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Open Minds UFO Radio: Lee Speigel is a reporter for the Huffington Post covering UFOs and other non-conventional stories in the Huffington Post's Weird News section. He has been covering the UFO phenomenon since 1975. In this interview we talk about Lee's personal UFO encounter, and a very exciting announcement regarding the 2016 International UFO Congress.

World renowned UFO researcher and author Dr. Jacques Vallée will be speaking at the 2016 UFO Congress in February. Vallée will be participating in a one-on-one interview with Huffington Post Reporter Lee Speigel.

Jacques Vallée has held many titles over the years; astronomer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, and more. He has researched UFOs for decades and has written several books on the topic. The lead character on the movie Close Encounters of the ...

Jacques Vallee was interviewed on Open Minds Radio last night.

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• Are aliens real? USA sees spate of crazy UFO sightings over two days - Canada Journal
• Are souls free to travel across outer space? - Guardian Live
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• NASA's 'Voyager golden record' are getting an official release - Mixmag

• Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and new research: Q & A with Diana Walsh Pasulka and Jacques Vallee - Oxford University Press
• The Cloud UFO - Syracuse New Times
• 1946 - ‘Ghost rockets’ over Scandinavia - Deccan Chronicle
• US Air Force veteran's UFO video sent to NASA for analysis after supersonic object filmed - Daily Express
• Space exploration: Kickstarter could fund our first steps to Alpha Centauri - International Business Times

Open Minds UFO Radio: Dr. John Alexander is the author of many articles, monographs and books including UFOS: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities with forewords by Jacques Vallee, Tom Clancy, and Burt Rutan. John also participated in NIDS investigations, including into a mysterious ranch in Utah, dubbed the Skinwalker Ranch, where scientists experienced paranormal activity first hand.

The second edition of Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to the UFO Phenomenon, by Ryan Sprague, has been released. This is great news because Sprague’s voice is one of truth and integrity within a field of misinformation and confusion.  ...

Open Minds UFO Radio: Witness of Another World is a recently released documentary about Juan Pérez, an Argentinian gaucho (cowboy) who claims to have had an incredible encounter as a child. His close encounter garnered media attention when it occurred ...

Dr. Eric Davis, Chief Science Officer of EarthTech Int’l, Inc. and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin, was a recent guest on Open Minds UFO Radio. He has worked with Robert Bigelow for decades researching the paranormal, including UFOs. ...

Larry created from the ground level one of the most robust UFO databases up until that time – the *U* UFO Database. This was a database that the public could use on their home PCs. The *U* Database itself could do queries based on word search, geography, or UFO characteristics.

From the Phoenix Lights to the Mogollon Monster, Arizona has long been known as a mecca for the strange. According to the Mutual UFO Network’s reporting archives, Arizona ranked as one of the top three states in the country for UFO sightings per capita in 2013. Arguably, one of the most concentrated areas of reported anomalous activity is centered in Yavapai and Coconino counties.

Steven Spielberg is really into UFOs. This is not too hard to imagine, given movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET: The Extraterrestrial and his mini-series Taken, among others. In a recent interview with journalist Lee Speigel, I discovered that he also lent a helping hand in a 1970s effort get the United Nations to investigate UFOs.

Open Minds UFO Radio: In this interview, we discuss the recent re-release of Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lee’s visit with Spielberg, and how Hynek and Vallee felt about the movie. Hynek served as a consultant to Spielberg on the film, and Vallee was the inspiration for one of the main characters.

As I have argued in my recent book “UFOs over Romania”, if we make an appropriate approach, we will discover that the most important distances between cosmic civilisations are not those in space but those in time.

Astronomy is one of the oldest disciplines of science. Many prehistoric monuments are aligned with stars and planets, giving us clues as to the importance of ancient forms of astronomy. As a result, astronomers remain one of the leading groups responsible for the serious investigation of the UFO phenomenon.

One of the most mysterious and well-documented UFO landings took place on a farm near Delphos, Kansas on November 2, 1971. Physical evidence was recorded and preserved for analysis by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO). This case not only left the farm residents scratching their heads, but also left UFO researchers, police, and members of the media dumbfounded by the events.

Chris Aubeck was born in London. His interest in the historical and sociological aspects of unexplained phenomena began at an early age.

There is a fascinating account of pearl-like UFOs seen repeatedly in the city of Yangzhou during the reign of Emperor Jiayou (1056-1064) of the Song Dynasty. The case is significant because a record and commentary on this “strange happening” was included by Shen Kuo (1031-1095) in his classic “Mengxi Bitan” Dream Pool Essays of 1088.

Open Minds journalist, Antonio Huneeus, is one of the panel members speaking at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure this week. Today he presented to the committee of 6 former congress members on the United Nation’s UFO initiatives, and on the Rockefeller UFO document he helped author.