by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
In October 1970, the publishers of the British magazine Flying Saucer Review put out the first issue of FSR Case Histories. Editor Charles Bowen explains at the beginning of that issue that readers had “suggested that FSR should be a monthly journal.” According to Bowen, the FSR staff worked in their spare time to put out the magazine, and while putting it out monthly wasn’t possible, it was possible to put out a supplemental journal in between the main issues. Other reasons Bowen gives for putting out a supplement are: to provide space for cases that might otherwise go unrecorded, to translate stories from foreign journals, to encourage readers to become part-time investigators, and to have “a vehicle to carry important re-investigations of old cases.” The February 1974 FSR Case Histories, Supplement 18, was the final issue and Bowen and Assistant Editor Eileen Buckle explain in that issue that this is due to “lukewarm support and the shocking rise of costs and postage.” A case from that issue that caught this writer’s interest is an example of a case that was translated from a foreign magazine, in this instance, from the December 1972 issue of the Spanish magazine, Stendak. Read more
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Guest, Chris Bledsoe is featured in this evening’s (August 1st) 
In 1966, there was a series of UFO sightings in Michigan that got the attention of the press and the Air Force. There was a great deal of excitement and Project Blue Book (the code name for the Air Force’s UFO study) scientific consultant, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, was sent in to help calm things down. At a press conference, he offered some possible explanations. Due to sightings over a marsh, he speculated that people there had seen ignited balls of swamp gas, some going out and others igniting, and that this created the illusion of movement. The swamp gas explanation made the headlines and outraged many Michigan residents, including Michigan Representative and House Minority Leader Gerald Ford. He sent a letter dated March 28, 1966, to the chairmen of the Science and Astronautics Committee and the Armed Services Committee, suggesting that one of them schedule “hearings on the subject of UFO’s”. He mentioned Hynek’s explanations in the letter and, in a press release that same day, it is noted that he described Hynek’s swamp gas explanation as “flippant.” Documents relating to Ford’s efforts and the resultant open hearing are housed at the 
Chris Lehto going over what happened during the hearing, clips with Tim Burchett, and more.
Martin met up with F-16 Fighter Pilot (ret), Chris Lehto on location at the Nation’s Capitol, Washington, DC and they discuss what we may expect for tomorrow’s (July 26th) hearing. During the show, Rep Tim Burchett tweeted that he was told he would not be chairing the hearing.
Guest, Paul Ascough discusses several of his lifetime sightings, and his book, UFOs -The Real Story (Revised Edition 2023) which looks at the bigger picture with all of its complexities, with expanded explanations of why we see and experience what we do and is interlaced with many of the authors own sightings throughout his life.
In 1966, John Keel, longtime fortean and author of several books on UFOs, including his most famous book published in 1975, The Mothman Prophecies, was just beginning to focus on the UFO phenomenon. At this time in his life, he was writing articles for the British publication, Flying Saucer Review and sharing his research with Jim and Coral Lorenzen of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization. He wrote an 
We are honored to host guest, Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, US Navy(ret) who discusses the UAP/USO phenomenon. Admiral Gallaudet has a scientific expertise and authority to The White House Ocean Research Advisory Panel and the Ocean Studies Board in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to study undersea instances of UFOs / UAPs. THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW is with astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the Baird Professor of Science and Institute director at Harvard University, to give a summary of his successful Galileo Project Pacific Ocean expedition in which he brought back to Harvard more than 50 spherules of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1, which lay on the deep ocean floor for nearly a decade.