A Weekly Live Recorded Podcast and Blog on UFOs/UAP
BIO: Mike Fiorito is a Brooklyn based journalist and the award winning author of seven books — The Hated Ones, Falling from Trees, Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud’s Haberdashery Habits Hallucinating Huxley. His latest novel, For All We Know is forthcoming with Apprentice House Press.
by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear
In last week’s blog, we looked at the case of José Antônio Da Silva who, in 1969, reported that he was taken aboard a flying saucer by three hairy dwarves, one of whom shot a beam of light that hit him in the legs and paralyzed them. He said this took place in Bebedouro, near the Brazilian town of Pedro Leopoldo, that he was flown through space, that they landed at a place where he saw human bodies, drawings of animals on the walls, and answered questions put to him about Earth. According to him, he was taken back to Earth and left off at Colatina, 350km east of Pedro Leopoldo. His story was reported in the November-December 1971 issue of Flying Saucer Review in an article by Gordon Creighton, who quoted directly from a Brazilian newspaper article and then commented that the creatures had tricked Da Silva into believing he’d been to space. We noted that this fitted in with Creighton’s beliefs based on the ideas of Jacques Vallée, John Keel, and particularly those of anthroposophy. This week, we’ll look at the case as reported by Brazilian investigator Húlvio Brant Aleixo, who formed the very first Brazilian UFO organization in 1954, around the same time as the first United States organizations. Read more
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After our guest, David Jones saw a TV program that focused on the iconic Ramey Memo, which revealed the word; “Wreck” deciphered. Right then and there, he knew there was much more to Roswell UFO Crash then the skeptics claim. There are claims such as the “Mogul Balloon” theory on Wikipedia as what really crashed at Roswell. David spent every waking hour for over a year with lots of sleepless nights decoding what can be seen, which is 66 of the 78 words on the memo. Is this the smoking gun we have waited for? Or, will it take using AI (without bias) to finally be taken seriously?
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BIO In a former life, David Jones wrote horror fiction under the pen name David Buchan, with his stories appearing in numerous literary journals and anthologies over the years, often alongside those of horror greats such as Clive Barker and John Carpenter. His fiction was also selected for The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, a long-running anthology series that has previously included the work of Stephen King as well as many other masters of the genre.
by UFO Author, Charles Lear
The history of civilian UFO/flying saucer research in Brazil goes back as far as that of the United States. The first organization to be formed there was Civil de Objetos Aéreos Nao Identitificados (Civil Investigation Center for Unidentified Aerial Objects) founded by Húlvio Brant Aleixo in Belo Horizonte in 1954. Aleixo was a professor of psychology at the Catholic University of Minas Gerais and was an active investigator for much of his life. He was one of the people Bob Pratt worked with when he did his investigations for his 1996 book UFO Danger Zone, and according to his biography in a memorial (he seems to have passed away on World UFOlogy Day, June 24, 2005) posted January 9, 2006, on the UFO Magazine website, he was a consultant on UFOs for the Brazilian Air Force. Documents describing a case he reported to the Brazilian Ministerio Da Aeronautica in 1974 can be found online. He was the principal investigator of a reported abduction said to have occurred over a period of approximately four and a half days (109 hours) from May 4, 1969, to May 9, 1969, in Bebedouro, (not the municipality of São Paulo) an area over 100 miles north of Belo Horizonte, and that is the case we’ll be looking at in this blog. Read more
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Guests, Dave Rich and Marianne Robb, focus on the stigmas that prevent law enforcement officers from sharing their experiences. They delve into the UFO stigma specifically, advocating for transparency and understanding. Dave and Marianne share detailed accounts of officers who bravely came forward with their stories, shedding light on the repercussions they faced. Dave had his own personal experience with the damage stigma caused while he was investigating a paranormal situation that he was investigating. Tune in to hear other compelling cases and learn how we can work towards overcoming these stigmas together by reaching other officers who may have had experiences.
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Dave & Marianne with be speaking at the MUFON Symposium in Texas this July: https://mufonsymposium.com/
BIO: Dave Rich retired with 25 years as a Police Officer in Arizona. Dave started his career in patrol, then worked in the investigations unit as a gang detective, homicide, sex crimes and narcotics detective. Dave joined the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and worked as a field investigator. He is an instructor for the MUFON Boot Camp and Symposium teaching Advanced Interview Techniques and Evidence Collection.
BIO: Marianne Robb retired with 34 years as a Police Officer in Arizona. Marianne gained her experience as a patrol officer, detective in arsons, property crimes, narcotics and as a Crime prevention officer. Marianne Joined Mufon in 2015 and became a Field Investigator. She is an instructor for the Mufon Boot Camp and Symposium teaching Advanced Interview Techniques and Evidence Collection. What she learned from doing investigations and attending Mufon meeting, inspired her to commit to helping find the truth behind the mysterious UFO phenomenon. Marianne believes that the government and others who are researching this phenomenon are all looking for the same thing – THE TRUTH. She hopes one day all of these research groups will work together toward the common goal of uncovering what is going on in our skies.
by UFO Author, Charles Lear
In the April 1971 issue (page 6 of the pdf) No. 1-2 of the Scandinavian Newsletter, published by UFO-Sweden, there is an article headlined “I met a flying saucer.” According to the abstract, the report that follows was first published in the Norwegian weekly magazine Hjemmet and translated into English by Anton Lidström of the Trondheim UFO Society. The case involves an encounter with a flying saucer reported by a man who said he came upon it while driving near Helleland, Norway, at around 5:30 p.m. on October 29, 1970. According to the report, the encounter left him without a windshield, and he seemed to have suffered some physical effects as well. Read more
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by Martin Willis
Thank you all for participating in the Thursday, UAP Crossfire Show!
Guest Tom Curren explores the fascinating realm of UFOs and UAPs, examining different facets of science, firsthand experiences, and beyond. His website, “What’s up with UFOs?”, is divided into four key categories highlighted in these: video clips of: flying objects, hard science, direct experience, and institutional dynamics. Tom goes into a survey he conducted on the UFO topic with surprising results.
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BIO: Tom Curren is a former Naval Officer with a successful career as a business executive and consultant. He recently surveyed over 400 participants to explore and categorize the potential implications from official recognition of the presence of non-human intelligence and technology on planet earth. Earlier, Tom co-produced the site What’s up with UFOs?, which provides a comprehensive overview of the phenomena – 150 video clips and edited articles encompassing the categories of flying objects, hard science, direct experience and institutional dynamics.
PodcastUFO slides v4Join Martin as he interviews former CIA agent Andy Bustamante and investigative journalist Paul Beban as they discuss uncovering unusual and often disturbing phenomena in new high-strangeness locations beyond Skinwalker Ranch. With a team of respected professionals and veterans from The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, their research and shocking discoveries will leave you speechless! Don’t miss the return of The HISTORY Channel’s “Beyond Skinwalker Ranch” for Season Two, premiering June 4 at 10/9c. Read more
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by Author, Charles Lear
UFOs were big news in 1973. Besides the Pascagoula and the Coyne incidents, there were flaps all over the United States. One in Piedmont, Missouri, got started that year in late February with UFO reports involving cars stalling and radio interference. These caught the attention of a physics professor, Harley D. Rutledge, who was chairman of that department at Southeast Missouri State University at Cape Girardeau. Rutledge became fascinated to the point that he put together an investigation team of scientists, arranged funding, and ended up spending more than seven years observing unexplained lights while collecting data and photographs. In late 1973, he gave a presentation of what he and the group had gathered up to that point at the fall meeting (attended by John Schuessler of the Mutual UFO Network) of the Missouri section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Rutledge finally published a book describing the investigation titled Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena in 1981. Read more
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