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Rachel Bond is a licensed psychotherapist in Maryland who helps victims of trauma and other experiences that are difficult to cope with - including anomalous experiences. This Conversation is a lightly edited version of the video Livestream Rachel participated in on April 6th, 2026. Links The API Livestream Episode Rachel's Psychology Today Profile Report your sighting or experience to API Restore Healing Credits Host and Producer: Paul Carr Music: DJ Spooky

Our special guest is Erica Lukes of the Expanding Frontiers organization, and of UFO Classified. Links from the show: Expanding Frontiers: https://www.expandingfrontiersresearch.org/ Support Expanding Frontiers on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ExpandingFrontiersResearch  The Saucer Life podcast: https://saucerlife.com/ Report your recent UFO sighting: https://reportaufo.org API witness FAQ: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/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 overlapping of the intelligence and UFO communities. She also facilitates the Expanding Frontiers Archive, an online group of special collections inspired by a physical archive Erica maintains that includes files representing the life work of select pioneers of UFO research. Due to the organization's effective use of public records requests and subsequent reporting, Expanding Frontiers Research was the recipient of an annual state-wide award from the Utah Investigative Journalism Project. Erica's investigation of UFOs includes conducting hundreds of interviews on her popular UFO Classified podcast; a far above-average familiarity with what she came to assess as the unverified claims surrounding the Skinwalker Ranch; and serving as state director of Utah MUFON before becoming disappointed in the organization's leadership. Erica studied music and voice at the University of Utah and is a longtime successful Salt Lake City business owner in the health and wellness industry.

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: https://uapdiscovery.discourse.group/c/blue-book-unknowns/13 Jeff's show with Rachel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCxSnv17MgEd5BOzIjugSmDQ  Video summary of the West Virginia case: https://youtu.be/KfNaWbHxHhs Contact us about becoming a panelist: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/contact-us/ Become an API investigator: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/join-api/ Our new  number: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/weve-updated-our-hotline-number-again/ Report your UFO sighting: https://reportaufo.org

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: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/contact-us/ Become an API investigator: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/join-api/ Our new hotline number: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/weve-updated-our-hotline-number-again/ Report your UFO sighting: https://reportaufo.org

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 hear your side of the story. Music by the Mini Vandals and Carl Goddeu. Links Transcript for this Episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT5I9on4sNHT7rRQtq8LYATPP4ayGp2y4m0GdCvpEJV5BL5fSmpGBlA8WppUDdNY7xf8C9rm_6PvrM5/pub The 1976 Cannon Air Force Base UFO encounters:  https://www.ufoinsight.com/ufos/sightings/1976-cannon-air-force-base-ufo Cannon Air Force Base UFO Incident: https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/1976-cannon-airforce-base-ufo-incident/ To contact API: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/contact-us/ To report a sighting: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/report-a-ufo/  The API Case Fiels Podcast page: https://apicasefiles.com The API Video Page: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/api-youtube-channel/ Our Investigations page: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/api-investigations/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/apicasefiles

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 Fish, Wildlife and Parks. She has also worked as a fire lookout in both Washington and Montana. Joan freelanced as a nature interpretation writer and has written numerous articles for scientific and conservation publications. Actively involved in women's empowerment, she was a columnist for Crone Magazine. A lifelong student of unexplained phenomena and long-time member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, she has worked as a community educator and change agent.  When Joan was a teenager, her mother had a near death experience. This engendered a lifelong interest in exploring paranormal and esoteric subjects. And, although steeped in scientific materialism from her academic training, Dr. Bird eventually began to study and attempt to understand the inexplicable. In this episode of API Conversations, Marsha and Dr. Bird discuss the contents of her book, Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials, and delve into a host of related philosophies, concepts and theories regarding UFO's, the ET Hypothesis, the Nature of Reality, the possibility of Past Lives and the value of Consciousness Studies.    Links Transcript of this Episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRpBKZRw1Vsa6JDRKwHzyAuyS59xy-xWrSb2p9qIBf2GhfLsJOE0HIAK6OWqL_zF1szBNpgVah3-ef9/pub Dr. Joan R Bird, Montana UFOs and Extraterrestrials: https://www.amazon.com/Montana-UFOs-Extraterrestrials-Extraordinary-Documented/dp/1606390570 https://www.humanitiesmontana.org/programs/ufos-and-extraterrestrials-in-montana-with-joan-bird/ The Nick Mariana UFO Incident: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nick_Mariana_UFO_Footage_1950_Great_Falls_Montana.webm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_UFO_incident The Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident https://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgziDyPSUog http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/malmstromufo.pdf ET 101 The Cosmic Instruction Manual: https://www.amazon.com/T-101-Instruction- There is a River, the Story of Edgar Cayce: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Edgar-Cayce-There- Passport to the Cosmos: https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Cosmos-Human-Transformation-Encounters/dp/0609805576 The More Beautiful World: https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Hearts-Possible-Sacred-Activism/dp/1583947248 Credits Producer and host: Marsha Barnhart Music credits: D.J. Spooky "Check Your Math" David Allegro "Hybrid"

Released: 26 July 2021 Duration: 42 minutes, 41 seconds This episode of API Case Files covers three recent cases. Paul reports on a daylight sighting from the Isle of Man (Case 21-023) detailing how two men pursued three orbs until the lights disappeared. This encounter took place May 27th, 2021 and is especially provocative because a day before some else on the Island of Man saw and reported a single orb just like what our Witness saw. Two days before the Isle of Man sighting, a Witness in Brooklyn, NY shot footage of three self-illuminated orbs in a triangle configuration cruising up the East River towards Manhattan. Marsha interviewed the Witness in that case. Marsha also details a case from central Ohio of a mother and son who had a close encounter that so startled their senses they became sick to their stomachs for several hours afterwards.  Witness Sketches in case 20-018 (Ohio) Links: Video in Case 21-023 (Isle of Man): https://youtu.be/nm8m_UuAyOk Witness submitted video in Case 21-026 (Brooklyn): https://youtu.be/RBdRMDU9z_A Report of Investigation for Case 21-018 (Ohio): https://aerial-phenomenon.org/redacted-report-of-investigation-for-case-21-018-ohio/ Our Investigations page: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/api-investigations/ Report your UFO sighting: https://reportaufo.org Our Witness FAQ: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/witness-faq/ Our Ethics policy: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/about-api/api-ethics-statement/ Credits: Producer and host: Marsha Barnhart Post production: Paul Carr Music credits (order of appearance):  Alien Chronicler/Box Cat Games Pinckney Z-Arc Alien Chronicler I am Free DJ Spooky

Released: 7 June 2021 Duration: 59 minutes, 30 seconds   Central Casting Saucer Spotted Outside Louisville; a Colorado Campout Overhead Light Show; and a Terrifying Idaho Orb Encounter Several really good cases to cover in this episode! A mother and daughter saw a right-out-of-central-casting flying saucer maneuvering over them in the early evening of December 11, 2020. They were in a large urban area just outside Louisville. And we hear from a Colorado camper who got more than he bargained for under the stars the night of May 13, 2021: a mass of seemingly connected white lights cavorting in the sky for several hours as he and a companion took in the spectacle. A Witness in Caldwell, Idaho on May 17, 2021 recorded an orb flying along that seemingly changed directions to fly towards him. It stopped momentarily over his house as he took cover under an awning in fear of what it might do next!  Also in this podcast, Paul Carr presents another in his series of Unidentified Science episodes. He covers the issues surrounding fallible human recall. We also introduce you to our newest API Investigator, Roger Draper. He hails from the San Francisco area and, with a background in law enforcement, investigation, and his DOD experience, he's a real bonus addition to the team!  Links: Case 20-045 Middletown, KY Witness Drawing: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NQJZtgsw1huwyygaDTnIlMEB8x-oNg2c/view?usp=sharing Case 21-021 Pueblo, CO Link to Witness Drawing: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vS8e78BbTtoUGbmriL2k09e09TkVIT_D/view?usp=sharing Link to 21-021 Witness Footage: https://youtu.be/NokywRtMy0E   Case 21-019 Caldwell, ID Link to Footage on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/nf2udx/i_just_saw_this_tonight_i_hope_theres_an/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf   API Website http://aerial-phenomenon.org/ Make a UFO Report: https://reportaufo.org API Investigations: http://aerial-phenomenon.org/api-investigations/   Credits: Producer: Marsha Barnhart  Post production: Paul Carr   Music: Alien Chronicler: "TractorBeamed" and "Pretend It's Just a Dream"  https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Alien%20Chronicler Rhennessey: "Feelings" https://soundcloud.com/rrhennessey RainSleep: "Translucent Heart" https://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Creative_Commons BoxCat Games: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Box%20Cat%20Games Alien Chronicler: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Alien%20Chronicler D J Spooky: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/DJ_Spooky/none_given_1098/14_-_DJ_Spooky_-_Check_Your_Math   This podcast is released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-alike license.

Released: 11 November 2020 Duration: 60 minutes Lots of cases to discuss! The API team is joined by two new members, Molly and Dan. Paul goes into detail on a dazzling Ohio sighting with terrific night vision camera footage, and talks about a recently reported 2014 close encounter experienced by a woman in San Francisco. Marsha presents cases in TN and GA that COULD be drones, but may be true unknowns. She also highlights the issue of hyper-sensitivity to UFO sightings by some Witnesses. Paul and Marsha discuss a case in Estonia, new Investigator Molly talks about her first case, and the team ruminates on a brief blue flash seen in the sky near Tokyo bay. Links: Case 20-030 Lakeview, OH Footage on API Case Files YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7wVeAM50tY Case 20-023 San Francisco, CA: https://myufowebsite.com/2019/05/27/august-30-2014/ Case 20-038 (Estonia): Full image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqKDupx94QMclBRKIThYkwlSY_51d28N/view?usp=sharing Zoomed image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kIMJE1ipW8aBRAMi_H95uh3N--u82I7L/view?usp=sharing   Credits:  Host and Producer: Marsha Barnhart Contributors: Molly, Dan, Paul Postproduction: Paul Carr Episode 16 Music: Devildog by Ergo Phizmiz:  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5427375/ Extrapolation by Scott Buckley https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/ Translucent Heart by Rain Sleep https://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Creative_Commons Close to the Distance by Scott Holmes https://www.scottholmesmusic.com/ Biggie by Biggie https://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Creative_Commons Enclosed by Ketsa: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/ BoxCat Games:  https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Box%20Cat%20Games Alien Chronicler:  https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Alien%20Chronicler D J Spooky: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/DJ_Spooky/none_given_1098/14_-_DJ_Spooky_-_Check_Your_Math

Recorded: 25 March 2020 Released: 26 March 2020 Duration: 69 minutes, 36 seconds 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. Links: Blue Blurry Lines Tim McMillan: Inside the Pentagon's Secret UFO Program The Pentagon UFO Program's Secret Partner Breaking the Silence: AATIP's Secret Partner Speaks Keith Basterfield: AATIP or AAWSA Paul Dean: The Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Application Program Conversation with Simone Mendez The Carpenter Affair Tyler Rogoway: Tom DeLonge's Origin Story For To The Stars Academy Describes A Government UFO Info Operation Bigelow Aerospace Lays off All Employees   The Cash-Landrum UFO Case Document Collection   The Roswell Slides Research Group   Host script Report Your UFO sighting Contact API   Credits: Host and Producer: Paul Carr Music: DJ Spooky

Recorded: 24 January2020 Released: 2 February 2019 Duration: 51 minutes, 27 seconds   Following up on Part 1, Paul Carr and Eric Wojciechowski talk about cyborgs, ageing, self-driving cars, uncanny valleys, narrow vs. general AI, Elon Musk, Shazam, drug dealers, Henry Rollins in Iran, Charlie Hebdo, future fiction plans, Tolkien, virtual conferences, surprising endings to novels, and much more.   Links Eric's Amazon Page Freedom Cocktail Eric on Twitter Jesus and Mo The Postman Always Rings Twice   Credits Host and Producer: Paul Carr Music: DJ Spooky, George Hrab

Recorded: 24 January 2020 Released: 25 January 2020 Duration: 52 minutes, 45 seconds   Part 1 of Paul Carr's lightly edited conversation with author Eric Wojciechowski. We discuss virtual UFO conferences, Eric's early fascination with the Ancient Astronaut theories of Zecharia Sitchin, his difficult choices in writing Chasing Disclosure, sleep paralysis and false memories, a shadow person experience, artificial intelligence, and much more. Eric Wojciechowski lives with his wife and two children in Livonia, Michigan. Usually writing essays and articles in politics, religion, pseudoscience and Woo-Woo. Lover of all things Fortean. Some non-fiction work can be seen at Skeptical Inquirer, Skeptic magazine, American Atheists magazine and Free Inquiry magazine. Also writes on politics at the blog, Freedom Cocktail. Links:  Eric's Amazon Page Freedom Cocktail Eric on Twitter Elizabeth Loftus on Mick West's podcast Credits: Host and Producer: Paul Carr Music: DJ Spooky

Released: 15 December 2019 Duration: 80 minutes, 3 seconds Marsha Barnhart deep-dives into a just-closed case in Medina, Ohio of a large V-shaped low-flying craft. Upon closer examination, the Witness in this case displayed common characteristics found in other "high strangeness" witnesses. Paul Carr discusses his presentation at this year's Mysteries of Space and Sky Conference held in Gambrills, MD November 9th. Savannah Dollison conducted research into psychological barriers that explain why UFO and anomalous experience witnesses are often reluctant to report sightings. For detailed show notes and other information, please apicasefiles.com Links Case 19-0011 Medina, OH Other Witness reports to NUFORC http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/148/S148501.html http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/148/S148576.html Paul's visual aids for Mysteries of Space and Sky talk Savannah Dollison's Research into Witness Psychology UFO Sightings Are at Record Heights Chris Rutkowski Sharon Hill Crime Reporting and Victim Psychology:   Mark Rodeghier   The script for this Episode API General Links Report Your UFO Sighting API's Video Series Our Investigations Page Credits: Producer and Host: Marsha Barnhart Postproduction: Paul Carr Art: Mel

Released: 20 January 2019 Duration: 65 minutes   A silent, truck-sized sphere zips past a startled Englishman; common tricks of the mind MAY explain weird creatures; API Training and Public Outreach videos await you at our website! Two recently closed Case Files are discussed: Marsha Barnhart presents an investigation that included an interesting early morning encounter in Suffolk, England, and Savannah Dollison dissects a case that proved both elusive and illusionary. Plus, Paul Carr outlines the array of training videos and public outreach informational videos now available on our website. Links: Case 18-023 Suffolk, England Rendelsheim Forest UFO Incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident EMP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse   Case 18-027 Pensacola, Florida Pareidolia and Apophenia http://59ways.blogspot.com/2012/01/apophenia-and-pareidolia_09.html API's Information API YouTube Videos The Supplemental Questionnaire Supplemental Questionnaire Training Video API Website Make a UFO Report API Investigations Page Credits: Producer and host: Marsha Barnhart Post production: Paul Carr Episode 14 Music Frequency Decree: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Frequency_Decree/ Bio Unit: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bio_Unit/Content/Bio_Unit Blue Sky Black Death: https://bandcamp.com/search?q=blue%20Sky%20black%20Death Jahzzar: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/ BoxCat Games:  https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Box%20Cat%20Games Alien Chronicler:  https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Alien%20Chronicler D J Spooky: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/DJ_Spooky/none_given_1098/14_-_DJ_Spooky_-_Check_Your_Math   API Case Files and API Conversations are released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

Recorded: 13 January 2019 Released: 13 January 2019 Duration: 54 minutes, 49 seconds   Kenny Biddle has investigated hauntings, cryptids, and UFOs for years, and has solved many of these cases. He is persistent, patient, and creative, just like any good field investigator. We talked about some of the principles he applies to his work and he gives some examples, from ghosts to Elvis Presley. These principles apply broadly to solving any mystery. Our topics included EVP, photography, and serial experiencers.   Links: Kenny Biddle's YouTube Channel Kenny Biddle on Facebook   Report a UFO Sighting Our subreddit Our Facebook Group Follow us on Twitter Credits: Host and Producer: Paul Carr Music: DJ Spooky   API Case Files and API Conversations are released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-alike license.