Ted Phillips is the Director of the Center for Physical Trace Research (CPTR). The Special Investigations Unit of the CPTR investigates active UFO sites. The team posts investigative logs along with images and video obtained during site visits in the field. The team’s primary purpose is to insert itself into an area of developing activity while the site is still fresh. The SIU has five highly qualified researchers and has the only dive team in the U.S. geared toward the investigation of USOs and similar anomalies.

Ted Phillips is an engineer, as well as a professional photographer and musician. He participated in the Vanguard Satellite Tracking Program and was a field engineer on the Minuteman Missile Project. He began investigating UFO reports in 1964 and was a research associate of Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s from 1968 until Dr. Hynek’s death in 1986. It was at Allen Hynek’s suggestion that he began specializing in physical trace research of UFO sightings over forty years ago. Phillips has personally investigated hundreds of UFO cases and his files contain 3,189 physical landing traces from 91 countries.

Phillips participated in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Sciences meetings, along with Dr. Hynek, Jacque Vallee and Dr. David Saunders. He was a member of a select team invited to meet with the United Nations secretary-General at the U.N., along with Dr. Hynek, Dr. Vallee and astronaut Gordon Cooper. Phillips gave two presentations at the First International UFO Congress. Ted made a presentation at the first MUFON Symposium and at several others, including the 2006 Symposium. He has appeared on national television in numerous documentaries including “In Search Of”, “NBC News White Papers”, CBS News Special reports and the documentary movie, “UFOs Are Real.” Most recently, he was featured in “Alien Encounters”, a documentary on the History Channel.

Phillip’s current research projects include active UFO sites in the central U.S. and a major project in the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia.

SDI No. - Mike Woods, Errol Bruce-Knapp and guest, Ted Phillips - May 14, 1999

Sam Sherman has been in the motion picture industry for over 35 years, and for the past 30 years, has served as the founder/president of Independent-International Pictures Corporation (IIP) who are producers/distributors of theatrical feature films of all kinds.

Sam became involved in the UFO field quite by accident. In 1961, while writing for national magazines for Warren Publishing Co., he had a UFO sighting in New York City, which was also seen by 3 other members of his family. He shot still photos and 16MM motion picture film of an illuminated disc over the city.

In 1992, Sam Sherman decided to again look into the UFO mystery for a long term project - a feature film docu-drama on the question - has Earth been visited by extraterrestrials? titled - Beyond This Earth.

While researching the UFO subject at government agencies, Sam received 6 hours of audio tapes from the night of October 7, 1965 at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The tapes concerned a UFO over-flight of this secure installation and the military response of scrambling planes after the aerial objects.

The tapes were de-classified in a chopped up, intelligible form known as "scrambled release".

Sherman spent 8 months editing and interpreting the tapes with the aid of former Tech Sgt. Charles Sorrels who was at Edwards AFB in the tower the night of the event and who started the alert and is heard on the original tapes.

From this material, Sherman produced a critically received one-hour Audio Documentary 'The Edwards Air Force Base Encounter', which we'll be playing clips from as we discuss this intriguing case.

SDI No. - Sam Sherman and the Edwards Air Force Base UFO Encounter - September 26, 1999

David Michael Jacobs is an American historian and recently retired Associate Professor of History at Temple University specializing in 20th century American history. Jacobs is particularly well known in the field of Ufology for his research and authoring of books on the subject of alleged alien abductions.

Jacobs obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973, in the field of intellectual history. He wrote his dissertation on the controversy over unidentified flying objects in America. A revised edition of his dissertation was published as The UFO Controversy in America by Indiana University Press in 1975, and sold out (very unusual for an academic work).

As a faculty member of the Department of History at Temple University, Jacobs specialized in history of 20th-century American popular culture. He stated that his current research interests "involve a delineation of the role of anomalous experiences in personal and cultural life." For over 25 years, Jacobs taught a course on "UFOs in American Society."

Jacobs has a high profile in the field of Ufology. He has lectured widely, been interviewed, and participated in numerous television and radio shows on the subject of alien abductions.

David Jacobs has written five books on the topic of UFOs and alleged alien abductions. In recent years, Jacobs has argued publicly that the evidence from his research, which sometimes includes utilizing hypnotic regression with alleged alien abductees along with traditional interview techniques, purports that alien-human hybrids were engaged in a covert program of infiltration into human society with possibly the final goal of taking over Earth. He asserts that some of his research subjects are teaching these hybrids how to blend into human society so that they cannot be differentiated from humans, and that this is occurring worldwide.

SDI No. 022 - Dr. David Jacobs -

Michael Woods is a former senior editor for City TV in Toronto.

SDI No. 168 - Year End Wrap-up with Mike Woods - December 22, 2001

Professor Jacobs is a professor at Bradley University where he instructs and advises radio/television majors. He holds a PhD in Dramatic art and graduated from University of California Santa Barbara. In the 1960’s, he was in the Air Force. He was the officer in charge of optical instrumentation and his job was to film ballistic missile tests launched from Vandenberg Air Force base in California. In 1964, during a test of the first missile they filmed, they caught on film a UFO traveling right next to the missile. He says it looked like two saucers cupped together with a round ping-pong ball-like surface on top. The film showed that from the ball, a beam of light was directed at the missile. This happened four times, from four different angles, as the missile was about 60 miles up and traveling at 11,000 to 14,000 miles an hour. The missile tumbled out of space and the UFO left. The next day, he was shown the film by his commanding officer and was told to never speak of this again. He said: 'if it ever comes up, you are to say that it was laser strikes from the UFO'. Professor Jacobs thought this unusual because in 1964, lasers were in their infancy in the labs but he never-the-less agreed and hasn’t talked about it for 18 years. Years later, after an article came out about the film, professor Jacobs started receiving harassing phone calls at early hours in the morning. His mailbox was even blown up out in front of his house.

"What we photographed up at Vandenberg Air Force Base affected me for the rest of my life and made a huge impact on my understanding of the universe and of Governmental manipulation of our minds."

SDI No. 187 - Dr. Robert Jacobs - May 4, 2002

Ann Druffel began investigating UFO reports in the Southern California area in April 1957 with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), which was directed by the UFO research pioneer Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret.). She became acquainted with Dr. James E. McDonald through his contacts with the Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee from 1966 to 1971. After NICAP's demise in 1970, she joined the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the then newly-formed Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS.)

She has researched over 2,000 Los Angeles Basin reports, including alleged landings, UPO photo cases, close encounters with physical effects on witnesses and terrain, alleged "abduction" reports and other UFO-related phenomena. A prolific writer, Druffel has contributed over 180 articles on various aspects of the UFO question to numerous UFO journals and newsstand magazines.She wrote the book How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abuctions and co-authored Tujunga Canyon Contacts with parapsychologist D. Scott Rogo. Her newest book Firestorm, is a biography of scientist and UFO researcher Dr. James McDonald.

Besides UFO work, Druffel free-lances in various aspects of psychic research. From 1986 to 1991 she worked as research assistant/consultant and, later, researcher with the Mobius Society, the Los Angeles-based parapsychology lab. She has written numerous articles on disparate psychic phenomena for newsstand magazines and authored books with famed psychic Arrnand Marcotte.

SDI No. 255 - Ann Druffel on Dr. James E. McDonald - August 30, 2003

Errol and his four guests discuss the Mexico City sightings and the near-misses between UFOs and commercial aircraft.

SDI No. 256 - Jaime Maussan, Enrique Kolbeck, Don Ledger and John Velez - September 6, 2003

Linda Moulton Howe (born January 20, 1942) is an American investigative journalist and Regional Emmy award-winning documentary film maker best known for her work as a ufologist and advocate of a variety of conspiracy theories, including her investigation of cattle mutilations and conclusion that they are performed by extraterrestrials. She is also noted for her speculations that the U.S. government is working with aliens. She is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In 1980, Howe produced A Strange Harvest, a documentary that suggested unusual wounds found on cattle are the work of extraterrestrial beings who harvest body parts required for their survival or research, and that the U.S. government is complicit. The documentary received a Regional Emmy award in 1981. Howe became known as a "staunch advocate" for these ideas, and began to focus on UFO conspiracy theories and speculate about alleged connections between cattle mutilations, UFOs and supposed government conspiracies, saying "I am convinced that one or more alien intelligences are affecting this planet". Although Howe claimed she was shown secret documents after being taken into confidence by an agent of the government, author John Greer wrote that Howe presented no evidence for such claims other than "the very ambiguous evidence provided by rotting cow carcasses".

One Idaho state director of Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) called her "the most preeminent UFO investigator in the world", and she's been named as one of "the gurus of American ufology", although Howe has said she regards herself as a television producer and investigative reporter. Much of Howe's work includes speculations about what she terms "unexplained" phenomena, such as cattle mutilations, crop circles, UFO sightings and alien abductions.

Howe has produced numerous UFO related programming, including a two-hour special Earth Mysteries: Alien Life Forms in association with WATL-Fox, Atlanta, was Supervising Producer and Original Concept Creator for UFO Report: Sightings financed by Paramount Studios and the Fox network in Los Angeles that was first broadcast in October 1991 and became the Sightings series on Fox.

Howe appeared on a panel at UFO Disclosure press event held at the National Press Club in 2013, saying she believed "alien technology appears so advanced" that "space and time could be bent by outer space travelers, therefore allowing extraterrestrials to visit Earth".

Howe is a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM and has been interviewed on Larry King Live special, CNN; The O'Reilly Factor, Fox; Sightings and Strange Universe, Fox; NBC's The Other Side; Britain's Union Pictures, ITN and BBC; The Discovery Channel special Evidence On Earth; the NBC network special, Mysterious Origins of Man, and the History Channel television series Ancient Aliens.

SDI No. 286 - Linda Moulton Howe - April 3, 2004

Peter Davenport has been director of the National UFO Reporting Center since 1994. Additionally, he has served as the director of investigations for the Washington Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network. Peter has had an active interest in the UFO phenomenon from his early boyhood. He experienced his first UFO sighting over the St. Louis municipal airport in the summer of 1954, and he investigated his first UFO case during the summer of 1965 in Exeter, New Hampshire. Peter has been witness to several anomalous events, possibly UFO related, including a dramatic sighting over Baja California in February 1990, and several nighttime sightings over Washington State during 1992.

His graduate education was completed at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he earned an M.S. degree in the genetics and biochemistry of fish from the College of Fisheries, as well as an M.B.A. degree in finance and international business from the Graduate School of Business. Peter was the founding president of a Seattle-based biotechnology company, which currently employs over 300 scientists and technicians. In 1986, he was a candidate for the Washington State legislature, and in 1992, he was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

SDI No. 303 - Peter Davenport of NUFORC - July 31, 2004

Stephen Bassett is the executive director of Paradigm Research Group founded in 1996 to end a government-imposed embargo on the truth behind the so-called "UFO" phenomenon. Stephen has spoken to audiences around the world about the implications of formal "Disclosure" by world governments of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. He has given over 1000 radio and television interviews, and PRG's advocacy work has been extensively covered by national and international media. In 2013, PRG produced a "Citizen Hearing on Disclosure" at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. On November 5, 2014, PRG launched a Congressional Hearing/Political Initiative seeking the first hearings on Capitol Hill since 1968 regarding the extraterrestrial presence issue and working to see that issue included in the ongoing presidential campaign.

PRG has assisted numerous organizations and initiatives working to 1) raise public awareness of the both the extraterrestrial presence and the truth embargo, 2) convene open congressional hearings to take government and agency witness testimony, and 3) incite the political media to appropriately cover the attendant issues. There can be only one outcome to the Disclosure advocacy movement - the formal acknowledgement of the extraterrestrial presence by world governments.

SDI No. 304 - Steven Bassett - August 7, 2004

Author, journalist and TV personality Nick Pope worked at the UK Ministry of Defense for 21 years. His postings included being assigned to the Joint Operations Center during the Persian Gulf War, where he was a briefer in the Air Force Operations Room. He left the MoD in 2006 after his final posting, in which he served as an acting Deputy Director in the Directorate of Defense Security.

Between 1991 and 1994, Nick Pope was posted to a division called Secretariat (Air Staff) where his duties included researching and investigating the UFO phenomenon, mirroring the work done in America by the United States Air Force’s Project Blue Book. Although most sightings could be explained as misidentifications of known objects and phenomena, a small proportion appeared to defy any conventional explanation. These included cases where the witnesses were pilots, police officers and military personnel, cases where UFOs had been tracked on radar, and cases where there had been near-misses between UFOs and civilian aircraft. Nick Pope takes no position on the true nature of the UFO phenomenon, but can testify, based on his official research and investigation, that it raises important defense, national security and air safety issues.

While working on the MoD's UFO project, Nick Pope also looked into alien abductions, crop circles, ghost sightings at military bases, and people who claimed to have psychic abilities and wanted to volunteer their services to the UK's intelligence agencies. When details of Nick Pope's work became public, after the introduction of the UK's Freedom of Information Act, the media started referring to him as the real Fox Mulder.

Nick Pope is the author of five best-selling books, published by Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Dell, and Thistle Publishing. These are Open Skies Closed Minds, about UFOs, The Uninvited, about alien abductions, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, about the UK's most famous UFO sighting, and Operation Thunder Child & Operation Lightning Strike, two sci-fi techno-thrillers about an alien invasion.

Recently, Nick Pope has been the public face of a program to declassify and release the entire archive of the British Government's UFO files. This ongoing process, which started in May 2008, has involved the release of around 55,000 documents, some of which were classified Secret UK Eyes Only. As Nick Pope worked on (and wrote) many of the documents concerned, he made a promotional video for the UK's National Archives, announcing the release, advised them on selecting cases of interest to the media, and has given literally hundreds of TV, radio, newspaper and magazine interviews to promote the story.

In his capacity as a freelance journalist, Nick Pope has written numerous articles and features for newspapers (including most of the UK's national dailies), magazines and websites, on a range of subjects including the unexplained, conspiracy theories, fringe science, sci-fi, space, defense and intelligence - though there are strict limits on the last two subjects, in view of the UK's Official Secrets Act, which is binding for life.

Nick Pope lectures all around the world, has addressed the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union Society, as well as speaking at the Royal Albert Hall, the Science Museum, and at Global Competitiveness Forum 2011, where other speakers included President Bill Clinton and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Nick Pope lives in America.

SDI No. 305 - Nick Pope - August 14, 2004

Colm Kelleher is a senior research scientist with a twenty-year career in cell and molecular biology. Following his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Dublin, Trinity College in 1983, Dr. Kelleher worked at Canada's flagship Ontario Cancer Institute, the Terry Fox Laboratory at the British Columbia Cancer Research Center in Vancouver and the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver. More recently, Dr. Kelleher served as Research Director for Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas and as administrator for one of its subsidiaries, Space Sciences, Inc.

Dr. Kelleher also acted as team leader and project manager for the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), using forensic science methodology to unravel scientific anomalies. He is the author of the recently released book on the controversial NIDS investigation of the ‘Skinwalker Ranch’, titled Hunt for the Skinwalker (Amazon US and UK). He has also previously authored a book about prion diseases and cattle mutilations titled Brain Trust (Amazon US and UK).

Currently, Dr. Kelleher is the Director of Labs for a biotechnology firm in San Francisco. He has authored 38 peer reviewed publications in molecular biology, immunology, biochemistry and virology as well as articles in popular magazines such as OMNI.

SDI No. 308 - Colm Kelleher on the August 2004 Flying Triangle Paper - September 4, 2004

Nick Redfern is a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, UFO sightings, government conspiracies, alien abductions and paranormal phenomena. He writes regularly for the London Daily Express newspaper, Fortean Times, Fate, and UFO Magazine. His previous books include Three Men Seeking Monsters, Strange Secrets, Cosmic Crashes, and The FBI Files. Among his many exploits, Redfern has investigated reports of lake monsters in Scotland, vampires in Puerto Rico, werewolves in England, aliens in Mexico, and sea serpents in the United States. Redfern travels and lectures extensively around the world. Originally from England, he currently lives in Dallas, Texas.

SDI No. 348 - Nick Redfern - June 25, 2005

Nancy Talbott is the President of the BLT Research Team, Inc., a non-profit organization that for 20 years has been on the leading edge of scientific research into the crop circle phenomenon. BLT has documented multiple abnormalities found in crop circle plants and soils, including massive alteration of germination and growth-habit in seedlings grown from crop circle seeds and significant alteration of the crystallization structure of specific clay minerals in crop circle soils. Three BLT papers have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Recent work includes analyses of a very fine white powder found in crop circles near the Dutch medium Robbert v/d Broeke as well as documentation of a wide range of very bizarre events directly related to this young man and the appearance of crop circles in his area.

SDI No. 354 - Dave Furlotte, Victor Viggiani and Nancy Talbott - August 6, 2005

Richard H. Hall (December 25, 1930 – July 17, 2009) was a leading Ufologist and proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis to explain UFO sightings. A member of the Authors Guild, he also wrote numerous books and magazine articles dealing with the role of women in the American Civil War.

Hall was born on December 25, 1930 and had a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Tulane University in New Orleans. He lived most of his life in the Washington, D.C. area. John B. Carlson, an astronomer at the University of Maryland, called Hall "the dean of ufology" and "the last of a breed...[he represented] a generation of UFO enthusiasts who approached questions of the universe using the scientific method...he was scientific, careful...a researcher." According to Carlson, Hall also rejected what he called "the ding-a-ling fringe [of ufology]...who approach this more as a belief system or a faith" than a scientific endeavor.

Between 1958 and 1969, Hall worked for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). He began as executive secretary, and eventually became NICAP's assistant director. In this role, Hall was both an eyewitness and participant to much of the early history of the UFO phenomenon in the United States. Working with NICAP director Donald Keyhoe, he helped lobby the United States Congress to hold public hearings and investigations into the UFO phenomenon. In 1964, Hall researched, edited, and wrote much of The UFO Evidence, a compendium of UFO incidents from the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s that NICAP considered to be the most persuasive for the belief that UFOs were a "real", physical phenomenon. A copy of The UFO Evidence was sent to every member of Congress in 1964.

Following Keyhoe's ouster as NICAP director in 1969, Hall left NICAP to work as a technical writer and editor. He continued to work in the UFO field. He served as the director of the Fund for UFO Research, which provided grant money to researchers working in UFO studies. He was also the editor of the MUFON Journal, the official publication of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the largest civilian UFO interest group in America today. In 2001, he wrote a sequel to The UFO Evidence; it covered prominent UFO incidents from the mid-1960s through the 1990s. He was also the founder and chief editor of the now-defunct Journal of UFO History, which featured articles on the history and growth of the UFO phenomenon in the United States. Hall was a vocal proponent of the theory that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft from an advanced alien civilization, and he was an active member of the now-defunct "UFO Updates" message board and website.

In 1964, "high level White House discussions on what to do if an alien intelligence was discovered in space" took place. As a result, CIA director John McCone initiated a review of the possibility that UFOs might represent a threat to the United States. CIA agents interviewed Richard Hall, who provided them with data about UFA sightings from NICAP's records.
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SDI No. 358 - Richard Hall and Brian Vike - August 27, 2005.

SDI No. 361 - Stephen Bassett, Richard Dolan and Stanton Friedman - Toronto UFO Symposium - September 24, 2005

Patrick Cooke is the editor and author of The Bible UFO Connection. He is an independent researcher residing in Berkeley, California. He is an author, publisher, eschatologist, an autonomous theologian, and is recognized by the Religion Newswriters Association as a nontraditional scholar. His work is not associated with any religious organization or movement. He is the author of The Greatest Deception, The Doctrines of Men, and The Real Apocrypha, and has produced the videos Spirits in the Sky and UFOs - The Flying Gods.

SDI No. 363 - Dave Furlotte, Stuart Miller & Patrick Cooke - October 8, 2005.

Don Ledger is a writer and the author of 3 books. His most recent book is "Dark Object", co-authored with Chris Styles, deals with the crash of a UFO into the water off of Shag Harbour , Nova Scotia on October 4, 1967. Mr. Ledger's other two books are, "Swissair Down", which dealt with the crash of Swissair Flight 111 in September of 1998 and "The Maritime UFO Files", a compendium of 145 UFO reports from the 1930s to the present day on the east coast of Canada.

Don is a regular contributor to the Toronto based radio show "Strange Days Indeed", hosted by Errol Bruce-Knapp. He has been involved in half a dozen television documentaries dealing with both the Shag Harbour Incident and UFOs in general, as well as numerous radio shows in both Canada and the United States. He has been an active UFO investigator for over 10 years.

Recently he became the Canadian Technical Affiliate for NARCAP-the National Aviation Reporting Center for Anomalous Phenomena based in the United States.

Don is a pilot and works as a television producer for the Province of Nova Scotia. He currently resides in Bedford, Nova Scotia.

SDI No. 376 - Don Ledger, Alfred Lehmberg, Victor Viggiani and Errol Bruce-Knapp

SDI No. 384 - Dave Furlotte, Stuart Miller and Robert Salas.

Leonard (Lyn) Buchanan is the Executive Director of Problems Solutions Innovations (PSI) which started as a small data analysis company in the Washington, D.C. area in 1992 after Lyn's retirement from the military.

In late 1995, when the US government declassified their Remote Viewing project, information became public about Lyn's prior involvement with that project as one of the unit's Remote Viewers, Database Manager, Property Book Officer and as the unit's Trainer. Public demands for training and applications became great, and PSI moved into the remote viewing field full time, bringing with it Lyn's extensive databasing capabilities. At the present time, PSI possesses the most complete body of data on the applications of remote viewing in real-world applications.

The U.S. government used a specialized form of remote viewing known as Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV). Lyn's involvement with CRV came about by a long, strange, and circuitous series of events, some parts of which are still classified. Lyn was brought into the unit in 1984 and remained there on special assignment for the rest of his military career.

SDI No. 388 - Dave Furlotte, Lyn Buchanan and Alfred Lehmberg.

During the summer of 1952, Americans reported a record amount of UFO sightings to Project Blue Book, the Air Force group responsible for investigating unidentified flying objects. Author/Illustrator Frank C. Feschino, Jr. has written an exciting new book that encompasses the summer of 1952 and America's overwhelming UFO problem during that time. The author documents the numerous aerial encounters and confrontations that occurred between United States fighter planes and UFOs over America and around the world during that era. In July of 1952, an Air Force information officer revealed, "The jet pilots are, and have been under orders to investigate unidentified objects and to shoot them down if they can't talk them down."

Feschino investigates, researches and writes about the overwhelming amount of mysterious fighter plane accidents and vanished jets that occurred during the 1950s. He also writes about several UFO cases from the 1952 summer including the complete and most detailed story in print to date, of the horrific West Virginia "Flatwoods Monster" incident of September 12,1952. After 17-years of research, a lost and forgotten segment of fighter aviation history and UFOs has finally been documented and written about in "Shoot Them Down! - The Flying Saucer Air Wars of 1952."

His website is: www.FlatwoodsMonster.com

SDI No. 391 - Dave Furlotte, Stanton Friedman, Frank Feshino Jr. and Alfred Lehmberg - 2006

In this interview below, Errol talks with Robert Nichol about his new DVD, “Star Dreams.” This documentary movie about crop circles is the first in a series of five feature-length DVDs he is producing on the subject of crop circles, the Earth, the environment, sacred geometry, and extraterrestrial presences, which he feels is guiding our planet towards a higher state of being, and which is guiding him personally to use his skills as a filmmaker to present their case.

“Star Dreams” features crop circles from the year 2005 and presentations by top researchers in the field. Those who have seen the film have been strongly moved by its beauty and its message. Robert has 25 films to his credit and so he is up to the challenge.

SDI No. 392 - Dave Furlotte, Stuart Miller, Richard and Robert Nichol

Dr. Janet Colli, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, is a psychotherapist and Licensed Mental Health Counselor who has worked with abductees and their experiences. She has been carrying out scientific research in an area of human experience field that skeptics claim has no basis for reality, much less study and research.

Her website is: http://www.sacredencounters.com/

SDI No. 393 - Dave Furlotte, Dr. Janet Colli and Alfred Lehmberg.

Errol and his guests discuss UFOs, animal mutilations, crop circles

SDI No. 394 - Dave Furlotte, Sue Darroch, Mathew Didier and Wayne St. John.

SDI No. 397 - Dave Furlotte, Don Ledger and Alfred Lehmberg.

Dirk Vander Ploeg ( - June 26, 2015) was editor and publisher of UFO Digest, an online periodical which provides "real video and photographic proof of UFOs and the paranormal" and PsiTalk, his version of paranormal radio, and Monster Tracker, which deals with cryptozoology. He was also a regular contributor to American Chronicle, and on-line magazine that accepts articles from anyone. He has written a book called Quest for Middle Earth which suggests that Tolkien's work was based on the real, but lost history of Earth as recalled by Norse mythology. In other words, he says elves, goblins, dragons, trolls and other creatures in The Lord of the Rings are based on real characters from 'before the flood.' He manages to weave in some DaVinci Code ideas into this as well. As one reviewer put it: "It had to happen eventually -- that the Da Vinci Code, Nostradamus, Celestine Prophecy, Mayan Calendar, extraterrestrial, mock-religious, mock-scientific movement would infect Middle-earth and seek to capitalize shamelessly on the success and popularity of J.R.R. Tolkien." (Jason Fisher)

Vander Ploeg believed aliens seeded the human race by genetically altering Homo erectus, thus turning him into Homo sapiens over night. He believed this covers the 'missing link.' The thread running through all the web sites and writings is one of credulity. There is rarely any documentation, no sign of any research, and little attribution. Anything that shows up about UFOs or the paranormal is accepted without question. He's yet another fellow who never met a UFO he didn't like.

SDI No. 398 - Dave Furlotte, Richard Hall and Dirk Vander Ploeg - June 24,

David Cherniack’s career spans over 50 documentary films.

After an undergraduate degree in Physics, he was living in London in the late 60’s when he became interested in film. After traveling in Europe and a month living in a cave on the South coast of Crete, he was accepted to the Prague Film Academy (FAMU), studying dramatic direction for four years under Otakar Vavra and Evald Schorm.

On returning to Canada, he was one of the founders of the Winnipeg Film Group before settling in Toronto. There, he made the ground breaking Coming and Going about life on a palliative care ward for CBC’s The Nature of Things and from 1981, he produced and directed documentaries at CBC’s documentary anthology series, Man Alive, over the next 13 years.

As an independent, he began shooting and editing his own films with Sleepwalking Mongolia in 1998. He completed the innovative 26-part Spiritual Literacy (1999). From 2000-2003, he made Reservation , an insightful cinema verité feature and miniseries that follows life on a remote BC reserve over the course of a year.

In 2005, with permission from H.H. the Dalai Lama that had never been granted before, he was allowed to film Oracle, a documentary about the State Oracles of Tibet.

His 2008 feature documentary UFOs: The Secret History is the first film to take a detailed look at the cultural history of the UFO phenomenon.

His films have won dozens of major national and international awards.

SDI No. 399 - Dave Furlotte, David Cherniack, Wayne St. John and Alfred Lehmberg - July 1,

The 400th show is celebrated by Errol and the following contributors: Dave Furlotte, Mike Woods, Wayne St. John, Scott Robbins, Stuart Miller, Wendy Connors and Alfred Lehmberg.

SDI No. 400 - A Celebration

Riley Lee Martin (May 9, 1946 – December 2015) was an American self-described alien contactee, author, and radio host. Martin was the author of the book The Coming of Tan, which describes his life and his alleged alien visitation. He hosted The Riley Martin Show on the Sirius XM Radio channel Howard 101. He appeared on The Howard Stern Show and was considered part of the Wack Pack.

Martin stated on his website that he "was born May 9, 1946 in Mississippi to a family of sharecroppers of African American and Native American descent". He claimed he was first visited by aliens in November 1953, near the St. Francis River while living in Arkansas.

Martin characterized his interaction with the aliens as positive. The Biaviian alien O-Qua Tangin Wann (also known as Tan), is listed as the co-author of his book. He asserted that a significant amount of knowledge was uploaded into his brain by the aliens within a matter of minutes, including 144,000 different alien "symbols".

Martin claimed that these aliens, flying aboard 'The Great mother ship', gave him this knowledge so that he could produce and sell hand-drawings of these symbols, which were to allow passage aboard the Mother Ship when the Earth was to have been 'transformed' in 2012.

Besides his Sirius show, Martin hosted a weekly Internet radio show, The Official Riley Martin Radio Show.

Martin's official Facebook fan page and Twitter feed announced his death on January 5, 2016, although it had occurred in December 2015. The producer of his radio show told TMZ that Martin had died "a few days before Christmas".

SDI No. 404 - Dave Furlotte, David Cherniack, Wayne St. John and Riley Martin.

Chris Rolfe, from UFO Monitoring East Kent, investigated the sighting on March 8 1997 and submitted a detailed report to the government warning that aliens may have been tracking the Home Secretary. The RAF launched a investigation into the sighting but found nothing to explain it. The Air Defence inquiry said there was 'no such security incident' and 'no such military activity reported anywhere, and, specifically, in the Kent/Folkestone area'.

Mike Fortson's eyewitness account of a mile-long, translucent, v-shaped craft, is discussed here on the 10th anniversary of what has become known as the Phoenix Lights.

Dr. Lynne Kitei is an internationally acclaimed physician and health educator who pushed aside her successful medical career to pursue The Phoenix Lights book and internationally award-winning Documentary project. She was leading the cutting edge era of early disease detection and prevention as Chief Clinical Consultant of the Imaging-Prevention-Wellness Center at the world renowned Arizona Heart Institute in Phoenix, Arizona until coming forward, after seven years of anonymity, as a key witness to the historic and still unexplained mass sighting throughout Arizona on March 13, 1997.

SDI No. 430 - Chris Rolfe, Dave Furlotte, Mike Fortson, Dr. Lynne Kitei and Alfred Lehmberg celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Phoenix Lights.

David William Clarke (born 1967) is lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, and a noted writer and broadcaster on the subject of UFO sightings in the United Kingdom.

He went to school in Sheffield.

He gained a BA from the University of Sheffield in 1990 in Archaeology, Prehistory and Medieval History.

He has a PhD in English Cultural Tradition and Folklore, gained at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, at the University of Sheffield in 1999.

He teaches journalism at Sheffield Hallam University.

He is author of The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-Life Sightings, published by The National Archives at Kew in 2009 as part of a declassification of UFO documents.

He has made media appearances to discuss UFO-related material, sometimes in public disagreement with Nick Pope, a journalist and UFO believer formerly employed by the Ministry of Defence.

SDI No. 441 - Dave Furlotte, Dr. David Clarke and Ann Druffel - incomplete

Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist and author who currently contributes to the Huffington Post. She has published works relating to UFOs since 2000, and has been a guest on Coast to Coast AM. She is the author of 'Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence of an Afterlife' (Crown/Random House, 2017) and the New York Times bestseller, 'UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record' (2010).

Her new website is http://www.survivingdeathkean.com/

SDI No. 451 - Dave Furlotte, Stuart Miller, Richard Hall and Leslie Kean. Richard Hall and Leslie Kean discuss the UFO Conference that took place at the National Press Club on November 12, 2007. Click here to view the conference.

Billy Cox writes De Void, the mainstream media’s lonely UFO weblog.

When not tapping out De Void, Billy is a general assignment reporter for the Herald-Tribune.

He can be reached at 941-361-4937 or e-mail Billy Cox.

No reporter at any newspaper in any nation has written more articles on the issues surrounding extraterrestrial-related phenomena than reporter Billy Cox

He was the recipient of the 2005 PRG (Paradigm Research Group) Courage in Journalism Award for his extensive work on the subject of UFOs. Here is the listing of articles he wrote for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

SDI No. 452 - Dave Furlotte, Mike Woods, Billy Cox and Alfred Lehmberg.

Katharina Wilson is an attractive, intelligent, apparently well-adjusted, 34-year-old woman. Born in a small college town in the Deep South, Wilson now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her second husband, Erik. She sees herself as "an average American woman," a fitting self-description marred by just one fact: She also claims to be a UFO abductee.

At first glance, Wilson's story sounds rather typical of other abduction lore. She claims to have been abducted and reproductively traumatized since the age of six by small alien creatures with large black eyes. Then, in her late twenties, she decided to come out of the UFO closet and tell all.

What's different about Wilson's account, however, is in the way it comes to us - straight up. She has told her story - all of it, every dirty detail - on her own. It does not come to us secondhand, through a Budd Hopkins or a David Jacobs, to name just two of the most prominent UFO abduction researchers in this country. Instead, the story comes to us pure and wholly unfiltered in a book Wilson has written and published herself.

Why is this so important? Because hearing about alien abductions directly from experiencers reveals aspects of the phenomenon long ignored - or perhaps just swept under the carpet - by most researchers. And in the end, these regularly hidden details may be vital in determining the cause of the UFO abduction phenomenon.

SDI No. 453 - Dave Furlotte, Stuart Miller, Katharina Wilson and Alfred Lehmberg.

Michael J. Woods and Errol discuss the private screening of David Cherniack's documentary entitled UFOs: The Secret History.
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On January 8, 2008, Stephenville gained national media attention when dozens of residents reported observations of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Several residents described a craft as the size of a football field, while others said they were nearly a mile long, similar to the Phoenix lights mass sightings of March 13, 1997. Some observers reported military aircraft pursuing the objects.

CNN's Larry King covered the news story in the days following the incident, and according to Steve Allen, a private pilot who witnessed the UFO, the object was travelling at high speed which supposedly reached 3,000 feet in the air. Allen said it was "About a half a mile wide and about a mile long. It was humongous, whatever it was." The History Channel show UFO Hunters featured a story about the UFO sightings.

On January 23, after initially denying that any aircraft were operating in the area, the US Air Force said that it was conducting training flights in the Stephenville area that involved 10 fighter jets. The Air Force said they were merely F-16 Fighting Falcon jets conducting night flights from NAS JRB Fort Worth.

Washington Post blogger Emil Steiner reported that conspiracy theories had arisen claiming that reporter Angelia Joiner was fired from her job at the Empire-Tribune due to her reporting of the UFO story. Steiner added, "conjecture breeds conspiracy theories. Any official denial can be labeled a cover-up". Herald Tribute writer Billy Cox wrote that inquiries made about the incident on his personal UFO blog have been "stonewalled" by the USAF.

Errol, Don Ledger and Alfred Lehmberg discuss the Stephenville, Texas UFO sighting. Don is a pilot and he's familiar with aircraft and brings out the important points, including detailed information provided by the witnesses to that event. Alfred Lehmberg is a U.S. Army officer, retired. He had a twenty-three year military career, having enlisted and qualifying for Army flight training at the height of the Vietnam war and flew a thousand hours in combat. He's a veteran master aviator and writer. Alfred discusses the Stephenville UFO event and reflects on the foolishness of skeptics trying to debunk the sightings.

SDI No. 454 - Dave Furlotte, Michael J. Woods, Don Ledger and Alfred Lehmberg.

Ted Phillips is the Director of the Center for Physical Trace Research (CPTR). The Special Investigations Unit of the CPTR investigates active UFO sites. The team posts investigative logs along with images and video obtained during site visits in the field. The team’s primary purpose is to insert itself into an area of developing activity while the site is still fresh. The SIU has five highly qualified researchers and has the only dive team in the U.S. geared toward the investigation of USOs and similar anomalies.

Ted Phillips is an engineer, as well as a professional photographer and musician. He participated in the Vanguard Satellite Tracking Program and was a field engineer on the Minuteman Missile Project. He began investigating UFO reports in 1964 and was a research associate of Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s from 1968 until Dr. Hynek’s death in 1986. It was at Allen Hynek’s suggestion that he began specializing in physical trace research of UFO sightings over forty years ago. Phillips has personally investigated hundreds of UFO cases and his files contain 3,189 physical landing traces from 91 countries.

Phillip’s current research projects include active UFO sites in the central U.S. and a major project in the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia.

SDI No. 455 - Dave Furlotte, Stuart Miller and Ted Phillips.

Nancy Talbott is the President of the BLT Research Team, Inc., a non-profit organization that for 20 years has been on the leading edge of scientific research into the crop circle phenomenon. BLT has documented multiple abnormalities found in crop circle plants and soils, including massive alteration of germination and growth-habit in seedlings grown from crop circle seeds and significant alteration of the crystallization structure of specific clay minerals in crop circle soils. Three BLT papers have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
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Bill Chalker, born in Grafton, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, was educated at the University of New England, graduating with a Honours Science Degree (B.Sc. Hons.) with majors in Chemistry and Mathematics. Since 1975, he has worked in the food industry as an industrial chemist, laboratory manager and quality manager.

Bill Chalker is one of Australia's leading UFO researchers and has written extensively on the subject. He is a contributing editor for the International UFO Reporter and coordinates the NSW UFO INVESTIGATION CENTRE (UFOIC). He was the Australian representative for the Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation (APRO) from 1978 to 1986 and NSW state representative for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) from 1976 to 1993. In 1996, Bill Chalker's book on the Australia UFO experience, "The OZ Files: the Australian UFO story", was published in Australia by Duffy & Snellgrove.

SDI No. 456 - Dave Furlotte, Nancy Talbott, Bill Chalker and Alfred Lehmberg.

Errol plays back various interviews featuring Dr. Edgar Mitchell who discusses the reality of UFOs and alien visitations to planet Earth.
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Chris Rutkowski has been studying reports of UFOs (or PFTs - "pesky flying things," as he sometimes likes to call them) since the mid-1970s. A writer and editor for science and technology publications, he also writes about his investigations and research into UFO cases.

He has six published books, including: Visitations? (1989), Unnatural History (1993), Mysterious Manitoba (1997), co-authored with Dave Creighton and Brian Fidler, Abductions and Aliens (2000), (published in 2000 by Dundurn Press ), and Stories From the Diner (2005), a collection of short stories based on strange incidents taken from his non-fiction files and speculations on "What if?". This was followed by The Canadian UFO Report (2006) , co-authored with Geoff Dittman, a chronological review of the most interesting Canadian UFO cases throughout history. It was also published by Dundurn Group, as was his most recent work, A World of UFOs (2008). Rutkowski also has contributed chapters to many anthologies such as Phenomenon and Frontiers of Reality and UFO 1947-1997, a 50th anniversary collection of UFO cases. He is a contributing editor of International UFO Reporter and is the editor of the Swamp Gas Journal, an occasional ufozine first published in 1978.

In 1996, he was the co-writer and narrator for the Canadian TV special The Monster of Lake Manitoba, about a Loch-Ness-like creature reported in a Canadian lake. Also in television, in 1989 he was producer of the music special Making a Joyful Noise. As far back as 1975, he was the host of UFORUM, a bi-weekly program that aired on a local cable channel.

On radio, he has been a guest on many Canadian and American talk/interview shows, discussing UFOs and other space-related issues. From 1975 to 1977, he was the host of UFORUM, the radio equivalent of the earlier TV series. But his most peculiar stint was his portrayal of the "Miracle Worker," a regular and recurring comic character on a morning comedy program in Canada that ran from 1975 to 1992.

Chris does Media Relations in the University of Manitoba Public Affairs Department. He writes for the U of M Bulletin and other university publications. He was editor of NOVUM, which featured articles on research at the University of Manitoba, and has been technical writer on a number of other publications for the U of M.

Chris discusses the 2007 Canadian UFO Survey and the UFO reports it contains.

SDI No. 461 - Dave Furlotte, Stuart Miller and Chris Rutkowski.

Don Ledger discusses his attendance at the MUFON Symposium in San Jose.

SDI No. 462 - Dave Furlotte, Michael J. Woods, Don Ledger and Alfred Lehmberg.

Robert L. Hastings was born May 6, 1950, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at Sandia Base, where atomic weapons were engineered. His father, Robert E. Hastings, was career U.S. Air Force, retiring in 1967 with the rank of Senior Master Sergeant. In 1966–67, the Hastings family was stationed at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, during one peak period of UFO activity at nearby Minuteman nuclear missile sites. In March 1967, Hastings witnessed five UFOs being tracked on radar at the base air traffic control tower. He later learned that these "unknown targets" had been maneuvering near ICBM sites located southeast of the base. This experience ultimately led to his decades-long research into the UFO-nukes connection.

Hastings received a BFA in Photography at Ohio University in 1972, and worked as a photographic technician at Northern Illinois University for eight years. In 1981, after conducting numerous interviews with former and retired US Air Force personnel regarding their knowledge of nuclear weapons-related UFO incidents, Hastings ventured out on the college lecture circuit to speak about the U.S. government's cover-up on UFOs. To date, he has appeared at over 500 colleges and universities in the U.S. as well as Oxford University in England.

In 1986–88, Hastings retrained in Electron Microscopy at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California, and received a certificate in Materials Science Applications. Between 1988 and 2002, he was employed as a laboratory analyst by Philips Semiconductors in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but continued lecturing at colleges in his spare time. Now retired, he continues to promote public awareness of the reality of UFO activity at nuclear weapons sites.

Robert Hastings' website is http://www.ufohastings.com/

SDI No. 463 - Dave Furlotte, Stuart Miller and Robert Hastings.

Michel M. Deschamps discusses the famous CFS (Canadian Forces Station) Falconbridge UFO Incident of November 11-12, 1975. He has extensive information about the case and what really happened during the days that led up to the climactic events.

SDI No. 464 - Dave Furlotte, Alfred Lehmberg and Michel M. Deschamps. Errol then plays an old broadcast from days gone by as we listen to