UFO to UAP Podcast

What role is Australia really playing in the Pentagon’s UAP investigation network? In this episode of UFO to UAP Explained, Matt Tones follows newly released records connected to AARO’s 2025 UAP research workshop, where an institutional roster includes the words “Australian Government.” We investigate what that record actually proves, what remains unknown, and how it connects to Australia’s docume...

Discover the fascinating Gemini 7 space mission event of December 5, 1965, as astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell encounter an unidentified "bogey". Listen to the genuine NASA audio recording where these seasoned astronauts express surprise and uncertainty about an unknown object near their spacecraft. This is a rare primary source, released by the U.S. government, capturing authentic NASA comm...

Experience the startling Rendlesham Forest UFO incident through the unaltered field recording of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt. In this Archive Special, delve into one of modern UFO history’s most debated encounters as Halt investigates mysterious lights and physical traces at RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters. This original audio offers an authentic glimpse into the uncertainties and observatio...

Discover the original insights of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, a pivotal figure in the early U.S. Air Force UFO investigations, in this exclusive archival release from 1952. This historic recording features Ruppelt's analysis of hundreds of UFO reports that challenged state-of-the-art radar systems and Air Force protocols. Hear firsthand about sightings near sensitive military installations, witness...

The Pentagon has released PURSUE Release 06 , the sixth tranche of U.S. government UAP records—and this episode investigates what is actually new. Matt Tones examines the newly surfaced 1952 Edward J. Ruppelt recording , the historic Tremonton UFO film, Project Blue Book, newly centralised military UAP videos from the Middle East and Indo-Pacific, and law-enforcement footage from Colorado. We sepa...

What would actually happen if humanity detected evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence—and how would we know it was real? In Episode 82 of UFO to UAP Explained , Matt Tones investigates the science behind first contact, beginning with the viral Chinese headline warning people not to “reply to aliens without authorisation.” The real story leads to the International Academy of Astronautics’ newly...

The Pentagon has issued a new legal waiver allowing certain current and former military personnel, government employees and defence contractors with UAP-related National Defense Information to disclose protected information to authorised PURSUE representatives. In PENTAGON WAIVES UAP NDAs: What the New PURSUE Disclosure Order Really Means , Matt Tones investigates what the September 2026 UAP discl...

In 1954, Australia’s Foreign Minister Richard Casey was quietly seeking answers about flying saucers through official government channels. Inside National Archives file M1148 — Flying Saucers 1954 to 1955 , one line changes the significance of the story: “Dictated over telephone by Mr. Brookes on 23/2/1954.” Alfred Deakin Brookes was then leading the Australian Secret Service, the organisation tha...

Long before UFOs, UAP or modern astronomy, cultures around the world were already looking to the sky for knowledge, origins and meaning. In Episode 79 of UFO to UAP Explained , Matt Tones investigates The Hidden Histories: Indigenous Knowledge and UFO Encounters — from Aboriginal Australian sky knowledge, Baiame and the Wandjina, to Wurdi Youang’s possible solar alignments, Lakota traditions of st...

THE SCIENCE OF UAP: What Academic Research Actually Reveals asks a simple question: what happens when UFOs stop being a belief debate and become a measurement problem? In Episode 78 of UFO to UAP Explained , Matt Tones follows the scientific trail from the Condon Report and decades of academic stigma to NASA’s modern UAP framework, the Galileo Project, UAPx field experiments and the growing use of...

China’s UFO history is far older, broader and more complicated than most Western accounts suggest. In Episode 77 of UFO to UAP Explained , Matt Tones investigates the hidden history of UFO sightings in China , from ancient astronomical records and Chinese newspaper coverage of the 1947 flying-saucer wave to the extraordinary UFO boom that followed the People’s Daily article “UFO — An Unresolved Wo...

UAP disclosure could transform more than our understanding of the skies — it could challenge our understanding of reality itself. In Episode 76 of UFO to UAP Explained , Matt Tones investigates the psychology of UFO belief, UAP stigma and ontological shock : the profound disruption that could occur if credible evidence forced humanity to reconsider what exists, what is possible and whether we are...

Discover the fascinating world of France's UFO files and the persistent investigation efforts by the country's esteemed UAP agency, GEIPAN. In this episode, we delve into the history and operations of GEPAN, SEPRA, and their current form within France's national space agency, CNES. Uncover how France systematically collects, analyzes, and classifies unexplained aerospace phenomena, including the s...

Official U.S. and Australian Defence documents reveal that Five Eyes partners formally discussed UAP intelligence sharing , including classified reporting channels, shared sensor databases and joint collection planning. In this UFO to UAP Explained News Special , we examine the May 2023 Five Eyes UAP Caucus Working Group at the Pentagon, where Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand...

Australia once operated a formal government system for investigating UFOs and unusual aerial sightings. In Episode 3 of the International UAP Sightings mini-series, UFO to UAP Explained investigates the Royal Australian Air Force files, the 35-part archive of “Reports on Flying Saucers and Other Aerial Objects,” intelligence and civil aviation involvement, and unexplained activity around sensitive...

James Lacatski: Inside the Pentagon’s Secret UFO Program investigates the former Defense Intelligence Agency scientist who helped create and manage AAWSAP — the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program, one of the most significant acknowledged US government programs connected to UFO and UAP research. We examine the Pentagon’s approximately $22 million effort, Robert Bigelow and BAASS,...

Project Rubik’s Cube has become one of the most intriguing new allegations in the UAP disclosure story. Former U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist and congressional whistleblower Dylan Borland has repeatedly indicated that some questions can only be answered inside a SCIF—and after journalist Jeremy Corbell publicly asked whether Borland testified about an alleged program called Project Rubik’s...

What if The Book of Enoch is more than ancient religious mythology? In this episode of UFO to UAP Explained , we investigate Book One — The Book of the Watchers, 1 Enoch 1–36 — where non-human beings descend from the heavens, interact with humanity, produce hybrid offspring and reveal forbidden knowledge that changes civilisation. Ancient Aramaic fragments of Enoch recovered among the Dead Sea Scr...

In 1977, reports of mysterious lights, alleged beams and physical effects around Colares, Brazil, prompted the Brazilian Air Force to launch Operação Prato—Operation Saucer . Military investigators interviewed witnesses, conducted night observations and documented unidentified luminous phenomena across Pará. In Episode 2 of International UAP Sightings , Matt Tones examines what the military record...

What do Soviet UFO files reveal about Russian UAP encounters behind the Iron Curtain? In this episode of UFO to UAP Explained , host Matt Tones begins the 8-part mini-series International UAP Sightings with a deep investigation into Russian UAP encounters, Soviet UFO reports, CIA intelligence interest, Cold War secrecy, and the mystery of unidentified aerial phenomena inside the USSR. For decades,...

What happened when an unknown object was detected near the Pantex nuclear weapons plant? In this episode of UFO to UAP , host Matt Tones investigates the official Pantex Unidentified Object Incident Report, a 2015 security case involving Ground Surveillance Radar, Protective Force personnel, Security Police Officers, camera tracking, local law enforcement notification, and imagery sent to Sandia N...

Were Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly part of a hidden Cold War UFO retrieval network? In this episode of UFO to UAP Explained , host Matt Tones investigates two of the most intriguing names in declassified UFO history: Project Moon Dust and Operation Blue Fly . During the Cold War, the United States built systems to locate, recover, transport, and analyse fallen aerospace material, foreig...

What happened in the Western U.S. “orbs launching orbs” UAP case? In this episode of UFO to UAP Explained , host Matt Tones investigates one of the most unusual recent UAP cases found in the 2026 U.S. UFO files: a Western U.S. incident involving federal law enforcement witnesses, orange “mother orbs,” smaller red orbs, military flare activity, radar and ADS-B review, and an AARO case analysis that...

What do the CIA’s declassified UFO files really reveal? In this episode of UFO to UAP Explained , host Matt Tones investigates the CIA’s secret UFO archive, exploring how intelligence agencies monitored flying saucer reports, shaped public perception, supported scientific review, and managed the UFO mystery during the Cold War. From Project Blue Book and the 1952 Washington UFO wave to the Roberts...

How are UFO and UAP investigations driving innovation in radar, AI, satellites, sensor fusion, and aerospace technology? In this episode of UFO to UAP Explained , host Matt Tones investigates how the modern UAP mystery is pushing science, national security, and technology toward better ways of detecting the unknown. For decades, UFOs were framed as a question of belief. Today, UAP are increasingly...