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The most iconic of the alien race, the Greys represent the most widely-recognized pop-culture version of extraterrestrial life. You can see them everywhere, from science fiction novels to movies. Is their appearance always the same due to cultural phenomenon, or is it because they actually exist?
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Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: In 1953, “Orthon the Venusian” took his favorite human, George Adamski, on a joyride through the cosmos. But back on earth, skeptical forces were closing in. Ufologist James Moseley aimed to prove once and for all that Adamski was a fraud.
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Here’s one of our listeners’ most requested episodes of 2019: The hit book of 1953 was “The Flying Saucers Have Landed.” Southern California was enamored with the book's author, who claimed to have met an extraterrestrial. Either George Adamski was the most important man to have ever lived, or one of the most successful con artists in history.
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Legend has it that a strange ship was sighted off the eastern coast of Japan in the early 19th Century. The account resembles some classic tales of Japanese folklore. But it also bears many of the hallmark signs of a UFO encounter.
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The mystery of the Shag Harbour Crash haunted the small village for decades. But a 1985 revelation about certain government secrets finally started to point UFO investigators in a new—and alarming—direction.
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In October of 1967, the sleepy fishing village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, was the site of what dozens of spectators thought was a plane crash. But no aircraft were reported missing, and as confusion and suspicion mounted, the Canadian government officially labeled the object a UFO.
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In what is considered to be the earliest recorded examples of UFOs, strange objects were sighted emerging from the sun in 1561 and 1566. This 16th century celestial phenomena is often interpreted through a religious lens.
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After an other-worldly revelation in 1768, Emanuel Swedenborg would draw the ire of the Swedish Lutheran Church as he tried to publicize what he’d learned. He would also capture the attention—and criticism—of famous philosopher Immanuel Kant.
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For most of his adult life, Emanuel Swedenborg sought to reconcile his Christian faith with the values of the Enlightenment. And in 1768, he received a revelation from the spirits of dead aliens who explained deep secrets about his religion and the nature of the universe.
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In 1990, after over 2 decades of retrieving downed UFOs, Clifford Stone’s military service would end in disgrace. His new mission—to restore his name and inform the public about the government’s massive alien cover-up.
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Clifford Stone was a military veteran with a lifelong relationship with extraterrestrial lifeforms, who claimed he was tasked with retrieving downed UFOs in the 1960s. He vowed to protect the aliens he’d been affiliated with his whole life—at all costs if necessary. But would speaking about it invoke persecution and a government cover-up?
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In 1941, government forces collected all traces of wreckage from what is widely believed to be an extraterrestrial spaceship crash. A few years later, the U.S. championed major advances in aviation and nuclear technology. Coincidence?
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Did three extraterrestrials crash-land their spaceship on a Missouri farm in 1941? And how far would the government go to cover it up?
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After tens of thousands of people witnessed the so-called Miracle of the Sun, the Catholic Church tried to suppress and later control testimony regarding the miracle. Along with rumors of alien skulls stored in the Vatican archives, the church's strange behavior has led many to wonder if they're part of a massive alien cover-up.
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In 1917, tens of thousands of people watched as the sun arced and dipped through the sky before it dried the area's water and bathed a field in shifting colors of light. While they attributed the strange experience to a divine miracle, today the Miracle of the Sun is considered one of history's first mass UFO sightings.
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If Jimmy Carter and Steven Spielberg wanted the American public to believe that aliens were friendly, Ronald Reagan and James Cameron wanted them to believe that the aliens wanted to destroy us all. Bruce Rux's theories continue into the 80s and beyond, as science fiction films take a turn toward war and violence. But is this a legitimate conspiracy, or a natural trend within the artform? Regardless, Hollywood has a long and sordid history of collaborating with the government.
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In 1938 in New York City, soon-to-be-acclaimed-filmmaker Orson Welles delivered his infamous broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Many took it seriously and responded in terror. In 1977, up-and-coming filmmaker Steven Spielberg released his uber-realistic Close Encounters of the Third Kind. UFO enthusiasts immediately claimed that Spielberg was channeling the truth behind their beliefs.
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Upon hearing the news of the B-25 crash at Kelso, Kenneth Arnold begins to question what exactly happened at Maury Island in June 1947. As well as his own sanity.
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At the end of June 1947, aviator Kenneth Arnold saw nine flying saucers near Mt. Rainier in Washington state and helped spark the UFO craze at the beginning of the Cold War. A month later, he was in Tacoma, WA investigating the UFO sightings of two men near Maury Island. But when Army Intelligence is brought in to help, the investigation turns deadly.
Parcasters - Ervil LeBaron was convinced that he was destined to rule over Earth as god’s chosen disciple, but so did his brother. Learn more about the LeBaron Clan this week on Cults! Subscribe to Cults on Spotify to listen now!
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After the madness in Pascagoula, Calvin Parker attempted to lay low and live a normal life. But his friend Charlie, who gave out many interviews since the incident, had several repeat encounters. Charlie published a book about his experiences in 1983, but Calvin wouldn't speak out again until 2017, years after Charlie's death. Were both men lying this whole time for publicity? Or did they actually see something that affected their lives forever?
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