UFO Talker

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 30.  In a wide-ranging conversation host Michael Ryan interviews Bill Birnes about his TV series UFO Hunters and how the program came to be and why it was canceled.  He also talks about how he took over UFO Magazine for one dollar.  He also covers the Rex Heflin photos, why Dr. James McDonald was important to ufology and why he is 100% certain that extraterrestria...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 29.  Host Michael Ryan has a conversation with the Director of Michigan MUFON Bill Konkolesky.  Bill talks about the UFO incursion into the nuclear storage facility at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in 1975 and the Bankson Lake Incident that happened on Friday, August 1st, 1986.  Two friends, John Long and Richard Jandura were fishing at night when a very large and brig...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 28.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott try to make sense of this mystery by pulling back the curtains on this missing persons intrigue.   On February 27th Major General William McCasland seemed to vanish off the face to the earth.  Scientist Monica Reza went on a hike in the Angeles National Forest just north of Los Angeles.  While hiking with her...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 27.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Roger Stankovic who is Director of MUFON for Australia and New Zealand.  Roger talks about a number of issues including the possibility of Havana Syndrome being connected to Non-Human Intelligence. He also covers cattle mutilations in Australia with some very enlightening observations.  He also talks about his involvement in the L...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 26.  Host Michael Ryan interviews author Lyn Rule about her life changing encounter with a UFO in the Australian outback.  Lyn started off on one of her many journey's into a sunbaked Australian landscape, but instead of finding adventure she came face to face with a phenomenon that was beyond  of all her life experiences.  It was a day that was to change her...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 25.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Bernie O'Connor on High Strangeness and are UFOs Paraphysical, Interdimensional or Ultraterrestrial.  Bernie O'Connor was the editor of The Official UFO Magazine and has been interested in UFOs for many decades.  He brings his wealth of knowledge on the subject matter to this episode.  If you would like to learn more abo...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 24.  Host Michael Ryan interviews retired RCMP Cst. James Blackwood.  At around 2 am on the night of October 26, 1978 he received a call that there was a UFO hovering over the bay in Clarenville, Newfoundland.  When Blackwood drove down to the bay he couldn't believe what he was seeing.  A large UFO hovering roughly 100 feet above the water.  For the next two...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 23.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott look into the official RCMP document from October 3, 1969.  On the night of October 3, 1969 RCMP constable Sidney Barrie and his wife Vivian were on vacation.  They were on highway 44 near Whiteshell Provincial Park in Manitoba, Canada.  As they were driving they spotted a UFO and when they got to within 500 f...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 22.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Australian UFO and Paranormal Investigator Attila Kaldy.  Attila covers a great many sightings and encounters including his encounter with a UFO in Sydney's Northern Beaches which included shadow helicopters and the UFO being hit by a beam of light from space.  Attila also talks about several cases of high strangeness not onl...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 21.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Janet Wood, who as a teenager, saw a huge UFO rise from the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada.  What started out as a gathering of about 10 friends on the banks of the Fraser River in Richmond, BC ended up being a night that they all would never forget.  As the huge UFO came towards the group it blocked out the stars in the...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 20.  Host Michael Ryan interviews the Director of MUFON Canada Linda Rafuse.  In a far reaching interview Linda Rafuse talks about trends of UFOs in Canada and Canadian hot spots. She also talks about MUFON's ERT (Experiencer Resource Team) and a case she personally investigated trail cam footage of a suspected UFO.  She also talks about MUFON Canada's n...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 19.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Tabby Rideout, who along with her sister Sue had multiple UFO encounters at their family home in Fort Fairfield, Maine.  The first encounter happened in the Summer of 1973 as they were playing in their front yard.  There were at least two encounters that involved missing time.  If you would like to find out more about UAPCON go he...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 18.  On this episode we get to hear Bernie O'Connor's 2008 interview with Jack Weiner.  This is the first time this interview has been aired publicly.  Jack Weiner is put under hypnosis and he talks about what happened to him and his brother Jim and friends Chuck Rak and Charlie Foltz during the abduction. Christine Scott also does a book review of Raymo...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 17.  Host Michael Ryan talks to Bernie O'Connor about his new book The Official History of Official UFO Magazine and they discuss an interview that Bernie did with Jack Weiner in 2008.  The interview was never aired and this will be the first time the interview has ever aired publicly.  Jack Weiner along with his twin brother Jim Weiner and their friends Chuc...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 16.  Happy New Year!  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott look into the dark side of UFO encounters.  Taken from the pages of CUFORN's (Canadian UFO Research Network) newsletter from their July/August 1984 edition.  Today's podcast is inspired by an article by Harry Tokarz: UFOs and their Physiological Effects.  We take a look at several ca...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 15.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into another case taken from the files of the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police).  On the night of April 6, 1976 two teenage girls were sitting in a car in the parking lot of the Skyline Hotel waiting for the mother of one of the girls to get off her shift.  While they were waiting they see...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 14.  Host Michael Ryan dives into a RCMP file from January 6, 1974.  A person who was living in Rathwell, Manitoba saw a UFO very close to his house on the morning of January 6, 1974 and even got into his car and chased after it.  It was while he was driving towards the UFO that he saw it land on the highway 244.  If you would like to learn more about the SCU conf...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 13.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott look into the reporting of  Quebec UFO investigator Claude Mac Duff.  In 1971 Mac Duff looked into the cause of the 1971 Quebec blackouts and he came up with some very interesting information that points at UFOs as a probable cause.  Also, is it possible that UFOs tripped the nuclear bomb sensors at the High P...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 12.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into RCMP documents from 1967 to try and unfold the mystery of what happened on the nights of October 22nd and October 29th, 1967.  On this nights at least five witnesses (possibly as many as eight) saw two UFOs that were hovering 15 feet above the highway.  In documents that were uncovered we...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 11.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott give an in depth review of the documentary Age of Disclosure.  Who is behind it, who is in it and should you see it or give it a hard pass?  We hold nothing back. Neil Bowman gives his eyewitness account of a large UFO that he saw in the late '70s in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.  Neil felt that time slowed d...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 10.  Host Michael Ryan interviews author Keith Chester on his book Strange Company, one of the most important books written on UFOs.  In part 2 of this interview, Keith Chester talks about the importance of Howard Robertson, David Griggs and Dr. Luis Alvarez.  Mr. Chester points out that all of the reports that David Griggs wrote on the phenomenon have never been...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 9.  Host Michael Ryan interviews author Keith Chester about his book Strange Company which details WWII pilot encounters with Foo Fighters/UFOs.  In this sweeping interview topics that are covered in part 1 of this 2 part interview include: Chester's friendship with ufologist and WWII veteran Leonard Stringfield, dramatic and documented bomber pilot and crew...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 8.  Host Michael Ryan interviews legendary ufologist Stan Gordon.  During the interview Stan covers a wide range of topics that include tic tac shaped UFOs, glowing orbs that come into homes and have strange effects on people that come into contact with the orbs.  EM effects and many reports of Bigfoot which may turn out to be something we just don't fully un...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 7.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss and read several documents from the RCMP UFO files.  The documents reveal that in October 1968 a part of what was called a UFO was found on frozen Wollaston Lake in Northern Saskatchewan. Photographs were taken and many experiments were preformed to find out what the metal was.  In the end the documents...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 Episode 6.  Host Michael Ryan interviews Vietnam veteran Michael Walsh.  During the war in Vietnam U.S. Marines Michael Walsh and Ken Broadbent promised each other if they made it out of Vietnam they would go on the adventure of a lifetime.  In the Summer of 1971 the Marines took a canoe and spent the Summer on Reindeer Lake.  Beautiful and rugged, Reindeer Lake is a very...