UFO Chronicles Podcast

This episode, our guest Len Filppu comes to us from California. His story takes us back to Brockport, New York, in the summer of 1967. Sixteen-year-old Len watched a huge orange, flame-covered craft drift low across the sky, followed by a small white orb weaving behind it. He wasn’t the only witness. Police officers, university staff, and other locals said they saw the same thing that night. A new...

In this episode, we sit down with Antonio, a lifelong experiencer from Portugal whose story began in the late 1970s with a glowing light over the olive trees in the village of Vimieiro. What followed was a lifetime of extraordinary encounters, from paralysing vibrations and missing time to mysterious men in black cars, prophetic dreams, and a deep connection to ancient sacred sites. His journey le...

Tonight’s guest comes to us from Florida, former Border Patrol agent Chris, who spent years patrolling one of the most remote and haunted stretches of land in America. A place where UFOs streak across silent skies, thermal cameras chase phantom figures, and the ghosts of the past refuse to rest. When night falls on the Texas borderlands, the desert comes alive with more than smugglers and shadows....

The first of our two guests tonight is Jessie from Minnesota, USA. After losing her beloved dog, Jessie turned to the CIA’s Gateway Process meditation searching for comfort, and instead opened a doorway to something far stranger. What began as moments of peace soon gave way to visions of crystal spiders and encounters with shadowed figures that seemed to watch from beyond the veil. Then we move on...

In this episode, V, our guest from South Carolina, shares a lifetime of unsettling encounters that began in the countryside and followed them into their spiritual journey. From a Tommyknocker that appeared inside V’s home, to nights in the woods where shadow figures and other entities emerged after dark, V’s story blends the paranormal with the deeply personal. Along the way, V crossed paths with...

Tonight's episode, Gabe from Flint, Michigan shares a lifetime of strange encounters that began in childhood and never let go. Schoolyard ESP games and a shattering altar prayer to psychedelic warnings, prophetic dreams, and a vivid encounter with a hovering orb of light, his story threads through faith, trauma, synchronicity, precognition and the search for meaning. Along the way we hear how writ...

Tonight's episode features DJ from rural Ireland, recounting his 2023 encounter in County Longford, where he and his wife witnessed a massive black triangular craft with fiery orange lights. Alongside this sighting, DJ shares chilling experiences from his youth, including a séance gone wrong, a violent paranormal event after reciting the Our Father in a mirror, and a night in Ireland's most haunte...

Tonight’s guest, Dr. Lisa, joins us from Hawaii to share a journey of encounters and discoveries that began in her teenage years and continue to this day. At fifteen, she recalls being taken aboard a craft and brought to Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, where she witnessed a facility filled with humans undergoing examinations. This encounter, once dismissed as a dream, was later validated through strik...

Tonight’s guest comes to us from New York State, Shiloh, sharing experiences that blur the line between the paranormal and the occult. In the woods, she once saw a man in flannel step behind a tree far too narrow to hide him and vanish. Later, she lay frozen beneath a shifting black mass that hovered over her bed for hours. Growing up within Pagan and Wiccan traditions, she also recalls rituals wh...

Tonight on the podcast, we hear from two guests on opposite sides of the Atlantic whose lives have been marked by strange encounters. First, Peter from Dorset, England, recalls a flight from Manila in the Philippines to London when passengers were suddenly ordered to close their window shutters. Curious, he left his half open and watched as a fast-moving object shot beneath the plane. What followe...

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...