Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Thursday, August 06, 2026 @ 8:00 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Rabbi Michael “Moshe” Rothschild joins Martin Willis for a wide-ranging conversation exploring UFOs, extraterrestrial life, consciousness, and the profound questions that possible contact with nonhuman intelligence could raise for religion and humanity. An Orthodox Rabbi and Kabbalist, Rothschild brings a theological and philosophical perspective to the modern UAP discussion, examining how ancient religious traditions might interpret nonhuman beings and whether faith would be challenged—or expanded—by confirmation that we are not alone.The conversation will also explore government transparency, congressional UAP hearings, alleged abduction experiences, the Fermi Paradox, the Zeta Reticuli hypothesis, and former Israeli space security chief Chaim Eshed’s controversial statements concerning extraterrestrial cooperation. Martin and Rabbi Rothschild will consider the connections among mysticism, consciousness, artificial intelligence, emerging technology, and humanity’s future—while separating thoughtful inquiry from sensational claims and asking how genuine disclosure, whatever it ultimately reveals, might transform our understanding of reality and our place in the universe.
BIO: Rabbi Michael “Moshe” Rothschild is an Orthodox rabbi, Kabbalist, educator, public speaker, and digital content creator best known for the ongoing #ViralRabbi project, which many supporters describe as a real-life “Truman Show.” For more than four years, they have maintained multiple simultaneous 24/7/365 livestreams documenting daily life, conversations, and public engagement across numerous online platforms. As a result of this continuous broadcasting, they state that they have archived an unprecedented volume of personal livestream footage and digital content, which they describe as more personal data than any other individual has ever continuously preserved.
The project is intended to serve not only as a continuous public record of one person’s life, but also as a living timeline and digital time capsule that future generations may be able to study. As artificial intelligence systems continue to rely on increasingly large datasets for training, long-duration, uninterrupted records of authentic human behavior may provide a unique form of longitudinal data for future historical, sociological, computational, and AI research. Publications including The Economisthave described data as surpassing petroleum in economic importance, reflecting its growing role as one of the world’s most valuable resources. Within that context, the #ViralRabbi project seeks to preserve an extensive, continuously recorded archive of human experience that may have lasting historical and technological significance.
Through these livestreams, Rabbi Rothschild engages audiences in discussions on religion, philosophy, technology, artificial intelligence, futurism, history, ethics, science, and unexplained phenomena while fostering respectful dialogue and critical thinking. Their work centers on making complex subjects accessible to a global audience through continuous live broadcasting, educational programming, and online community engagement.
Find more information at Linktree.com/RabbiRothschild, Discord.me/Rabbi, and RabbiRothschild.Medium.com.
Retired NASA aerospace engineer Greg Martins joins Martin Willis to discuss his 35-year career at Goddard Space Flight Center, a childhood UFO sighting and his claimed extraterrestrial encounters through dreams, meditation and out-of-body experiences. Greg also explores consciousness, the Akashic Records, “home planets,” Oversouls and the experiences described in his book, Star Journey Home. Martin approaches these extraordinary claims with an open mind and gentle skepticism.
Former senior NASA official and space policy expert Mike Gold joins Martin Willis and special co-host, astronomer Marc D’Antonio, for a candid discussion about NASA, UAP and the stigma that continues to discourage serious scientific investigation. Gold explains that NASA’s UAP Independent Study Team was never asked to examine historical cases or analyze UAP evidence; instead, it was tasked with determining whether NASA should investigate the subject and which agency resources could be used. He discusses proposals to employ artificial intelligence and machine learning to search NASA’s enormous archives, add UAP to NASA’s confidential Aviation Safety Reporting System, and independently examine unexplained imagery from the Moon, Mars and space—including the unusual triangular formation photographed during Apollo 17. The conversation also examines allegations of altered or withheld NASA imagery, professional threats faced by academics who merely ask questions about UAP, and why Gold believes stigma creates a national security vulnerability by providing potential cover for adversarial drones. Gold says disclosure should be viewed as a continuing process of releasing and objectively examining data, and he believes increasingly significant material may emerge as the government works through declassification. The discussion concludes with commercial spaceflight, SpaceX, America’s competition with China, manufacturing human tissue and pharmaceuticals in microgravity, the future of Mars exploration, and why greater government transparency could help restore public trust. Join us for a thoughtful, science-based conversation that follows the evidence without assuming the answer.
In our last blog, about a boy who claimed he’d been hit in the chest by a paralyzing beam of light from a UFO, we wrote, “Reports of people suffering physical effects after being zapped by UFOs appears often enough in UFO literature that an author could devote an entire book to them.” Proving our point, we stumbled upon a similar case involving a policeman as we were looking for material for this week’s blog. Whereas the former case only had a single witness, the case we’re looking at this week has multiple witnesses.
Filmmaker Darcy Weir joins Martin Willis and UFO Jack for a candid conversation about psychic phenomena, remote viewing, UFO experiencers, whistleblowers, and separating credible evidence from compelling fiction. They explore Project Stargate, Phil Schneider, Travis Walton, Bob Lazar, government disinformation, secret technology, CE5, Jake Barber, and strange entities reported in cases such as Voronezh and Pascagoula. Visit PodcastUFO.com to explore hundreds of historical UFO articles by Charles Lear and support the show for an ad-free experience.
In last week’s 
Astronomer and veteran photo/video analyst Marc D’Antonio joins Martin Willis to examine highlights from the 40 UAP files released by the government on July 10. Marc analyzes several intriguing images and videos, including possible aerostats, balloon clusters, fast-moving objects, and the widely discussed “star-shaped UFO.” He explains how infrared sensors, diffraction, parallax, camera movement, and missing metadata can make ordinary objects appear extraordinary—and identifies one case that remains a genuine puzzle. Marc also shares his own unexplained observation of two satellite-like lights making a dramatic 40-degree turn.
Historian Samantha Graves briefly shares a new r
Reports of people suffering physical effects after being zapped by UFOs appears often enough in UFO literature that an author could devote an entire book to them. In 1980, there was such a report out of Foxboro, Massachusetts, that was looked into by local investigators. A detailed 
Former Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet joins Martin Willis to discuss UAP research, undersea anomalies, and reports from submarine personnel of fast-moving unidentified objects detected beneath the ocean. Gallaudet explains his role on the UAP Science Advisory Council reporting to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the challenge of gaining access to relevant data, and why serious scientific investigation is essential. He also shares a brief look at his new leadership memoir, Holding Fast in Heavy Seas, reflecting on his Navy and NOAA career.
In 1958, motorists in Elkton, Michigan, were alarmed by the sight of a blue creature with blinking lights and what looked to be a space helmet. Estimates of its size ranged from 2 to 10 feet tall, and mothers who spotted it while looking out the windows of their homes were 
Rony Vernet returns to Podcast UFO to discuss his field investigations into unusual phenomena reported in the Amazon rainforest and other remote regions of Brazil. An electrical engineer and researcher, Vernet shares accounts from indigenous communities involving luminous orbs, humanoid figures, strange lights, apparent equipment interference, and encounters that local residents believe originate from the forest itself. Martin and Rony also discuss the Peru flying humanoid reports, the Varginha case, alleged Brazilian military and police encounters with UAPs and beings, and the difficulty of collecting repeatable scientific data in unpredictable field conditions. Vernet explains his use of cameras, drones, infrared equipment, sensors, and other tools, along with why some of the most striking incidents reportedly involved lost or corrupted recordings. The conversation explores possible physical, spiritual, psychological, and interdimensional interpretations of the phenomenon, as well as Rony’s upcoming work and documentaries.