Upcoming Show: Darcy Weir

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, February 25, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

In this episode, we sit down with filmmaker Darcy Weir to discuss his latest docuseries, Pascagoula 73, which explores the shocking 1973 Pascagoula UFO abduction of Charles Hickson, Calvin Parker, and Maria Blair. This gripping tale of alien encounters, fear, and resilience has fascinated researchers for decades—did these individuals experience something truly out of this world? We also dive into Darcy’s insights on Dark Alliance: The Inside Story of the Cosmic Con and what it reveals about the hidden side of UFOlogy.

🔴 Topics Discussed:
✅ The Pascagoula UFO abduction – what really happened?
✅ Eyewitness accounts & chilling details
✅ The making of Pascagoula 73 – behind the scenes
✅ Dark Alliance and UFO disinformation

📽️ About Darcy Weir:
Darcy Weir is a filmmaker known for his work on UFOs, government secrecy, and the paranormal. His investigative documentaries shed light on some of the most mysterious cases in modern history.

💬 What do YOU think about the Pascagoula abduction case? Let us know in the comments!

651. Sarah Gamm | on the UAP Task Force

Is the truth really out there? Join us as we dive deep into the world of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) with Sarah Gamm, a seasoned intelligence expert with a B.S. in Astrophysics and an M.S. in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction. With years of experience in satellite imagery analysis, nuclear counterproliferation strategy, and national security, Sarah brings a data-driven, intelligence-backed perspective to the mystery of UAPs. Having worked with the UAP Task Force, the Pentagon, and leading classified initiatives within the Intelligence Community, Sarah offers unparalleled insights into what the government really knows about UFOs, how satellite imagery plays a role in tracking them, and what the implications are for national security.

SHOW NOTES

A 1978 UFO and Occupant Report From Italy

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

In the fall of 1978, there seems to have been a flap in the comune (municipality) of Torrita di Siena in the Tuscany region of Italy from September 13th to the 20th. This is mentioned by Maurizio Verga in his introduction to the article (page 6 of the pdf) he translated by Dr. Roberto Pinotti headlined “Landing, E.M. Effects and Entities at Torrita di Siena” published in the Vol. 25, No. 4 (November 1979) Flying Saucer Review. According to Verga, during that week, “there was a massive onset of the UFO phenomenon” with a peak of 40 reports on the 14th and a total of 120 cases. He speculates that many of these were the result of “the heavy TV, radio and press coverage of the main UFO sightings and encounters,” and he describes the case covered in the article by Pinotti, who did a thorough boots-on the-ground investigation, as “one of these.” He describes Pinotti as “the leading authority of Italian ufology and well known to FSR readers.” What Pinotti reported was apparently intriguing enough that this case ended up being recounted in numerous publications and was revisited in 2011 by a reporter from one of the first Italian newspapers to cover it. Read more

A 1972 UFO and Creature Report From Anderson, California

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

The first two years of the 1970s seems to have been a slow period for UFO reports, if the 1970 and 1971 UFO Chronology hosted on the National Investigations Committee on Arial Phenomena website is any indication, with the 1970 chronology consisting of 5 pages, and the 1971 consisting of 8 pages. As a comparison, the 1966 chronology page count is 35 and the 1967 count is a massive 85. This might have been expected after the conclusion by Edward U. Condon in his report that “further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.” This prompted the U.S. Air Force, which had funded the study led by Condon at the University of Colorado, to shut down Project Blue Book in 1969. There is a comment to this effect in the 1971 chronology: “An apparent lull in sighting reports may be the result of the closing of Project Blue Book and the media coverage of this for several years, and may not reflect the actual situation.” By 1973, things would pick up in a big way (35 pages in that chronology) with high-strangeness cases dominating the headlines. In 1972, however, there was a report that seems to have presaged the things to come. Read more

649. Bob Salas, UFOs & Nukes

In this eye-opening interview, we dive deep into the shocking testimony of retired U.S. Air Force Captain Bob Salas, who has been at the forefront of the UFO disclosure movement. Salas, a former missile launch officer, has been pushing for the U.S. government to come clean about unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) and their potential implications. Salas famously reported an incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967, where a UFO allegedly disabled a fleet of nuclear missiles—an event that has remained one of the most compelling cases in UFO history. Could this be proof of extraterrestrial interference, or is there another explanation the government isn’t telling us? With growing pressure on military and government officials to disclose classified UAP encounters, Salas’ testimony raises serious questions about national security, government secrecy, and what we really know about these mysterious objects in our skies. Bob also speaks on his 1985 abduction experience.

Show Notes

 

UFO Over Wanaque, New Jersey

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

New Jersey, as everyone in UFO world is aware, was ground zero for a full-on flap involving what most witnesses reported as mysterious drones. What’s noteworthy is that this same region was where residents panicked during Orson Welles’s radio production of The War of the Worlds in 1938. It’s also the area where there were two flaps in 1966, one in January and another in October, with the most dramatic reports centered around the Wanaque Reservoir. In this blog, we’ll focus on the January flap. At that time, several different investigators arrived on the scene, and as a result, there are several different versions of what happened.

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Promise, Hope, and Disappointment as Another ‘Whistleblower’ Tells His Story

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

*Note: I have a different opinion than Charles, but respect other people’s opinions, Martin

Jake Barber, Whistleblower

On Saturday, January 18, there was a much hyped exclusive on NewsNation, presented by Ross Coulthart. What was promised was testimony from a “whistleblower” along with video to back it up that a government UFO crash retrieval program does indeed exist. There was much excitement on social media, but once the episode aired, there was much anger and disappointment, the main complaint being that the video was less than convincing. While there was a lot of focus on the video, there was another focus on what we believe should always be the first principle when examining claims of this nature, and that is: Consider the source. Read more

My Visit to the National UFO Historical Records Center

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

On Saturday, January 11, I paid a visit to David Marler at the new facility in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, housing the contents of the National UFO Historical Records Center. The NUFOHRC is a recently formed non-profit organization, and the facility consists of two buildings provided by Rio Rancho Public Schools on the campus of the Martin Luther King Elementary School. In one of the buildings is a treasure trove of, well, UFO Historical Records, including the case files of the big three in twentieth century UFO investigation: the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, the Center for UFO Studies, and the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. The APRO files had been in private hands since APRO ceased being active in 1988, and I was particularly eager to see those, as well as see the facility and offer congratulations to David. Read more

J. Allen Hynek Goes Public

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

From the very beginning of the flying saucer/UFO mystery, Joseph Allen Hynek played a huge role as an investigator.  According to him in his 1972 book, The UFO Experience, in 1947 he was asked to be a scientific consultant for the Air Force’s investigation program (which was then called Project Sign) based at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. He explains he was “then director of Ohio State University’s McMillan Observatory and, as such, the closest professional astronomer at hand.” He remained a scientific consultant for what operated as Project Sign, Project Grudge, and then Project Blue Book as of 1952, up until its termination in 1969. He went on with his own investigations, formed the Center for UFO Studies in 1973, and continued as its director until his death in 1986. In his almost 40 years of involvement with the mystery, Hynek’s beliefs and public stance evolved quite a bit. Read more

Pilot Reports of UFOs Over Oregon Captured on an ATC Recording

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

Pilot Joe Bulley

In last week’s blog, we looked at a case that is typical of UFO reports in the news these days: it originated on social media, there was no proper name for the source, and a great deal of fruitless speculation and arguing followed. As if in answer to our complaints, a case showed up that has just about everything a researcher/investigator could hope for. It involves an Air Traffic Control recording of multiple pilots reporting strange lights moving around in unusual patterns near Eugene, Oregon. Supporting the fact that the recording is genuine, one of the pilots has come forward and talked to the news media.

According to the article by Flynn Nichols headlined “Pilots told to ‘maneuver’ around Oregon ‘UFO’ in leaked cabin audio” published on the Newsweek website on December 12, 2024, a 44-minute recording was posted on Reddit by user SabineRitter on Sunday (which was December 8, 2024). The link to the original recording on LiveATC.net no longer works (the recording seems to have been deleted from the site), but there is an edited 13-minute, 28-second version still available on Youtube as of this writing. The article was updated later the same day with the statement from the FAA that “a pilot reported seeing unidentified lights while flying in Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center airspace on Saturday, December 7.” It is explained by Nichols that “The URL of the archived recording from LiveATC.net contains a timestamp (Dec-08-2024-0430Z), which specifies the date and time the recording began: 4.30 a.m. on December 8 in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or 8:30 p.m., December 7, in Oregon (PST)” and that “The URL also contains the code KEU, which is the airport code for Eugene Airport, and ZSE, which is the official abbreviation of the Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC).” Read more

Another Problematic UFO Report Originating on Social Media

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 
Amidst the reports of drone incursions over military bases and northern New Jersey, there was a story that made the news involving video footage reportedly taken by a co-pilot of an unidentified object in the sky above Manchester Airport in England, along with still shots of what was said to be the same object, seen to be a blue sphere, hovering over the tarmac. As is typical of UFO coverage in the news these days, when it’s not about what government officials think about the phenomenon, the origin of the story was a post on social media with no real names provided for the poster or the source. All that was left for those with an interest in the case was to conduct some rather imaginative analysis of the footage and argue back and forth over the possible alien origin of the object. Read more