API Case Files

Jul 29 2023 38 ep. 64 mins 455
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API Case Files is the official podcast of Aerial Phenomena Investigations. The API team is out to drain the UFO swamp, bringing a real scientific and skeptical approach to the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. We don't have all the answers, so we investigate.

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

Jul 29 2023 54 mins  
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

Conversation 19 - Dr. Joan R. Bird

Jun 25 2022 107 mins  
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 co

Episode 18 - Orbs ‘a Plenty

Jul 26 2021 42 mins  
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 a

Episode 17 - I Know What I Remember

Jun 07 2021 59 mins  
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 i

Episode 16 - Lights, Camera, Action!

Nov 10 2020 60 mins  
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

Conversation 18 - Curt Collins

Mar 26 2020 69 mins  
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

Conversation 17 - Eric Wojciechowski, part 2

Feb 02 2020 51 mins  
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, a

API Conversation #16 - Eric Wojciechowski, Part 1

Jan 25 2020 52 mins  
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

Episode 15 - Can I Get a Witness?

Dec 15 2019 80 mins  
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 Confere

Episode 14 - An English Orb and Who Are These People?

Jan 19 2019 65 mins  
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,