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Jacques Vallée: 60 Years of UFO Secrets, Science, and a Final Search for Truth

Somewhere in the SkiesOct 19, 2026

Legendary UFO researcher Jacques Vallée discusses the release of Forbidden Science Volume 7: The Final Report and why he is shifting into a support role for a new generation of researchers. He argues that 'disclosure' will not look like what the public expects, and that civilian field cases with physical traces are often richer than military footage. He also shares his theory that crashes like the 1945 Trinity case may have been deliberate 'gifts', and explains the isotope analysis of anomalous materials he gave to Stanford's Garry Nolan.

Henry Zebrowski: UFOs, Aliens, and the Last Podcast on the Left (SITS CLASSIC)

Somewhere in the SkiesAug 28, 2026

Comedian Henry Zebrowski of Last Podcast on the Left joins Ryan Sprague for a freewheeling talk about UFOs, the February 2023 shootdowns of unidentified objects over North America, and why the government suddenly started saying 'UFO' again. Zebrowski discusses the Trinity crash, Annie Jacobsen's claim that Roswell involved surgically altered children sent by Stalin, and his belief that the phenomenon is a '25-layer cake' with many explanations at once. He names Rendlesham Forest and the Ariel School sighting as his strongest cases and explains how Jacques Vallée shaped his view of a psychic, trickster-like phenomenon.

Joshua Cutchin on UFOs, Paranormal Encounters & The Inverted Path

Somewhere in the SkiesAug 24, 2026

Author Joshua Cutchin discusses his new book The Inverted Path, which explores why people across the paranormal spectrum report getting mysteriously lost or physically stopped during encounters. He links the old folklore of being 'pixie-led' by fairies to UFOs stalling cars, Bigfoot witnesses losing their way, and people becoming trapped behind invisible walls. Cutchin argues that disorientation and supernatural stopping are two sides of the same coin, and that electromagnetism alone cannot explain them.

The Disembodied Hands of the Loire w/ Zelia Edgar

Somewhere in the SkiesJul 24, 2026

On May 20, 1950, a young Frenchwoman named Micheline G. was walking along the Loire River when a blinding light appeared and two cold, coppery, disembodied hands seized her, choked her, and dragged her through a bramble thicket while an unseen being laughed in a muffled, underwater voice. Police found finger marks on her face and throat, and burned, broken brush and fencing at the scene, and initially treated it as an attempted kidnapping. Host Zelia Edgar explores why this case, featured in Jacques Vallee's work, is one of the most frightening and physical abduction accounts on record, and how it echoes Scotland's Dechmont Law incident and centuries of folklore about phantom hands.