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From a New Mexico ranch in 1947 to a Navy fighter jet in 2004, we trace ten of history's most famous UFO encounters — the eyewitnesses who saw them, the governments who denied them, and the questions that still won't go away."EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/skiesarewatchingREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/4hfn747dCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding00:06:39.225 = Show Open00:07:58.582 = The Roswell UFO Incident00:12:38.079 = The Westall UFO Encounter00:15:33.497 = The Pascagoula Abduction00:19:27.674 = The Allagash Abductions ***00:22:35.165 = The Tehran UFO Incident00:25:46.548 = The Cash-Landrum Incident00:29:03.352 = The Rendlesham Forest Incident00:32:19.175 = The Belgian UFO Wave00:36:28.126 = The Phoenix Lights ***00:40:52.495 = The Nimitz UFO Encounter00:44:15.325 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:- Paranormality Magazine article; (link no longer valid)- Halt, Charles. "Halt Memo," January 1981, archived by the UK National Archives.- Penniston, Jim, and John Burroughs. "Encounter in Rendlesham Forest." Thomas & Mercer, 2014.- BBC News. "Rendlesham Forest: 'Britain's Roswell' UFO spotted off Suffolk coast," September 2011.- Pope, Nick. "You Can't Tell the People." Pan Books, 2001 – A book by a former MoD UFO investigator discussing the cover-ups and inside stories of the British government's responses to UFO sightings, including the Rendlesham Forest incident.- Bruni, Georgina. "You Can't Tell the People: The Definitive Account of the Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery." Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000.- SOBEPS Reports on the Belgian UFO Wave- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdEALPvl_4Q- "Belgium in UFO Fever" - Brussels Times- "The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident," by John F. Schuessler, provides an extensive analysis of the event, including medical records and witness testimonies.- "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry," a comprehensive study by Michael Swords and others, details the government's response to UFO sightings, including the Cash-Landrum case.- "Fire in the Sky: The Cash-Landrum UFO Incident," an article in the MUFON UFO Journal that revisits the incident, detailing the investigation and subsequent legal battle.- "Westall '66: A Suburban UFO Mystery," a documentary by Shane Ryan, explores the events through witness testimonies and expert interviews.- "The Westall UFO: A Suburban Mystery," a book by Keith Basterfield, provides a detailed account of the sighting, including the social and governmental context.- Articles and interviews archived by the Victorian UFO Action group, which has collected and analyzed first-hand accounts from witnesses and former students of Westall High School.- U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency Report: This declassified document provides a detailed account of the Tehran UFO Incident, including descriptions from the pilots and ground control.- "Iranian Jet Chased UFO, Got Light Show": This article in the New York Times archives covers the public's reaction and the international reporting following the incident.- Interview with Lt. Parviz Jafari: Several interviews with Jafari provide first-hand accounts of the encounter, including technical details of the aircraft's malfunctions.- CIA Document on the Tehran UFO Incident: A collection of declassified CIA documents that discuss the implications of the encounter and its analysis by various intelligence agencies.- The New York Times: Articles from December 2017 that first revealed the Nimitz encounter to the public.- Department of Defense Releases: Official statements and declassified videos of the encounters.- Interviews with Commander David Fravor: His firsthand accounts provide detailed observations of the encounter.- "Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation" on History Channel: This television series features interviews with the pilots and analysis of the encounters.- Raymond E. Fowler, the investigator and author of "The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention," which details the incident and the hypnosis sessions.- Interviews and Appearances: The men involved have given numerous interviews and appeared on various television programs to recount their experiences.- "Unsolved Mysteries" Television Series: Featured the Allagash abductions, providing a dramatized account and interviews with the witnesses.- Skeptical Analysis by Robert Sheaffer and others, who critique the method of hypnosis used and the financial aspects related to the publicity of the case.- "The Pascagoula UFO Incident" by Charles Hickson – Hickson wrote a detailed account of his experience.- "UFOs: Past, Present, and Future" by Robert Emenegger – Includes interviews and analysis of the Pascagoula incident.- Interviews and documentaries – Multiple television programs and documentaries have featured interviews with the witnesses and analyses by UFO researchers.- Articles in major newspapers – Numerous articles were written at the time in publications like the Washington Post and New York Times, providing contemporary accounts of the events and follow-ups.(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: May 06, 2024This episode of Weird Darkness moves chronologically through ten of history's most frequently cited UFO encounters, opening with a 1947 debris field on a New Mexico ranch and closing with a 2004 Navy radar encounter off the California coast.In July 1947, rancher William "Mac" Brazel discovers unusual metallic debris scattered across the Foster homestead north of Roswell, New Mexico, and reports it to Sheriff George Wilcox, who alerts the Roswell Army Air Field. Intelligence officer Major Jesse Marcel collects the material, and on July 8th the RAAF issues a press release announcing the recovery of a "flying disc." The story runs in newspapers nationwide before General Roger Ramey holds a press conference the next day identifying the debris as a weather balloon. The retraction does little to end the speculation; decades later, ufologists raise claims of recovered alien bodies and a government cover-up, and in 1994 the Air Force publishes "Case Closed: Final Report on the Roswell Crash," attributing the debris to the classified high-altitude balloon program Project Mogul.From there, the episode moves to April 6th, 1966, when more than two hundred students, teachers, and residents near Westall High School in the Melbourne suburb of Westall, Australia, watch a gray, saucer-shaped craft descend, hover for roughly twenty minutes, and shoot skyward at high speed after a second object appears to intercept it. Students who walk into the nearby field known as The Grange afterward find circular patches of flattened grass. Australian authorities attribute the sighting to a weather balloon, an explanation many witnesses reject, and researcher Shane Ryan later interviews dozens of them for the documentary "Westall '66: A Suburban UFO Mystery."Next comes the Pascagoula Abduction: shipyard coworkers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker are fishing on the Pascagoula River in Mississippi on the night of October 11th, 1973, when a whirring oval craft with flashing lights hovers roughly forty feet above them and three robotic, wrinkled-skinned beings pull them aboard for what they describe as a twenty-minute physical examination. The men report the encounter to the local sheriff's office, which secretly records their conversation while leaving them alone in a room, capturing Hickson's visible distress rather than any hint of a hoax. Both men pass polygraph tests and undergo hypnosis, and UFO researchers J. Allen Hynek and James Harder investigate the case and find no evidence of fabrication.A similar pattern surfaces three years later in Maine, where twin brothers Jack and Jim Weiner and fellow art students Chuck Rak and Charlie Foltz are camping on Eagle Lake in the Allagash wilderness in August 1976 when a glowing orb appears to follow their canoe. After Charlie Foltz signals it with a flashlight, the light expands and engulfs the group, and the men find themselves back at a campsite fire that has burned down to embers with no memory of the intervening time. Years later, recurring nightmares send the four men to psychiatrist and UFO researcher Dr. Raymond Fowler, whose hypnotic regression sessions produce matching accounts of grey-alien medical examinations aboard a craft, a story that eventually reaches national audiences through "Unsolved Mysteries" and multiple books.Military personnel take center

Dive deep into one of the most compelling abduction cases in UFO history with Episode 90 of the Uncovering Anomalies Podcast (UAP). Join Adam and Topher as they unravel the mysterious Allagash UFO Abduction Case. Discover key eyewitness accounts, listen to personal stories from survivors Jim Weiner and Charlie Foltz, and explore the latest updates on UFO hearings and comments from key figures like JD Vance and President Trump. This episode offers a meticulous examination of the broader implications of UFO phenomena on modern society and government secrecy. Full episode show notes here. ********************** Introducing an amazing new ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subliminal messaging app⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ named ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subliminize⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Designed after clinical trials, the app subliminally infuses your mind with positive affirmations. Take control of your destiny and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠download Subliminize⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ today⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/uncovering-anomalies-podcast/support

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! VI Antes de hablaros del programa, me gustaría pedirte, que escuches hasta el final, porque me parece muy interesante los temas que proponéis, y por supuesto, os pido que sigáis haciéndolo. La historia de hoy, ocurrió en el verano del 76… y aunque parece totalmente aclarado, por uno de los testigos…lo cierto es, que otros, siguen manteniendo su palabra. Me refiero a Los Abducidos de Allagash. Viajamos a Allagash Wilderness Waterway, situado al norte de Maine, Estados Unidos. Desde la costa hasta su interior, en las montañas, Maine está lleno de lugares hermosos. Aquí en Maine, cuanto más al norte viajes, menos gente es probable que encuentres. Un dato curioso es que Maine es famosa por sus 65 faros esparcidos a lo largo de su escarpada costa. Pero estas luces no son las únicas que se pueden ver en la noche. Como siempre ocurre en estos lugares mágicos, suelen serlo para el bien de nuestros sentidos, o para la peor de las vivencias. Charlie Foltz, Chuck Rak y los hermanos gemelos Jack y Jim Weiner, son cuatro jóvenes estudiantes que vivirán una de las experiencias más extrañas que una persona puede tener. Si te gusta el teme Ufológico, Ovnis, Abducciones, hipnosis, regresiones y un sin fin de experiencias, no puedes dejar de escuchar este programa. Por último, te enumero, algunos temas que puede que haga en un futuro, y son los que habéis pedido: Naufragios. Uss Indianápolis y su contralmirante McVay Desapariciones. La desaparición de Enrique Ortiz en la Mussara Casas Embrujadas. La Casa Boleskine en Escocia Desapariciones. Caso Yuba City, muy parecido a Dyatlov Crónica Negra. Los asesinos, Micaya“big” Harpe y Wiley “little” Harpe Lugares Mágicos. Bosque de Transilvania Hoia-Baciu Curiosidades. Premios Darwin e Ignobel Misterio. Los niños de Ojos Negros Crónica Negra. La Familia Bender Relatos Entrevistas a Sol Blanco-Soler del grupo Hepta Lugares Embrujados. Amityville Galés la granja maldita Te atreves a escucharla a solas? Eres capaz de oírlo con auriculares? PUEDES VER ALGUNOS VIDEOS DE LLDLL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEOtdbbriLqUfBtjs_wtEHw Suscríbete al Canal Youtube y a Ivoox. GRATITUD ESPECIAL: Siempre a los MECENAS. Sin ustedes… nada sería posible. Desde México, Gracias JESSICA por tus excelentes portadas. Desde Asturias, ANA DE LA VEGA. Por llevar la responsabilidad de las redes sociales. Desde Madrid, LOLA VELASCO, por estar. Sigamos sumando en LLDLL, SUSCRIBETE en IVOOX y comparte. Y si deseas escuchar todos los programas en cerrados, sin anuncios… HAZTE MECENAS. GRACIAS. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

GET‌ ‌EVERY‌ ‌EPISODE‌ ‌AD FREE PLUS BONUS‌ ‌CONTENT‌ ‌AT:‌ ‌‌www.patreon.com/crackpotpodcast‌ On August 11, 1976, four men were camping in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Maine when they reported seeing a UFO. The men were Chuck Rak, Charlie Foltz, and twin brothers Jack and Jim Weiner.  The four had been canoeing on Big Eagle Lake when they saw a bright light in the sky. The light was moving erratically and seemed to be following them. The men stopped paddling and watched the light. They said that it was about the size of a football field and was a bluish-white color. It was also silent. After a few minutes, the light landed on a nearby island. The men said that they saw a beam of light shine down. The men's story was widely reported in the media and became known as the "Allagash Abductions." Despite the lack of clear evidence, some people believe that the men were telling the truth about their experience. Others believe that they were mistaken or that they made up the story.  In this episode, we will explore the Allagash Abductions in detail including the key facts of the sighting, and the different theories about what happened. We will also hear from the men themselves, who share their own personal accounts of the experience. What did they see that day? You decide!    

With the 2020 Exeter UFO Festival canceled because of the pandemic, we honor that great charity event by rebroadcasting our live panel show from last year. Panelists include Kathleen Marden, Allagash UFO Incident experiencers Jim Weiner and Charles Foltz, Peter Robbins, Mack Maloney & his Radio Team, Carolyn Larocque, Marinna Rose, Ronny Le Blanc, Valerie Lofaso, A.J. Kitt and Mike Stevens. The panel tackles questions from the live audience at the historic Exeter, New Hampshire, Town Hall and from listeners around the world.

With the 2020 Exeter UFO Festival canceled because of the pandemic, we honor that great charity event by rebroadcasting our live panel show from last year. Panelists include Kathleen Marden, Allagash UFO Incident experiencers Jim Weiner and Charles Foltz, Peter Robbins, Mack Maloney & his Radio Team, Carolyn Larocque, Marinna Rose, Ronny Le Blanc, Valerie Lofaso, A.J. Kitt and Mike Stevens. The panel tackles questions from the live audience at the historic Exeter, New Hampshire, Town Hall and from listeners around the world.

With the 2020 Exeter UFO Festival canceled because of the pandemic, we honor that great charity event by rebroadcasting our live panel show from last year. Panelists include Kathleen Marden, Allagash UFO Incident experiencers Jim Weiner and Charles Foltz, Peter Robbins, Mack Maloney & his Radio Team, Carolyn Larocque, Marinna Rose, Ronny Le Blanc, Valerie Lofaso, A.J. Kitt and Mike Stevens. The panel tackles questions from the live audience at the historic Exeter, New Hampshire, Town Hall and from listeners around the world.

With the 2020 Exeter UFO Festival canceled because of the pandemic, we honor that great charity event by rebroadcasting our live panel show from last year. Panelists include Kathleen Marden, Allagash UFO Incident experiencers Jim Weiner and Charles Foltz, Peter Robbins, Mack Maloney & his Radio Team, Carolyn Larocque, Marinna Rose, Ronny Le Blanc, Valerie Lofaso, A.J. Kitt and Mike Stevens. The panel tackles questions from the live audience at the historic Exeter, New Hampshire, Town Hall and from listeners around the world.

Links:Use code “UFOPOD” at checkout for 15% off:https://www.etsy.com/shop/cbgdub Unsolved Mysteries - Allagash Abductees (video link at bottom of article):https://unsolved.com/gallery/allagash-abductees/ The Allagash UFO Twins Store:http://www.allagashufotwins.com The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence of Alien Intervention by Raymond E. Fowler:https://www.amazon.com/Allagash-Abductions-Undeniable-Evidence-Intervention/dp/0926524224 The Allagash Abductions - An OpenMinds.tv Documentary:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10PL0o8ZJHI Open Minds UFO Radio: Jim Weiner:https://podbay.fm/podcast/302000822/e/1425942000 Open Minds UFO Radio: Jack Weiner:https://podbay.fm/podcast/302000822/e/1426539600 Allagash abductees still wonder what happened:https://archive.bangordailynews.com/1998/07/25/allagawsh-abductees-still-wonder-what-happened/ Subject of 1976 UFO incident casts doubt on ‘Allagash Abductions’:https://fiddleheadfocus.com/2016/09/10/news/community/top-stories/subject-of-1976-ufo-incident-casts-doubt-on-allagash-abductions/  Follow us on Instagram at @areuforealpodcast and check us out on Facebook! You can email us at AreUFORealPodcast@gmail.com, also don’t forget to rate us and write a review, it really helps!  Thanks!

In Episode 3, join Skye, Myles, and a new guest as they discuss the 1976 Allagash Alien Abductions. In August of 1966, Twin brothers Jack and Jim Weiner went camping with friend Chuck Rak and Charlie Foltz out in the Allagash Waterway area of Allagash, Maine. During the trip the men encountered a strange light and memory loss. Many years after the trip, one of the men encountered strange nightmares about the trip involving aliens and being abducted into a ship. Was this a true case of alien abduction? Our guest feels like it was possibly a shared intense acid trip. Come, light up, and listen as we go through the details of the abduction. Remember to Stay Stoney Friends!

Paul & Ben Eno host the 4th annual broadcast of ‘Behind the Paranormal’ from the Exeter UFO Festival, before a live audience at the historic Exeter Town Hall in New Hampshire. Panel members, who take questions from the audience and from listeners around the world, include a wide variety of UFO experts and experiencers: Kathleen Marden, Peter Robbins, Mack Maloney, Mike Stevens, Valerie Lofaso, Carolyn Larocque, Marinna Rose, Allgash UFO abduction (1976) experiencers Charlie Foltz and Jim Weiner, A.J. Kitt and special guest panelist Steve Laplume, witness to the Rendlesham Forest Incident of 1980.

Paul & Ben Eno host the 4th annual broadcast of 'Behind the Paranormal' from the Exeter UFO Festival, before a live audience at the historic Exeter Town Hall in New Hampshire. Panel members, who take questions from the audience and from listeners around the world, include a wide variety of UFO experts and experiencers: Kathleen Marden, Peter Robbins, Mack Maloney, Mike Stevens, Valerie Lofaso, Carolyn Larocque, Marinna Rose, Allgash UFO abduction (1976) experiencers Charlie Foltz and Jim Weiner, A.J. Kitt and special guest panelist Steve Laplume, witness to the Rendlesham Forest Incident of 1980.

Paul & Ben Eno host the 4th annual broadcast of 'Behind the Paranormal' from the Exeter UFO Festival, before a live audience at the historic Exeter Town Hall in New Hampshire. Panel members, who take questions from the audience and from listeners around the world, include a wide variety of UFO experts and experiencers: Kathleen Marden, Peter Robbins, Mack Maloney, Mike Stevens, Valerie Lofaso, Carolyn Larocque, Marinna Rose, Allgash UFO abduction (1976) experiencers Charlie Foltz and Jim Weiner, A.J. Kitt and special guest panelist Steve Laplume, witness to the Rendlesham Forest Incident of 1980.

Paul & Ben Eno host the 4th annual broadcast of ‘Behind the Paranormal’ from the Exeter UFO Festival, before a live audience at the historic Exeter Town Hall in New Hampshire. Panel members, who take questions from the audience and from listeners around the world, include a wide variety of UFO experts and experiencers: Kathleen Marden, Peter Robbins, Mack Maloney, Mike Stevens, Valerie Lofaso, Carolyn Larocque, Marinna Rose, Allgash UFO abduction (1976) experiencers Charlie Foltz and Jim Weiner, A.J. Kitt and special guest panelist Steve Laplume, witness to the Rendlesham Forest Incident of 1980.

I remember August of 1976 very well. That summer, the northern lights in Aroostook County, Maine were vibrant, nearly alive in their sheer command of the summer night sky. Ribbons of light rippled across the entire sky from north to south.The Sun was at one of the high points its cycle. That was the summer I spent lying on the ground by the fire, watching the stars and studying the universe in the relative comfort of my backyard. Little did I know that four friends visiting my northern land would experience something akin to high strangeness in the backwaters of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway not more than one hundred miles from where I lay, taking in the infinite. Their experiences, if they can be believed, are laid out in several venues, from an episode of Unsolved Mysteries to a new children's book published last year (2014) by author Cathie Pelletier called "The Summer Experiment". What I am referring to is known in UFO circles as "The Allagash Abductions". It is a classic in the literature and is often cited as one of the most completely documented cases of alien contact and experimentation on humans ever presented to the public. The fact that the events that allegedly transpired nearly forty years ago are still intriguing to so many makes it perfect food for thought on a summer evening, like tonight... Let's travel back in time. It is the evening of August 20, 1976. Four young art students from Boston, Massachusetts are taking a break in the northern forest of the Allagash River on the tip of northern Maine. Their names are Jack and Jim Weiner, Charlie Foltz, and Chuck Rak. Specifically, they are camping on the edge of Eagle Lake. It is nearly dark. They have set a rather large fire at the edge of the lake near the shore and their plan is to do a little night fishing from their canoes. The fire would mark the spot of their campsite, otherwise they might become disoriented in the deep darkness that befalls the night in far northern Maine. Almost immediately after starting to fish, Chuck Rak spied a large bright sphere of colored light hovering motionless and soundless over the water of Eagle Lake, about 300 feet above the southeastern rim of the cove. Chuck shouted to his friends who also witnessed what they describe as a huge oval glowing object. They describe it as being split into four quarters, almost like a gyroscope. The four quadrants of light glowed with an oscillating motion around the equator and from pole to pole. It was as though the object was made of some metallic liquid. It is at this point that Charlie Folt claims he did something very odd indeed, something that most people would not have done, given the circumstances. He picks up his flashlight and begins rhymically flashing it at the object in the sky. Why he does this, he does not say. Almost immediately, the object stops pulsating and begins to move toward Charlie's canoe. A ray or tube of light issues forth from the glowing object and hits the surface of the water. Then, the beam begins to seek out the canoe, hunting it. The four art students begin to panic and paddle madly toward the shore and their bonfire. I can't help but wonder why the bonfire and the shore might in any way seem safer than where they were. I also wonder if art students might or might not be experimenting with substances in the relative obscurity of far northern Maine that might make them believe they were seeing a large pulsating multi-colored glowing ball. They make it to the shore. They stand at the water's edge near the fire and they watch the object slowly move away and disappear. Twin brothers Jim and Jack Weiner recall how frightened they were, paddling with every ounce of strength they had until suddenly, they found themselves safely on the shore. They saw a light beam not more than one hundred feet from where they stood and then they saw the object leave. For along while, the four young men simply stood there in silence. They began to notice lost time. "When we left to go fishing," Jim claims, "we set very large logs on the fire to burn for a good two to three hours. The entire experience seemed to last, at the most, no more than fifteen or twenty minutes. Yet the fire was completed burned down to red coals." It was a puzzle, something that had no explanation. The fishing trip ended and the three went their separate ways. Weird things happen, but life tends to go on. Flash forward thirteen years.  Jim Weiner suffers a head injury which triggers something called tempero-limbic epilepsy, also known as temporal lobe epilepsy. This kind of epilepsy is characterized by many seemingly unprovoked seizures that originate in the temproal lobe of the brain. Sensory changes often accompany the seizures, i.e., smelling odors that are there. One of the other common side effects of temporal lobe epilepsy is the disturbance of memory, either causing the sufferer to be unable to recall things he or she should, or causing memories that are not real or are confused. Jim slowly begins to recall events of that night. He claims that he remembers waking at night to see creatures gathering in his bedroom around his bed while he lay in paralysis, a common experience often reported by UFO abductees. More to the point, he seemed to be able to remember what really happened that night when they lost time and the fire burned low on the shore. Many articles discussing the famous incident claim that Jim's doctors did what almost any good physician would never have done, given the circumstances: he told Jim to contact a UFO reseacher in the Boston area. This might seem reasonable to some people. To others, maybe not so much.  Jim made his way to a UFO convention and found someone who he thought might be able to help him with his memories. That researcher was high-school English teacher and amateur hypnotist, Anthony Constantino. Then, of course, hypnosis was used. It usually is. The faith so many people place in hypnosis is often a blind one without realizing that false memories or the power of suggestion may lead the person under hypnosis to claim almost anything. That, combined with the fact that Jim was suffering temporal lobe epilepsy, makes the whole session suspect and its veracity questionable.  Once Jim began to recall the events of the night of August 20, 1976 under hypnosis, the other three people on Eagle Lake that night agreed to undergo hypnosis, as well. They collectively recall riding the beam of light into the craft. They were examined 'medically' using strange equipment. Samples of bodily fluids were gathered by strange gray beings and of course, all four men were naked. After the 'aliens' were satisfied with their probing and prying, they made the four men get dressed and let them ride the beam of light back down to their canoes. To add to the high strangeness of the story, during the UFO researcher's examination of the events of that night, Jack Weiner and his wife Mary claimed that were abducted from their home in Townshend, Vermont. As proof, Jack offered the bottom of his feet, burned by his new abduction. Time passed once more. The four men, friends since their college years, maintained their belief in the events of that night recalled by hypnosis. A book was written about their story. They appeared on The Joan Rivers Show. NBC's Unsolved Mysteries broadcast their story to millions. It is strange that all four people remembered roughly the strange thing. Or is it? What really happened on Eagle Lake on the night of August 20th? The element of hypnosis and the addition of temporal lobe epilepsy makes the entire story suspect. The idea that all four men remembered the same thing might also have something to do with the power of suggestion and the tendency to tell the amateur hypnotist the kind of things he wanted to hear. Did the other three men know of Jim's recollections under hypnosis before they too underwent a session and did they suddenly 'remember' or did they simply use the information already in their minds from Jim's account? In fact, besides the viewing of the original light in the sky, hypnosis seems to be the only evidence that the Allagash abductions ever occured. And that really is too bad. I would love to say that this case is beyond reproach. I want to believe as much as the next person, but I require more than the words of four remembering something under hypnosis years and years after the events supposedly occurred. I am quite sure these are good men who truly believe the events as recalled under hypnosis.  I  do love their story, though, because I remember the lights of that summer, too. My own memory, unhindered by hypnosis, remembers the Aurora Borealis, the Milky Way and the mystery that it offers must satisfy my taste for now. BIBLIOGRAPHY Portland Press Herald Article.  http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case466.htm Photo Credit - Lewiston Sun Journal

Jack Weiner along with his twin brother, Jim, and his friends Chuck Foltz and Charles Rak believe they were abducted during a kayaking trip in Maine in 1976. They had an incredible UFO encounter, and when some of them began having nightmares, they underwent regression therapy, separately. Their accounts of what happened during their UFO encounter in 1976, which they had not remembered consciously, were remarkably similar. Last week we aired an interview with Jim Weiner. This week we interview his brother, Jack, to get his perspective. Medical issues have prevented Jack from being able to travel with his brother to participate in lectures on their experiences. That makes this a rare interview with one of the key figures of the Allagash Abductions. For more about Jack, Jim, their experiences, and their art, visit: www.allagashufotwins.com.

Jim Weiner along with his twin brother, Jack, and his friends Chuck Foltz and Charles Rak believe they were abducted during a kayaking trip in Maine in 1976. They had an incredible UFO encounter, and when some of them began having nightmares, they underwent regression therapy, separately. Their accounts of what happened during their UFO encounter in 1976, which they had not remembered consciously, were remarkably similar. In this interview Jim talks about the events, and how they effected his life afterwards. Jim presently works at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, in Boston, Massachusetts, as an Assistant Director in the school’s Technology Department, where he provides technical and administrative Macintosh computer support to the college’s students, staff, and faculty. Read more at: www.allagashufotwins.com

The production team of Master Class -- three-time Tony Award-winning producer Lewis Allen (for Annie in 1977, I’m Not Rappaport in 1986 and Master Class in 1996), producing associate Doris Blum, actress Karen Day Cody, press agent Bill Evans, casting director Alan Filderman, stage manager Dianne Trulock, and advertising representative Jim Weiner -- traces the show from its Montana workshop, to stagings in Philadelphia, L.A., and D.C., to opening in New York; how the creators, designers, and operatic cast were put together; developing the publicity and advertising campaigns including the casting of Zoe Caldwell's replacement Patti LuPone; and producing under the Broadway Alliance contract.

The production team of "Master Class" -- producer Lewis Allen, producing associate Doris Blum, actress Karen Day Cody, press agent Bill Evans, casting director Alan Filderman, stage manager Dianne Trulock, and advertising representative Jim Weiner -- traces the show from its Montana workshop, to stagings in Philadelphia, L.A., and D.C., to opening in New York; how the creators, designers, and operatic cast were put together; developing the publicity and advertising campaigns including the casting of Zoe Caldwell's replacement Patti LuPone; and producing under the Broadway Alliance contract.