Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, April 12th, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
BIO: Micah Hanks is a writer, podcaster, researcher and speaker whose interests cover a variety of subjects, including history, archaeology, science, and the future of humankind. A longtime researcher and proponent of the scientific study of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs, Micah has authored a number of books and has contributed many essays, articles and blogs to various publications. He is a contributing member to the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, and host of The Micah Hanks Program, as well as a number of other podcasts. Micah is also the cofounder, Editor-in-Chief, and creative force behind TheDebrief, a news site that explores the latest in science and disruptive technology, as well as the latest breaking developments related to the U.S. government’s investigations into UAP.
On November 26, 1979, police in the French agglomeration community of Cergy-Pontoise received a strange missing person report from two distressed young men. According to Jean-Pierre Prévost and Salomon N’Diaye, their friend, Franck Fontaine, disappeared after a ball of light that was accompanied by three or four luminous spheres engulfed the car he was in. This resulted in not only an investigation by the police but also GEPAN (Groupe d’Études des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-identifiés), the unit of CNES (Centre National D’études Spatiales) tasked with dealing with UFO reports.
According to an article on the case titled L’Affaire de Cergy-Pontoise, posted on rrO.org, Fontaine, 18, Prévost and N’Diaye, both 25, were loading a Ford station wagon with jeans they were going to try and sell at Gisors market. They saw a light heading towards the ground at a “not too fast speed.” Fontaine drove towards where he thought it might have made impact after telling the other two to meet him there. Prévost and N’Diaye went back to their nearby apartments, N’Diaye to get a camera and Prévost to get another load of jeans. Read more →
Dave Beaty on USS Kearsarge UFO encounter then repeat guest, Stan Gordon to speak on his latest book, “Creepy Cryptids and Strange UFO Encounters of Pennsylvania” as well as recent and past UFO & cryptid cases that Stan has looking into since the 1960s
BIO: Stan Gordon was trained as an electronics technician who specialized in radio communications. He worked in the advanced consumer electronics sales field for over forty years. Stan has lived in Greensburg, Pennsylvania all of his life. Gordon began his interest in the UFO subject and other strange incidents at the age of ten in 1959.
In the late 1960’s, he acted as the telephone UFO sighting report investigations coordinator for the UFO Research Institute of Pittsburgh. Stan began in the field investigations of UFOs and other mysterious events in 1965, and is the primary investigator of the December 9,1965, UFO crash-recovery incident that occurred near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. In 1969, Gordon established a UFO Hot-line for the public to report UFO sightings to him to investigate. In 1970, Gordon founded the Westmoreland County UFO Study Group (WCUFOSG), the first of three volunteer research groups which he would establish to investigate UFO sightings and other strange occurrences reported in Pennsylvania. Since November, 1993, he continues to investigate and document strange incidents from across the Keystone state as an independent researcher. Gordon is a former PA State Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and was its first recipient In 1987 of the MUFON Meritorious Achievement in a UFO investigation Award. Gordon has been involved with the investigation of thousands of mysterious encounters from across Pennsylvania. He has appeared on numerous local and network TV news and documentary shows, including the Syfy Channel (formerly the Sci-Fi Channel), Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Fox News Channel. He has been featured on many television shows, including Unsolved Mysteries, Sightings, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, and Creepy Canada. More: https://www.stangordon.info/wp/stan-gordon/ #Cryptids #BigfootUfos #StanGordon
In last week’s blog, we wrote about an incident involving Filiberto Cárdenas, a Cuban exile living in Hialeah, Florida. Cárdenas was reportedly seen by his friend and his friend’s wife and daughter to float up in a beam of light into some sort of craft that then flew off. Two hours later, he was found 16 miles away on his hands and knees in the middle of the road. He was taken to a hospital and tested for radiation. The tests came up negative, but he experienced mysterious symptoms including an excessive thirst, shaking hands, and a sulfurous body odor. While this case might have been held up as an argument for the reality of the alien abduction phenomenon, it is rarely discussed and is overshadowed by more famous cases such as that involving Travis Walton. A possible reason for this is that Cárdenas, and then his wife, reported experiences that were similar to those of contactees, who have often been discounted by many in the UFO research community. Read more →
UFO abduction cases have been controversial ever since the very first cases were reported. The main factor working against them is that most of them are single witness reports. There are exceptions, of course, the most famous being the 1975 Travis Walton case. In this incident, six of Walton’s co-workers (they were working in Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona on an NFS Timber Stand Improvement contract) reported seeing Walton knocked back by a beam of light from a UFO and then lifted up by the beam. Walton was missing for five days and the Navajo County Sheriff suspected his co-workers of murder. They were subjected to lie-detector tests at the Navajo County Courthouse in Holbrook, Arizona, and all six of them passed. This case is still discussed and held up in support of abduction claims, but another abduction case with multiple witnesses that also seems worthy of consideration is nowhere near as well known.
Ted Roe stops in for a few minutes to discuss the AIAA statement on UFOs, NARCAP, pilot encounters, then guest Jack Brewer got interested in the many overlaps between NICAP and intelligence agencies. Then, through the FOIA, various archives, newspaper clippings and so on, it got increasingly interesting, to the point that he wrote about it. Frankly, Jack was surprised how much material he has obtained that suggests the CIA facilitated the birth of NICAP.
Simulcast on KGRA Radio, YouTube, Facebook & Twitch – Tuesday, March 22nd, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
Guest Ted Roe info on UAP & American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics twitter: @AIAA_UAP , and the website in development is: www.AIAA.org
Bio: Jack Brewer writes “The UFO Trail”, a blog dedicated to publishing credible info on incredible topics. Brewer’s research interests include alleged alien abduction, the intelligence community, and related social dynamics. He is the author of “The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community” which explores the ways deception, sensationalism, and questionable ethics characterize the UFO genre and distort public perception of the UFO phenomenon. Activities of credulous investigators of alleged alien abduction are considered, as are the roles of intelligence agencies in the theatrics, including thought provocative relationships and similarities between the UFO and intelligence communities. With interviews and insights from James Carrion, Leah Haley, Dr. Tyler Kokjohn, Simone Mendez, Carol Rainey, Emma Woods, and others, “The Greys Have Been Framed” takes readers through the exploitation of ufology as perpetrated by charlatans, intelligence officials, and researchers harboring unclear motives. The circumstances, existing from the very outset of the modern-day UFO phenomenon, prove relevant no matter what personal opinion one may hold on the mystery of UFOs and their alleged occupants. #JackBrewer #NICAP #UFOphenomenon
We’ve written two blogs following the story of Irma Rick, a woman from the Pampas region of Argentina. She went missing and was found the next day in a town around 65 km from where she was last seen. She reported being in her yard in Jacinto Aráuz, seeing a light, and then suddenly finding herself sitting on a road in the town of Guatraché with no memory of how she got there. A local prosecutor opened an investigation into the case. Rick was interviewed by a researcher and a reporter, who both approached her case as if it was a possible alien abduction. Rick, notably, avoided that conclusion saying she didn’t know what had happened to her. Now she’s come forward saying she might be pregnant with an alien baby.
Rick was interviewed on Bahía Hoy, a program broadcast by La Brújula 24. According to an article on the La Brújula 24 website, at the beginning of the interview, Rick asked the interviewer to “throw a peso at me” because she was “a poor old woman working in the field.” She further explained:
I am doing studies because I can have an alien pregnancy. I don’t ask for much, I have to do a lot of things, I ask for a little help. Tomorrow I have to do ultrasounds and stuff. Supposedly I got pregnant when they took me away. I don’t have a belly yet, I feel discomfort, things that happen to me. I have to consult the prosecutor because she doesn’t want me to talk much yet.
We’ll be sure to keep the reader updated if there are any further developments.
With UFO reports, there are common elements that give one a sense of the nature of the phenomenon. However, there are some reports that contain elements that are unique to the point that a researcher might be inclined to dismiss them. The case of Herbirito Garza is one of these.
Garza’s case was written about by Scott Corrales in his article “Abductions: The Crucible of Nightmares,” published in the May 2000 issue of Fate magazine (See page 5). According to Corrales, the case was investigated in 1972 by Jorge Reichert, Salvador Freixedo, and Ian Norris. Garza, a Mexican ceramics technician who lived in the city of Puebla, claimed to have been visited by an alien from the planet Auko and taken aboard a spaceship. According to him, he had just gotten into bed when he heard a noise in the living room. Thinking someone had broken in, he went to investigate. He came upon a “man” that was over two meters tall with a distinguished, almost-feminine-looking face. Read more →
I was on my front porch in Barrington NJ in the fall of 1990 or 91, I can’t remember the exact year. It was around 9:30pm. I randomly had the thought to leave the porch and look up, when I did, I saw a massive cigar/blimp shaped craft moving very slowly down the street. It was just above the tree line, was at least 50ft long, completely silent, no lights and it was close enough to see there were no rivets or seams on the craft. I kept looking for a basket to say, oh it’s a blimp or lights, something to make sense of what I was seeing. I wanted it to be anything other than a UFO. Only a blimp could move that slow, but there was no noise at all. As it was moving to the next block, I had a quick thought about following it and I heard, but didn’t hear, go back in the house, you have babies in the house. I turned to walk up the driveway and that’s all I remember. I don’t know what, if anything happened after that.
I never told my now deceased husband about it, he was at work and I just felt uncomfortable talking about it until years later. A part of me filed it away so I wouldn’t be called crazy. I know what I saw and decided it was more important to talk about it than keep it secret.
I have watched the skies ever since that night. I am not longer afraid to talk about it.
Thanks for giving us a platform to share our experiences.