Writer, reporter, and paranormal expert Lee Speigel is the former host of NBC Radio's "The Edge of Reality." He produced and hosted nearly 1,500 programs on unexplained phenomena over an eight-year period at NBC Radio, and previously worked at Westwood One Radio and ABCNews.com. He is the only person in history to produce, in 1978, a major presentation at the United Nations on the subject of UFOs. He is now a writer and editor at HuffPost. In this episode, we explore the mysteries of space and t...
May 15, 2017•1 hr 18 min
Dr. George Gaines had an incredible UFO sighting when he was 13 in Pensacola, Florida. The year was 1956, and the United States Air Force was till official investigating UFOs. Gaines reported the sighting and was soon grilled for hours by two alleged US Air Force officers. George kept this story to himself for decades, but he is now sharing it with our audience. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support ....
May 02, 2017•1 hr 18 min
Susan Jean Palmer is a sociologist of religion who lives in Montreal, Quebec. She is an Affiliate Professor at Concordia University in Montreal and a Research Fellow and Member of the Religious Studies Faculty at McGill University. Her research in the field of new religions has been funded by Canada’s Social Science and the Humanities Research Council. She is the author of Aliens Adored: Rael's UFO Religion (Rutgers 2004), a sociological analysis and ethnographic study of the largest UFO "cult" ...
Apr 25, 2017•1 hr 19 min
Cheryl Costa is a native and resident of upstate New York who saw her first UFO at age 12. A military veteran, she’s a retired information security professional from the aerospace Industry. She’s been a speaker at the International UFO Congress and at the MUFON Symposium. Cheryl writes the UFO column “New York Skies” for SyracuseNewTimes.com. Besides being a journalist, she’s also a published playwright. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Empire State Co...
Apr 11, 2017•1 hr 24 min
Larry has been into UFOs for decades, and has had his own amazing sighting. After he retired from a career as a computer programmer, he decided to put his skills to use as a UFO investigator. He became a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and has had the chance to investigate some great cases. In this interview, we talk to Larry about his interests in UFOs, his sighting, and some of his best cases. This includes a great video case of an object caught on infrared video by Homel...
Mar 27, 2017•1 hr 18 min
Ray is a retired senior engineer who spent decades working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This base is famous with the UFO crowd, because it was home to the USAF's official UFO investigation projects from 1947 to 1969. It is also rumored to have been the place where a crashed alien spacecraft from the Roswell incident was taken, along with its alien occupants. Ray's interest in UFOs began his first week at Wright-Patterson AFB when he was told there really were aliens being held there. This...
Mar 21, 2017•1 hr 16 min
Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, a New York Times bestseller. She helped produce a 2011 documentary based on UFOs for the History Channel, made by Breakthru Films, an award-winning film company. Kean has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, The Colbert Report, and NPR and in USA Today, US News & World Report, and Columbia Journalism Review, among other media. She has been contributing articles...
Mar 16, 2017•1 hr 18 min
Nick Redfern works full time as a writer, lecturer, and journalist. He writes about a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, alien encounters, and government conspiracies. Nick has written 33 books and has appeared on numerous television shows. His latest book is 365 Days of UFOs, Nick presents 365 of his favorite UFO stories – one for every day of the year. Spanning decades and continents, they cover numerous subjects, including the Roswell UFO crash, ...
Mar 06, 2017•1 hr 24 min
For nearly 30 years, Kevin Randle has been investigating the case of the UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico. He has interviewed hundreds of people who claim knowledge of the event, been through boxes of documents, stood on the first crash site, and provided information to dozens of others who asked for it. Now, he has reviewed all those audio and videotaped interviews, examined hundreds of files that relate to the crash, and has returned to Roswell in an attempt to put all that information into ...
Jan 23, 2017•1 hr 46 min
MJ is a writer, blogger, and researcher who critically and philosophically examines the modern UFO phenomenon, and other strange Fortean subjects. With a background in Critical Theory, History, and Cultural Studies, he enjoys exploring all things weird and anomalous. He is a field investigator with MUFON, has been featured on multiple podcasts, and writes for Mysterious Universe, RoguePlanet and the Deep Talk Radio Network. In this interview, we talk about MJ's latest article on the disparity in...
Jan 17, 2017•1 hr 26 min
Journalist Leslie Kean recently posted an article in The Huffington Post about a two year investigation by the Chilean government's official UFO investigation organization into a video captured by the Chilean Navy showing an object they cannot identify. The object was caught on an infrared camera, and according to the director of the UFO organization, “We do not know what it was, but we do know what it was not.” The video was investigated by CEFAA, an organization in Chile's equivalent of the FA...
Jan 09, 2017•1 hr 21 min
2016 has come and gone, and it is time to take a look back at the best UFO stories of the year. Open Minds UFO Radio host Alejandro Rojas and newsman Martin Willis are joined by The Huffington Post's Lee Speigel to discuss what made news in the UFO world, and what they feel were the best and most important stories. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support ....
Jan 04, 2017•1 hr 38 min
Open Minds UFO Radio: Paul Dean is an Australian who has been uncovering U.S. military secrets via the Freedom of Information Act. Although the U.S. government claims they have not been investigating UFOs since the close of the U.S. Air Force’s official UFO study, Project Blue Book, government records show otherwise. What has been difficult to track is who is collecting these reports and where are they going? One of the places we know they have been going to is North American Radar Defense (NORA...
Dec 20, 2016•1 hr 41 min
Richard Thieme is an author and professional speaker focused on the deeper implications of technology, religion, and science for twenty-first century life. He speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. Richard has also had a lifelong interest in the topic of UFOs. He does lectures about UFOs in relation to technology, spirituality, and the future. He also ha...
Dec 14, 2016•1 hr 24 min
Ryan Sprague is a professional playwright & screenwriter in New York City. He is also an investigative journalist specializing in the topic of UFOs. He has written for numerous publications, including Open Minds Magazine, Phenomena Magazine, and UFO Truth Magazine. Speaking on the UFO topic, he has been featured on ABC News, Fox News, The Travel Channel, and The Science Channel. He is also the co-host for both the Into the Fray & UFOmodPOD podcasts. His first book, Somewhere in the Skies...
Nov 21, 2016•1 hr 17 min
Grant Cameron has been closely following Presidential UFO history and politics for decades. He is the founder of PresidentialUFO.com. The recent presidential campaign has given Grant a lot to work with. Hillary's campaign manager, John Podesta, is a UFO enthusiast. This was reflected not only in Hillary's public statements about UFOs, but also in his private emails. Grant believes those emails may have revealed an effort by government insiders to disclose information about UFOs. In this intervie...
Nov 14, 2016•1 hr 29 min
Ronny Le Blanc works in the Marketing and Advertising industry in Boston, Massachusetts. He has always had an interest in things that were deemed "paranormal" or "strange." Stories that defied explanation, the laws of physics and belief in the minds of those who heard about the encounters. His interest spans from the esoteric, metaphysical and alternative history to cryptozoology, science and ufology. He has spent a majority of his life devouring books and content surrounding the subject matter ...
Nov 07, 2016•1 hr 24 min
Lee Speigel is a staff writer for The Huffington Post. He has the unique position of being able to write about UFOs, among other topics, for a major media outlet. His two most recent front page stories have been about John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, and Podesta's leaked emails. Podesta has an interest in the UFO topic and his emails have revealed several interesting conversations he has had about UFOs in the last few years. Some of these emails include Clinton’s willingness to ...
Oct 25, 2016•1 hr 22 min
Robert Powell is the Director of Research for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and the head of MUFON’s Scientific Review Board (SRB). For the past several years, the SRB has been putting together a top 10 list that they release at the MUFON Symposiums every summer. The 2015 list just came out a few weeks ago at the 2016 MUFON Symposium in late August. Although months have passed, Powell explains that the board needs that time to be sure the investigation of each case in 2015 is completed, and to ...
Oct 17, 2016•1 hr 44 min
Dr. John Alexander entered the U.S. Army as a private in 1956 and was a colonel when he retired. His second career was at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he created the military effort in development of non-lethal weapons and which involved him with the National Research Council, NATO, and the Army Science Board. His graduate studies include an MA, Pepperdine University, Ph.D. Walden University, and programs at The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, Sloan School, MIT, and Anderson Schoo...
Oct 11, 2016•1 hr 25 min
Open Minds UFO Radio: Marc D’Antonio is the chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Marc has been involved with MUFON since 1971 and has a vast amount of experience investigating UFO cases. He is also the owner of FX Models where they work on CGI and physical models for the entertainment industry as well as defense contractors, among others. It was in this line of work that Marc began working with motion picture special effects guru Doug Trumbull, who it turns out also ...
Oct 05, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Ben Moss is Mufon’s Chief Field Investigator in Virginia, and a member of the rapid deployment Star Team (Strike Team Area Research). He is a guest expert on The History Channel’s Hangar 1 TV show, and has written numerous articles for the Mufon Journal and various online web sites. Tony Angiola has been studying UFOs since the early 90's. He became an investigator in 1999 while living in Northern VA. A computer network administrator by profession, Tony gives his spare time to studying and resea...
Sep 27, 2016•1 hr 29 min
Open Minds UFO Radio's Alejandro Rojas and Martin Willis talk about the latest UFO news, including new intriguing UFO videos from Tennessee and New York. They also discuss the new Open Minds Magazine video series. The first episode focused on the 1952 UFO event over Washington D.C. that was witnessed by U.S. Air Force UFO investigators. For more about Martin, visit: PodcastUFO.com For more information about the stories we discussed, visit: OpenMinds.tv Become a supporter of this podcast: https:/...
Sep 21, 2016•1 hr 23 min
Bill "MUFON Man" Schroeder is a retired police officer who, while in the military, had an amazing UFO sighting that was caught on radar. Due to the sensitive nature of his work, he did not share his sighting with professional colleagues. However, now that he is retired, he is using his extensive experience conducting criminal investigations to find out more about the nature of the UFO phenomenon. As his name nickname implies, Bill is an investigator with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and he is...
Aug 23, 2016•1 hr 27 min
Dr. Richard O'Connor is an anesthesiologist from Montana who discovered that a friend and colleague was involved in one of the largest UFO stories in the world, the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. That began his interest into the topic of UFOs, and lead him to eventually open the Jesse A. Marcel Library. In this interview, we talk to Dr. O'Connor about UFOs, Dr. Marcel, and his thoughts on the future of UFO research. For more information about the Jesse A. Ma...
Aug 16, 2016•1 hr 19 min
Today's show features nearly a dozen guests! Out last guest, Morgan Beall, who is the MUFON State Director for Florida and is helping to coordinate this year's MUFON Symposium, provided us with audio clips from 12 of the speakers at this year's event. They all answer questions about their what they will be presenting and about their interest in the UFO topic. The clips provide some great insight and interesting thoughts from people who have spent many many years researching and investigating UFO...
Aug 09, 2016•1 hr 17 min
Morgan is the Florida State Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and a member of the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU). SCU was the group that investigated the Homeland Security UFO video from Puerto Rico. Currently, Morgan is busy helping coordinate the MUFON Symposium, which will be held in Florida in a month. In this episode, Morgan and I discuss the speakers for the 2016 MUFON Symposium and related topics. This includes the various projects to gather scientific data on UFOs, incl...
Jul 26, 2016•1 hr 27 min
In 1991, Greg Bishop co-founded a magazine called The Excluded Middle, which was a journal of UFOs, the paranormal, conspiracy, psychedelia and new science. His first book, Wake Up Down There! anthologized many of the articles and features. Greg's second book was Project Beta, which documented a government campaign of disinfo perpetrated against an unsuspecting researcher. His third book, Weird California, was released in 2006. He also wrote for the famed UFO/paranormal site Ufomystic for five y...
Jun 28, 2016•1 hr 44 min
Paul Stonehill is a UFO researcher and author with a focus on Russian Ufology. He is the author of The Soviet UFO Files (1998), Paranormal Mysteries of Eurasia (2010), and co-author of several books with Philip Mantle. His latest book is titled Russia's USO Secrets: Unidentified Submersible Objects in Russian and International Waters. It has often been said that we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the world’s seas and oceans. The study of USOs (Unidentified Submersible Ob...
Jun 14, 2016•1 hr 18 min
Paul Dean is an Australian who has been uncovering U.S. military secrets via the Freedom of Information Act. Although the U.S. government claims they have not been investigating UFOs since the close of the U.S. Air Force's official UFO study, Project Blue Book, government records show otherwise. What has been difficult to track is who is collecting these reports and where are they going? Even during the Project Blue Book years, the USAF claimed the reports demonstrating a threat to national secu...
Jun 08, 2016•1 hr 36 min
