Ron Regehr spent the majority of his life as an aerospace engineer. From helping develop space fairing vehicles with NASA, to working on secret defense projects, he had an exciting and interesting career. He has also had a great interest in the UFO topic, and has been researching it since he was young. What is even more exciting is the interesting ways in which his career and his interest in UFOs has intertwined. In this interview we talk to Ron about how he got interested in UFOs, some of the r...
Jul 13, 2015•1 hr 31 min
Denice Marcel is the granddaughter of Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer at the Roswell Army Air Field in 1947 who was the first person from the military to handle the debris found in the desert outside of Roswell which some believe was an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Denice's father, Jesse Marcel Jr., also handled some of the material, and both Jesse Sr. and Jesse Jr. say that the materials were not merely from weather or test balloons. They both believe the material was not manufactured on...
Jun 29, 2015•1 hr 28 min
Rob Mercer is a field investigator and a state section director in Ohio for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He also runs the Miami Valley UFO Society. Ron has been investigating UFOs for decades, and always keeps an eye out for UFO material popping up on Craigslist. He is especially watchful given his location, which is near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, home of the US Air Force's only public UFO Investigation called Project Blue Book. Recently his efforts paid off and he rece...
Jun 15, 2015•1 hr 29 min
Stan Schatt is an author and futurist who has been interested in UFOs for many years. He recently published a nonfiction book titled Extraterrestrial First Contact: Past, Present, and Future, which he followed up with a fiction book on a similar subject titled Alien Love. We talk to Stan about his thoughts and research into how the public may react if an alien race were to publicly engage in communication with the human race, and what scenarios for first contact are possible. Stan Schatt grew up...
Jun 08, 2015•1 hr 20 min
Bill Wickersham is an adjunct professor of peace studies at the University of Missouri–Columbia, and a UFO enthusiasts. He has been researching and lecturing on the topic for years. He has written several articles and opinion pieces that have been published in newspapers such as the Columbia Daily Tribune, and appears regularly on KBIA Mid-Missouri Public Radio to discuss UFO news. In this interview, we talk to Bill about how he got interested in the topic of UFOs, what his colleagues think of h...
Jun 02, 2015•1 hr 25 min
Kevin Randle is a preeminent Roswell researcher and author. He is also a member of the Roswell Dream Team, which has been tied to the investigation, and recent unraveling, of photographs that were purported to show an alien body from the Roswell crash in 1947. So who is the Roswell Dream Team, and why do there seem to be members of this team debunking the slides, and others supporting the idea that they show something anomalous? In this interview, we ask Kevin those questions while examining wha...
May 26, 2015•1 hr 27 min
Luigi Vendittelli has been investigating UFOs in the Montreal area for decades. However, researching lights in the sky became mundane compared do the reports of alien contacts he began receiving. Although seemingly farfetched, Luigi began investigating these alleged cases of alien contact and he has found several of them to be very credible and compelling. In this interview, we talk to Luigi about some of these amazing cases and the incredible evidence he says he has uncovered. To contact Luigi,...
May 05, 2015•1 hr 28 min
Jennifer Stein is a filmmaker and entrepreneur. Her UFO documentaries have won her 4 EBE Awards at EBE Film Festival held every year at the International UFO Congress. Two of her films won 2 awards each. Jennifer is a self-taught filmmaker, and has never attended film school. She began making films in the 1990s while running non-profit organizations, raising her two children, and running a special events business. In this interview we talk to Jennifer about how and why she got into making UFO do...
Apr 21, 2015•1 hr 15 min
Ben Hansen is the former host of Fact or Faked: Paranormal files on the SyFy channel, where they investigated paranormal cases, often attempting to reproduce the phenomena. Often they were able to uncover hoaxes, and innocent misidentifications. However, some cases they were unable to explain. Since the show ended, Hansen has continued his investigations into the paranormal, and is a frequent lecturer at paranormal conference. He also runs Night Vision Optics, and hold UFO night sky watching eve...
Apr 13, 2015•1 hr 42 min
Jeremy Corbell is an investigative filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles. Corbell has been deep in the trenches documenting extra-ordinary individuals and their belief systems. This research has taken him into the life of the enigmatic “Godfather of Conspiracy” John Lear, and under the microscope for the surgical removal of alleged Off-World Alien Implants. With access to NASA, Corbell has filmed the analysis of anomalous materials alleged to be physical evidence of extraterrestrial nano-tec...
Apr 06, 2015•1 hr 39 min
Larry Holcombe took up writing after retiring from a long career in sales. He has had a lifetime interest in the UFO topic, so his first book The Great River Disclosure was a fiction based off of his UFO beleifs. Having done well as an author, Holcombe proposed to his literary agent the idea of doing a non-fiction book on UFOs. He had been told an amazing story about how Nixon's reelection committee had wanted a movie on UFOs to be made and proposed it include real UFO film provided by the Air F...
Mar 30, 2015•1 hr 22 min
Jack Weiner along with his twin brother, Jim, and his friends Chuck Foltz and Charles Rak believe they were abducted during a kayaking trip in Maine in 1976. They had an incredible UFO encounter, and when some of them began having nightmares, they underwent regression therapy, separately. Their accounts of what happened during their UFO encounter in 1976, which they had not remembered consciously, were remarkably similar. Last week we aired an interview with Jim Weiner. This week we interview hi...
Mar 16, 2015•1 hr 35 min
Jim Weiner along with his twin brother, Jack, and his friends Chuck Foltz and Charles Rak believe they were abducted during a kayaking trip in Maine in 1976. They had an incredible UFO encounter, and when some of them began having nightmares, they underwent regression therapy, separately. Their accounts of what happened during their UFO encounter in 1976, which they had not remembered consciously, were remarkably similar. In this interview Jim talks about the events, and how they effected his li...
Mar 09, 2015•1 hr 27 min
Kathleen Marden is an abduction researcher and author. As the niece of Betty Hill, she had an early and unique introduction to this field. Betty Hill and her husband, Barney, were the victims in the first widely publicized alleged alien abduction in the United States. Kathleen's worked with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for years as an investigator and as their Director of Field Investigator Training. She then went on to publish several books. Her first couple were co-written with well-known UF...
Feb 09, 2015•1 hr 50 min
Reverend Michael Carter is an ordained minister and lectures extensively on the topic of religion and UFOs. He is the author of the book Alien Scriptures: Extraterrestrials in the Holy Bible, and has recently published a new book, A New World If You Can Take It: God, Extraterrestrials and The Evolution of Human Consciousness. He can be seen on the History Channel's popular series Ancient Aliens and The Real 4400, and he has appeared on the Sci-Fi Channel's Abduction Diaries. He believes he has h...
Jan 26, 2015•1 hr 18 min
Bill McDonald has been researching UFOs and their occupants for decades. He has a background in military aviation and forensic anthropology as an artist. In cooperation with Roswell UFO researchers and Testors models manager John Andrews, McDonald used techniques he learned in forensic art to design an accurate portrayal of the Roswell spacecraft according to witness testimony. This drawing was then designed into a Testors model kit. In this interview we talk to Bill about his decades of researc...
Jan 19, 2015•1 hr 38 min
It is once again time for Jason and I to review the best UFO stories of the year, and once again we are joined by Huffington Post Weird News Reporter Lee Speigel. Read more about the top 2014 UFO stories at OpenMinds.tv. Read Lee's top UFO stories of the year article at the Huffington Post. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support ....
Dec 30, 2014•1 hr 49 min
Nick Pope was in charge of the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk from 1991 to 1994. It was his job to officially investigate UFO reports, and although he was skeptical at first, the reports convinced him of the serious nature of the phenomenon. He has been an advocate for the serious investigation of UFO sightings ever since. Recently, he co-wrote a book on the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, with two of the main witnesses, John Burroughs and Jim Penniston. T...
Dec 22, 2014•1 hr 49 min
Doug Trumbull is listed on IMDb as a "Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer." Among others, he was a special effects supervisor for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Movie, and Blade Runner. All some of the biggest classics in science fiction movie history. However, what is less known is that Doug is also a UFO hunter. He has labeled his UFO hunting efforts the UFOTOG project (a meshing of the words UFO and photography). This has included a Hummer...
Dec 08, 2014•1 hr 31 min
Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University, has dedicated her life and career to working with indigenous populations. She is the author of Encounters With Star People, and has a new book coming out in December titled, Sky People: Untold Stories of Alien Encounters in Mesoamerica. As a teenager to follow in the footsteps of two 19th-century explorers, John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, who brought the ancient Maya cities to the world's attention. Dr. Clark...
Nov 24, 2014•1 hr 33 min
Chase Kloetzke is an author and paranormal investigator. For many years she was a UFO field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network and spent some time leading MUFON's Star Team. This team is deployed to help investigate MUFON's most important cases and is made up of MUFON's best investigators. We talk to Chase about paranormal and UFO investigations, including her incredible encounter with what might have been an extraterrestrial. We also discuss her thoughts on MUFON. For more information abou...
Nov 17, 2014•1 hr 38 min
Author Richard Dolan has often been referred to as a UFO historian, but he is also a researcher, lecturer, TV personality and one of the most interesting, and sometimes controversial, participants in what is often called Ufology. In this interview, I catch up with Richard at Travis Walton's Skyfire Summit in Heber/Overgaard, AZ. We discuss Walton's case, Bob Lazar's upcoming appearance at the UFO Congress, controversy that is beginning to develop online about Dolan's concept of a "Breakaway Civi...
Nov 10, 2014•1 hr 23 min
Lee Speigel has been researching and discussing UFOs in the media for decades. He is now a journalist for the Huffington Post's Weird News, where he writes about UFOs. His stories reach an international mainstream media audience, and often get picked up by other major media outlets. In this interview, we catch up with Lee's latest stories, as we like to do periodically. We discuss his story about an alleged German UFO documentary that claims the UFO that crashed in Roswell was a secret Nazi weap...
Nov 04, 2014•1 hr 28 min
John Burroughs is one of the primary witnesses to a mass UFO sighting in December, 1980. He and others saw UFOs on multiple nights near the Bentwaters Royal Air Force Base in Suffolk, UK, which was on lease to the US Air Force. Now he is suffering from medical issues that may be related to these events, but is being denied his military medical records. A couple weeks ago we spoke with his lawyer, Pat Frascogna, who says the records are classified. In fact, the USAF denied Burroughs was in the mi...
Oct 27, 2014•1 hr 39 min
Travis Walton had one of the most famous and fascinating alleged UFO abduction experiences. It was documented in the movie Fire in the Sky. However, while the movie did portray much of the events surrounding the encounter accurately, the events onboard the spacecraft were completely fictional. What Travis really remembers is much more fascinating. You can listen to us talk about the events in our last show with Travis. However, this time, Travis and I talk about his upcoming conference to commem...
Oct 21, 2014•1 hr 17 min
Nancy Birnes is the former editor of UFO Magazine. She has been a journalist she was in 11th grade in1964. She has won many awards, including the Samuel Shellabarger Award for Creative Writing when she graduated from Princeton, summa cum laude, in 1979. Her husband Bill Birnes, was co-host of the TV show UFO Hunters, and has authored several books. We talk to Nancy about UFO Magazine, its status, and how she and Bill got involved with it. We also talk about Bill's controversial book on UFO whist...
Oct 13, 2014•1 hr 42 min
Pat Fascogna is a lawyer who has taken up the case of two men who were witnesses to one of the most important UFO events. John Burroughs and Jim Penniston were part of Air Force Security at the Bentwaters Air Force base in 1980 when they were sent to check out anomalous lights being seen in Rendlesham Forest. They both got close to a large, bright, glowing light, and Penniston says he examined and touched a triangular craft that floated above the forest floor. The next night many other base pers...
Oct 06, 2014•1 hr 21 min
Norio has been investigating UFOs for decades. He specializes in his home state of New Mexico, especially regarding the alleged secret base in Dulce and cattle mutilations in that area. Norio has also spent a lot of time researching Area 51. In 1990, Norio created the Civilian Intelligence Network, which he calls "a citizens' oversight committee on government accountability, a grassroots watchdog group established to help ensure liberty, justice and freedom of information for all." We talk to No...
Sep 29, 2014•1 hr 16 min
Angel Espino is the host of Skywatchers Radio, a program that focuses on the UFO phenomenon, and the founder and producer of Public Streaming Network (PSN) Radio. PSN is an entire network of radio shows of various topics, many of them paranormal related. Managing the network, and participating in the production of many UFO radio shows over the last several years, has allowed Angel to stay up to speed with the cutting edge of UFO research. We talk to Angel about how he got interested in UFOs, som...
Sep 22, 2014•1 hr 41 min
Lakita Adams is the state director for the North Carolina chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Lakita's interest in the UFO subject began when she was nine years old, and witnessed a large fireball with her parents. In high school, she wrote her first research paper on the subject of UFOs, and for the last 12 years has studied the subject. In 2011, she became a MUFON Field Investigator in North Carolina, and has investigated over 100 cases. She has a BA in English from UNC-G, and has taugh...
Sep 11, 2014•1 hr 17 min
