Synopsis
Going beyond the basics Interviews and discussions with UFO researchers, authors, witnesses, scientists, and others to talk in-depth about issues related to this very real phenomenon. We bring together some of the best minds from multiple disciplines so that we can put our heads together to try to gain insight into this enigmatic issue.Music Thanks to:Caleb Hanks
Episodes
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Friday UFO Newscast: June 26, 2020 - Special Guest: Lee Speigel
26/06/2020 Duration: 01h22minThe return of Open Minds UFO Radio! The new format will be Alejandro discussing the news of the week with a guest. This week's guest: Radio Host and Journalist Lee Speigel. News includes: Senators want the public to see the government's UFO reportsTrump says he's heard 'very interesting' things about Roswell, site of an alleged UFO event Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.
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The Rojas Report Ep 1: Behind The Secret Pentagon UFO Program
26/06/2020 Duration: 01h56minIn December 2017 the New York Times dropped a bombshell report revealing the existence of a secret UFO research program within the Pentagon. The program is called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), and according to the recently retired head of the program, Luis Elizondo, the program is still in operation to this day. In this lecture, I outline the nature of this program, what they found, and their shocking conclusions. I also cover more recent revelations that this program began with a scope beyond UFOs and included much stranger paranormal phenomenon. Through personal interviews with those involved, I will share unique insights into the background of this real-life X-Files project you will not get anywhere else.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.
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The Return of Open Minds UFO Radio
24/06/2020 Duration: 34minAfter a long hiatus, Open Minds UFO radio is back! In this episode host Alejandro Rojas is joined by Podcast UFO's Martin Willis to discuss the new and exciting content that will be coming out fastly and furiously. The future is going to be a ton of fun and full of great information!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.
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Dr. Michael Masters, UFOs Could Be Us From the Future
30/10/2019 Duration: 01h25minDr. Michael P. Masters is a professor of biological anthropology at Montana Tech in Butte, Montana. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from The Ohio State University in 2009, where he specialized in human evolutionary anatomy, archaeology, and biomedicine. Dr. Masters spent the following decade developing a broad academic background that unites the fields of anthropology, astronomy, astrobiology and physics, to examine the premise that UFOs and Aliens are simply our distant human descendants, returning from the future to study us in their own hominin evolutionary past. His new book, Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon, challenges readers to consider new possibilities while cultivating conversations about our ever-evolving understanding of time and time travel. In this episode, we discuss Michael’s research and what inspired him to do this research and write the book. Read more about Dr. Michael Masters and his book at: idflyobj.com. Watch Dr. Michael Ma
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Alan Stivelman, Director of Witness of Another World
22/10/2019 Duration: 01h20minWitness of Another World is a recently released documentary about Juan Pérez, an Argentinian gaucho (cowboy) who claims to have had an incredible encounter as a child. His close encounter garnered media attention when it occurred and was investigated by famed UFO researcher Dr. Jacques Vallée. Juan’s encounter had long-lasting and profound effects on him that continue to influence his life. In this interview, we talk to the creator and director of the film, Alan Stivelman. Alan tells us why he decided to make a UFO film, how he came upon Juan, and how he was able to get Vallée to participate in the movie. For more information on the film, and to watch the trailer and purchase the film, visit: WitnessOfAnotherWorld.com. To read a review of the film on Vice, visit: I Study UFOs and This Is the Best UFO Documentary Ever MadeBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.
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Danny Silva, International UFO Outreach
16/10/2019 Duration: 01h25minDanny Silva runs the website SilvaRecord.com where he covers UFO news and information. He focuses on developments and information related to UFOs. He focuses on the work of the DoD's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), and the To the Stars Academy (TTSA). With all of the information coming out about UFO investigations related to both of these groups, Danny has done a great job keeping people apprised of their latest news. Danny also does a great job digging up new info. In this episode, we will be discussing one of Danny's latest discoveries. He has acquired correspondence from TTSA to the government of India. We will discuss TTSA's apparent international outreach and other recent TTSA news. Read more about Danny at SilvaRecord.com. Read the headlines at OpenMinds.tv.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.
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Lee Speigel, UFO News and Updates
21/08/2019 Duration: 01h22minLee Speigel is a career media personality who has worked as a print and broadcast reporter for CBS, NBC, ABC, and others. His latest mainstream media position was as a staff writer for the Huffington Post, reporting mostly on the UFO phenomenon and other paranormal topics. He is currently working with filmmaker James Fox on the documentary The Phenomenon set to be released in the fall. Lee has also just started a podcast on the KGRA network called Edge of Reality with Lee Speigel. In this interview, we talk to Lee about the latest UFO news, the documentary, and his new podcast. Visit Lee at www.LeeSpeigel.com Listen to his podcast at: www.kgraradio.com/edge-of-reality-radio/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.
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Karen Brard, The 2019 International UFO Congress
14/08/2019 Duration: 01h29minKaren Brard is the owner of the International UFO Congress. The 2019 event will be held September 4th through the 8th in Phoenix, Arizona. With over 20 speakers over five days, the event is widely held as one of the most important and anticipated annual UFO events. Open Minds UFO Radio host Alejandro Rojas is the emcee of the event. In this episode, Karen and Alejandro review the speakers at this year's event and share information about their recent adventures promoting the conference. For more information on the International UFO Congress visit: www.UFOCongress.com UFO Headlines: www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Help keep the UFO info coming: Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojasBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.
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Sean Cahill, Navy UFO Encounter and Guadalupe Island Investigation
16/07/2019 Duration: 01h45minSean Cahill was the Chief Master-at-Arms on the USS Princeton in 2004 during a multi-day UFO encounter. At the time, the Princeton was part of the Nimitz Carrier strike group. In November of 2004, the Nimitz Strike Group was conducting training exercises off the coast of San Diego when it picked up odd readings on radar. Eventually, an F-18 jet fighter was zeroed in to observe one of the objects and reported seeing a 40-foot long smooth, white object that looked like a TIC TAC. Later that day the object was caught on infrared video. In this interview, Sean discusses his experience being on board when the sightings occurred. He also shares his sighting at the time. Sean also appeared on the History Channel's Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation. Sean shares his experience on the show and what it was like working with Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). AATIP investigated military UFO cases. Read Sean's recent Medium articles h
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Bryan Bender, Politico’s Defense Editor Talks UFOs
09/07/2019 Duration: 01h36minBryan Bender is the defense editor for POLITICO Pro and can be seen adding commentary on the History Channel’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. He was previously a D.C.-based reporter for the Boston Globe and Jane’s Defence Weekly, where he covered US military operations in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the Balkans. Bryan also writes about terrorism, the international arms trade, and government secrecy. He is the author of “You Are Not Forgotten,“ the story of an Iraq War veteran’s search for a missing World War II fighter pilot in the South Pacific. He is currently a board member of the Military Reporters and Editors Association. Regarding UFOs, Bender has broken several important stories. He published an article revealing the Pentagon’s secretive UFO program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the same day as the New York Times. For that story, the Department of Defense (DoD) confirmed to him AATIP did exist and that a career intelligence officer, Lui
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Heather Taddy and Chuck Zukowski Discuss Their New Show Alien Highway
02/07/2019 Duration: 01h21minChuck Zukowski and Heather Taddy are co-hosts of the Travel Channel’s new series Alien Highway. Along with Chuck’s son, Daniel, they are investigating paranormal incidents and hot spots. For the past 30 years, Chuck has been an IC Mask Design Engineering contractor. He’s been on microchip design teams working on projects as simple as optics for traffic light controllers, and as complex as Spy Satellites, Deep Space Probes, and LIDAR technology. Chuck was also a volunteer Deputy Sheriff for El Paso County Sheriff’s Department for eight years and was terminated for running animal mutilation investigations within his county. As a UFO/Paranormal Field Investigator, Chuck has been researching and Field Investigating the unknown for more than three decades. Heather Taddy starred on A&E’s hit television series “Paranormal State,” which chronicled investigations from the world-renowned college-run club at Pennsylvania State University, The Paranormal Research Society (PRS). Serving as the Team Documentarian, Ta
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Jon Sumple and Jack Roth Discuss Their New Alien Abduction Documentary
26/06/2019 Duration: 01h34minFilmmakers Jon Sumple and Jack Roth make up two-thirds of J3Films; a film company focused on sharing stories of the unexplained. Their first film, Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story, covered the story of a man who claims to have been abducted by aliens. Although Romanek has been busted faking events and has been convicted of crimes, many feel some of the paranormal experiences he claims to have experienced really occurred. While working on the film, Jack and Jon say they came in contact with many others claiming to have similar experiences, including some who claims to have been impregnated during alien abduction experiences. This is the topic of J3Films’ second project, Extraordinary: The Seeding. In this interview, we talk to the filmmakers about what inspired them to do the film and tackle such controversial and strange topics, and their feelings about the credibility of the witnesses in their movie. Read more about their films at: www.j3films.com UFO Headlines: www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlin
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Nick Pope - Recent Government UFO Announcements
18/06/2019 Duration: 01h51minNick Pope worked for the British government’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) for nearly 20 years beginning in the mid-1980s. For several of those years, Nick staffed the UFO desk, investigating UFOs and handling press inquiries on the matter. He now as a media commentator and freelance journalists, often invited by major news networks to share insight into the UFO phenomenon and governments reactions. In this episode, we discuss recent UFO news regarding the US and British governments. In the UK, the MoD has released what they claim are the final UFO documents in their files. According to Nick, these documents show there were disagreements between various departments on how to handle the UFO issue. In the US, the Department of Defense (DoD) has also been sending mixed messages on the UFO matter. BONUS INTERVIEW: At the end of the show, we also got in a quick interview with Anthony Lappe, the Executive Producer and Showrunner of History’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. We discuss their findings
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UFO Roundtable on Unidentified and Recent UFO Revelations - June 11, 2019
11/06/2019 Duration: 01h58minIn this episode we welcome back three recent guests, Danny Silva of SilvaRecord.com, Joe Murgia of UFOJoe.net, and Mike Damante of PunkRockandUFOs.com. All three of these guys run blogs that follow the latest breaking news regarding the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the Pentagon’s secretive UFO Program, and the To the Stars Academy (TTSA). The later was created by rock star Tom Delonge, and includes Luis Elizondo, former head of AATIP, and other high level officials. AATIP and TTSA are featured in the new History Channel series Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. In this roundtable we discuss the recent Open Minds UFO Radio and UFO Podcast interviews of Luis Elizondo, new information shared in the latest episodes of Unidentified, and other late breaking news regarding UFOs and the U.S. government. History’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation website. Open Minds UFO Radio interview with Elizondo. Podcast UFO Elizondo interview on YouTube. UFO Headlin
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Luis Elizondo - Former Head of the Pentagon's UFO Project
07/06/2019 Duration: 49minLuis Elizondo is a career intelligence officer whose experience includes working with the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence. As a former Special Agent In-Charge, Elizondo conducted and supervised highly sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations around the world. As an intelligence Case Officer, he ran clandestine source operations throughout Latin America and the Middle East. Most recently, Elizondo managed the security for certain sensitive portfolios for the US Government as the Director for the National Programs Special Management Staff. For nearly the last decade, Elizondo also ran a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. Elizondo’s academic background includes Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, with research experience in tropical diseases. Elizondo is also an inventor who holds several patents. Now, as a part of HISTORY’s groundbreaking new s
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MJ Banias - The UFO People: A Curious Culture
29/05/2019 Duration: 01h26minMJ Banias is the author of "The UFO People: A Curious Culture." He is an educator, writer and blogger. He was a former field investigator with the Mutual UFO Network, has been featured on multiple podcasts and radio shows, and contributes to Mysterious Universe and RoguePlanet. His work has been included in Fortean Times, FATE Magazine, and in a book entitled UFOs: Reframing the Debate.He lives in Canada with his wife, two children, and a massive cat. In this episode we talk to MJ about what he had found when taking a closer look at those who are interested in the UFO phenomenon. Are UFO people a community on their own? How does the UFO topic effect the general public? What does MJ feel the future for the UFO topic holds? How is all of this changing as these recent UFO developments permeate the wider public? We will cover all of this and more in this fascinating episode. For more on MJ visit his website TerraObscura.net. Purchase is book on Amazon here. UFO Headlines: http://www.openminds.tv/category/u
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Anthony Lappe, Producer of Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation
22/05/2019 Duration: 55minAnthony Lappé is a New York-based showrunner, director and investigative journalist. He was the executive editor of the Guerrilla News Network, and produced their award-winning Showtime Iraq war, documentary, BATTLEGROUND. As a commentator, he has appeared on media outlets around the world, including the BBC, Radio France, Radio Havana, Fusion, NPR and Sky News. He has written for The New York Times, Details, ESPN: The Magazine, New York Magazine, VICE and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of the graphic novel, SHOOTING WAR. For VICELAND, he was the showrunner of BLACK MARKET WITH MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS. For HISTORY, he has helmed AMERICA'S WAR ON DRUGS, RFK: THE KENNEDY FAMILY REMEMBERS and the upcoming UNIDENTIFIED: INSIDE AMERICA'S UFO INVESTIGATION. Read more about Unidentified at the show's website. UFO Headlines: www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojasBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-ne
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Kevin Day, UFOs Observed on Navy Radar Systems
14/05/2019 Duration: 01h24minKevin Day is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer who specialized in radar systems. He is a TOPGUN air intercept controller with more than 20 years experience in strike group air defense including war-time operations. In November of 2004, off the coast of San Diego, Kevin was a radar operator on the USS Princeton, part of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. Over several days unknown objects were observed on radar. On several occasions, aircraft were directed to find the objects. The pilots reported seeing 40 foot-long Tic Tac shaped objects that performed remarkable maneuvers beyond the capability of our aircraft. This incident was made famous in a New York Times article in December 2017 in which it was also revealed the Pentagon had a secretive UFO investigation program. In this episode, we talk to Kevin about what he experienced in 2004. Read Kevin book fictionalizing the incident here. Read the research article Kevin referenced: Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness Re
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The History Behind the Pentagon’s UFO Program
07/05/2019 Duration: 01h37minIn this episode, we review the confusing and complicated timeline of how the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) UFO project got started, how we found out about, and the history of some of those involved. To really understand AATIP and all of the news coming at us about it, we have to understand this vital background. This includes why and how rockstar Tom DeLonge is involved, who Robert Bigelow is, the paranormal background of Dr. Hal Puthoff, what AAWSAP is and how it was taken down, AATIP’s relation to BAASS and TTSA, and much much more. We will not be interviewing Lue for a little while yet, but covering this background will make you all ready for it. Alejandro on Patreon Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/open-minds-uap-news--6161161/support.
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Dr. Eric Davis: Investigating and Experiencing the Paranormal
30/04/2019 Duration: 01h41minEric W. Davis, Ph.D. is the Chief Science Officer of EarthTech Int’l, Inc. and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin. Dr. Davis’ research specializations include breakthrough propulsion physics for interstellar flight, interstellar flight science, beamed energy propulsion, advanced space nuclear power and propulsion, directed energy weapons, future and transformational technology, general relativity theory, quantum field theory, quantum gravity theories, experimental quantum optics, and SETI-xenoarchaeology. Eric has spent decades working with Robert Bigelow and his paranormal investigation efforts, including the National Institute for Discovery Sciences, and Bigelow Aerospace and Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). The company he works for now, EarthTech International Inc., is working with the To the Star Academy to analyze anomalous materials. In this episode, we talk to Eric about how he got involved with paranormal research, his personal paranormal experiences on the Skinwalker Ranch