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Robert K. Wittman had a remarkable career as an FBI agent for 20 years, from 1988 to 2008. Specializing in art theft and cultural property crime, Robert became the FBI’s go-to expert for these types of cases. His impressive work undercover led to the recovery of over $300 billion worth of stolen art and property across 20 different countries. His extensive undercover operations are detailed in his book, Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures. He has fascinating art crime stories.
In 2008, after 20 years with the FBI, Robert Wittman retired from the Bureau and brought his expertise to the private sector. He sought to create a Security and Recovery Consulting firm that would draw on his unique investigative experience to protect its clients from losses related to theft, fraud or forgery. Since its inception, Robert Wittman Inc. has grown far beyond its original vision, providing protection and recovery services to more than 100 public and private collections worldwide. Robert Wittman Inc. continues to proudly serve a diverse portfolio of institutions, auction houses, collectors, galleries, insurance companies and Nations committed to protecting their cultural assets.
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In the midst of the excitement created by the publication in 1980 of The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William Moore, a set of documents reportedly came into Moore’s possession that seemed to support the story of a flying saucer recovery near Roswell and a secret government body, Majestic 12, that handled such things. These became known to UFO researchers and later, the general public. They consist of eight pages, seven of which are seemingly a briefing document for President Eisenhower, and an additional page, which is a letter dated September 24, 1947, from President Harry Truman to Secretary of Defense James Forrestal authorizing the creation of Majestic 12. The subject of the briefing document is “Operation Majestic Twelve,” and the collection of pages is often referred to as “The MJ-12 Documents.” Naturally, UFO researchers considered the possibility that the documents had been forged. Barry Greenwood and Brad Sparks came to the conclusion that they had, as did the FBI, which has made copies available on their 
RON JAMES is is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator and entrepreneur. He is also the Director of Media Relations for MUFON. James is the co-founder of MUFON Television, an online TV channel boasting the world’s largest collection of commercial-free UAP related material.
BOB SPEARING graduated from Fordham University with a B.A. in Communications with Journalism, Advertising, Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Film Production as major concentrations. Bob recently retired from the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey after 34 years. His many duties included being an FRA licensed Rail Traffic Controller and Locomotive Engineer. While in management, he was a Safety Investigator, Contract Administrator, prepared multi-million-dollar budgets, managed logistics for public relations such as concerts and cultural festivals, and curated historical railroad exhibitions at a major regional transportation hub. Bob joined MUFON in 2014 as a Field Investigator and is currently Director of International Investigations. Bob has long been involved with MUFON’s various special projects including the MARRS historical reports archiving project, the Pine Bush, N.Y. UFO Museum, the MUFON Observer Network as well as the recently released MUFON UFO Map App available on the Google Play Store and the Apple iStore. He has had numerous articles published in various UFO related magazines around the world in several languages including three MUFON Journal cover stories. He has appeared in the Travel Channel television series “UFOs: The Lost Evidence” as a photo analyst and in a recent Ancient Aliens episode about MUFON in February 2023. He also writes articles for the MUFON Newsletter and MUFON.COM. and speaks at U.S. conventions. Bob lives in eastern Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains with his wife and twin boys.
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In this episode, I’m joined by true crime podcaster, Kate from Nightmare Houses as she discusses her podcast episodes that include homes that one should feel safe in, but sometimes terrible things happen, from hauntings, to all kinds of twisted crimes, murders and mysteries. In particular, we delve into the 
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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