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Show 655 Notes: [ret] Lt. Col. Dr. John Blitch, PhD

March 17, 2025March 18, 2025admin

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, March 18, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

Jack Weiner, Allagash Incident on Stars, Love and more.

BIO: Dr. John G. Blitch (LTC, USA RET) is a retired cognitive scientist with a current research focus on trauma-induced memory repression and human-robot interaction. As an emerging author and popular public speaker, he endeavors to share his many lessons learned from occasionally hilarious misadventures conducting operational research in naturalistic settings outside the laboratory with military personnel, explorers, entrepreneurs, and emergency response professionals. John’s website: https://www.fearfighter.net

A ‘Typical’ UFO Abduction Account Before it was Typical

March 16, 2025July 23, 2025admin

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear

UFO abduction accounts of grey aliens taking people from their homes and examining them in their spaceships started becoming typical after the publication in 1981 of Budd Hopkins’s book Missing Time. However, there is an early account with these elements in the 1977 book Abducted!: Confrontations With Beings From Outer Space by the founders of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, Coral and Jim Lorenzen. The case was investigated by APRO Field Investigator Kevin Randle and APRO Consultant and Director of Research Dr. James Harder. Years later, Randle presented his thoughts on the case, which provide some insight into how the typical UFO abduction narrative might have evolved. Read more →

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Show 654 Notes: Roger Stankovic and Irene Previn

March 9, 2025March 11, 2025admin

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, March 11, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

BIO: Roger Stankovic is an Australian UFO researcher and experiencer of the UFO phenomenon. He is the National Director for MUFON Australia and New Zealand and a community access member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP studies (USA).
Roger has appeared as a guest on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio, Mix 94.5 FM radio, and Channel 7’s ‘A Current Affair.’ He has appeared on numerous podcasts and his articles on the UFO phenomenon have been published extensively by the Australian media including 7 News, The Daily Telegraph, and the Saturday Telegraph. He was also recently featured in a six-part documentary series “Close Encounters Down Under.”
Graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree, Roger later completed a Doctorate in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. As a former neuroscientist, Roger was employed in the Department of Pathology at the University of Sydney. In this capacity, he had published several scientific research papers in this field.
He is currently a lecturer at the Technical & Further Education (TAFE) institute in Sydney and has a keen interest in astronomy and cosmology and is a semi-professional musician.

BIO: Irene Previn is an Australian visual artist and designer, and keen on uncovering the mystery behind UFOs.
About five years ago, after moving from her home town to work on a new project in Melbourne, Irene heard about Westall incident from her workmates. This occurred in the neighbourhood of her new workplace. At that time, she had never heard of it, let alone of a UFO sighting with over 200 witnesses, so her curiosity was piqued. She then took some of her workmates with her to have a look at the place where it happened.
She was allowed in to Shane Ryan’s private Westall Facebook group and learned more about the incident by watching Rosie Jones’s documentary, Westall 66: A Suburban UFO Mystery.
Surprised to see that no-one was organising any kind of celebration or acknowledgement marking the 50th anniversary of the event, Irene organised one herself. She posted a public invitation to join a picnic at The Grange Reserve, where the saucer was seen hovering close to the ground.
To her surprise, people turned up, even including some of the witnesses who willingly shared details of the experiences. Following the event, James Rigney contacted her requesting a meeting. She did not know him from a bar of soap, and was concerned that he might be a weirdo UFO guy. Prior to hearing about the Westall incident, her idea of anyone that took the sighting of flying discs seriously was, that they needed urgent medical attention.
Over coffee, James convinced Irene that he was perfectly sane, in fact he’s quite a nice architect and family man. Irene shared her vision to invite the public to a screening of Rosie’s film, followed by a Q&A panel with the witnesses. James organised the support of a local UFO investigation group to provide funds and helping hands to help make the event happen.
The event was a success, they sold all of the tickets two week before the event! James and Irene worked together to bring James Fox over to visit and film the Westall bits for his film, The Phenomenon.
Through this Irene met her new boss, a mad scientist who works in robotics. She now works as part of a team doing 3d modelling for prototypes and mechanical drafting for fabrication. She also creates collages in her spare time for her online visual art gallery. Luckily for Irene, her boss is equally keen in pursuing the UFO question.
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A Lessor Known Australian UFO Encounter From 1971

March 9, 2025July 18, 2025admin

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear

As far as well-known Australian UFO cases go, a 1988 report of an encounter in a desolate area known as the Nullarbor by the Knowles family, a mother and her three adult sons, is on a lot of lists, including Wikipedia. According to the article headlined “UFO Encounter on Nullarbor Plain Reported” in the January 21, 1988, Canberra Times, the family told police in Ceduna that they were chased by a UFO after watching it chase a truck and a car going in the opposite direction. They reported that it picked up their car, shook it violently, and then put it back down facing the other way with such force that one of the tires was blown. Sergeant Fred Longley of the Ceduna Police is quoted as saying “We have to take it seriously, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t. There were too many witnesses, the car was damaged and was covered in ash from the object and they were clearly shaken up.” While there has been much speculation as to what might have happened (and some doubt as to the validity of the story) there was another instance in Australia in 1971, that not only involved a UFO reportedly picking up a car, but seemingly carrying it for long distances. Read more →

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Show 653 Notes: Former Marine, Bill Carter

March 2, 2025March 4, 2025admin

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

BIO: William Carter was born in Athens, Georgia, on January 24, 1974. In 1994, he joined the Marine Corps and attended boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina. After boot camp, he proceeded to Marine Combat Training (MCT) at Camp Geiger in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Upon completing MCT, he was transferred a few miles down the road to Camp Johnson, also in Jacksonville, North Carolina, for Food Service School. Once he completed Food Service School, he was reassigned to Parris Island as permanent personnel. While stationed there, he attended Range Coaching School to train new recruits in the use of the M16-A2 service rifle. He remained there for the rest of his enlistment until receiving an honorable discharge in 1998.
Upon being placed on terminal leave, he enrolled in Northeast Alabama Community College in Rainsville, Alabama, in 1998. Pursuing a general studies program, he earned an Associate in Science degree in 2000. Following graduation, he transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where he studied for a year.
From 2003 to 2006, he enlisted in the Alabama National Guard and soon after enrolled at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama. While a senior at Jacksonville State, his National Guard unit was activated for Operation Enduring Freedom. The unit was sent to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, for military police school, and after graduation, they were deployed to Germany. There, they performed garrison security and assisted in transporting suspected terrorists from Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Like many service members during the war, he was subject to stop-loss orders. Upon returning home, his enlistment ended, but he had still not completed college.
After re-enlisting in the military for a third time from 2009 to 2012, in 2011, he completed a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Troy University.
However, in 2009, during a deployment with his military police unit to Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton, Florida, his past resurfaced in a way that profoundly affected his life. The unit had been sent to Eglin for two weeks of annual training in preparation for an upcoming deployment. Their official mission included garrison security and marijuana eradication. During this time, he visited a restricted radar facility known as Site C6 at Eglin Air Force Base.
A long-forgotten memory resurfaced during this visit. As a child in the late 1970s, he, along with his mother and sister, had witnessed a UFO on the ground in a field near their home in Georgia. Until his time at Eglin, this memory had been buried. The experience at the base led him to realize that not only were extraterrestrial encounters real, but that the government actively monitored them.

Blog: A 1989 UFO and Occupant Report From Voronezh, Russia

March 2, 2025March 2, 2025admin

by UFO History Buff & Author, Charles Lear

When I mentioned to my Russian co-worker, Sasha (in the construction shop at the Metropolitan Opera), that I was going to write about a 1989 UFO, occupant, and robot report from Voronezh that got the world’s attention thanks to a Tass article he said, “Oh, yeah, there were all kinds of crazy reports in the newspapers back then. We didn’t take them seriously.” He explained that because of glasnost (the opening up of Russia to the West and loosening of restrictions under Gorbachev), news companies felt free to report on UFOs and other paranormal subjects that they knew would sell papers. He said they called papers that carried such stories “yellow papers.” My knowledge of the case came from sensationalized narratives on UFO websites, but after actually taking the time to find the original newspaper reports, it seems that the story is the result of a combination of over-zealous UFO researchers, credulous reporters, and perhaps less than scrupulous editors taking advantage of the new political climate.

On October 9, 1989, the Russian newspaper Tass, carried a story under the headline “A UFO Said to Have Landed in a Park at Voronezh.” According to the article, witnesses reported that “an enormous ball or luminous disc” landed in a park, “two or three extraterrestrial beings” and a “small robot” came out, walked around the craft, and then went back inside. The creatures are described as 3-4 meters tall with “tiny heads.” The craft is said to have then taken off silently and to have “disappeared in a wink.” Read more →

Show #651 Notes: Sarah Gamm | on UAP Task Force

February 17, 2025February 18, 2025admin

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, February 18, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

🔍 Are these objects extraterrestrial?
🛰️ How does satellite imagery contribute to UAP investigations?
⚠️ What’s the government’s stance on disclosure?

Bio: Sarah Gamm’s education is a B.S is in Astrophysics and M.S. is in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction. Most of her career has been in the Intelligence Community focused on satellite imagery analysis and as an image scientist. She has worked at ODNI-National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center where she was a nuclear counterproliferation strategist and led a new campaign initiative and briefed senior leaders in the US government. While Sarah worked with the United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) on the Mosul Dam Task Force, years of imagery collection led to a co-authored published paper that provided precise ground truth data blended with satellite imagery to remotely monitor dams. Sarah recently supported the Air Force as a Nuclear Campaign Analyst in the Pentagon, and now works for USACE as a scientist in the Army’s Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) office. She was an analyst for the UAP Task Force.

#UFO #UAP #SarahGamm #Intelligence #Pentagon #Disclosure #Science #Space #Mystery #GovernmentSecrets

A 1978 UFO and Occupant Report From Italy

February 16, 2025February 17, 2025admin

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 13^th to the 20^th. 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 14^thand 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 →

Show #650 Notes: Robert Powell & David Falch, Expose UAP FLIR Video Debunking Flaws

February 9, 2025February 12, 2025admin

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, February 11, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

Aguadilla            https://www.explorescu.org/post/2013-aguadilla-puerto-rico-uap-incident-report-a-detailed-analysis
Nimitz                 https://www.explorescu.org/post/2004-uss-nimitz-strike-navy-group-incident-report
Rubber Ducky    https://www.explorescu.org/post/a-forensic-analysis-of-the-rubber-duck-uap-video

David Falch YouTube Videos

BIO: Robert Powell is a founding Board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), a 300-member organization with the mission of bringing science to the investigation of UFOs. He was the Director of Research at MUFON from 2007-2017 and created MUFON’s Science Review Board in 2012. Robert is one of two authors of the detailed radar/witness report on the “Stephenville Lights” as well as the SCU report “UAP: 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico”. He is also the primary author on the recently published paper, “A Forensic Analysis of Navy Carrier Strike Group Eleven’s Encounter with an Anomalous Aerial Vehicle” and a secondary author of a paper published in the journal Entropy entitled, “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles.” Robert is a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, the UFODATA project, and the National Space Society. Robert has just released a new book in April 2024: UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know). He is also a co-author of a book published in July 2012: UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry and is an author of a book designed for children published in Nov. 2020 entitled, The Truth About UFOs: A Scientific Perspective. Robert has a BS in Chemistry and is a former collegiate debater. He has 28 years of experience in engineering management in the semiconductor industry. He helped Advanced Micro Devices develop its first flash memory technology that is used in today’s flash cards for cameras, PCs, video cameras, and other products. His experience includes managing a state-of-the-art chemistry laboratory and managing a Research and Development group that worked on nanotechnology using atomic force microscopes, near-field optical microscopy, and other techniques. Robert is also a co-holder of four patents related to nanotechnology. Robert currently resides in Austin, Texas.

BIO: Dave Falch was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He obtained a B.A. in English in 1995, joined the U.S. Navy in 1996 and was trained as an Aviation Electronics Technician (AT). While in the Navy, Dave trained on SLAM-ER pods, Magnetic Anomaly Detection systems, Com/Nav and Anti-Submarine Warfare equipment, and a variety of avionics from different aircraft. After a tour in the Navy, Dave decided to rejoin the civilian workforce and worked a few jobs servicing aviation electronics and surgical equipment. Dave earned an A.S. in Industrial Management in 2006, along with starting a career in FLIR technology the same year. From 2006 to the current date, Dave has worked on a wide variety of FLIR systems, airborne radio systems, airborne news cameras, and associated wiring/equipment. He has been factory trained by FLIR manufacturers numerous times over many different systems and is familiar with hardware upgrades and software updates. Dave has worked with engineers at the factory level to implement new prototypes to interface the aircraft with FLIR systems. After test and evaluation, these prototypes have become approved tools and remain in the field today as operational systems. Dave works at the “depot level” of repair, which essentially means he thoroughly understands the operation of the system at hand, and he can break them down to nuts and bolts and rebuild them as needed. Dave has weighed in on many UFO/UAP topics regarding the analyzed FLIR video footage. Some of these include “Gimbal,” “Aguadilla,” “Bristol Channel,” “Jellyfish,” “A-10,” “La Bruja,” “Rubber Duck,” “Chilean,” “Omaha,” and others. He often will try to duplicate/simulate prosaic explanations and post his findings on YouTube under his name. Dave has been featured on the History Channel’s show The Proof Is Out There. Dave is a contributor to the Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies.

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A 1972 UFO and Creature Report From Anderson, California

February 9, 2025February 9, 2025admin

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 →

Show #649 Notes: Bob Salas

February 3, 2025February 6, 2025admin

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Tuesday, February 4, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

Bob’s Website: https://spiralgalaxy.org

Bob’s YouTbe Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@gianthead3

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BIO: Robert Salas is a 1964 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. He served seven years on active duty. He worked as a weapons controller, flew target drones, commanded intercontinental ballistic missiles as a launch officer, and a worked as an Air Force missile propulsion engineer on the Titan III program. From 1971–73 he worked as a safety and reliability engineer for Martin-Marietta Aerospace and Rockwell International on Space Shuttle design proposals. From 1974 until his retirement in 1995 he worked for the Federal Aviation Administration. In 2005 he published the book Faded Giant with coauthor James Klotz which details the UFO incident he witnessed in 1967. Mr. Salas has been publicly speaking about this incident at UFO conferences, on radio, and on television since 1996.

#UFO #BobSalas #UAP #Disclosure #USAF #Aliens #MilitarySecrets #Paranormal #Conspiracy #UFOsighting

UFO Over Wanaque, New Jersey

February 2, 2025July 15, 2025admin

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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Show 648 Notes: Dr. Rebecca Charbonneau

January 27, 2025January 28, 2025admin

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Tuesday, January 28, 2025 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

BIO: Rebecca Charbonneau is a historian at the American Institute of Physics, as well as an affiliate of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the St. Andrews SETI Post-Detection Hub. She holds an MSc in the history of science, medicine, and technology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge. Rebecca lives in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with her husband, Jim, and their cat, Sputnik. 🔭 Order Rebecca Charbonneau’s book, Mixed Signals.

Bryce Zabel debates Carl Sagan

Book: Intelligent Life In The Universe by I.S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan

#MixedSignals #RebeccaCharbonneau #ColdWarScience #CarlSagan #SETI #SpaceExploration #ScienceHistory