World Contact Day March 15, 2024

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”

While the U.S. Air Force began its UFO investigation under the name of Project Sign in 1948, not long after Kenneth Arnold’s June 24, 1947, report of strange objects in the sky, private investigators didn’t get started until 1952. The first of these to rise to global attention was the International Flying Saucer Bureau, founded by Albert K. Bender. IFSB put out a quarterly publication called Space Review, and the group was taken seriously by fellow enthusiasts. The organization turned out to be short-lived. A little over a year after its creation, Bender mysteriously put an end to IFSB after telling the membership he had solved the mystery of flying saucers. He then announced that he’d been visited by three men wearing black suits and Homburg hats who’d threatened him into keeping silent about his discovery. The mythos of the Men in Black entered flying saucer lore and the Bender Mystery became a subject that is still being debated today. That is not the only legacy of Bender and his organization. To this day, after an attempt by Bender and his IFSB membership was made on March 15, 1953, to telepathically contact the occupants of the mystery craft being reported in the skies, March 15, is celebrated as “World Contact Day.” Read more

Show #600 Notes: G. O. Turner

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, March 12, 2024 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

BIO: G. O. Turner will not tell you he has a PhD covering thermodynamics, condensed-matter, or high-frequency plasma fields. Instead, as a television Producer/Director, he has a particular set of skills at communicating both verbally and visually, coupled with an intense fascination on these topics and more. Now you might be quick to dismiss anyone not a top scientist and he can certainly understand that point of view. At the same time, he’s found many physicists rocket up their thinking so high, they often leave everyday people on the launchpad while they soar away. After decades of entrenched stigma permeating society, G. O. Turner feels the question surrounding ‘do you believe’ should be more about how we break that status quo and that’s what motivated him to step up. Everyday people deserve to know the real misnomer. That which we’ve been told is impossible… truly isn’t. He has sat with many science figures, wading through wild tangents, heady concepts, and the turmoil of personalities to collate their various theories into an easy to digest guidebook. Let’s bridge the divide between their academic world and the one we everyday folk sip Starbucks in. We are laypeople. And he can unravel these concepts into the realm of what’s possible, then that has value for all of us. Plus, if Neil deGrasse Tyson isn’t inclined to step up, then G. O. Turner is happy fill that vacuum.

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A Pilot UFO Sighting Caught From an ATC Feed

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

Show #599 Notes: Jann Halexander, UFOs over Central Africa

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, March 05, 2024 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

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.

A 1977 UFO Sighting by Police Officers in Flora, Mississippi

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

Show #598 Notes: James Lough

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, February 27, 2024 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

Website: https://jplufo.com/

BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Briefing-Book-Congressional-Phenomenon/dp/1977240909

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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.

Show #597 Notes Craig Weiler & Rob Heatherly UFOs & Wikipedia Edits

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – Tuesday, February 20, 2024 @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

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.

PART 3: Hovering Assailants Reported in Peru in 2023 and Before

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

Part 2: Hovering Assailants Reported in Peru in 2023 and Before

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”

TIMOTHY ALBERINO

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

Show #595 Notes: Mark Marinaccio

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook, Rumble & Twitch – SATURDAY, February 10, 2024 @ 9:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

 

Mark is producing a series (with Dave Altman) for a major cable network – that has UFO experiencers bring their stories and evidence to out experts so that they can get feedback, analysis, and correlative data to help validate or explain their encounters – and we’re looking for participants, experiencers, etc. Here is the casting link for the show: http://realufoshow.com
http://imdb.me/markmarinaccio
Strangestory.com
Social links: https://linktr.ee/strangestoryco

BIO: Mark Marinaccio is an Executive Producer, Creator, Author, Showrunner, and former Discovery Channel Director of Development. He’s produced hundreds of hours of television for some of the largest cable networks and production companies in the unscripted business.

Marinaccio is also known as “The UFO Pro” and “Mr. Paranormal” and he is considered to be the premier expert when it comes to documenting UFOs, ghosts, monsters, aliens, and all things paranormal, strange, and unexplained.

Marinaccio found his way to reality, unscripted, and documentary television due to his passion for exploring all things strange and unknown. After a highly successful run producing and directing the original hit series, Ghost Hunters, he went on to create and produce paranormal content across multiple networks as well as for his podcast and social media brand, The Strange Story Co.

As a highly sought-after showrunner in the paranormal space, Mark fulfilled a career-long dream when he produced and directed, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (S3) for The History Channel, which allowed him to spend four months on what is considered the number one paranormal hot spot in the world.

When he’s not in the desert looking for UFOs, Mark is at his home studio in Agoura Hills recording his podcast, writing, and developing The Strange Story Channel, a new FAST channel that covers all things strange and unexplained.