Show 678 Notes: Lori Rehfeldt | Precursor to the Rendlesham Forest Incident

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Tuesday, July 15, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

BIO: Lori Rehfeldt is a retired U.S. Army Reserve Major who began her military career as an E-1 Airman Basic in the United States Air Force. She served 10 years on active duty and 17 years in the U.S. Army, rising through the ranks with determination and grit. Her debut book, Rendlesham Lone Ranger: Precursor to the Rendlesham Forest Incident, follows her journey from early childhood through her first Air Force assignment at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge (1978–1980). From a young age, Lori was an empathetic and sensitive individual with strong perceptive—often psychic—gifts. A lack of financial resources led her to enlist, not out of ambition, but out of love and a desire not to burden her mother. Her time at Bentwaters was unlike anything she experienced in her entire military career—intense, mysterious, and energetically charged. The book sheds light on the strange and often unexplained events that occurred there, offering a rare firsthand account of the years leading up to the now-infamous Rendlesham Forest Incident. Today, Lori writes, podcasts, and gardens in Arizona. She hosts God, Aliens, and a Cuppa Coffee, a podcast exploring higher consciousness, spiritual encounters, and extraterrestrial. #RendleshamForest #LoriRehfeldt #PodcastUFO #MartinWillis #UFOs #RAFbentwaters #NonHumanIntelligence #Paranormal #Consciousness #UAP #MilitaryEncounters #Disclosure

Part III: The Case of Piero Fortunato Zanfretta

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

This is the last of a three-part series of blogs covering the case of an Italian security guard (with the company Val Bisagno), Piero Fortunato Zanfretta, who reported a number of encounters with UFOs and their occupants.  After the first incident, he described in conscious recall being confronted by “an enormous green, ugly and frightful creature, with undulating skin, no less than ten feet tall.” Under hypnosis the story came out that he was taken up into a craft where he was interrogated and examined by as many as ten creatures “about 10 feet tall, with hairy green skin, yellow triangular eyes and red veins across the forehead” with metal strips over their mouths. He said they told him they were from the “third galaxy,” wanted to talk to the people of Earth, and would return soon in greater numbers. Italian journalist Rino Di Stefano became interested in the case, stuck with it, and wrote a book about it titled The Zanfretta Case, first published in Italian in 1984 and then in English in 2014. The reader can refer to his website promoting the book for most of the information. What makes this case unique is that there is corroborating evidence in the form of possible landing traces, giant footprints, witness testimony from his co-workers, and observations made during the investigation by the Italian military police known there as the Carabinieri. Read more

Mitch Randall on Artificial Intelligence

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Friday, July 11, 2025 @ 6:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

In this thought-provoking episode, Martin Willis sits down with Mitch Randall, a groundbreaking inventor, engineer, and AI consultant, whose career spans decades of cutting-edge innovation in radar, wireless technology, and artificial intelligence. From building weather radars for NCAR and chasing tornadoes with the legendary Doppler on Wheels (DOW) trucks, to developing passive radar systems and wireless charging tech featured in TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2007, Mitch’s story is one of relentless curiosity and transformative ideas. Now a key member of Harvard’s Galileo Project, Randall has turned his focus toward AI and space surveillance, helping advance the boundaries of scientific exploration. Topics covered include: How artificial intelligence is reshaping science and society His current work on SkyWatch for the Galileo Project Ethical and philosophical implications of advanced AI Where he thinks AI will lead us, and it is not good Whether you’re fascinated by storm chasing, deep tech, or the mysteries of the universe, this interview is a must-watch.

Check out: https://ascendantai.com

BIO: Mitch Randall, MSEE, MS Phys, began building scientific instrumentation and research radars in 1984. He joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in 1989 where he developed airborne, ground-based, and mobile scientific weather research radars. Randall pioneered Software Defined Radio (SDR) techniques and deployed them in NCAR, NASA, and NOAA radars. He developed a software-based Dopplerization technique for incoherent magnetron radars to create the Doppler On Wheels (DOW) tornado-chasing trucks, upon which was formed the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder, CO. His technologies became the industry standard for the meteorological weather radar community in the mid 90s. Working for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2010, Randall developed a millimeter wave channel sounder to characterize real-world cell communications, used to develop today’s 5G networks. Randall co-founded Binet in the 90s to bring passive radar tech to weather radars. Randall co-founded Advanced Radar Corporation in the 2000’s. In 2005 Randall co-founded WildCharge and licensed his wireless charging technology Duracell. This invention was featured in TIME magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2007” issue. Randall is a prolific inventor with licensed toys currently on the market. Randall co-founded Ascendant Artificial Intelligence (AAI), a consulting firm developing custom AI and consumer electronics. In 2021 Randall became a Research Team member of Harvard’s Galileo Project, where he developed and deployed the proof of concept SkyWatch passive radar. Randall is the lead author of the paper describing the system in the Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation. #ArtificialIntelligence #UFOs #RadarTechnology #GalileoProject #MitchRandall #PodcastUFO #StormChasing #DOW #SoftwareDefinedRadio #WirelessCharging #AI #MartinWillis

PART II: The Case of Piero Fortunato Zanfretta

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

In last week’s blog, we looked at the first two UFO and occupant encounters reported by Italian security guard Piero Fortunato Zanfretta. The case was investigated by the Carabinieri (Italian Military Police) and evidence was found in the form of possible landing traces in the first and second instances with the addition of huge footprints in the second. In conscious recall, Zanfretta described encountering “an enormous green, ugly and frightful creature, with undulating skin, no less than ten feet tall.” Under hypnosis after the first instance, he said he was taken to a bright, hot place and examined by “monsters about 10 feet tall, with hairy green skin, yellow triangular eyes and red veins across the forehead” (he also described them having metal strips over their mouths) that told him they were from the “third galaxy,” wanted to talk to the people of Earth, and would return soon in greater numbers. Italian journalist Rino Di Stefano became interested in the case, stuck with it, and wrote a book about it titled The Zanfretta Case, first published in Italian in 1984 and then in English in 2014. The reader can refer to his website promoting the book for most of the information. Read more

The Case of Piero Fortunato Zanfretta

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

In the last couple of blogs, we looked at the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena 1978 UFO Chronology, which was unusual for the large number of humanoid reports with space suits, helmets and antennas in the descriptions. We also noted that there seemed to have been a flap in Italy in December and that one case listed that month is worthy of individual attention. The principal witness/experiencer was Piero Fortunato Zanfretta, and his story was investigated by Italian journalist Rino Di Stefano, who wrote a book about it that he published in 2014 titled The Zanfretta Case. Read more

Show 674 Notes: Timothy Phillips, the former Acting Director of AARO

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Tuesday, July 01, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

In this exclusive interview with Timothy Phillips, the former Acting Director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), about the U.S. government’s investigation into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs).

Topics include:

  • The inner workings and challenges of AARO

  • Allegations of confiscated data from the 2004 Nimitz “Tic Tac” incident

  • The credibility of whistleblower claims and legacy programs

  • The implications of highly compartmentalized programs for future disclosure

  • Radar-confirmed UFO speeds and propulsion mysteries

  • Historical sightings of triangular craft before the era of stealth aircraft

  • The “Gremlin” tech initiative and future data collection efforts

Phillips responds to public criticisms of AARO’s transparency and offers insight into what the U.S. government may—or may not—know about the UAP phenomenon.

BIO: Timothy A. Phillips Former Acting Director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Mr. Timothy A. Phillips assumed the duties of the Deputy & Acting Director All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in October 2023. He is a Senior National Intelligence Service executive appointed in 2006 with over 40 years of government experience serving in a variety of senior Intelligence Community assignments in the field and at agency headquarters. Mr. Phillips is a retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel serving in peacekeeping, humanitarian, or combat operations in Lebanon, Somalia, Kuwait, Iraq, Joint Task Force Bravo, and JTF 510. Mr. Phillips’s educational achievements include a Master’s in Business and Information Resources Management from Webster University, Master of Military Science from the Marine Corps University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Arizona. He is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security Executive Leaders Program, Defense Acquisition University, the Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the Armed Forces Staff College. He has completed executive leadership and management programs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, George Washington University Executive Leadership Development Program, George C. Marshall European
Center for Security Studies, and the Intelligence Community Executive Leaders
program. Mr. Phillips served on the Council on Foreign Relations as a National
Intelligence Fellow.
#UAP #UFO #AARO #TimothyPhillips #Disclosure #PodcastUFO #TicTacUFO #Whistleblowers #MartinWillis #GremlinTech #TriangleUFO #RadarUFOs #NimitzEncounters #GovernmentDisclosure

Show #673 Notes: Ben Hansen

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Friday, June 27, 2025 @ 6:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

 

BIO: Ben Hansen was the lead host and investigator of the TV show Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files which originally aired three seasons on the Syfy Channel and now can be seen on Destination America. The Fact or Faked team investigated videos and photos of alleged paranormal events to determine if they had a natural explanation, were hoaxed, or if they remained unexplained. In addition to responding to UFO cases, the six-person team also led audiences around the world in search of ghosts, Bigfoot, chupacabras, mermaids, and other unusual occurrences. More recently, Hansen appeared on UFO’s Declassified which aired on the Smithsonian Channel and History Canada, Mysteries of the Outdoors and Expedition Unknown on the Travel Channel, and Paranormal Lockdown and Ghosts of Shepherdstown on Destination America.

Hansen graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Sociology and Criminology. He then went to work for several years investigating child physical abuse and sex crimes before moving on to employment with the FBI. He now uses the skills he learned in interviewing and investigation methodology to focus his research on techniques to validate UFO witness testimony and filter out hoaxers and cases with natural explanations. As a night vision and thermal imaging equipment dealer, Hansen also works with technology manufacturers to improve low-light video recording with the goal of improving the documentation of the UFO phenomenon. https://benhansen.com

Show #672 Notes: Crop Circles | Samantha Graves-Brownell | Jeff Wilson

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Tuesday, June 24, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

 

[WSJ UFO article Part 2 – Paywall free] Was It Scrap Metal or an Alien Spacecraft? The Army Asked an Elite Defense Lab to Investigate
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SAMANTHA GRAVES-BROWNELL is a researcher and writer whose work has been featured in publications ranging from the Saturday Evening Post to Thomson Wadsworth and Cengage Learning textbooks, along with numerous newspapers and trade magazines, including Edible Grand Traverse and Wine & Craft Beverage News. Currently, the development writer and an educator with Hoosac School, Samantha works with students on identifying and assessing primary source materials. Her interests include early American history, Native American oral histories, environmental conservation and cultural landscapes, and ecological design. Website: https://sgravesbrownell.square.site

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Jeffrey Wilson, M.Sc., Director and co-founder of the Independent Crop Circle Researchers’ Association (ICCRA) has been investigating crop circles that have been reported in the United States since 1996, and has visited well over 100 during the last twelve years. He was an early member of the Center for Crop Circle Studies (CCCS), in both the UK and USA branches before both organizations went defunct. He has been a contributor of USA crop circle reports to the Crop Circle Connector website since 1996. He was a frequent contributor to Crop Circle News until that website closed. His crop circle research has been covered by numerous newspapers across the USA, he is frequently interviewed on Linda Howe’s Earthfiles website, he’s been a guest on various national and local TV networks, as well as national and local radio programs including Coast to Coast A.M. with George Noory.

Wilson received a Master’s Degree in General Science from Eastern Michigan University located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he taught both Physics and Astronomy classes, and helped operate and maintain Sherzer Observatory on a volunteer basis. He has also designed and taught an online Astronomy class for the OMNIBUS Master’s Degree program at Schoolcraft College (jointly with Madonna University) in Livonia, Michigan. He was a six-time certified Skywarn severe weather spotter for the Washtenaw County Emergency Management Division and the National Weather Service while he lived in that county. From 1997-2000, he served on an Environmental Task Force for Representative Lynn N. Rivers, 13th District, United States House of Representatives. He is a past member of both the American Geophysical Union and the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters where he has presented at their annual conferences.

Wilson wanted to write his Master’s thesis on crop circles but couldn’t get any academics to sponsor it. Instead he received a grant for his thesis from NASA under the Michigan Space Grant Consortium to analyze and map geologic reflectivity data from NASA’s Lunar Prospector Mission. Wilson now works as an analyst in private industry.

Wilson currently serves as a volunteer board member of the Friends of the Serpent Mound as the Director of Special Events and Projects. He is also a contributing member of the Hanwakan Center for Prehistoric Astronomy, Cosmology, and Landscape Studies, a certified volunteer for the Ohio Historical Society, and a member of the Serpent Mound Chapter of the American Society of Dowsers. He is enthusiasctically and happily married to Delsey Wilson.

Remembering Ray Stanford

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

Ray Stanford at Socorro

Ray Stanford, longtime friend of the show and longtime fixture in the UFO/flying saucer scene, passed away on June 14. In the early days of Podcast UFO, he was a regular guest and caller, and was always enthusiastic and passionate in any discussion he was engaged in. He reached out to me when I was just starting out as a blogger with both praise and caution, and in one instance, chastised me for using a picture of a saucer nest as an illustration for one reported in Westall, Australia, for which there was no picture.

Ray was born on June 21, 1938, and was a colorful and controversial figure on the scene, having started out as a contactee, along with his brother Rex. They cowrote a book together titled Look Up, which was published in 1958 when Ray was just 19. He claimed up until 1980 to be in communication with various entities via trance channeling. Books he’s written on his own have subjects ranging from aura reading (What Your Aura Tells Me, 1978) to the Socorro Incident (A Socorro “Saucer” in a Pentagon Pantry, 1976) involving the report of a landed craft and two humanoids by Socorro Police Sgt. Lonnie Zamora. This is what I wrote in a blog way back when about Ray’s involvement in that case:

A researcher and NICAP member, Ray Stanford, had arrived in Socorro after Hynek and had tried in vain to make contact with Zamora. He went to the police station on Wednesday morning and was told by the dispatcher, Mike Martinez, that Zamora was in the southern section of town. Stanford, convinced Zamora was at the landing site, asked Martinez to make a call on the radio. Chavez answered and said they wanted privacy while Hynek was investigating, but Hynek interrupted and invited Stanford to come out as long as he came alone. Read more

Show 670 Notes: Chad Wanless & Prof. Palachik

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Tuesday, June 17, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

Podcast UFO host Martin Willis sits down with Chad Wanless and Professor David Brian Palachik to explore their groundbreaking discovery of five new UFO observables—adding fresh insight to the ongoing scientific investigation of UAP phenomena. Chad Wanless, MUFON Field Investigator and CCO of the Centre for the Scientific Study of Atmospheric Anomalies (CSSAA), shares findings from his research and his books, Hidden in Plain Sight: Evidence of Exotic UFO Propulsion and the forthcoming Missing Time Too, An Ordinary Man’s Extraordinary Journey. Chad’s technical background in mechanical design and 3D modeling gives him a unique perspective on the analysis of anomalous aerial objects. Joining him is Professor David Brian Palachik, President & CEO of CSSAA and co-author of Hidden in Plain Sight. With over 40 years in electrical and electronic engineering—including work with IBM Canada and cutting-edge infrared imaging systems—Palachik brings deep technical and investigative experience to the conversation. He discusses the broader implications of their findings and how CSSAA is leading scientific research into atmospheric anomalies on a global scale. Don’t miss this thought-provoking interview on how new observables could reshape our understanding of UFO phenomena. Read more

The 1978 Italian UFO Flap

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear 

In last week’s blog, we looked at the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena 1978 UFO Chronology and noted that there seemed to be a large number of humanoid reports where the creatures were said to be wearing silvery space suits and helmets with antennas. Towards the end of the chronology, in December, a flap seemed to be emerging in Italy, and we broke off to devote this week’s blog to that.

Out of the 27 cases in Italy listed that year (19 of which were in December), more than one involved car failure. There is a case from Giulianova, Italy, dated December 1, 1978, where a car’s entire electrical system is reported to have failed in the presence of 1.5-meter-diameter “luminous, orange and green saucer-shaped UFO” overhead. It is said to have functioned normally after the UFO flew off.

A case dated Dec. 8, 1978, from Portegrandi, Italy, involved a report by three policemen of a domed object with four windows that hovered over a roadway and “emitted rays of light,” and then shot off as they put their spotlight on it.

A case that was quite similar, dated December 9, from Reggio di Calabria, Sicily, involved policemen putting a spotlight on “a multi-colored object with intermittent flashing lights,” whereupon it reportedly shone a beam down onto their car. According to the account, when the spotlight was turned off, the beam went out. Read more

Show 667 Notes: Gary Heseltine

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, June 10, 2025 @ 5:00 PM EDT (-4UTC)

📘 Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/NON-HUMAN-Rendlesham-Forest-Incidents-Denial/dp/B0BVDF6W2Z

NON-HUMAN The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incidents: 42 Years of Denial by Gary Heseltine with links to Amazon and the PDF version below: https://www.ufotruthmagazine.co.uk/

👽 Don’t miss this powerful conversation that challenges the official narrative and sheds new light on the possibility of non-human intelligence

BIO: Gary Heseltine was born in 1960 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Between 1983-89 he served in the Royal Air Force as a police officer. In 1989 he joined the British Transport Police where he had an almost 24 year career before retiring early to follow his passion for UFO research. For 19 years he was a Detective Constable, working on all manner of inquiries from murder, manslaughter to rape. He was also and Advanced police interviewer of suspects and witnesses. In that capacity he was used to interview a number of first responding BTP officers to three of the four crime scenes involved in the London Bombings terrorist incident in 2005. In 2013, following his retirement from the police he launched UFO Truth Magazine (www.ufotruthmagazine.co.uk), a bi-monthly Ezine, featuring articles by many of the world’s leading researchers. In June 2022, he was one of nine researchers to give testimony before the Brazilian Senate on UAPs. Gary is also the Vice President of ICER (International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research), a not-for-profit international NGO, comprising of scientists, academics and leading UFO/UAP researchers. It currently has national representatives in 30 countries.