Open Minds Ufo Radio

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 devel

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.htmlBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

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.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Michael Twichell is an electrical engineer who believes he has discovered an ancient technology that has been lost to the ages. His book on his theory is called Aether Gravity, which is also what he calls his theory. He believes this theory is the key to unlocking the secrets behind antigravity.  He thinks ancient civilizations may have used it and extraterrestrial civilizations may use it to power their spacecraft. He thinks it may have been aliens who shared the theory with ancient human civilizations. In this theory we talk to Michael about his theory.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Ron Felber is an author who says he met an interesting and credible couple several years ago who say they have been abducted by aliens. Ron investigated their claims and says he believes what they are saying is true. After years knowing the couple, Ron has decided to write a book based on their experiences. In this interview we talk to Ron about how he learned of the incident, his thoughts about their alleged alien abduction, and he will read some passages from his book that gives us some insight into the horrifying experiences the couple claims to have endured. For more about Ron and his books, visit RonFelber.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Gene Steinberg is currently the host of the Paracast paranormal podcast. The podcast has been running almost 10 years now, but Gene has been involved with UFOs much longer than that. Back in the 60s he began writing about UFOs for a newsletter and has been involved with UFO publishing and broadcasting ever since. In this interview we talk about UFO research and alleged alien contacts over the years and where we are at today. For more about the Paracast visit: TheParacast.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

On April 25, 2013, during a routine flight of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) DHC-8 Turboprop aircraft in Puerto Rico, the crew spotted an unusual object. They caught the object on their thermal imaging system as it flew in from the ocean, over Rafael Hernandez Airport, then back out into the ocean. The crew did not know what it was they caught on video. Eventually, a UFO field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) discovered the existence of the video from a friend, who then allowed her and other trusted individuals to examine the video. She brought the video to Florida MUFON State Director Morgan Beall, who helped her put together a team that included Robert Powell, MUFON's Director of Research. This team of individuals, all of whom have scientific backgrounds and/or work in technology, then spent over a year investigating the video to determine what the object might have been. They ruled out planes, balloons, drones, and birds, and, in the end, have not been able to discover its origin

Noe Torres is a UFO researcher and author. He has co-written several of his UFO books with his research partner Ruben Uriarte. Some of his UFO books include: Mexico's Roswell, Aliens in the Forest, The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border, The Coyame Incident, and Cowboys and Aliens. In his professional life Noe is a librarian. His entrance into writing was with books about baseball, but eventually turned to the topic of UFOs. We will talk to Noe about how his interest in UFOs and aliens began, and why he began writing about the phenomenon. We also talk to him about some of his unique research into Area 51. For more about Noe visit: RoswellBooks.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

It is another UFO news roundup, but this time with our new UFO news buddy, Martin Willis of Podcast UFO. Martin and I talk about late breaking news, including a Rock Star's hints at a new UFO video project underway in Washington D.C., UFO cultists, and night vision UFO videos from Tucson, Arizona.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Curt Collins is a UFO researcher and founder of the website BlueBlurryLines.com where he posts his work. Among other cases, Curt has taken a particular interest in the Cash-Landrum Texas UFO Encounter. The Cash-Landrum incident took place in 1980. Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie's seven-year-old grandson, Colby Landrum, claimed to have encountered a UFO on the road near Dayton, Texas. It made the vehicle very hot and the group apparently suffered from physical effects due to the encounter. In this interview, we talk to Curt about how he got involved with UFO research, his findings regarding the Cash-Landrum incident, his work with the Roswell Slides Research Group, and much more. To find out more about Curt, visit his website: BlueBlurryLines.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Ron Regehr spent the majority of his life as an aerospace engineer. From helping develop space fairing vehicles with NASA, to working on secret defense projects, he had an exciting and interesting career. He has also had a great interest in the UFO topic, and has been researching it since he was young. What is even more exciting is the interesting ways in which his career and his interest in UFOs has intertwined. In this interview we talk to Ron about how he got interested in UFOs, some of the research he has been involved with, and some of the interesting UFO events and people he has interacted with. This includes getting to know Bob Lazar before and after his claims about Area 51, and ties to Roswell. This includes getting to know Bob Lazar before and after his claims about Area 51 and his findings regarding the famous Roswell photos.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Denice Marcel is the granddaughter of Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer at the Roswell Army Air Field in 1947 who was the first person from the military to handle the debris found in the desert outside of Roswell which some believe was an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Denice's father, Jesse Marcel Jr., also handled some of the material, and both Jesse Sr. and Jesse Jr. say that the materials were not merely from weather or test balloons. They both believe the material was not manufactured on this planet. Denice grew up with the Roswell mystery and has been interested in the topic of UFOs her entire life. She has recently accepted the position as the California Mutual UFO Network's Los Angeles section director. We talk to Denice about what it was like growing up in the Marcel family and her new position with MUFON. Visit Los Angeles MUFON at www.MUFONLosAngeles.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Rob Mercer is a field investigator and a state section director in Ohio for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He also runs the Miami Valley UFO Society. Ron has been investigating UFOs for decades, and always keeps an eye out for UFO material popping up on Craigslist. He is especially watchful given his location, which is near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, home of the US Air Force's only public UFO Investigation called Project Blue Book. Recently his efforts paid off and he received boxes full of Project Blue Book UFO files that have been in the private archives of former Blue Book investigators. In this interview, we talk to Rob about his own personal UFO sightings, how he got involved  in UFO research, how he obtained these Blue Book files, and what he found within them! For more about the files, visit MiamiValleyUFOSociety.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Stan Schatt is an author and futurist who has been interested in UFOs for many years. He recently published a nonfiction book titled Extraterrestrial First Contact: Past, Present, and Future, which he followed up with a fiction book on a similar subject titled Alien Love. We talk to Stan about his thoughts and research into how the public may react if an alien race were to publicly engage in communication with the human race, and what scenarios for first contact are possible. Stan Schatt grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and now resides in Carlsbad, California. He has written thirty books on a wide variety of subjects ranging from fiction to technology. He was awarded a Fulbright Professorship to Tokyo and Keio Universities. Schatt earned best teaching citations from the University of Southern California and DeVry Institute of Technology. Schatt also received outstanding research awards from Giga Information Group and Forrester Research. To find his books, visit his Amazon.com page.Become a supporter of this podc

Bill Wickersham is an adjunct professor of peace studies at the University of Missouri–Columbia, and a UFO enthusiasts. He has been researching and lecturing on the topic for years. He has written several articles and opinion pieces that have been published in newspapers such as the Columbia Daily Tribune, and appears regularly on KBIA Mid-Missouri Public Radio to discuss UFO news. In this interview, we talk to Bill about how he got interested in the topic of UFOs, what his colleagues think of his paranormal interests, correlations he sees between UFOs and nuclear weapons, and much more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Kevin Randle is a preeminent Roswell researcher and author. He is also a member of the Roswell Dream Team, which has been tied to the investigation, and recent unraveling, of photographs that were purported to show an alien body from the Roswell crash in 1947. So who is the Roswell Dream Team, and why do there seem to be members of this team debunking the slides, and others supporting the idea that they show something anomalous?  In this interview, we ask Kevin those questions while examining what happened, and the discoveries that have shown the alien to actually be the mummified body of a young boy. At the beginning of the show, we are also joined by our new news correspondent, Martin Willis of Podcast UFO. For more information about Kevin, visit his website at KevinRandle.blogspot.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Luigi Vendittelli has been investigating UFOs in the Montreal area for decades. However, researching lights in the sky became mundane compared do the reports of alien contacts he began receiving. Although seemingly farfetched, Luigi began investigating these alleged cases of alien contact and he has found several of them to be very credible and compelling. In this interview, we talk to Luigi about some of these amazing cases and the incredible evidence he says he has uncovered. To contact Luigi, and to find out more about his drone work, visit his drone services site at: DroneVU.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Jennifer Stein is a filmmaker and entrepreneur. Her UFO documentaries have won her 4 EBE Awards at EBE Film Festival held every year at the International UFO Congress. Two of her films won 2 awards each. Jennifer is a self-taught filmmaker, and has never attended film school. She began making films in the 1990s while running non-profit organizations, raising her two children, and running a special events business. In this interview we talk to Jennifer about how and why she got into making UFO documentaries. We also talk to her about her latest film about the Travis Walton abduction, and her continuing work on the project. For more information about Jennifer and her films, visit: OnwingesProductions.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.

Ben Hansen is the former host of Fact or Faked: Paranormal files on the SyFy channel, where they investigated paranormal cases, often attempting to reproduce the phenomena. Often they were able to uncover hoaxes, and innocent misidentifications. However, some cases they were unable to explain. Since the show ended, Hansen has continued his investigations into the paranormal, and is a frequent lecturer at paranormal conference. He also runs Night Vision Optics, and hold UFO night sky watching events. Hansen has a background in law enforcement, and spent years as an FBI agent. He has conducted thousands of interviews, and while not formerly educated in the area of body language analysis, he has a lot of experiencing working with experts. Last year Bill Clinton appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Kimmel asked the former president about UFOs. Ben thought his body language was peculiar, so he conducted an analysis that he posted on YouTube. Recently, Obama also appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and was also asked abo

Jeremy Corbell is an investigative filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles. Corbell has been deep in the trenches documenting extra-ordinary individuals and their belief systems. This research has taken him into the life of the enigmatic “Godfather of Conspiracy” John Lear, and under the microscope for the surgical removal of alleged Off-World Alien Implants. With access to NASA, Corbell has filmed the analysis of anomalous materials alleged to be physical evidence of extraterrestrial nano-technology from UFO landing sites and Alien abduction cases. In this interview we talk to Jeremy about his interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials, and some of his latest films. For more information about Jeremy, and to view his films, visit his website at: www.ExtraordinaryBeliefs.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.