Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Tuesday, October 13, 2026 @ 8:00 PM EDT (GMT-4)
Fifty years after the legendary 1976 Allagash UFO encounter in northern Maine, original witnesses Charlie Foltz and Jim Weiner join Martin Willis for an extraordinary in-person interview on Podcast UFO. They revisit the mysterious glowing sphere that approached their canoe, the unexplained missing time, and their later recollections of encounters with strange beings aboard an unfamiliar craft. They also reflect on how the experience changed their lives, while Jim shares a remarkable near-death experience. Recorded following the Exeter UFO Festival, this compelling conversation explores one of America’s most intriguing and controversial alleged alien abduction cases, told firsthand by two of the men who lived it.
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BIO: James “Jim” Weiner is an American artist, ceramicist, educator, and technology specialist with longstanding ties to the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. He holds an advanced degree in ceramics from Boston University’s Program in Artisanry and has taught ceramics at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the University of New Hampshire. At the time of his published International UFO Congress biography, Weiner was an assistant director in MassArt’s Technology Department, providing Macintosh computer support while continuing to assist students in ceramics. His digital artwork was included in the internationally exhibited From the Storm: Artists with Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy and featured in Newsweek and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Weiner and his identical twin brother, Jack, were two of the four witnesses involved in the 1976 Allagash encounter. Jim’s later experiences and recurring nightmares played a significant role in bringing the case to investigator Raymond Fowler’s attention in 1988. The investigation subsequently became the subject of Fowler’s 1993 book, The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention
BIO: Charles “Charlie” Foltz is an American artist, retired medical illustrator, and medical-media specialist who has lived and worked in the Boston area since 1974. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, he built a distinguished career producing medical illustrations and educational media for New England medical institutions and Veterans Affairs hospitals. A U.S. Navy veteran, Foltz attended art school using the GI Bill, studying printmaking and photography. Following retirement, he has continued pursuing photography, painting, sculpture, fishing, and community work. Foltz is best known in UFO research as one of the four witnesses to the alleged 1976 Allagash abduction in northern Maine. During the incident, he reportedly signaled a large, luminous object with a flashlight before a beam of light approached their canoe. Years later, he participated in the investigation conducted by Raymond Fowler and has continued speaking publicly about the experience.