This is an excerpt of More Like Ancient FAILiens podcast, "Relics of Roswell", 19 December 2025, hosted by Brandon R. Reynolds and Toby Ball.

Have you ever gone metal detecting and found a twisted piece of wire?  Well, Giorgio Tsoukalos has and it was at a skip site near Roswell, NM! I know, right? Toby and Brandon are joined by podcaster Michel Gagne to get a handle on the Ancient Aliens episode “The Relics of Roswell” (S15:E2). This one has it all: a budding love story, some industrial grade aluminum and explosive cratering! Plus a dramatic Zoom call…

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The one where we explore the history of ufology in Canada, from Project Magnet and Project Second Storey to the Falcon Lake, Shag Harbour, and Montreal Bonaventure UFO investigations, with the help of Canadian athropologist Matthew Hayes, author of Search for the Unknown: Canada's UFO Files and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory.   

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Pre-show announcement / Le Mooching for les Loonies   
00:01:16    Introduction 
00:10:49   Chapter 1:  Interview with Matthew Hayes 
02:02:06  Chapter 2: The UFO who Shag-ed me
02:33:58   End Credits
02:36:23   Un gros paquet de niaiseries

(NOTE: If you drop these timestamps from the sky and simultaneously take a long-exposure photograph from below, you might possibly capture an alien spaceship and get seen on the evening news).

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The one where JFK researcher Fred Litwin scrutinizes the conspiracy theories that claim the CIA murdered President Kennedy, and where we chat about Dealey Plaza, conspiracy tourism, Lee Harvey Oswald, General Edwin Walker, and President Lyndon Johnson with veteran Dallas tour guide Daniel Evans.     

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00 Pre-show announcement & eulogy
0:03:15   Introduction / Conversation with Dan Evans (part 1)
0:30:44  Fred Litwin Presentation: “‘Kennedy Good, CIA Bad’: History and    Propaganda in the Oliver Stone Cinematic Universe.”
1:21:25    Question & Answer period
1:58:56   Closing Credits
2:01:24   Conversation with Dan Evans (part 2) 

(NOTE: Some of these timestamps were spotted distributing mind-expanding literature in Dealey Plaza)  

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The one where we get visited, prodded, and probed in the middle of night by a gaggle of alien creatures as we review the autobiographical film (and book)  Communion, based on the alleged abductions of horror novelist and armchair metaphysician Whitley Strieber.

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00  Introduction
0:17:33 Chapter 4: Communion Review (part 1)          
1:01:58 A message from our sponsor
1:05:26 Communion Review (part 2)   
1:49:35 Closing Credits (& and a little extra)

(NOTE: One of these timestamps suffers from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy--but we're not allowed to tell you which one.)

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The one where we conduct a full investigation of the Travis Walton (a.k.a.: "Fire In the Sky") UFO abduction and discuss the methods, ideas, and demise of UFO abduction therapists Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, and John Mack, with the help of author, journalist, and podcaster Toby Ball.

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Click here for quick access to our illustrated essay on Travis Walton, complete with footnotes and links.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00  Pre-show announcement
0:00:33   Introduction
0:03:20   Chapter 2: Travis Walton's Big UFO Adventure (Intro)
0:06:52           Part 1: Travis' Story
0:18:08            Part 2: The Rest of the Story
0:39:19            Part 3: Why? 
0:44:55           Conclusion
0:53:13    Chapter 3: Interview with Toby Ball (Part 2)
2:17:07     Closing Credits
(NOTE: every one of these timestamps is a hypnagogic hallucination)

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The one where we lay the groundwork for the UFO abduction phenomenon with guest co-host Matthew Newland and contrast the UFO abduction memories of Betty and Barney Hill with the help of author, journalist, and podcaster Toby Ball.

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00  Pre-show announcement
0:01:50    Introduction
0:32:50    Chapter 1: Interview with Toby Ball (part 1)
                  Excerpts of Betty and Barney Hill 1965 hypnosis sessions (0:32:59)
                  Excerpt of Betty Hill 1999 Interview (1:47:40)
1: 49:07    Closing Credits

(NOTE: none of these timestamps were hypnotically regressed)

PHOTO CREDIT:  Thumbnail photo of Betty Hill and "Junior" (minus the spaceship) courtesy of Robert Sheaffer 

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The one where we diagnose the UFO abduction claims of Betty and Barney Hill, Whitley Strieber, and Travis Walton, and evaluate the research methods of self-appointed alien abduction therapists Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, and John Mack with the help of author, journalist, and podcaster Toby Ball.

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The one where we shoot down some unidentified objects with a cross section of American East coasters, dig up the remains of the infamous 1947 Roswell crashed "flying disc", and discuss the ideas and influence of Ufologists J. Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallée, Leslie Kean, and Avi Loeb, with Science writer and veteran UFO debunker, Robert Sheaffer.   

(This episode was NOT funded by the South Carolina Department of Tourism--though we dare say it should have been.)

TIMESTAMPS: 
0:00:00  Pre-Show Announcement
0:01:33    Introduction
0:05:35   Word On The Street: Spring Break UFO Edition
0:40:14    Interview with Robert Sheaffer
2:02:05    Essay on the 1947 Roswell crashed “flying disc”
2:43:14     Closing Credits
(NOTE: None of these timestamps were reverse-engineered from broken bits of a crashed alien spaceship)

Click here to visit Robert Sheaffer's Bad UFOs blog.

Click here to watch the 1989 Unsolved Mysteries episode that made Roswell a household name. (Begins at timestamp 19:13)

Click here to read our Essay on Roswell, complete with illustrations, links, footnotes, and references.

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The one in which we assemble another panel of armchair experts aboard the starship USS Swampgass to explore, assess, quarantine, and if necessary obliterate, the 2023 National Geographic series UFOs: Investigating the Unknown, featuring Leslie Kean, Luis Elizondo, Allen Hynek, and Avi Loeb, with a little help from our friends Matthew Newland and Rémi Poirier.     

Click here for light-speed access to our episode blog page, where you can peruse the many books, articles, and films discussed in this episode. 

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00  Preshow announcement
0:01:27    General Introduction 
0:21:34    Introducing UFOs: Investigating the Unknown
0:29:25   Episode 1 Review
0:41:54   Episode 2 Review
0:50:45  Episode 3 Review
1:12:34    Episode 4 Review
1:28:40   Episode 5 Review
1:42:36   Closing discussion
2:03:02  Closing credits
2:05:44  Star Trek: The Last Generation
(NOTE: None of these spacefaring timestamps made it past Uranus)

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The one where we investigate the latest UAP craze and its many proponents, discuss the psychology of ufology, excavate the 1947 Roswell "crashed saucer" story, ruminate over the life and mind of “Close Encounters Man” J. Allen Hynek, and gawk at a plethora of funny lights in the sky with veteran UFO Skeptics Michael Shermer and Robert Sheaffer.

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Time Stamps:
0:00:00  Introduction
0:04:42  Interview with Michael Shermer (par 1)
1:10:54 A Word from our sponsor  
1:13:58  Interview with Michael Shermer (part 2)
1:50:20   Closing credits
(NOTE: None of these timestamps swallowed the red pill)

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