Clifford Clift recently retired as the director of the Mutual UFO Network and he will be speaking soon at the International UFO Congress. We will reflect upon his career as a MUFON board member and director. We will also ask him about some of the best cases he saw during his years there. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support ....
Paola Harris has been investigating the worldwide UFO phenomenon for decades. She began as an assistant for J. Allen Hynek. Born in Italy, and now residing in the US, she continues to lecture on the subject throughout Europe. One of her most recent contributions to Ufology was an interview with Kim Arnold. Her father, Kenneth Arnold, saw one of the most important UFO sightings in history. His sighting, in 1947, was where the term Flying Saucer comes from. Apparently his daughter has recently rev...
Grant Cameron is the founder of PresidentialUFO.com, and an expert on Presidents and UFOs. We will talk to Grant about his opinion on the recent UFO White House petitions. Including the email correspondence he uncovered via Freedom of Information Act Requests regarding the drafting of the White House response to the petition regarding extraterrestrials. For more information on Grant, visit his website at PresidentialUFO.com. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/op...
Lee Speigel, Huffington Post wirter and UFO researcher, will be joining us to go over the top UFO stories of 2011. This will include some of the top UFO videos, celebrity UFO news, government documents, and more. We will also talk a bit about the surge in UFO reports in the first few days of 2012 and his upcoming talk at the International UFO Congress. To read Lee's stories, viist: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-speigel Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open...
We will be taliing to Noe Torres and Ruden Uriarte about their new book: Aliens in the Forest: The Cisco Grove UFO Encounter. This stranger-than-fiction event took place in the ruggedly scenic foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the Tahoe National Forest. Into this remote wilderness stepped the 26-year-old Shrum, who planned to enjoy a relaxing weekend hunting deer with his bow and arrows. As he entered the forest, joking and laughing with his two hunting buddies, little did Shrum s...
Bryce Zabel was the co-author of AD: After Disclosure with UFO historian, Richard Dolan. More recently, Dolan and Zabel authored a White House “We the People Petition” regarding UFOs. We will talk to him about the petition, AD, and other exciting projects he has planned. Zabel has created five primetime network series, notably NBC’s Dark Skies, released on DVD in 2011. He also wrote and produced Syfy’s first original film, Official Denial, about Majestic-12, and worked on the development team on...
Tracie's interest in the paranomral began with an incredible UFO sighting in London in the mid-80's. She was so astonished by this experience that she began investigating the phoneomenon. In 1996, she then had another sighting, which was featured in a BBC documentary. She then began lecturing and started her own UFO conference. In 2001 she moved to California and soon after started the "Let's talk Paranormal" television show, which she hosted. Recently she moved to Las Vegas and wrote th book Ha...
Mack Maloney is a military fiction author who has recently made his first foray into non-fiction with his new book UFOs in Wartime. Maloney makes the case the UFOs are most often documented during wartime. He supports his case by covering 70 separate UFO incidents seen over the battle field, ranging from ancient times to modern day military incursions. These sightings are made by high ranking officials, soldiers, and news reporters. Maloney tries to answer the question as to why these visitors a...
Micha Hanks is a UFO and paranormal journalist and author. He blogs at his website, The Galien Report, and is author of the book Magic,Mysticism & the Molecule: The Search for Sentient Intellegence from Other Worlds. Still in his twenties, he is younger than your average UFO researcher. We will talk to him about the youth and how they interface differently with the UFO phenomena, and his views on the hot topics in UFO research. His unique and intellegent perspectives offer an insight into th...
Nick Redfern has written many books on various topics of the paranormal, including Roswell, the Men in Black, and Contactees. We will talk to Nick about how he got into the field, his contreversial thoughts on UFOs, and some of the other topics of his very interesting books. For more on Nick, visit: www.NickRedfern.com. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support ....
Betty May Ockerl is the author of the book, The Mysterious Lindsey Lights: One Family's True Encounters with Strange Lights in the Sky Near Lindsey, Wisconsin. Starting in 2004 Betty and her family began seing strange lights in the sky. The sightings continued, so Betty began documenting the sightings and researching the UFO phenomenon to find out more about them. She felt that the sightings were so mysterious and important that she decided to write a book about them, despite the ridcule she may...
It is time to catch up with Open Minds writer, Antonio Huneeus. We will talk about his recent stories regarding an ex-president of Mexico who had a UFO sightings, a nobel peace prize winner who wrote on UFOs, and his research into Mexico and their possible Mayan 2012 information. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support ....
Peter Robbins has been an alien abduction researcher for decades. For years he worked very closely with Budd Hopkins, the man who brought this subject to the general public. We will be talking to Peter about Budd Hopkins and the beginning of alien abduction research. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support ....
Debbie Ziegelmeyer is the state director for MUFON in Missouri, and her brother, Chuck Zukowski, is a paranormal investigator and runs the website UFONut.com. Chuck recently discovered that cattle mutilation cases he investigated, along with UFO sightings, seem to converge around the 37 degree latitude line in the US. Our recent Open Minds hotspot report found the same thing. Debbie has also been receiving a large amount of UFO sighting reports, many of which have made it into the news. We will ...
Stephen Bassett is a leading advocate for ending the 64-year government imposed truth embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. He is a political activist, lobbyist, commentator, the executive director of Paradigm Research Group and the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee (X-PPAC) and executive producer of the annual X-Conference. His work has been covered extensively by national and international media. He recently opened an online petition on the...
Morgan Beall is MUFON’s Director of Technology. He will let us in on the details of MUFON’s mobile app that is just about to be released. Morgan is also the state section director for Southwest Florida and a STAR team member. He will share some of his more interesting cases with us. Morgan graduated from Frostburg State University in Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in Earth Science in 2002 (geology, geography, natural sciences). He moved to Ft Myers in 2003 where he pursued a career in Environ...
Michael Horn is Billy Meier’s official representative in America. Meier has claimed to be in communication with extraterrestrials for decades, and has one of the most famous UFO photo collections of pictures he has taken himself. We recently questioned some of the circumstances surrounding the evidence in this case and Horn wants to rebut our Billy Meier show. We will debate our findings versus his and you can be the judge as to whether or not you feel this famous and controversial case is legit...
Stan Romanek says he has been abducted by aliens, harassed by the government and has experienced a myriad of various types of paranormal phenomena. I know it sounds far out, but I, Alejandro, have actually been there to experience some of this. We will interview Stan and his wife Lisa, to talk about some of the latest developments including possible interactions with alien hybrids, an upcoming documentary on his experiences, and what he thinks it all means. For more about Stan visit: stanromanek...
Leslie Kean is the author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record, a book which includes written statements from five generals, a former governor, military UFO witnesses, and a forward by John Podesta, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff. The book has also been endorsed by famous Physicist Michio Kaku and the Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Derrick Pitts. We will talk to Leslie about the recent ...
In the latest issue of Open Minds Magazine (on newsstands in early September), news correspondent Jason McClellan covered the controversial case of Billy Meier. In the 70s Meier produced famous UFO photographs and says he conversed with human looking aliens. Jason combed mounds of research material, including the immense amount of data Open Minds inherited from Wendelle Stevens, one of the first Meier researchers. We will discuss Jason’s findings, including many revealing facts that have been fo...
Lee Speigel is a writer, reporter and media personality who has spent decades researching and presenting the world of unexplained phenomena and the paranormal to the public. Following seven years with ABC News, he has joined the popular Weird News team of AOL/Huffington Post. Lee is the former host of NBC Radio's "The Edge of Reality." Spanning eight years in the 1970s and 80s, Speigel produced, wrote and hosted nearly 1,500 programs on the unexplained for NBC Radio. He’s also the only person to...
Dr. Claude Swanson is a theoretical physicist who earned his degrees at MIT and Princeton. For many years he worked at high tech labs for large corporations and on US Defense projects. However, Dr. Swanson now focuses his efforts on the science of unconventional physics, such as those that relate to the UFO phenomena. He believes that there is a subtle energy some cultures have known about for many years, such as “chi” in China or “torsion” in Russia, which may be the key to understanding UFO [p...
Clifford Mahooty is a Zuni elder and member of the Kachina Society. He is now retired after working as a chief engineer for the Department of Interior. Clifford says that Native American elders have a lot of knowledge about “Star Beings” that they choose to keep to themselves. He feels that it is now time that the knowledge be shared with the public. Clifford has recently been featured on cable documentaries including the History channel's Ancient Aliens. Become a supporter of this podcast: http...
Norio Hayakawa is the leading Dulce researcher, and is the one who got me in contact with New Mexico state police officer Gabe Valdez. Norio and I will discuss Valdez’s life work and his recent passing, along with Norio’s work on investigating the legend of the underground base near Dulce, New Mexico. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support ....
Gabe Valdez was a New Mexico state patrol officer assigned to areas plagued with cattle mutilations and UFO sightings. He investigated these mutilations and has come to some unique conclusions that he believes he has seen sufficient proof to support. Valdez also worked with Paul Bennewitz and retired Air Force Intelligence officer, Richard Doty, the two people who started the rumors that there was a joint Human-Alien secret base under the Archuleta Mesa just outside of Dulce, NM. We will get his...
Jim Moroney has over 25 years of experience in UFO research and is an accomplished public speaker. A grounded highly proficient professional educator and international speaker, he has captivated audiences with his personal experiences and his insight into the UFO phenomenon. In 1987 Jim Moroney had an extraterrestrial encounter at a small lorry park just outside Manitoba, Canada. It changed his life forever. He now feels he has a special insight into why ETs are here and why they are abducting p...
Ted Peters teaches systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He also co-edits the journal, Theology and Science, at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. He has written a book titled,UFOs— GOD’s Chariots? Flying Saucers in Politics. Science, and Religion, and developed the ETI Religious Crisis Survey in which he examined how people would react to the news of extraterrestrials visiting earth. His findings a...
Frank Kimbler works at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, NM, where he teaches Earth Science at the High School level and Geology at the College Level. The Roswell UFO crash piqued his interest enough to look into it. He examined satellite images of the area where the strange debris was found in 1947 and found an area that looked promising. Upon examination of the area he found materials that he has since tested and all indications are that this material was not made on earth. Become ...
Tom Carey is part of the dynamic-duo, along with Don Schmitt, at the leading edge of the Roswell UFO crash research. The two have amassed a large amount of witnesses through the painstaking work of finding out who was where when, and the tracking the individuals or their family members down to find out if they have knowledge of the events and are willing to talk about it. Their years of work have been very fruitful, giving them great insight into what really happened in Roswell in July of 1947. ...
Steve Volk spent 15 years as an investigative journalist, writing long features covering courts, crime, cops and politics, before producing his first book, Fringe-ology: How I tried to explain away the unexplainable--and couldn't. This first book is his attempt to reconcile his down to earth occupation as a reporter with an old family ghost story he grew up with as a child. He also tackles UFOs, psychic abilities, near death experiences, and a number of other paranormal subjects. Read more about...
