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Diana Pasulka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1164 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

I'm like, whoa, that happened. And I have a lot of stuff from him, like a lot of โ€“

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

I'm like, whoa, that happened. And I have a lot of stuff from him, like a lot of โ€“

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

presentations and papers and everything that notes that i still go back to and now i understand like at the time i didn't because i didn't believe in them and i didn't know it was happening i didn't know that this was going on i didn't believe in it so okay so he invites me to new mexico to this place he says it's going to be a place where ufo crashed in the 1940s but it's not roswell

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

presentations and papers and everything that notes that i still go back to and now i understand like at the time i didn't because i didn't believe in them and i didn't know it was happening i didn't know that this was going on i didn't believe in it so okay so he invites me to new mexico to this place he says it's going to be a place where ufo crashed in the 1940s but it's not roswell

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

presentations and papers and everything that notes that i still go back to and now i understand like at the time i didn't because i didn't believe in them and i didn't know it was happening i didn't know that this was going on i didn't believe in it so okay so he invites me to new mexico to this place he says it's going to be a place where ufo crashed in the 1940s but it's not roswell

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

And I was like, haha, you know. I was the chair of my department at the time, by the way, and already had won research awards for my work in Catholic history. Nobody knew that I was really doing work in UFOs, only a couple friends. So it's nothing I advertised. So I said, I'll invite Jeff Kripal to go with me, the guy at Rice, Kali, good friend.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

And I was like, haha, you know. I was the chair of my department at the time, by the way, and already had won research awards for my work in Catholic history. Nobody knew that I was really doing work in UFOs, only a couple friends. So it's nothing I advertised. So I said, I'll invite Jeff Kripal to go with me, the guy at Rice, Kali, good friend.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

And I was like, haha, you know. I was the chair of my department at the time, by the way, and already had won research awards for my work in Catholic history. Nobody knew that I was really doing work in UFOs, only a couple friends. So it's nothing I advertised. So I said, I'll invite Jeff Kripal to go with me, the guy at Rice, Kali, good friend.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

And he said, Diana, that's just way too out of my comfort zone to do that. I was like, it is kind of weird. We had to wear blindfolds to go. So I said, okay, I'll ask. I had just been introduced to Gary Nolan. He's a professor at Stanford. He's now well-known. And I asked him if he'd go with me. And he said, yes, of course I'll go with you.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

And he said, Diana, that's just way too out of my comfort zone to do that. I was like, it is kind of weird. We had to wear blindfolds to go. So I said, okay, I'll ask. I had just been introduced to Gary Nolan. He's a professor at Stanford. He's now well-known. And I asked him if he'd go with me. And he said, yes, of course I'll go with you.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

And he said, Diana, that's just way too out of my comfort zone to do that. I was like, it is kind of weird. We had to wear blindfolds to go. So I said, okay, I'll ask. I had just been introduced to Gary Nolan. He's a professor at Stanford. He's now well-known. And I asked him if he'd go with me. And he said, yes, of course I'll go with you.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

And he had all the laboratory equipment to, like, figure it out anyway. So I told Tyler, I saidโ€” Gary Nolan, and he looked him up, and it took him a couple days, and he came back and he said, okay. And I was like, cool, we're in, so we're going to go. So it was me and Gary, and Tyler was taking us.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

And he had all the laboratory equipment to, like, figure it out anyway. So I told Tyler, I saidโ€” Gary Nolan, and he looked him up, and it took him a couple days, and he came back and he said, okay. And I was like, cool, we're in, so we're going to go. So it was me and Gary, and Tyler was taking us.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

And he had all the laboratory equipment to, like, figure it out anyway. So I told Tyler, I saidโ€” Gary Nolan, and he looked him up, and it took him a couple days, and he came back and he said, okay. And I was like, cool, we're in, so we're going to go. So it was me and Gary, and Tyler was taking us.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

So we went to New Mexico, we stayed at a place, and then the next day we were going to the crash retrieval place. We had special metal detectors that Tyler had configured and brought in. And we got in the car and we went. We didn't wear blindfolds yet until we got to a cattle great place, you know. And then Tyler said, put the blindfolds on, you know.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

So we went to New Mexico, we stayed at a place, and then the next day we were going to the crash retrieval place. We had special metal detectors that Tyler had configured and brought in. And we got in the car and we went. We didn't wear blindfolds yet until we got to a cattle great place, you know. And then Tyler said, put the blindfolds on, you know.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

So we went to New Mexico, we stayed at a place, and then the next day we were going to the crash retrieval place. We had special metal detectors that Tyler had configured and brought in. And we got in the car and we went. We didn't wear blindfolds yet until we got to a cattle great place, you know. And then Tyler said, put the blindfolds on, you know.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

So we put the blindfolds on and we went another 40 minutes. And then when we got out, we got out and we took the blindfolds off. And I looked around and Tyler said, this is such a funny part. He said, do you recognize this place? I was like, no, of course I don't. And he goes, this is like one of the episodes on the X-Files. And I was like, oh, okay. He said they had an insider on their team.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

So we put the blindfolds on and we went another 40 minutes. And then when we got out, we got out and we took the blindfolds off. And I looked around and Tyler said, this is such a funny part. He said, do you recognize this place? I was like, no, of course I don't. And he goes, this is like one of the episodes on the X-Files. And I was like, oh, okay. He said they had an insider on their team.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory

So we put the blindfolds on and we went another 40 minutes. And then when we got out, we got out and we took the blindfolds off. And I looked around and Tyler said, this is such a funny part. He said, do you recognize this place? I was like, no, of course I don't. And he goes, this is like one of the episodes on the X-Files. And I was like, oh, okay. He said they had an insider on their team.