When Adrius stepped outside into the quiet night air, he wasn’t expecting to see anything unusual. But there it was, hovering above the treetops. A large, matte black craft. It didn’t move. It didn’t make a sound. Its surface was smooth with brushed metal ridges, and on either side, two red lights glowed, stacked vertically like signals. Adrius had seen other things in the sky before. In London, three glowing orbs drifted through moonlit clouds that moved in unnatural patterns. A colleague later...
Jun 29, 2025•57 min
The war is over. It's 1946. Peace hasn't fully settled over Europe. In the skies over Sweden, Norway, and Finland, a new mystery emerges: dozens, hundreds, of rocket-like objects streak through the air. No known nation claims responsibility. No clear explanation ever comes. They are called the "Ghost Rockets" and their appearance would mark one of the first great UFO mysteries of the modern era. Brief Encounters is a tightly produced, narrative podcast that dives headfirst into the world of UFO ...
Jun 26, 2025•10 min
Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Our guest this episode is Barbara, calling from North Carolina, who will share her abduction experiences. Barbara’s encounters began when she moved to Antelope Valley, California, in the late 1980s. As we will hear, there is a possibility they extend back to her early childhood. More infor...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr 10 min
It's 1944, deep in the chaos of World War II. Allied pilots battle not just enemy planes but something else, something they can't shoot down, something they can barely explain, bright orbs, dancing lights, impossible objects that out fly the best aircraft of the era. Pilots call them "Foo Fighters" and their mysterious presence would baffle militaries on both sides of the war. Brief Encounters is a tightly produced, narrative podcast that dives headfirst into the world of UFO sightings, the para...
Jun 24, 2025•9 min
In this episode, two of Justin’s close-range UFO encounters are shared. The first took place during a quiet evening on the front porch of his home, when he looked up to see a large, disc-shaped craft hovering low over the neighborhood. It moved slowly, completely silent, with a ring of white lights underneath and a strange, circuit-like texture across its surface. The second encounter happened a few years later. While riding as a passenger in his sister's car, Justin witnessed an enormous triang...
Jun 22, 2025•47 min
It's February 24th, 1942. America is on edge. The attack on Pearl Harbor is still fresh in the nation's memory. Fear of enemy bombers hangs heavy over the West Coast. Then, in the early morning darkness over Los Angeles, air raid sirens scream. Anti-aircraft guns roar. Searchlights crisscross the skies. And something up there, something unseen and unkillable, becomes the target of a full-scale military assault. Join us as we dive into this mysterious night and uncover what really happened in the...
Jun 19, 2025•8 min
Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ We are joined this episode by Paula from West Yorkshire in the UK, and Paula with be sharing her abduction experience's going back to when she was just four years old. And an encounter with a craft Paula and a friend had in a wooded area on the outskirts of Bradford in 1983, that's resulte...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 27 min
In the remote redwood forests of Northern California, something strange stirred in the night sky. In 1926, long before the modern UFO era began, residents of Humboldt County reported glowing orbs drifting through the trees, following logging trucks, and vanishing without a trace. With no aircraft capable of such feats at the time, the lights defied every explanation. In this episode, we explore one of America’s earliest mass sightings, quietly buried by history but never forgotten by those who w...
Jun 17, 2025•7 min
Tonight we have the pleasure of Lynn from New Mexico. From a crib in rural Pennsylvania to a starlit night in New Mexico, Lynn’s story unfolds across decades of strange lights, missing time, and vivid encounters with something not of this world. In this episode, she shares her deeply personal account for the first time, how it began and how it continued with lost time, visitors, and a silent connection with a hybrid child she was told was her own. More information on this episode on the podcast ...
Jun 15, 2025•1 hr 49 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters, where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. Tens of thousands gather in the rain-soaked fields, drawn by the words of three young children who claimed something divine would appear. As the clouds break and the rain halts, witnesses look up, and watch in awe as the sun seems to move. It spins, it shudders. Not only that, but it dances across the sky, some fall to their knees, convinced they’ve seen a miracle. Others leave shaken, certain they’ve wi...
Jun 12, 2025•6 min
Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Tonight's guest is Johnny, from Pennsylvania in the US, Johnny’s story begins in 1963 with a face at the window, and from that moment on, the visitors never really left. In this account spanning over five decades, Johnny recounts the night he saw an alien outside his childhood home, a terr...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 15 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters, where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. On the night of October 11th, 1492, Christopher Columbus sails the restless Atlantic aboard the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María. As the three weathered ships cut through the dark, endless void, Columbus scans the horizon. Just before land is sighted for the first time in weeks, he spots something eerie, a flickering, moving light where none should exist. Brief Encounters is a tightly produced, narrative pod...
Jun 10, 2025•6 min
In this episode, we head to Christchurch, New Zealand, where Daryl recalls two powerful and unexplained encounters, The first took place in 1973 during a regular school day at Roydvale Primary. Without warning, three silent silver discs appeared in the sky above the school. The sky changed in an instant, the world went quiet, and time seemed to stop. Dozens of students and teachers stood frozen, watching the objects pass overhead. Then, just as suddenly, everything returned to normal, no one spo...
Jun 08, 2025•1 hr 39 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters, where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. In the land of pyramids and pharaohs, the gods didn’t just walk among the people. They flew, carried on golden boats that soared through the sky, wielding power from the stars, and watched over by beings with the heads of falcons. For centuries, archaeologists have marveled at the engineering of Ancient Egypt. But there’s something else here, hidden in temple walls, in myths, and in carvings that don't q...
Jun 05, 2025•7 min
Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Nebojsa Borkovich shares extraordinary encounters while sailing across the Pacific Ocean in a 29-foot sailboat with his sailing companion Don, a Navajo Indian. Were Neb and Don just casually observed out of pure curiosity or is there a deeper meaning, a more profound meaning More informati...
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters, where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. The automobile is still a novelty. The Wright brothers haven’t yet flown. Electricity lights up only a few cities. Yet, across the skies of America, something impossible is happening: cigar-shaped airships, glowing lights, and metallic crafts flying silently through the night. Witnessed by thousands and described in hundreds of newspaper reports from California to Illinois to Texas, these sightings baffl...
Jun 03, 2025•7 min
In this episode, we hear from Mary from New York City, whose story bridges the physical and the paranormal. From a film set in Arizona in 1997, where she witnessed a massive triangular UFO later linked to the Phoenix Lights, to verified sightings in New York and beyond, Mary’s encounters have spanned decades and states. But there’s more. Mary also carries the gift of sight — vivid premonitions and psychic visions, including moments where she has seen the deaths of loved ones as they happened. Th...
Jun 01, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. A golden craft, shaped like a chariot, but airborne. It moves not by wheels or wings—but by something called “mercury propulsion.” It can soar from city to city, vanish into clouds, even fire beams of energy. No, this isn’t a futuristic sci-fi novel. These are descriptions from ancient Sanskrit texts, some written thousands of years ago. And they describe flying machines—with detail, mechanics, and battle...
May 29, 2025•7 min
Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Today's guest is David Emmons from Illinois, and he will be sharing his UFO and ET experience that started at the age of 14. David and his best friend saw a Saucer shape UFO that looked like a spinning top. It had portals (windows) circled around the top or near the top of the craft. They ...
May 28, 2025•2 hr 3 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. It’s 1716, Sweden is at war. Winter still bites the air, and as dusk falls over the snow-covered hills, something stirs above. A dragon, or so they said. A flaming serpent—enormous, glowing, twisting across the sky. Witnessed not by one, or two but by thousands. Brief Encounters is a tightly produced, narrative podcast that dives headfirst into the world of UFO sightings, the paranormal, cryptids, myths, ...
May 27, 2025•7 min
In tonight’s firsthand account, Melissa takes us back to a quiet Sunday night in 1974, when she was just 11 years old. Her family had just left evening worship at church and was driving a deserted stretch of the newly constructed I-75, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. There was no traffic, no distractions—just the road and something watching from above. What appeared was a massive, disc-shaped craft—liquid silver, like shimmering mercury or pewter—that suddenly hovered over their car, silently...
May 25, 2025•55 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. I’m your host, Nik. It was April 1665. A quiet day along the shore of the Baltic Sea. Fishermen cast their lines near the German town of Stralsund, as they had for centuries. Salt in the air. Nets in the water. Nothing unusual—until they looked up and saw ships—not in the water, but in the sky. Dozens of them. Moving, maneuvering, and even firing at each other. A battle. In broad daylight. Overhead. And t...
May 22, 2025•7 min
Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Our guest today is Joseph from Ohio, and he has had one unexplainable thing happen to him and a friend about 15 years ago. He hasn't shared this story with hardly anyone, but Joseph and his friend were chased out of an old, abandoned Air Force Radar Base by some type of entity that they co...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. I’m your host, Nik, and today we’re taking this series far back. Back to a time when the most powerful empire on Earth ruled under the watchful eye of the gods—or maybe… something else. Long before Roswell, airships, or even the word ‘UFO’ existed, the Romans were seeing things in the sky. Brief Encounters is a tightly produced, narrative podcast that dives headfirst into the world of UFO sightings, the p...
May 20, 2025•7 min
Tonight, we’re joined by Steven from New York State, who’s had more than his share of strange encounters. One unforgettable night during his teenage years, a quiet swim with a friend turned surreal when a blinding light and a deep, vibrating hum descended above their pool, leaving the boys in stunned silence. Later in life, Steven witnessed a truly massive, flat-bottomed craft drifting silently over his neighborhood. It was a moment of awe, quickly followed by disbelief from others… until a frie...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters—where history’s strangest moments collide with the unexplained. I’m your host, Nik, and today we kick off this series with one of the oldest and most vivid mass sightings ever recorded: the day the sky turned into a battlefield. On April 14, 1561, in Nuremberg, Germany, a peaceful dawn was shattered by chaos in the heavens. Hundreds of citizens witnessed an aerial event so bizarre they could only describe it in the terms of their time: a sky war. Dark spheres, cylindr...
May 15, 2025•8 min
Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ This is the concluding part of Terry's witness account. Our guest today is Terry Lovelace, and he has one of the most interesting and also disturbing abduction accounts I have heard. It all began on a camping trip in 1977, Terry was a 22-year-old Staff Sergeant in the United States Air For...
May 14, 2025•37 min
Throwbacks are where I re-release old episodes from the archives. So don't worry if you have heard it already, as 'New episodes' will continue to come out on Sundays. To get some of the old episodes heard. ~~~ Our guest today is Terry Lovelace, and he has one of the most interesting and also disturbing abduction accounts I have heard. It all began on a camping trip in 1977, Terry was a 22-year-old Staff Sergeant in the United States Air Force. Terry and his friend Toby went on a two-night campin...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Welcome back to Brief Encounters, the podcast where we sift through the ashes of the past … to find the sparks that just don’t fit. I’m your host, Nik. And tonight, we’re crossing scorching sands back to the Arabian Peninsula, in the year 1487. A time of caliphates and caravans, of mystics and merchants. But deep in the silence of the desert, something appeared. Not travelers. Not stars. Not sandstorms. But men—fiery men—falling from the sky. That’s right. In a strange and little-known report fr...
May 13, 2025•8 min
In this gripping episode, our guests tonight come to us from New York state, brothers Chris and Sean O’Leary, lifelong alien abductees whose lives have been marked by decades of chilling encounters. From childhood experiences of missing time to adulthood visits by otherworldly entities, their story is nothing short of astonishing. Sean, a retired police officer, opens up about the night he was pushed to the brink — when he drew his weapon on a being that defied all earthly explanation. Together,...
May 11, 2025•2 hr 38 min
