This week I got COVID... so I got my buddies, Brian and Angelo of the Double Density podcast, to step in and host this bad boy this week.
Philip Julian Klass is one of the most reviled figures in UFO history. A skeptic by nature, Klass would become synonymous with bad faith debunking, badgering Ed Walters on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and his $10,0...
2023-03-22 11:59:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings patrons!
I’m excited to announce that we have Welcome UFO People prints now available! These are 8x10 prints on matte 64lb card stock, and are selling for $15 plus shipping.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Creative Vision Facto...
2023-03-18 12:15:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons! For this month's Welcome UFO People we honor the 1979 Turis, Spain, Space Chicken encounter!
2023-03-16 18:22:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The picturesque island of Coronado, situated in the resort city of San Diego, California, is crawling with the Secret Service in preparation for the arrival of William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton, saxophonist extraordinaire and 42nd President of the United States of America. Clinton is scheduled to deliver a speech at the historic and famously haunted five-star Hotel Del Coronado, located close to three military bases, on the 27th. Coin...
2023-03-15 07:18:50 +0000 UTC View Post
On this installment of The Hum and the Silence Jenny Randles gets into an altercation with Peter Robertson, and we look at an article featuring a fae encounter connected to Randles' book The Pennine UFO Mystery.
Special thanks to thePelican on Twitter for pointing me towards the Randles/Rogerson commentaries.
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2023-03-13 17:42:29 +0000 UTC View Post
The Pennine Hills, located in Northern England, played host to a number of strange phenomenon throughout the 1970s and into the 80s. From the "Phantom Copters" of 1973, to triangular shaped UFOs and low hovering objects that would stop cars, the area was a hotspot.
It ultimately culminated in two events connected by one person, Alan Godfrey. The mysterious death of Zigmund Adamski was strange by police standards, but even stran...
2023-03-09 17:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
On the first installment of what we hope is a long running series, Fred Andersson and I shoot the shit about all things UFO, including the government's fascination with shooting down balloons, the government's inability to investigate anything, the contactees and abduction phenomenon, our favorite UFO films, what cases we'd want to see adapted into films, and our...
2023-03-09 17:30:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In the Spring of 1988, Dr. Karla Turner, an English instructor at the University of North Texas, unexpectedly asked her class to objectively evaluate evidence on Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, or UFOs. Despite describing herself as open-minded, she had limited interest in the paranormal. Karla believed that examining the evidence from an academic perspective would result in weak and inconclusive findings. She admitted that she had
For this months installment of Welcome UFO People we honor the 1967 Tuscumbia Space Penguins case. On Valentine's Day Claude Edwards set out to begin his daily tasks on his farm when he noticed that his cows were all staring in the same direction. What they were looking at was a strange mushroom shaped UFO and some small creatures shuffling around underneath it. Claude attempted to throw rocks at it, but found each rock boun...
2023-02-20 12:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons! On this episode of The Hum and the Silence, we return to the pages of Canadian UFO Report to find stories of strange humanoids, flying cars, pursuing UFOs and BIGHEAD!
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2023-02-19 16:45:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Scribd is a magical resource, full of the most obscure documents, journals, and manifestos ever assembled in one location. One fine day I stumbled upon a strange report assembled by Dennis Pilichis entitled Night Siege - The Northern Ohio UFO-Creature Invasion.
The report details the struggles of the Robert S. family as they defended their property from a series of strange beings and objects. The story reads like...
2023-02-17 16:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post
In episode 140 we looked at a wave of UFO activity that occurred in 1967. Many reported seeing strange red lights and metallic structured craft, and other objects, but few humanoid sightings were reported. In 1968, things got a lot weirder.
Throughout Canada witnesses reported strange encounters with humanoids, including luminous men, spacesuit-clad figures, a long bearded naked figure clinging to a boulder overlooking a cemete...
2023-02-15 20:31:47 +0000 UTC View Post
1967 was a unique year for Canada. While the United States was embroiled in its own flap that saw the Ohio Valley play host to a myriad of strange activity, the Men in Black run amuck on UFO witnesses, and the government shunt off its UFO program to the University of Colorado, Canada’s flap was a quiet affair… but a predicted one.
“In the spring of 1967 the late Dr. Olavo T. Fontes of Rio de Janeiro, an intensely interest...
2023-02-10 18:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy patrons!
On this installment of The Hum and the Silence, I look at a handful of fascinating humanoid cases, including "bubble" like entities, a very tall man looking for a dice game, a pair of brains in the middle of the road, and a Soviet alien encounter involving alcohol.
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“Entities and Their Carriages” by Ann Druffel, The MUFON UFO Journal, #129 August 1978
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We're taking a bit of a break from our abduction series, and this week, Sequoyah Kennedy from The Nonsense Bazaar joins me to talk a little shit about the C.I.A.
In 1952, the new Project Blue Book was riding high. With Captain Edward Ruppelt at the helm...
2023-02-04 13:04:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to the third and final part of our series on Whitley Strieber. If you thought the last episode was wild, prepare yourself to take classes on Mars with the Sisters of Mercy.
On this episode we cover the remainder of Whitley's books, including Secret School, detailing his time learning secret lessons in the Olmos Basin of San Antonio. In The Key, Whitley has a conversation with a strange man w...
2023-01-23 20:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
So, what happens when you have a hit book on your hands? Well, your publisher wants another one. In this episode we cover the first two sequels to Communion, Transformation: The Breakthrough and Breakthrough: The Next Step.
These sequels have it all: nine knocks, Big Cats, Whitley scared to step foot in the woods, feral chain smoking old children, the making of the Communion movie, starring C...
2023-01-19 22:38:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all. Here is this month's installment of Welcome UFO People. The high res version is attached in pdf form!
2023-01-16 16:56:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we begin a three part series on one of the most important figures in alien abduction lore, Whitley Strieber. Through a singular image on a book called Communion, Strieber captured the uncanny valley of many readers and introduced the aliens that we know as the greys.
On this episode we explore the contents of Communion, mainly Whitley's main experiences of October 4 and December 26, 1985, and all of...
2023-01-15 13:14:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, y'all
Since we covered David Paulides' shitty doc this week on the podcast, I figured I would cover some strange disappearances that have always stuck with me. Enjoy!
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The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America’s Wildlands by Jon Billma...
2023-01-13 22:14:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On this weeks episode, OSS teams up with the What If? Podcast to review David Paulides' new documentary, Missing 411: The UFO Connection. Together we dive into David Paulides' sketchy past as a cop, we postulate where the actual UFO connections are, and just why do ali...
2023-01-04 20:55:23 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: Sexual abuse
When it comes to the alien abduction phenomenon, no two figures have played a greater roll in its shaping than Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs. And shaping, I think, is the perfect word, because, as we’ve covered on this series, before this point, abductions were very different animals. It was through Hopkins that it became an intergenerational phenomenon, that its captors all looked the same with slight ...
2022-12-26 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Eight years before Whitley Strieber's Communion was published, The Andreasson Affair hit the shelves and challenged the notion of what abductions could be. Part alien abduction story and part contactee story, Betty's contact occurred during a tumultuous period in her life. It proved to be a frightening, and reassuring experience, one that proved to reinforce Betty's own religious beliefs.
Hello everyone. For this month's Welcome UFO People, we're treating you to pancakes! This month we honor Joe Simonton and his space pancakes! Attached to this post is the high res image in pdf form! The main image is a lower res version.
2022-12-14 05:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: Self-harm, Childhood Sexual Assault, and CSA Material
We're taking a break this week from the abduction series to introduce a new series, UFO Grifters, featuring the worst of the worst in the UFO community. We're starting with a big one: Stan Romanek.
Romanek came to prominence in the 00s as an experiencer who had one of the best documented cases in the history of ufology. The story quickly evolved into one of t...
2022-12-07 16:29:51 +0000 UTC View Post
On this installment of The Hum and the Silence we dive into more obscure abduction cases, including the case of Clarence Patterson, who was abducted with his truck near Loxley, Alabama; the story of Paulo Coutinho, who went missing for 20 hours on board a UFO, and one family's encounter in a strange cafe.
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This week's main episode ran a little long, and we didn't want to deny anyone the story of John Womack in all its glory. In his book, I Was Picked Up By A UFO, John Womack detailed his time aboard a UFO and the strangeness that he encountered. We're making this bonus episode available to everyone!
2022-12-05 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Abductions in the 1970s are characterized by cases that gained a level of popularity on their individual merits. The Pascagoula Abduction for instance was a media sensation that occurred during a very prominent UFO/humanoid flap. It’s also the first year that a handful of abduction cases were reported. Interestingly, they all occurred within 10 days of each other.
In 1974, The Carl Higdon abduction captured the attention of n...
2022-12-03 22:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Way back on episode three of this podcast, we featured our first of only two UFO Book Clubs, dedicated to The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made The World Believe in UFOs by Mark O'Connell. O'Connell's biography of J Allen Hynek presented a man on two fronts,...
2022-11-21 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: Racism
When it comes to the alien contact experience, and the cases that we've come to revere, we often forget that there are voices excluded from the conversation. The alien abduction phenomenon more often than not seems like a purely American phenomenon, dominated by white voices. I do not say this to diminish anyone's experience, but to lift up others.
This episode about the question of who we deem worthy of contac...
2022-11-14 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
