A Weekly Live Recorded Podcast and Blog on UFOs/UAP
BIO: Kevin Wright has 20+ years of experience in public relations, communications, and issue advocacy in Washington, DC. He founded Solve Advocacy, an issue advocacy and communications consulting firm dedicated to UAP and edge science issues. He advises the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies’ (SCU) Board of Directors on public affairs and public relations.
by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
According to the sighting report forms (pages 2 and 4 of pdf) filled out by Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena and the International UFO Bureau on September 18, 1973, he and 10-12 other men observed a UFO he described as a light that was “at one time, as bright as the moon” for 10-12 minutes in Leary, Georgia. According to the form, they were outside waiting for a 7:30 p.m. Lions Club meeting to start. During Carter’s presidential campaign in 1976, a reporter from the National Enquirer asked him if he would release all the information the government had on UFOs if he was elected. He is quoted in the June 8, 1976 edition of the Enquirer as saying “If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists. I’m convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one.” When he was elected, the White House began receiving letters from UFO enthusiasts who wanted to know when he was going to make good on his promise. One of these is included in the article by Philip J. Klass, headlined “NASA, the White House, and UFOs” published in the Spring/Summer 1978 Skeptical Inquirer: Read more
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BOOK: THE LITTLE BOOK OF ALIENS
BIO: Astrophysicist Adam Frank is a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun, and his computational research group at the University of Rochester has developed advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how they die. A self-described “evangelist of science,” he is also committed to showing others the beauty and power of science, and exploring the proper context of science in culture.
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BIO: Daniel Sheehan is a Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School–trained Constitutional Litigation and Appellate Attorney. For close to five decades, Danny’s work as a Federal Civil Rights Attorney, Author, Public Speaker and College and Law School Professor has helped expose the structural sources of injustice in our country and around the world.
Daniel has protected the fundamental and inalienable rights of our world’s citizens and has elucidated a compelling and inspiring vision for the future direction of our human family. Dan’s dedication to this vision and his work have placed him at the center of many of the most important legal cases and social movements of our generation… BIO CONTINUED
by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
Argentina, especially in the area of Bahía Blanca, has had its share of high-strangeness UFO reports ranging from cars being lifted up in the air to abductions. This week, we’re looking the 1973 case involving Dionisio Llanca, a truck driver who reported he’d had an encounter with a UFO and three creatures. When questioned under the influence of hypnosis and Pentothal, he recounted being taken aboard a spacecraft, but could not recall the details when in his regular, conscious state. Whatever criticisms one might have of abduction tales told by people under hypnosis, the circumstances around the case, as reported in newspapers in the region, were unusual and mysterious. Read more
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Biography – Richard Rokeby is a writer and researcher with a keen interest in history, mysteries and forbidden knowledge. He has previously served in the British Army and the UK Police. He holds an Advanced Certificate in Education from Canterbury Christchurch University; he is a qualified Detective and has Diplomas in Criminology and Ufology. He is married and has three children. He lives in Warwickshire.
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by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
In October of this year, the Royal Canadian Mint announced that it was putting out a coin celebrating a 1970 UFO case from the city of Duncan on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This is the sixth in a series of the Mint’s Unexplained Phenomena series of 1 oz. $20 face value silver coins depicting famous Canadian UFO cases. The
Duncan incident, involving a sighting by a nurse working in the Cowichan District Hospital, occurred in the midst of a flap in the area. It was investigated by John Magor, editor and publisher of the Canadian UFO Report, and he provided a report to the Victoria Times. The Victoria Times published an article on the case on page 1 of the January 5, 1970 edition (page 10 of the pdf), and Magor published his version in the Volume 1, Number 7, summer issue of the Canadian UFO Report. News of the coin celebrating the incident prompted two men, who were both attending a party in the area at the time, to separately come forward, each with his own individual explanation of what was actually seen. We wrote about this incident in a blog headlined “A UFO and Occupants in British Columbia, Canada,” posted on the Podcast UFO website on July 16, 2022, which is where the description of the incident comes from. Read more
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BIO: Rony Vernet is an Electronic and Computer Engineer and researcher at the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics in the area of Experimental Physics Applied to High Energy Physics, where he carries out work involving artificial intelligence. He has been a public servant in the energy sector for over 10 years, where he leads a department implementing new technologies for logistics for the movement and storage of oil, derivatives and biofuels. He began to become actively involved with the UFO phenomenon in 2018, when he began carrying out field research in the Serra da Beleza region, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, where he was able to witness different types of phenomena and is now running a technological monitoring project in the region. In 2020, he obtained the release from the Brazilian Government of more than 100 pages of documents and 20 minutes of videos about UFO attacks on indigenous people in the state of Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon. He frequently carries out field investigation missions, as in the case of the alleged UFO crash in Magé. He spoke at hearings on anomalous phenomena in the Brazilian Senate in 2022 and in the Mexican House of Representatives in 2023.
Live UAP Discussion with Dr Sean Kirkpatrick. Wed, November 15, 7:00PM ET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dcVi_3NTF0
by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
This is the third part of a series looking at a case from 1968 that involved sightings of UFOs on October 24, 1968, by ground observers stationed at the ICBM missile complex surrounding Minot AFB in North Dakota. A B-52 was flying in the area, and the pilot was requested to change course and investigate. The result was a UFO encounter that was caught on photographs of the B-52 radarscope, and the pilot, Maj. James A. Partin, and co-pilot, Captain Bradford Runyon, reported that they’d had a visual sighting of the object when it was on the ground. In addition to the sightings, it was reported that the outer and inner perimeter alarms of the missile site designated Oscar-7 went off and that a padlocked entry hatch there was found open with a plug-style gate secured by a combination lock removed from it. The case was officially examined by the officer in charge of UFO investigations at the base who provided details and evidence to Project Blue Book. The Blue Book conclusion was that what was seen was possibly a combination of “anomalous propagation” of radar returns, a plasma ball, and celestial bodies. It was also concluded that the break-in was unrelated. The case lay dormant for 30 years until Runyon contacted the Center for UFO Studies and filled out a sighting report form. The case caught the interest of members of the newly formed Sign Historical Group and they did a thorough investigation that included many interviews with witnesses. They’ve made material they gathered available as part of the Sign Oral History Project on a website devoted to the case. In Part III, we’ll look at the reports by the ground observers. Read more
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by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
In Part I of this blog, we looked at a case from 1968 that involved sightings of a UFO on October 24, 1968, by ground observers stationed at the ICBM missile complex surrounding Minot AFB in North Dakota. A B-52 was flying in the area and the pilot was requested to change course and investigate. The result was a UFO encounter that was caught on photographs of the B-52 radarscope and the pilot, Maj. James A. Partin, and co-pilot, Captain Bradford Runyon, reported that they’d had a visual sighting of the object when it was on the ground. In addition to the sightings, it was reported that the outer and inner perimeter alarms of the missile site designated Oscar-7 went off and that a padlocked entry hatch there was found open with a plug-style gate secured by a padlock removed from it. The case was officially examined by the officer in charge of UFO investigations at the base, Lt. Col. Arthur Werlich. He provided details and evidence to Project Blue Book, and they concluded that what was seen was possibly a combination of “anomalous propagation” of radar returns, a plasma ball, and celestial bodies. They also concluded that the break-in was unrelated. The case lay dormant for 30 years until Runyon contacted the Center for UFO Studies and filled out a sighting report form. The case caught the interest of members of the newly formed Sign Historical Group and they did a thorough investigation that included many interviews with witnesses. They’ve made material they gathered available as part of the Sign Oral History Project on a website devoted to the case. In Part II, we’ll look at the key elements of the case that they uncovered. Read more
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BIO: For the past 28 years, David has been a co-founder of an advanced electronic test equipment custom engineering and supply corporation.
He designed and built a vector impedance cathode ray oscilloscope that fits in the palm.
Spanning more than three decades he has designed electronic devices including commercial HAM radio equipment and prototypes in aerospace and government contracts.
In his spare time, he volunteers at Bellevue College providing technical maintenance, calibration, and operation of the astronomical observatory.
David owns all of the large array of research equipment and inventions that were used on his expedition in the movie “A Tear in the Sky.”
He also appeared in several episodes of “Skinwalker Ranch” using his re-engineered FLIR thermal cameras that provided differential FLIR
detection which resulted in newly discovered anomalies. His inventions also include a FLIR thermal camera that converts heat and cold temperatures into sound,
GEN-3 night vision goggles that convert light into sound, binoculars that convert light into sound, and a broad spectrum of modulated Lightwave
transmitters which include ultraviolet and longwave infrared.
While using scientific-grade FLIR thermal imaging cameras David has also recorded many UAP/UFOs which appear to defy our understanding of physics.
The unknown objects with strange shapes often passively measure very cold at -80F or -62C according to the FLIR NIST traceable measured calibrated temperature span.
The objects are also not visible using Military GEN 3+ night vision goggles or unaided eyes. The low temperatures of the unknown objects can’t be explained as simple high-altitude crafts in a cold environment.
This is due to the trigonometry calculations based on the known FLIR camera field of view, the programmed emissivity, and the known cold temperature references at altitudes.
The trigonometry calculation results in some unknown objects having physical measurements as much as 2,200 feet or 670 meters in scale.
David continues to develop new inventions and technology focused on detecting phenomena outside the limits of commercially available equipment.
He recently recorded the modulated light from the coma and nucleus of Comet E3 ZTF and converted it to sound by using his refined photon-electron-multiplier technology.
His newly designed FLIR telescope Germanium lens system offers 100x LWIR-optical magnification enabling FLIR video of crater details on the moon with passive temperature measurement of the lunar surface.
He also owns more than a dozen scientific-grade FLIR thermal cameras that he uses in search of anomalous activity as well as an array of lab-standard RF spectrum analyzers and oscilloscopes.
476,000 year old building with notched wood: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2392894-earliest-evidence-of-buildings-made-from-wood-is-476000-years-old/
by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”
At the suggestion of Mr. Martin Willis, this week we are looking at a report involving a UFO incident on October 24, 1968, at Minot AFB in North Dakota. It involved sightings reported by ground observers stationed at the surrounding Minuteman ICBM complex as well as the crew of a B-52. What gives this case extra significance is that there are available photos of the B-52 radarscope to back up the crew’s account. There is a Project Blue Book file on the case that contains the conclusion that what was seen was possibly a combination of “anomalous propagation” of radar returns, a plasma ball, and celestial bodies, but an exceptional investigation begun in 2000 by members of the recently formed Sign Historical Group indicates that the incident involved something genuinely mysterious.
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SCOTT CASSELL, A professional submersible pilot for 5 different subs for filming, scientific & tourism operations performing over 3,300 dives some as deep as 1,500 feet deep. Diving in five different countries including Brunei, Tioman, Germany, Switzerland, & Philippines. Currently Scott is owner / pilot of K250 submersible since 2006 when she entered service as Great White, named after Scott’s friend & mentor, Ralph “Great” White. With nearly two decades of dive operations, Scott has dove the Great White over 2,000 times as deep as 500 feet in five countries without a single mechanical emergency. Scott developed the Undersea Voyager Project, a 501-(c)3, to privatize Ocean Science and empower the people to explore the Ocean’s condition using manned submersibles. Also, Scott and his team were the first to film a Giant Squid in the wild (which aired on History Channel in 2006, estimated to be 54 feet long) 5 years before any others. Credentials: • Accumulated 15,000+ hrs of dive time • USCG Captain & qualified Submersible Pilot • Advanced Diving Medical Technician Instructor (1 of 10 in the USA) • Commercial Mixed Gas Diving Instructor • U.S. Navy qualified Diving Medical Technician & Dive Supervisor • USMC Modular Amphibious Egress Trainer & Aircrew Breathing Device Instructor • Fellow of Royal Geographic Society for being first to film Giant Squid (not paid current) • Received a Royal Laureate from Malaysia for work with Ocean Conservation • Received by His Highness of Brunei for his shark conservation work • Former U.S. Army Flight Medic & Instructor • 33 years military service achieving the rank of Colonel (reserve) • Medal of Valor, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Commendations Was a Private Military Contractor with duties ranging from sniper, team security & combat diver in very high risk missions in war torn regions. Principal investigator on Humboldt Squid for 15 yrs working with Discovery, Animal Planet, History, MTV, National Geo & Disney as science advisor & underwater camera. In 1996 he began to hunt & film poachers using SpecOps Combat Dive & Sniper techniques to collect images of illegal activities & turn the over the evidence-footage to officials. Dozen of poachers were convicted. He recently worked on special project with Sea Shepard deep inside deadly Chinese mafia & drug cartel ruled zones to film the slaughter of the extremely endangered totuaba for the Chinese drug / animal trade. He is dedicated to teaching people to explore and protect the seas using manned submersibles to keep the excitement of oceanic exploration alive, which is why the submersible training program was developed.