Show #489 Notes: Cristina Gomez

Simulcast on, KGRA Radio, YouTube & Facebook
January 11th, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

Cristina’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ParadigmShifts

BIO: Cristina Gomez is 22 years old, and currently attending College studying for a BA in Business and Communication.
She became fascinated with the concept of space travel and alien life at a very young age, but it wasn’t until High School that her interest became serious. Once she moved away from home to start College, she began her own YouTube Channel to scrutinize public UFO sighting videos submitted to a variety of platforms. Using video software, she slowed down the footage, zoomed in, stabilized, and enhanced, then would post the results for others to study on her website, and YouTube channel.

​After a year of UFO video analysis, Cristina began a weekly show called Shifting the Paradigm., interviewing researchers, witnesses, and enthusiasts of the UFO topic and its many facets. Notable guests have joined Cristina, such as Avi Loeb, Luis Elizondo, John Greenewald Jr. Sean Cahill, Lee Speigel, Peter Robbins, and Micah Hanks, among many others. The show grew in popularity, especially with a younger College aged audience, and Cristina began a second weekly show called Mysteries with a History, examining cases and events from the topics of UFOs, the Paranormal, the Supernatural, and the Extraordinary.

In March of 2021, Cristina began working with the team at The Debrief, producing video content featuring interviews with prominent figures in the UFO research community such as Lue Elizondo, and James Fox. Cristina also produces special news reports and weekly news roundup videos for The Debrief. She has also appeared on many talk shows and podcasts such as Fade To Black Radio with Jimmy Church, and the Paranormal Podcast with Jim Harold.

​Cristina is working on her first book, which will take a deep dive into many aspects of the UFO mystery from the perspective of a young Gen Z Latina, being aimed at her generation to promote more interest in the subject, while continuing to interview researchers and witnesses on her YouTube channel, which has several feature shows that cover different aspects of the phenomenon.

Link to all social media and online platforms: https://beacons.ai/cristinagomez

 

A UFO and Occupant in Wheeling, West Virginia?

By Charles Lear

On September 12, 1952, a woman and six boys in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, reported that they’d had an encounter with a landed UFO and a strange creature. The woman, Mrs. Kathleen May, described the creature to a reporter as “a fire-breathing monster, ten-feet tall with a bright green body and a blood-red face.” She said the creature emitted an odor “like metal” that caused everyone to vomit for hours after the encounter. She added, “It looked worse than Frankenstein.” The witnesses all agreed that the figure had a red face with two openings like eyes that projected beams of greenish-orange light over their heads and that around the face there was a dark hood-like shape that came to a point like the ace of spades. The creature has become known as “The Flatwoods Monster.” By September 15, the case was reported in newspapers all over the country. It is likely that most readers are aware of this case, but many may not be aware of reports from nearby Wheeling, West Virginia, just a couple of days later. Read more

Show #488 Notes: Paul Hynek

Simulcast on, KGRA Radio, YouTube & Facebook
January 4th, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

https://www.amazon.com/Hynek-UFO-Report-Authoritative-Cover-Up/dp/1590033035

BIO PAUL HYNEK, Wharton MBA, professor of business at Pepperdine. Paul has significant experience in visual effects, virtual reality, and Blockchain, and was instrumental in the sale of Giant Studios to James Cameron following Avatar. Paul is a frequent speaker on startups, future tech, and UFOs.

Paul will be back on the Everything Else Show, February 10 at 8PM ET. “Our Immortality Within Our Reach”

 

Blog: A UFO Lab in Japan

by Charles Lear

On June 24 of this year (World UFO Day), the International UFO Lab was established in Japan. It is housed in the UFO Fureaikan (UFO Friendship Center), a UFO center and museum that was built in 1992 in the town of linomachi (lower case spelling is apparently proper), which is now a prefecture of Fukushima. The facility is city owned and run by the Iinomachi Promotion Corporation. It was built using money from a regional development fund in an effort to help promote the area as a UFO hotspot after numerous sightings, starting in the 1970s, around nearby Mount Senganmori. The Lab is part of a new revitalization effort for Fukushima as a whole. Japan’s history of private UFO research goes back to the 1950s, but the official stance until 2020 was that UFOs weren’t worthy of consideration.

The material housed in the UFO Fureaikan comes from a donation of over 3000 items from early Japanese UFO researcher Kinichi Arai. Arai ran a bookstore in the early 1950s and developed an interest in flying saucers while reading books on the subject that were increasingly being published at the time. Arai felt there was need for serious discussion of the phenomenon and formed Japan’s first UFO organization, the Japanese Flying Saucer Research Association in 1955. Arai was a pacifist, and according to him, “I told myself that if we knew for sure that the aliens were watching us, we would no longer fight. Therefore, I decided to see if I could prove that the aliens were real.”

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Show #487 Notes: Mack Maloney & Graeme Rendall

Simulcast on, KGRA Radio, YouTube & Facebook
December 28th, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DRBHH1Z

BIO: Graeme Rendall is a full time author and a commentator on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) issue. He is also a contributor to “The Debrief”, an American news website dealing with cutting edge science, tech and defence news, and also writes articles on the subject for UAP Media UK. In the early 1990s he was the Editor of an amateur aviation magazine. Graeme has written a critically-acclaimed work looking at the “Foo-Fighters” witnessed during World War Two and the numerous wartime cases that occurred before the term was coined in November 1944. He has been an aviation and World War Two history enthusiast from an early age, when he was given Airfix model aircraft kits “to keep him quiet”. He lives in rural Northumberland, not far from the border with Scotland, between the beach and the hills.

Information on Mack Maloney: https://www.mackmaloney.com/military-x-files-radio.html

Show #486 Notes: Navajo Ranger, Jonathan Dover

Simulcast on, KGRA Radio, YouTube & Facebook
December 21st, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

 

JONATHAN DOVER is a veteran law enforcement officer. He has worked with the City of Winslow Arizona Police Department, The National Park Service, Navajo Historic PreservationDepartment, and the Navajo Nation Rangers. He retired from active duty as a Lieutenant in 2011 after 31 years as a law enforcement officer. Jonathan Dover was trained in Criminal Investigations and was an Archaeological Resource Crimes Investigator. He was also trained as an EMT, in SWAT operations, Hazardous materials, Search and Rescue, and was an instructor in Police Firearms training and High Angle Technical Rescue. During his work on Navajo Nation lands, he along with Stanley Milford Jr. were assigned over a period of 11 years to officially investigate and document significant cases involving Bigfoot, Hauntings, Navajo Witchcraft, and UFO’s.

A UFO and Bigfoot-Like Creatures in Pennsylvania

by Charles Lear

These days, more and more researchers are considering the idea that there is a unified theory for all things paranormal from Bigfoot to ghosts to UFOs. The idea that all, or at least many, things paranormal derive from a common source was considered as early as the 1940s by Meade Layne and other members of the Borderland Sciences Research Association. This has been popularized in more recent times by John Keel and Jaques Vallée. There was a great deal of resistance to this way of thinking among paranormal enthusiasts, but a case in Pennsylvania from 1973 has elements to it that that likely caused many to reconsider their positions.

The case is described by Berthold Eric Schwartz, M.D. in the July 1974 issue of Flying Saucer Review in his article, “Berserk: A UFO Creature Encounter.” According to Schwartz, he got a call on a Sunday in September from Allan Noe of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained (a New Jersey based organization founded by Ivan T. Sanderson) and Stan Gordon, director of the Pennsylvania based Westmoreland County UFO Study Group. They told him they were in the midst of a great deal of activity involving UFOs and creatures. Gordon, in the documentary, Invasion on Chestnut Ridge, describes the activity as “a major UFO-Bigfoot wave.” Read more

Huge fireball almost hit my car!

It was it the first week of March 2020 . I was on my way home from work at 3:30 PM leaving Walnut Creek on my way (west bound) approaching the Caldecott tunnel to my home in Oakland. Traffic Was medium to light traveling at about 55 to 65 miles an hour. I look to my right When I first saw the fireball descending at about a 35 Degree angle. Initially it was about 200 feet in front of me and about 150 feet above the freeway when I first noticed it. I literally couldn’t believe it! It was about 25 to 35 feet in diameter molten like orange center with yellow and white flames surrounding it. Immediately judging its speed an angle I realized it was going to be crossing or coming very close to my car as it crossed over the freeway. I mediately looked in my rearview mirror, hit the brakes and moved over to the right hand lane In an attempt to avoid a collision. It literally crossed approximately 75 to 100 feet above me and in front of me! I definitely thought it was destined to hit the guard rail or the fast lane of the freeway! This part of the freeway was about 20 feet above street level I was so relieved I stepped on the gas and was expecting a very loud explosion in the next few seconds. To my amazement I heard nothing? I checked our local news for the next two or three days and heard nothing?
I recently talked to Mufon and they have no reports of a fireball in that area?
Elton

Show #485 Notes: Shane Hurd & Christopher O’Brien

Simulcast on, KGRA Radio, YouTube & Facebook
December 14, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

Caller Tom King’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qMyrL8mSzzlfGd9ylq99w

SHANE HURD has spent his government career in the fields of Civil Engineering, Geographic Information Systems, Information Technologies, and is a graduate of Arizona State University’s Certified Public Manager program. As a member of the space race generation, he has been a lifelong space and science nerd, and sci-fi geek.
It was the Phoenix Lights Incident in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona that sparked his interest in UFO’s. Since that time, he has studied the subject and ultimately in 2015 joined MUFON, then became a Field Investigator in 2017.
Shane has investigated over 75 cases including “light in the sky” cases, abduction, misidentifications and several true “Unknowns“ as well. He is now a Star Team member and was recently appointed Assistant State Director for Arizona MUFON.
Shane has just released his new book entitled “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: A Beginners Guide to Researching UFOs”.
He is a musician, a car guy, amateur astronomer, horse owner, and enjoys a good bourbon now and then.

CHRISTOPHER O’BRIEN: From 1992 to 2002 Chris investigated and/or logged hundreds of unexplained events reported in the San Luis Valley—located in South-central Colorado/North Central New Mexico. Worked with law enforcement officials from area counties, ex-military members, ranchers and an extensive network of skywatcher/investigators. Documented what may have been the most intense wave of unexplained activity ever seen in a single region of North America. He wrote three books that covered his 10 year SLV investigations: ​The Mysterious Valley,​ EntertheValley​,(St Martin’s Press) and ​Secrets of the Mysterious Valley a​nd three additional books. As a result of his investigations and research, he has compiled and produced one of the largest databases of unusual occurrences from a single geographic region.

UPDATE: A Woman Transported by a UFO?

by Charles Lear

In last week’s blog, we looked at a recent report from the Pampas region of Argentina that involved a missing woman who 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.  The case caught the interest of a local UFO researcher, as it bore a resemblance to an alien abduction case reported in the area in 1983. The researcher was interviewed in connection with the story in the local paper La Arena and the woman’s disappearance was presented in the paper with the alien angle in mind. Since the last blog was posted, the woman has come forward and was interviewed for a video segment hosted on the web based news site Crónica TV. In case there might be any question of whether the presenters had any sort of bias towards the alien explanation for the woman’s experience, the segment is titled “Habló la mujer abducida por un OVNI en La Pampa” which in English, according to Translate at Duck Duck Go, is “Spoke the woman abducted by a UFO in La Pampa.” Read more

Show #484 Notes: John Ramirez

Simulcast on, KGRA Radio, YouTube & Facebook
December 7, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)

BIO: Mr. John Ramirez served from 1984 to 2009 in the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology, Directorate of Intelligence, and the ODNI National Counterproliferation Center (NCPC). At CIA he was an intelligence analyst and Chief, ELINT Analysis Branch specializing in ballistic missile defense, weapons systems radars, and technical collection operations. At the NCPC he was the SIGINT specialist and the multi-discipline collection requirements strategist. John is a US Navy veteran, 1973 to 1979, in the Electronics Warfare Technician field on board surface ships. John majored in political science and graduated in 1983 from the George Washington University, Washington, DC.

John is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and the Central Intelligence Retirees Association.
Producer’s Note: John privately verified his CIA employment.

A Woman Transported by a UFO in Argentina?

By Charles Lear

Just weeks ago, there was an intriguing incident reported in Argentina involving a woman who went missing and was then found a day later, 65 km from where she was seen last. She had no memory of how she got there, and local residents and Argentinian officials were mystified. The case aroused the interest of a local UFO researcher who noted a similarity to an earlier alien abduction case in the area.

The story first appeared on November 17, in the Pampas newspaper La Arena. An article headlined, “Buscan a mujer que desapareció en Jacinto Aráuz” (Looking for a woman that disappeared in Jacinto Aráuz) reports that police and volunteer firefighters were involved in an extensive search the night before for a woman in her 50s who had been reported missing by her husband. A relative of the woman told La Arena that several calls were made from the missing woman’s mobile phone to her relatives and children, but only the sound of wind was heard when they answered. Read more