1965 is often viewed as a turning point in ufology. Up until that time, the press had largely dismissed UFO reports at the behest of Project Blue Book and their downplay of UFO reports. 1957 was the last time that the press had really looked upon the subject in a favorable light, but things would change 8 years later.
In August of 1965, an...
2022-07-07 21:25:36 +0000 UTC View Post
In February of 1978 a man known only as Julio F packed up his car, his dog and his .22 rifle and headed out into the woods to hunt for hare. Almost immediately, everything got weird. From the start, he took a direction he never intended to. He stopped at a "wayside bar" that wasn't normally opened this early for breakfast and was directed to a h...
2022-06-30 21:20:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The Men in Black, MIBs, the UFO silencers; since the 1950s, UFO witnesses have reported encounters with shadowy figures who've threatened them into silence. Or as Nick Redfern puts it in his book, The Real Men in Black: “For years—or perhaps even for centuries — the Men in Black have been elusive, predatory, fear-inducing figures,...
2022-06-23 05:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons! on this installment of the Hum and the Silence, I bring y'all some cases from the MUFON UFO Journal from the 2000s. Cases include the saga of the Briese family on their North Dakota Ranch, a fire set by a UFO in Gaffney, South Carolina and sightings of a strange animal in the Ozark.
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2022-06-22 10:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey, y'all. Every few months I want to do a "swerve," an episode where I cover a non UFO, but paranormal topic of some kind. I'm gonna leave this to your vote! Voting ends on July 1 at 10 am!
2022-06-18 19:18:07 +0000 UTC View Post
On September 7, 1956, Thomas Hutchinson, a resident of Moneymore, Ireland, put a head lock on a miniature UFO that had landed on his property. Thomas attempted to escort the object to the police department, but after placing it on a bush, the object spun quickly and took off into the sky.
Stories of miniature UFOs, like Thomas Hutchinson's...
2022-06-17 19:44:00 +0000 UTC View Post
They go by many different names and are found in cultures all throughout the world. Trolls, Leprechauns, the fae, various legends of “The Little People” in Native lore, The “Hidden People” of Iceland. But Today, we’re calling them gnomes. Specifically UFOGnomes.
Legends of little people have littered fairy-tales and literature fo...
2022-06-09 20:10:26 +0000 UTC View Post
As a life long resident of the Adirondack region of Northern New York, books covering topics like ghosts and cryptids were slim. And aside from Night Siege, the Center for UFO Studies' examination of the Hudson Valley UFO flap of the 1980s, it was rare to find books about anomalous objects in the sky.
And yet to the residents of t...
2022-06-01 21:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings patrons! I apologize for taking so long with these bonus episodes, but they are here in one combined episode.
In Volume 9, we take a look at Argentinian sightings leading up to the Trancas Incident (which we covered in episode 99 with Stephanie Quick), including the sighting of a man who was burned by a UFO and a hotel that was d...
2022-05-29 14:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: Domestic Violence, Childhood Sexual Assault
In 1994 Jean Bilodeaux, a field investigator for MUFON in California, received a phone call form a woman. The voice on the other end of the phone said, “May I talk to you? I saw a UFO.” The woman, given the pseudonym Callie initially called to talk about her own UFO sighting, b...
2022-05-26 21:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
When Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released to wide audiences, it was believed by some in the UFO community that it would have an impact on UFO reports. And yet it didn’t. CEIII reports continued to vary during a time when UFO contact wasn’t homogenous with reports of the grays, tall nordics and reptilian shape changers tha...
2022-05-16 07:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: ANIMAL DEATH, ANIMAL KIDNAPPING
On September 21, 1967 Harry King went to the fence to give Nelly Lewis' prized Appaloosa Horse, Lady, her usual treat for the day. He grew concerned when she failed to show up. A short time later, her body was found, mutilated. Lady's death was quick to make newspaper headline...
2022-05-09 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
UFO witnesses who describe contact with otherworldly beings are often told "do not be afraid", that the beings "mean them no harm." On this episode of the Our Strange Skies podcast, the opposite is the case.
For this episode I'm joined by Derek Hayes, the host of the 2022-05-02 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the Revels End one-shot! Our party consisting of Mince (played by Kris), Grizzelda Amouranthyst (played by Desdymona) and Garrin Redhair, who has no red hair, (played by Paul) has been assembled to enter the prison, Revels End. This is a place where the worst of the worst are sent to be forgotten to time. Their first objective: re...
2022-05-01 18:50:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the Revels End one-shot! Our party consisting of Mince (played by Kris), Grizzelda Amouranthyst (played by Desdymona) and Garrin Redhair, who has no red hair, (played by Paul) has been assembled to enter the prison, Revels End. This is a place where the worst of the worst are sent to be forgotten to time. Their first objective: re...
2022-05-01 18:28:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons! I'm trying out something new here. I did a Livestream on Twitter yesterday and it's something I'd like to start doing regularly. My plan is to pull the videos from Twitter and post them here for you all, and if you're interested, I can post the audio from them as well so you can enjoy them in podcast form.
The theme for yest...
2022-05-01 13:34:16 +0000 UTC View Post
When I ask a guest to be on the podcast, I often given them a list of topics to chose from, but with Stephanie Quick it started with a DM that began "Are you familiar with the Trancas Incident?" I don't know why Stephanie was the right person for this episode, but she wa...
2022-04-25 04:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's safe to say that the new logo for the podcast is a fair representation of what would happen if I were to meet an alien in an open field. For our guest this week, Katie Webb, the opposite is the case. She talks candidly about her experiences and her takeaways from them....
2022-04-18 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Yukon has this reputation where the sky is a theater itself. It’s a place known for its lights in the sky, where from August to April the Northern Light can be seen against a backdrop of stars.
It’s the kind of isolated place that you’d think most UFOs would avoid, but in the mid 1990s, Yukon became a place where enormous UFOs wo...
2022-04-12 18:29:40 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1968 Gordon Creighton of Flying Saucer Review received a rather angry letter from a man named F.D. Marrow of Flemington, New Jersey. Marrow, a Klass apologist, was concerned that he was doing a disservice to UFO research by comparing UFOs and ghostly phenomenon. “On this basis UFOs will never communicate with the authorities or the...
2022-04-03 20:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
1973 was an unprecedented year for abduction cases. 10 abduction cases were reported that year, 8 of which occurred during a 17 day period from October 11-28. Many of them would become infamous in the UFO community. The abduction of Patty Roach and her children was featured in an episode of In Search Of... alongside the story of Carl Hi...
2022-03-30 16:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons! On this episode of the Hum and the Silence, I delve into supplementary material from the "Year of the Humanoids," including a woman named Alice and her family's encounters with "the little people." There is the story of Eddie Webb, a long haul trucker who was blinded and had his glasses burned by a UFO. On the abduction side of th...
2022-03-26 20:47:10 +0000 UTC View Post
"The fall of 1973 saw one of the largest and most concentrated waves of UFO reports in history... But the strangest reports from 1973 were of humanoid entities often seen in association with UFOs. I recorded 70 reports of this type during the 5 months from August through December, 1973. Of these, 55 took place in the continental United States, 3...
2022-03-23 18:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post
As the blue lights dazzle, the city of Easthaven is under attack by duergar forces. As smoke rises from nearby buildings, and Easthaven residents fall under the war picks of the aggressors, will the party be able to save the town?
DM - Rob Kristoffe...
2022-03-21 20:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The Year of the Humanoids was a unique time in UFO history. Over the course of four months, the eastern United States saw a high concentration of UFO sightings characterized by unique humanoids in association with them. Bigfoot type creatures, BAEliens, catfish-like creatures, and a myriad of other odd beings doing odd things.
Dur...
2022-03-14 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In the last episode Hefrum and Hlin found themselves in the coastal settlement of Black Cliff on the Sea of Moving Ice. Beset by a huge snow storm, they decided to stay in town for the night. Before long our adventurers learned of a mysterious amulet that turned its wearer into a zombie and cursed others to become zombies, too. They have don...
2022-03-12 15:39:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Frozenfar. The North. Icewind Dale. Whatever you chose to call this desolate and inhospitable land, the north became a haven for those wanting to disappear from the world. In Icewind Dale ten towns came together to form a settlement and offer a new beginning for the forgotten, and for nearly 400 years, Ten-Towns has known peace and war, pros...
2022-03-12 15:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Place Bonaventure Hotel Incident is the quintessential UFO event involving a big UFO hovering above the outdoor pool of a Hilton hotel in downtown Montreal. For nearly three hours, 40+ eyewitnesses looked upon a UFO, including journalists, police officers, members of the RCMP, and military personnel.
On this episode, 2022-03-09 20:09:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons! For this bonus episode I was perusing Patrick Hughye's Field Guide to Extraterrestrials and found the image included in this post. To me, this mantis looks like it's getting down to "Cotton Eye Joe." I tracked the story featured in it to an 2022-03-07 20:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
With Maud Chisselbone, the hag that resided in the Cauldron Caves defeated, the party looks to collect on the spoils of their labor. Mirabella continues to search for her search for Sylver, or Mirv, or Assara Nosro, or whatever name the famed performer goes by today. Hefrum seals the deal to have Redwin released. Bosera gets her book, and Ah...
2022-03-06 21:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post