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
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