A Weekly Live Recorded Podcast and Blog on UFOs/UAP
In our 600th episode, we have a special guest, author G. O. (Gary) Turner, who has dedicated numerous years to delving into the intriguing realm of UFOs and their methods of travel. With his expertise, he’s formulated some captivating theories on the propulsion systems behind UAPs/UFOs. Stay tuned as we dive into his fascinating insights!
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by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
The FAA has been historically close-mouthed when it comes to pilot UFO sightings and pilots often avoid filing official reports, as they can be damaging to one’s career. However, with the availability of live air traffic control feeds such as liveatc.net, listeners have occasionally come upon pilots talking about a sighting in real time. This recently happened to the operator of the YouTube site, Flight Simulator Fantasy, who posted a short containing the audio in mid-February. Given the nature of the site, the audio is most likely genuine.
The posting on F.S.F. received limited news coverage. There is an article by Tom McGhie posted February 28, 2024, on the website of The Daily Star headlined “American Airlines Pilot’s Chilling UFO Radio Call as Mystery Craft “Went 180” in Seconds.” The article contains information from the F.S.F. site, including transcripts of key moments where the pilots describe what they’re seeing. According to McGhie, the news outlet reached out to Harrisburg Airport, the flight’s destination, for comment. Read more
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Guest, Jann Halexander delves into the intriguing topic of UFOs in French-speaking Africa. Join us as, the talented singer-songwriter from Libreville, Gabon, takes us on a journey through the perspectives of Gabonese and Congolese citizens regarding UFOs and extraterrestrials. Through insightful interviews, Jann uncovered their thoughts, experiences, and beliefs surrounding these mysterious phenomena.
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Guest, Jann Halexander delves into the intriguing topic of UFOs in French-speaking Africa. Join us as, the talented singer-songwriter from Libreville, Gabon, takes us on a journey through the perspectives of Gabonese and Congolese citizens regarding UFOs and extraterrestrials. Through insightful interviews, Jann uncovered their thoughts, experiences, and beliefs surrounding these mysterious phenomena. #UFOs #CentralAfrica #JannHalexander #Extraterrestrials
BIO: Jann Halexander, born on 13 September 1982 in Libreville, is a major figure in the French-speaking world. He celebrated twenty years in the music business on 30 March 2023 in a Paris venue. His songs include C’était à Port-Gentil, Le poisson dans mon assiette and Rester par habitude, as well as several novels, including La Bête Immonde and Nuit à Hogsback. A former geography student with a major in regional planning, he is the author of a dissertation entitled Effets de l’apartheid sur l’aménagement d’une ville moyenne sud-africaine durant la période 1948-1991 (Effects of apartheid on the planning of a medium-sized South African town during the period 1948-1991), submitted in 2004 to the geography department of the University of Angers. Through his writings, whatever their nature, Jann Halexander regularly explores themes that go against the grain.
by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
When it comes to official responses to UFO reports, police officers are on the front line and often become witnesses themselves. A famous example is the 1994 Trumbull County, Ohio, case. This case started out with calls to the local dispatch office from citizens who reported seeing a UFO and ended up with several officers not only sighting it, but chasing it, and the radio activity was caught on audio tape in the dispatch office. A case that was not as spectacular but has endured in local lore is a 1977 case from Flora, Mississippi.
There is an article in the February 17, 1977, Madison County Herald out of Canton, Mississippi, headlined “UFO Spotted Focuses on Deputy Creel.” According to the reporter, on a previous Thursday evening, Deputy Kenneth Creel and Constable James Luke were driving four miles west of Flora on Smith School Road when they saw what at first seemed to be, in Creel’s words, “an evening star or something” except that it “kept getting brighter and bigger.” Creel said that as a shape emerged he used the car radio to contact the Mississippi Highway Patrol. He told the reporter “I kind of thought it was an airplane flying low, or like it could have been.” Read more
Launched on March 4 @ 5:05 PM EST, Song by Lee Speigel
Join Jim Lough as he draws upon his expertise in constitutional law, government procedures, legislative drafting, and his role as an educator at San Diego State University School of Public Affairs to delve into the intriguing topic of addressing UFO phenomena. With a personal interest fueled by close encounters witnessed throughout his lifetime, Jim provides unique insights into this enigma. Tune in for a captivating exploration.
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Website: https://jplufo.com/
BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Briefing-Book-Congressional-Phenomenon/dp/1977240909
BIO: From 1980 to 2018, Mr. Lough (pronounced Low) specialized in local government law. He has served as the City Attorney for the Cities of Hermosa Beach, Fresno (in-house 1991-1995), Sanger, Lemon Grove, Imperial Beach, and Solana Beach. Mr. Lough has also served as the County Counsel to the County Humboldt (in-house 1989-1991). As County Counsel, he supervised the County’s civil legal staff and represented the Board of Supervisors, County Departments, Special Districts and the Grand Jury. In 2001, Mr. Lough joined a firm in El Cajon, California, where he served as City Attorney for Lemon Grove, Imperial Beach, and Solana Beach. He handled general municipal issues, stormwater, labor and environmental issues and represented various cities in writ
proceedings and appellate work. He later joined a firm in Escondido, California in 2010 as Of Counsel. Mr. Lough represented the City of Lemon Grove as City Attorney, and has served as Special Counsel for a variety of entities including Carlsbad, Chula Vista, El Centro, Fresno, Oceanside, San Marcos, San Diego and Vista. He successfully represented City of Vista before the California Supreme Court on the issue of whether Charter Cities are subject to state legislative control in the expenditure of locally-generated tax revenues. Throughout his practice, Mr. Lough has advised local governments on elections, open meeting laws, public records, personnel, labor negotiations, public contracting and other general services. In litigation, he has represented local governments in Prop 218 fee cases, environmental quality
matters, construction claims, Public Records Act and gift of public fund claims and election challenges. For private clients, he has handled election matters, civil rights, non-profit corporate governance issues, public pension matters, and campaign disclosure compliance issues. Most of his final decade of practice focused on advising local governments in high profile personnel and contentious governance issues. He also served as an expert witness on land use and open meeting laws in matters before trial courts. Mr. Lough has published numerous articles for various legal publications, including the Duquesne Law Review, California Public Law Journal and Western Cities Magazine. He is also a co-editor of the 2001 edition of the Municipal Law Handbook and editor of the Proposition 209 Implementation Guide, both published by the League of California Cities. Since retiring, he has written the UFO Briefing Book: A Congressional Guide to the UAP Phenomenon and Threat to the Body Politic: Foo Fighters to UAP. From 2018 to 2020, Lough was a part-time lecturer at the San Diego State University School of Public Affairs. He taught a graduate course, Decision Making in Urban Communities. The course used crisis points to illustrate how decisions are recommended, adopted and implemented. He used hypothetical examples addressing high profile issues, such as climate change, homelessness and police officer involved shootings. Mr. Lough attended California State University (Fullerton), where he earned a degree in Political Science. In 1979, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. At Southwestern, he was a Member of the Law Review and a Moot Court team member in the U.S. State Department’s Phillip Jessup International Law competition (National Semifinalist). In 1980, he received his LL.M (Master of Laws) in Urban Studies from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. He currently lives Ramona, California with his wife and mother. He has two adult children and a grandson. He considers himself an Experiencer who has had regular contact with non-terrestrial biological entities.
Guests, Craig Weiler and Rob Heatherly are both experts on the Guerrilla Skeptics of Wikipedia. Craig first exposed them in 2013 in his book PSI WARS: TED, Wikipedia and the Battle for the Internet, and Rob recently did a deep dive into Wikipedia to unearth their darkest secrets. Collectively, they depict a clandestine entity exercising influence over segments of Wikipedia for more than ten years. Guerrilla Skeptics manipulate articles spanning diverse subjects, such as parapsychology and UAPs, to fit their skeptical narrative, while tarnishing the reputations of prominent figures whom they deem as promoters of pseudoscience.
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BIO: Craig Weiler is a California Bay Area based author and science editor for Paranormal Daily News. He covers controversies in parapsychology, such as a Wikipedia controversy, the TED controversy of 2013 and reported on 10 years of undiscovered research by Russell Gruber Mirror Worlds Research. He is currently working on the first issue of Parawize, a new magazine devoted to parapsychology and other edge sciences. He is an associate member of the Parapsychological Association, author of Psi Wars: TED, Wikipedia and the battle for the Internet. He pays the bills with his small construction business on the peninsula in northern California, where he lives with his wife and just enough cats.
Craig can be found on: Paranormal Daily News: https://paranormaldailynews.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Craigweiler
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-weiler-5288b616/
Quora Parapsychology Space: https://parapsychology.quora.com/
And ruminating on various other topics: https://www.quora.com/profile/Craig-Weiler
BIO: Rob Heatherly has had a diverse career as an infantry marine as well as a structural and design engineer and estimator for the construction industry. In addition he has experience as an auto mechanic and in electronics. Married for 13 years, he is the happy father of two and proud stepdad to 5 more.
Rob’s many interests include physics and ancient history, which led to an exploration of UFO literature and nonhuman intelligences. Forced to retire due to an auto accident in 2009, Rob has continued to contribute to various investigations and research projects that lead to a better understanding of UAP’s and non human intelligence. After watching David Grusch’s Wikipedia page develop in 2023, Rob began his investigations which led to him discovering the secretive Guerrilla Skeptics. He was the first to do a deep dive into their activities, exposing their control of Wikipedia in detail.
by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
This is the last in a three-part series of blogs looking at a case from 2023 that involved Ikitu tribe members in the village of San Antonio de Pintuyacu in Peru who reported nighttime attacks by 7-feet-tall aliens with elongated heads wearing black body armor and masks that had yellow or green eye lenses. They were said to stand on some sort of circular device like Green Goblin from the Spiderman movie that enabled them to fly and hover. Some villagers attributed the attacks to creatures from local folklore called Los Pelacaras (The Face-Peelers) said to feed on human faces and organs. Adding credence to this belief, a 15-year-old girl, identified as Talia, suffered an attack that resulted in her being taken to a hospital with lacerations on her neck. Witnesses reported that, as they came to her rescue, they saw the attackers flying away. Police came to investigate, and a spokesman for the Peruvian National Prosecutor’s office, Carlos Castro Quintanilla, came to the conclusion that illegal gold miners using jetpacks to explore deep into the jungle were responsible. This caused the story to die down in the news, but Timothy Alberino, a documentary film maker and paranormal enthusiast based in Bozeman, Montana, who had spent a good deal of time as a young man living in the jungles of Peru, returned to investigate the story first-hand and shared his findings on his YouTube site and on podcasts. While the descriptions of the creatures and the encounters were quite strange, there is a history of these sorts of reports linked to outsiders seeking to exploit natural resources in areas occupied by indigenous people, often with little concern for their rights. Read more
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In this episode, we have journalist Garrett Graff joining us to talk about his latest book, “UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There.” Garrett’s interest in this subject was piqued when former CIA director John Brennan publicly acknowledged his belief in the reality of UFOs. With a blend of open-mindedness and healthy skepticism, Garrett delves into this intriguing topic, exploring the government’s quest for answers about alien life both on Earth and beyond.
BIO: Garrett M. Graff, a distinguished journalist and internationally bestselling historian, has spent nearly two decades covering politics, technology, and national security—helping to explain where we’ve been and where we’re headed. The former editor of Washingtonian and POLITICO Magazine and a contributing editor to WIRED Magazine, Graff is the author of multiple books, including the #1 national bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, as well as The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller’s FBI, and Raven Rock, about the government’s Cold War Doomsday plans. His book Watergate: A New History was a finalist in 2023 for the Pulitzer Prize in History, and his most recent book is UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government’s Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There.
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by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
In Last week’s blog, we looked at a case from 2023 that involved Ikitu tribe members in the village of San Antonio de Pintuyacu in Peru who reported nighttime attacks by 7-feet-tall aliens with elongated heads wearing black body armor and masks that had yellow or green eye lenses. They were said to stand of some sort of circular device like Green Goblin from the Spiderman movie that enabled them to fly and hover. Some villagers attributed the attacks to creatures from local folklore called Los Pelacaras (The Face-Peelers) said to feed on human faces and organs. Adding credence to this belief, a 15-year-old girl, identified as Talia, suffered an attack that resulted in her being taken to a hospital with lacerations on her neck. Witnesses reported that, as they came to her rescue, they saw the attackers flying away. Police came to investigate, and a spokesman for the Peruvian National Prosecutor’s office, Carlos Castro Quintanilla, came to the conclusion that illegal gold miners using jetpacks to explore deep into the jungle were responsible. This caused the story to die down in the news, but Timothy Alberino, a documentary film maker and paranormal enthusiast based in Bozeman, Montana, who had spent a good deal of time as a young man living in the jungles of Peru, returned to investigate the story first-hand and shared his findings on his YouTube site and on podcasts. While the descriptions of the creatures and the encounters were quite strange, there is a history of these sorts of reports linked to outsiders seeking to exploit natural resources in areas occupied by indigenous people, often with little concern for their rights. Read more
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