Podcast Archive » The Unseen – 2020

Shanelle Schanz is the granddaughter of Kenneth Arnold, the man who unwittingly coined the term flying saucer. He saw nine silvery objects in the sky on June 24, 1947. This happened while flying alone in his private plane near Mount Rainier in Washington state. While certainly not the first sighting of its kind, it was ...continued

Director James Fox’s explosive new documentary is being hailed as the most persuasive and revealing film ever made about UFOs. The film includes never-before-seen testimony from high-ranking government and military officials, NASA Astronauts, and Senator Harry Reid.    Dr. Jacques Vallee says this about The Phenomenon: “Seventy years of secrecy has led to this. The most credible documentary ever ...continued

Jennifer Sodini is an oracle card reader and healer. She has also had a series of profound UFO experiences. In this episode, she describes her own deep immersion into spiritual practices and tradition, and its connection to her healing work. She’s also had a lot of profound mystical experiences. Jeniffer, in partnership with artist Natalee Miller, ...continued

Author Richard Dolan said this about The Messengers:  “I would characterize very few UFO books as beautiful, but this one is.” The owl has held a place of reverence and mystique throughout history. And as strange as this might seem, owls are also showing up in conjunction with the UFO experience. Mike Clelland has collected a wealth of ...continued

Ron Johnson has had a lifetime of ongoing contact events, and it’s been a challenge to make sense of what he’s endured. His journey of understanding changed after an experience that involved the healing of a chronic back issue. After this, the fear disappeared, and he entered a new phase of contact. He has spent ...continued

Ron Johnson has had a lifetime of ongoing contact events, and it’s been a challenge to make sense of what he’s endured. His journey of understanding changed after an experience that involved the healing of a chronic back issue. After this, the fear disappeared, and he entered a new phase of contact. He has spent ...continued

Ron Johnson has had a lifetime of ongoing contact events, and it’s been a struggle to make sense of what he’s endured. His journey of understanding has been long and difficult. He has spent most of his life in rural Utah, and this lonely landscape is the backdrop for most of his unusual experiences. Beyond his ...continued

Ron Johnson has had a lifetime of ongoing contact events, and it’s been a struggle to make sense of what has happened, and his journey of understanding has been difficult. He has spent most of his life in rural Utah, and this lonely landscape is the backdrop for most of his unusual experiences. Beyond his personal ...continued

Ron Johnson has had a lifetime of ongoing contact events, and it’s been a struggle to make sense of what has happened, and his journey of understanding has been difficult. He has spent most of his life in rural Utah, and this lonely landscape is the backdrop for most of his unusual experiences. Beyond his personal ...continued

Mike Stevens has endured a lifetime of contact experiences, and this journey has meant confronting the unknown. He’s navigated the dark times of confusion and terror, and has recently come forward with his story. The book Granite Skies, written by Nomar Slevik, documents Mike’s remarkable experiences. But more than that, it’s a very human story of ...continued

Andras Jones is an actor, musician, podcaster, author—and synchromystic. He began broadcasting Radio8Ball on KAOS in Olympia in 1998, this is a pop-music oracle, a hip musical divination with a live audience. A question is asked, and like musical tarot card, a song is picked at random. Within the lyrics is an answer, bypassing the clutter ...continued

Terry Lovelace has evidence he might have been 60 feet above his house. His iPhone seems to have captured a dramatic change in elevation that coincided with a probable early morning contact experience! He awoke with a racing heart, and it was so severe that he called an ambulance and was rushed to the emergency ...continued

Christopher Knowles is an author, blogger, comic book artist… and synchromystic! He talks about his recent work of fiction, He Will Live Up In The Sky. This is a mystery thrill ride about UFOs, renegade intelligence organizations, psychics, and our rampant conspiracy culture. The plot of the book mirrors today’s unsettling headlines. And Chris talks about ...continued

Stuart Davis is an artist, writer, painter, musician, and recording engineer.   He recently started a podcast series, titled ARTISTS & ALIENS. He is exploring the connection between art and the contact experience, and he’s doing truly insightful interviews. His first episode is MAN MEETS MANTIS, and it tells his own story, and it’s riveting. I ...continued

Bert Janssen is an author, crop circle researcher and flamboyant story teller—yes, thats what it says on his site, and that’s accurate! His most recent book is The Organizing Principle, with the subtitle, There are No Coincidences.  This is a high energy conversation about the power of synchronicities, crop circles, Carl Jung, squaring the circle, and ...continued

Red Pill Junkie is a blogger, artist, and a strong voice with in the UFO community. This conversation dives into the deepest waters, and although we talk about UFOs, we also confront the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? And what does it all mean? Now, Red Pill Junky (or RPJ for short) ...continued

Author and researcher Preston Dennett is back to talk about his most recent book, Onboard UFO Encounters: True Accounts of Contact with Extraterrestrials. This powerful book is full of remarkable stories of deeply personal experiences with the UFO occupants. Preston speaks at length about this book as well as his research. The strangeness and similarities of ...continued

Aaron Gulyas is a teacher, writer and historian—and these all come into play on his excellent podcast The Saucer Life. He’s tapped into the lost era of the flying saucer contactees. Their colorful lives and strange stories are at the heart of his studies.    This episode is a wonderfully fun exploration of folks like George Van ...continued

Mia Feroleto is the host of the podcast New Observations here on Unknown Country. She has had a lifetime of odd experiences, including angelic communications, UFOs, glowing orbs, and remarkable psychic insights. Mike spoke with Mia for over two hours and this long conversation is posted in two parts. The first installment is on Mia’s ...continued

Christopher Bledsoe Sr has endured a set of remarkably powerful experiences that began on January 8th 2007, just a few miles from his home. He was with his son, Christopher Jr, and several friends on the banks of the Cape Fear river outside Fayetteville, North Carolina. What happened that night is one of the most ...continued

Ryan Sprague is a podcaster, author, playwright, journalist, and host of the television series Mysteries Decoded. His 2016 book Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to an Alien Phenomenon, explores the personal challenges of people who have been confronted with the UFO mystery. Mike and Ryan explore the difficult role of trying to share these ...continued

Ann Eller has a unique perspective of the UFO mystery. She worked closely with renowned astrophysicist Dr. J. Allen Hynek during his final years of UFO research. Their friendship gave her an insiders view of both the research, and personality of Dr. Hynek (seen together at left). Ann has had powerful contact experiences, including a remarkable ...continued

Zelia Edgar is  a researcher, blogger, podcaster and youtube vlogger. And for a short time she was also the Wisconsin state director for MUFON, and I am pretty sure she holds the title of the youngest state director in that organization—ever! Zelia has been exploring at the paranormal, both the cases she has researched as well ...continued

Jean Walker has had a lifetime of unusual contact experiences, and these are told in her book: Family Secrets, One family’s true paranormal experiences. Jean talks with Mike about her remarkable life. She is brave to speak so plainly about such strange and disturbing experiences. This interview recounts a long list of strange events that happened to her as ...continued

Nadine Lalich just published EVOLUTION, a book about her lifetime of contact experiences, it’s subtitled: Coming to terms with the ET presence. Accepting these elusive events can be terribly challenging, and Nadine is a grounded voice in this challenging field. She’s endured the trauma of profound fear at the hands of the Visitors, and it has ...continued

Dr. J. Allen Hynek began as a skeptic, and actively debunked reports for the air-force—but eventually took the subject very seriously. His son Paul Hynek will join Mike to talk about his father. With the popularity of the TV show Project Bluebook, there is an entire new generation that now knows the name Hynek. Paul’s insights ...continued

Hollywood stuntman Reuben Langdon hosts a remarkable television series titled Interview With E.D. (and that stands for Extra Dimensionals). This has been one of the most popular shows on Gaia TV, and is continuing for a second season. Reuben conducts in depth interviews with people who tell of having a psychic contact with beings and spirits outside ...continued

Author and therapist Peter Smith talks about the pioneering work of Michael Newton PhD and his exploration of life between lives. In his work, Peter takes the client to a deep state of hypnosis, and they access an eternal realm where soul goes after a death and before being reborn into a new body. There ...continued

Gordon White is an author, blogger, podcaster, and practicing occult magician. He runs an amazing site called Rune Soup — and his audio interviews are wonderful.  His 2016 book STAR.SHIPS looks at the idea of “ancient aliens” in an entirely new way—there’s no need to imagine metal space ships landing in our distant past as a way ...continued

Denise Stoner is a researcher, author and experiencer. She had a remarkable contact experience in Colorado in 1982 which was thoroughly researched and is featured in The Alien Abduction Files: The Most Startling Cases of Human-Alien Contact Ever Reported, from 2013. She was also involved with the more recent book from last year, Extraterrestrial Contact: What to Do ...continued

Ben has had a lifetime of powerful experiences that might seem to imply UFO contact, but the overlapping details are so strange that it has left him baffled. His experiences can’t be boiled down into a sound-byte. This episode allows Ben to tell some of his stories in a manner they deserve—with all the strange outlying details. The ...continued

Confessions of a Spooky Mind by Walter Bosley is a short little book and a memoir of sorts, describing some of the strange events in his life. He has written a lot of other books too, both fiction and non-fiction. These including The Empire of the Wheel trilogy and The Esoteric Napoleon. Plus, a handful of ...continued

In this episode, Mike Clelland will be sharing audio excerpts from his recent book Hidden Experience, subtitled Collected writings from ten years of blogging 2009—2019, a personal journey of owls, synchronicity and UFO contact. Those blog posts defined a transformative chapter of his life. These excerpts deal with his 2013 confirmation event as well as a remarkable hypnosis ...continued

What’s up with the UFOs? This is not a simple question, and Greg Bishop tries to frame a way to confront this very difficult subject. Greg is an author, radio host and philosopher of the weird. Over the last few decades he’s published a respected zine The Excluded Middle, as well as the fondly lamented ...continued