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Bill "MUFON Man" Schroeder is a retired police officer who, while in the military, had an amazing UFO sighting that was caught on radar. Due to the sensitive nature of his work, he did not share his sighting with professional colleagues. However, now that he is retired, he is using his extensive experience conducting criminal investigations to find out more about the nature of the UFO phenomenon. As his name nickname implies, Bill is an investigator with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and he is also involved with research for the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). In this interview we talk to Bill about his interest and investigations into UFOs, and his new book about his UFO experience, Unknown Down. For more information about the book, visit: TheBookPatch.com.
Dr. Richard O'Connor is an anesthesiologist from Montana who discovered that a friend and colleague was involved in one of the largest UFO stories in the world, the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. That began his interest into the topic of UFOs, and lead him to eventually open the Jesse A. Marcel Library. In this interview, we talk to Dr. O'Connor about UFOs, Dr. Marcel, and his thoughts on the future of UFO research. For more information about the Jesse A. Marcel Library, visit: JAML.org
Today's show features nearly a dozen guests! Out last guest, Morgan Beall, who is the MUFON State Director for Florida and is helping to coordinate this year's MUFON Symposium, provided us with audio clips from 12 of the speakers at this year's event. They all answer questions about their what they will be presenting and about their interest in the UFO topic. The clips provide some great insight and interesting thoughts from people who have spent many many years researching and investigating UFOs. The names of the people in the clips (in no particular order) are Robert Powell, Robert Hastings, Richard Thiem, Richard Hoffman, Paola Harris, Kathleen Marden, John Greenwald, David Marler, Bill Schroeder, Alejandro Rojas, and Ben Moss. For more information about the 2016 MUFON Symposium and the speakers, visit: MUFONSymposium.com
Morgan is the Florida State Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and a member of the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU). SCU was the group that investigated the Homeland Security UFO video from Puerto Rico. Currently, Morgan is busy helping coordinate the MUFON Symposium, which will be held in Florida in a month. In this episode, Morgan and I discuss the speakers for the 2016 MUFON Symposium and related topics. This includes the various projects to gather scientific data on UFOs, including projects that are being spearheaded by Florida MUFON. We talked a bit about the Homeland Security video, and the gathering of researchers during the MUFON Symposium in an effort to coordinate various UFO data collection efforts. For more about the MUFON Symposium, visit: FloridaMUFON.org For more about Florida MUFON, visit: MUFON.com And for more about the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU), visit: ExploreSCU.org
In 1991, Greg Bishop co-founded a magazine called The Excluded Middle, which was a journal of UFOs, the paranormal, conspiracy, psychedelia and new science. His first book, Wake Up Down There! anthologized many of the articles and features. Greg's second book was Project Beta, which documented a government campaign of disinfo perpetrated against an unsuspecting researcher. His third book, Weird California, was released in 2006. He also wrote for the famed UFO/paranormal site Ufomystic for five years. It Defies Language! released in 2016,is a collection of essays on UFOs, the government, and fringe issues and personalities. His show Radio Misterioso, (radiomisterioso.com) now in its 17th year, features interviews with fringe-topic researchers and occasionally, weird music. He also flies paragliders and is a licensed private pilot, as well as an aerial drone photographer. In this interview, we talk about Greg's latest book and his insight into a fascinating disinformation scandal connected to Roswell, Majestic-12 and other UFO mythologies. You can find Greg's book at: Lulu.com Or get the Kindle version here: Amazon.com
Paul Stonehill is a UFO researcher and author with a focus on Russian Ufology. He is the author of The Soviet UFO Files (1998), Paranormal Mysteries of Eurasia (2010), and co-author of several books with Philip Mantle. His latest book is titled Russia's USO Secrets: Unidentified Submersible Objects in Russian and International Waters. It has often been said that we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the world’s seas and oceans. The study of USOs (Unidentified Submersible Objects) is a case in point. For years, strange phenomena have been reported by people at sea, especially by navies around the globe. Although many of the USO files of the Soviet and Russian Navy remain secret, some have become available due to the painstaking efforts of dedicated researchers. To purchase the book visit: www.richarddolanpress.com To read Paul's articles on OpenMinds.tv UFO News, visit: www.openminds.tv/author/paul
Paul Dean is an Australian who has been uncovering U.S. military secrets via the Freedom of Information Act. Although the U.S. government claims they have not been investigating UFOs since the close of the U.S. Air Force's official UFO study, Project Blue Book, government records show otherwise. What has been difficult to track is who is collecting these reports and where are they going? Even during the Project Blue Book years, the USAF claimed the reports demonstrating a threat to national security where going elsewhere. In Australia, along with a colleague in the U.K., Dean has been following the thread to find out where the files are going and what organizations are receiving these files. For more about Paul's work, visit: ufos-documenting-the-evidence.blogspot.com.au
Mike Clelland is an author, blogger and illustrator who, for the last few years, has been exploring ideas that even he finds peculiar. Mike has always had an interest in UFOs, and he has had some unusual experiences. In 2009, he began blogging about his ideas and experiences in an effort to understand them. Synchronicities, memories of aliens, UFO sightings and the appearance of owls has lead him on a unique journey of discovery. It has all culminated in the recent release of his book, The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee. We talk about Mike's experiences and some of his ideas in this interview. For more information about Mike, visit his blog at hiddenexperience.blogspot.com.
Finian Handley is one of the administrators of the Open Minds UFO News Group on Facebook, and a UFO enthusiast. He approaches the topic with skepticism and tries to stay grounded in a field that can include some far out claims. He is also a UFO witness, and realizes that the details of his shocking UFO encounter can seem far out to those who were not there to see it. On the evening of September 26th, 2008, Finian saw two large triangular craft coast over the highway. They were huge, but also silent. He has had a few encounters with the black triangles neat his home in southeastern Wales. In this interview, we talk to Finian about his sightings, about the importance of remaining grounded when reviewing UFO information, and some of the hoaxing that gets media attention. For more information about Finian's UFO sightings, visit: https://youtu.be/vImlf_6owKw
Cheryl Costa is a two-service military veteran, a retired aerospace security engineer and a published playwright. She has had a lifelong interest in UFOs. From 1998-2001 she hosted “The X Factor” talk radio program in Washington, DC, covering UFOs and many other paranormal topics. In 2013 she began writing NEW YORK SKIES a weekly newspaper blog for SyracuseNewTimes.com. In the column she shares lively accounts of New York State UFO sightings. Cheryl’s live presentations are known for their frankness, humor, and a bit of theatrical flair. In this episode, among other things, we talk about how Cheryl first got interested in UFOs, how she convinced a mainstream newspaper to take on her UFO blog, and her work on tracking UFOs by the numbers. To read Cheryl's blog, visit: www.syracusenewtimes.com/author/cheryl-costa/
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