UFO Talker

UFO Talker

UFO Talker will be available every Wednesday. It will be a mixture of discussion, interviews and people describing their sightings of unidentified flying objects. You can contact the podcast by email: ufotalker@bell.net

Episodes

August 6, 2025 69 mins

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Summer repeat series.  Season 3 Episode 5.  From a show that originally aired on November 7, 2024 host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into two separate UFO encounters by two aircraft near Gander International Airport on October 10, 1974 and October 11, 1974.  The first UFO was seen by pilot John Breen who was flying his Cessna with his passenger Janice Gould.  The UFO played cat and mous...

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Summer repeat series.  In an episode that originally aired on February 19, 2025 host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott review another case from the RCMP files.  This encounter took place on January 2, 1975 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.  Sometime around 11:15 pm Mrs. Verna Strachan, her daughter Wendy Strachan and Linda Marino see a UFO over their apartment building that is approximately 180 feet long by 120 ...

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Season 3 Episode 32.  New Show!  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott take a deep dive into Sky Canada's UFO report "Management of Public Reporting of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in Canada".  We discuss what Chief Science Advisor of Canada, Mona Nemer, got right and what she got wrong.  If you would like to read the report and see the survey go here. There will be one more new Summer sho...

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Summer rerun series.  In this episode that originally aired on November 20, 2024 host Michael Ryan interviews aviation expert Todd Curtis.  They talk about Curtis' appearance at Contact in the Desert last June and his five categories that help define what a UAP is.  They also talk about the fact that drones are making it harder to tell what's a UFO and what isn't.  You can check out Todd's company ...

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Summer rerun series.  In this episode that originally aired on April 10, 2024 host Michael Ryan interviews Irish ufologist Chris Gaffney. Chris Gaffney takes us on a deep dive of all things relating to UFOs in Ireland.  From the 2004 encounter that an Aer Lingus 737 had with a triangle UFO.  The encounter caused damage to the wing of the aircraft.  We also play a conversation between Shannon Air Traffic Control and th...

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 Summer rerun series. Season 1 Episode 39.  In this episode that originally aired on May 24, 2023 host Michael Ryan interviews UK UFO investigator and Chairman of the Birmingham UFO Group, Dave Hodrien.  They discuss three military cases that Dave has investigated.  The first is a 300 yard long UFO this is surrounded by 3 black helicopters near Staffordshire, England in 2014.  The second case involves a British soldie...

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Summer repeat series.  In this episode that originally aired on March 15, 2023 Michael Ryan interviews British detective Gary Heseltine about his book Non-Human.  The book takes a deep dive into the Rendlesham Forest Incident.  In part two Gary Heseltine talks about Sgt. Penniston and Airman Burroughs both had missing time during the incident.  Officers from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations used drugs an...

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Summer repeat series. In an episode that originally aired on March 8, 2023 host Michael Ryan interviews British detective Gary Heseltine about his book Non-Human.  It's his 5 year investigation of the Rendlesham Forest Incident.  This is part one of a deep dive into RFI.  Gary Heseltine goes over the timeline like never before.  It's almost told like a crime scene investigation of a cold case file.  Also on ...

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Summer repeat series.  In this episode that originally aired on October 4, 2023 (Season 2 Episode 5) two eyewitness accounts of UFOs that were closer than 30 feet away.  Each sighting has changed the witness and the way they view the world.  Julie is from Melbourne, Australia and she talks about her encounter that was witnessed by her and three of her friends as they drove down the highway.  The UFO was following thei...

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Summer repeat series.  In a show that was originally broadcast in Season 2 (Season 2 Episode 14) host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott look into the sinking of patrol boat PCF-19 during the Vietnam War.  In June of 1968 the DMZ was plagued by low flying bright lights.  Were they UFOs or were they North Vietnamese helicopters?  If you would like to know more about this incident you can also check out the ve...

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Season 3 Episode 31.  In the season 3 finale Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott analyze an RCMP report from November 18, 1978.  In central British Columbia the O'Brian family stand motionless looking out their front window at a large UFO hovering over a field and lighting up 8 acres like it's daytime.  Michael Ryan and Christine Scott also talk about Canadian ufologist Arthur Bray.  Mainly for...

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Season 3 Episode 30.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss another UFO report taken from the files of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  In the small town of Ste. Rose du Lac, Manitoba  5 people have an encounter with a UFO.  From their account of what happened that day it is possible to draw the conclusion that the Oz Factor was at play during their sighting.  Cpl. R. M. Tramley investigated thi...

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Season 3 Episode 29.  Host Michael Ryan interviews retired RCMP Sergeant Craig Cochrane about his investigation into The Island Lake Incident which occurred on the night of October 3rd, 1981.  Albert Punch and his wife and three children were in their small boat when a large UFO (200 feet wide) chased their boat for over 30 minutes.  When it got too close to the boat, the boat motor would stop.  Sgt. Cochrane talks ab...

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Season 3 Episode 28.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss the recent interview of the late Harald Malmgren.  Malmgren spent a lifetime working with four U.S. Presidents and advising the heads of state in Europe and Japan.  In the Jesse Michaels interview he talks about many accounts of UFOs in a far ranging interview that seems to kick the door down on UFO secrecy.  We discuss and talk about the ...

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Season 3 Episode 27.  Host Michael Ryan interviews cryptologist David Oranchak.  David Oranchak along with Australian mathematician Sam Blake and Belgium computer programmer Jarl van Eycke cracked the Zodiac 340 Cipher which had been unsolved for 51 years.   Oranchak talks about Zodiac and discusses how he decoded the Bernie Official UFO Cipher.  He also talks about the possibility of decoding symbols that have been w...

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Season 3 Episode 26.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss another case taken from the files of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  On a chilly night October 3, 1981 Albert Punch, his wife and 3 children went by boat to Cochrane Bay in Island Lake to chop some fire wood.  What they encountered was a large UFO that at times chased them and followed them for 30 minutes.  The UFO had the effect of ki...

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Season 3 Episode 25.  Host Michael Ryan interviews author Charles Lear about the second edition of his book The Flying Saucer Investigators.  The book tells in great detail the early days of ufology.  Some of the legends discussed are Leonard Stringfield, James Moseley, Ted Bloecher and Gray Barker.  Charles Lear also talks about the case of James Flynn who went deer hunting in the Florida Everglades at night and is c...

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Season 3 Episode 24.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss another case taken from the files of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  On the nights of July 26, 27th and August 5th a family of 5 had close encounters with the same UFO in the early morning hours at their family farm near Selkirk, Manitoba.  Constable R. A. Sparks investigated the encounters for the RCMP.  If you would like to find out ...

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Season 3 Episode 23.  This episode is dedicated to the memory of Richard Ruhl February 26, 1931 - April 6, 2022.  In this episode host Michael Ryan interviews Bernie O'Connor.  Mr. O'Connor talks about his days as the editor of Official UFO Magazine.  He talks about hiring writers like Raymond Fowler, Kevin Randle and Walter Andrus among others.  He also talks about his friendship with legendary APRO field i...

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Season 3 Episode 22.  Host Michael Ryan and commentator Christine Scott discuss this case from 1978.  On the night of April 6, 1978 a woman was putting her horses away for the night when a beam of light shot from a UFO and went through the window of her barn.  The three horses in the barn went crazy and she called for help.  Eventually 12 people came to the farm and saw the UFO.  This sighting was investigated by cons...

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