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It is that time again! Now that we move into a new year, it is time to look at the previous year's UFO news stories. Open Minds UFO Radio host Alejandro Rojas is joined by Podcast UFO's Martin Willis and The Huffington Post's Lee Speigel to take a look at their list of top stories from 2015. To read the stories reviewed in this episode, visit OpenMinds.tv. For more about Martin Willis, visit PodcastUFO.com. To read Lee Speigel's articles, visit his page on HuffingtonPost.com.
David Marler is a UFO researcher and author. His book Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation focuses on cases of triangular UFOs that have been reported for decades. However, more recently, Marler has turned his focus on a mass-UFO sighting that took place in Farmington, New Mexico in 1950. We talk to Marler about his research into this case, including insights from living witnesses and never before seen government documents. For more about David, visit: DavidMarlerUFO.com.
Don Meers is an Australian filmmaker who has created and worked on several paranormal documentaries. His latest is called Australien Skies and focuses on UFO witnesses in Australia, including those the film calls "photographic contactees." These are people who believe they get a sense of when a UFO is going to show up and are able to photograph them when they do. One of these individuals, Damien Nott, claims to have the largest collection of UFO photos and videos in the world. We talk to Meers about his experiences while investigating UFO witnesses and what inspired him to make the film. He also shares with us the incredible media coverage his film has received since it has been released. For more about the film, visit AustralienSkies.com.
Dave Cote is heading up a team of techies who are planning to launch a UFO hunting satellite into space. Their project is called “CubeSat for Disclosure – Low-Earth Orbit Satellite” and is seeking crowd funding via Indiegogo.com for financing. Thus far they have raised over $11,000 and there are still 24 days left in the campaign. Although their goal is $50,000, they already have enough to launch a small satellite with cameras. We talk to Dave, a software engineer and project manager, about how he got interested in UFOs, and how the satellite project came to be. We also talk about the publicity he has received since the launch of the crowd sourcing campaign. For more about Dave and CubeSat for Disclosure, visit: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cubesat-for-disclosure-low-earth-orbit-satellite#/story
Lee Speigel is a reporter for the Huffington Post covering UFOs and other non-conventional stories in the Huffington Post's Weird News section. He has been covering the UFO phenomenon since 1975. In this interview we talk about Lee's personal UFO encounter, and a very exciting announcement regarding the 2016 International UFO Congress. Lee will be conducting a live interview on-stage with UFO researcher Jacques Vallée. Lee first met Jacques during the creation of a presentation he organized for the United Nations regarding UFOs in 1978. At that time, Sir Eric Gairy, the Prime Minister of Grenada, was petitioning the UN to develop a department that oversee the worldwide study of the UFO phenomenon. Lee and Jacques have kept in touch ever since. For more information about Jacques Vallée, visit: http://ufocongress.com/jacques-vallee/ For more information about Lee Speigel, visit: http://ufocongress.com/lee-speigel-2/ For more information about the 2016 International UFO Congress, visit: UFOCongress.com
Conceived by Tapio Kangas and featuring a host of stellar musical legends, Spacer aims to inform and educate the world on the existence of extra terrestrial life. Born in Helsinki and currently residing in London, Tapio has written many major TV show tunes and top 10 songs whilst making frequent appearances on Finnish TV and his own TV show. His classical training enables him to intersperse traditional melodies with futuristic soundscape to creating the sound of Space. The Spacer recently released their debut single ‘Creature’ this year. ‘Creature’ is part of a story entitled ‘The Artefact’; a graphic novel and album detailing how extra-terrestrials perceive Earth and their concern over its inhabits and the direction the world is heading. The song is essentially a magnificently sounding space opera with a clear message. In this interview, we talk to Tapio about his ET interests. At the beginning of the show, Martin and Alejandro also discuss the recent 40th anniversary event for the Travis Walton experience. For more about The Spacer, visit: https://soundcloud.com/t-production-1/the-spacer-creature-feat-peter-cox
Keith Arem is the president of Los Angeles based PCB Productions and PCB Entertainment. He is one of the leading creative directors and producers in the gaming industry, specializing in talent performance, writing, sound design, and music. His most recent project is a movie based on the Phoenix Lights mass UFO sightings in Phoenix, Arizona in 1997. Keith wrote and directed the movie, which is titled Phoenix Incident, and is set to release in 2016. He says the movie mixes fiction and reality, but his overall goal is to get the general public interested in real UFO research. In this interview, we talk to Keith about his interest in UFOs, his personal UFO sightings, and UFOs in the movies. We also talk to him about past and future marketing projects for the movie. Pervious marketing efforts for the movie have been controversial among UFO researchers and enthusiasts. However, Keith gives our listeners special insight into what his group has in store for future marketing efforts. For more about PCB Productions, visit pcb.cc. and for more information about the movie, visit PhoenixIncident.com.
Mark Rodeghier has been President and Scientific Director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies since 1986. He earned a B.S. in astrophysics from Indiana University in 1975. After a year of graduate study at the University of Sussex in England, he returned to complete a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in sociology. His dissertation, Factors Influencing Attitudes Toward Controversial Research : Quantitatively Disentangling the Social from the Scientific, explores the attitudes toward the study of extraterrestrial intelligence by the scientific community. Other publications include numerous articles for IUR and the Journal of UFO Studies, and UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference: a Catalog and Data Analysis (Evanston, IL: Center for UFO Studies, 1981). In this interview, we talk to Mark about CUFOS, his interests in UFOs, and an exciting new project he has helped create called UFODATA. Mark, along other scientists and professionals, started UFODATA in order to develop observation stations that will obtain scientific data on UFOs. For more information about CUFOS, visit www.CUFOS.org, and for more information about UFODATA, visit UFODATA.net.
Robert Powell is the Director of Research for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and the head of MUFON's Scientific Review Board (SRB). For the past several years, the SRB has been putting together a top 10 list that they release at the MUFON Symposiums every summer. The 2014 list just came out a few weeks ago at the 2015 MUFON Symposium in September. Although months have passed, Powell explains that the board needs that time to be sure the investigation of each case in 2014 is completed, and to have time for the SRN to review and do their own analysis. In this interview we go over how the top 10 list is created, and review some of the top cases. For more about the MUFON SRB, visit: www.mufon.com/science-review-board.html
Lorien Fenton is the Marin/Sonoma Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). She produces conferences, including the UFO CON. She is also the host of several weekly radio shows, including California MUFON Radio. Later this month, Lorien is producing a unique event called UFO CON: The Experiencer Event. At this event people will be broken up into groups to share their experiences. The groups will represent the various types of experiences people who believe they have been in contact with extraterrestrial beings believe to have experienced. In this interview we talk to her about the inspiration for her conference and the book she plans to write on these different types of alien encounters. You can read more about the conference at www.CAUFOCON.com, and you find out more about Lorien at www.LorienFenton.com.
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