Cosmic Sponge

It stands to reason that if an alien craft can transverse a vacuum, it should be able to handle an underwater jaunt with ease.  So when an object crashed into Shag Harbor off of Novia Scotia in the Autumn of 1967 leaving behind in its wake a yellowish foam and a search effort which  including the military which yielded no wreckage, Canada had all the pieces for its very own crashed saucer mystery.

Deep in the dark forest of North America lurks a creature boasting a shoe size of 21 inches.  Where did he come from? Where does he live?  What does he eat? How do we know he is real?  It's time to dive into the history of this elusive beast to determine if he is indeed fact or just fiction.

On November 17, 1986 a Japanese Boeing 747-200F flight from Reykjavik to Anchorage encountered multiple UFOs.  The event lasted 50 minutes, included radar data from multiple locations and was witnessed by the three crewmembers of the aircraft.  Subsequent analysis was ultimately inconclusive, with explanations like planets and stars on the horizon and ground lights reflected off of ice crystals all but disproven.  While radar data supports the possibility of unknown craft operating near flight 1628, additional visual collaboration could not be ascertained.  Join the conversation and see if you can help explain what these crew members experienced over the skies of North America.

Triangular UFOs navigated the skies over Belgium from November 1989 to April 1990.  The first sighting included nearly a dozen police officers and over 100 civilians.  By the time it was all over, thousands claimed to have seen them.  Skeptics and debunkers provided explanations ranging from hallucinations brought on by tainted mayonnaise (so we were told, but unable to confirm) to misidentified stars, planes, satellites, and helicopters.  Who knows what really happened?  Jim and Steve look into it and  try to make sense of a European country invaded by the unknown!

Three videos were released and verified by the US Navy showing UFOs from 2004 and 2015.  We looked into the 2015 videos Go Fast and Gimbal gathering the available data including pilot interviews, CIA projects, and US patents which may give a clue to what the pilots saw.  Join us as we explore the USS Roosevelt UFOs of 2015!

Travis ran up to the saucer floating a mere 20 feet above him.  A blue light flashed and he was thrown to the ground.  What followed was a five day search and rescue, an alien encounter, and a suspected murder.  The Travis Walton Abduction case is perhaps the most compelling alien abduction cases since Betty and Barney Hill.  What makes it so interesting is the number of witnesses that passed multiple lie detector test with a  statistical chance of a false positive being less than one in a million.  This is one of those UFO stories you should spend a little time with and not discount out-of-hand.  Join us as we explore the abduction of Travis Walton!

On April 24, 1964 at 5:50 p.m., Lonnie Zamora encountered a UFO sighting involving unknow entities and trace evidence.   Several explanations have been suggested including a hoax perpetuated by students of New Mexico Tech, ball lightning, and a mirage of the star Canopus.  Regardless, Project Bluebook's casefile listed this incident as unexplained. Additionally, J. Allen Hynek noted this encounter as one of the more interesting ones and it remains an open case of an unidentified object to this day.  Stick around for the details as we dive into this week's casefile: The Lonnie Zamora Incident!

We continue our journey into the history of UFOs and how government policy established an environment of ridicule around the UFO topic which persist even today.  In this episode we discuss Project Blue Book, the Condon Report, some of the big cases of the 1950s to the 1960s. 

To understand how UFOs are viewed by the government, military, scientist and most of the general public, you have to go back to the beginning.  From the start, UFOs posed a problem for the leaders of our country and the response was to ridicule and dismiss.  From project Sign to project Grudge, we explore the beginning of the modern UFO phenomena.

Welcome to Cosmic Sponge, a podcast about UFOs and Other Weird Things in the World!  We are a podcast devoted mostly to UFOs but are happy to jump into discussions about cryptids and the paranormal.  Join us on this wild ride through the strange topics and mysteries of the unknown!