UFO Talker

Send us Fan Mail Summer rerun series. Season 1 Episode 32.  In an episode that originally aired on April 5, 2022 Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into the 1965 Rex Heflin UFO photographs.  On Tuesday, August 3, 1965 Orange County, California highway maintenance engineer Rex Heflin took 4 photographs of a UFO.  The team bring to light several little known facts abo...

Send us Fan Mail Summer rerun series.  In an episode that was first aired on December 7, 2022               host Michael Ryan interviews Australian producer-director Stephen Amis who, in the suburbs of Melbourne, encountered alien beings since childhood.  Christine Scott also does a book review of Ann Druffel's The Tujunga Canyon Contacts. Support the show To buy UFO Talker merchandise follow...

Send us Fan Mail Summer rerun series.  Season 2 Episode 9.  In an episode that originally aired November 1, 2023 host Michael Ryan interviews author Frank Thayer (The Aztec UFO Incident).  Frank Thayer talks about his relationship with William Steinman and  revels some very interesting facts about Steinman.  He also talks about some UFO cases from the White Sands Missile Range.  You can read about...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 40.  Host Michael Ryan and Christine Scott talk about a number of UFO topics with their mid Summer catch up show.  Topics up for discussion include:  ufologist Ben Hansen and his new TV show and Who is Issac Koi?  Was that a UFO that was seen at Red Rocks?  If you would like to look up Issac Koi's large UFO collection online go here.   To check out the Sol Fo...

Send us Fan Mail Summer rerun series.  Season 2 Episode 10.  In an episode that originally aired on November 8, 2023, Host Michael Ryan interviews retired police constables Rick Prescott and Rob Furlong about their sighting of a black triangle UFO during their nightshift.  Rob Furlong also recalls a story that a family friend told about  a Tic Tac shaped UFO hovering over the water late in the eve...

Send us Fan Mail Summer rerun series.  Season 1 Episode 21.  In this episode that originally aired on January 18, 2023 host Michael Ryan interviews Terry Mantell, grandson of Captain Thomas F. Mantell who is the first Air Force pilot to lose their life in pursuit of a UFO.  Terry Mantell talks about how his grandfather's death affected their family and how they are still looking for answers f...

Send us Fan Mail Summer Rerun Series.  In an episode that originally aired on May 3, 2023, host Michael Ryan interviews retired NASA scientist Dr. Richard F. Haines about his book CE-5 and humans trying to communicate with extraterrestrials.  He also discusses two cases from his book Advanced Aerial Devices Reported During the Korean War in which up to 50 U.S. troops fired on a UFO.  He also gets...

Send us Fan Mail Summer rerun series.  In this episode that originally aired on January 25, 2023, host Michael Ryan interviews U.S. soldier David Marceau who had an encounter in 1992 with a UFO that was 100 feet long and 50 feet wide late at night while he was on guard duty at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown.  The base at Gagetown is a massive (over 420 square miles) training facility.  Home of the...

Send us Fan Mail Summer rerun series.  In episode 5 from Season 2 (which originally aired on October 4, 2023) two eyewitness accounts of UFOs that were closer than 30 feet away.  Each sighting has changed the witness and the way they view the world.  Julie is from Melbourne, Australia and she talks about her encounter that was witnessed by her and three of her friends as they drove down the highwa...

Send us Fan Mail Summer rerun series.  In  episode #30 that originally aired on March 22, 2023 Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into the facts to find the truth.  Did Gordon Cooper actually film the landing of a UFO at Edwards Air Force Base?  Christine Scott also gives her book review of the Anomalist Books reprint edition of John Keel's Eighth Tower.  To ch...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 39.  In the Season 2 finale, host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into The Star Blanket Encounter.  On the night of November 27, 1973 a UFO that was described as being between 100-150 feet in diameter was first seen by Chief Noel Star of the Star Blanket First Nations Reservation.  Over the next two hours at least 22 people saw a UFO...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 38.  Host Michael Ryan interviews aviation safety expert Todd Curtis.  Mr. Curtis talks about weather balloons and why UFOs are most likely not secret technology.  Todd Curtis also talks about his time in the U.S. Air Force where he served at Edwards Air Force Base.  He also talks about a glider pilot in Albany, New York who had a dramatic encounter with three UFO...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 37.  Host Michael Ryan interviews the son of Lawrence Smith who was a witness along with his brother, Gene Smith to the UFOs at Bear Point, Nova Scotia.  The BEAR POINT INCIDENT was covered in Season 2, Episode 28.  Charles Smith (son of Lawrence Smith), brings the event to life as he recounts what it was like when his dad came home on the night of  November 25, 1...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 36.  Host Michael Ryan interviews UK ufologist Alan Foster.  Mr. Foster covers many topics including The Night of Triangles which happened in Southern Wales in January, 1983.  He also talks about an RAF pilot who chased a huge UFO over Cyprus.  If you would like to find out more about Alan Foster you can check out UK Pilots Reporting UAP here .  If you would like...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 35.  Michael Ryan interviews legendary ufologist Jan Aldrich about Lt. Col. Wayne Mattson.  Mattson is a mysterious and little-known figure in the UFO world.  However, he may have known more about UFOs than  anyone else.  Jan also talks about an important UFO encounter that Mattson had while flying during the Vietnam war.  He also talks about Project Have Fear in...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 34.  Host Michael Ryan interviews documentary filmmaker Joe Tury about his film Grand Tower UFOs and Other High Strangeness.  His film covers the event that happened on March 22, 1973 when a UFO was hovering over the Grand Tower Illinois Power Plant.  Grand Tower is also the site of a lot of other high strangeness over the years.   You can also donate to the film...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 33.  No, this isn't the headline from a supermarket tabloid...this really happened.  Host Michael Ryan and Commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into RCMP reports from March 4, 1969 and June 5, 1969.  High strangeness was overhead on the night of March 4 and June 5, 1969.  We discuss the reports of RCMP personnel as they try to come to terms with what...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 32. Host Michael Ryan interviews Irish ufologist Chris Gaffney.  Chris Gaffney takes us on a deep dive of all things relating to UFOs in Ireland.  From the 2004 encounter that an Aer Lingus 737 had with a triangle UFO.  The encounter caused damage to the wing of the aircraft.  We also play a conversation between Shannon Air Traffic Control and three passenger airc...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 31.  Host Michael Ryan interviews author Bill Rountree.  Mr. Rountree spent most of his life as project manager on large information technology projects for major companies like Sprint and Coca Cola, but for over 50 years he kept a secret.  He had been having alien encounters since he was 7 years old.  Bill Rountree talks about his experiences and his book: Aliens...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 30.  Host Michael Ryan and Commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into The Prochner Farm Incident.  During the early morning hours  of August 4, 1968 three members of the Prochner family witnessed a large UFO hovering over their house and their barn.  The farm was located near Qu'appelle, Saskatchewan.  The three family members were father William Proch...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 29.  Host Michael Ryan interviews retired Major Harold Skaarup.  Major Skaarup spent 40 years in Canadian Army Intelligence and he was deployed in Cyprus, Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Afghanistan.  He was also stationed at the NATO base in Lahr, Germany and the NORAD base at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado.  He talks about NORAD and UFOs, his long friendship with Stanton...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 28.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into The Bear Point Incident.  Five witnesses from two location see between 5 and 6 UFOs from two different locations in Nova Scotia, Canada.  Lawrence Smith and his brother Gene first see the UFOs near Bear Point (which is not that far from Shag Harbour).  The second set of witnesses, Cpl. Ti...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2  Episode 27.  In part 2 of Michael Ryan's interview with Jan Aldrich, Jan talks about UFO researcher Ted Blocher and John Musgrave from British Columbia.  He also gives his thoughts of Jackie Gleason's UFO research and his experiences with James McDonald and Ann Druffel.  He also talks about recent research into UFOs during the Vietnam war and why saving UFO his...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 26.  Host Michael Ryan interviews UFO legend Jan Aldrich about his 60 plus years in ufology.  In part 1 of a 2 part interview, Jan talks about the people and places that he has met in his UFO journey.  The highlight of part 1 is his explanation of the 1968 Minot Air Force Base UFO case that had many witnesses, multiple radar confirmations and visual sighting by th...

Send us Fan Mail Season 2 Episode 25.  Host Michael Ryan interviews author Paul Schatzkin about his biography of Thomas Townsend Brown The Man Who Mastered Gravity: A Twisted Tale of Space, Time and the Mysteries in Between.   Townsend Brown was a man of mystery.  Were his inventions classified? Why was  he dropped behind German lines near the end of WWII?  What did he know about UFOs?  If you wou...