A strange light moving through the sky... the word "STOP" scribbled across the side of a parked vehicle... and a young man discovered lying face down in the mud, unconscious. Having all the workings of a true-crime mystery, these were among the actual events which gave rise to the bizarre story of the disappearance of Gerry Irwin. A USAF volunteer, Irwin was on his way back to report for duties in Texas in February 1959 when he observed a UFO passing above him. Concerned, he parked and trudged off into the snowy mountains of Utah to determine whether the object he saw had been a plane crash... and the story only gets stranger from there.

This week, we examine Irwin's strange sighting, the ensuing memory loss, and other effects that led some to consider his case a possible "abduction" incident, or even somehow involved with the CIA's MK ULTRA program prior to his own desertion from the military and eventual disappearance. The fact that Irwin resurfaced again decades later only makes his story all the more strange, as we explore this week on The Micah Hanks Program. 

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• NEWS: 1 in 10 Americans have moved because they thought their house was haunted 
• ‘Astounding’ haul of Roman sculptures discovered under HS2 building site
• White House delays release of JFK assassination files "to protect against identifiable harm" 
• Defence won't follow Pentagon to launch an investigation into UFO sightings or UAP
• Tom DeLonge talks about UFO studies, movies, Angels & Airwaves tour 
• THE BOOK: No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story, UFO Abduction or Covert Operation?

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During the Second World War, Allied pilots began to log reports of encounters they had with unusual aerial phenomena during their flights over Europe. According to a once-secret memo from 1945, officials from XII Tactical Air Command intelligence staff wrote that “We have encountered a phenomenon which we cannot explain.” 

Later dubbed "Foo Fighters," the reports of odd aerial encounters over Europe appear to represent predecessors to modern reports of unidentified flying objects that would appear in the years after the war. Joining us to discuss the Foo Fighter enigmas is researcher and historian Graeme Rendall, author of the book UFOs Before Roswell: European Foo-Fighters 1940-1945, whose work traces Foo Fighter sightings all the way back to the early days of the war. 

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• NEWS: Signs of first planet found outside our galaxy
• Alien hunters have an update on a mysterious signal from the nearest exoplanet  
• UAP: ​​'Scrambled' Formation of Flying Lights Baffles New Jersey Residents 
• Another sighting of unexplained lights fuels mystery in skies over Passaic County
• NASA: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson Discusses Asteroids and Pilot Encounters with UAP 
• THE BOOK: UFOs Before Roswell: European Foo-Fighters 1940-1945
• The Foo Fighters: Today's Pilots Encounters with UAP Are Nothing New

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Do UFOs represent exotic technology from another world? Will advances in the coming decades produce "warp drives" and other UFO-like technologies that will close the gap between the observed behavior of unidentified aerial phenomena and Earthly technologies? And what do aviation professionals worry about the most when it comes to reports of unidentified aircraft in our skies? 

Joining us to discuss all of these issues is Christopher Plain, one of the main contributors to The Debrief, Micah's science and technology endeavor with colleagues Tim McMillan and MJ Banias, whose reporting at the site has covered everything from "Star Trek" technologies of tomorrow, to one of America's leading groups of Aviation professionals and their recent assessments of unidentified flying objects.

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• NEWS: ​​Oldest Drawing of Ghost Found in Babylonian Tomb
• Weak radio signals in depths of space could indicate existence of aliens
• Diplomats in Colombia Struck With Havana Syndrome Ahead of Blinken Visit
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Throws Cold Water on UFO Videos 
• Pilot UFO Sighting Over Florida 
• ARTICLES BY CHRIS PLAIN: Nasa Will Begin Looking Into the UFO Mystery
• Here Is What You Need to Know About UFOs According to the AIAA Aviation Conference 
• World's Largest Association of Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineers Joins Call for Scientific Inquiry of UFOs 
• Our Cosmic Neighbors: Is There Alien Technology in Our Solar System? 
• Respected Astrobiologist Says DoD Must Release UFO Data if They Want a Scientific Study

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On March 24, 1967, ten ICBMs at an underground launch control facility at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana became inoperable, while the security personnel aboveground observed a UFO hovering near the facility's gate. 

Joining us to discuss the Malmstrom UFO incidents and similar events involving UFOs at nuclear sites is Robert Salas, who was the on-duty commander of the launch control facility that evening. For decades, Salas has campaigned for greater government transparency about "Faded Giant" incidents involving UFOs seen at nuclear facilities and joins us to discuss his latest efforts in Washington to raise awareness about the issue. 

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• NEWS: Ancient Documents Say Italian Sailors Knew of America 150 Years Before Columbus
• An explosion? Earthquake? Meteor? New England mystified by loud boom  
• What The Heck Was This Blue 'Luminous Event' Photographed From The Space Station? 
• Fermi Paradox: 71 years later, SETI may have solved the cosmic mystery
• Former USAF Officers to present evidence of UFOs Tampering with Nuclear Weapons
• News Conference: The Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) and Nuclear Weapons – Witness Testimonies 
• ROBERT’S BOOK: Unidentified: The UFO Phenomenon: How World Governments Have Conspired to Conceal Humanity’s Biggest Secret  
• Faded Giant - By Robert Salas and Jim Klotz
• WATCH THE PRESS CLUB EVENT: Live Stream on October 19

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In the heart of Brazil's Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park exists one of the most biologically diverse regions anywhere in the world. However, along with the unique plants and animals found here are a prevalent interest in unidentified aerial phenomena, along with countless reports of Brazilian UFO sightings by local residents.

During his recent travels to Brazil, Micah visited Alto Pariaso de Goias, a village whose many shops, restaurants, and hotels are decorated with imagery of aliens, flying saucers, and references to America's most famous secret installation: Area 51. In this edition of the podcast, Micah goes in search of answers to the Brazilian UFO mystery as he recounts his own investigations in the Chapada dos Veadeiros. 

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• NEWS: 'Missing' Drunk Man Joins His Own Search Party in a Forest 
• After 3.5 million-year hiatus, the largest comet ever discovered is headed our way 
• The people who claim to hear the Northern Lights 
• UFO UPDATE: House Intelligence Committee Approves Bill to Mandate Intelligence Sharing in “Pursuit of Unexplained Aerial Phenomena”
• BRAZIL: Fires bear down on Brazil park that’s home to jaguars, maned wolves
• Mystics and marvels in a lost world; Brazil holidays
• UFOs and mysticism in Chapada dos Veadeiros
• 5 Curious legends and intriguing facts about CdV

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For decades, many people who have claimed to observe UFOs have also said they saw the occupants of these crafts. Even more incredibly, some of these purported "experiencers"  have made extraordinary claims about their interactions with such beings, and even abductions where they were taken aboard UFO craft. 

How reliable are these claims, the likes of which the late Harvard psychiatrist John Mack attempted to explore and understand until his untimely death? Joining us to discuss the cultural rise of the experiencers is Ralph Blumenthal, a former New York Times reporter and co-author of a 2017 article with Leslie Kean and Helene Cooper that reshaped the modern UFO narrative. Ralph discusses his new book about John Mack, The Believer, and his recent contributions to The Debrief this week on The Micah Hanks Program. 

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• NEWS: Official Sources Warn a Geomagnetic Storm Is Imminent, So Get Ready For Auroras
• SpaceX had a problem onboard the first all-tourist flight. It could have been much worse
• ABDUCTION: ‘What I saw that night was real’: is it time to take aliens more seriously? 
• The Experience; The Cultural Rise of Alien Abductions and Those Who Encounter Them 
• THE BOOK: The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack
• RALPH’S ARTICLES: Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

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The Great Sphinx of Giza is among the most widely recognized monuments in the world, and arguably one of the most astounding testaments left to us by past cultures. Archaeology has revealed many details about the way of life in Egypt at the time of its construction, although a number of questions remain.

Robert Schoch, Ph.D., is a Boston University geologist who has studied the Sphinx for decades. His work there beginning in the 1990s led him to believe that the age of the monument may be greater than historians generally believe, an idea that has fueled his search for further evidence of a "forgotten civilization" which may have existed earlier than is generally thought. We discuss all of this with Schoch, and his rationale for extending the age of Giza's Sphinx, on this edition of The Micah Hanks Program. 

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• NEWS: Tourists return to Egypt's resorts after months of restrictions 
• ‘Mysteries of the Sphinx’ returns to antiquity’s favourite riddle
• Did Spacemen, or People with Ramps, Build the Pyramids?
• ROBERT SCHOCH: The Official Website of Robert M. Schoch Ph.D
• Forgotten Civilization and other books by Robert M. Schoch

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In 2004, the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group 11 was conducting training off the California coast when radar operators began to detect unusual aerial objects nearby. Over the next several days, the objects would be repeatedly observed, culminating in a close encounter between one of the objects and a pair of fighter pilots. 

Known today as the "tic tac," the object described by the pilots during the 2004 USS Nimitz incident has become one of the most widely-recognized descriptions of a purported UFO in recent days. However, its appearance in 2004 was not the first time such an object has been described in UFO literature. This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we go on the trail of the tic tac in a search through history for similar descriptions of aerial objects since the end of World War II. 

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• NEWS: UFOs in New Mexico
• THE TIC TAC: ​​'Normalizing' UFOs - retired U.S. Navy pilot recalls Tic Tac encounter
• Underwood: Navy Pilot Who Took Pentagon UFO Video Doesn't Want Link to Aliens 
• HISTORIC CASES 
• Was an Unidentified Flying Object Similar to the USS Nimitz “Tic Tac” Seen in 1944? 
• Lonnie Zamora incident 
• 1964: 'Flying Saucer' Sighting Reported By Eight Crosby School Students 
• ANALYSIS: Rare egg-shaped UFO sightings are no 'yolk' 

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Many astronomers believe we are closing in on the hunt for proof of life on other worlds... but where will it be found, and how will we find it? Among the methods being used are searches for technosignatures, biosignatures, and even interstellar probes that might have been "delivered" to various parts of the galaxy by an alien intelligence. 

In the search for alien life, how does UAP fit into the equation, and what are the perspectives of scientists on how it should be studied? Joining us this week is Jacob Haqq Misra, Ph.D., a senior research investigator at Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. His areas of focus include planetary habitability, extraterrestrial life, environmental ethics, and space settlement, and he joins us to discuss all of his research interests, and how science can be applied to the study of UFOs this week on The Micah Hanks Program.

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• The Origin of Technosignatures 
• Technosignatures vs. Biosignatures: Which Will Succeed First? 
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It is among the greatest questions humans have ever asked about life and our place in the cosmos: are we alone in the universe? While scientists believe they are closing in on answers to this long-standing question, many UFO proponents throughout the years have argued that the evidence for alien life can be found right here on Earth.

On this week's edition of The Micah Hanks Program, we wade into the debate over UFOs and the "extraterrestrial hypothesis," and why some scientists think that the idea could present challenges for the study of unidentified aerial phenomena going forward. 

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• NEWS: ​​NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Completed Testing 
• Multiple Explosions Reported on Sun's Surface; Blasts of Energy Head Towards Earth: Watch for G1 Geomagnetic Storm Sunday/Monday
• THE ET HYPOTHESIS: The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: In the Debate Over UAP Origins, Scientists Wrestle With Possibilities… and Biases

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