Close Encounter

The Fatal Close Encounter of George Wheeler

Somewhere in the SkiesAug 17, 2026

In April 1976, veteran relief police officer and WWII pilot George Wheeler reported a huge glowing craft hovering over Tuttle Hill in Elmwood, Wisconsin, then radioed that he had been 'hit' by a blue flash that killed his car's radio, lights, and engine. He spent weeks in the hospital with headaches and nightmares that doctors could not explain, soon forgot most details of the event, and died within six months of an unknown cause. Host Ryan Sprague places the case within a wider mid-1970s Wisconsin UFO wave involving car stops, possible missing time, and even reports of green humanoids.

The Helmeted Humanoid of Puerto Rico w/ Zelia Edgar

Somewhere in the SkiesAug 7, 2026

On July 12, 1977, businessman Adrian Olmos Andrones of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, watched a three-and-a-half-foot being in a green suit and reflective helmet approach a street lamp, then fly away using what looked like a glowing jetpack. His family and at least 10 neighbors saw the strange lights hopping between the trees, while local cattle and dogs panicked. Host Zelia Edgar uses the case to explore John Keel's idea that light is the core of unexplained phenomena and that the entities people see may be masks shaped by the witness's own mind.