The Saucer Life

Episode Notes This is silly, and yet here it is: a glimpse into Bill Cooper's wonderful world of militia cybersecurity, circa 1994. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Albert Coe's The Shocking Truth is a weird little gem of a Contactee book and we take a look at it in this episode. Here is a link to a PDF version of the book, as it is nearly impossible to find! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Continuing our look at various saucer-themed kids books with the 1955's Zip-Zip and his Flying Saucer. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Thanks to a loyal listener, I have a bunch of FBI stuff about Dr. Frank E. Stranges, who we covered in our episode "A Valiant Effort." Here, we take a restrained ramble through these pages (which you can find here). Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Join me as I look at what the spam filter caught. It's more interesting than it sounds. Honest. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes In this installment of the Zine Scene, we're going to look at all four issues of my favorite short-lived UFO mag, Alien Worlds, published out of the UK in 2008. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, I was able to complete my collection recently, so I thought I'd share my thoughts with you. A 2006 interview with Stuart Miller by Paul Kimball Paul Kimball on Stuart Miller Nick Redfern on Stuart Miller Through a Fractured Glass Darkly: The Facts in the Strange Case of Whitley Strieber (Part 1) (Part 2) Archives for the Unexplained has back issues available very affordably. Shipping costs (from Sweden) may seem high, but their prices on these mags and all their other books are really very reasonable, so it tends to balance out! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes So it turns out that Dana Howard mentioned Ron Ormond in one of her books. Here, we look at what that was all about. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes This is something a little different. About a month ago, Associate Producer Simpson J. Hanover III and I went on a little field trip to Hopkinsville and Kelly, Kentucky. Our mission? Basically to locate some of the places associated with the legendary goblin encounters described in our Kelly Goblinsville episode from last October. We didn't go out of our way to bother anyone, didn't pester the locals with our questions about goblins, UFOs, men in black, or anything else. Just two weirdos checking out the area. We had a lot of fun doing this; hope you enjoy it! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Thanks to listener Martin K., we got our hands on a few issues of The Woodrew Update. This was the newsletter of Greta Woodrew's S.T.A.R. Foundation. In this mini episode, we look at a few goodies from the January/February 1986 edition. Highlights (that may be overselling it) include her classical music tastes, unattributed poetry, and a glimpse at what the S.T.A.R. Foundation was doing with its donations in 1986. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes So a while back, I got an email from a listener asking what I thought my top ten important UFO books were. Not being one to waste a good idea, I decided that instead of telling them, I'd make it into an episode. I was going to put links to purchase the books here in the show notes, but it's kind of a spoiler, isn't it? So you're on your own! None of these are obscure and I played by the rules of "Important" books rather than "favorite" books, so some of these are not my favorites! Click here for links to purchase the books. If you wanna be surprised by the list, don't click until you've listened! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes I've got some upcoming online presentations (which would have been in person if that was currently an option). While streaming events might not be everyone's cup of tea, they provide a great deal more access to those who can't make it to on-ground, in person events for any number of reasons. So in lieu of putting "commercials" in the next few episodes (most of which are already finished...), I thought I'd provide a little more detailed rundown of what I'll be discussing at these events: Saucer Life talk at Tecumseh District Library via Facebook Live -August 20, 7:00 PM Eastern The Strange Realities Conference- September 25-27 So please forgive this little bit of promotion. And also, please consider attending either or both of these events. The folks at Conspirinormal, who are putting on Strange Realities, have lined up a vast and varied array of guest and you know that I urge you to support libraries whenever possible, so if you're able to catch the Tecumseh presentation, that would be great. Thanks again for allowing this little intrusion into your podcast feed! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes I first discovered Gray Highway when working on the Ceto's New Friends episode. It's a fun road trip through UFOlogical history. Gray Highway is available cheaply on Kindle at Amazon. Used print copies seem to be priced out of the market for anyone sensible! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes It's our first interview! We're talking with Matthew Kresal, who wrote a volume on the classic 90s show Dark Skies for Obverse Books's Silver Archive range on classic cult television. Whether you're familiar with the show or now, we hope you find the interview enjoyable! Also, keep in mind that I've never interviewed anyone before... It looks like Amazon has some used copies of the Dark Skies DVD set. You can purchase Matthew's book directly from the publisher in either traditional or ebook formats. Matthew is on Twitter and has a page on Facebook, and we thank him very much for being on the show! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes I don't know how I can make it any clearer than that. Here are few poems from Otis. Let us know which one is your favorite! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes The story of Wayne Aho and Otis T. Carr is one of those that we've had various requests for ever since starting the show. I think this is a super fun story and I had a lot of fun putting it together. You can find Wayne Aho's Mojave Desert Experience and Otis T. Carr's Dimensions of Mystery at Scribd. You can visit Ralph Ring's website here. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes John E.L. Tenney's new book, Theoretical Weirdo: A Mish Mash of Ramblings about Weirdness is available and it's great. In this brief Afterlife, I talk about what I like about the book. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes It's movie review time! We're looking at two classic films that you may never have heard of (or maybe you have; I don't know, I'm not the boss of you). Supersonic Saucer is available at the Internet Archive The Bamboo Saucer is available on YouTube Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes I plunder a folder on a hard drive called "1980s UFO Clippings." There will be more of this. Oh yes indeed. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes A while back, we looked at Ceto's New Friends, a controversial children's book by abductee L.A. Haley. In this episode, we examine the books that came before and after, detailing her experiences with the phenomenon as well as its effect on her life and relationships. Along the way there's a significant presence of government chicanery, touches of mind control, and assorted strangeness. Lost was the Key is available used on Amazon. Unlocking Alien Closets is still in print and available on Amazon. There are used copies available too. If you're interested in it, the 1999 assessment of the "sticky shocker" is available here. You can view her 2004 presentation here. Jack Brewer's UFO Trail blog has a couple very interesting articles on Haley, her experiences, and what became known as The Carpenter Affair. These include An interview Brewer conducted with her in 2011 and an excerpt from his book The Grays have Been Framed (which is available on Amazon). Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes No, not me, silly, Gordon Creighton of Flying Saucer Review. You may remember him from our 90s Magazine Mixtape episode. I'm not kidding, doing my Gordon Creighton voice is pretty tiring. Enjoy! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Sometimes plans change, and a combination of factors have necessitated me pulling out this emergency backup episode. I hope you like it--and it's better than a rerun! We have snippets from Truman Bethurum, George Adamski, and Ivan Sanderson talking about the Flatwoods Monster. I talk a bit about the clips as well, which were chosen for their manageable length and listenable audio quality. These clips, and more like them, were collected by Wendy Connors and are available at the Internet Archive. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Here's a fun little story from the May-June 1958 issue of Flying Saucer Review. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Perhaps one of the most infamous UFO books of the 1990s, in this episode we examine whether or not Leah Haley's children's book Ceto's New Friends deserves its reputation or the vitriol with which it was met upon its release. We'll also touch on the wider issue of children and UFOs--particularly a decidedly odd seminar that apparently took place in 2000. The video where I look at the book is here! Gray Highway at Amazon Ceto's New Friends is available used at various places including Amazon. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Just a fun little bit of stuff I found concerning our old pal, convicted felon and contactee Reinhold Schmidt. Enjoy! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes We're back to Contactees in this episode where we look at Dana Howard, whose contacts were somewhat unique but whose message was very much in line with what we've seen before. I found her story fascinating and frustrating at the same time. You can get some of Dana's books at Amazon. Warning! My copy of Diane- She Came from Venus had quite a few pages in the wrong order--not sure if it was just my copy or a broader production problem. Diane- She Came from Venus Over the Threshold Up Rainbow Hill I'll be speaking at PhenomenaCon, an online paranormal gathering, on May 1-3--check it out! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes We're continuing, in our little side series here, to look at some UFO books targeted at children. Today, Monsters from Outer Space, which you will hear in its (very brief) entirety. Look here for a picture of the very haunting cover that I semi-remember from my childhood. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes In this episode, we begin the first in a series of occasional looks at the crossover between flying saucers and American presidential politics with a couple of updated ideas about the Obama campaign's appeal to the exopolitics crowd. Yes, it's just about the closest thing to "up to date" that we do here on the show. These ideas appeared in a slightly different form in my books Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist and The Chaos Conundrum. Check them out, if you haven't! You can find the bibliography to my original version of "The Disclosure President?" paper here. (And sorry if you thought you were getting Dana Howard! You'll get her next time!) Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes We're returning, briefly, to Greta Woodrew, and her third book, which I've just obtained, the children's volume See the Colors! Hear the Music! You can see some pictures of the book here. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes So a few months back, we encountered an ad for a flying saucer trivia game called UFOria. This episode is the result. Roberta, Sasha, Nelson, and I had fun doing this one. Maybe too much fun, but this seemed like a good week for this anomaly of an episode. I will not provide a link to buy UFOria. I don't want any of you to blame me if you buy it. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes This was inspired/caused by Jordan from The Nighttime Podcast sending me a copy of Greta Woodrew's 1981 book On a Slide of Light. Used copies of Greta Woodrew's On a Slide of Light may be purchased from Amazon Woodrew's second book, Memories of Tomorrow is available from Amazon or is free to borrow from the Internet Archive. Realtors' video of the STAR Foundation house Jill Smolowe's beautiful book Four Funerals and a Wedding: Resilience in a Time of Grief is available from Amazon, or from other links via the authors' website. Woodrew's appearances on Bill Jenkins's Open Mind program (and all his other available episodes, as discussed in our Radio Daze show) are also available at the Internet Archive. You can also visit Save The Animals Rescue, based at the home of Greta and Dick's Space Technology and Research foundation in North Carolina. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Something that was cut from our Dan Fry episode: here is a delightful bit from We Come in Peace! A Martian Lands in Austria. I found this excerpt in an article from the BSRA. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes So. There's been a clamoring for an episode about Contactee Daniel Fry for a long time. This is it. In the episode I go into a bit of detail about why it's taken me so long to get around to him, but one of the main reasons is that there is so much available information that it's a bit daunting (see the link below to get an idea). Hope you enjoy it! Sources and Further Information The indispensable Daniel Fry Dot Com. This really is all you need. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Here's the section on Bill Cooper's interpretation of the "War of the Worlds" broadcast that I decided just didn't fit with the Radio Daze episode. Enjoy (as much as possible with Wild Bill!) Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Radio! It use to be a thing--ask your folks, kids! Since the beginning of the flying saucer phenomenon, there have been radio programs dedicated to the subject. While there were several high profile "specials," about the topic this episode focuses on the long running radio series that focused--at least in part--on UFOs, usually as part of a larger focus on the paranormal or conspiratorial topics. John E. L. Tenney writes about "Incredible But True" 2013 Slate article on the mythic nature of the "War of the Worlds" hysteria narrative A Long John Nebel collection at Internet Archive Collection of "Open Mind" programs at Internet Archive Adam Gorightly's article on Billy Goodman Some Billy Goodman Happening episodes at YouTube The Paranet Continuum shows at Internet Archive are pretty disorganized, but THIS LINK takes you to a bunch, along with some other Paranet related stuff. Ignore the bio about Michael Corbin at the top of the page--I think it's the wrong Michael Corbin! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Speaking of interesting but fundamentally dull flying saucer films, in this installment of The Saucer Afterlife, I spend a few minutes on The Flying Saucer Mystery. This is a 1952 short film (which is actually an extended version of one that came out in 1950) that features August Roberts (for 4 seconds), Frank Scully (who seems like a hoot), and Donald Keyhoe (who is whatever the opposite of a hoot might be). You can watch this film on YouTube. Or, for $0.99, you can watch it while the guys at Rifftrax (Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett from the old MST3K) make fun of it. Also, check out the Saucers that Time Forgot web site, which has in-depth overviews of both the 1950 and 1952 editions. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Reinhold O. Schmidt was a contactee who had a number of encounters before (and, well, after) he turned to a life of crime. Join us for cigar shaped craft and grand theft. The Kearney Incident Up to Now (There was a scan floating around the internet and I uploaded it to the Internet Archive. I believe this to be in the public domain. If not, I'm sure someone will let IA know!) The text of Edge of Tomorrow Photos from the film Edge of Tomorrow Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes We get mail! We get, occasionally, very interesting, fun things sent to us by our friends, listeners, and friendly listeners. In this installment, I sort through the latest interesting offerings. Support The Saucer Life via PayPal and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes I would bet good money that most of you have not read 1978's The UFO Guidebook by Briazack and Mennick. It's one of the hidden gems of UFO literature, boasting a very even-handed array of definitions and summaries in an encyclopedia style. But that's not the biggest reason I love it. Thanks for listening, and keep your eyes out for befaps, my fellow You can find a used copy through Amazon. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Some brief thoughts on a recent UFO book viewed through the eyes of a man who has recently spent too much time thinking about The Controllers. You can get this recently published book at Amazon! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes In this episode, we're looking at "The Controllers"--an essay/white paper written by Martin Cannon in the early 90s. It concerns the possible connections between government mind control experimentation and the alien abduction phenomenon. I've linked to lots of stuff below, so be sure to check it out if this is a strand of the--broadly construed--"alien" "encounter" mystery that you find interesting. Me, I find it terrifying. Links and Further Reading Cannon's 1988 talk, "Mind Control & Abductions" The Controllers Issue 1 of The Anomalist, featuring Cannon's article, "The Numbers Game" Alex Constantine interview mentioning Cannon Article at The UFO Trail discussing the threatening phone call Cannon received (includes links to audio) Transcript of Project Camelot interview with Gordon Novel Operation Mind Control, by Walter Bowart (used copy on Amazon--beware "CreateSpace" knockoffs!) Were we Controlled? by "Lincoln Lawrence" (Used copy on Amazon) Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Rather than give you a run down of the top UFO stories of 2019, I thought I'd take a look at what other people were saying were the top UFO stories of the year and rendering judgement on their choices.Just a few minutes of fun and a bit of information to ease you into the New Year. The next full length episode drops on January 8!Fox NewsCoast to Coast AMThe Cut (no, I've never heard of it either)Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes This went through numerous title choices before settling on this, simultaneously an apt description and an homage to another "Holiday Special" that had nothing to do with any particular real holiday. We've got fan fiction, we've got classic saucer poetry, we've got all three of our regular guest voices--Sasha, Roberta, and Nelson--along for the ride, we've got something a bit light and fun (hopefully) before coming back in the New Year. Well, the poem "Experiments" is any thing but fun. Depending on how you define "fun." Enjoy whatever holidays you're celebrating, if any, and thanks for being with us throughout 2019. *NOTE: There was supposed to be a clip of Bea Arthur from a certain sci fi franchise's Holiday Special in here, but the Cheeso Media legal team advised against it!* Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes William S. "Bill" English is, maybe, the forgotten "Bill" of 80s and 90s UFOlogy. his claims were extraordinary. His story was exciting and entertaining. Featuring clips from some classic UFO radio programming, and from the infamous 1989 MUFON conference, this was a fun episode to put together and we think it's a bit of a sleeper. Special thanks to some folks who pointed us in some directions and provided some background: Adam Gorightly, Jack Brewer of the UFO Trail, and one of our behind-the-scenes heroes, Jack Shepherd. Reading and resources Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception at Amazon THE GRUDGE/BLUE BOOK INCIDENT by William S. English John Lear's summary of English's claims (via archive.org) "10 UFO Stories from the Vietnam War Era" at Mysterious Universe, which recounts English's "B-52" recovery story with no indication of English's other experiences in the UFO realm. Curt Collins's interview with English, which is mostly about the Cash-Landrum case, but also refers to the Grudge/BB 13 material More info on the people and events discussed in this episode can be found in our episodes on the early internet UFO scene, OH Krill, and Bill Cooper. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes No apologies, this one was a bit of a labor of love, and I can't believe I got a whole episode out of the Mitchell Sisters, a pair of 1950s contactees from St. Louis, Missouri. This is a contact tale, but also the story of what happens when a story gets abandoned through the disappearance of its original tellers. Featuring the debut of Saucer Fanfic Theater! Reading and resources We Met the Space People at the Internet Sacred Text Archive The "Autobiography" of the Mitchell Sisters "Cosmic Ray's" retelling of the Mitchell Sisters' story in all of its inaccurate glory Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Yes, that tape recorder was used in the making of this episode, at the suggestion of Associate Producer Simpson Hanover. THUS--the audio sounds....like it was recorded on a tape recorder. Although, it's an exceptionally high quality tape recorder. In this episode we return to the 90s and return to our Zine Scene strand of episodes, with a great and hopefully surprising or intriguing selection. Reading and resources I can't remember exactly where I got my PDFs of those old Art Bell newsletters. I assume Google can lead you to some sinister, unwholesome source for them. Flying Saucer Review, Spring 1992 and Autumn, 1992 (via nufors.com) Steamshovel Press, Groom Lake Desert Rat, and Notes from The Hangar (via Archives for the Unexplained) Wake Up Down There! The Excluded Middle Anthology at Amazon and Adventures Unlimited Press. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Happy Halloween, if you're seeing this on release day. An appropriate topic for the holiday, I think--things that go bump in the night outside of isolated farmhouses, a story that exists in the netherworld of saucer story and monster tale, and one of the few incidents that makes it difficult for me to sleep if I think about it too close to bedtime. Come with us to Christian County, Kentucky. Don't bother to bring your shotgun. Reading and resources Close Encounter at Kelly and Others of 1955, which includes Isabel Davis's indispensable work on the incident, from CUFOS [PDF]. Mac Tonnies's post at Posthuman Blues on Kelly-Hopkinsville: March 16, 2007 and his book The Cryptoterrestrials. Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee. The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry by J. Allen Hynek. A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments by H.P. Albarelli. Greg Newkirk's articles that culminated in the Hellier series include: Have the Kentucky Goblins Returned? A 2015 Update And, of course, the first season of Hellier Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes The Maury Island has it all--saucers, alien alloys, men in black, dead investigators, and a cast of characters ranging from bland to shady as all get out. Join us! Further reading: Adam Gorightly on Fred Crisman's connections to some other shady saucerers we've met. Kenn Thomas: JFK & UFO: Military-Industrial Conspiracy and Cover-Up from Maury Island to Dallas Jim Keith: Casebook on the Men in Black Fred Nadis: The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey Jim Marrs: Alien Agenda John Keel: Operation Trojan Horse Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer: [The Coming of the Saucers] (https://amzn.to/2ITyCRr) Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes In this episode, I choose four contacts we've covered on the show and declare them to be the Mount Rushmore of Contactees. I doubt you'll fully agree, and that's okay! Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Pinecast Tip Jar PayPal Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes Not to be topical or anything, but all during the summer of 2019 we were getting geared up to Storm Area 51--and that's great and all, but I thought that Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton needed some love, so here we are. In this episode, we examine the history of the notion that there's a place the government takes saucer debris, the emergence of "Hangar 18" itself as an idea, and the ways this has poked through in various parts of the saucer culture over the past few decades. I spoke about the "Storm Area 51" nonsense on NPR's "It's Been a Minute" a couple months ago. You can hear a bit more about the Aztec crash waaaaay back in Bonus Encounter 1. Sources and Further Reading: On the web The Nash-Keyhoe correspondence at Project 1947 By Curt Collins and Claude Falkstrom at The Saucers that Time Forgot: Robert Spencer Carr and Hangar 18 Captured UFOs and Building Hangar 18: A Chronology On Amazon MJ-12 and the Riddle of Hangar 18 by Timothy Green Beckley Jim Moseley's UFO Crash Secrets at Wright Patterson Air Force Base is available used, or in a new, expanded edition. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Pinecast Tip Jar PayPal Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook Support The Saucer Life by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-saucer-life This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes This is a talk from Dexter, Michigan I gave on July 22, 2019 about UFOs, history and, of course, the 1966 sightings in the area. It was a fun talk, with a good crowd--some of whom remembered the events themselves. If you'd like to see the slide show that went along with the talk, click here. Support The Saucer Life and get something cool in return! Pinecast Tip Jar PayPal Website: saucerlife.com Twitter: @saucerlife Instagram: saucerlife Facebook