API Case Files
API Case Files is the official podcast of Aerial Phenomena Investigations.
Episodes
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
Rachel's Psychology Today Profile
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Credits
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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: 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/wit...
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/cont...
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/
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 t...
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
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 Read more
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 case...
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...
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:
Tim McMillan: Inside the Pentagon's ...
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.
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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 muc...
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 Novemb...
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 Ba...
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 ...
Recorded: 24 November 2018
Released: 3 December 2018
Duration: 70 minutes, 1 second
While researching his book, the Justin reached out to Marsha in an attempt to get detailed information on API case 12-001. The Witness in this case was the night manager at a hotel on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. On October 14, 2008, both he and the hotel night time security manager were outside talking when they saw a large Triangular UFO ri...
Recorded: 19 September 2018
Released: 22 September 2018
Duration:55 minutes 14 seconds
Paul Carr welcomes Simone Mendez, whose contact with what appeared to be an official document detailing detection of extraterrestrial spacecraft by the US Government when she was in the US Air Force caused her several months of grief and resulted in the loss of her Top Secret security clearance. Here we give Ms. Mendez a chance to tell her...
Recorded: 8 August 2018
Released: 8 August 2018
Duration: 57 minutes, 58 seconds
Host Paul Carr welcomes author and blogger Jack Brewer to talk about everything except alien abductions and Gene Steinberg. In particular, we talk about the recent developments in the UFO field and concerns about disinformation. We also briefly discuss MK-ULTRA and the possible murder of bioweapons expert Frank Olson.
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...Released: 15 July 2018
Duration: 1 hour, 41 seconds
Host and Producer Marsha Barnhart welcomes API investigators Paul Carr and Savannah Dollison. The three cover a few of their recent investigations in-depth during a round-table discussion. They examine sightings in New Jersey, New York, Utah and Georgia, which covered the gamut from overhead "fly-by's" to unnerving close encounters!
Recorded: 11 July 2018
Released: 12 July 2018
Duration: 51 minutes, 35 seconds
Host Paul Carr in conversation with Dr. Kevin Knuth, author of a recent article in The Conversation entitled "Are we alone? The question is worthy of serious scientific study."
The conversation centers around strategies for lifting "the veil of ridicule" that surrounds UFO studies, and Kevin's own experience, and how he came to take the topi...
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