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API Case Files Live #4 with guest Erica Lukes

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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/witness-faq/

 

Erica’s bio: Erica Lukes is an experienced podcaster and longtime popular video show host. As executive director of Expanding Frontiers Research, Erica conducts engaging interviews with journalists, researchers and experts on a variety of social and technical issues, including cults, cybersecurity, the environment, and the overlapping of the intelligence and UFO communities. She also facilitates the Expanding Frontiers Archive, an online group of special collections inspired by a physical archive Erica maintains that includes files representing the life work of select pioneers of UFO research. Due to the organization’s effective use of public records requests and subsequent reporting, Expanding Frontiers Research was the recipient of an annual state-wide award from the Utah Investigative Journalism Project. Erica’s investigation of UFOs includes conducting hundreds of interviews on her popular UFO Classified podcast; a far above-average familiarity with what she came to assess as the unverified claims surrounding the Skinwalker Ranch; and serving as state director of Utah MUFON before becoming disappointed in the organization’s leadership. Erica studied music and voice at the University of Utah and is a longtime successful Salt Lake City business owner in the health and wellness industry.

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Future API Case Files Live guest is therapist Rachel Bond

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We’re planning to have psychotherapist Rachel Bond on our Livestream April 3rd 2026 at 9:00 PM EDT. She is located here in Maryland, and works with people who have had anomalous experiences. To quote her Psychology Today profile:

I help individuals integrate experiences that expand or challenge their sense of self, whether spiritual crisis, near-death or out-of-body experiences, paranormal phenomena, and/or encounters that are simply just beyond-ordinary experience.

We will take questions for her in advance, or you can ask your question live via the chat. You can also call our hotline and leave a voicemail. The link below will take you to the livestream when it goes live at 9:00 PM on April 3rd, 2026.

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Live with UFO Historian Jeff Knox

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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/contact-us/

Become an API investigator: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/join-api/

Our new  number: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/weve-updated-our-hotline-number-again/

Report your UFO sighting: https://reportaufo.org

 

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Case Files Live – a Maryland High Strangeness Case

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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/

Our new hotline number: https://aerial-phenomenon.org/weve-updated-our-hotline-number-again/

Report your UFO sighting: https://reportaufo.org

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Maryland experiencers – need help?

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You may or may not not be interested in an API investigation of your experiences, but if you are struggling to cope with your memories, we can refer you to someone in Maryland who can help, and will listen to you without judging or pathologizing your situation. All interactions you have with a therapist are strictly confidential,  and API will not be involved.

Contact us and we’ll help you take the next step. You are under no obligation, and we will not pressure you to tell us your story in any detail at all. If you do want to report an experience to us for our investigation, then also go to our sighting report form.

In any case, we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

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Join us Live on 7 November with researcher and author Jack Brewer

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Episode 9 of API Case Files Live at 21:30 EST on the 7th of November. Our special guest will be researcher and writer Jack Brewer. Jack has written extensively about the shenanigans people get up to in the UFO field, and the involvement of the intelligence community in UFO culture. Please join us live and bring your questions.

Jack Brewer’s Bio

Jack Brewer is a volunteer and board member at Expanding Frontiers Research, a Utah nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the public reliable information through proven research methods. He is a nonfiction author that relies on public documents and verified source material to reconstruct historical chains of events. He has submitted over 300 public records requests and appeals with Expanding Frontiers Research since co-founding the organization with Erica Lukes in 2022. Having written hundreds of well-received investigative blogposts and two books that explore the exploitation of the UFO topic, Jack resides in Central Florida where he is a semi-retired entrepreneur and business consultant.