of The Dispatch, we explore three unexplained phenomena reported across very different environments—yet sharing something in common. From unidentified objects moving between air and water…to centuries-old accounts of the Wendigo in northern forests…to encounters that reportedly occur after sightings…Are these isolated mysteries… or part of a larger pattern?00:00 Introduction01:02 U...

UFOs are being reported in restricted airspace. Missing 411 cases continue to raise questions. And the story of Chris Bledsoe is gaining attention once again. In Dispatch #002, we break down multiple developing stories across the unexplained—from aerial encounters in sensitive zones to patterns emerging in wilderness disappearances. We also examine the ongoing discussion around the Bledsoe case, o...

In this episode, we break down five stories pulled from across the fringe: A UFO encounter that continues to raise more questions than answers A cryptid legend rooted deep in eyewitness testimony An unsolved mystery that still refuses to settle The bizarre story of the Buga Sphere, and how it went from discovery… to scientific analysis And a closing editorial that challenges how we think about wha...

On March 13, 1997, thousands of people across Arizona looked up and saw something they couldn’t explain. Witnesses from Nevada to Phoenix reported a massive V-shaped formation of lights silently crossing the night sky. Some believed it was a group of aircraft flying in formation. Others insisted the lights were attached to a single enormous craft—large enough to block out the stars as it passed ov...

Skinwalker Ranch is one of the most controversial locations in modern America. For decades, ranchers, scientists, billionaires, and even the Pentagon have investigated strange activity reported on this 512-acre property in Utah’s Uinta Basin. Witnesses have described unidentified aerial phenomena, glowing orbs, precision cattle mutilations, massive unidentified creatures, electromagnetic disturban...

Deep in the forests of Arizona’s Mogollon Rim, witnesses have reported something they cannot easily explain. For decades, hunters, campers, and locals have described encounters with a large, upright, hair-covered creature moving through the pine-covered high country. The legend became known as the Mogollon Monster — Arizona’s version of Bigfoot. But what survives when you strip away campfire embel...

In 1951, Mary Reeser sat down in her St. Petersburg, Florida apartment for what should have been an ordinary night. By morning, she was almost entirely gone—reduced to ash in a room that barely burned. This episode examines one of the most disturbing and misunderstood cases ever associated with so-called “spontaneous human combustion.” We trace the known facts, the forensic contradictions, and the...

On the slopes of South Mountain in Phoenix stands a structure that was never meant to be found. Built stone by stone in secret during the 1930s, the Mystery Castle is the life’s work of Boyce Luther Gulley — a man who believed he was dying, vanished from his family, and spent more than a decade constructing a castle no one knew existed. This episode examines the documented history behind the Myste...

The J-Rod story doesn’t behave like most UFO cases. There’s no crash site revelation. No recovered craft. No moment where everything suddenly makes sense. Instead, there’s a scientist. A sealed containment environment. And a being that may not have come from the stars at all. In this episode of The State Files, we examine the claims of Dan Burisch and Project Aquarius — a classified biological pro...

The San Marcos Hotel stands at the heart of Chandler, Arizona — a landmark born from ambition, design, and the early promise of the American Southwest. Built as part of the City Beautiful movement, the hotel was meant to represent order, elegance, and progress. But history doesn’t always unfold the way it’s planned. In this episode of The State Files, we reopen the case of the San Marcos Hotel — e...

For thirteen months between 1966 and 1967, the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia experienced one of the most concentrated outbreaks of unexplained phenomena in American history. What began as sightings of a winged, red-eyed humanoid—later named the Mothman—quickly expanded into a full “flap” of UFO reports, Men in Black encounters, electromagnetic disturbances, and ominous premonitions. The ph...

On January 8, 2008, something unusual crossed the night sky over Stephenville, Texas. Hundreds of residents — including pilots, law enforcement officers, hunters, and families — reported seeing massive, silent lights moving in ways no conventional aircraft should be able to. What followed was one of the most credible mass UFO sightings in modern American history, involving radar data, shifting mil...