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Michael Schratt, military aerospace historian, has lectured across the country on the subject of “Mystery Aircraft” and classified propulsion systems buried deep within the military industrial complex. He has also researched and illustrated many UFO case files. He has been writing for Open Minds magazine for over a year now and we will talk about some of his stories, such as the German UFOs, Barry Goldwater and the “Blue Room”, and Dan Burisch.
Lester Velez is the Vice President of the Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support (OPUS), is a part of MUFON’s Abduction Experiencer Research Committee (AERC) and is the assistant director for MUFON in Northern California. He has assisted in psychological studies of abductees, including the Omega project which was featured in the October/November Issue of Open Minds Magazine. We will talk to him about alien abductions, the findings of the Omega project, and other projects OPUS is involved with.
T.L. Keller is the author of The Total Novice’s Guide to UFOs: What you need to know…. Keller is an aerospace engineer who has always has an interest in space exploration and extraterrestrial intelligence. He was a computer systems analyst at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he developed a computer system for the management of resources for JPL's interplanetary exploration projects. His experience in the aerospace and construction industries led to the development of Space MAX: Space Station Construction Simulator, a project management simulator for the construction of the first commercial space station. He has also worked for Douglas Aircraft and British Aerospace.
11/29/2010: Charles Halt Colonel Charles Halt, USAF, retired, is the highest ranking U.S. military officer speaking out about his personal UFO experiences while in the military. In December of 1980, while the deputy base commander at the Bentwaters Royal Air Force base in England, he took a crew out into the Rendlesham forest to investigate mysterious lights that were seen in the forest. He was skeptical of the claims of other security personnel who said they had witnessed the lights the night before. After his experience this night, he was skeptical no longer.
Ann Eller was the secretary to Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who researched UFOs for the U.S. Air Force’s project Blue Book and served as an adviser for Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She has also recently authored her own book titled, Dragon in the Sky: Prophecy from the Stars. We will talk to her about some of the very interesting stories she had regarding Dr. Hynek’s later years, and about her own experiences.
Linda Moulton Howe, is an Emmy Award-winning TV producer, investigative reporter and author who goes directly to the men and women at the forefront of science and environmental challenges and to firsthand eyewitnesses of high strangeness. In 1983 she was invited to Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque, NM where she was shown secret government documents regarding UFOs and extraterrestrials. In this interview she explains this encounter in detail.
Jacques Vallée is a French-born venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, UFO researcher and former astronomer. He was a major proponent for the idea that UFOs were the result of highly advanced extraterrestrial civilizations; however he eventually began to expand his views and now believes the explanation may be inter-dimensional in nature. Having been a prominent figure in UFO research he was the inspiration for the main character in Stephen Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounter of the Third Kind, Claude Lacombe. He has recently released his latest book, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times.
Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading expert on the paranormal and supernatural. She conducts original field investigations of haunted and mysterious sites. She has written more than 40 books – including 9 encyclopedias – and hundreds of articles in print on a wide range of paranormal, spiritual and mystical topics, and possesses an exceptional knowledge of the field. She has approximately one million copies in print. We will discuss similarities between UFO and Ghost research, and hear about some of her shocking discoveries regarding Shadow People. We'll start the show discussing EVPs retrieved at the Denver Tivoli Center by the Metro State College Paranormal investigation group, The Crypto Science Society.
Keith Chester is the author of Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II. Strange Company is the first in-depth account of unconventional aircraft observed and reported by the military during World War II. It includes the reactions by military commands, their viewpoints, and theories as they struggled to make sense of the observations. Strange Company presents one of the greatest wartime mysteries, one that has been shrouded in ignorance for more than sixty years. And it suggests that while an immense twentieth century war was raging on Earth, there appeared to be someone, or something, from somewhere else, watching us.
We are honored to be able to welcome a man of Hellyer’s stature on Open Minds Radio. Beginning in 1963, Hellyer served as the Minister of National Defence for Canada. During this time he oversaw the unification of their Navy, Army, and Air Force into a single organization called the Canadian Forces. After his retirement, influenced by a Peter Jennings special on UFOs, Hellyer read Col. Corso’s book, The Day After Roswell, in which Corso claims to have handled material from the Roswell craft. Hellyer confirmed Corso’s story with an U.S. General. Already an opponent of the weaponizing of space, Hellyer has since chastised the U.S. for withholding the truth, and having an aggressive stance on the ET presence.
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