Science writer Brian Dunning is the host and producer of the Skeptoid podcast (skeptoid.com), one of the longest running and consistently most popular independent science podcasts, having surpassed 100 million downloads in 2017. He is also the writer and producer of the documentary films Here Be Dragons (herebedragonsmovie.com), Principles of Curiosity (principlesofcuriosity.com), and Science Friction (sciencefriction.tv). He has appeared on numerous radio shows and television documentaries, and...
Aug 24, 2022•51 min
John is an American writer, primarily of fantasy, science fiction, dark street fiction, westerns, and songwriting 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—including The Crow—and has published over 84 books including 10 short-story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyric...
Aug 18, 2022•49 min
Thomas J. Carey, a native Philadelphian, holds degrees from Temple University (B.S. in Business Administration) and California State University, Sacramento (M.A. in Anthropology) and also attended the University of Toronto’s Ph.D. Program in Anthropology. An Air Force veteran who held a Top Secret/CRYPTO clearance, Tom is now a retired Philadelphia area businessman. He has been a MUFON State Section Directory, a Special Investigator for CUFOS and a member of the CUFOS board of directors. Tom beg...
Aug 10, 2022•55 min
Blair MacKenzie Blake is the author of several books, including two novels (The Othering and The Paragon Junk), with a third projected for the summer of 2022. Other works include Ijynx (a collection of occult prose-poems), The Wickedest Books In The World – Confessions Of An Aleister Crowley Bibliophile (issued in three impressions), The Curious Diary Entries Of Verity Pennington (a short story) and Remember The Future (of which he is the co-author). He has contributed essays to ten volumes of t...
Jul 14, 2022•49 min
Kevin Randle has, for more than forty-five years, studied the UFO phenomena in all its various incarnations. His training by the Army and the Air Force provides 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. During his investigations, Randle has traveled the United States to interview hundreds of witnesses who were involved in everything from the Roswell, New Mexi...
Jul 07, 2022•49 min
Ron James is The Director of Media Relations for MUFON. He is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator and entrepreneur. James is the co-founder of MUFON Television, an online TV channel boasting the world’s largest collection of commercial-free UAP related material. He has created 7 feature length documentaries and dozens of original independent series episodes. His newest film "Accidental Truth" will be released later this year by 1091 Distribution. He ha...
Jun 29, 2022•49 min
Michael Schratt (private pilot/aviation historian) has been investigating UFO encounters for over 25 years. Between 2008 and 2009, Michael meticulously reviewed a minimum of 50,000 cases which were preserved at the CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) archives in Chicago. In an effort to maintain an important part of our national history, Michael has re-created dozens of highly credible UFO cases by the use of drawings, illustrations and commissioned artwork. Many of these include USO (Unidentified Su...
Jun 16, 2022•57 min
evin Randle has, for more than forty-five years, studied the UFO phenomena in all its various incarnations. His training by the Army and the Air Force provides 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. During his investigations, Randle has traveled the United States to interview hundreds of witnesses who were involved in everything from the Roswell, New Mexic...
Jun 08, 2022•49 min
Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the Science Salon Podcast, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers including Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, and The Moral Arc. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the A...
May 25, 2022•49 min
Philip Mantle is a veteran UFO researcher, author and published in the United Kingdom. He has been actively involved in in UFO research and investigation for forty years and during that time he was part of the Yorkshire UFO Society, the British UFO Research Association and the Mutual UFO Network. In 2015 he found Flying Disk Press and has published a number of UFO books including the best-selling books by and about the Hickson-Parker abduction in Pascagoula, Mississippi in October 1973. His webs...
May 19, 2022•52 min
Don Donderi was educated at the University of Chicago, which he entered at 15. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree at 18 and a B.Sc. in biological psychology at 21. He began his professional career as a research psychologist with IBM where he helped to develop radar navigation displays for the B-52 bomber. After graduating from Cornell University with a PhD in experimental psychology he joined the Faculty of Science of McGill University, where he taught undergraduate psychology, trained ...
May 05, 2022•49 min
Don Schmitt resides in his native Wisconsin on a 45-acre ranch located just outside of Milwaukee in Hubertus. He has a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University and has taken graduate courses in criminal justice at St. John’s University. He has worked for the US Postal Service for the past 23 years. He has also worked as a freelance medical and commercial illustrator. He is the former Director of Special Investigations and co-director for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. He teamed wi...
Apr 07, 2022•56 min
Don Schmitt resides in his native Wisconsin on a 45-acre ranch located just outside of Milwaukee in Hubertus. He has a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University and has taken graduate courses in criminal justice at St. John’s University. He has worked for the US Postal Service for the past 23 years. He has also worked as a freelance medical and commercial illustrator. He is the former Director of Special Investigations and co-director for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. He teamed wi...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 9 min
David has had a lifelong interest in the subject of UFOs. He joined The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1990 as a Field Investigator Trainee. Since then, he has served as Field Investigator, State Section Director, as well as Illinois State Director. David is currently an independent UFO researcher. During his tenure with MUFON, he had conducted numerous investigations into alleged UFO sightings and related experiences. He has discussed the subject of UFOs on numerous radio and television news pro...
Mar 31, 2022•51 min
Starting at the age of 15, John Greenewald, Jr. was struck with a curiosity that led off a lifelong journey. First researching the UFO phenomenon, Greenewald began utilizing the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to hammer the United States Government for answers, and he targeted every government agency to get them. As he waited for answers on this niche of the paranormal, he then branched off to investigate nearly every government secret imaginable. He was a sophomore in high school when he firs...
Mar 24, 2022•50 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 ...
Mar 17, 2022•51 min
Terry Lovelace is a six-year veteran of the USAF where he served as a medic and EMT from 1973 to 1979. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology with honors from Park University in Kansas City, Missouri. He completed a law degree from Western Michigan and passed the Michigan State Bar Examination. He was also admitted to the bar in Vermont and the US Territory of American Samoa. His legal career began in private practice until his appointment as an assistant attorney general for the U.S. Territor...
Mar 11, 2022•50 min
Thomas P. Deuley, BSEE, Auburn University 1972, is a retired Naval Officer with a background in Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Power, and Communications Security. Co-founder and National Board member of The Fund for UFO Research, Registered Agent, Corporate Secretary and Board member for the Mutual UFO Network, MUFON Representative to, and affiliate researcher for the UFO Research Coalition. Interest in UFOs developed after reading “A Case for UFOs” in 1959. Serious activism began upon the publication...
Feb 28, 2022•40 min
Clas Svahn (born 1958) is chairman for Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) in Sweden. AFU was founded in 1973 and today spans over 6,500 square feet and 4,000 yards of shelf capacity. Svahn has been a professional journalist since 1978 and employed with Sweden’s largest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, since 1990. He is international director for UFO-Sweden and has been investigating reports of alleged UFOs since 1974. He is also the author of nearly 30 books and a frequent expert on Swedish radio and ...
Feb 17, 2022•59 min
James (Jim) Houran received his PhD in Medicine with a Psychology focus from Adelaide University in 2004. He is currently Director of Research at Integrated Knowledge Systems, Inc. and a Research Professor in the Laboratory for Statistics and Computation, Instituto Politécnico de Gestão eTecnologia. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers in both mainstream psychology and a variety of anomalous areas, as well as currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals. As of ...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr
William Puckett was employed as a meteorologist with the National Weather Service for 3 years and the Environmental Protection Agency for 27 years. He retired from government service in 2007. He is a professional member of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Puckett has worked as a consultant for the “UFO Hunters” series for the History Channel and has appeared on two “UFO Hunters” episodes. He also appeared on an episode on the Science Channel’s Close Encounters series.” He also was a re...
Feb 03, 2022•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 Committee for Skeptical Inquiry cleverly known as CSI and his written the Psychic Vibration column in the Skeptical Inquirer for over 35 years. He is a founding director and past chairman of the Bay Area Skeptics. He has written books on a variety of paranormal topics and has appeared on many television and radio sh...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Curtis L. Collins is the author behind Blue Blurry Lines, the website focused on the UFO mystery, as well as its legends and hoaxes. After a career in retail management Curt began writing about UFOs, with a special interest in re-investigating the paradoxical 1980 Texas Cash-Landrum case. In 2015 Curt was on the investigative team, the Roswell Slides Research Group, that exposed the BeWitness alien photo fiasco. More recently, he launched The Saucers That Time Forgot with Claude Falkstrom, focus...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr
Rob has a degree in physics and spent his career at the US Patent and Trademark Office working on intellectual properties in a number of areas including aeronautics and astronautics. His UFO involvement goes back to 1968 during what he called his larval stage, when the ongoing sightings and the University of Colorado UFO study permanently nailed his attention. Once he arrived in Washington, D.C. area, he joined the Fund for UFO Research and was subsequently elected to the executive committee. Ar...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Kevin Randle has, for more than forty-five years, studied the UFO phenomena in all its various incarnations. His training by the Army and the Air Force provides 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. During his investigations, Randle has traveled the United States to interview hundreds of witnesses who were involved in everything from the Roswell, New Mexi...
Jan 06, 2022•1 hr
Don Schmitt resides in his native Wisconsin on a 45-acre ranch located just outside of Milwaukee in Hubertus. He has a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University and has taken graduate courses in criminal justice at St. John’s University. He has worked for the US Postal Service for the past 23 years. He has also worked as a freelance medical and commercial illustrator. He is the former Director of Special Investigations and co-director for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. He teamed wi...
Dec 17, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Don Schmitt resides in his native Wisconsin on a 45-acre ranch located just outside of Milwaukee in Hubertus. He has a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University and has taken graduate courses in criminal justice at St. John’s University. He has worked for the US Postal Service for the past 23 years. He has also worked as a freelance medical and commercial illustrator. He is the former Director of Special Investigations and co-director for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. He teamed wi...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Stan Gordon began his interest in the UFO subject and other strange incidents at the age of ten in 1959. In the late 1960’s, he acted as the telephone UFO sighting report investigations coordinator for the UFO Research Institute of Pittsburgh. Stan began in the field investigations of UFOs and other mysterious events in 1965, and is the primary investigator of the December 9,1965, UFO crash-recovery incident that occurred near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. In 1969, Gordon established a UFO Hot-line f...
Nov 11, 2021•1 hr
Greg Lawson has spent much of his adult life exploring strange places. From the first Russian colony in Three Saints Bay, Alaska to the pyramids of Egypt, he has explored paranormal hot spots in over 40 countries. He is a career law enforcement officer with over 30-years of experience and currently serves as a patrol lieutenant. Previously he has worked as a hostage negotiator, SWAT officer, mental health investigator, academy instructor and as a sex crimes and homicide detective. Greg is also a...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr
Nick Redfern is a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, UFO sightings, government conspiracies, alien abductions and paranormal phenomena. He writes regularly for the London Daily Express newspaper, Fortean Times, Fate, and UFO Magazine. His previous books include Three Men Seeking Monsters, Strange Secrets, Cosmic Crashes, and The FBI Files. His newest book is Time Travel. Among his many exploits, Redfern ha...
Oct 21, 2021•59 min
