API Case Files
38 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAPI 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
July 30, 2023 06:39 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBReleased: 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 that time, we’d like to hear your side of the story. M...
Conversation 19 - Dr. Joan R. Bird
June 25, 2022 22:50 - 1 hour - 98 MBRecorded: 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 biolo...
Episode 18 - Orbs ‘a Plenty
July 26, 2021 14:32 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBReleased: 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 and reported a single orb just like what our Witness saw. Two days before the Isle of Man sighting, a Wit...
Episode 17 - I Know What I Remember
June 07, 2021 17:57 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBReleased: 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 in a large urban area just outside Louisville. And we hear from a Colorado camper who got more than he ba...
Episode 16 - Lights, Camera, Action!
November 11, 2020 03:35 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBReleased: 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 of hyper-sensitivity to UFO sightings by some Witn...
Conversation 18 - Curt Collins
March 26, 2020 22:19 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBRecorded: 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 Lines Tim McMillan: Inside the Pentagon's Secret UFO Program The Pentagon UFO Program's Secret Par...
Conversation 17 - Eric Wojciechowski, part 2
February 03, 2020 02:00 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MBRecorded: 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. Links Eric's Amazon Page Freedom Cocktail Eric on Twitter Jesus and Mo The...
API Conversation #16 - Eric Wojciechowski, Part 1
January 26, 2020 03:27 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBRecorded: 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 much more. Eric Wojciechowski lives with his wife and...
Episode 15 - Can I Get a Witness?
December 15, 2019 22:58 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBReleased: 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 November 9th. Savannah Dollison conducted research into psychological barriers that ...
Episode 14 - An English Orb and Who Are These People?
January 20, 2019 05:09 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBReleased: 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, England, and Savannah Dollison dissects a case that proved both elusive and illusionary. Plus, Paul Car...
Conversation 15 - Kenny Biddle and Solving Mysteries
January 14, 2019 04:29 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBRecorded: 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 any mystery. Our topics included EVP, photography, a...
Conversation 14 - Justin Bamforth
December 03, 2018 18:29 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBRecorded: 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 rise up from the Horseshoe Falls and silently glide over ...
Conversation 13 - Simone Mendez
September 21, 2018 01:37 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBRecorded: 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 story and set the record straight. Her story turns ...
Conversation 12 - Jack Brewer
August 09, 2018 03:00 - 57 minutes - 46.5 MBRecorded: 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. Links The UFO Trail blog The Greys Have Been Framed UFO Misinformation Keit...
Episode 13 - Rotating Rings, Large Dark Objects, and Strange Lights in the Neighborhood!
July 15, 2018 04:44 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBReleased: 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! What do photos and videos of Unidentified Aerial Objects add to the tangibility of “evidence” within th...
Conversation 11 - Kevin Knuth
July 12, 2018 15:12 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBRecorded: 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 topic seriously himself. Guest Bio Kevin Knuth is an Associa...
Conversation 10 - Chris Cogswell
April 19, 2018 03:07 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBReleased: 18 April 2018 Duration: 66 minutes, 2 seconds Paul Carr is joined by Chris Cogswell, recently resigned director of research at MUFON, about how he and his team are carrying on with an enterprise of scientific research into the UFO phenomena. Links: The Mad Scientist Podcast MUFON Director of Research Resigns API Case Files API Main Site Report A UFO Credits: host and Producer: Paul Carr Music: DJ Spooky API Case Files is distributed under th...
Conversation 9 - Cheryl Costa, Part 2
April 11, 2018 02:59 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBRecorded: March 23, 2018 Released: 10 April 2018 Duration: 71 Minutes, 4 seconds Marsha Barnhart arranged a part two conversation with Cheryl Costa, co-author of UFO Sightings Desk Reference.In part two, they pick up the conversation discussing how Cheryl became interested in writing an on-line UFO sightings column, New York Skies, for the Syracuse New Times, and how she developed mind/consciousness interests via the practices of Shamanism, Buddhism and Remote Viewing. Additionally...
Conversation 8 - Cheryl Costa, part 1
March 24, 2018 19:37 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBReleased: 24 March 2018 Duration: 62 minutes Marsha Barnhart talks to Cheryl Costa, co-author of UFO Sightings Desk Reference. This is a one-of-a-kind reference book covering 15 years of UFO sightings within the United States. The information was gleaned from more than 120,000 raw reports made by citizens to either the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) or the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) between the years 2001 to 2015. The information is a statistical bonanza annotating the freque...
Episode 12 - Cylinders, Satellites and Stars, Oh My!
December 08, 2017 20:09 - 1 hour - 37.4 MBReleased 10 December 2017 Kiwi UFO—A blazing cylinder over New Zealand. Blank Spots on the Map “outs” spy satellites whose operations may trigger UFO reports. API introduces a new team member, chats about some interesting cases, and discusses explanations for common misidentifications. In Episode 12 of Case Files…API Director Paul Carr, Chief of Investigations Marsha Barnhart, and new Lead Investigator Savannah Dollison join in a Team Round Table discussion about some of their more re...
Episode 11 - Michigan Cases and UFODATA
August 04, 2017 02:36 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBReleased: 3 August 2017 Duration: 61 minutes, 16 seconds In this episode of Case Files, host Marsha Barnhart examines two Michigan UFO cases; she provides an excerpt of a recent interview with Dr. Mark Rodeghier on his role in the UFODATA Project. API’s Deputy director, Paul Carr, presents another in his series Unidentified Science where he details some of the on-going efforts in the scientific search for intelligent life in the cosmos; Marsha outlines various self-training meth...
Conversation 7 - Mark Rodeghier
July 28, 2017 00:52 - 1 hour - 37.3 MBRecorded: 12 June 2017 Released: 27 July 2017 Duration: 64 minutes, 59 seconds Marsha Barnhart talks to Dr. Mark Rodeghier, President and Scientific Director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies. The Center was founded originally by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who was a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, and later, chairman of the astronomy department at Northwestern University near Chicago, where the Center for UFO Studies is based. It is a privately funded UFO r...
Conversation 6 - Alexander Wendt
June 21, 2017 02:49 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBRecorded: 17 May 2017 Released: 20 May 2017 Duration: 60 minutes Host Marsha Barnhart welcomes Alexander Wendt of Ohio State University. Bio Info: https://polisci.osu.edu/people/wendt.23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wendt Mershon Center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mershon_Center_for_International_Security_Studies Sovereignty and the UFO: http://minotb52ufo.com/pdf/Wendt-Duvall-Sovereignty-and-the-UFO.pdf http://fpif.org/to_the_us_government_ufos_are_a_thr...
Conversation 5 - Frances Barwood
April 26, 2017 02:09 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBRecorded: 11 April 2017 Released: 25 April 2017 Duration: 66 minutes Marsha Barnhart in conversation with former Phoenix vice mayor Frances Barwood. The topic is the 1997 Phoenix Lights incident. Formore information, please visit: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/conversation-5-frances-barwood/ Script for the intro and outro: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHAzzxTysM90FDszKuLDeeEqOsD8hTEahLoViNs19-s/edit?usp=sharing Host and Producer: Marsha Barnhart Music: DJ Spooky...
Conversation 4 - Norio Hayakawa
January 30, 2017 03:17 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBRecorded: 19 January 2017 Released: 1 February 2017 Duration: 76 minutes, 14 seconds Norio Hayakawa Welcome to API Conversations. I'm Marsha Barnhart API's Chief of Investigations and your host for this Conversations episode. My guest today for this edition of API Conversations is Norio Hayakawa. Norio is a resident of New Mexico and probably best known for his work investigating the anomalous activities in and around the Dulce New Mexico area. He is a blogger, an activist and, as ...
Episode 10 - A Few Good Field Investigators
January 06, 2017 00:17 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBReleased: 5 January 2017 Runtime: 64 minutes, 9 seconds Report a UFO to API API Case Files is the official podcast of Aerial Phenomena Investigations. For more details on this and other episodes, please see APICaseFiles.com In this episode, Marsha Barnhart examines closely an Identified case in Colorado, and a Brooklyn case closed as Unidentified. Paul Carr covers his recently closed-as-Unidentified case in Manhattan, and Prof. Antonio Paris briefly outlines his mos...
Conversation 3 - Joshua Cutchin
August 04, 2016 03:54 - 55 minutes - 38 MBReleased 3 August 2016 Runtime: 55 minutes, 17seconds Marsha Barnhart held a spirited conversation with Podcaster, Blogger and Author of “A Trojan Feast”, Joshua Cutchin. His book examines folk lore of food and drink offerings purported by witnesses from Aliens, Faeries and Sasquatch. Marsha also discussed Joshua’s recent Blog post regarding the seeming inability of the materialistic scientific approach to answer oddities and high strangeness associated with many UFO reports and exp...
API Case Files Episode 9 - The Oregon case was not swamp gas.
April 10, 2016 02:56 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBReleased: 9 April 2016 Duration: 59 minutes, 16 seconds Marsha Barnhart on a recent Oregon case, the Swamp Gas Conference, Ted Roe, and Antonio Paris. For more information on API Case Files, please see http://apicasefiles.com Producer and Host: Marsha Barnhart Postproduction: Paul Carr and Auphonic.com Hosting: Libsyn.com
Conversation 2 - Mark O'Connell
February 16, 2016 03:51 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBRecorded: 15 February 2016 Released: 15 February 2016 Duration:57 minutes, 58 seconds Blogger, UFO Field Investigator, and J. Allen Hynek biographer Mark O'Connell in conversation with Paul Carr. Links: Mark's Blog - High Strangeness UFO The Secret Life of J. Allen Hynek Credits: Producer: Paul Carr Music: DJ Spooky
Episode 8 - Improving the UFO Database
November 23, 2015 01:35 - 53 minutes - 43 MBReleased: 22 November 2015 Duration: 53 minutes, 38 seconds This is the 8th episode of API Case Files - the podcast by and for UAP Investigators. In this episode, Marsha Barnhart reports on a small-airplane-sized, orb-like sphere case in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Paul Carr talks with Podcast UFO host Martin Willis. (This is an excerpt from his full interview with Martin Willis, showcased in API's newest podcast offering API Conversations.) Antonio Paris, Paul Carr and Marsha Bar...
Conversation 1 - Martin Willis of Podcast UFO
October 24, 2015 04:12 - 1 hour - 37.9 MBRecorded: 19 October 2015 Released: 24 October 2015 Duration:66 minutes, 14 seconds Paul Carr in conversation with host and producer of Podcast UFO, Martin Willis. About our Guest, Martin Willis: The subject of UFOs has fascinated Martin since his youth, yet he was on the fence about the subject. He experienced a sighting in 2006 in Carmel Valley, CA, that solidified his beliefs that UFOs really do exist. Since this time, Martin has paid attention to what others have to say...
Episode 7 - Case Files Examined
August 16, 2015 03:57 - 50 minutes - 40.1 MBRelease Date: 16 August 2015 Episode 7 - Case Files Examined Release Date: August 15, 2015 Duration: 50 Minutes Podcast RSS Feed (to subscribe) This is the 7th episode of API Case Files - the podcast by and for UAP Investigators. In this episode, Marsha Barnhart showcases an investigation of a Washington state case that leads to musings about the 4th state of matter: Plasma; Antonio Paris, Paul Carr and Marsha Barnhart talk about a few of their more-interesting recent cases;...
Episode 6: API Leadership Roundtable
December 05, 2014 15:17 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBDetailed Show Notes with Links The podcast by and for UAP investigators returns with an unscripted roundtable with the senior leadership of API: Antonio Paris (Florida), Marsha Barnhart (Michigan), and Paul Carr (Maryland). Antonio, Marsha and Paul discuss some of the common problems encountered by UAP investigators and witnesses today. Also, Paul's sixth installment of Unidentified Science, discussing refinement and standardization of the Probability/Strangeness matrix. Music by DJ ...
Episode 5 - Ted Roe of NARCAP
September 05, 2014 15:48 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBThis is the 5th episode of API Case Files - the podcast by and for UFO Investigators. Your hosts for this Episode are Marsha Barnhart, API Chief of Investigations and Antonio Paris, API Founder & Director. The Podcast features an interview with Ted Roe, Executive Director of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomenon. There is also an introduction to one of our latest API investigators, Joe Conway, during a discussion on some of our more interesting open cases. And,...
Episode 4 - UFO Photographs
June 05, 2014 02:14 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBHosted by Antonio Paris and Marsha Barnhart. Produced by Paul Carr. Marsha reviews the recent case files, Photographic UFO Evidence with API analyst Robert Kolb Anotnio Paris with the Investigator's toolkit A Conversation with a Skeptic (part 2) Unidentified Science - what if we're trying to study something smarter than we are? Norio Hayakawa tells us about his upcoming conference. See Detailed Show Notes
Episode 3 - High Strangeness in the California Desert
March 21, 2014 23:55 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBRelease Date: 21 March 2014 This is the 3rd episode of API Case Files - the podcast by and for UFO Investigators. Your host for this Episode is Marsha Barnhart, API Chief of Investigations, who opens the show with a report on API’s 2014 case-load, and provides a snapshot view of API investigator’s currently assigned cases. Marsha Barnhart produced a segment on a “high strangeness” case, 14-027-AN4, that illuminates possible linkage between UFO experiencers and coinciding anomalous ...
Episode 2 - Abductions and Black Triangles
February 21, 2014 16:42 - 1 hour - 33.7 MBAbduction Cases and David Marler interview, Part 2 See Show Notes
Episode 1 - 2013 in Review and David Marler on Triangular UFOs
December 13, 2013 06:25 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBRelease Date: 13 December 2013 Download the .mp3 This the inaugural episode of API Case Files - the podcast by and for UFO Investigators. Your hosts for this Episode are Antonio Paris and Marsha Barnhart, who are joined by Cherish Paris, Paul Carr and Lawrence MacNeill. Intro 2013 Cases in Review Part 1 of Interview with David Marler, author of Triangle UFOS: An Estimate of the Situation Unidentified Science Investigator's Notebook Questions from Listeners 20 second rec...