Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Thursday, February 19, 2025 @ 8:00 PM EST (-5GMT)

Did Barack Obama slip — and then walk it back? In a recent interview with political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen, Obama was asked point-blank: Are aliens real? His response: “They’re real… but I haven’t seen them.” He followed with laughter, referencing conspiracy theories about extraterrestrials being hidden at Area 51, suggesting such a secret would be impossible to conceal — even from a president. Later, he clarified that he framed part of his answer humorously. But was that clarification damage control? Tonight, Martin and UFO Jack go deeper. We revisit Obama’s earlier appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he was pressed on the same topic — and we review the exceptional breakdown by investigator Ben Hansen, who analyzed Obama’s phrasing, timing, increased respiration, and body language frame by frame. Are we witnessing: Political humor? Strategic ambiguity? Or a carefully managed narrative? Two interviews. Two different contexts. One unanswered question. We’ll compare tone, wording, micro-expressions, and consistency — and let you decide whether this was just a joke… or something more. 

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Tuesday, February 17, 2025 @ 8:00 PM EST (-5GMT)

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Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Thursday, February 10, 2025 @ 11:00 AM EST (-5GMT)

BIO: Colonel Fredrick “Fred” Claussen was born in 1942 in Burwell, Nebraska, the only son of a baker and a telephone operator. His interest in space and UFOs began at a young age, and by eleven he had built a two-person “spaceship,” even attempting a launch—an early sign of a lifelong fascination with flight and aerospace. As a teenager, he set his sights on becoming a fighter pilot. After moving to Lincoln, Nebraska, Claussen graduated from Lincoln Northeast High School and attended the University of Nebraska, where he participated in Air Force ROTC and the marching band. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1963 and began his flying career as a B-52 navigator from 1965 to 1968. He later attended pilot training, graduating first in his class, before transitioning to the F-105. Between 1969 and 1970, Claussen flew 126 combat missions in Southeast Asia and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross twice. From 1970 to 1983, he served in multiple fighter assignments, flying the F-105, F-4, and F-15. He went on to hold senior leadership roles, including Director of Exercises in South Korea, Director of Exercises at Headquarters Tactical Air Command, Tactical Air Control Wing Commander, Chief of Staff of the 7th Air Force in South Korea, and Director of Combat Analysis at U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida. He retired in 1992 with the rank of colonel. In 1980, while flying an F-15, Colonel Claussen intercepted a UFO—an encounter that remains central to his public testimony and perspective on UAP. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business and Management from Kansas Newman College and a master’s degree in Aviation Technology from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. In retirement, Claussen pursues astronomy, remains active with family, and has assisted filmmaker James Fox with UAP research. He is married to his wife, Sunny, and has four children and three grandchildren

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Thursday, January 29, 2025 @ 11:00 AM EST (-5GMT)

 

BIO: Sarah Gamm’s education is a B.S is in Astrophysics and M.S. is in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction. Most of her career has been in the Intelligence Community focused on satellite imagery analysis and as an image scientist. She has worked at ODNI-National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center where she was a nuclear counterproliferation strategist and led a new campaign initiative and briefed senior leaders in the US government. While Sarah worked with the United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) on the Mosul Dam Task Force, years of imagery collection led to a co-authored published paper that provided precise ground truth data blended with satellite imagery to remotely monitor dams. Sarah recently supported the Air Force as a Nuclear Campaign Analyst in the Pentagon, and now works for USACE as a scientist in the Army’s Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) office. She was an analyst for the UAP Task Force.

BIO: Anthony is an experiencer of various anomalous phenomena who has learned the importance of taking an inclusive and integral approach in the exploration of consciousness and our greater reality. He serves as the state lead for the Virginia chapter of Citizens for Disclosure, a volunteer activist group under the New Paradigm Institute pushing for UFO disclosure and transparency in Congress and destigmatizing the topic throughout society. Previously, he held a career as an open source intelligence (OSINT) analyst, focusing on geopolitical media and disinformation analysis.

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Tuesday, January 27, 2025 @ 11:00 AM EST (-5GMT)

 

BIO: Allan Lavigne is a former investigator for the Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization from 1974-1980. He went on to a two-pronged career path spanning more than 45 years, as both a Physical Security Specialist and Intelligence Analyst in the private sector, working closely with the Joint Terrorist Task Force, FBI and Homeland Security. He is also an entertainment artist. His early work can be seen in the 1979 documentary UFOs are Real for which A.P.R.O. was the sole technical advisor. Allan went on to create Make-up Special Effects appliances, masks, and props for NBC’s Jack Web’s TV series Project UFO for two seasons.
In more recent years, Allan has done work for Sony Pictures on Iron Man 1 and 2, Marvel Entertainment, Disney, Lucas Films and others. There are permanent exhibits of his work at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum, and San Diego Comic-Con Museum in San Diego’s Balboa Park.

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Tuesday, January 20, 2025 @ 11:00 AM EST (-5GMT)

Podcast UFO will be attending and livestreaming a historic press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2026. 11:00am – 1:00pm ET. For the first time publicly, Dr. Italo Venturelli, a leading Brazilian neurosurgeon, will describe his direct hospital contact in 1996 with a living, non-human intelligent being following the infamous Varginha incident. Multiple Brazilian witnesses, medical professionals, and officials will present first-hand testimony regarding the reported crash of an unidentified object, the capture of non-human entities, and the subsequent involvement of Brazilian authorities and the U.S. Air Force. Organized by investigative journalist and filmmaker James Fox, the press conference will introduce new medical, forensic, and governmental evidence, including testimony from Dr. Armando Fortunato, the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy of a military police officer allegedly injured during the incident. The event coincides with the release of Fox’s new documentary Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters and follows growing calls for transparency after The Age of Disclosure. This press conference aims to present unprecedented data, encourage mainstream discussion, and prompt further governmental investigation into non-human intelligence encounters.

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Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Tuesday, January 20, 2025 @ 8:00 PM EST (-5GMT)

BIO: With an eye on the cosmos, the world beyond our own has always been a fascination for Chrissy Newton. From UFOs and astronomy to ancient civilizations, her curiosity is as limitless as the universe. By day, she is the owner of VOCAB Communications and an award-winning public relations professional with a talent for making complex ideas accessible; by night, she hosts and produces the space, science, futurism, and UFO-themed video and audio podcast Rebelliously Curious with Chrissy Newton for the science and space news outlet The Debrief. Chrissy has appeared on History, eTalk, HGTV, NewsNation, Dash Radio, Newstalk1010, Marketing Magazine, and numerous other media outlets, and she is a host on Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction airing on Discovery Plus and HBO/Max. She also serves as a Partner, writer, and Director of PR for The Debrief and is a recent recipient of the Canadian Podcast Award for Best Science Series.

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Tuesday, January 13, 2025 @ 8:00 PM EST (-5GMT)

 

To learn more about the ongoing research, visit Project Hessdalen:
https://www.hessdalen.org

The old website has lots of important data: https://old.hessdalen.org/index_e.shtml

BIO: Erling P. Strand is a Norwegian engineer and long-time investigator of the unexplained aerial light phenomena in Hessdalen Valley, Norway. He holds an MSc in Physical Electronics and Telecommunications Technology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and has a professional background in research, measurement systems, and computer science education.

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook & Twitter | Tuesday, January 06, 2025 @ 8:00 PM EST (-5GMT)

 

BIO: Anna Brady-Estevez is a founding partner of American Deep Tech, a deep technology investment firm focused on high-impact innovation. She has held senior roles across both the private sector and government, including service as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, where she led national portfolios in energy, sustainability, space technology, and digital assets, and co-chaired interagency initiatives on the space economy and digital assets with the White House and NASA. A Kauffman Fellow and experienced early-stage investor, her work centers on advancing frontier technologies with societal and economic impact. She currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the UAP Disclosure Fund, where she supports serious, evidence-based inquiry into UAP-related science and technology within the broader context of innovation and policy.

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Tuesday, December 30, 2025 @ 9:00 PM EST (-5GMT)

Filmmaker and investigator James Fox joins Martin once again for an in-depth discussion of his latest release, Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters, which premiered this December. James is a longtime friend of the show and always brings thoughtful, firsthand insight into some of the most compelling UFO cases on record. In this wide-ranging conversation, we revisit the infamous 1996 Varginha, Brazil incident, often referred to as “Brazil’s Roswell,” and explore newly uncovered testimony that has emerged since the film’s release. As often happens after a major documentary airs, additional witnesses have come forward—adding layers of detail that continue to reshape our understanding of what may have occurred. James shares fresh updates from his recent travels to Brazil, including new witness accounts, hospital testimony, and disturbing details surrounding alleged creature encounters, military involvement, and medical examinations. We also discuss reports of unusual biological effects, conflicting official narratives, and why this case remains one of the most complex and controversial UFO incidents ever investigated. The conversation expands into broader themes as well—government secrecy, crash-retrieval programs, whistleblowers, and the long-standing question of where recovered craft and biological evidence might be kept. James also recounts his experience inside a classified government facility and what those encounters suggest about the current state of disclosure. Additionally, we touch on: Alleged military and intelligence involvement following the Varginha incident Witness intimidation and “men in suits” accounts Conflicting medical testimony and why some witnesses waited decades to speak The role of the U.S. government in international UFO recovery cases Why 2026–2027 continues to surface as a pivotal timeframe in UFO discussions This episode is pre-recorded due to scheduling, but presented unedited—bloopers and all. Check out the documentary here: https://geni.us/MOC_NewRevelations

BIO: For 30 years, James Fox traveled across the world in pursuit of the truth regarding UFOs. He directed and produced five films on the subject, “Out of the Blue, (2003); “I Know What I Saw” & Director’s Cut Edition, (2009); “The Phenomenon”, (2020) and “Moment of Contact”, (2022)“.

In 2007 orchestrated an event, with help from journalist Leslie Kean (Coalition for Freedom of Information), which to this day is hailed as the most credible civilian effort of disclosure on UFOs in history.
His last film The Phenomenon was a worldwide hit and became a hot news story event due to former minority senate leader, Harry Reid, who stated in Fox’s documentary that “Most of it (UFO evidence) hasn’t seen the light of day.” For his latest film, Moment of Contact, Fox goes where’s he’ never gone before in the phenomenon — reporting on recovered aliens. Taking place in Varginha Brazil in 1996, Fox uncovers new witnesses and reveals information on a cover up that has not seen the light on day for 30 years.

Simulcast on KGRA Digital Broadcasting, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Tuesday, December 23, 2025 @ 9:00 PM EST (-5GMT)

In this in-depth episode of Podcast UFO, host Martin Willis is joined by Len Filppu, a lifelong experiencer whose 1967 Brockport, New York UFO sighting became a pivotal moment that reshaped his understanding of reality, consciousness, and the unexplained. Len recounts witnessing a low-flying, fiery orange object, accompanied by a smaller white orb, moving silently across the sky—an event corroborated by multiple police officers and dozens of civilian witnesses across western New York. The sighting later inspired the animated short documentary Psychedelic in the Sky, which explores not only the event itself, but the deeper psychological and spiritual impact it had on those involved. Beyond the UFO encounter, Len discusses a series of profound anomalous experiences, including a verified poltergeist incident, altered states of consciousness, and how stigma and ridicule once silenced witnesses for decades. Together, Martin and Len examine how public perception of UFOs has evolved—from mockery in the 1960s to serious scientific and academic inquiry today.

This conversation also touches on:

The Brockport UFO case and related sightings

Police and civilian corroboration

Consciousness, synchronicity, and personal transformation

The role of stigma in suppressing UFO testimony

Parallels between UFO encounters and other anomalous phenomena

The episode concludes with the screening of “Psychedelic in the Sky,” an animated short film by filmmaker Matthew Salton.

If you’re interested in credible UFO cases, firsthand testimony, and the deeper implications of anomalous experiences, this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

 

BIO: Len Filppu is a writer-screenwriter whose UAP story is described, in part, in Diana Pasulka’s book, Encounters. He did a stint in television news, served as a press secretary to the successful 1976 Jimmy Carter Presidential Campaign and on Capitol Hill, and worked for decades as an executive for numerous Silicon Valley technology firms including SRI International, Software Publishing Corporation, and Sun Microsystems. A later-in-life father, Len wrote the book, PRIME TIME DADS: 45 Reasons to Embrace Midlife Fatherhood, and was a columnist for The Huffington Post. He helped make the horror film, Fear No Evil, and has written several feature screenplays and a documentary film about the depletion of the Earth’s ozone layer. Len lives with his wife in Northern California where they raised their two children. He is currently working on his metaphysical memoir.

Jimmy Carter’s famous UFO sighting from 1969 in Leary, Georgia, was likely a high-altitude barium-sodium cloud released from a secret U.S. military rocket test at Eglin Air Force Base, consistent with his description of a luminous, color-changing, non-solid orb seen by many witnesses. While Carter never definitively claimed extraterrestrial involvement, his report sparked his lifelong openness to UFO phenomena, leading him to pledge to release UFO info if elected and remain respectful of witness accounts, viewing them as unexplained, potentially experimental, military phenomena, not necessarily alien ships. 

Witness Sidney Zipkin

Simulcast on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter & Rumble | Thursday, December 18, 2025 @ 8:00 PM EST (-5GMT) | Friday on KGRA Digital Broadcasting @ 6:00 PM EST

In this special round-robin episode, Podcast UFO host Martin Willis is joined by an exceptional panel to review one of the most consequential years in modern UFO/UAP history. Filmmaker Dean Alioto, Surprise guest, Matt Ford of The Good Trouble Show, UFO Jack, and Allie & Justin, hosts of UAP Society’s UAP News Show, come together to discuss the major strides, controversies, and revelations that shaped the UAP conversation throughout 202 controversies, and revelations that shaped the UAP conversation throughout 2025. Topics covered include: Congressional hearings, whistleblowers, and renewed legislative efforts surrounding UAP disclosure Scientific re-evaluation of historical and modern UAP data Increased civilian and military reporting, including USOs The growing role of academia and independent research groups Media, documentaries, and the shifting public perception of UFOs Where the UAP conversation stands heading into 2026 This wide-ranging discussion brings multiple perspectives together—media, research, filmmaking, and analysis—to assess how far the subject has progressed and what unanswered questions remain. Whether you follow UFOs from a scientific, political, or cultural standpoint, this episode provides a comprehensive look at why 2025 may be remembered as a turning point in UAP history.