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Our Guest this week is Roswell expert Dennis Balthaser

It’s been a while since we’ve visited the realm of UFO investigation; so we felt when we did return, we would need to bring along a true expert in the field. Luckily for us, we found just that in Dennis Balthaser.Dennis actually lives in Roswell New Mexico, and has been studying the famous ‘Roswell Incident’ for many years. He has appeared on countless television and radio shows, and is often published in UFO Magazine.

This week we discuss: The Roswell Incident, Dulce underground base, Area 51, The state of Ufology today and much more.

As if tipped off to the incident; Daddytank, and his army of musical flying saucers attack this week come in the shape of:

Hills Like White Elephants – Foundation

Vector Trio – The Road To Solola

Vaetxh - Clipper

If you have any queries, suggestions, insults etc. Please feel free to email ken@sittingnow.co.uk.

Enjoy!

Dennis Balthaser Bio:

As a young man, Dennis Balthaser would look into the night sky and wonder at the secrets it held. Some years later Dennis bought a book about UFOs and his wonder turned to investigation. Today he has a library with over 90 books in reference to ufology.

Dennis served 3 years (‘59-62) with the United States Army in the 815th Engineering Battalion.

After some 33 years in Civil Engineering, Dennis retired from the Texas Department of Transportation in 1996. Having been keenly interested in the Roswell Incident of 1947, Dennis decided to move to Roswell, New Mexico, to pursue his avocation: Ufology.

Initially Dennis worked as an Engineering Consultant in Roswell, volunteering his time at the International UFO Museum and Research Center on weekends. Nine months later he resigned from the engineering firm, assuming the duties of IUFOMRC Operations Manager. He served on the Board of Directors and became the UFO Investigator for the Museum as a full time volunteer from 1996 until 1998, then began his research as an independent researcher.

Due to his love of ufology, his dedication and his exhaustive work, Dennis is regarded as a leading investigator and ufologist by his peers, communicating regularly with such well known researchers as Stanton Friedman, Frank Warren, Scott Ramsey (scottr@ExpressWireServices.com), and others in their quests to find the truth.

Dennis is a Certified Mutual UFO Network Field Investigator, a member of Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association, and belongs to several ufology organizations.

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This weeks guest, Nick Pope, used to run the British Government’s UFO project at the Ministry of Defence. Initially sceptical, his research and investigation into the UFO phenomenon and access to formerly classified government files on the subject soon convinced him that the phenomenon raised important defence and national security issues, especially when the witnesses were military pilots or where UFOs were tracked on radar. Nick also looked into other mysteries such as alien abductions, crop circles and ghosts. He now continues his research in a private capacity and is recognised as a leading authority on UFOs and the unexplained. He does extensive media work, lectures all around the world and has acted as consultant on numerous television documentaries.

Background music this week comes in the shape of Four Tet.

Featured Song this week is ‘No Tech!’ by Unwound

Check out Nick Pope on the web here and the National Archives UFO documents here

On Wednesday, May 14th, Britain’s Ministry of Defense released all UFO-related files between the years of 1978 and 1987 to the national archives.  The remaining files from the 1950s and more recent history are scheduled to be made public over the next few years.  These documents of purported UFOs contain witness accounts and the government’s reactions to the sightings, which are reported primarily as different colored hovering or traveling lights.  In almost each report, the lights are said to have descended quickly, landed, and then vanished.  Though some citizens claimed these sightings to had extraterrestrial significance, some even mentioned having contact with aliens, the staff of the Ministry of Defense took more concern in assuring that they were not earthly foreign spies, rather.  Special interest was paid during the Cold War when Soviet aircrafts were suspected.

Nick Pope gained access to the files two days earlier:

 

The UK National Archives have released a series of videos and podcasts here