Open Minds UAP News

Nick Redfern, Alternative Roswell Theory

Nick Redfern works full time as a writer, lecturer, and journalist. He writes about a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, alien encounters, and government conspiracies. Nick has written 33 books and has appeared on numerous television shows. In this interview we talk to Nick about his latest book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy: Exposing a Shocking and Sinister Secret. This book is a sequel to Body Snatcher in the Desert, and proposes an alternative, non-extraterrestrial theory as to what crash in the New Mexican desert near Roswell in 1947. This theory is highly controversial among UFO researchers. However, in this interview, Nick defends this possible scenario, and tells about the mysterious witnesses who have come forth to share this alleged version of the events. For more about Nick, visit his blog at: nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com.

Caroline Cory, The Science of Alien Contact

Caroline Cory is a futurist, filmmaker, international speaker and visionary author of best-selling books on Consciousness and Quantum Healing. As a child and throughout her life, Caroline has always been deeply connected to spiritual topics, the study of Consciousness, mechanics of the universe and the discovery of the divine. Caroline also is an experiencer, which inspired her latest film, Gods Among Us. Gods Among Us is a feature-length documentary film on the extraterrestrial and non-human presence on Earth in both physical and non-physical form as well as inter-dimensionally. The film examines how contact and communication occur and their effect on the human consciousness as it evolves within a larger galactic citizenship. Leading scientists share their insights and laboratory research on such phenomena as telepathy, transfer of energy and interstellar contact between the worlds. For more about the film, visit: www.GodsAmongUs.com

Lee Speigel, Exoplanets and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Writer, reporter, and paranormal expert Lee Speigel is the former host of NBC Radio's "The Edge of Reality." He produced and hosted nearly 1,500 programs on unexplained phenomena over an eight-year period at NBC Radio, and previously worked at Westwood One Radio and ABCNews.com. He is the only person in history to produce, in 1978, a major presentation at the United Nations on the subject of UFOs. He is now a writer and editor at HuffPost. In this episode, we explore the mysteries of space and the potential for extraterrestrial life. Lee has written several stories lately on these topics, so we review these stories and the possibility that we are on the cusp of the scientific discovery of life not of this earth. For more about Lee, visit his page on HuffPost.

Dr. George Gaines, UFO Witness Visited By USAF

Dr. George Gaines had an incredible UFO sighting when he was 13 in Pensacola, Florida. The year was 1956, and the United States Air Force was till official investigating UFOs. Gaines reported the sighting and was soon grilled for hours by two alleged US Air Force officers. George kept this story to himself for decades, but he is now sharing it with our audience.

Susan J. Palmer, New UFO Religions

Susan Jean Palmer is a sociologist of religion who lives in Montreal, Quebec. She is an Affiliate Professor at Concordia University in Montreal and a Research Fellow and Member of the Religious Studies Faculty at McGill University. Her research in the field of new religions has been funded by Canada’s Social Science and the Humanities Research Council. She is the author of Aliens Adored: Rael's UFO Religion (Rutgers 2004), a sociological analysis and ethnographic study of the largest UFO "cult" in the world. She also wrote The Nuawaubian Nation (Ashgate 2011), a study of a Black Nationalist sect whose leader claims to be an extraterrestrial. She has written 11 books in total and is very interested in prophet-founders of UFO religions. In this interview, we discuss Susan's aforementioned books, and other UFO religions around the world. We also discuss their importance and influence on society and mainstream religions. You can see purchase Susan's books on Amazon.com.

Cheryl Costa, UFOs by the Numbers

Cheryl Costa is a native and resident of upstate New York who saw her first UFO at age 12. A military veteran, she’s a retired information security professional from the aerospace Industry. She’s been a speaker at the International UFO Congress and at the MUFON Symposium. Cheryl writes the UFO column “New York Skies” for SyracuseNewTimes.com. Besides being a journalist, she’s also a published playwright. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Empire State College in entertainment writing. Cheryl recently published UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015, which includes over 121,000 sightings. She lists the top UFO hot spots, according to the data, and sighting reports down to the county level. Anyone can use the book to find out how many sightings there have been in their area, and how it stacks up against other parts of the US. In this interview, we talk about this book and Cheryl's discoveries while compiling the data. Cheryl's book can be found on Amazon. To read Cheryl's column, visit SyracuseNewTimes.com.

Larry Cates, UFO Research and Puerto Rico Investigation

Larry has been into UFOs for decades, and has had his own amazing sighting. After he retired from a career as a computer programmer, he decided to put his skills to use as a UFO investigator. He became a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and has had the chance to investigate some great cases. In this interview, we talk to Larry about his interests in UFOs, his sighting, and some of his best cases. This includes a great video case of an object caught on infrared video by Homeland Security over Puerto Rico. For more about the Puerto Rico case and the Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU), visit: www.ExploreSCU.org.

Ray Szymanski, UFOs and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Ray is a retired senior engineer who spent decades working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This base is famous with the UFO crowd, because it was home to the USAF's official UFO investigation projects from 1947 to 1969. It is also rumored to have been the place where a crashed alien spacecraft from the Roswell incident was taken, along with its alien occupants. Ray's interest in UFOs began his first week at Wright-Patterson AFB when he was told there really were aliens being held there. This began his lifelong journey to look for answers, all of which has culminated into his new book, Fifty Shades of Greys: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitation to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Beyond. In this interview, we talk to Ray about his book, his research and his personal experiences. For more about Ray and his book, visit his page on Amazon.com.

Leslie Kean, Evidence for an Afterlife (with a bit of UFO news)

Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist and author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, a New York Times bestseller. She helped produce a 2011 documentary based on UFOs for the History Channel, made by Breakthru Films, an award-winning film company. Kean has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, The Colbert Report, and NPR and in USA Today, US News & World Report, and Columbia Journalism Review, among other media. She has been contributing articles to the Huffington Post since 2012, and has been recognized for her efforts to bring credibility to the controversial subject of UFOs through straightforward and honest reporting only on facts and official investigations. Leslie's latest book is Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife, a personal story of research into astonishing and thought-provoking information suggestive of survival past death. In this interview we talk about recent UFO news and then delve into the fascinating topics covered in her new book. From past lives, to near death experiences, out of body experiences, ghosts and channeling, we discuss studies which shed light on the fascinating idea that there is life after death. For more about Leslie and her books, visit: www.SurvivingDeathKean.com

Nick Redfern, 365 Days of UFOs

Nick Redfern works full time as a writer, lecturer, and journalist. He writes about a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, alien encounters, and government conspiracies. Nick has written 33 books and has appeared on numerous television shows. His latest book is 365 Days of UFOs, Nick presents 365 of his favorite UFO stories – one for every day of the year. Spanning decades and continents, they cover numerous subjects, including the Roswell UFO crash, Men in Black, Mothman, face-to-face encounters with extraterrestrials, military pilots and UFOs, crashed flying saucers, and cosmic cover-ups. In this interview we talk to Nick about his new book and some of his favorite cases. For more about Nick, visit his blog at: nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com