What it Means To Be Human

What if human perception is far more flexible than we realize? This week, Dan sits down with mindsight teacher and consciousness researcher Dalia Burgoin to explore a world where blindfolded people learn to read, identify colors, navigate unfamiliar environments, and even develop new ways of perceiving reality. Dalia shares her unlikely journey from stay-at-home mom to one […]

With Disclosure Day coming to theaters, Steven Spielberg is finally delivering the culmination of a lifelong obsession. From a $500 home movie shot in an Arizona backyard to the biggest blockbusters in cinema history, Spielberg hasn’t just been making sci-fi, he’s been building a massive, interconnected puzzle. What if his alien movies were never actually about what’s […]

In this special combined episode of What It Means to Be Human, Dan sits down with screenwriter, author, and paranormal researcher Richard Hatem for a wide-ranging conversation that explores some of the deepest questions at the heart of the phenomenon. Best known as the screenwriter behind The Mothman Prophecies and host of Richard Hatem’s Paranormal Bookshelf, Richard...

Is the UFO phenomenon a hardware problem or a consciousness problem? For 20 years, Nick Cook was the aviation editor for Jane’s Defence Weekly, breaking stories on secret weapons and black budget projects. But his investigation into the “Hunt for Zero Point” led him somewhere he never expected: a realization that our understanding of reality is […]

The first tranche of government UFO files has finally arrived, and the wall of silence may finally be cracking. In this episode, Dan digs through the files, AARO’s unresolved sightings, and Apollo-era transcripts to ask whether this is real disclosure or just a more polished version of the same old maze.

Ron James spent years pointing a camera at people whose job is to say nothing: politicians, scientists, military insiders. He waited patiently — and they slipped up. His first film, Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations, won 28 film festival awards, was cited by name at a congressional UAP hearing, and became one of the most-watched UFO

The Vice President of the United States just called UAPs demons on camera. And a sitting congresswoman is citing the Book of Enoch as evidence of non-human intelligence. Meanwhile, the FBI is investigating a cluster of disappeared and dead scientists connected to sensitive aerospace research — and nobody can agree on whether that's a cover-up

Captain Ron Janix found Contact in the Desert the way most people find the things that change their lives, by accident. In this episode, Dan speaks with Captain Ron about what it actually means to build a space for people who’ve seen something they can’t explain, believe something they can’t prove, and need to be […]

For fifty years, constitutional lawyer Danny Sheehan has been in the rooms where American power operates. Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Karen Silkwood. Now he says all of it was preparation for the biggest case of his career: UFO Disclosure. In this episode, Dan speaks with Danny about the legal architecture of the UAP cover-up, what

In 2025, former Air Force military police officer Jeff Nuccatelli sat before Congress under oath and said something most governments never want to admit: reality may be classified. In this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Dan speaks with Jeff about the UAP incursions he witnessed while stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base,

In this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Dan sits down with Joshua Cutchin — folklorist, paranormal researcher, composer, and one of the most original thinkers working in the strange today. Joshua has spent years tracing the hidden threads between UFOs, fairy lore, near-death experiences, altered states, ghost stories, and the deep symbolic structures that shape human [&#8...

In this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Dan sits down with Thomas Jane, actor, writer, and researcher… to explore a topic that sits at the edge of science, philosophy, and human identity: non-human intelligence and the limits of reality itself. This isn’t a conversation about lights in the sky. It’s about something […]

This week, Dan takes a deep dive into Chains of the Sea — a little-known sci-fi novella from the 1970s that has quietly shaken the UFO world after being recommended by former Pentagon insider Lue Elizondo. On the surface, it’s a story about alien contact. But underneath, it presents something far more unsettling: Through the lens of this […]

This week, Dan and Roz dig into the strange new phase of UFO disclosure, starting with Trump’s claim that Barack Obama revealed classified information about aliens. From there, they trace the bigger picture: Obama’s long history of carefully provocative UFO comments, the buried records sitting in the Obama presidential library, and why Trump’s promise to “release the […]

What can comic books teach us about UFO encounters? In this episode, Dan speaks with Eisner and Harvey Award–winning comic creator Michael Avon Oeming, known for his work on Powers, Thor, and Hellboy. Michael joins the show to discuss his acclaimed series Blue Book and Red Book, which bring real UFO cases to life through […]

What if death isn’t the end? And what if love finds a way to reach us anyway? In this deeply personal episode of Contact, producer and co-host Roslyn Mugford shares her own story. After the passing of her stepdad Jack in January 2024, Roz experienced something she still struggles to fully explain — a vivid […]

What happens to the human story if we get conclusive proof we’re not alone? This week, we’re joined by comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer, Have I Got News For Your Ears) for a wide-ranging, deeply human conversation about UFOs/UAP, consciousness, and the strange edges of reality. Michael shares a high school “orb/fireball” sig...

Season Two starts exactly how we like it: coming out swinging. Dan and Roz are back to break down the latest in UAP culture and credibility, starting with a military FLIR clip of “orbs” that might be something extraordinary… or might be birds (yes, we’re devastated too). Then we dive into the Nazca mummies saga, where the internet’s favorite “alien bodies” run […]

In this episode, we’re doing something for the very first time: recording live. No script, no safety net—just an open, free-flowing conversation. We look back on the year behind us, wrestle with the big questions still hanging in the air, and explore where the ongoing conversation around UAPs, disclosure, and human curiosity might be headed. What […]

Happy Holidays everyone!  Whether you’re snuggling up by the fireplace with your pets, your people or just something warm in a mug… we’ve got the coziest kind of episode for you: a Christmas Eve “best of”, featuring Dan’s favourite moments from Season One. 🐾🔥 Today’s highlights include: ⏳ Richard Hatem (screenwriter, The Mothman Prophecies) on […]