Episode Notes Here's the section on Bill Cooper's interpretation of the "War of the Worlds" broadcast that I decided just didn't fit with the Radio Daze episode. Enjoy (as much as possible with Wild Bill!) Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....
Feb 26, 2020•13 min
Episode Notes Radio! It use to be a thing--ask your folks, kids! Since the beginning of the flying saucer phenomenon, there have been radio programs dedicated to the subject. While there were several high profile "specials," about the topic this episode focuses on the long running radio series that focused--at least in part--on UFOs, usually as part of a larger focus on the paranormal or conspiratorial topics. John E. L. Tenney writes about "Incredible But True" 2013 Slate article on the mythic ...
Feb 19, 2020•50 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Episode Notes Speaking of interesting but fundamentally dull flying saucer films , in this installment of The Saucer Afterlife, I spend a few minutes on The Flying Saucer Mystery. This is a 1952 short film (which is actually an extended version of one that came out in 1950) that features August Roberts (for 4 seconds), Frank Scully (who seems like a hoot), and Donald Keyhoe (who is whatever the opposite of a hoot might be). You can watch this film on YouTube . Or, for $0.99, you can watch it whi...
Feb 12, 2020•7 min
Episode Notes Reinhold O. Schmidt was a contactee who had a number of encounters before (and, well, after) he turned to a life of crime. Join us for cigar shaped craft and grand theft. The Kearney Incident Up to Now (There was a scan floating around the internet and I uploaded it to the Internet Archive. I believe this to be in the public domain. If not, I'm sure someone will let IA know!) The text of Edge of Tomorrow Photos from the film Edge of Tomorrow Support The Saucer Life and get somethin...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 9Ep. 3
Episode Notes We get mail! We get, occasionally, very interesting, fun things sent to us by our friends, listeners, and friendly listeners. In this installment, I sort through the latest interesting offerings. Support The Saucer Life via PayPal and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....
Jan 29, 2020•9 min
Episode Notes I would bet good money that most of you have not read 1978's The UFO Guidebook by Briazack and Mennick. It's one of the hidden gems of UFO literature, boasting a very even-handed array of definitions and summaries in an encyclopedia style. But that's not the biggest reason I love it. Thanks for listening, and keep your eyes out for befaps, my fellow You can find a used copy through Amazon . Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @...
Jan 22, 2020•38 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Episode Notes Some brief thoughts on a recent UFO book viewed through the eyes of a man who has recently spent too much time thinking about The Controllers . You can get this recently published book at Amazon ! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....
Jan 15, 2020•10 min
Episode Notes In this episode, we're looking at "The Controllers"--an essay/white paper written by Martin Cannon in the early 90s. It concerns the possible connections between government mind control experimentation and the alien abduction phenomenon. I've linked to lots of stuff below, so be sure to check it out if this is a strand of the--broadly construed--"alien" "encounter" mystery that you find interesting. Me, I find it terrifying. Links and Further Reading Cannon's 1988 talk, "Mind Contr...
Jan 08, 2020•47 min•Season 9Ep. 1
Episode Notes Rather than give you a run down of the top UFO stories of 2019, I thought I'd take a look at what other people were saying were the top UFO stories of the year and rendering judgement on their choices. Just a few minutes of fun and a bit of information to ease you into the New Year. The next full length episode drops on January 8! Fox News Coast to Coast AM The Cut (no, I've never heard of it either) Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com ...
Jan 01, 2020•8 min
Episode Notes This went through numerous title choices before settling on this, simultaneously an apt description and an homage to another "Holiday Special" that had nothing to do with any particular real holiday. We've got fan fiction, we've got classic saucer poetry, we've got all three of our regular guest voices--Sasha, Roberta, and Nelson--along for the ride, we've got something a bit light and fun (hopefully) before coming back in the New Year. Well, the poem "Experiments" is any thing but...
Dec 24, 2019•26 min•Season 8Ep. 24
Episode Notes William S. "Bill" English is, maybe, the forgotten "Bill" of 80s and 90s UFOlogy. his claims were extraordinary. His story was exciting and entertaining. Featuring clips from some classic UFO radio programming, and from the infamous 1989 MUFON conference, this was a fun episode to put together and we think it's a bit of a sleeper. Special thanks to some folks who pointed us in some directions and provided some background: Adam Gorightly , Jack Brewer of the UFO Trail , and one of o...
Dec 11, 2019•48 min•Season 8Ep. 23
Episode Notes No apologies, this one was a bit of a labor of love, and I can't believe I got a whole episode out of the Mitchell Sisters, a pair of 1950s contactees from St. Louis, Missouri. This is a contact tale, but also the story of what happens when a story gets abandoned through the disappearance of its original tellers. Featuring the debut of Saucer Fanfic Theater ! Reading and resources We Met the Space People at the Internet Sacred Text Archive The "Autobiography" of the Mitchell Sister...
Nov 27, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 8Ep. 22
Episode Notes Yes, that tape recorder was used in the making of this episode, at the suggestion of Associate Producer Simpson Hanover. THUS--the audio sounds....like it was recorded on a tape recorder. Although, it's an exceptionally high quality tape recorder. In this episode we return to the 90s and return to our Zine Scene strand of episodes, with a great and hopefully surprising or intriguing selection. Reading and resources I can't remember exactly where I got my PDFs of those old Art Bell ...
Nov 13, 2019•57 min•Season 8Ep. 21
Episode Notes Happy Halloween, if you're seeing this on release day. An appropriate topic for the holiday, I think--things that go bump in the night outside of isolated farmhouses, a story that exists in the netherworld of saucer story and monster tale, and one of the few incidents that makes it difficult for me to sleep if I think about it too close to bedtime. Come with us to Christian County, Kentucky. Don't bother to bring your shotgun. Reading and resources Close Encounter at Kelly and Othe...
Oct 31, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 8Ep. 20
Episode Notes The Maury Island has it all--saucers, alien alloys, men in black, dead investigators, and a cast of characters ranging from bland to shady as all get out. Join us! Further reading: Adam Gorightly on Fred Crisman's connections to some other shady saucerers we've met. Kenn Thomas: JFK & UFO: Military-Industrial Conspiracy and Cover-Up from Maury Island to Dallas Jim Keith: Casebook on the Men in Black Fred Nadis: The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey Jim Marrs:...
Oct 16, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 8Ep. 19
Episode Notes In this episode, I choose four contacts we've covered on the show and declare them to be the Mount Rushmore of Contactees. I doubt you'll fully agree, and that's okay! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Pinecast Tip Jar PayPal Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast ....
Oct 02, 2019•27 min•Season 8Ep. 18
Episode Notes Not to be topical or anything, but all during the summer of 2019 we were getting geared up to Storm Area 51--and that's great and all, but I thought that Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton needed some love, so here we are. In this episode, we examine the history of the notion that there's a place the government takes saucer debris, the emergence of "Hangar 18" itself as an idea, and the ways this has poked through in various parts of the saucer culture over the past few de...
Sep 18, 2019•42 min•Season 8Ep. 17
Episode Notes This is a talk from Dexter, Michigan I gave on July 22, 2019 about UFOs, history and, of course, the 1966 sightings in the area. It was a fun talk, with a good crowd--some of whom remembered the events themselves. If you'd like to see the slide show that went along with the talk, click here . Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Pinecast Tip Jar PayPal Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook...
Sep 04, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Season 8Ep. 16
Episode Notes An absolute nostalgic delight, the Weekly World News entertained and...informed?...millions during its life from the late 70s into the 21st century. While you may remember Bat Boy, the WWN also--at least in in its early years, covered some fairly significant UFO stories. We'll see the progression from covering cases like Cash-Landrum and cattle mutilations to reporting that an alien had endorsed Bill Clinton for the 1992 Presidential election. We'll also look at some of the other g...
Aug 21, 2019•51 min•Season 8Ep. 15
On August 7, 2017, I began a project I wasn't sure would last two months. It's now lasted two years, give or take a day. In this episode we'll resist the urge to do a clip show, take a suggestion from a listener about how to celebrate, thank a whole lot of people, revisit a past topic. Sort of. Taunia Derenberger-Bowman's Beyond Lanulos: Our Fifty Years with Indrid Cold is on Amazon. WARNING: it's only 76 pages, so don't expect it to last your whole flight or whatever! Support The Saucer Life an...
Aug 05, 2019•26 min•Season 8Ep. 14
UPDATE: Something is weird with the feed–trying again! While we often get requests to cover this or that topics–Orfeo Angelucci’s contact experiences and writings may be the most often requested. His two books, The Secret of the Saucers and Son of the Sun are very much part of the Adamski-inspired tradition but with some interesting twists including […]
Aug 01, 2019•1 hr 28 min•Season 8Ep. 13
We’re continuing with a run of Contactees in this episode, where we’ll discuss George King and his Aetherius Society (which is still going strong today!). George King was an interesting guy–as were most of the Contactees–and his claims and experiences have some unique twists to them. The full BBC program in which King channeled Aetherius […]
Jul 17, 2019•43 min•Season 8Ep. 12
Not a new episode, but a listener pointed out that the “echo effect indicating primary source” continued onto the narration in one section of Encounter 58, so here’s a corrected version!
Jul 08, 2019•42 min
WARNING! THIS EPISODE INCLUDES MILD CRINGE-INDUCING ROMANCE! Howard Menger, sometimes called the East Coast Adamski (for reasons I’ve never really understood) had one of the most unique contact stories–mostly because they involved a romance between he and Connie Weber that apparently began in a previous lifetime on another planet. Menger also released record albums of […]
Jul 03, 2019•42 min•Season 8Ep. 11
Since I’m running around giving all sorts of talks in libraries (or, rather, giving the same basic talk in all sorts of libraries), I thought I’d give you a bit of a taste of what that’s like. This is my talk from Esotericon 2018 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Esotericon, produced by Paul Kimball, also featured […]
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 6 min•Season 8Ep. 10
In this episode, we’re going to explore some of the earliest efforts by the American military establishment to investigate and understand UFOs. They started doing so just about as soon as Kenneth Arnold sighted the first modern UFO and they probably haven’t stopped since, you know, strange things in the sky might be concerning to […]
Jun 05, 2019•29 min•Season 8Ep. 9
In this episode, we look at some interesting accounts from 1973: Year of the Humanoids, a report issued by the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). Their website is a treasure trove of information about cases you’ve heard of and cases that have slipped under the radar of most saucer fiends. You can download your own […]
May 22, 2019•31 min•Season 8Ep. 8
UFO legend Stanton T. Friedman has passed away at age 84. These are just some thoughts I had this evening, reflecting on his work and influence. Obituary at Coast to Coast AM, by Tim Binnall Stanton T. Friedman is Real, a short film by Friedman’s nephew, Paul Kimball.
May 15, 2019•4 min
There’s a recent edition of Alternative 3 that had the participation of Leslie Watkins, so it’s probably as legit as you’ll get at an affordable price. It’s at Amazon, and linked above. A DVD of Alternative 3 is available, used, on Amazon. It’s also been put on Youtube. I heartily recommend Jim Keith’s Casebook on Alternative 3. There […]
May 08, 2019•53 min•Season 8Ep. 7
Just some fun margin notes from my copy of Jim Keith’s Casebook on Alternative 3. Enjoy! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook
Apr 29, 2019•8 min
