Yvonne Smith is a hypnotherapist and has been one of the leading researchers of alien abduction for decades. She has made many media appearances, and has been at the forefront of the topic. She founded the Close Encounter Research Organization (CERO) in 1991 to help inform the public on the phenomenon and to provide support for those who feel they have experienced alien abduction. Yvonne has recently released a new book, Coronado: The President, The Secret Service and Alien Abductions. The book ...
Aug 25, 2014•1 hr 17 min
Frank Kimbler teaches Geology and other earth sciences at the high school and college level at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Upon moving to Roswell, Kimbler decided to put his skills to use to try and find physical evidence of the alleged UFO crash in the nearby desert. He has since found several pieces of metal and plastic that he finds very interesting. One piece of metal has undergone isoptic analysis that has shown the piece may have been manufactured off-planet. We catch up ...
Aug 18, 2014•1 hr 29 min
Ruben Uriarte and Carlos Guzman have been investigating UFO cases in Mexico for decades. Carlos from Mexico, and Ruben from this side of the border. They and their colleagues have collaborated on an updated English version of the book UFOs Over Mexico: Encounters With Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. The first version of the book was published in Mexico in Spanish by authors Carlos Guzman and Alfonso Salazar. American authors and UFO investigators Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte recently added more c...
Aug 11, 2014•1 hr 17 min
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 has an interest in UFOs...
Aug 07, 2014•1 hr 28 min
David Pares is an adjunct professor at several colleges, including the University of Nebraska where he is the faculty advisor for their Mutual UFO Network student organization. He has degrees in geography and engineering science, and teaches classes in meteorology, physics, astronomy, geography, geology, statistics and physical science. Pares believes he has unlocked the key to warp technology, and that he and his team of engineers and graduate students have constructed a working warp engine tha...
Jul 28, 2014•1 hr 44 min
Margie Kay is a paranormal and UFO investigator, author, and national speaker. Margie is the assistant state director of Missouri MUFON, where they have been experiencing an increase in UFO sightings for the past few years. She will speak to us about some of her recent cases and where the sightings seem to be concentrated. She will also talk to us about a remarkable sighting report from 1969 they recently received, and her ideas about the links between UFO sightings and other paranormal phenomen...
Jul 15, 2014•1 hr 15 min
William Hopp is the founder of Collective Minds Media and has had a lifelong interest in the Paranormal, especially alien abduction. He suffers from sleep paralysis and can attest to the feelings of a strange presence hiding in the room and the disorientation caused by sleep paralysis. However, he also can draw the distinction between what people report as alien abductions and what he experiences during sleep paralysis. His interest in the alien abduction phenomenon has inspired him to make a mo...
Jun 30, 2014•1 hr 27 min
Kevin Randle is an author and UFO researcher. He has written many books on UFOs and his latest is called The Government UFO Files: The Conspiracy of Cover-Up. We caught up with Kevin this week to talk about government disinformation, fascinating government UFO files, and cover-up. Kevin is a retired lieutenant colonel who served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and in Iraq as a battalion intelligence officer. He began writing for UFO magazines and eventually moved onto books. He has appeared on ...
Jun 23, 2014•1 hr 18 min
Chris Lambright has studied the UFO images captured by Paul Bennewitz over Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, and he believes they may be something much more mysterious than top secret USAF aircraft. Chris has written a book title X Descending in which he documents his investigation of the images, and his interviews with Paul Bennewitz, and others involved with the events. We talk to Chris about how he got involved with this investigation and other controversial aspects of the Bennewitz case...
Jun 16, 2014•1 hr 38 min
In this episode, Jason and Alejandro cover the latest UFO news, including a remarkable video allegedly captured by Homeland Security of a UFO in Puerto Rico. We then play the audio from a recent YouTube video we posted on the investigation of the origins of the Majestic 12 documents, and the elaborate disinformation story they are related to. To view the YouTube video visit: http://www.openminds.tv/majestic-12-ufo-disinformation-scandal-video/28049 To read more and see the sources for the story ...
Jun 09, 2014•1 hr 17 min
Linda Zimmerman is an author and paranormal researcher. While investigating UFOs in New York's Hudson Valley, many people shared with her their UFO experiences. She decided to investigate and found that not only is the area abundant in ghost sightings but also in reports of UFOs. She has found so much material that she has written two books on UFOs in the Hudson Valley. Linda wasn't always focused on the paranormal, she earned a B.S. in Chemistry and a Master's in English. With a wide range of i...
Jun 02, 2014•1 hr 20 min
Jeremy Meador is a paranormal investigator who has been researching alleged UFO crashes in the Nevada desert. After hearing of the crashes he decided to find out if there was any truth to the rumors. Surprisingly, he has been able to speak to dozens of people who say they have knowledge of the crashes. Some of them have been first hand witnesses. We will talk to Jeremy about how and why he began his investigation and his findings. For more about the Ely crash and to see the images we refer to in...
May 19, 2014•1 hr 8 min
Christopher O'Brien is an investigator of the unusual. He has written several books on his findings. His field investigation of UFO reports, unexplained livestock deaths, Native American legends, cryptozoological animals, secret military activity and the folklore, found in the world's largest alpine valley, has produced one of the largest databases of unusual occurrences gathered from a single geographic region. His new book Stalking the Herd (600 pages 2014) is the most comprehensive book ever ...
May 12, 2014•1 hr 18 min
Matty Beckerman produced and directed the new movie Alien Abduction, which also includes the Brown Mountain lights mystery. In fact, he got the idea for the movie from stories of strange lights and disappearances in the Brown Mountains of North Carolina. Beckerman says when he first started looking into the mystery to prepare for the filming of the movie he was skeptical. However, now he has seen the lights himself and is convinced that not only are the Brown Mountain lights truly an anomalous p...
May 05, 2014•1 hr 4 min
Roger Marsh is a UFO writer, author, playwright and independent filmmaker. He is editor of the monthly MUFON UFO Journal for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), where he also serves as the Director of Communication. He is the National UFO Examiner at examiner.com, and blogs for the Huffington Post. Marsh tells how his UFO interests stem from an incredible sighting his family had when he was a kid. He then had a remarkable sighting of his own. This helped encourage Marsh to investigate UFOs and other...
Apr 29, 2014•1 hr 5 min
There have been a lot of UFO pictures and videos popping up in the news all around the world lately. In order to take a closer look at these UFO sightings, Jason and I invited Lee Speigel from the Huffington Post to join us and go over these cases. Some of them we suspect are misidentifications. However, some of them we have no explanation for. To see the stories we are talking about, visit: www.openminds.tv. You can read more about Lee Speigel at: www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-speigel/ Become a su...
Apr 23, 2014•1 hr 19 min
Thomas Reed and his brother began experiencing strange events in the 1960s, beginning with a UFO encounter. Some of their encounters were witnessed by others and investigated by UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek, who was an astronomer and consultant for the Air Force's official investigation into UFOs. The Reed brothers’ encounters include memories of being taken by strange creatures and examined. They describe ant people and strange looking humanoids. Although Reed still does not know what really m...
Apr 15, 2014•1 hr 17 min
Mark Pilkington is the writer and Roland Denning is the co-director to a new documentary on UFO disinformation called Mirage Men. Much of the movie includes interviews with ex-Air Force Office of Special Investigation Agent Richard Doty. Doty says he was part of an elaborate program to disseminate disinformation to Ufologists throughout the 80s. He continues to claim he has official knowledge of the Air Force’s UFO and extraterrestrial secrets. We talk about Doty’s claims, the circumstance surro...
Apr 07, 2014•1 hr 19 min
Patty Greer is a Crop Circle filmmaker, but she hasn’t always been. In fact, it was an experience she had in a Crop Circle that compelled her to begin making the films. Patty is a musician and had no experience with filmmaking. However, she acted on the compulsion and now has 6 films on Crop Circles, UFOs, and extraterrestrials. Patty tells us how this all came about and explains how she believes the circles are made, and the messages the makers are giving us. Read more at Patty's website: www.P...
Mar 10, 2014•1 hr 14 min
Jan Harzan is the Executive Director of the Mutual UFO Network. Jan has been a MUFON member for decades and has been involved with the administration of the organization at the national level for many years. His interest in UFOs began with an extraordinary sighting he had as a child. This sighting also influenced his career path. We talk to Jan about this sighting, an interesting encounter he had with retired Lockheed Skunk Works director Ben Rich, and the future of MUFON. For more information o...
Mar 04, 2014•1 hr 15 min
Lee Speigel, Jason McClellan, and Alejandro Rojas review some of the highlights of the 2014 International UFO Congress (IUFOC). There were a lot of great speakers, and some UFO news that was made at this year’s IUFOC. We talk about those newsmakers and dissect the significance of some of the programs at the IUFOC. If you were unable to make this year you will get a breakdown of some of the lectures you might want to purchase on DVD. If you were there you can share in our excitement to recap some...
Feb 24, 2014•1 hr 25 min
For over 15 years, Jason Martell has been one of the leading researchers and lectures specializing in ancient civilization technologies. Martell's research has been featured worldwide on numerous television and radio networks such as The Discovery Channel, Syfy Channel, and the BBC. He is currently a regular guest on the show "Ancient Aliens" on the History Channel. His latest book "Knowledge Apocalypse" is available on Amazon.com. Martell garnered worldwide attention by recreating a working mod...
Feb 03, 2014•1 hr 3 min
Aaron Sagers is an entertainment journalist, geek culture expert, published author and pundit. He is also an expert historian and lecturer on the field of paranormal-themed entertainment, also known as "paranormal pop culture," and founder of ParanormalPopCulture.com. He is a writer for CNN.com's Geek Out! and MTV Geek, and his work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, Budget Travel, The Calgary Herald, Playboy, and MSNBC.com, along wit...
Jan 29, 2014•1 hr 10 min
John Craig and EJ Thornton are developing an app for cell phones that they hope will track UFOs. They are seeking crowd funding to help with the project, but they say they will develop the app regardless of if their crowd funding efforts are successful. Craig got interested in UFOs when he had an extraordinary sighting as a kid. He has since had more sightings, and eventually began investigating UFOs with the Mutual UFO Network. EJ is Craig’s wife, and an author, and has signed on to help him wi...
Jan 20, 2014•1 hr 12 min
Lee Speigel is a writer for the Huffington Post and works at the Weird News desk. He covers paranormal news - mostly UFOs. Jason and I talk with Lee about his and our favorite news stories of 2013. We debate the stories and discuss them in detail. In hindsight, we all agree that 2013 was an important year for the UFO phenomenon. Read Lee's stories on the Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-speigel/. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-min...
Jan 13, 2014•1 hr 21 min
Sam Maranto is a UFO investigator, and currently the state director for the Illinois chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He has been involved with many important UFO cases in the area, including mass sighting cases over Tinley Park, Rockford, and Chicago O’Hare International Airport. These cases involve mass sightings of circular and triangular craft by hundreds of people, including police officers, pilots, airline personnel, and more. We will talk to Sam about how he got involved with UF...
Jan 07, 2014•1 hr 30 min
Damien Lopez is an artist who incorporates his research in UFO and alien encounters into his art and story lines, and he has come up with a great idea on how to take online comic books to the next level. Using video and new online technologies that incorporate animation, Damien has created a new interactive, choose-your-own-adventure experience for online viewers of comic books. In order to get his idea started, he has created a Kickstarter project and is looking for backers who will receive uni...
Dec 16, 2013•59 min
Ardy Sixkiller Clarke is the author of Encounters with the Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians. Her book offers up a collection of intimate narratives of encounters between contemporary American Indians, UFOs and Extraterrestrials. The first person accounts reveal a worldview that unquestionably accepts the reality of Aliens or Star People. The stories also reveal cultures that almost universally regard Star People as ancestors, which allows for interactions that take place without f...
Dec 11, 2013•1 hr 20 min
Cameron Pack is the author of the new book The Restored Project Blue Book UFO Files: June 1947 & Before. This volume represents a clear and legible presentation of the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book UFO files. The collection includes sighting cases which date from June 1947 and prior. Cameron began his research into the topic of ufology after a 2003 close encounter of the first kind. The experience led Cameron to begin looking at thousands of different reports of UFOs from around the world...
Nov 25, 2013•1 hr 18 min
James Carman lives in New York City and works as a cinematographer and a producer. He shoots features, commercials and documentaries and his work has been showcased at the MOMA and many film festivals. He recently won an EBE award for best documentary with his film, The Hidden Hand: Alien Contact and The Government Cover-up. Currently he is working on a new documentary entitled, Superconscious. Recently The Hidden Hand has been picked up by an online distribution company, and can now be seen on ...
Nov 18, 2013•1 hr 8 min
