Minisode One: The Eagle River Incident: Water for (Extra)terrestrial Pancakes

12/29/20 • 10 min

Our Strange Skies: UFOs Throughout History

The Eagle River Incident may be the most fun close encounter of the third kind case in existence. Meet Joe Simonton, a sixty year old chicken farmer, who traded water for intergalactic pancakes.
Random Remarks

As crazy as this story sounds, I believe Joe. He's a really down to earth guy.
I mention Jacques Vallee. He is, what I would consider, part of the Mount Rushmore of UFO research, along with J Allen Hynek, John Keel, and Budd Hopkins.

Sources

Pancakes from the Stars by Nick Redfern

The Distortion Theory - Really Fun Theories on the UFO Phenomenon

A Talk with Robert Friend who Investigated the Case with Hynek

Space Pancakes... A Fortean Breakfast Story by Loren Coleman

Two decades of mysterious Air Force UFO files now available online

Joe Simonton's Letter to Flying Saucer Review

Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee

Theme Song by Shane Yoder
Art and Website by the Great Desdymona

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As crazy as this story sounds, I believe Joe. He's a really down to earth guy.
I mention Jacques Vallee. He is, what I would consider, part of the Mount Rushmore of UFO research, along with J Allen Hynek, John Keel, and Budd Hopkins.

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Episode Zero Point Five: What We Talk About When We Talk About the UFO Phenomenon

In the first episode of the Our Strange Skies podcast, Rob runs down the basics of the UFO phenomenon, including a working definition, the characteristics of the phenomenon, and the competing theories as to what may be responsible for these objects. He also dives into the contact phenomenon, and the different classifications of these types of encounters. Also, there may be aliens!

Random Remarks:

If you couldn't tell, J Allen Hynek is pretty important. This episode is a practical love fest.

I messed up the acronym APRO: It stands for Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization.

I also learned that a group of aliens is known as a buttah.

Links:

Article about the NAVY pilots that saw the tic-tac shaped craft.

J Allen Hynek's The UFO Experience.

Hynek's books have started to appear as eBooks in the last couple of years. I highly recommend checking those out.

Pat Lee's Extraterrestrial Compendium

J Allen Hynek Speech to the UN.

Theme Song by Shane Yoder Art and Website by the Great Desdymona

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On this episode of the Our Strange Skies podcast, we go into the past to find some early UFO sightings, pre-Roswell era stuff. We touch on Ezekiel's Biblical UFOs, the woodcut depiction of celestial phenomena over Nuremberg, Germany, and Basel, Switzerland. Then we dive into some of America's early sightings, including a potential failed alien abduction and one of America's first cattle mutilations. All this and more!

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