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List of UFO Podcasts and radio shows
Summary: This page offers a hand-edited list of podcasts and radio shows which cover UFOs. Through the links below, there are over 10,000 episodes available for downloading as MP3 files (needless to say, the episodes worth listening to are far fewer than 10,000). If you are relatively new to the UFO subject or are looking for a "short list" of UFO shows to listen to, you are welcome to check the section "My opinion" below, about the persons publicly speaking about UFOs.
Podcasts(Note: Only SDI was focused exclusively on UFOs. Most of these podcasts are NOT listed in iTunes, so you may want to bookmark this page):
Strange Days Indeed (SDI) with Errol Bruce-Knapp et al, aired weekly on CFRB talk-radio in Canada for 8 years, between 1999 and Jan-2007. Continued as podcast until 2009.
Dr Don C. Donderi, recently retired professor of Psychology at McGill university in Canada has researched UFOs for several decades. He gave a 3-part presentation on UFOs at McGill in 2010, which is now availble on-line at McGill's podcast archive
The Paracastitunes with technology writer Gene Steinberg and various co-hosts. David Biedny co-founded the show in 2006 and left in Feb-2010.
Binnall of Americaitunes with Tim Binall. Each podcast includes a concise write up of the main points discussed. Tim's guest list includes Ufologists from outside north America
The Other Side of Truth (podcast) film-maker and Ufological pundit Paul Kimball posts audio/video clips from interviews he has conducted with a wide range of people
paranormalradionetwork.org offers a central repository of shows by several UFO/paranormal show hosts (Karyn Dolan, Dee Andrew, Frank Warren, Angelia Joiner, Joe Montaldo etc)
Skeptiko with Alex Tsakiris, well-produced podcast focused on "psychic" phenomena (no UFOs)
The Joiner Report (Angelia Joiner), Dreamland (Whitley Strieber), Through the Keyhole (Karyn Dolan)
Upcoming radio shows: Frank Warren's (Webmaster of UFOChronicles blog)
Popular radio shows with online archives:
Coast to Coast AM (C2C) USA's most popular paranormal radio-show hosted by George Noory, George Knapp, Art Bell. (Note: Fans of the 1990s to early-2000s "Art Bell era" of Coast to Coast can check the old archive of Art Bell shows)
rense.com with Jeff Rense (regular appearances by Peter Davenport, Brian Vike)
A big collection of "paranormal" radio shows can be found at ufoparanormalradio
My (warning: brutally honest) opinion: Since visitors to this page have asked me for podcast recommendations, I will say that my UFO interests are very specific to my own research and apparently different from all but a handful of other people. I also happen to find it more efficient to read about UFOs (which allows me to do full-text searches for keywords and copy/paste stuff into custom databases), rather than listen to audio. However, I have enjoyed listening to certain UFO researchers (e.g. Chris Styles about his investigation into the Shag Harbour UFO incident of 1967, or Carl Feindt who collects water-related incidents, or the 11-Apr-2001 clip of Grant Cameron asking Dick Cheney on live radio whether he had been officially briefed on UFOs, to which Cheney replied "Well, if I had been briefed on it, I'm sure it was probably classified and I couldn't talk about it"). I also like to listen to the UFO witnesses speaking directly in their own words, at various UFO audio archives like those by Wendy Connors, Michel Deschamps and Brian Vike (in the future, I plan to convert those audios using speech-to-text software - functionality similar to Youtube's auto-captioning). My main criterion for these lists has been to ask if the person has contributed to UFO study something of actual and enduring substance. The podcast shows in the section titled "Recommended" below are worth listening to if you have the time, but if you think that all the answers to UFOs are available in them, then you will be disappointed.
Recommended: To relative newcomers to the UFO subject, I propose the following representative sample of podcasts with long-time Ufologists [sorted alphabetically, specialty in parentheses, podcast in brackets]: Jerome Clark (UFO history, CUFOS) [SDI448], Peter Davenport (NUFORC UFO reporting hotline), Don Donderi (UFO history, witness perception) [MCGLL1, SDI241], Carl Feindt (water UFOs) [SDI411, BOAA322], Stanton Friedman (general, Roswell, MJ12, Betty & Barnie Hill abduction, "Cosmic Watergate" UFO cover-up) [C2C-20040721, SDI433, BOAA505], Stan Gordon (Pennsylv. cases, Kecksburg) [KEY100909], Richard Haines (pilots & UFOs, NARCAP) [PCST090405], Rirchard H. Hall (UFO history, NICAP) [Hall @ SDI, SDI412, SDI434, DMR openP1P2, PCST090802],
Robert Hastings (UFOs and Nukes) [SDI402, C2C 20090217, PRNMLPDCST73], Antonio Huneeus (1990s L.Rockefeller initiative) [JPPN071111, PCST100516], Don Ledger (east Canada cases, airplane incidents) [SDI417, BOAA305B], Bruce Maccabee (UFO history, photo analysis e.g. Trent OR 1950 & Gulf Breeze FL 1987), Ted Phillips (UFO physical trace cases) [SDI455, C2C 20080817], Kevin Randle (Roswell, general) [SDI377], David Rudiak (Roswell, general) [SDI444/445], Chris Rutkowski (Canadian UFO survey) [SDI386], Don Schmitt (Roswell), Chris Styles (Shag Harbour 1967) [SDI467, BOAA228], Jacques Vallee (UFO history, France, exotic ideas) [C2C 20080212, PCST080309] to name a few from North America (note: few Ufologists agree with eachother on everything; I don't agree with each and every one of those cited above, notably Vallee).
Still, there are many UFO researchers who AFAIK haven't given radio interviews. With a little effort, one can still find old interviews of high-profile UFO researchers of previous decades, like academics Drs James McDonald, J. Allen Hynek, James Harder, Peter Sturrock, Hermann Oberth (German pioneer of rocketry and teacher of Werner von Braun), Gordon Creighton (British diplomat and editor of Flying Saucer Review), Aime Michel (French science writer), Maj USMC Donald Keyhoe (founder of NICAP), Walt Andrus and John F. Schuessler (former Directors of MUFON). Finally, for a perspective on UFOs and the Media, check the work of journalists Terry Hansen (author of "Missing Times") [C2C-20050829], Patrick Huyghe [PRNMLPDCST135], Billy Cox [SDI452], Leslie Kean and George Knapp.
Finally, if interested in "popular Ufology" and the "personalities" in the USA UFO & conspiracy subculture, listen to Don Ecker interviewing George Knapp [DMR].
Mixed-bag (take with a grain of salt): Richard Dolan (author of "UFOs and the National Security State", UFO history w/ conspiratorial bend, secret space program, his "breakaway civilization" idea lost me) [C2C 20090823], Linda Moulton-Howe (interesting work on animal mutilations in previous decades, but deterioration of critical faculties in recent years, promoting several highly dubious cases), Philip J. Imbrogno (picks up where John Keel and Jacques Vallee left off, focuses on paranormal/interdimensional origin of UFOs and related entities, UFOs coming from "another dimensional reality that is close to us"; throwing words around like "wormholes" or "portals" wrt UFO Physics and then implying he understands how they work e.g. "portals take less energy than wormholes", Hudson Valley NY UFO wave 1980s and attempted deception with planes from Stewart AFB, cattle mutilations, USDA air-lifting "massive number" of cattle with C-5As into Hudson Valley, Djinns) [DMR16T, PRTP61], Frank Feschino ("Shoot them down", Flatwoods "monster", "aerial battles" between UFOs and US military planes in 1950s, plane crashes) [SDI449, SDI460, C2C 20071206], Peter Robbins (worked with Larry Warren on his story wrt the Rendlesham UK 1980 incident; not-OK seminars on Orgone energy & Wilhelm Reich), Robert M. Wood (helped publish Paul R. Hill's book "Unconventional Flying Objects"; SSE, website on MJ-12 docs, UFO crashes, link with JFK assassination; not-OK: endorsing docs which are almost certainly fake, e.g. SOM1-01), Timothy Good (some questionable sources, stories of contactees, claims shooting wars with some aliens to this day), Paul Hellyer (former Minister of Defence of Canada, who might have been useful spokesperson for Ufology had he not hooked up with people generally regarded unreliable in Ufology and embraced the highly dubious LtCol Philip Corso's claims that various technologies such as fiber optics, microchips & night-vision are the result of back-engineered alien artifacts from the Roswell 1947 crash).
John Keel (occultist / demonologist, probably best known for his 1975 book "The Mothman Prophecies" which was later made into a film starring Richard Gere; focused on the theory that 'ultraterrestrials' are hoaxing us; I am not too fond of his work, but he was influential in creating neo-mythologies which contaminate the UFO folklore to this day) [J.Keel interview by D.Ecker of DMR, Keel remembered / obituary @ PCST090712].
James W. Moseley (editor of Saucer Smear, UFO hoaxer, chronicler of the social subculture of Ufology, the "class clown" of Ufology), Karl T. Pflock (guilt by association - former CIA, believed that some UFOs were alien vehicles, arriving in the early to mid-1940s, but had stopped visiting Earth in the early 1970s, believed the Barney and Betty Hill abduction story, but was a skeptic of Roswell 1947 and Aztec 1948 alleged UFO crashes), William Moore and Jaime Shandera.
James Carrion (former Director of MUFON - OK: "Project Pandora" digitization of MUFON case files & journal, not-OK: believes UFO phenomenon is a deception by intelligence agencies; setting up Arturo Robles Gil for "UFOs over Earth: Mass sightings in México" TV show by secretly launching balloons), Chuck Zukowski (cattle mutes, not-OK: endorses Stan Romanek).
Alien abduction phenomenon proponents: John Mack, Budd Hopkins & David Jacobs (early involvement in UFO history, his PhD dissertation "The Controversy over Unidentified Flying Objects in America: 1896-1973"; alien-human "hybrids") [SDI446, C2C-20030927], John Velez (abductee) [SDI406, SDI412, SDI414, SDI417, SDI420]. Alien abduction skeptics: Susan A. Clancy & Richard McNally (false memory researchers), Susan Blackmore. Scott Corrales, Sgt Bob Dean, Sgt Clifford E. Stone (OK: FOIA Project Moon Dust & Operation Blue Fly; not-OK: 57 different species of aliens), James Deardorff ("leaky embargo" hypothesis, Talmud of Jmmanuel, UFO-biblical connections, embraces Billy Meier contactee story), Bruce Cornet (Pine Bush NY instr. monitoring; timed exposure photos; black manta-ray UFO videos; UFOs "giving a show" e.g. appearing as a solid black Boeing 707 without the engines criss-crossing the highway ahead of him; symbolic meaning in UFO activity; abduction) [JPPN], Jaime Maussan (popular Mexican journalist and host of TV Show "Third Millennium", several questionable photo/video cases, but also some really puzzling ones), Tony Bragalia (highly dubious scenario for Socorro case as a student prank), Nick Cook (author "The Hunt for Zero Point"; helped fuel "Nazi UFO" neo-mythology, bogus anti-gravity stuff). Most European UFO "sceptics" / "pelicanists" (e.g. most Magonians, David Clarke) some of whom however have contributed positively in certain ways in Ufology, unlike their US counterparts, who are simply nay-sayers.
Gerald K. Haines (CIA historian, claimed most UFO sightings of the 1950s-1960s were due to U2 and SR71), Curtis Peebles (author of "Watch the Skies", aviation historian at Smithsonian, UFOs are a psycho-social phenomenon, i.e. pilots see things that aren't really there due to the "power of suggestion"). Kentaro Mori.
Hardline skeptics/debunkers from USA: Philip J. Klass, Robert Sheaffer, James Oberg, Tim Printy (as long as you understand that what you will be reading to be highly prejudiced material that it is).
Thanks, but no thanks: Jeff Peckman, Stan Romanek, Bob Lazar, David Sereda, Dan Aykroyd (he supposedly cares about Ufology, yet he didn't do the field any favors when he appeared on the 30-Apr-2010 show of CNN Larry King Live panel "Are Aliens a Threat?" with Hawking, Kaku, Shostak & Brin and stated that there are 23 different alien species, cited specific articles of US law the aliens violate when they abduct humans, even managed to add 9/11 to the mix; works with David Sereda), Michael Schratt (self-styled aviation historian, who on HistoryChannel's UFO Hunters episode 305 linked the "hieroglyphics" on the Kecksburg acorn with the fictional "Nazi Bell" and also in a Jan-2010 Camelot interview linked B-2 with electrogravitics antigravity & overunity), Stan Deyo, Tom Bearden, Thomas Valone. Kenn Thomas, Michael Cohen (allnewsweb.com), Paola Harris, Steven Greer (CSETI, "Father of the ET and Free Energy Disclosure movements"; note: the Disclosure Project's May-2001 Press Conference did include several good witnesses), LtCol Philip Corso ("The Day After Roswell" reverse engineering of alien artifacts), LtCol Wendelle Stevens (USAF monitoring UFOs over Alaska in the 1950s, large collection of alleged UFO photos ufophotoarchives.org, publisher of several highly dubious "contactee" tales e.g. UMMO, Billy Meier / Pleiades, Andromeda, Venus etc, see catalogue), Sgt Richard Doty & Cpt Robert Collins (USAF Intelligence, authors of "Exempt from Disclosure"), Michael Salla (note: not to be confused with Robert Salas, who investigates UFOs and Nukes and talks about his experience at Malmstrom AFB), Richard Boylan, Alex Collier, Carlos Diaz (Ships of Light), Jordan Maxwell, David Hatcher Childress, Michael Horn, Billy Meier, Jose Escamilla ("Rods", "Interstellar"), Ray Palmer (1950s). Bill Knell, Jonathan Bradley Rutter a.k.a "Dr" Jonathan Reed (alien in the freezer), Dan Burisch (J-Rod alien), Sean David Morton. Milton William "Bill" Cooper, Philip Schneider, John Lear, David Icke. James McGaha, Joe Nickell, Kendrick Frazier, Jill Tarter & Seth Shostack, Michael Shermer, Kal K. Korff.
Practically everyone interviewed by the "Project Camelot" (It's sad to see such a waste of resources on spreading the ideas of mostly deluded folks).
Note: Since "moderate" Ufologists tend to stick to the facts and most are average storytellers, listeners without a real interest in the UFO subject might find their interviews rather unexciting or even boring. In comparison, the typical "colorful" paranormal radio guest talks breathlessly about "civilizations inside the hollow Earth" or "secret Space program and bases on Moon and Mars" or "Haunebu and Nazi UFOs in Antarctica and on the Moon" or "gunfights with Grey aliens in underground bases" or "Indigo / Starseed Children" or "multidimensional communication with beings from other realms" or even more wild stories... Some nationally syndicated radio shows in the US have even had known liars/hoaxers like Bill Knell, Jonathan Reed and Sean David Morton as repeat guests. It's understandable that some nightly shows have a ton of air-time to fill and factor-in the guest's charisma, but apparently some producers either do no due diligence whatsoever on their guests, or adhere to the premise "any story is valid if it soaks up ratings".
In addition to the UFO researchers listed in the "Recommended" section above, there are in fact dozens of individuals who have done years of actual getting-your-hands-dirty UFO investigations and published their work, the sung and unsung heroes of Ufology.
People like Walter N. Webb, David F. Webb (HUMCAT), Bob Pratt, Jennie Zeidman (CUFOS), Ted Bloecher & Isabel Davis (CSI-NY), Coral and Jim Lorenzen (APRO), Matt Graeber (UFORIC), Ray Stanford (Zamora/Soccoro NM 1964, Project Starlight P.S.I., instrumental monitoring), Paul R. Hill (NASA engineer, author "Unconventional Flying Objects"), Bruce Maccabee (U.S. Navy optical physicist and author of "The UFO/FBI Connection"), Barry Greenwood and Larry Fawcett (FOIA docs, authors of "Clear Intent"), Raymond E. Fowler, Mark Cashman (MUFON CT), Robert Powell (MUFON), Harley Rutledge, Stuart Appelle (alien abductions, JUFOS editor), Jack Kasher, Michael D. Swords (history), Jan Aldrich (early history of UFOs, Sign Historical Group, Project 1947, archival research), Brad Sparks (RB47 case, UFO history), Jim Klotz (CUFON), Kenny Young [SDI419], Francis Ridge (new NICAP Web portal), Allan Hendry (CUFOS investigator), Mark Rodeghier (CUFOS director), Barry Downing (author "Flying Saucers and the Bible"), Patrick Cooke (bibleufo.com), Don Berliner (author). UFO sighting report databases: Donald Johnson and Saunders (UFOCAT), Larry Hatch (*U* UFO Database), Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman (Canadian UFO Survey). To-check: Ivan Sanderson, James McCampbell, Leonard Cramp, Ann Druffel, Paul Norman.
UFO researchers outside North America include: Illobrand von Ludviger & Rolf-Dieter Klein (MUFON-CES Germany), Patrick Gross (portal ufologie.net, CE3 db, archival research, old French cases), Jean Jacques Vélasco (SEPRA 1983-2004), Claude Poher, Jacques Patenet (head of GEIPAN - Groupe d’Etudes et d’Information des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non identifiés - official body in France for UFO Investigation), Gildas Bourdais (French Ufology) [BOAA319], Jenny Randles (northern Britain, NUFON), Martin Shough, Gary Heseltine (British policemen UFO db), Clas Svahn (Archives for UFO Research AFU, UFO Sweden, skeptic), Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos (FOTOCAT, Anomaly Foundation Spain, skeptic), Olavo T. Fontes (Brazil), A.J. Gevaerd (Brazilian UFO files declassification), Bill Chalker (Australian Ufology), Antonio Huneeus (Chile, Rockefeller initiative), Auguste Meessen (Belgium), Massimo Teodorani (Italy), Maurizio Verga. Belgium: Michel Bougard, Lucien Clerebaut, Patrick Ferryn, Dr. Leo Brenig.
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