Behind the Camera of UFO History with Stanton Friedman's Nephew... Paul Kimball!

Summary

Filmmaker Paul Kimball, nephew of famed ufologist Stanton Friedman, walks through his UFO documentary career, from his intimate portrait of his uncle to films on Majestic 12, the Aztec crash, and the top 10 best UFO cases. He bluntly labels MJ-12 and Aztec as hoaxes, even though he made films about both, and explains why a documentary maker's job differs from a researcher's personal opinion. Along the way he reveals a previously unknown RB-47 encounter during the Cuban Missile Crisis, told to him off-camera by an Air Force officer who said crews were ordered never to speak of such incidents.

Key takeaways

• 1Kimball's first film, 'Stanton T. Friedman Is Real,' was shot around 9/11, including a shot of Friedman watching CNN coverage of the attacks through his window blinds.
• 2Kimball calls Majestic 12 a hoax by Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera, says Friedman was an honest dupe, and describes Kevin Randle's rival 'Unholy 13' concept.
• 3He calls the 1948 Aztec, New Mexico crash a total fraud, despite making a documentary on it funded by Scott Ramsey and North Carolina investors.
• 4'Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings' polled about 40 ufologists. The RB-47 case ranked #1, followed by Rendlesham, Tehran 1976, the McMinnville photos, and Shag Harbour, with Kimball adding the 1561 Nuremberg event. Roswell did not make the list.
• 5Lt. Col. Bruce Bailey, historian of the RB-47 program, described his own UFO encounter over Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis that fried his plane's electronics, and said crews were debriefed (likely by AFOSI) and told never to discuss it.
• 6Kimball says the Malmstrom case has been largely debunked and Rendlesham is weakened by the collapse of Larry Warren's testimony, but that Shag Harbour, RB-47, and Tehran remain unexplained.
• 7Kimball's chupacabra footage from Puerto Rico, featuring Nick Redfern, was cut from 'Fields of Fear' (about Alberta cattle-mutilation investigator Fern Belzil) and became 'Island of Blood.'

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Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Jul 20, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.