The enigma known as the UFO Phenomenon is compelling for numerous reasons. One of those reasons is that this phenomenon has been attested to by witnesses and experiencers over long periods of modern history. And, furthermore, once you get past the surface veneer of the way people have categorized/interpreted these phenomena differently over time because of different cultural expectations, one can make a convincing argument - as Jacques Vallee and others have in fact done - that this phenomenon h...
Apr 02, 2023•45 min•Ep 82•Transcript available on Metacast When people are first introduced to the enigmatic topic known as the UFO Phenomenon, the working assumption is that this is a matter of determining whether or not aliens, i.e. extraterrestrials from some likely extrasolar source, have traversed the immense distances of outer space, to arrive at our blue pearl planet either to, A.) from a more positive view, study us, as in a scientific expedition, or, B.) from a less positive view, scope out our capabilities prior to some kind of invasion. Perha...
Mar 19, 2023•45 min•Ep 81•Transcript available on Metacast Generally speaking, with this podcast, each episode takes a different topic pertaining to the UFO Phenomenon and general paranormality and does a deep dive into it. That being the case, for the most part, Point of Convergence is not a current affairs kind of show. My aim is to make each episode relevant, regardless of when and where any particular listener happens to access and consume it. That said, recent events are such that I think that, on this particular occasion, it makes sense to veer fr...
Feb 19, 2023•47 min•Ep 80•Transcript available on Metacast Within the enigma known as the UFO Phenomenon, a few particularly troubling aspects have long existed as part of the experiencer literature. One specific aspect that has long been particularly concerning involves the knowledge of and cooperation in what are often deemed negative abduction encounters, by apparently human, terrestrial powers. In other words, our very own governments, or particular elements of them, willingly signing off on the abduction of and experimentation with innocent citizen...
Feb 05, 2023•47 min•Ep 79•Transcript available on Metacast While the modern UFO era may have begun with the emergence of saucer sightings in the early to mid 20th century, that picture eventually grew to include not only those initial sightings, but also reported interactions with the supposed beings piloting these sophisticated, non-conventional craft. Yes, indeed aliens - or as theyre often called in modern ufology circles - non-human intelligences, often to clarify that we dont actually know where theyre from, just that theyre not human - at least we...
Jan 08, 2023•46 min•Ep 78•Transcript available on Metacast While the push towards government disclosure around its knowledge of UFOs and even its knowledge of the attempted reverse engineering of apparently recovered craft of anomalous origin really is kicking into a high gear of late, its still a far cry from the kinds of matters that the people known as experiencers are concerned with. Experiencers, those who have witnessed and interacted with anomalous phenomena personally, including those whove had actual encounters with beings of a decidedly non-co...
Dec 25, 2022•36 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast The so-called UFO Phenomenon is a tricky affair because, no matter when and from where you enter the discussion, youve inevitably going to face having your assumptions and expectations stretched. Indeed, to those really paying close attention to, for instance, the wealth of experiencer data thats been amassed over decades, its clear that a discourse around the nature of potential UFOs and aliens in our midst eventually leads to a much deeper rabbit hole where our place in the universe and the ve...
Nov 27, 2022•40 min•Ep 76•Transcript available on Metacast Many of the people who regularly tune into this podcast know that the UFO Phenomenon, general paranormality, and other so-called contact modalities such as NDEs, OBEs and psi phenomena are addictively fascinating matters. One could draw the conclusion that this is the case simply because the nature of the subject matter is seductive, and helps to distract people from the mundanity of their everyday existence. While the subject matter does indeed draw one deeper and deeper into the proverbial rab...
Nov 13, 2022•32 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast For those of us intimately familiar with the nuances of the so-called UFO Phenomenon, the question of if there is a there there or not is long settled. Those of us whove looked closely at the data gathered over the last 100 years or so - not to mention more ancient accounts that bear a striking resemblance to the descriptions of more modern encounters - have concluded that humanity is indeed being interacted with by intelligences that seem to arise from elsewhere. Now, whether the nature of that...
Oct 30, 2022•36 min•Ep 74•Transcript available on Metacast As many of you may know, I recently had the opportunity to make a presentation at a very unique and powerful conference event held in the heart of Manhattan, titled An Inquiry into Anomalous Experiences and the Phenomenon. The event turned out to be a smashing success, both in terms of the inspiring quality of the presentations being made by a group of speakers that included yours truly, Garry Nolan, Mitch Horowitz, Tim Grieve-Calrson, and Sean Esbjrn - Hargens , but also - just as, if not more ...
Oct 16, 2022•42 min•Ep 73•Transcript available on Metacast If theres one thing that becomes abundantly clear to those who endeavor to study the so-called UFO Phenomenon closely, its that it defies easy categorization. When you come across a researcher or enthusiast who claims theyve made quick work of whats actually going on i.e. whos involved, where theyre from, what their agenda is, etc, you can be sure that their conclusions have more to do with their own wish-fulfillment than with the data at hand. That isnt to say there arent distinctive patterns t...
Oct 02, 2022•47 min•Ep 72•Transcript available on Metacast Ever since human beings have had some sense of the immensity of the Cosmos, when we look up to the starry array above their heads in the dark of night, an enduring question emerges: How many other planets with sophisticated civilizations like ours are out there? With a thousand pinpricks of light coming through that black tapestry of the night sky, many of us logically assume the cosmos is likely teeming with life. Of course, that initial impression, based more on a hunch perhaps than solid data...
Sep 18, 2022•38 min•Ep 71•Transcript available on Metacast For those whove spent decades searching for answers to the elusive yet seemingly ever-present enigma colloquially known as the UFO Phenomenon, the last several years have been a whirlwind of activity and revelations. It is well understood by those veteran to this field that elements within the U.S. government spent decades not only covering up details that made it abundantly clear that there really was a there there - that we were being visited by non-human intelligences operating craft of the m...
Sep 04, 2022•42 min•Ep 70•Transcript available on Metacast Over the course of the history of this podcast, I have taken several opportunities to publish a special edition of the podcast, where I answer audience questions, in a feature I call The Inquiring Mind . This weeks episode marks the occasion where I do this for a 4th time. Now, since the 3rd edition of the Inquiring Mind, which launched several months ago, you could say a few things have changed. Perhaps the most significant change came recently, when I posted an actual photo of myself to social...
Jul 03, 2022•35 min•Ep 69•Transcript available on Metacast For those who look at the UFO Phenomenon as a primarily nuts and bolts enterprise, elements of this enigma that veer into the domains of the spiritual and the paranormal are often seen as superfluous to the main point of the exercise. From the point of view of traditional ufologists like this, the central point is that some kind of biologically-based alien intelligence is here, in our midst, buzzing in and around our skies - and apparently our most supposedly secure air space, for that matter - ...
Jun 19, 2022•35 min•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast When we think back to the dawn of the modern UFO era in the 1940s, and the subsequent reports of sightings and interactions ever since - whether they be of the quintessential flying saucers, black triangles, tic tabs, or orbs, the focus has largely been on how these strange and sophisticated craft and/or phenomena seem to suddenly appear in our skies. Where are they coming from? Who are they? What is their agenda? All of these questions inevitably arise as we perceive them entering our reality. ...
Jun 05, 2022•33 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast In the long history of strange events occurring in the lives of human beings, the drive for understanding has been, not surprisingly, shaped by the model of reality prevalent at the time. Thus, while our distant ancestors saw the appearance of strange, awe-inspiring non-human intelligences as a manifestation of angels and demons: entities normally bound to the spiritual domain beyond this mortal coil, modern westerners have tended to see more recent appearances of these non-human entities as the...
May 22, 2022•41 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast In the long history of the modern UFO Phenomenon, a key and iconic moment stands out as of particular import. I speak of a rumored crash of a sophisticated aerial vehicle in the desert terrain near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. The event prompted an initial acknowledgement by the government that this was indeed a moment of the greatest significance: the crash of an actual alien craft, apparently not of this world, and piloted by beings of a decidedly non-human nature. Of course, as many of us now...
May 08, 2022•42 min•Ep 65•Transcript available on Metacast When strange and sophisticated aerial vehicles were first spotted buzzing in and around our skies in a series of flaps during the period of the 1940s, many assumed these represented the visitation of an extraterrestrial species. The beyond next-gen characteristics of these advanced craft where they could travel at incredible rates of speed, hover in place, and make 90 degree turns on a dime suggested to most that these could not logically be the property of any known nation-state actor. The tech...
Apr 24, 2022•32 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast 2017 was the year that saw a sudden uptick of mainstream interest in the notion of UFOs following revelations arising from a groundbreaking article in the New York Times. This article described so-called unidentified aerial phenomena - modern nomenclature for what had traditionally been referred to as unidentified flying objects - UFOs. These revelations suggested these objects and/or phenomena had been documented and studied as part of an official Department of Defense program. This tacit ackno...
Apr 10, 2022•34 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast Over the course of the history of this podcast, weve covered events and experiences that are so bizarre, seemingly irrational and even absurd, that one cant help but come away from an exhaustive examination of this data wondering how on Earth it fits into our notion of reality at all. Put simply, I dont think it does. But not because the data is somehow in error. After all, at this point, theres simply too much of it, with too much cross-cultural, cross-temporal consistency for that to be ...
Mar 27, 2022•33 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast In recent years numerous accounts involving the UFO Phenomenon have been made public that contain a broad assortment of bizarre, paradigm-stretching, and, for many, credibility-challenging, elements of so-called High Strangeness - i.e. elements that seem to contradict our consensus understanding of the possible. Recent books such as <em>Skinwalkers at the Pentagon</em> have helped to turn the spotlight on these co-arising elements of paranormality that tend to emerge alongside standa...
Mar 13, 2022•37 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast When it comes to the so-called UFO Phenomenon, the levels of complexity go much deeper than the general public and the political and media mainstream generally realize. In other words, the conversation thats finally being had in those circles, because of revelations arising primarily since 2017 is still a far cry from the nature of the discussion being had by people really familiar with the nuances of this thorny but enthralling topic. The first layer is the notion that sophisticated alien entit...
Feb 27, 2022•38 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast Over the last several episodes weve been discussing some of the more bizarre, even absurd, elements of the UFO Phenomenon. For anyone whos taken the time to do a truly deep dive into the data behind this Phenomenon, it is clear that there is much to make sense of here: much that doesnt fit well with certain cookie-cutter, predetermined hypotheses meant to make sense of the data. Two episodes ago we discussed Jacque Valles groundbreaking, genre-stretching and controversial book Passport to Magoni...
Feb 13, 2022•40 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Last time on this podcast we discussed Jacque Valles ground-breaking and genre-stretching book Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, which highlights striking parallels between elements found within whats commonly referred to as the UFO Phenomenon, and distant tales that come to us from so-called faerie lore. That is to say, once you crack the veneer of more recent 20th and 21st century encounters with what are assumed to be spacecraft being piloted by alien beings whove supposed...
Jan 30, 2022•37 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast Near the middle part of the 20th century, American society became obsessed with a newfangled fascination. This pastime that took the publics imagination by storm, prompted serious and excited discussion around interplanetary visitors. The dawning of this new era in pubic life was fueled by a series of sightings of what quickly became known, colloquially, as flying saucers. More generally, the term adopted was that of UFOs unidentified flying objects. This term described what was commonly assumed...
Jan 23, 2022•35 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast In the two previous episodes of the podcast we covered the key elements of the case of Terry Lovelace, a man whos had a lifetime of experiences with apparently non-human, alien intelligences. Lovelaces case is punctuated by events known as abductions, which involve human beings being visited by these alien others and then transported, by way of their technology, up into craft, either situated above a particular location, or orbiting the earth. In one instance Lovelace recounts being transported ...
Jan 16, 2022•34 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast In last weeks episode we kicked off a discussion of a certain kind of alien interaction: the kind well attested to in UFO Phenomenon literature where human beings are repeatedly interacted with by non-human intelligences, and often from a very young age. As time goes on that interaction often includes abduction that is, the taking of these people from their homes, up onto what appear to be spacecraft, either orbiting the earth in cloaked fashion, or existing in some kind of hyperspace or alterna...
Jan 09, 2022•37 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast Over the last several months weve been discussing how the totality of the data behind the UFO Phenomenon may include different patterns that, perhaps, suggest that different actors and agendas serve as distinct parts of that whole. Distinguishing segments within the meta-category known as the UFO Phenomenon can, perhaps, help us to better understand whats actually going on. Within that totality, for instance, is a subsection of data involving apparent alien abduction. Here were speaking about hu...
Jan 02, 2022•41 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast It was at this time last year that the inaugural edition of the Point of Convergence podcast was launched. In that very first edition I discussed some of the broad brush topics I planned to cover in the coming weeks and months. I didnt know exactly what direction the podcast would take, but I had a strong sense that it would attempt to weave together topics that are often taken as distinct and disconnected: topics such as alien beings and the UFO Phenomenon, psi phenomena such as psychokinesis, ...
Dec 26, 2021•39 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast 
