Bryan Bender is the defense editor for POLITICO Pro and can be seen adding commentary on the History Channel’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. He was previously a D.C.-based reporter for the Boston Globe and Jane’s Defence Weekly, where he covered US military operations in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the Balkans. Bryan also writes about terrorism, the international arms trade, and government secrecy. He is the author of “You Are Not Forgotten,“ the story of an Iraq War veteran’s search for a missing World War II fighter pilot in the South Pacific. He is currently a board member of the Military Reporters and Editors Association. Regarding UFOs, Bender has broken several important stories. He published an article revealing the Pentagon’s secretive UFO program, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the same day as the New York Times. For that story, the Department of Defense (DoD) confirmed to him AATIP did exist and that a career intelligence officer, Luis Elizondo, ran it. Bender also broke the news regrind the Navy creating new UFO reporting guidelines and another story revealing that US Senators were briefed on UFOs. In this interview, we discuss how Bender came to know AATIP existed, how he vetted that information, and his thoughts on the nature of government UFO research and where it may this all might lead to. Read more about Bryan and read his articles at Politico.com. UFO Headlines: www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojas

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Chuck Zukowski and Heather Taddy are co-hosts of the Travel Channel’s new series Alien Highway. Along with Chuck’s son, Daniel, they are investigating paranormal incidents and hot spots. For the past 30 years, Chuck has been an IC Mask Design Engineering contractor. He’s been on microchip design teams working on projects as simple as optics for traffic light controllers, and as complex as Spy Satellites, Deep Space Probes, and LIDAR technology. Chuck was also a volunteer Deputy Sheriff for El Paso County Sheriff’s Department for eight years and was terminated for running animal mutilation investigations within his county. As a UFO/Paranormal Field Investigator, Chuck has been researching and Field Investigating the unknown for more than three decades.  Heather Taddy starred on A&E’s hit television series “Paranormal State,” which chronicled investigations from the world-renowned college-run club at Pennsylvania State University, The Paranormal Research Society (PRS). Serving as the Team Documentarian, Taddy traveled across the country, helping and educating families experiencing paranormal activity. Showing no fear when it comes to the paranormal, Taddy is often seen on the series isolating her self in some of the world’s most notoriously haunted locations.  In this episode, we talk about some of what we will see in the show, what it was like conducting investigations together and how their various paranormal interests relate to one another. Read more about the show on the Travel Channel website. UFO Headlines: www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojas

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Filmmakers Jon Sumple and Jack Roth make up two-thirds of J3Films; a film company focused on sharing stories of the unexplained. Their first film, Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story, covered the story of a man who claims to have been abducted by aliens. Although Romanek has been busted faking events and has been convicted of crimes, many feel some of the paranormal experiences he claims to have experienced really occurred. While working on the film, Jack and Jon say they came in contact with many others claiming to have similar experiences, including some who claims to have been impregnated during alien abduction experiences. This is the topic of J3Films’ second project, Extraordinary: The Seeding.  In this interview, we talk to the filmmakers about what inspired them to do the film and tackle such controversial and strange topics, and their feelings about the credibility of the witnesses in their movie.  Read more about their films at: www.j3films.com UFO Headlines: www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojas  

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Nick Pope worked for the British government’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) for nearly 20 years beginning in the mid-1980s. For several of those years, Nick staffed the UFO desk, investigating UFOs and handling press inquiries on the matter. He now as a media commentator and freelance journalists, often invited by major news networks to share insight into the UFO phenomenon and governments reactions. In this episode, we discuss recent UFO news regarding the US and British governments. In the UK, the MoD has released what they claim are the final UFO documents in their files. According to Nick, these documents show there were disagreements between various departments on how to handle the UFO issue. In the US, the Department of Defense (DoD) has also been sending mixed messages on the UFO matter. BONUS INTERVIEW: At the end of the show, we also got in a quick interview with Anthony Lappe, the Executive Producer and Showrunner of History’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. We discuss their findings at Guadalupe Island and the show’s upcoming coverage of the briefing of Congress and other government leaders on UFOs by Navy UFO witnesses. Lappe also shares his view on the President’s recent comment on UFOs. Nick Pope's website: NickPope.net History’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation website. UFO Headlines: www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojas  

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In this episode we welcome back three recent guests, Danny Silva of SilvaRecord.com, Joe Murgia of UFOJoe.net, and Mike Damante of PunkRockandUFOs.com. All three of these guys run blogs that follow the latest breaking news regarding the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the Pentagon’s secretive UFO Program, and the To the Stars Academy (TTSA). The later was created by rock star Tom Delonge, and includes Luis Elizondo, former head of AATIP, and other high level officials. AATIP and TTSA are featured in the new History Channel series Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. In this roundtable we discuss the recent Open Minds UFO Radio and UFO Podcast interviews of Luis Elizondo, new information shared in the latest episodes of Unidentified, and other late breaking news regarding UFOs and the U.S. government. History’s Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation website. Open Minds UFO Radio interview with Elizondo. Podcast UFO Elizondo interview on YouTube. UFO Headlines: www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojas

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Luis Elizondo is a career intelligence officer whose experience includes working with the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence. As a former Special Agent In-Charge, Elizondo conducted and supervised highly sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations around the world. As an intelligence Case Officer, he ran clandestine source operations throughout Latin America and the Middle East. Most recently, Elizondo managed the security for certain sensitive portfolios for the US Government as the Director for the National Programs Special Management Staff. For nearly the last decade, Elizondo also ran a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. Elizondo’s academic background includes Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, with research experience in tropical diseases. Elizondo is also an inventor who holds several patents.  Now, as a part of HISTORY’s groundbreaking new six-part, one-hour limited series “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation™,” Elizondo is speaking out for the first time with Tom DeLonge, co-founder and President of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science and Chris Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Intelligence, to expose a series of startling encounters and embark on fascinating new investigations that will urge the public to ask questions and look for answers. History's Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation website. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojas

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MJ Banias is the author of "The UFO People: A Curious Culture." He is an educator, writer and blogger. He was a former field investigator with the Mutual UFO Network, has been featured on multiple podcasts and radio shows, and contributes to Mysterious Universe and RoguePlanet. His work has been included in Fortean Times, FATE Magazine, and in a book entitled UFOs: Reframing the Debate.He lives in Canada with his wife, two children, and a massive cat.    In this episode we talk to MJ about what he had found when taking a closer look at those who are interested in the UFO phenomenon. Are UFO people a community on their own? How does the UFO topic effect the general public? What does MJ feel the future for the UFO topic holds? How is all of this changing as these recent UFO developments permeate the wider public? We will cover all of this and more in this fascinating episode. For more on MJ visit his website TerraObscura.net. Purchase is book on Amazon here. UFO Headlines: http://www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojas

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Anthony Lappé is a New York-based showrunner, director and investigative journalist. He was the executive editor of the Guerrilla News Network, and produced their award-winning Showtime Iraq war, documentary, BATTLEGROUND. As a commentator, he has appeared on media outlets around the world, including the BBC, Radio France, Radio Havana, Fusion, NPR and Sky News. He has written for The New York Times, Details, ESPN: The Magazine, New York Magazine, VICE and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of the graphic novel, SHOOTING WAR. For VICELAND, he was the showrunner of BLACK MARKET WITH MICHAEL K. WILLIAMS. For HISTORY, he has helmed AMERICA'S WAR ON DRUGS, RFK: THE KENNEDY FAMILY REMEMBERS and the upcoming UNIDENTIFIED: INSIDE AMERICA'S UFO INVESTIGATION.  Read more about Unidentified at the show's website. UFO Headlines: www.openminds.tv/category/ufoheadlines Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alejandrotrojas

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Kevin Day is a retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer who specialized in radar systems. He is a TOPGUN air intercept controller with more than 20 years experience in strike group air defense including war-time operations. In November of 2004, off the coast of San Diego, Kevin was a radar operator on the USS Princeton, part of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. Over several days unknown objects were observed on radar. On several occasions, aircraft were directed to find the objects. The pilots reported seeing 40 foot-long Tic Tac shaped objects that performed remarkable maneuvers beyond the capability of our aircraft. This incident was made famous in a New York Times article in December 2017 in which it was also revealed the Pentagon had a secretive UFO investigation program. In this episode, we talk to Kevin about what he experienced in 2004.   Read Kevin book fictionalizing the incident here. Read the research article Kevin referenced: Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness Read the leaked Nimitz report referenced inthis episode here. Visit Alejandro on Patreon here.  

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In this episode, we review the confusing and complicated timeline of how the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) UFO project got started, how we found out about, and the history of some of those involved. To really understand AATIP and all of the news coming at us about it, we have to understand this vital background. This includes why and how rockstar Tom DeLonge is involved, who Robert Bigelow is, the paranormal background of Dr. Hal Puthoff, what AAWSAP is and how it was taken down, AATIP’s relation to BAASS and TTSA, and much much more. We will not be interviewing Lue for a little while yet, but covering this background will make you all ready for it. Alejandro on Patreon        

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