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Matty Beckerman produced and directed the new movie Alien Abduction, which also includes the Brown Mountain lights mystery. In fact, he got the idea for the movie from stories of strange lights and disappearances in the Brown Mountains of North Carolina. Beckerman says when he first started looking into the mystery to prepare for the filming of the movie he was skeptical. However, now he has seen the lights himself and is convinced that not only are the Brown Mountain lights truly an anomalous phenomena, but alien abductions are really too! We talk to Beckerman about the making of Alien Abduction, and the experiences and research that changed his mind about extraterrestrial visitation and UFOs. For more information about Beckerman and the movie, visit: www.alienabductionfilm.com.
Roger Marsh is a UFO writer, author, playwright and independent filmmaker. He is editor of the monthly MUFON UFO Journal for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), where he also serves as the Director of Communication. He is the National UFO Examiner at examiner.com, and blogs for the Huffington Post. Marsh tells how his UFO interests stem from an incredible sighting his family had when he was a kid. He then had a remarkable sighting of his own. This helped encourage Marsh to investigate UFOs and other paranormal topics. We talk about this and some of the interesting UFO cases that MUFON has received in the last couple of weeks. For more information about Roger, visit: rogermarsh.moonfruit.com.
There have been a lot of UFO pictures and videos popping up in the news all around the world lately. In order to take a closer look at these UFO sightings, Jason and I invited Lee Speigel from the Huffington Post to join us and go over these cases. Some of them we suspect are misidentifications. However, some of them we have no explanation for. To see the stories we are talking about, visit: www.openminds.tv. You can read more about Lee Speigel at: www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-speigel/
Thomas Reed and his brother began experiencing strange events in the 1960s, beginning with a UFO encounter. Some of their encounters were witnessed by others and investigated by UFO researcher J. Allen Hynek, who was an astronomer and consultant for the Air Force's official investigation into UFOs. The Reed brothers’ encounters include memories of being taken by strange creatures and examined. They describe ant people and strange looking humanoids. Although Reed still does not know what really may have happened, he believes at least some of his encounters had something to do with extraterrestrials. In this show we talk to Thomas about his encounters and the physical evidence found by investigators. For more on Thomas Reed visit TomReed.info.
Mark Pilkington is the writer and Roland Denning is the co-director to a new documentary on UFO disinformation called Mirage Men. Much of the movie includes interviews with ex-Air Force Office of Special Investigation Agent Richard Doty. Doty says he was part of an elaborate program to disseminate disinformation to Ufologists throughout the 80s. He continues to claim he has official knowledge of the Air Force’s UFO and extraterrestrial secrets. We talk about Doty’s claims, the circumstance surrounding his disinformation, and the UFO mythology which has its roots in Doty’s disinformation and hoaxing campaign. You can watch the documentary here, and read more about it at www.MirageMen.com.
Patty Greer is a Crop Circle filmmaker, but she hasn’t always been. In fact, it was an experience she had in a Crop Circle that compelled her to begin making the films. Patty is a musician and had no experience with filmmaking. However, she acted on the compulsion and now has 6 films on Crop Circles, UFOs, and extraterrestrials. Patty tells us how this all came about and explains how she believes the circles are made, and the messages the makers are giving us. Read more at Patty's website: www.PattyGreer.com
Jan Harzan is the Executive Director of the Mutual UFO Network. Jan has been a MUFON member for decades and has been involved with the administration of the organization at the national level for many years. His interest in UFOs began with an extraordinary sighting he had as a child. This sighting also influenced his career path. We talk to Jan about this sighting, an interesting encounter he had with retired Lockheed Skunk Works director Ben Rich, and the future of MUFON. For more information on MUFON visit www.MUFON.com.
Lee Speigel, Jason McClellan, and Alejandro Rojas review some of the highlights of the 2014 International UFO Congress (IUFOC). There were a lot of great speakers, and some UFO news that was made at this year’s IUFOC. We talk about those newsmakers and dissect the significance of some of the programs at the IUFOC. If you were unable to make this year you will get a breakdown of some of the lectures you might want to purchase on DVD. If you were there you can share in our excitement to recap some of the great moments on the week. There were a lot of great presentations, and in this hour and then some, we get to a lot of the speakers, but unfortunately not all. There was just so much to talk about. Rest assured most of the speakers have made appearances on Open Minds UFO radio, and if they have not, they soon will.
For over 15 years, Jason Martell has been one of the leading researchers and lectures specializing in ancient civilization technologies. Martell's research has been featured worldwide on numerous television and radio networks such as The Discovery Channel, Syfy Channel, and the BBC. He is currently a regular guest on the show "Ancient Aliens" on the History Channel. His latest book "Knowledge Apocalypse" is available on Amazon.com. Martell garnered worldwide attention by recreating a working model of one of science's most profound mysteries - the "Baghdad Battery". Residing in the national museum of Iraq, the discovery of this 2,000 year old device suggests the modern day battery was not invented in 1800 by Count Alassandro Volt, but was in use two millennia earlier. Martell's recreation was instrumental in proving the Baghdad Battery was capable of generating current. See Martell’s latest research at: AncientSchool.com
Aaron Sagers is an entertainment journalist, geek culture expert, published author and pundit. He is also an expert historian and lecturer on the field of paranormal-themed entertainment, also known as "paranormal pop culture," and founder of ParanormalPopCulture.com. He is a writer for CNN.com's Geek Out! and MTV Geek, and his work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, Budget Travel, The Calgary Herald, Playboy, and MSNBC.com, along with many other outlets. He is the host and co-Executive Producer of Travel Channel’s Paranormal Paparazzi and has appeared as a guest judge on Travel Channel's Paranormal Challenge. He has interviewed countless celebrities and gotten stories of paranormal experiences out of many, and has worked with the casts of every major paranormal investigative reality-TV show. Visit Aaron’s website at: http://www.paranormalpopculture.com/
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