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Kathleen Marden is an abduction researcher and author. As the niece of Betty Hill, she had an early and unique introduction to this field. Betty Hill and her husband, Barney, were the victims in the first widely publicized alleged alien abduction in the United States. Kathleen's worked with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for years as an investigator and as their Director of Field Investigator Training. She then went on to publish several books. Her first couple were co-written with well-known UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, and her last with Denise Stoner. In this interview we talk to Kathleen about her work, and her recent revelation that she too has had extraterrestrial experiences. For more about Kathleen and her work, visit her website at Kathleen-Marden.com.
Reverend Michael Carter is an ordained minister and lectures extensively on the topic of religion and UFOs. He is the author of the book Alien Scriptures: Extraterrestrials in the Holy Bible, and has recently published a new book, A New World If You Can Take It: God, Extraterrestrials and The Evolution of Human Consciousness. He can be seen on the History Channel's popular series Ancient Aliens and The Real 4400, and he has appeared on the Sci-Fi Channel's Abduction Diaries. He believes he has himself been in contact with extraterrestrial beings. Reverend Carter has also served as a staff chaplain at several hospitals. In this interview we discuss his new book, his experiences, and the messages that he believes we are being sent by beings not of this world. For more information about Reverend Carter and his books, visit his website MichaelJSCarter.com.
Bill McDonald has been researching UFOs and their occupants for decades. He has a background in military aviation and forensic anthropology as an artist. In cooperation with Roswell UFO researchers and Testors models manager John Andrews, McDonald used techniques he learned in forensic art to design an accurate portrayal of the Roswell spacecraft according to witness testimony. This drawing was then designed into a Testors model kit. In this interview we talk to Bill about his decades of research and what he has learned. For more information and to see Bill's artwork, visit his website at AlienUFOArt.com.
It is once again time for Jason and I to review the best UFO stories of the year, and once again we are joined by Huffington Post Weird News Reporter Lee Speigel. Read more about the top 2014 UFO stories at OpenMinds.tv. Read Lee's top UFO stories of the year article at the Huffington Post.
Nick Pope was in charge of the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk from 1991 to 1994. It was his job to officially investigate UFO reports, and although he was skeptical at first, the reports convinced him of the serious nature of the phenomenon. He has been an advocate for the serious investigation of UFO sightings ever since. Recently, he co-wrote a book on the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, with two of the main witnesses, John Burroughs and Jim Penniston. This case involved multiple military witnesses seeing UFOs outside of two US Air Force bases in the UK, on lease from the British military. The events took place over several days during the holiday season of 1980. Controversy continues to surround the incident and Pope's new book as well. We talk to Pope about the book, the controversy, and his views on some of the most important UFO stories of the year. For more information about Nick Pope and his work, visit: www.nickpope.net.
Doug Trumbull is listed on IMDb as a "Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer." Among others, he was a special effects supervisor for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Movie, and Blade Runner. All some of the biggest classics in science fiction movie history. However, what is less known is that Doug is also a UFO hunter. He has labeled his UFO hunting efforts the UFOTOG project (a meshing of the words UFO and photography). This has included a Hummer decked out with photographic equipment, and a short film about a man searching for UFOs. We talk to Doug about UFOs and special effects, and his UFOTOG project. We are also joined by MUFON chief photo analyst, Marc Dantonio, who has been assisting Trumbull with the UFOTOG project. You can read more about Trumbull at his website, www.DouglasTrumbull.com.
Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University, has dedicated her life and career to working with indigenous populations. She is the author of Encounters With Star People, and has a new book coming out in December titled, Sky People: Untold Stories of Alien Encounters in Mesoamerica. As a teenager to follow in the footsteps of two 19th-century explorers, John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, who brought the ancient Maya cities to the world's attention. Dr. Clarke set out on a seven-year adventure (from 2003 through 2010) through Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico, collecting stories of encounters, sky gods, giants, little people, and aliens among the indigenous people. She drove more than 12,000 miles, visiting 89 archaeological sites (Stephens and Catherwood visited only 44) and conducting nearly 100 individual interviews. For more about Dr. Sixkiller and her work, visit: www.sixkiller.com.
Chase Kloetzke is an author and paranormal investigator. For many years she was a UFO field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network and spent some time leading MUFON's Star Team. This team is deployed to help investigate MUFON's most important cases and is made up of MUFON's best investigators. We talk to Chase about paranormal and UFO investigations, including her incredible encounter with what might have been an extraterrestrial. We also discuss her thoughts on MUFON. For more information about Chase, visit www.ChaseKloetzke.com.
Author Richard Dolan has often been referred to as a UFO historian, but he is also a researcher, lecturer, TV personality and one of the most interesting, and sometimes controversial, participants in what is often called Ufology. In this interview, I catch up with Richard at Travis Walton's Skyfire Summit in Heber/Overgaard, AZ. We discuss Walton's case, Bob Lazar's upcoming appearance at the UFO Congress, controversy that is beginning to develop online about Dolan's concept of a "Breakaway Civilization," and Richard and I debate who is the puppet master behind the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), or if one even exists. Controversy, speculation, and thoughtful analysis abound in this latest episode of Open Minds UFO Radio. For more about Richard Dolan visit: www.richarddolanpress.com.
Lee Speigel has been researching and discussing UFOs in the media for decades. He is now a journalist for the Huffington Post's Weird News, where he writes about UFOs. His stories reach an international mainstream media audience, and often get picked up by other major media outlets. In this interview, we catch up with Lee's latest stories, as we like to do periodically. We discuss his story about an alleged German UFO documentary that claims the UFO that crashed in Roswell was a secret Nazi weapon, and an interesting case of a purported UFO captured on video near the moon. Read Lee's stories at www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-speigel.
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