Alright alright, we’re back to UFOs. It wasn’t our fault Skywatcher released a “taxonomy” of nine different types of UFOs last week.

And then, naturally, it only made sense to talk about abductions. “Abductions”? Who knows! We sure don’t.

At the end, Mal teases her profound experience from a seven-day silent retreat that left her feeling "shaken up like a can of soda."

Episode Highlights:

* Skywatcher is a collective of UAP researchers who claim to have established a "living taxonomy" of nine different types of UFOs, from tetrahedrons to "blobs"

* Are these things intentionally teasing us into trying harder to understand them?

* Why are UFO encounters always framed as frightening? Maybe they’re…fun. "We’re talking about hornets and eggs and tic tacs. It's just a bunch of bugs in my backyard"

* The militaristic language used by Skywatcher, with Tom reading their website copy in his best WWE voice

* Philip Kinsella's claims of being "levitated and moved through his house before being strapped naked to a board and probed"

* Fran Drescher (from 'The Nanny') claims both she and her former partner were abducted by aliens

* John Mack on the challenge of reconciling alien abduction accounts with conventional reality

* Ethical complications around hypnotherapy

* Unexpectedly bright light from a 13.5 billion-year-old galaxy

* A seven-day silent retreat that left Mal feeling like "Mrs. Potato Head with all the pieces put in the wrong places"

* The full silent retreat story continues exclusively on the Substack (godsghoststufos.com)

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