Welcome back to Brief Encounters, where history whispers about things that don’t quite fit.I’m your host, Nik. And today, we’re traveling to the shores of feudal Japan—to the year 1803. A time when samurai still held power, and isolation from the outside world was strictly enforced.It’s a story passed down through strange drawings, oral tales, and old scrolls. A ship, unlike any other, drifts ashore. Not wooden, not familiar—a metallic disc with glass windows, covered in symbols no one could rea...
May 08, 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. ~~~ Our Special guest today is Alan Godfrey, a retired police constable of the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police Force in the UK. While on duty on the morning of 28th November 1980 he had been investigating a case of a missing herd of cows, from his police car he saw a bright light in the roa...
May 07, 2025•1 hr
Welcome back to Brief Encounters, where history’s oddest moments aren’t buried—they’re brought to light. I’m your host, Nik. Today, we’re going to war. It’s the 4th century B.C. Alexander the Great, one of the most formidable military minds in human history, is expanding his empire across the known world. But in the midst of his campaign, something happens—something that doesn’t fit the script of conquest. Something that doesn’t belong to this world… or even this time. A side project of Nik Hunt...
May 06, 2025•8 min
In this episode, we’re joined by Jason Cvancara, a private investigator, former Phoenix police officer, and Air Force veteran, and he comes to us from the state of Arizona. Jason is the creator of The 918 Files, a project dedicated to chronicling the strange, the unexplained, and the downright bizarre happenings across the Grand Canyon State. From UFO sightings to unsolved mysteries, Jason shares his firsthand insights into Arizona's weird underbelly. This one’s dedicated to all those who were “...
May 04, 2025•1 hr
Welcome to Brief Encounters, where history’s strangest moments meet the unexplained. And today… we’re going to climb a little higher. Last time, we stood on the battlefield at Sigiburg, where “flaming shields” frightened an army into retreat in the year 776. But this time, we’re not looking at a single event—we’re diving into the mind of a medieval man who collected stories that seem straight out of a sci-fi film. A side project of Nik Hunter, host of the UFO Chronicles Podcast It is a trial run...
May 01, 2025•9 min
Welcome to Brief Encounters, where we dig into the oldest—and often the weirdest—encounters between humanity and the skies above. We’re going deep into the past. The year is 776 A.D. The place: Sigiburg Castle, in what is now Germany. It’s a time of war, chaos, and bloodshed. But above the battlefield, something appeared—something none of the soldiers could explain. A side project of Nik Hunter, host of the UFO Chronicles Podcast It is a trial run of ten twice-weekly bite size episodes, if enjoy...
Apr 29, 2025•9 min
Tonight, we meet Phil from Buckinghamshire, UK. From a young age, Phil sensed his world was different One childhood afternoon, home sick with the mumps and resting in his mother’s bed, he glanced toward the doorway—and froze. There stood the apparition of a little girl, silent, dressed in pale blue with corn dollies woven into her hair. Later, a picture fell from the wall, revealing a hidden photograph tucked inside the frame—an old image of a girl strikingly similar to the one he’d seen. The ho...
Apr 27, 2025•1 hr 24 min
For tonight’s episode, we meet Sarge in Idaho. Sarge brings us a firsthand account that has stayed under wraps for far too long. Picture this: a quiet spring night in 2010 at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota—a critical hub for nuclear security. Out of nowhere, UFOs appear—silent, precise, and unlike anything witnesses had ever seen before. These crafts maneuver over the base for exactly one hour, silently observing before vanishing into the night sky. But the story doesn’t end there. The ver...
Apr 20, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Tonight's guest is Neal from Northern Ireland, who runs the paranormal YouTube channel Saws Lost Souls. Having dedicated over 20 years to paranormal investigation, Neal will share gripping experiences, including an apparition of a woman in an abandoned Polish hospital, strange poltergeist activity at the infamous Sallie House, and other chilling supernatural encounters. More information on this episode on the podcast website: https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/ep-329-saws-lost-souls/ Follow and Su...
Apr 12, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Tonight, we have the pleasure of welcoming Adam, who joins us from the state of Tennessee. In Hermitage, Tennessee, around 1989, there was a mass sighting of an enormous cigar-shaped craft, which Adam and his family witnessed. It hovered for some time before beginning to move, then suddenly shot off and vanished, leaving people screaming in its wake. This sighting, along with numerous other reports of orbs and a strange plasma-like formation, has left a lasting impression on Adam. More informati...
Apr 06, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Our guest tonight is Joe, joining us from the state of Nevada. He will be sharing his experiences with the Men in Black that began 25 years ago, as well as his UFO sightings. He’ll also discuss two bizarre, mysterious scars that appeared on both of his thighs after his first UFO sighting, and an incident of missing time in September 2024. More information on this episode on the podcast website: https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/ep-327-the-men-in-black/ Follow and Subscribe on X to get ad free epi...
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 5 min
We begin tonight with Diane in the United Kingdom. And Diane was kind enough to join us to share her UFO sightings, one of which occurred circa 1975, observations of orbs, as well as a near-death experience at the dentist. Next, we’ll check in with Early in North Carolina, in the US. Early will be sharing several of his own UFO sightings, ghostly encounters from his time in Philadelphia, and a few Bigfoot experiences. More information on this episode on the podcast website: https://ufochronicles...
Mar 23, 2025•1 hr 31 min
New Jersey in the US is our destination tonight as we meet Leo. Leo has had paranormal experiences since childhood, including an encounter with an ET as a child. As an adult, he has experienced paranormal visits in some homes he has lived in and has seen UFOs and orbs in the sky, including a strange sighting in Sweden. More information on this episode on the podcast website: https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/ep-325-flushing-meadows/ Follow and Subscribe on X to get ad free episodes X: https://x.c...
Mar 16, 2025•1 hr 2 min
For tonight's guest, we touched down in the state of Texas to meet Beverly. Beverly will be sharing some of her experiences with us, including close-up UFO encounters, a near-death experience at age four, a life-changing paranormal experience at 18 while sitting at a red light, after-death visits from her grandparents over a couple of nights in a row, and discovering she had the ability to connect with people who are no longer here. More information on this episode on the podcast website: https:...
Mar 09, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Tonight, we're in Massachusetts to meet Lee as he shares multiple personal and family experiences that date back to his teen years. Disembodied voices, dark shadows, his dog barking at strange orbs in his house, and other things that go bump in the night. More information on this episode on the podcast website: https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/ep-323-voices-from-the-other-side/ Follow and Subscribe on X to get ad free episodes X: https://x.com/UFOchronpodcast/ Want to share your encounter on the...
Mar 02, 2025•48 min
Tonight, we are in South Carolina to meet Heather. Her account begins in 1986. It was 6th grade, and Heather was living on an island near the Canadian border. She loved skating on her backyard pond, which was about six feet deep. That late February, unseasonably warm weather had melted the snow on top. Heather ignored her mom’s warning—'Do not go on that pond today.' Then she heard cracking and popping, and suddenly she was underwater. Later, staring at the hole, she couldn’t fathom how she had ...
Feb 23, 2025•57 min
Our guest tonight, Julie, joins us from Calgary, Canada. Julie will be sharing several fascinating things with us tonight, including some of the UFOs her grandfather witnessed during the decades he flew with the Royal Canadian Air Force. These objects were seen flying at thousands of mph and descending into the oceans without disturbing the water, an encounter with a female angel at two and a half years old in Peggy's Cove, as well as Julie's near-death experience following a horrific and violen...
Feb 16, 2025•50 min
Coming to us from the state of Virginia is Matthew. He has experienced paranormal encounters and has built up some practical defenses against lower-4D entities like jinns, including the common tricks they play on us humans. Matthew has had personal experiences with Native American spirits, astral traveling, and a possible sighting of a Thunderbird. More information on this episode on the podcast website: https://ufochroniclespodcast.com/ep-320-thunderbird/ Matthew's LinkTree: www.linktr.ee/mjtan...
Feb 09, 2025•56 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 tonight is Patrick from New Jersey, US, he will be gracing our podcast with encounters he had on his travels to the wilderness of Montana with UFOs and a Sasquatch. Patrick McFadden Jr Link to Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/patrick-mcfadden-jr More information on this episode ...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 19 min
Starting us off tonight is Tori in New Jersey, sharing a UFO sighting from 2014 in a town in Wiltshire, UK. She witnessed a huge, round metal object above some houses. The object was silent and stationary; the experience scared the person she was with enough for him to run back inside, extremely scared, leaving her there alone and feeling uneasy, as she had no idea what she was looking at. Then we move onto Tim in Ohio, whose experience occurred at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas between Christ...
Feb 02, 2025•56 min
Tonight we are in Arizona to hear about Mark's Near-Death experience. After the car accident, Mark started to get premonitions of events, including the assassination of Clementa Pinckney in 2015, and a myriad of other strange encounters. Mark is also the voice behind the "Knocked Conscious" podcast, which delves into a broad spectrum of topics including society, culture, science, spirituality, philosophy, and more. More information on this episode on the podcast website: https://ufochroniclespod...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 1 min
To start us off tonight, we meet Kelly, coming to us from Alabama. During the mid-90s, Kelly and her grandmother were on a walking trail; it was dark out. During their walk, they witnessed a bright searchlight that engulfed them from above. They could see no object above the light, and there was absolutely zero sound. This lasted for a period of time before whatever it was shot straight up in a flash and literally blended with the stars. And then we move on to John in Arizona. John's experience ...
Jan 19, 2025•1 hr 14 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. ~~~ In this episode, we are in the state of Utah in the US, to meet Bueller. He has some strange encounters he’s going to be sharing with us tonight. Including a spirit encounter at a hospital, a visit at his house from the Black-eyed children, and his experiences while going door-to-door doin...
Jan 16, 2025•57 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 a witness submission sent in by Sam in San Diego. And tonight, Sam’s account will be about his experiences with UFOs and the paranormal that would appear to have an interconnection in his life. In this extended episode, we hear also of his late father’s UFO encounter whi...
Jan 14, 2025•2 hr 48 min
The first of two guests tonight is Ana, coming to us from Saudi Arabia, sharing her UFO sighting in Malaysia of 6 disc-shaped objects, one of which came close to the apartment block she was staying in. Ana witnessed these objects with her cousin while on this trip to Kuala Lumpur in 2010. Then we hear from Ricky in Memphis, Tennessee. Ricky is the host of the 'Anything is Possible' Podcast and will be telling us about an angelic-like figure that came to him when he was younger, some of the UFOs ...
Jan 12, 2025•1 hr 25 min
To start off the new year, we are blessed with the company of Tim from Wisconsin, whose life took a surreal turn at 3:43 AM, marking the beginning of a series of strange events that challenged his understanding of reality. Despite his attempts to lead a normal existence, he was constantly drawn into a world filled with UFOs, nightmares, lucid dreams, possible alien interactions, and inexplicable synchronicities. Join us as he delves into these bizarre experiences, recounting traumatic moments as...
Jan 05, 2025•1 hr 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 Darryl E Berry Jr. coming to us from the state of Texas in the US, and tonight there will be sharing his out of the body experiences and what he has learned during his exploration. Darrell has also written a book called Travel Far: A Beginner’s Guide to the Out-of-Body E...
Dec 31, 2024•1 hr 16 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 tonight by Jay in North Carolina, and in this episode Jay will be sharing two of his UFO sightings. The first one was where Jay and his wife witnessed something shooting down from the heavens next to their house. At first, both thought it was a shooting star until it stopped ...
Dec 31, 2024•42 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 Kevin comes to us from the state of Florida in the US, and Kevin will be sharing a couple of sightings that he’s had over the years the first one was while he was on deployment in the desert of 29 Palms, when he witnessed a black triangle fly overhead. And then a sighting i...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr 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. ~~~ Tonight’s guest is John W. Milor in California John’s great-grandmother and her sister witnessed a UFO over 100 years ago her testimony sparked an interest in John at just five years old, and he later had an encounter in the jungles of Panama in 1990 with a glowing ball of light that commu...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr 50 min
