Open Minds UAP News

Tapio Kangas, Sci-Fi Music Producer

Conceived by Tapio Kangas and featuring a host of stellar musical legends, Spacer aims to inform and educate the world on the existence of extra terrestrial life. Born in Helsinki and currently residing in London, Tapio has written many major TV show tunes and top 10 songs whilst making frequent appearances on Finnish TV and his own TV show. His classical training enables him to intersperse traditional melodies with futuristic soundscape to creating the sound of Space. The Spacer recently released their debut single ‘Creature’ this year. ‘Creature’ is part of a story entitled ‘The Artefact’; a graphic novel and album detailing how extra-terrestrials perceive Earth and their concern over its inhabits and the direction the world is heading. The song is essentially a magnificently sounding space opera with a clear message. In this interview, we talk to Tapio about his ET interests. At the beginning of the show, Martin and Alejandro also discuss the recent 40th anniversary event for the Travis Walton experience. For more about The Spacer, visit: https://soundcloud.com/t-production-1/the-spacer-creature-feat-peter-cox

Keith Arem, UFO Movie Producer

Keith Arem is the president of Los Angeles based PCB Productions and PCB Entertainment. He is one of the leading creative directors and producers in the gaming industry, specializing in talent performance, writing, sound design, and music. His most recent project is a movie based on the Phoenix Lights mass UFO sightings in Phoenix, Arizona in 1997. Keith wrote and directed the movie, which is titled Phoenix Incident, and is set to release in 2016. He says the movie mixes fiction and reality, but his overall goal is to get the general public interested in real UFO research. In this interview, we talk to Keith about his interest in UFOs, his personal UFO sightings, and UFOs in the movies. We also talk to him about past and future marketing projects for the movie. Pervious marketing efforts for the movie have been controversial among UFO researchers and enthusiasts. However, Keith gives our listeners special insight into what his group has in store for future marketing efforts. For more about PCB Productions, visit pcb.cc. and for more information about the movie, visit PhoenixIncident.com.

Mark Rodeghier, Scientific UFO Data Collection

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 from Indiana University in 1975. After a year of graduate study at the University of Sussex in England, he returned to complete a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in sociology. His dissertation, Factors Influencing Attitudes Toward Controversial Research : Quantitatively Disentangling the Social from the Scientific, explores the attitudes toward the study of extraterrestrial intelligence by the scientific community. Other publications include numerous articles for IUR and the Journal of UFO Studies, and UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference: a Catalog and Data Analysis (Evanston, IL: Center for UFO Studies, 1981). In this interview, we talk to Mark about CUFOS, his interests in UFOs, and an exciting new project he has helped create called UFODATA. Mark, along other scientists and professionals, started UFODATA in order to develop observation stations that will obtain scientific data on UFOs. For more information about CUFOS, visit www.CUFOS.org, and for more information about UFODATA, visit UFODATA.net.

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

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 several years, the SRB has been putting together a top 10 list that they release at the MUFON Symposiums every summer. The 2014 list just came out a few weeks ago at the 2015 MUFON Symposium in September. Although months have passed, Powell explains that the board needs that time to be sure the investigation of each case in 2014 is completed, and to have time for the SRN to review and do their own analysis. In this interview we go over how the top 10 list is created, and review some of the top cases. For more about the MUFON SRB, visit: www.mufon.com/science-review-board.html

Lorien Fenton, Alien Experiences

Lorien Fenton is the Marin/Sonoma Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). She produces conferences, including the UFO CON. She is also the host of several weekly radio shows, including California MUFON Radio. Later this month, Lorien is producing a unique event called UFO CON: The Experiencer Event. At this event people will be broken up into groups to share their experiences. The groups will represent the various types of experiences people who believe they have been in contact with extraterrestrial beings believe to have experienced. In this interview we talk to her about the inspiration for her conference and the book she plans to write on these different types of alien encounters. You can read more about the conference at www.CAUFOCON.com, and you find out more about Lorien at www.LorienFenton.com.

Michael Twichell, Aether Gravity and Ancient Aliens

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 is called Aether Gravity, which is also what he calls his theory. He believes this theory is the key to unlocking the secrets behind antigravity.  He thinks ancient civilizations may have used it and extraterrestrial civilizations may use it to power their spacecraft. He thinks it may have been aliens who shared the theory with ancient human civilizations. In this theory we talk to Michael about his theory.

Ron Felber, The Mohave Alien Abduction Incident

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 investigated their claims and says he believes what they are saying is true. After years knowing the couple, Ron has decided to write a book based on their experiences. In this interview we talk to Ron about how he learned of the incident, his thoughts about their alleged alien abduction, and he will read some passages from his book that gives us some insight into the horrifying experiences the couple claims to have endured. For more about Ron and his books, visit RonFelber.com.

Gene Steinberg, UFOs Over the Years

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 with UFOs much longer than that. Back in the 60s he began writing about UFOs for a newsletter and has been involved with UFO publishing and broadcasting ever since. In this interview we talk about UFO research and alleged alien contacts over the years and where we are at today. For more about the Paracast visit: TheParacast.com.

Robert Powell and Morgan Beall - The Puerto Rico UFO Video

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 unusual object. They caught the object on their thermal imaging system as it flew in from the ocean, over Rafael Hernandez Airport, then back out into the ocean. The crew did not know what it was they caught on video. Eventually, a UFO field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) discovered the existence of the video from a friend, who then allowed her and other trusted individuals to examine the video. She brought the video to Florida MUFON State Director Morgan Beall, who helped her put together a team that included Robert Powell, MUFON's Director of Research. This team of individuals, all of whom have scientific backgrounds and/or work in technology, then spent over a year investigating the video to determine what the object might have been. They ruled out planes, balloons, drones, and birds, and, in the end, have not been able to discover its origins. In this interview, we talk to Beall and Powell about the group's investigation, the details of their findings, including the analysis of radar data they received via a Freedom of Information Act Request, and the feedback they have received regarding their report. To find out more about their investigation, visit: ExploreSCU.org.

Noe Torres - Cowboys, Aliens and Area 51

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 include: Mexico's Roswell, Aliens in the Forest, The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border, The Coyame Incident, and Cowboys and Aliens. In his professional life Noe is a librarian. His entrance into writing was with books about baseball, but eventually turned to the topic of UFOs. We will talk to Noe about how his interest in UFOs and aliens began, and why he began writing about the phenomenon. We also talk to him about some of his unique research into Area 51. For more about Noe visit: RoswellBooks.com