The Our Strange Skies Podcast Archive

John Tenney stops by the pod, and we ramble about the sanity of experiencers, how easy it is to feed your delusion on magical thinking, manifestation and doing magic for others instead of yourself, the contactees, the UFO grifters of past and present, and much more! The Aura Rhanes tweet Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955 by Isabel Davis and Ted Bloecher 

What's up, Patrons. I sat down with my buddy, Spencer Wirth-Davis (The What If? Podcast) to talk about David Grusch's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience. From one man's martyrdom, to a talk about muscle cars and A.I., episode 2065 of the JRE will leave you annoyed as hell and wondering what you just listened to. Don't worry, Spencer and I have got you. From talks about alien life, to talks about muscle cars, orangutans using sticks and AI, this conversation leaves no stone unturned, dives into the "white wing" of ufology, and goes places you don't even see coming.

On this installment of OSS After Dark that is definitely NSFW, Jeff and I bring you the story of one woman's fling with a smelly alien, Claude (who would go on to found the Raelien movement) proudly showing off his baguette to anyone he could, an alien matchmaker that looked like Mega Man, and the story of Rob Krisohperson, who's sexual encounter could best be described as a "mat classic." Special thanks to Jeff Demers for putting in the time on this one. Sources: Sexual Encounters with Extraterrestrials by C.L Turnage  The World's Greatest Alien Abduction Mysteries by Alva Press  The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior  Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

WARNING: Though this episode is hilariously dumb, it it most definitely NSFW Look, y'all voted for this, so you have nobody to blame but yourselves. In the first, and what I hope is the only volume of this series, we bring you three stories, about people having sex with aliens. In the first story, Susan meets a reptilian alien named Quetyl whom she falls deeply in love with only to have things end tragically.  In the second, truck driver Alvin Guerra finds himself taken on board a UFO by a group of alien women. Before long, they "reward" him with sex. And our third story is about a housewife angry and wronged by a group of aliens who had an orgy with her husband. Special thanks to Kay Gray from The Haunted Mitten Podcast for playing the part of Liberato's scorned wife. Special thanks to Jeff Demers for writing this episode. Music is from Soundstripe  Sources Sexual Encounters With Extraterrestrials by C.L. Turnage "UFO, Occupants and Sex in Colombia" by Ignacio Darnaude, Translated by Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 23, No 1, January-February 1977

“This earth is now under close surveillance and profound scrutiny by alien intelligence from distant star systems. I am NOT being silly. I know what I am saying and doing as well as you.” Norman Harrison, 1977 In the early 1970s Norman Harrison started to receive messages from extraterrestrials about such things as... earth's destruction. Were these messages the product of genuine contact, or the result of one man's struggles with life? Research on this episode was done by the great Jeff Demers Source: "A Stranger in the City" by Nigel Watson, MUFOB, New Series 14, Spring 1979  Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Hello patrons! For this bonus episode we dive into the experiences of Vera L. Perry and Millar Faber, two strangers who experienced Bigfoot like activity in association with UFOs, unmarked helicopters, disgruntled police officers, and strange bedroom humanoids. Research for this episode was done by the great Jeff Demers Source: "The Huron Visitations: A Personal Narrative" by Miss Vera L. Perry, Awareness Vol 7 No 1 1978  Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Look, is this project a mistake? Probably, but I will attempt to dethrone Sufjan Stevens and make this 50 states thing work! Anyway, today I bring you some really strange cases from California, including what may be the most terrifying looking UFO of all time, a case reminiscent of the film, The Fourth Kind, a mining couple plagued by a zapping UFO, and some orange stealing aliens! Sources: “Colusa (California) Close Encounter, 10 September 1976: Investigative Report, Part 1” by Brad Sparks, The APRO Bulletin, Vol 25, No 8, February 1977 “Colusa (California) Close Encounter, 10 September 1976: Investigative Report, Part 2” by Brad Sparks, The APRO Bulletin, Vol 25, No 9, March 1977 “Colusa (California) Close Encounter, 10 September 1976: Investigative Report, Part 3” by Brad Sparks, The APRO Bulletin, Vol 25, No 10, April 1977 “Colusa Report Corrections” by Staff Writer, The APRO Bulletin, Vol 26, No 1, July 1977 “The Happy Camp, California, Sightings - Part 1” by Paul Cerny, UFO Research Newsletter,  Vol 5, No 9, December 1977 - January 1978 “The Happy Camp, California, Sightings - Part 2” by Paul Cerny, UFO Research Newsletter, Vol. 5, No 10, February-March 1978 “They like Happy Camp, Part II” by Emilie A. Frank, The Dunsmuir News, September 1, 1976, Pg 3 “Focus: UFOs? You Better Believe It” by Dennis Rowedder, Daily Independent Journal, February 14, 1976, Pg. 61 “Expert: UFO was no phony” by Don West, The San Francisco Examiner, August 14, 1975 “Helen White appears on ‘Real People'” by Hazel Davis, UFO Newsclipping Service, No 126, January 1980 “The Redding, California, Mining Case” by Paul Cerny, The MUFON UFO Journal, No 125, April 1978 “A close encounter with alien claim jumpers: A dynamite tale” by Staff Writer, The San Francisco Examiner, February 5, 1978 “Humanoid Case with ‘Message'” by Richard Hall, The MUFON UFO Journal, No 143, January 1980 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

What's up, patrons! So, I ended up getting Covid, which delayed this episode by a week, and I proudly made it through most of this episode... before coughing (don't worry I edited them all out... I think). On this installment, a Pennine Mystery Addendum, Part 2, so to speak, we look at the experiences of Paul Bennett, one of the investigators of the Alan Godfrey abduction. His story has it all folks, including giant robots, Predator-like "invisible walkers," UFOs and short shadow figures. Also, J Allen Hynek leaves a review of the podcast (didn't see that coming, did ya?) Sources: “Anatomy of a Percipient, Part 1” by Nigel Watson, MUFOB, No. 11, Summer 1978 “Anatomy of a Percipient, Part 2” by Nigel Watson, MUFOB, No. 12, Autumn 1978 Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

On this installment of The Hum and the Silence Jenny Randles gets into an altercation with Peter Robertson, and we look at an article featuring a fae encounter connected to Randles' book The Pennine UFO Mystery.  Special thanks to thePelican on Twitter for pointing me towards the Randles/Rogerson commentaries. Sources: Magonia 13 1983 Magonia 14 1983 “Believing Is Seeing: A question of perception” by Janet Bord, Flying Saucer Review, V 20 N 6, November-December 1974 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Hello patrons! On this episode of The Hum and the Silence, we return to the pages of Canadian UFO Report to find stories of strange humanoids, flying cars, pursuing UFOs and BIGHEAD!  Sources: “Strange Sights in Yukon Sky,” Canadian UFO Report, V 1 N 1, January-February, 1969 “Roadside Visitors” and “Badland Rovers,” Canadian UFO Report, V 2 N 4, 1971 “Strange Case of ‘Flying Cars,'” Canadian UFO Report, V 2 N 4, 1971 “Star Light, Star Bright,” Canadian UFO Report, V 2 N 5, 1972-73 “Agile Humanoid,” Canadian UFO Report, V 3 N 6, 1975 “Strange Voice Heard After UFO Landing” by Graham Conway, Canadian UFO Report, V 3 N 8, Summer 1976 “Flying Alligator Skin,” Canadian UFO Report, V 4 N 6, Winter-Spring 1978 “‘Bighead' Reported,” Canadian UFO Report, V 5 N 1, Winter, 1978-1979 “Humanoids Over West,” Canadian UFO Report, V 5 N 2, Spring, 1979 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Howdy patrons! On this installment of The Hum and the Silence, I look at a handful of fascinating humanoid cases, including "bubble" like entities, a very tall man looking for a dice game, a pair of brains in the middle of the road, and a Soviet alien encounter involving alcohol. Sources: “Entities and Their Carriages” by Ann Druffel, The MUFON UFO Journal, #129 August 1978 The 1957 HUMCAT, 1957 Addendum “My Visitor From Outer Space” by Mary M. Starr, Flying Saucer Review, V 6 N 3, May-June 1960 “The Robots at Warneton” by Bazin Sr., Jr., Bigorne, and Boidin, Flying Saucer Review, V 20 N 5, September-October 1974 The 1976 HUMCAT, Entry #1864 “Encounter on Dapple Gray Lane: Part 1” by Ann Druffel, Flying Saucer Review, V 23 N 1, January-February 1977 “Encounter on Dapple Gray Lane: Part 2” by Ann Druffel, Flying Saucer Review, V 23 N 2, March-April 1977 “More on Dapple Gray Lane” by Ann Druffel, Flying Saucer Review, V 25 N 3, May-June 1979 “Contact Reported Near Pyrogovskoye Lake” by Nikita A. Schnee, Flying Saucer Review, V 26 N 6, November-December 1981 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Greetings, y'all Since we covered David Paulides' shitty doc this week on the podcast, I figured I would cover some strange disappearances that have always stuck with me. Enjoy! Sources: The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman “The Disappearance of Steven Kubacki at the Lake Michigan Triangle, 1978,” 99.1 WFMK “The disappearance of Steven Kubacki in the Lake Michigan Triangle” Strange Outdoors “The Disappearance and Reappearance of Steven Kubacki Case” by Mr. K “The Bizarre Wilderness Vanishing of Aaron Hedges” by Brett Swancer, Mysterious Universe “Aaron Hedges Disappearance. What do you think happened? Foul play? Supernatural? Bad Luck?” reddit “Missing in the Smokies: Dennis Martin's disappearance still haunts park, 52 years later” by Matt Lakin, Knox News “‘An enduring mystery': Why Dennis Martin's disappearance fascinates us, 50 years later” by Matt Lakin, Knox News FBI Files Related to the Dennis Martin disappearance Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee “In 1975, Charles McCullar, 19-year-old aspiring photographer, was reported missing after presumably hiking through Crater Lake, OR. A year later, his broken and damaged skeletal remains were accidentally found by two hikers.” reddit Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

This week's main episode ran a little long, and we didn't want to deny anyone the story of John Womack in all its glory. In his book, I Was Picked Up By A UFO, John Womack detailed his time aboard a UFO and the strangeness that he encountered. We're making this bonus episode available to everyone!

On this installment of The Hum and the Silence we dive into more obscure abduction cases, including the case of Clarence Patterson, who was abducted with his truck near Loxley, Alabama; the story of Paulo Coutinho, who went missing for 20 hours on board a UFO, and one family's encounter in a strange cafe. Sources: The Clarence Patterson Abduction Story as Printed in The Pensacola News, page 1 The Clarence Patterson Abduction Story as Printed in The Pensacola News, page 2A 1973 - Year of the Humanoids: An Analysis of the Fall, 1973 UFO/Humanoid Wave by David Webb “New ‘Wrinkle' in Abduction Cases,” The APRO Bulletin, Vol 3, No 12 Paulo Coutinho Case - Part 1 Paulo Coutinho Case - Part 2 Paulo Coutinho Case - Part 3 “A Harvard psychiatrist says alien encounters, while traumatic, may be our gateway to God” by Anita Baskin, Omni magazine, July 1994 “Truck, Rig, Abducted (?),” The APRO Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 6, December 1979 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

For the final installment of our Addendum series, we return with some odd humanoids, UFO photos, and a series of encounters with short little men in the bedrooms of many Venezuelan residents. James E McDonald hits up the United Nations and gets denied, and the Condon Committee's woes are only beginning. Sources: All sources used in this episode can be found on our Resources page. Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Greetings Patrons! I'm back with the 66 addendum. If you recall, 1966 was the Swamp Gas year; the straw that broke the camels back for Project Blue Book and led to a civilian study of the UFO phenomenon and Blue Book's files from the University of Colorado. It was the year that Frank Manor saw a glowing pyramid in his back yard, an all girls school saw lights in the swamp, a group of police officers pursued a UFO over state lines and the ominous arrival of the Mothman. On this episode I touch on a number of cases that involve foul odors (stinky portals), humanoids talking to each other, James E. McDonald's viewing of the Robertson Panel Report, and Hyenk's more open policy about the UFOs. There were "saucer nests," "bent headlights," and UFOs and humanoids that pursued children, among other fascinating trends in cases. Sources: All sources used in this episode can be found on our Resources page. Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Hello Patrons! Here is the first of three volumes of supplementary material from the 65-67 series! There were a number of trends from this year that stood out, that we didn't really get a chance to cover on the main show. There were multiple events where a car would be lifted up into the air and communication would occur. South America was the location of a number of contactee like cases, but also cases in which "little people" would present witnesses with pieces of metal. This was also the year of the Valensole Affair, one of France's most important UFO cases of all time, and even Antarctica saw UFO activity around this time! Sources: “New Sightings Put AF on Spot” The U.F.O. Investigator V 3 N 1 March-April 1965 “Fed Up With Play – Green Man Confesses” The Daily News Leader January 31, 1965 Radar/Visual Over Pacific Ocean, NICAP “A Russian wall painting and other ‘Spacemen'” by Gordon Creighton Flying Saucer Review 1965 V 11 N 4 The 1965 Humanoid Catalog Entries Filer's Files, #36-1999, September 9, 1999 “UFO activity along the North-East coast of Australia” by Judith Magee Flying Saucer Review 1965 V 11 N 5 Gordon Creighton, “The Significant Report from France,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 5 (Sep./Oct. 1965): 5–6 Aimé Michel, “The Valensole Affair,” Flying Saucer Review 11, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1965): 7–9 Luis Schönherr, “Luis Schönherr's Questionnaire,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 3 (May/June 1966): 21 Aimé Michel and Charles Bowen, “A Visit to Valensole,” Flying Saucer Review 14, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1967): 6–12 Dr. Jacques Lemaître, “A Plan for Valensole,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 4 (Jul./Aug. 1969): 8-12 Jacques Vallée, Paola Leopizzi Harris, TRINITY The Best Kept Secret “The Portuguese UAOs” The A.P.R.O. Bulletin Sep.-Oct. 1965 “Bunker Hill Girl Tells Of Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects In July” by John A. McLaughlin “The ‘Humanoids' in Latin America by Gordon Creighton Flying Saucer Review Special Issue N 1 1966 “Landing at San Pedro De Los Altos” by Horacio Gonzalez Ganteaume, Flying Saucer Review  1969 V 15 N 2 URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog, August 16, 1965, Sedalia, Missouri, USA… URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog, September 10, 1965, Garahuns, Pernambuco, Brazil, Antonio Pau Derro “Report Saucers in Mexico” Chicago Tribune October 1965 “The Langenhoe Incident” by Dr. Bernard E. Finch Flying Saucer Review 1965 V 11 N 6 “Deputy Snaps UAO Color Photo” The A.P.R.O. Bulletin Nov.-Dec. 1965 “An Invisible Speaking UFO?” by Wilhelm S. Simonsen Flying Saucer Review 1968 V 14 N 3 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Hello patrons! on this installment of the Hum and the Silence, I bring y'all some cases from the MUFON UFO Journal from the 2000s. Cases include the saga of the Briese family on their North Dakota Ranch, a fire set by a UFO in Gaffney, South Carolina and sightings of a strange animal in the Ozark. Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Greetings patrons! I apologize for taking so long with these bonus episodes, but they are here in one combined episode. In Volume 9, we take a look at Argentinian sightings leading up to the Trancas Incident (which we covered in episode 99 with Stephanie Quick), including the sighting of a man who was burned by a UFO and a hotel that was destroyed under mysterious circumstances.  As a follow up to episode 100, I present more hostile UFO encounters, including the infamous 1946 encounter of João Prestes Filho, which allegedly lead to his death, and the story of a French baker who was attacked by a UFO occupant. In Volume 10, I present the infamous Cowichan District Hospital close encounter witnessed by Doreen Kendall, which led investigators to a series of sightings on Vancouver Island leading up to it. I also explore an interesting archetype that keeps popping up in my research. Sources: “Argentina 1963-64” by Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review 1964 V 11 N 6 “Argentina 1963-64 Part II” by Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review 1966 V 12 N 1 “The Terrible Death of João Prestes Filho” by Prof. Felipe M. Carrión, Flying Saucer Review 1973 V 19 N 2 “The Incredible Saga of João Prestes” by Pablo Villarrubia Mauso, Inexplicata UFO Danger Zone: Terror and Death in Brazil by Bob Pratt “Did Humanoids Kill These Men?” by F.W. Holiday, Flying Saucer Review 1978 V 24 N 1 “Puy-De-Dôme ‘UFO Soldier'” by Joël Mesnard, Flying Saucer Review 1970 V 16 N 1 “UFO Occupants Seen Near Hospital” Canadian UFO Report 1970 V 1 N 7 The Canadian Humanoid Encounter Wave of 1968, PSICAN “Occupants Over Sweden” Canadian UFO Report 1973-1974 V 2 N 8 Doreen Kendall obituary Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg

Hello Patrons! On this episode of the Hum and the Silence, I delve into supplementary material from the "Year of the Humanoids," including a woman named Alice and her family's encounters with "the little people." There is the story of Eddie Webb, a long haul trucker who was blinded and had his glasses burned by a UFO. On the abduction side of things, Brian Scott had been involved in multiple abductions including one in 1973 in which his consciousness was abducted and taken on board a UFO. Patty Roach was involved in a frightening encounter with her entire family as they were taken from their home and brought on board a craft to have her memories taken. Sources: "The Little People of the Night" by Cheryl Costa, Syracuse New Times.  August 25, 2017 “Trucker claims UFO blinded him,” Southeast Missourian Blog “‘UFO-distorted' glasses examined,” Southeast Missourian Blog "Hypnotic Regression of Alleged CE-III Cases by A.H. Lawson, Flying Saucer Review 1976 V 22 N 3  Transformation of a Common Man: The Brian Scott Story by James E. Frazier The October Scenario by Kevin Randle   Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerber

This episode contains depictions of sexual assault.  In our final episode we examine the case of Antônio Carlos Ferreira, a Brazilian security guard/stonemason who was involved in a series of UFO abductions that would lead to the creation of an alien-human hybrid child, and would lead the most annoying aliens ever to pester an innocent man over the course of six years. The Ferreira abduction would be the mark of a significant flap of UFO activity that would take place in and around the municipality of Mirassol. Thank you all so much, from the bottom of my hear, for listening to this podcast over the years. Y'all are amazing.  Sources: UFO Abduction at Mirassol by Prof. Ney Matiel Pires, Dr. Walter K. Buhler and Guilherme Pereira "Enduring mystery of Birmingham's alien 'Venus Baby' born in Aston" by Thomas Fair, BirminghamLive Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available! Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast!

Pull out your humanoid catalogs and put your flaps on a map, it's time for the season (maybe series?!) finale of Our Strange Skies. On this episode Nicole and Noëlle from The Quite Unusual Podcast stop by to talk about the landmark publication, The Humanoids. With the even longer subtitle of “a survey of World-Wide reports of landings of unconventional aerial objects and their alleged Occupants…” this special edition of Britain's Flying Saucer Review was the first of its kind, devoted solely to the humanoids that UFO investigators and the press had largely ignored to this point. We dive into this document, the larger implications it offers, what the true meaning of alien contact is, and we put all of these flaps up on map. Is Earth basically just a timeshare for aliens? Do they visit us at our most mundane moments? Are the Men in Black real estate brokers and did they pay Ed Walters to make Gulf Breeze more attractive to alien tourists? Why is the onesie the most efficient form of clothing? We explore this and so much more! Source: “The Humanoids” edited by Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, Special Issue #1, October-November 1966 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast!

We're going to be taking a break from the Great UFO Conspiracy series, but before we do, I wanted y'all to hear this episode I recorded with Adam Gorightly (Historia Discordia), the author of Saucers, Spooks, and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius. We discuss Tal Levesque, and the origins of the Dulce Base myth, Bill Moore's role in disseminating disinformation, the Pratt Tapes, the UAP Hearing, Myrna Hanson, how some groups in ufology are becoming more militarized, and much much more. Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Louise from Weird Reads with Emily Louise joins the pod to unleash a torrent of paranoid skepticism. This episode contains a fair amount of shit talking about David Paulides, Leo Sprinkle, Rick Doty, and Bill Moore. We question how trustworthy Jacques Vallee and J Allen Hyenk were, the unreliability of hypnosis, and so much more! "When that synth comes on, and you're going inside the cow's ass... beautiful..." - Emily Louise Think Anomalous has lots of fun videos and you should check them out. Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here is our uncut interview with David Riedel, son of Pat McGuire and author of "My Dad Was A Famous Alien Abductee. I Thought He Was A Joke — Now I'm Not So Sure." David talks about his time growing up in an abusive cult, the existence of the well and what that means to his life, spending time with Pat growing up, and what it means to get his story out there. We also talk about a FOIA request he made with the FBI, David Paulides' shitty YouTube video, David's own personal experiences, and much, much more. For those interested in seeing that stupid David Paulides video, here it is. Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ten miles from Bosler, Wyoming sits a ranch with a rather unusual feature. A well over 350 feet deep. A miracle well whose builder was told that he would never strike water. And yet, he did. Pat McGuire's well is an enduring mystery. It's the largest artesian well ever dug in Wyoming, and it was dug in an area that everyone said would be dry. But Pat had faith and a little guidance from an alien angel named Michael. This well would bring with it a host of UFOs, alien abductions, hypnosis sessions, bids for governor, nationwide publicity, and a small cult. Pat's story is a cautionary tale, and one that should be handled with care. And as his son, David Riedel put it, “...we should feel impelled to investigate and rescue a community living with the trauma of the unknown and indescribable. A community we greeted with sneers and derision for so long, a community we pushed to the outskirts of our cultural limits to be safely ignored. If it is all true ― or it is all lies and sickness ― we should approach both valuations with care and consideration, even skepticism, but not with the intense ridicule so many of us have given them for so long.” Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Is it saucers, satanists or CIA?” wrote Tom Adams in Stigmata, the only zine dedicated to the cattle mutilation phenomenon of the 1970s and 80s, and by the end of the decade, researchers and investigators were no closer to finding the culprit. The road to the greatest UFO conspiracy of all time is a windy one, laced with paranoia, shady figures, and a carcass count in the tens of thousands. The mute phenomenon was a slow moving one that gradually gained momentum until it led to ranchers arming themselves against mystery helicopters and out-of-town strangers. Still, there were a number of oddities during this time period. In Montana, Cascade County accounted for nearly every type of phenomenon associated with their mute cases, including the discovery of a “cult” site and the appearance of that big hairy guy that likes to hang out in the Pacific Northwest, Bigfoot. In Colorado, cases reached an epidemic proportion, and the culprits were brave enough to leave one carcass at NORAD's front gate. And on Manuel Gomez's ranch in Dulce, New Mexico, the perpetrators planted evidence to make it seem like the government was definitely involved. Regardless, the mute phenomenon reached epidemic proportions, leading one U.S. Senator to convene the first conference on the topic. A conference that would lead to the greatest UFO conspiracy of all time. Special thanks to Brennan Storr (The Ghost Story Guys), Philip Keating (Botched Podcast, Imaginary Nomad on Twitch), Emily Louise (Weird Reads with Emily Louise), Ash, Ryan Sprague (Somewhere in the Skies) and David Riedel. Sources: “The Enduring Panic About Cow Mutilations” by Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, May 8, 2023 Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery by Christopher O'Brien “Mind Blowing Soul-Suckers??” by Staff Writer, Stigmata, No 5 “Ordeal in Arkansas” by Staff Writer, Stigmata, No 4 The Night Mutilators by Gene Duplantier Dulce Base The Truth and Evidence From the Case Files of Gabe Valdez by Greg Valdez “Wave of Mutilation: The Cattle Mutilation Phenomenon of the 1970s” by Michael J. Goleman, The Agricultural History Society, 2011 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CW: Animal Death On June 5, 2023, The Debrief published an article titled “Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non Human Origins.” Written by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal, the article details claims brought forth by whistleblower David Grusch, a former Air Force officer and intelligence official, concerning documents he had been shown. And what was in these documents? Evidence of a crash recovery program responsible for retrieving alien spaceships that had embedded themselves into Earth's soil. In subsequent interviews, Grusch claimed that the Pope informed the American Army of a UFO that had crashed in Italy in the mid 1940s, that we've recovered alien bodies, and… that aliens have killed humans! Here's the thing… This is all old hat, and it was Grusch's claims that prompted the beginning of this series. All UFO conspiracies can be traced back to the 1980s. Before we get there, however, we need to take a trip back to 1967, to the mutilation heard round the world. The death of Lady, Nellie Lewis' prize horse, garnered national press attention, forever linking the phenomenon of livestock mutilation to UFOs. Special thanks to Jay Shenk, Darcy Staniforth (Cinema Sentries, Mysteries Decoded Podcast) and Emily Louise (Weird Reads with Emily Louise) Sources: Stalking the Herd: Unraveling the Cattle Mutilation Mystery by Christopher O'Brien “How the Death of 6,000 Sheep Spurred the American Debate on Chemical Weapons” by Lorraine Boissoneault Dr. John H. Altshuler entry on Northern Ontario UFO Research & Study website “After 50 years, Snippy still a mystery” by Sylvia Lobato - Alamosa News Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the final palette cleanser episode before we dive deep into serious UFO conspiracy territory, Jessica Knapik from What's Up Weirdo joins me to talk about the weird vibe of her post office, haunted workplaces, misconceptions about paranormal investigating, UFO photos, dream places to investigate, Robert Stack's haunting visage, WWE and UFC being owned by the same company, and how much we love Jaws.  Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, my good friend Steve Berg (Host of the wonderful podcast, Hi, Strangeness) returns to the pod to talk about Nebraska weirdness, the old guard and their old ways, making friends in paranormal circles, and we recommend a ton of books! Steve's List Alien Dawn by Colin Wilson Above Top Secret by Timothy Good Origins of the Gods: Qesem Cave, Skinwalkers, and Contact with Transdimensional Intelligences by Andrew Collins & Gregory L. Little Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults by Jacques Vallee Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Other World by Patrick Harpur Operation Trojan Horse: The Classic Breakthrough Study of UFOs by John Keel People of the Web: What Indian Mounds, Ancient Rituals, and Stone Circles Tell Us About Modern UFO Abductions, Apparitions, and the Near Death Experience by Gregory L. Little Rob's List Somewhere in the Skies by Ryan Sprague The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs by Mark O'Connell The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials by Patrick Huyghe (Illustrations by Harry Trumbore) Synchronicity: Science, Myth and the Trickster by Allan Combs and Mark Holland When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken & Stanley Schachter Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius by Adam Gorightly Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens by John E. Mack The Humanoids by Charles Bowen Dimensions: A Case Book of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception by Jacques Vallee UFOs and Abductions in Brazil by Irene Granchi UFOs Over Africa by Cynthia Hind It Defies Language! by Greg Bishop Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever been so burnt out on a subject that you needed to just have a good therapeutic chat with a friend about UFOs, ghosts, and about the shit going on in your life? Well, that's what I decided to do with my friend Lindsey. We laughed, we exchanged paranormal stories, and we just had a good conversation. Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researcher Cole Herrold (New World Explorers Society) returns to the podcast to talk about the numerous and varied experiences of Jennings Frederick, a resident of Rivesville, West Virginia. He talks about the experience of his mother Ivah, the infamous Veggie Man encounter, a run-in with the Men in Black, and his time as a UFO investigator. Cole also talks about Frederick's brief time as a UFO investigator, as well, and the ongoing research he's doing into this entire story. The Veggie Man Lives! Sources: Alien Meetings By Brad Steiger Extraordinary Encounters By Jerome Clark Humanoid Encounters: 1965-1969 By Albert S. Rosales Into the Unknown By Reader's Digest Men in Black: The Secret Terror By Gray Barker Monsters Among Us By Brad Steiger The UFO Phenomenon by Time-Life books Gray Barker's Newsletter March 1976 Monsters and Ghosts of West Virginia By Erin Turner and Isaac Mckinnon Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you like intergalactic wars between humans and aliens? Well, have we got a treat for you. This week, Rus Ryan from The Unbelievers podcast returns to discuss another Rus... Russell Kellet, the E.T. Rider! In the foreword of his book, Rus Kellett describes himself as a down-to-earth, no-nonsense hard-working man from a down-to-earth, no-nonsense hard-working family. The best way to describe Mr. Kellett: Imagine if Napoleon Dynamite was an abductee. He enjoys various hobbies, such as riding motorcycles, practicing martial arts, drawing centaurs, and crafting swords. Like a true road warrior, he spends most of his time cruising through West Yorkshire on his chopper. Oh, and he also underwent military training to fight reptilians. Join us as we discuss telepathic strippers, Eastern European aliens, Yorkshire pudding, and horse people. Source: E.T. Rider by Russell Kellett Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Ryan Sprague, the host of Somewhere in the Skies, and author of the new book, Stories from Somewhere in the Skies. Culled from the "Witness Accounts" series from the podcast, Ryan presents the stories of every day people encountering the extraordinary in our skies and beyond. Ryan discusses the importance of the "Witness Accounts" series, and giving a voice and space for people to tell their stories, the process of culling through the podcast series to find the stories that made it into the podcast, and Ryan shares a few of his favorites as well. You can also pick up Ryan's first book, Somewhere in the Skies, as well. Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1977 a series of UFO and humanoid sightings would capture the headlines in and around West Wales. Sightings of cigar shaped objects and saucers became common place. On Ripperstone farm, the Coombs family were plagued by a number of curious incidents, which included UFOs, encounters with tall spacemen, disembodied hands, and men in black. These events would mirror themselves at the Haven Fort Hotel, where Rosa Grenville and her family were likewise visited by strange figures and men in black suits. Some would come to call it The Dyfed Enigma, others the Terror Triangle or The Welsh Triangle, and even the Broad Haven Triangle. But whatever you want to call it, what you're about to hear is very strange and frightening. The music featured in this episode is by The Night Monitor. You can check out all of his music on Bandcamp, Apple Music and Spotify. Sources: The Dyfed Enigma: Unidentified Flying Objects in West Wales by Randall Jones Pugh & F.W. Holiday The Welsh Triangle by Peter Paget The Uninvited by Clive Harold “Broad Haven School Report” by Randall Jones Pugh, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 23, No 1, January-February 1977 “Schools ‘singled out'” by Staff Writer, The BUFORA Journal, Vol 6, No 1, May/June 1977 “Report–Extra! From hedge-hoppers to humanoids…!” by Norman Oliver, The BUFORA Journal, Vol 6, No 2, July/August 1977 “The Little Haven Humanoids” by Randall Jones Pugh & F.W. Holiday, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 23, No 2, March-April 1977 “Humanoid Encounter at Rainford” by Jenny Randles, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 26, No 6, November-December 1978 “Stack Rocks Humanoid Display” by Randall Jones Pugh, Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 26, No 6, November-December 1978 The Broad Haven Triangle UFO Sightings: The Welsh Triangle - A National Geographic Documentary The Ripperston Farm Extraterrestrials - The Paranormal Scholar Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In late 2021, when we relaunched OSS full time, I had my friend Brian Hastie from the Double Density podcast on to talk about the abduction of José Antônio da Silva. We decided to record a bonus episode where I dropped a surprise story on him. The original show notes: Do you miss Car Talk and when people talk... about cars. Well, this isn't that show, but strangely, we talk a little bit ABOUT WEIRD CARS. Brian Hastie joins me to discuss a very strange alien report from Wisconsin. We also chat about the current state of UFO research, the cases we've come to champion, and how to handle THE GONDOLA MAN!  Source: "A Creature from Wisconsin" Flying Saucer Review 1977 V22 N5  Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we welcome Mike Clelland to the show. We dive into the weirdness of Saranac Lake, NY, a town we both lived in, as well as the nature and meaning of synchronicities, the work of Mac Tonnies; we each dive into some personal stories, and search for the meaning of it all in this wonderful conversation. Mike has a new novel coming out called The Unseen. He is also the author of The Messengers, Stories from the Messengers, and Hidden Experience. Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode a couple of New York guys talk about some New York stories, as Mothboy Matt from the Mothboys podcast joins me to talk about their new book, The White Monsters of Sherman New York, as well as some other New York cases, including an encounter with an elf, a bigfoot down in Whitehall, a UFO crash in Moriches Bay and much more! Sources: Little People by Ron Quinn UFO Crash Retrievals: The Inner Sanctum: Status Report VI by Leonard Stringfield The White Monsters of Sherman New York by The Mothboys "They Saw a Saucer Woman" by D.C. Lucchesi, Saucerian, Vol 2, No 2, September 1954 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you down with the clown? Well this week, guests Stephanie Quick, AP Strange & I dive into the weirdness of clowns, their trickster-like nature, their ability to pop up out of nowhere, and for some reason we talk about naked hairy clown asses, and we kind of fantasize about Sam, the Sandown Clown naked, and name him a new LGBTQ+ icon. This is a weird, funny one, y'all. Strap in for a face of painted weirdness, clowns that terrorized some kids across the US, and the sad karaoke ghost man that was Sam, the Sandown Clown. Stephanie Quick's Blog AP Strange's Blog "Report - Extra! Ghost or Spaceman '73?" by Norman Oliver, The BUFORA Journal, Vol 6, No 5, January/February 1978 Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation's Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures by Loren Coleman "Creeping into the Valley of the Uncanny" by AP Strange "Clowns to the Left of Me, Joker to the Right..." by AP Strange Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The city of Villa Carlos Paz is a tourist destination in central Argentina, known for a number of outdoor activities, such as kite surfing and hiking, as well as a giant cuckoo clock in the center of town. (Apparently the bird is controversial) In UFO circles, however, the town is known for one event in particular, the case of the Night Visitor. Also known as the Pretzel CEIII case, on June 14, 1968, María Elodia Pretzel was in the process of locking up the family motel, Motel La Cuesta (Known now as Hotel La Cuesta), when she would have a frightening encounter with a flattopped being carrying a strange disco ball and wearing a tight fitting suit. Strangely, María's encounter was not the only one that featured mysterious human-like figures... Zee from Ghosts-n-Heauxs joins the pod to discuss the Night Visitor case and others of the 1968 South American flap. Sources: Villa Carlos Paz - Wikipedia “Cuckoo Clock at Villa Carlos Paz” - Welcome Argentina “The Anthropomorphic Entity At Villa Carlos Paz – Part 1” by Dr. Oscar A. Galíndez, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 26, No 5, January 1981 “The Anthropomorphic Entity At Villa Carlos Paz – Part 2” by Dr. Oscar A. Galíndez, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 26, No 6, March 1981 “The Anthropomorphic Entity At Villa Carlos Paz – Part 3” by Dr. Oscar A. Galíndez, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 27, No 1, June 1981 The 1968 Humanoid Catalog “A New South American ‘Wave' by Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 14, No 5, September-October 1968 “World round-up: Argentina” by Staff Writer, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 14, No 6, November-December 1968 “One Day in Mendoza” by Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 14, No 6, November-December 1968 “World round-up: Argentina” by Staff Writer, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 16, No 1, January-February 1970 “Physical Examination By ‘Miniature Martians'” by Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, Vol 15, No 5, September-October 1969 “Pretzel Case: The Opinion of a Psychologist by Alejandro Cesar Agostinelli” (Title Translated) by Alejandro Agostinelli, UFO Press, Vol 6, No 15, January 1983 “The incredible and sad story of the naive Elodia and her heartless father” (Title Translated) by Alejandro Agostinelli, UFO Press, Vol 6, No. 18, October 1983 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the first installment of what we hope is a long running series, Fred Andersson and I shoot the shit about all things UFO, including the government's fascination with shooting down balloons, the government's inability to investigate anything, the contactees and abduction phenomenon, our favorite UFO films, what cases we'd want to see adapted into films, and our favorite noodle? Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available!  Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On August 17, 1966, Paulo Cordeiro Azevedo dos Santos went bird hunting on Morro do Vintém, a hill that overlooked the Santa Rosa neighborhood of Niterói in Rio de Janeiro. Instead of birds, he stumbled upon a horrifying scene: two lifeless bodies, partially covered in vegetation. He rushed to report his disturbing discovery to local radio patrol officer Antônio Guerra, but his story was dismissed as a prank. The following day, 18-year-old Jorge da Costa Alves and his friends went searching for Alves' lost kite and were hit with a putrid odor that led them to the same bodies. Alves immediately reported the discovery to the Niterói police station. Join us as we discuss the bizarre details of the Lead Masks case, including a sneaky dog, criminals with lame nicknames, extraterrestrial revenge, and a man called Pizza. Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available! Sources: “The Lead Masks Mystery” by Staff Writers, Flying Saucer Review, V 12 N 6, November-December 1966 “The Mystery of Morro Do Vintem” by Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, V 13 N 2, March-April 1967 “No Easy Solution to the Morro Mystery” by Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review, V 14 N 4, July-August 1968 “Follow Up on the Morro Do Vintem Mystery” by Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, V 17 N 4, July-August 1971 “Strange Deaths in Brazil,” The A.P.R.O. Bulletin, September-October 1966 Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee “The Case of the Lead Masks” by Redação Vigilia, Portal Vigilia, 01/05/1999 “The Lead Masks Case” by Paola Lucherini Covo, Instituto Nacional de Investigação de Fenômenos Aeroespaciais “THE LEAD MASKS CASE: MYSTERIOUS DEATHS ON VINTÉM HILL,” True Noir, 3/16/2017 “The Bizarre Lead Mask Deaths of 1966” by Stacy Conradt, Mental Floss, 10/22/2015 “The Lead Masks Case,” The Mask Sign Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

April Fools, suckers! Also, happy first night of Wrestlemania! The subject of this episode was voted on by our dear patrons. For this installment of The Swerve, I'm joined by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess from Astonishing Legends to dive into the sinister dealings of that "extra special mongoose," Gef, the Talking Mongoose. Known on the Isle of Man as the "Dalby Spook," Gef first appeared as wrappings and knockings on the walls of the Irving family home at Doarlish Cashen in September of 1931. Before long, the knocks transformed into full sentences from a high pitched voice. Gef became the talk of the island, bringing investigators of all kinds to the island including Harry Price and Nandor Fodor, but what was Gef really? On this episode we dive into Gef's exploits and try to figure out if he truly was an "extra clever mongoose" or something else... Sources: Gef!: The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe Gef The Talking Mongoose: The "Eighth Wonder of the World" by Tim R. Swartz Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I got COVID... so I got my buddies, Brian and Angelo of the Double Density podcast, to step in and host this bad boy this week. Philip Julian Klass is one of the most reviled figures in UFO history. A skeptic by nature, Klass would become synonymous with bad faith debunking, badgering Ed Walters on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and his $10,000 challenge. This week, Brian and Angelo talk about his life in UFOs, his ufological principles, the fallacies in his thinking, his few victories, and they somehow get him to review this podcast? Special thanks to Brian and Angelo for stepping up and helming the ship this week! Welcome UFO People Prints Are Now Available! Sources: interview with PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/philipklass.html George Knapp interviews him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKWhcDvh5sk https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/extraterrestrials-may-be-out-there Don Ecker on Phil Klass: https://web.archive.org/web/20070203091643/http://www.destinationspace.net/ufo/ufomag/ufomag1008.asp https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/the-war-of-the-words/ Randle vs Klass Friedman vs Klass on Nightline - part 1 of 2 Friedman vs Klass on Nightline - part 2 of 2 Letter PJK sent about Stanton Friedman moving to Canada: https://web.archive.org/web/20120801084846/http://keyholepublishing.com/New%20Klass%20Letter%20Found.htm National Tattler worm cover: https://www.pulpinternational.com/images/postimg/slip_slidin'_away.jpg Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The picturesque island of Coronado, situated in the resort city of San Diego, California, is crawling with the Secret Service in preparation for the arrival of William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton, saxophonist extraordinaire and 42nd President of the United States of America. Clinton is scheduled to deliver a speech at the historic and famously haunted five-star Hotel Del Coronado, located close to three military bases, on the 27th. Coincidentally, a two-day UFO conference is taking place at the Del Coronado, hosted by Yvonne Smith, a certified hypnotherapist specializing in PTSD and alien abductions and founder of the Close Encounter Research Organization (CERO). During the weekend, the island will become the site of an abduction event on a scale never seen before or since, allegedly involving President Clinton himself. After an investigation that lasted nearly two decades and involved hundreds of hours of regression therapy with witnesses, Smith uncovered a disturbing story in which a dozen or more people, conveniently all members of CERO, were simultaneously abducted from their rooms on two consecutive nights at different locations. It's got all the hits, folks. Grab your abduction Bingo cards and join us as we discuss cape-wearing aliens, perplexed Greys struggling with blankets, a man's relentless quest to show his penis to every living organism on earth and we're not talking about President Clinton here, and so, so much more. If YELP had been a thing back then, all of these establishments would've gone out of business. Sources: Coronado: The President, The Secret Service and Alien Abductions: ISBN-13: 9781499195019 LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-06-vl-9120-story.html IMDB Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pennine Hills, located in Northern England, played host to a number of strange phenomenon throughout the 1970s and into the 80s. From the "Phantom Copters" of 1973, to triangular shaped UFOs and low hovering objects that would stop cars, the area was a hotspot. It ultimately culminated in two events connected by one person, Alan Godfrey. The mysterious death of Zigmund Adamski was strange by police standards, but even stranger when the police refused to investigated it. It became stranger four months later, when the officer involved would have a startling encounter with alien beings. This week, we talk about the Pennine Mystery! The Night Monitor just released and album inspired by this case! You can check it out on bandcamp. Sources: The Pennine UFO Mystery by Jenny Randles Who or What Were They? By Alan Godfrey “Phantom Copters: On The Trail of the Phantom Flyer” by Dr. David Clarke “Frightening Car-Stop Near Nelson” by Tony Grimshaw and Jenny Randles, Flying Saucer Review, V 23 N 2, March-April 1977 Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the Spring of 1988, Dr. Karla Turner, an English instructor at the University of North Texas, unexpectedly asked her class to objectively evaluate evidence on Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or UFOs. Despite describing herself as open-minded, she had limited interest in the paranormal. Karla believed that examining the evidence from an academic perspective would result in weak and inconclusive findings. She admitted that she had only looked at the evidence with a passing curiosity before assigning her students to evaluate it. Little did she know, this assignment would shatter her world and lead to her becoming one of the most tragic figures in the field of ufology. She fell victim to tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists, charlatans, and misguided crusaders for the truth, who were oblivious or indifferent to the harm they caused to many others like her. From this one assignment, Karla Turner and her family would become embroiled in the alien abduction phenomenon, becoming abductees largely over night. Everyone that came into her life would offer confirmation through stories of their own. This is the story of one of the abduction phenomenon's tragic figures, Karla Turner. Sources & Links: Into The Fringe: A True Story of Alien Abduction by Karla Turner Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda by Karla Turner “51 - Ted Rice & The Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” by The Nonsense Bazaar “Abductions in the Gingerbread House” by Karla Turner Karla Turner's Facebook Page run by Elton Turner Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scribd is a magical resource, full of the most obscure documents, journals, and manifestos ever assembled in one location. One fine day I stumbled upon a strange report assembled by Dennis Pilichis entitled Night Siege - The Northern Ohio UFO-Creature Invasion. The report details the struggles of the Robert S. family as they defended their property from a series of strange beings and objects. The story reads like the Kelly-Hopkinsville Incident on steroids and maybe drugs. Definitely drugs. This story has it all: Bigfoots with glowing red eyes, dark figures with weird flashlights, UFOs of all kinds, the most baller illustrations you've ever seen in your life, (Shout out Larry Blazey) a family that will literally shoot at anything while on their roof, and rabbits filled with cynaide. Spencer Wirth Davis (The What If? Podcast, The Layers Lair & Dang! That's Weird) returns to experience the Invasion for himself! Source: Night Siege - The Northern Ohio UFO-Creature Invasion by Dennis Pilichis Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 140 we looked at a wave of UFO activity that occurred in 1967. Many reported seeing strange red lights and metallic structured craft, and other objects, but few humanoid sightings were reported. In 1968, things got a lot weirder. Throughout Canada witnesses reported strange encounters with humanoids, including luminous men, spacesuit-clad figures, a long bearded naked figure clinging to a boulder overlooking a cemetery, and figure with an ugly face peering in through a window. Todd Purse returns to the pod to talk about Canada's "Year of the Humanoids," the 1968 Canadian Humanoid Wave! Sources: The Canadian Humanoid Wave of 1968 - Paranormal Studies and Inquiry Canada The trash podcast, Mysterious Universe, and they're article about the 1968 humanoid wave by Brett Swancer “UFO Chases Car” - UFO B.C. “Light Being at Whytecliff Park” - UFO B.C. “Victoria B.C. UFO Photographs” - UFO B.C. APRO Bulletin Contains a UFO Report from B.C. APRO Bulletin about a spate of sightings in Ontario APRO Bulletin Sep-Oct 1968 Flying Saucer Review article by Gordon Creighton called “An Unprepossessing Creature Seen in Canada” The 1968 HUMCAT Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1967 was a unique year for Canada. While the United States was embroiled in its own flap that saw the Ohio Valley play host to a myriad of strange activity, the Men in Black run amuck on UFO witnesses, and the government shunt off its UFO program to the University of Colorado, Canada's flap was a quiet affair… but a predicted one. “In the spring of 1967 the late Dr. Olavo T. Fontes of Rio de Janeiro, an intensely interested student of the UFO mystery, predicted the fall of that year would record more UFO sightings than any period in the 20-year history of the phenomena. “Asked on what basis he made this prediction, he explained that he and other researchers had noticed that UFO waves occurred every 26 months. In addition he had made the personal observation there was a peak period every five years, and according to his calculations the two cycles would merge late in 1967. “Some weeks later when Dr. Fontes was visited by Jim and Coral Lorensen of the Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization, the three of them discussed his forecast and tried to select the areas where activity would be most pronounced. Because Canada and England always had their share of visits, but so far not in any unusual number, they picked these two countries as the probable areas of most noticeable activity.” Canadian UFO Report dubbed 1967 “the year we were invaded without knowing it.” In this episode we will explore the UFO activity that occurred in 1967, beyond the big two cases, The Falcon Lake Incident and the Shag Harbour Incident, to the corners of the country where the UFOs took an interest. Sources: “The Year We Were Invaded Without Knowing It,” Canadian UFO Report, Vol 1 No. 6, Nov-Dec 1969 “Invasion Over Prairies,” Canadian UFO Report, Vol 1 No 7, Summer 1970 “Canada's Year of ‘Invasion' Part 3,” Canadian UFO Report, Vol 1, No 8, Fall, 1970 “Hikers Near Calgary photographed a UFO in 1967” by Wendelle Stevens, Open Minds Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're taking a bit of a break from our abduction series, and this week, Sequoyah Kennedy from The Nonsense Bazaar joins me to talk a little shit about the C.I.A. In 1952, the new Project Blue Book was riding high. With Captain Edward Ruppelt at the helm, the project was now taking UFOs seriously... but for a limited time. Before long, the project was hampered by press leaks and understaffing, but its open mindedness to the UFO subject never waned. That would all change over the course of two successive weekends in July of 1952 when UFOs would appear over Washington D.C. and cause a massive uproar in the press. An uproar that Blue Book was not prepared to handle. President Truman wanted answers quickly and asked the C.I.A. to step in. Leading to the infamous Robertson Panel, the C.I.A. would set the course of Blue Book's investigations in the following years. All of this was a secret until the report was discovered by the unsung hero of the ufological world, Dr. James E. McDonald. Sources: Flying Saucers (1952) - YouTube UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry by Michael Swords and Robert Powell Firestorm: Dr. James E. McDonald's Fight for UFO Science by Ann Druffel The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: The Original 1956 Edition by Edward Ruppelt UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973 by Richard Dolan The Washington D.C. UFO Sightings, 1952 - Think Anomalous (YouTube) Theme song: "Ufo" by Floats, available on Soundcloud, iTunes and Spotify Logo designed by Megan Lagerberg T-Shirt Designs by The Great Desdymona Check out ourstrangeskies.com for all things related to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices