UFO Chronicles Podcast

In this episode, we sit down with author and abductee Erik Nanstiel, whose book Angst in the Shadows: A True Story of Alien Abductions lays bare a lifetime of encounters with forces that defy explanation. From his earliest memories of shadowy figures and blinding lights to the haunting realization that these events followed him well into adulthood, Erik shares the moments that shaped his journey,...

In this episode, we meet Kelly calling from the state of Maryland, sharing her lifetime of extraordinary encounters. From childhood visions of translucent beings with hollow eyes to a glowing football-shaped light in the night sky that seemed to know it was being watched. Along the way came haunted apartments, Ouija boards, and the moment she discovered Communion and realized she wasn’t alone in w...

Tonight's guest is Tina, from Hampshire in the United Kingdom. Tina shares her firsthand experiences with alien abduction, beginning at age six and continuing into adulthood. From the moment a strange being appeared at her bedside in 2015 to harrowing memories aboard a craft, the events remain vivid and disturbing. Tina will discuss the physical and emotional scars left behind, the spiritual quest...

In this episode, we meet Bill, who comes to us from the state of Alabama. Bill shares his account of witnessing a UFO with his mother and sister in the late 1970s, along with physical evidence on his property: a perfectly burned circle. When Bill, a former Marine, was deployed to Eglin Air Force Base in 2009, he wasn’t expecting to stumble upon one of the most secretive radar installations in the...

Tonight's guest is Yossi, who, in 1981, experienced a powerful out-of-body event in Los Angeles, but what followed was even more extraordinary. In a face-to-face encounter with non-human intelligences in his room, Yossi was drawn into a silent, telepathic exchange that revealed messages of profound consciousness, love, and a stark warning for humanity. More information on this episode on the podca...

On April 24, 1964, in the dusty desert of Socorro, New Mexico, police officer Lonnie Zamora witnessed something that would shake UFO history. While pursuing a speeding car, he spotted a roaring, flame-spewing object in the sky, landing in a remote gully. Approaching, he saw a gleaming, egg-shaped craft and two small, humanoid figures nearby. Moments later, the craft blasted off, leaving scorched e...

In 1957, before UFO abductions became headline news, Reinhold Schmidt, a grain buyer from Nebraska, claimed he was taken aboard a glowing, oval-shaped craft outside his hometown. His car stalled, and he encountered tall, human-like beings who spoke fluent German and invited him into their ship. For thirty minutes, he saw an otherworldly interior and heard their cryptic purpose: observing humanity....

Tonight's guest is Sara from the UK, sharing a lifetime of experiences that bridge UFO sightings, spirit encounters, and psychic communication. It began in the 1990s at Notting Hill Carnival with a metallic triangular craft hovering silently overhead, an event confirmed by a nearby police officer. But her story goes deeper from childhood Ouija board sessions, ghost sightings, poltergeist activity,...

In November 1957, the quiet farming town of Levelland, Texas, became the epicentre of one of the most baffling waves of UFO activity ever recorded. Over the course of a single night, more than a dozen motorists, many of them separated by miles and unaware of each other reported nearly identical encounters: glowing objects hovering above the road, sudden engine failures, blinding flashes of light,...

September 12, 1952. A quiet evening in the small town of Flatwoods, West Virginia, was shattered by a flash in the sky followed by one of the most eerie close encounters in American UFO lore. In this episode of Brief Encounters, we retrace the footsteps of a group of frightened children, a local mother, and a National Guardsman who claimed to come face to face with something not of this world. Wha...

Our guest this evening is John from the UK. At sixteen, a young Navy serviceman aboard a military vessel in open waters saw something extraordinary that reshaped his view of reality. A silent, glowing, eye-shaped object hovered above the calm sea, detected by radar and verified by scrambled jets. The true shock was a "mental download" he received from the craft, along with other experiences that h...

In this episode of Brief Encounters, we take a look at the obscure report of a mysterious metallic object that supposedly crashed on the remote Arctic island of Spitzbergen, Norway. Described in sparse accounts as a disc-like craft of unknown origin, the incident fueled whispers of extraterrestrial activity or secret Cold War technology. Sifting through fragmented records and debated claims, we pr...

In this episode, we delve into the astonishing 1952 Washington D.C. UFO Incident, a wave of sightings that shook the heart of the U.S. capital. For two weekends in July, radar operators and pilots tracked unidentified objects darting through restricted airspace near the White House and Capitol, appearing as glowing orbs and streaks of light that outran pursuing military jets. We reveal the events...

Our guest tonight is Tom from New Jersey in the US. When Tom was just nine years old, a Boy Scout camping trip in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey turned into something unforgettable. In this episode, we hear Tom's firsthand account of strange lights, an unnatural silence, and a massive black triangle that hovered silently over the forest clearing. But the story doesn’t start or end there. From earl...

In this episode of Brief Encounters, we explore the chilling account of two experienced pilots, Captain Clarence Chiles and First Officer John Whitted, who reported a close encounter with a mysterious, cigar-shaped object streaking through the night sky over Montgomery, Alabama. Traveling at incredible speeds, the unidentified craft, described as glowing with an eerie light and featuring illuminat...

In July 1947 a mysterious object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico sparking the infamous Roswell Incident. Initially reported as a flying saucer by the U.S. Army the debris of metallic fragments and strange materials was quickly reclassified as a weather balloon, fueling suspicions of a government cover-up. Locals claimed sightings of unusual craft and even alien bodies, though official...

Tonight's guest comes to us from Athens, Greece. In this firsthand account, Greek radio operator Polo Spentzos recounts an extraordinary encounter in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle. Aboard the merchant vessel M/V Pothiti in the autumn of 1978, Spentzos and his crew witnessed a large glowing cloud-wrapped object and two smaller orbs hovering above the Atlantic, followed by an even stranger pheno...

In June 1947, a private pilot named Kenneth Arnold took off from Chehalis, Washington, on what should have been a routine search flight. He was looking for a downed aircraft near Mount Rainier, nothing unusual, just another day in the sky, the weather was clear, visibility was perfect.  But what he saw that day would change the language we use to describe the unexplained forever. Nine objects flyi...

In the summer of 1946, the skies over Scandinavia were alive with unexplained activity. Strange lights and cigar-shaped objects had been seen darting across the sky, often moving too fast and too precisely to be dismissed as meteors. They came without sound, left no debris, and vanished before they could be traced. But in the Swedish town of Ängelholm, just as that wave of sightings was peaking, s...

When Adrius stepped outside into the quiet night air, he wasn’t expecting to see anything unusual. But there it was, hovering above the treetops. A large, matte black craft. It didn’t move. It didn’t make a sound. Its surface was smooth with brushed metal ridges, and on either side, two red lights glowed, stacked vertically like signals. Adrius had seen other things in the sky before. In London, t...

The war is over. It's 1946. Peace hasn't fully settled over Europe. In the skies over Sweden, Norway, and Finland, a new mystery emerges: dozens, hundreds, of rocket-like objects streak through the air. No known nation claims responsibility. No clear explanation ever comes. They are called the "Ghost Rockets" and their appearance would mark one of the first great UFO mysteries of the modern era. B...

It's 1944, deep in the chaos of World War II. Allied pilots battle not just enemy planes but something else, something they can't shoot down, something they can barely explain, bright orbs, dancing lights, impossible objects that out fly the best aircraft of the era. Pilots call them "Foo Fighters" and their mysterious presence would baffle militaries on both sides of the war. Brief Encounters is...

In this episode, two of Justin’s close-range UFO encounters are shared. The first took place during a quiet evening on the front porch of his home, when he looked up to see a large, disc-shaped craft hovering low over the neighborhood. It moved slowly, completely silent, with a ring of white lights underneath and a strange, circuit-like texture across its surface. The second encounter happened a f...

It's February 24th, 1942. America is on edge. The attack on Pearl Harbor is still fresh in the nation's memory. Fear of enemy bombers hangs heavy over the West Coast. Then, in the early morning darkness over Los Angeles, air raid sirens scream. Anti-aircraft guns roar. Searchlights crisscross the skies. And something up there, something unseen and unkillable, becomes the target of a full-scale mil...

In the remote redwood forests of Northern California, something strange stirred in the night sky. In 1926, long before the modern UFO era began, residents of Humboldt County reported glowing orbs drifting through the trees, following logging trucks, and vanishing without a trace. With no aircraft capable of such feats at the time, the lights defied every explanation. In this episode, we explore on...