Lorna Hunter is a native of MN and a farm girl with a lifelong interest in science and nature. Her education focused heavily on the sciences, but when she joined MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) and began to seriously delve into the mysteries of UFOlogy she added the science of the mind to her curriculum and is currently pursuing a degree in psychology. Working as a UFO investigator, and being an objective skeptic, led her to take a course in criminal investigation and evidence prep, which in turn led...
Mar 23, 2017•1 hr
David Halperin - In the 1960s, David Halperin was a teenage UFOlogist. He grew up to become a professor of religious studies—his specialty, religious traditions of heavenly ascent and otherworldly journeys. He taught history of Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1976 through 2000. He’s published five books and numerous articles on Jewish mysticism and messianism, and one novel, Journal of a UFO Investigator, which draws on his teenage dreams and fantasies as well as ...
Mar 16, 2017•1 hr
Charles I. Halt is a retired United States Air Force colonel and the former base commander of RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. After serving in Vietnam, Japan and Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander. The Rendlesham Forest incident of late December 1980 occurred shortly afterwards. In the late hours of December 27, and early December 28, 1980 then Lieutenant Colonel Halt led a patrol to investigate an alleged UFO landing site near the eastern edge of Rendlesham Fores...
Mar 10, 2017•1 hr
Barry Greenwood has pursued the UFO topic since 1964. He has served as an investigator and state section director for Massachusetts MUFON for ten years. He specializes in researching government documents in the late 1970s which lead to the 1984 publication of Clear Intent written with Larry Fawcett. He edited the newsletter "Just Cause" for "Citizens Against UFO Secrecy" (CAUS) from 1984 to 1998. Much of his research has been published in the "MUFON UFO Journal," "Flying Saucer Review" and a var...
Mar 10, 2017•1 hr
Brenda McClurkin works with the Special Collections at the University of Texas at Arlington. Part of that collection is tens of thousands of photographs taken by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram over the decades. She has worked with several people in an attempt to read what we all call the Ramey Memo, which is a document held by Brigadier General Roger Ramey in his office on July 8, 1947. It was a series of photographs taken by Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographer J. Bond Johnson after the newspape...
Mar 10, 2017•1 hr
Paul Kimball is the founder of Redstar Films Limited, a member of the Nova Scotia Barristers Society, the Nova Scotia Film Advisory Committee, and the Society of Composers Authors and Publishers. Since 2001, Paul has established a reputation as one of Canada's leading UFO researchers, both through his work as an award-winning documentary filmmaker and as a researcher, writer, and speaker. He has appeared on television, radio, and in person at conferences and symposiums to discuss the UFO phenome...
Feb 16, 2017•1 hr
Don Ledger is a private pilot and aircraft owner with 20 years experience and over one thousand hours of flying time. A former Zone Commander for the Halifax District's Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, Ledger is also past president and current editor for the Stanley Sport Aviation Association. He is a member of the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association and the US Experimental Aircraft Association. A coordinator at Legislative Television, Ledger spends his spare time flying and writing. ...
Feb 12, 2017•1 hr
Nick Redfern has worked as a freelance feature writer for the Daily Express, People, Western Daily Press and Express & Star newspapers, as well as a full-time feature writer for Planet on Sunday. He has been a freelance journalist for the British newsstand magazines The Weekender, Animals, Animals, Animals, Pet Reptile, Military Illustrated, Eye-Spy, The Unopened Files and The X-Factor. With Simon & Schuster of London he wrote of A Covert Agenda: The British Government’s UFO Top Secrets ...
Jan 26, 2017•1 hr
Ruben Jose Uriarte graduated from Cal State University at Hayward/East Bay with a B.A. degree in Psychology and Latin American Studies. Ruben is a member of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) as a Field Investigator, State MUFON Director for Northern California and Deputy Director of Investigations/International Affairs. Ruben has been involved with a large network of research organizations and served as a California State Coordinator for Crop Circle Phenomena Research International. He was a former res...
Jan 18, 2017•1 hr
Charles I. Halt is a retired United States Air Force colonel and the former base commander of RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. After serving in Vietnam, Japan and Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander. The Rendlesham Forest incident of late December 1980 occurred shortly afterwards. In the late hours of December 27, and early December 28, 1980 then Lieutenant Colonel Halt led a patrol to investigate an alleged UFO landing site near the eastern edge of Rendlesham Fores...
Jan 12, 2017•1 hr
Kevin D. Randle has, for more than thirty-five years, studied the UFO phenomena in all its various incarnations. Training by the Army as a helicopter pilot, intelligence officer and military policeman, and by the Air Force as both an intelligence officer and a public affairs officer, has provided Randle with a keen insight into the operations and protocols of the military, their investigations into UFOs, and into a phenomenon that has puzzled people for more than a century. Randle's educational ...
Jan 04, 2017•1 hr
Noe Torres has a Master’s Degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written five books and a motion picture screenplay. Along with Ruben Uriarte, he has written two UFO books, Mexico’s Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash and The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border. He has appeared in television documentaries and on various radio programs. He is a regular speaker at the Roswell UFO Museum’s annual festival held each July, as well as at other UFO-related conferences and ev...
Jan 02, 2017•1 hr
Chris Rutkowski is a Canadian science writer and educator with degrees in both science and education. Since the mid-1970s, he’s written about his investigations and research on UFOs, for which he is best known. However, he has been involved in many other writing and media projects for more than 30 years, including TV specials (The Monster of Lake Manitoba, 1996), planetarium shows (Moonlight Serenade, 1983, and Amateur Nights, 1989) and newspaper columns (Strange Tales, in the Northern Times, Th...
Jan 02, 2017•1 hr
Robert Sheaffer is a writer with a lifelong interest in astronomy and the question of life on other planets. He is one of the leading skeptical investigators of UFOs, a fellow of the well-known Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and has written the Psychic Vibration column for its publication, The Skeptical Inquirer for over thirty-five years. He is a founding director and past Chairman of the bay Area Skeptics, a skeptics group in San Francisco. He has published books on a variety of paranormal to...
Dec 17, 2016•1 hr
Rob has an undergraduate degree in physics and spent his career at the US Patent and Trademark Office working on intellectual property in a number of areas, most importantly in aeronautics and astronautics. (Ironically, he said since the latter includes circular aircraft, he can state he worked on flying saucers for the government.) His UFO involvement goes back to 1968 during what he called his larval stage, when ongoing sightings and the University of Colorado UFO study permanently nailed his ...
Dec 10, 2016•1 hr
John Greenewald Jr. was born on April 17, 1981 in Tarzana, California, USA as John Raymond Greenewald Jr. He is a producer and writer, known for Unsealed: Conspiracy Files (2012), National Geographic: Hitler and the Occult (2007) and Secrets of the Freemasons (2006). He is best known as the creator of The Black Vault, a web site that houses thousands of UFO related documents obtained through FOIA from dozens of government agencies. He had been the master of ceremonies at many UFO related confere...
Dec 03, 2016•1 hr
Mark O'Connell has written several episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” -- one of which, the DS9 episode “Who Mourns For Morn?”, was named by Hugo-winning science fiction writer Charlie Jane Anders as #72 on the io9.com list of the Top 100 Star Trek episodes of all time. Mark has had feature film projects in development with Disney, DreamWorks Animation, Launchpad Productions, Barcelona Films and Al Ruddy Productions. He currently writes the UFO blog "Hig...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr
Rob Mercer was born and raised in Springfield, Ohio. Rob worked in engineering at a nearby hospital. His interest in UFO's and Astronomy began when he was about 7, when his uncle Terry came to came to their house telling them about strange lights he saw in the sky on his way home from work one night. He asked Rob’s mom if he could come with him, and we went back out looking for them on that same night. They were unable to find them, but from that point on Rob was hooked on the subject. Rob would...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 1 min
John Shirley is an American writer, primarily of fantasy and science fiction and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western, about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays, and has published over 40 books and 8 short-story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others. John S...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Carmon Marano - Inside Project Blue Book - Served as a member of the Project Blue Book staff based at Wright-Patterson Air Force in the late 1960s, at the very end of Blue Book. Recovered several boxes of case files and other material from Blue Book as it closed and eventually provided that material to Rob Mercer. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-different-perspective-with-kevin-randle--2069421/support ....
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Ray Stanford might be best known for his 1976 book, Socorro Saucer in a Pentagon Pantry, which describes his investigation into the 1964 Socorro UFO landing witnessed by police officer Lonnie Zamora. He was a pioneer in using optical and electronic instruments to successfully obtain propulsion-diagnostic evidence of what he terms Anomalous Aerial Objects (AAO) instead of the more common UFO. In the 1970s and the 1980s he was able to document, in the field, multi-witness UFO sightings and obtaine...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Keith Chester - Mankind had reached a threshold in the forth decade of the twentieth century. There were unprecedented scientific and technological achievements, but despite such progress, humanity was entering one of its darkest chapters. World War II would grip the world with terror for six years. During that time military personnel reported seeing numerous highly unconventional aircraft in all theaters of operation. These objects had extraordinary flight performance capabilities, came in a va...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Don Ecker is the Director of Research for UFO Magazine. As a medically retired law enforcement officer, he puts a skeptical and honest eye on UFO and paranormal subjects. Ecker hosted the critically acclaimed radio programs UFOs Tonite! and Strange Daze for six years, interviewing the important personalities in the UFO and paranormal fields and related areas. Later, along with his close friend, television and film star Dwight Schultz of The A-Team and Star Trek fame, he hosted Dark Matters on th...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Kevin D. Randle has, for more than thirty-five years, studied the UFO phenomena in all its various incarnations. Training by the Army as a helicopter pilot, intelligence officer and military policeman, and by the Air Force as both an intelligence officer and a public affairs officer, has provided Randle with a keen insight into the operations and protocols of the military, their investigations into UFOs, and into a phenomenon that has puzzled people for more than a century. Randle's educational ...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr
Carol Rainey is a writer and filmmaker who has produced, written, and directed award-winning PBS and independent documentaries on medicine and science. She was awarded grant funding for fifteen documentary films from the National Institutes of Health. Once the films were complete, Rainey developed marketing and distribution strategies for the new products. Her narrative short film, “Momma Gets Her Ready,” won a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship and toured European museums with ...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr
Curt Collins is a UFO researcher and founder of the website BlueBlurryLines.com where he posts his work. Among other cases, Curt has taken a particular interest in the Cash-Landrum Texas UFO Encounter. The Cash-Landrum incident took place in 1980. Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie’s seven-year-old grandson, Colby Landrum, claimed to have encountered a UFO on the road near Dayton, Texas. It made the vehicle very hot and the group apparently suffered from physical effects due to the encounter...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr
Donald R. Schmitt is the former co-director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, where he served as Director of Special Investigations for ten years. Prior to that, he was a special investigator for the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek for the International UFO Reporter. Schmitt graduated cum laude from Concordia University with a degree in Liberal Arts. He is the author of dozens of articles about UFOs, as well as the co-author of two best-selling books, UFO Crash at Roswell and The Truth About...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr
Ben Moss is MUFON’s Chief Field Investigator in Virginia and a member of the rapid deployment Star Team (Strike Team Area Research)l He is a guest expert on History’s Hangar 1 TV show, and has written numerous articles for the MUFON UFO Journal and various online websites. He has appeared on Paranormal TV and The Paracast Radio show. Ben has been with MUFON since the early 90’s. As a MUFON investigator, Ben has also studied such disciplines as History, Archaeology, Physics, Astronomy, Religion a...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Jerome Clark was born and raised in Canby, Minnesota; he attended South Dakota State University and Moorhead State University. He has served as a writer, reporter, and editor for a number of magazines which cover UFOs and other paranormal subjects. He has been an editor of Fate magazine and International UFO Reporter, and a board member of the Center for UFO Studies. In the 1990s Clark authored The UFO Book, an abridged version of his multivolume The UFO Encyclopedia, which won the 1998 Benjamin...
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 6 min
