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Show #553B Notes: Brandon Fugal

April 16, 2023April 18, 2023admin

Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, April 18, @ 8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

(photo by Jason Shook/ The HISTORY Channel)

BIO: Brandon Fugal is the owner of Skinwalker Ranch. As the Chairman of Colliers International in Utah, Brandon is one of the most prominent businessmen and real estate developers in the Intermountain West. From an early age, he has also been fascinated with the mysteries of our universe and the question of whether or not we are alone. In 2016, Brandon purchased Skinwalker Ranch from aerospace tycoon Robert Bigelow in order to investigate and study the strange and unexplainable phenomena that has been reported there for more than two centuries

Letters From the Maury Island Principals in the 1967 Merseyside UFO Bulletin

April 15, 2023April 17, 2023admin

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

Throughout the history of flying saucers/UFOs, there have been characters that those being kind would describe as “colorful,” and those being blunt would describe as liars, hoaxers and con men. One of these characters was Fred Crisman, who became famous/infamous due to his involvement in the Maury Island case. Crisman was accused of hoaxing the case along with his business partner, Harold Dahl, and the two confessed as much to an FBI agent who investigated (page 20 of pdf) due to the deaths of two military intelligence officers associated with the case. Crisman faded from the public eye after this but showed up again on November 21, 1968 when he was called to testify at the trial of Clay Shaw looking into the JFK assassination. We have recently come across some correspondence between a UFO investigator, Crisman, and Dahl in the pages of a 1967 edition of a British UFO magazine that may be of interest to our readers. Read more →

Show #552 Notes: Carlo Petrick

April 9, 2023April 16, 2023admin

Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, April 11, @ 7:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

Bob Lazar Blog: https://podcastufo.com/the-bob-lazar-conundrum-muddying-the-ufo-waters/

BIO: Carlo Petrick has been an AV director, crew member and production coordinator for UFO events since 1993 when the 3rd annual International UFO Congress was held at the Showboat Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Carlo has worked on the Congress every year since then, as well at many MUFON Symposia throughout the US, Starworks Conferences in Laughlin and the Laughlin UFO Mega Conferences. During this time he has worked with hundreds of presenters to share their UFO stories and experiences.
Carlo grew up in Wisconsin during the great UFO flap of the sixties and was an avid follower of the US Space program. He was also a fan of science fiction movies like 2001 and shows like Twilight Zone and Star Trek, all of which shaped his lifelong interest in UFOs.
Carlo also had a long career in the entertainment industry as a manager and Marketing Communications and PR director for a large movie theatre operator.
An accomplished photographer and writer, Carlo has had articles published in UFO Magazine, American Screenwriter magazine as well as several theatre industry trade publications.

A UFO Landing at Edwards AFB?

April 9, 2023admin

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

Gordon Cooper, youngest of the original Mercury astronauts, often spoke publicly about his UFO sightings and beliefs. He appeared in documentaries such as James Fox’s 2003 film Out of the Blue, and famously wrote a letter dated November 9, 1978, to Ambassador of Grenada to the United States George Ashley Griffith calling for the scientific collection and analysis of data taken from UFO encounters in order to “determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion.” In Out of the Blue, he is heard telling a story about a flying saucer with three retractable legs that was filmed landing in 1957 at Edwards Air Force Base. He didn’t claim to have witnessed the landing himself, but did say he saw the footage. There was an incident involving the filming of a UFO at Edwards that year, and there is a Project Blue Book file on the case. James McDonald found the witnesses and interviewed them in the late 1960’s and wrote a report. Cooper’s name is not mentioned by McDonald and the incident as described by McDonald and in the Blue Book file didn’t involve a landing. Brad Sparks and Jan Aldrich, both heavily involved in UFO research for many years, had an email exchange discussing this, and a record of it can be found at nicap.org.

Show #551 Notes: Mike Clelland

April 2, 2023April 16, 2023admin

Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, April 04, @ 7:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

https://mikeclelland.com/

BIO: Mike Clelland has been investigating the unknown for well over a decade. His 2015 book, The Messengers, explores the mysterious connection between owls, synchronicities and UFO contact. It was his first-hand experiences with these elusive events that have been the foundation for his research. Because of this, he has framed his work from a decidedly subjective position. He argues that the source of our legends and folklore is still at play, showing up in the lives of people all over the world. Our ancient mythologies persist, and they are still playing their vital role. He has published two more books, Stories from The Messengers, and Hidden Experience. These create a trilogy, all pointing to a deeper reality, something that has been interacting with human consciousness all throughout human history.

The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Story From Its Primary Sources

April 2, 2023admin

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

The story of the September 1961 case involving the possible abduction of Betty and Barney Hill by UFO occupants has been related and examined in numerous publications and formats. It’s an intriguing case and was the first of the late 20^th century UFO abduction reports to receive serious consideration (and publication) by investigators. This makes it a case worthy of attention because the story told by the Hills couldn’t have been influenced by previous abduction narratives. The main source for the abduction story that is focused on by most researchers, such as John Fuller who wrote the 1966 book about the case titled The Interrupted Journey, is the tapes from the hypnosis sessions the Hills went through in 1964 with Dr. Benjamin Simon. Before that, the case was considered to be merely a sighting report. That’s how it was presented by Walter Webb, the primary investigator who submitted a report dated October 26, 1961, to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. After news of the Hills possibly having been abducted got out, Webb was moved to submit an updated report, dated August 30, 1965, that contains the abduction account. Included in that report is a copy of the letter Betty Hill wrote to NICAP Director Donald Keyhoe dated September 26, 1961. This is the first document with a complete version the Hill’s sighting as it was consciously remembered. As for the abduction account, Webb included a copy of a five-page document, written by Betty a little over a month after the sighting, that shows that it actually originated in a series of dreams Betty had on consecutive nights shortly after the encounter. The letter and document are included in The Interrupted Journey, but their significance as the first recorded accounts of the Hills’ experience very close to the time of the event is not emphasized by Fuller. Read more →

Show #550 Notes: GUNTER HOFER

March 26, 2023April 16, 2023admin

Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, March 28, @ 7:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

BIO: Gunter Hofer is a graphic designer, photographer, and artist currently working as a civil servant for the UK Government. UFOlogy, Astrophotography and electronics are just two of his side interests which have influenced him as a young teenager.

Gunter’s interest in UFOlogy developed after reading Cynthia Hind’s book “UFOs – African Encounters” while living in Zimbabwe in the ’80s. He became more convinced there was something more going on after his grandmother surprisingly came out that she had seen a flying disk in 1968 in a small town in Zimbabwe called Sipolilo, in the northwest of the country.

He got the chance to meet Cynthia in the early 90s and they soon became friends, helping her with some of her investigations on a technical basis. The Ariel school case was his first major case, which has been both transformative and challenging in his life ever since.

Ariel School 1994 kids drawings2 (1)

Ariel School 1994 map

UFOs Over Muchalls, Scotland

March 25, 2023March 25, 2023admin

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

People react to UFO encounters in different ways. Some are profoundly moved, some are terrified, some take them in stride, and some become fascinated. Tom Moir, a young man in the Aberdeenshire village of Muchalls, Scotland, was moved to become an investigator after his sighting in 1971, and he spent three decades videotaping UFOs in his area that he said were showing up on a regular basis. He came to believe they were monitoring him and his neighbors and this disturbed him to the point where he ended up moving thousands of miles away to Aukland, New Zealand.

Moir’s story appears in the 1998 book by Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland. Moir is identified in the book as Tom McClintock. According to Halliday, Tom was walking home from a bus stop near his home after his weekly violin lesson. On his right, “he noticed a red, pulsating light.” Another identical one appeared on his left and then, a third. He was not scared, but rather, curious as to what they were doing.

Show #549 Notes: Katie Cook

March 20, 2023April 16, 2023admin

Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, March 21, @ 7:00 PM EDT (-5GMT)

BIO: Katie Cook is best known for her television hosting work with CMT since 2001, but she has also led a very paranormal life and has had a passion for ufology since she was a child. She is the author of a young reader’s trilogy, “Little Big Benny, the Boy Who Didn’t Know He Was the Universe,” about a young astronomer who is very curious about his place in the world, but is completely unaware that he plays host to all kinds of colorful characters that live on a microscopic level within him.
Katie is a recording artist, formerly with the band Reno. Now she has a duo with her husband, Adam Shoenfeld, called SunKat. She is the daughter of Hall of Fame songwriter, Roger Cook, and has hosted her own ufo-themed podcast called Wide Open Wonders. She was also a co-host on MUFON’s What’s Up with Katie Paige and Chris Deperno.
She served as emcee at the 2020 MUFON Symposium in Las Vegas and has been a correspondent on MUFON Television.
She is currently working on a fiction novel based on the alien hybrid topic.

The Mystery in Marfa, Texas

March 12, 2023March 12, 2023admin

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

In Marfa, Texas, there is a phenomenon known as “The Marfa Lights” that has been around for a long time and still remains a mystery. It’s been studied by members of the Society of Physics Students from the University of Dallas and a retired aerospace engineer, James Bunnell. The students thought people were seeing car headlights on U.S. 67. Bunnell thought there was more to the lights than mere misidentification.

According to the Texas State Historical Association website entry on the subject by Julia Cauble Smith, the first historical record of a mystery lights sighting dates back to 1883. According to Smith, Robert Reed Ellison, a young cowhand, saw a flickering light while driving cattle through an area known as Paisano Pass and thought it might be coming from an Apache campfire. Other settlers told him they had seen lights on other occasions and when they investigated, they found no signs of fires in the area. This has been used as an argument against the car lights on U.S. 67 explanation by defenders of the mysterious nature of the lights, such as Ariel Slick, who posted an article on the Deep South Magazine website headlined “Marfa Lights: The Spirit of Texas” on August 19, 2022. Read more →

Show #548 Notes: Colin Saunders

March 10, 2023April 16, 2023admin

Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, March 14, @ 7:00 PM EST (-5GMT)

Guest Colin Saunders is a mechanical engineer that had a family UFO encounter back in March, 1999 when a triangle UFO appeared right in front of his eyes, within 100 feet of his car. He discusses what the experience was like, goes into detail of what he observed as well as the high strangeness that followed.

BIO: Colin Saunders is a self employed Graphic designer, born 1958 in Coventry, England and grew up in the Midlands UK. Colin has spent his whole life as a Technical Design Draughtsman and his skills earned him AutoCAD user of the year in 1992 whilst working at Courtaulds PLC. Today Colin is still draughting within the embroidery industry although he started life out as an Electrical Draughtsman. Colin has worked in Sweden and Germany as an Avionics Designer on civilian aircraft and his hobbies include fishing, a passion for old watches and classic motor cars. His encounter with a triangle along with his family in 1999 totally changed his view of the world we live in today.

In 1999 my family and I was fortunate to have a very close encounter with a Triangular craft not of this world. Since that date I have met so many people that have also had Triangle encounters it seemed only logical to write a book, not only about my own experience, but to include these observations as well. The book covers over 130 first hand UK witness accounts of close encounters with Triangular craft, including lost time and men in black! What I soon realised from my own encounter and other witness statements is that there is a definite link between UFO’s and the paranormal, I have included a whole section about this phenomenon in the book which also touches on Alien telepathy. As strange as it all may seem I believe this is just a science we do not understand. Read more →

Show #547 Notes: Navy Encounter Witness Karol Olesiak

March 5, 2023October 15, 2023admin

Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, March 07, @ 7:00 PM EST (-5GMT)

Karol’s BLOG

Sun Magazine article, close to what Karol remembers

BIO: Karol is a poet writer and activist he is the managing editor of www. soldiersforthecause.org an antiwar publication that started as an affinity group for Occupy Wall Street sftc just celebrated its ten year anniversary. He has a collection of poetry co-written with his brother called “Cold War Kids”. Karol is a refugee from Poland and a disabled combat veteran.

UFO Abduction Research Gone Sideways: Part 2

March 5, 2023March 8, 2023admin

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

In 2010, an article by Jeremy Vaeni headlined “The Incredible Visitations of Emma Woods” appeared in the November issue of UFO Magazine. The story that was detailed therein caused people in the UFO community to take hard look at the methods and conclusions of the two most prominent people in alien abduction research at that time. “Emma Woods” was the pseudonym of a woman who lived in England, and she was one of David Jacobs’s research subjects. She had posted some tapes of her hypnosis sessions with him that contained some details that Jacobs probably would have preferred had not been made public. Woods provided more details in an interview she gave on March 29, 2010, on the Paratopia podcast hosted by Vaeni and Jeff Ritzman, which appear in the UFO Magazine article. The article prompted Budd Hopkins’s wife, Carol Rainey to write an article of her own headlined “The Priests of High Strangeness” published in 2011 in Volume 1, Number 1 of Paratopia magazine detailing some of Hopkins’s methods with his subjects as well. Last week we looked at the experiences of Woods during her interaction with Jacobs. This week we’ll look at the aftermath and the reaction of some in the UFO community to Woods’s story. Read more →