Open Minds UAP News

Mark Rodeghier, Scientific UFO Data Collection

28 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 fr...

Robert Powell, MUFON's Top 10 UFO Cases of 2014

20 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 seve...

Lorien Fenton, Alien Experiences

06 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lorien Fenton is the Marin/Sonoma Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). She produces conferences, including the UFO CON. She is also th...

Michael Twichell, Aether Gravity and Ancient Aliens

22 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ron Felber, The Mohave Alien Abduction Incident

14 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 investigat...

Gene Steinberg, UFOs Over the Years

01 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Robert Powell and Morgan Beall - The Puerto Rico UFO Video

20 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Noe Torres - Cowboys, Aliens and Area 51

10 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

UFO News with Martin Willis

27 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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, i...

Curt Collins, Amazing Texas UFO Encounter

20 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 particula...

Ron Regehr, Aerospace Engineer and UFO Researcher

13 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Ron Regehr spent the majority of his life as an aerospace engineer. From helping develop space fairing vehicles with NASA, to working on secret defens...

Denice Marcel, Roswell's Legacy

29 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 m...

Rob Mercer, US Air Force UFO Files Cache Discovered

15 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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....

Stan Schatt, Extraterrestrial First Contact

08 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Stan Schatt is an author and futurist who has been interested in UFOs for many years. He recently published a nonfiction book titled Extraterrestrial ...

Bill Wickersham, UFOs and Nuclear Weapons

02 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Wickersham is an adjunct professor of peace studies at the University of Missouri–Columbia, and a UFO enthusiasts. He has been researching and ...

Kevin Randle, The Roswell Slides Unraveled

26 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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, a...

Luigi Vendittelli, Investigating Alien Contact

05 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Luigi Vendittelli has been investigating UFOs in the Montreal area for decades. However, researching lights in the sky became mundane compared do the ...

Jennifer Stein, UFO Filmmaker

21 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 Internatio...

Ben Hansen, Presidential UFO Deception

13 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Hansen is the former host of Fact or Faked: Paranormal files on the SyFy channel, where they investigated paranormal cases, often attempting to r...

Jeremy Corbell, UFO Documentarian

06 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Corbell is an investigative filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles. Corbell has been deep in the trenches documenting extra-ordinary individ...

Larry Holcombe, Presidents and UFOs

30 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Larry Holcombe took up writing after retiring from a long career in sales. He has had a lifetime interest in the UFO topic, so his first book The Grea...

Jack Weiner, Allagash Alien Abductions

16 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Weiner along with his twin brother, Jim, and his friends Chuck Foltz and Charles Rak believe they were abducted during a kayaking trip in Maine i...

Jim Weiner, Allagash Alien Abductions

09 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Weiner along with his twin brother, Jack, and his friends Chuck Foltz and Charles Rak believe they were abducted during a kayaking trip in Maine i...

Kathleen Marden, Alien Experiences

09 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Kathleen Marden is an abduction researcher and author. As the niece of Betty Hill, she had an early and unique introduction to this field. Betty Hill ...

Reverend Michael Carter: God, ETs and The Evolution of Human Consciousness

26 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Reverend Michael Carter is an ordained minister and lectures extensively on the topic of religion and UFOs. He is the author of the book Alien Scriptu...

Bill McDonald, UFO Researcher and Artist

19 Jan 2015

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Bill McDonald has been researching UFOs and their occupants for decades. He has a background in military aviation and forensic anthropology as an art...

Lee Speigel, 2014 UFO Year in Review

30 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

It is once again time for Jason and I to review the best UFO stories of the year, and once again we are joined by Huffington Post Weird News Report...

Nick Pope, Britain's Most Famous UFO Case

22 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Pope was in charge of the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk from 1991 to 1994. It was his job to officially investigate UFO reports, and a...

Doug Trumbull, Special Effects Guru and UFO Hunter

08 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Doug Trumbull is listed on IMDb as a "Legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer." Among others, he was a special effects supervisor for 2001: A S...

Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, Alien Encounters in Mesoamerica

24 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, a Professor Emeritus at Montana State University, has dedicated her life and career to working with indigenous populations....

Chase Kloetzke, UFO and Paranormal Investigator and Author

17 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Chase Kloetzke is an author and paranormal investigator. For many years she was a UFO field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network and spent some tim...

Richard Dolan, Alien Abduction, Area 51, MUFON, and Breakaway Civilizations

10 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Author Richard Dolan has often been referred to as a UFO historian, but he is also a researcher, lecturer, TV personality and one of the most interest...

Lee Speigel, Nazi secret weapons and UFOs on the Moon

04 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Speigel has been researching and discussing UFOs in the media for decades. He is now a journalist for the Huffington Post's Weird News, where he w...

John Burroughs, Rendlesham UFO Witness

27 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

John Burroughs is one of the primary witnesses to a mass UFO sighting in December, 1980. He and others saw UFOs on multiple nights near the Bentwaters...

Travis Walton, UFO Abduction Update

21 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Travis Walton had one of the most famous and fascinating alleged UFO abduction experiences. It was documented in the movie Fire in the Sky. However, w...

Nancy Birnes, UFO Magazine Editor

13 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Nancy Birnes is the former editor of UFO Magazine. She has been a journalist she was in 11th grade in1964. She has won many awards, including the Samu...

Pat Frascogna, UFO Lawyer

06 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Pat Fascogna is a lawyer who has taken up the case of two men who were witnesses to one of the most important UFO events. John Burroughs and Jim Penni...

Norio Hayakawa, UFOs in New Mexico

29 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Norio has been investigating UFOs for decades. He specializes in his home state of New Mexico, especially regarding the alleged secret base in Dulce a...

Angel Espino, UFO Radio Host/Producer

22 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Angel Espino is the host of Skywatchers Radio, a program that focuses on the UFO phenomenon, and the founder and producer of Public Streaming Network ...

Lakita Adams, UFOs in North Carolina

11 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Lakita Adams is the state director for the North Carolina chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Lakita's interest in the UFO subject began when s...

Yvonne Smith, Alien Abductions at the Hotel del Coronado

25 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Yvonne Smith is a hypnotherapist and has been one of the leading researchers of alien abduction for decades. She has made many media appearances, and ...

Frank Kimbler, Roswell UFO Debris Discoveries

18 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Kimbler teaches Geology and other earth sciences at the high school and college level at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Upon movi...

Ruben Uriarte and Carlos Guzman, UFOs over Mexico

11 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Ruben Uriarte and Carlos Guzman have been investigating UFO cases in Mexico for decades. Carlos from Mexico, and Ruben from this side of the border. T...

Marc D'Antonio - UFO Photography and UFOTOG Update

07 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Marc D'Antonio is the chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Marc has been involved with MUFON since 1971 and has a vast am...

David Pares, Warp Engines and UFOs

28 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

David Pares is an adjunct professor at several colleges, including the University of Nebraska where he is the faculty advisor for their Mutual UFO Net...

Margie Kay, Missouri UFO and Paranormal Investigations

15 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Margie Kay is a paranormal and UFO investigator, author, and national speaker. Margie is the assistant state director of Missouri MUFON, where they ha...

William Hopp, Abductee Filmmaker

30 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

William Hopp is the founder of Collective Minds Media and has had a lifelong interest in the Paranormal, especially alien abduction. He suffers from s...

Kevin Randle, UFO Deception and Cover-ups

23 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Randle is an author and UFO researcher. He has written many books on UFOs and his latest is called The Government UFO Files: The Conspiracy of C...

Chris Lambright, UFOs over Kirtland Air Force Base

16 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Lambright has studied the UFO images captured by Paul Bennewitz over Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, and he believes they may be somethin...

UFO News and Majestic 12 Investigation

09 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Jason and Alejandro cover the latest UFO news, including a remarkable video allegedly captured by Homeland Security of a UFO in Puert...

Linda Zimmermann, Hudson Valley UFOs

02 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Linda Zimmerman is an author and paranormal researcher. While investigating UFOs in New York's Hudson Valley, many people shared with her their UFO ex...

Jeremy Meador, UFO Crashes in Nevada

19 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Meador is a paranormal investigator who has been researching alleged UFO crashes in the Nevada desert. After hearing of the crashes he decided ...

Christopher O’Brien, Cattle Mutilations

12 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher O'Brien is an investigator of the unusual. He has written several books on his findings. His field investigation of UFO reports, unexplain...

Matty Beckerman, Director of Alien Abduction

05 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Matty Beckerman produced and directed the new movie Alien Abduction, which also includes the Brown Mountain lights mystery. In fact, he got the idea f...

Roger Marsh, UFO Writer

29 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 (M...

Lee Speigel, Recent UFO Sightings

23 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 sight...

Thomas Reed, UFO and Alien Encounters

15 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Reed and his brother began experiencing strange events in the 1960s, beginning with a UFO encounter. Some of their encounters were witnessed by...

Mark Pilkington & Roland Denning, Government UFO Disinformation

07 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 in...

Patty Greer, Crop Circle Filmmaker

10 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 beg...

Jan Harzan, Director of the Mutual UFO Network

04 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Lee Speigel, 2014 UFO Congress Recap

24 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Speigel, Jason McClellan, and Alejandro Rojas review some of the highlights of the 2014 International UFO Congress (IUFOC). There were a lot of gr...

Jason Martell, Ancient Alien Research

03 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

For over 15 years, Jason Martell has been one of the leading researchers and lectures specializing in ancient civilization technologies. Martell's res...

Aaron Sagers, UFOs & Pop Culture

29 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron Sagers is an entertainment journalist, geek culture expert, published author and pundit. He is also an expert historian and lecturer on the fiel...

John Craig and EJ Thornton, UFO Tracking App

20 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

John Craig and EJ Thornton are developing an app for cell phones that they hope will track UFOs. They are seeking crowd funding to help with the proje...

Lee Speigel, Best UFO Stories of 2013

13 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Speigel is a writer for the Huffington Post and works at the Weird News desk. He covers paranormal news - mostly UFOs. Jason and I talk with Lee ...

Sam Maranto, UFOs in Illinois

07 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Maranto is a UFO investigator, and currently the state director for the Illinois chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He has been involved w...

Damien Lopez, Alien and UFO Inspired Online Comic Book

16 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Damien Lopez is an artist who incorporates his research in UFO and alien encounters into his art and story lines, and he has come up with a great idea...

Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, American Indian UFO Stories

11 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Ardy Sixkiller Clarke is the author of Encounters with the Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians. Her book offers up a collection of intimat...

Cameron Pack, Project Blue Book UFO Files

25 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Cameron Pack is the author of the new book The Restored Project Blue Book UFO Files: June 1947 & Before. This volume represents a clear and legibl...

James Carman, UFO Documentary Producer

18 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

James Carman lives in New York City and works as a cinematographer and a producer. He shoots features, commercials and documentaries and his work has ...

Peter McCue, Clinical Psychologist and Paranormal Author

30 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Peter worked for many years as a clinical psychologist. He lives in Scotland. His qualifications include a Ph.D., from the University of Glasgow, awar...

Antonio Huneeus, Peruvian Air Force's UFO Department

22 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

The Peruvian Air Force (FAP) announced last week that it would re-instate their UFO department, known officially as the Office of Anomalous Aerial Phe...

David Marler, Triangular UFOs

14 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Triangular UFOs are one of the types that are most reported and some of these cases have been the most amazing and credible cases of all UFO sightings...

Antonio Paris, Aerial Phenomena Investigations

30 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Antonio, the Founder and Director of the Aerial Phenomena Investigations (API), is a former US Army Counterintelligence Officer and Department of Defe...

Rev. Michael Carter, Extraterrestrials in the Bible

23 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Rev. Michael Carter has a BA in Letters from the College of New Rochelle and a Masters in Divinity from the prestigious Union Theological Seminary in ...

Jordan Hofer, Evolutionary Ufology

16 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Hofer is a former university instructor of human evolution and serves as a Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Research Specialist in Anthropology. He i...

John Greenewald, Jr., Government UFO Files

09 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

John Greenewald has spent the last 17 years filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for information on UFOs. He also has begun requesting do...

Jason McClellan, Joe Rogan Questions UFOs

26 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Rogan, a comedian and actor, is also a self proclaimed life-long paranormal mystery addict. He has a new show on the Syfy Channel titled Joe Rogan...

Philip Mantle, Alien Abduction in the UK

19 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Mantle is an international UFO researcher, lecturer and broadcaster. His books have been published in six different languages around the world....

Professor David Pares, Space Warp Breakthrough

05 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

David Pares is an Adjunct Professor at, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Metropolitan Community College, Nebraska Wesleyan, and at Buena Vista Col...

James Gilliland, UFOs over Mt. Adams

29 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

The Mt. Adams area, near the town of Trout Lake, Washington, has always been known as a UFO hotspot. This is where James Gilliland built the Enlighten...

Martin Willis, Host of Podcast UFO

15 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Martin Willis is the host of Podcast UFO, like the name suggests, it is a weekly podcast about UFOs. Willis works in the antiques business, but was in...

Marshall Klarfeld, History of the Anunnaki

08 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Marshal Klarfeld is an author and retired engineer. Since his retirement he has researched the work done by Zecharia Sitchin on the mythology of the S...

Nick Pope, The Final UK UFO Files

24 Jun 2013

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Nick Pope was in charge of the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk from 1991 to 1994. It was his job to officially investigate UFO reports, and a...

Maureen Elsberry, Open Minds UFO Researcher/Writer

17 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Maureen Elsberry is the director of marketing for Open Minds Production. She also co-hosts the UFO web-series Spacing Out!, and writes for Open Minds ...

Leslie Kean, Global Official & Scientific UFO Investigations

10 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist with a background in freelance writing and radio broadcasting. She is the author of the book UF...

Ron Westrum, Emeritus Professor of Sociology on UFOs

03 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Westrum says when an event is widely experienced but seldom reported, we can refer to it as a “hidden event.” Many anomalous events, including UFO...

Ben Hansen, UFOs, Night Vision, and Hoaxers

20 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Hansen is a TV host and lead investigator for the Syfy channel’s Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files. Ben has a degree in sociology and certificatio...

Antonio Huneeus, Behind the Scenes at the UFO Hearing

13 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Open Minds journalist, Antonio Huneeus, was one of the UFO experts testifying at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. Now that he is back, we will get a...

Lee Speigel, Citizen Hearing on Disclosure and UFOs

06 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Speigel, reporter for the Huffington Post, live blogged the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure last week. This was a mock-congressional hearing with fo...

Scott Ramsey, New Aztec UFO Crash Evidence

29 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Ramsey began his investigation into an alleged crash of a UFO near Aztec, New Mexico over 25 years ago. Skeptical at first, and assuming he woul...

Ryan Sprague, UFO Journalist and Playwright

22 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Sprague has been a writer for Open Minds UFO for several years. He is also a playwright in New York City. He is currently writing a play based on...

Gary Whitta, Hollywood Screenwriter

15 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Gary is a former videogame journalist and Editor-in-Chief of PC Gamer magazine. He is now a screenwriter for film and television, comic-book author an...

Dr. Bruce Maccabee, The FBI UFO Connection

08 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Bruce Maccabee is a retired optical physicist, and has been one of the premier UFO researchers in the last few decades. His accomplishments in thi...

Trish and Rob MacGregor, Aliens in the Backyard

01 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

The MacGregors have been professional writers for 25 years. They have mined numerous synchronicities and have fruitfully used the knowledge derived fr...

Joan Bird, Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials

25 Mar 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Joan Bird is the author of a new book titled, Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials. This book critically examines famous UFO events in Montana, includi...

Prof. Ted Peters, Astrobiology Meets Ufology

04 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Astrobiologists and Ufologists are not typically seen together at the same BBQs. Why? Each argues that the other is not attending to the evidence. NAS...

Kathleen Marden, Abduction Commonalities Study

06 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Kathleen Marden is a scientific ufologist whose interest in the topic started at a young age. Kathleen is the niece of Betty Hill who along with her h...

Paola Harris, International UFO Research

30 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Paola Harris is a UFO researcher and auther from Italy. She spends a lot of time lecturing and researching UFO cases all around the world. We will fin...

Nick Pope, UK UFO Hacker Gary McKinnon

23 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Pope and I will be discussing the incredible case of UFO Hacker Gary McKinnon. This extraordinary case has erupted into an international relation...