On this episode of From Hollywood, It’s Paranormal Tonight, host Dan Harary interviews trial attorney and UFOlogist Christopher Johnston, author of Roswell: The Truth on Trial. Johnston recounts how his lifelong interest in UFOs led him to write a book framing the 1947 Roswell incident as a courtroom trial, letting readers weigh real witness testimony and evidence as jurors.

Both men express frustration over the slow pace of disclosure and the persistent secrecy surrounding UFO phenomena despite growing public interest.

Topics Discussed

• Christopher Johnston’s personal background and career as a trial attorney
• His father’s influence and early exposure to UFO culture
• Johnston’s personal UFO experience involving missing time
• The red grid mark phenomenon in UFO experiencers
• Writing Roswell: The Truth on Trial and using a trial format for UFO evidence
• Evidence for and against alien bodies in the Roswell case
• Theories about the Roswell crash involving lightning strikes and dual crash sites
• Majestic 12 and theories of secret government UFO programs
• Limits of recent congressional UFO hearings and issues of hearsay
• Hollywood’s role in shaping public UFO narratives
• Benevolent vs. threatening portrayals of aliens in film
• Johnston’s upcoming book on crop circles
• Basics of space law, space treaties, and commercial space insurance
• The future of UFO disclosure and possible triggers for undeniable evidence

Quotes

“The purpose of the book was a couple fold… I needed a topic that had enough source material that it could fill one entire book.”
— Christopher Johnston

“Everything is being couched as though it would be this terrible, scary thing… Wouldn’t it be wonderful and incredible to be exposed to the rest of the galaxy?”
— Christopher Johnston

“I have handled everything from the seemingly most inconsequential type of injuries… up to absolutely horrific, catastrophic injury type of work.”
— Christopher Johnston

“I had witnesses seeing me leave the bar… missing time of about seven hours with no recall at all.”
— Christopher Johnston, on his personal UFO experience

“One of my earliest memories… my dad would go, ‘Tonight might be the night, Christopher, that a UFO lands in the backyard… you won’t see me again.’ Terrifying, but at the same time, if I want to be with Dad, I better get on board with this UFO stuff.”
— Christopher Johnston

“Money’s not gonna make you feel better. Money is not going to cure your paralysis… you’re not ever eliminating the root problem.”
— Christopher Johnston

“I absolutely agree there was a craft. But you start looking at the situation with the bodies… I don’t think it’s near as solid.”
— Christopher Johnston

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful and incredible to be exposed to the rest of the galaxy?”
— Christopher Johnston

“The more I learn, the more I realize what I haven’t learned yet.”
— Dan Harary

“I think Cheney and Bush Senior were the last guys who really knew the full extent of everything.”
— Dan Harary

“It’s so frustrating… It just really is.”
— Dan Harary

“The hardest thing for a publicist to do in the world is to retract a press release that has gone out all over the world.”
— Dan Harary

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