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Episode 12 - Cylinders, Satellites and Stars, Oh My!

Release Date: 12/08/2017

API Case Files Live #4 with guest Erica Lukes

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Our special guest is Erica Lukes of the Expanding Frontiers organization, and of UFO Classified. Links from the show: Expanding Frontiers: Support Expanding Frontiers on Patreon: The Saucer Life podcast: Report your recent UFO sighting: API witness FAQ: Erica’s bio: Erica Lukes is an experienced podcaster and longtime popular video show host. As executive director of Expanding Frontiers Research, Erica conducts engaging interviews with journalists, researchers and experts on a variety of social and technical issues, including cults, cybersecurity, the environment, and the...

Live with UFO Historian Jeff Knox

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Episode 2 of API Case Files Live - the audio only version. We were joined by UFO historian Jeff Knox. Jeff Knox’s work on Bluebook Unknowns: Jeff’s show with Rachel: Video summary of the West Virginia case: Contact us about becoming a panelist: Become an API investigator: Our new number: Report your UFO sighting:

Case Files Live - a Maryland High Strangeness Case

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We went in depth with Marsha Barnhart on a high strangeness case that was big for us, case 12-058. The events in this case largely took place in Ocean City, Maryland. We play several audio clips from the primary witness and those close to him that had not previously been made public. Contact us about becoming a panelist: Become an API investigator: Our new hotline number: Report your UFO sighting:

Conversation 20 - Airman Pat at Cannon AFB in the 70s

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Released: 30 July 2023 Duration: 54 Minutes 21 Seconds This is our first anonymous API Conversation, although we are using his real first name of our Witness. A former Air Force F111 technician tells us his story about a UFO encounter captured on RADAR at Cannon Air Force base in New Mexico in the mid 1970s, and what followed after that. If you served with Airman Pat at Cannon AFB in the mid 1970s, or if you were in Clovis, NM at that time, we’d like to . Music by and Carl Goddeu. Links Transcript for this Episode: The 1976 Cannon Air Force Base UFO encounters: Cannon Air Force...

Conversation 19 - Dr. Joan R. Bird

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Recorded: May 5, 2022 Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes Marsha Barnhart talks to Dr. Joan Bird, author of the book Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials: Extraordinary Stories of Documented Sightings and Encounters. \ Dr. Bird is a Zoologist who specialized in animal behavior. She moved to Montana in 1973 to pursue graduate studies in zoology at the University of Montana, and in 1983 she completed her Ph.D. on inter-island variation in West Indian finches. Dr. Bird worked as a conservation biologist for the Montana Environmental Information Center, The Nature Conservancy, and Montana Department of...

Episode 18 - Orbs ‘a Plenty

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This episode of API Case Files covers three recent cases.

Episode 17 - I Know What I Remember

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Central Casting Saucer Spotted Outside Louisville; a Colorado Campout Overhead Light Show; and a Terrifying Idaho Orb Encounter. Plus new advances in the science of memory.

Episode 16 - Lights, Camera, Action!

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Lots of cases to discuss!

Conversation 18 - Curt Collins

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A conversation with UFO blogger and researcher Curt Collins of the blog Blue Blurry Lines. Recently, together with Roger Glassel, Curt has published research into the complicated and ethically thorny relationship between the government's AAWSAP program, Bigelow Aerospace, and MUFON.

Conversation 17 - Eric Wojciechowski, part 2

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Following up on Part 1, Paul Carr and Eric Wojciechowski talk about cyborgs, ageing, self-driving cars, uncanny valleys, surprising endings to novels, and much more.

More Episodes

Released 10 December 2017

Kiwi UFO—A blazing cylinder over New Zealand.
Blank Spots on the Map “outs” spy satellites whose operations may trigger UFO reports.
API introduces a new team member, chats about some interesting cases, and discusses explanations for common misidentifications.

In Episode 12 of Case Files…API Director Paul Carr, Chief of Investigations Marsha Barnhart, and new Lead Investigator Savannah Dollison join in a Team Round Table discussion about some of their more recent cases.

Marsha spotlighted her investigation of an unidentified case that was set in New Zealand. She also discussed a book, Blank Spots on the Map, by Trevor Paglen—a book that contains a chapter identifying characteristics of Spy Satellites which researchers might find useful when investigating reports of anomalous lights in the night sky.