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

Summary

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.

Key takeaways

• 1Zebrowski cites Jacques Vallée as saying he helped build AI-based database software for the Pentagon's new UAP office, AARO, which reportedly treats 1945 rather than 1947 as the start of modern UFO history
• 2The 1945 Trinity UFO crash allegedly involved an object hitting a control tower, men in black clearing debris, and poisonous plants placed to keep people away
• 3Annie Jacobsen's book on Area 51 claims the Roswell craft carried surgically altered children sent from Russia under Stalin, with help from Josef Mengele
• 4The 2008 Stephenville, Texas mass sighting: a local sheriff told Zebrowski's crew the event made him realize 'we're not alone'
• 5Zebrowski's most compelling cases are the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident at a NATO nuclear weapons site and the 1994 Ariel School sighting in Zimbabwe, where children drew similar pictures independently
• 6He references Jim Penniston's binary code allegedly downloaded after touching the Rendlesham craft, Greg and Dana Newkirk's 'capital P Phenomenon' trickster idea, Whitley Strieber's 'Communion,' and Vallée's 'Passport to Magonia'

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Transcript excerpt

And real talk here, guys, thank you for listening and supporting us for almost 10 years. And thank you for supporting independent content. And I hope you'll continue to join me Somewhere in the Skies. While our government's official position is not to speculate on this subject, we can choose to let our minds explore other possibilities, to use our imaginations. For if we consider that astro-scientists agree on one point, that the possibility of life elsewhere is not only quite probable, some feel it is there without a doubt. Let us suppose, then, that these objects are real space vehicles, extraterrestrial in order, and not an illusion of the mind. This is Somewhere in the Skies with Ryan Sprague. Henry from Last Podcast on the left. I have been waiting forever, man. We've been, our ships have been passing for years now. And it's finally happening. It's finally happening. It really means something to me, because I, people ask me all the time, like, what do I listen to? Like, in terms of what do I get information from? And I listen to you. Somewhere in the Skies is probably one of my, is, like, one of my favorite pure UFO podcasts. And so I'm just happy to be here. Wow, thanks, man. You do such good work. You know what I, and I will say, because I listen to The Witness, when you do the Witness accounts, like, that is some of my favorite, like, I don't know what it says about me, but I listen to it sometimes to go to sleep in hotel rooms. Like, I'll listen to it and talk. And then, like, I have crazy-ass dreams, like, as I go. ...

Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Aug 28, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.