Recorded: 24 January2020
Released: 2 February 2020
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.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky, George Hrab
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 much more.
Eric Wojciechowski lives with his wife and two children in Livonia, Michigan. Usually writing essays and articles in politics, religion, pseudoscience and Woo-Woo. Lover of all things Fortean. Some non-fiction work can be seen at Skeptical Inquirer, Skeptic magazine, American Atheists magazine and Free Inquiry magazine. Also writes on politics at the blog, Freedom Cocktail.
Elizabeth Loftus on Mick West’s podcast
Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky
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.
This video will serve as a basis for future videos as we explore the contents of the FI’s backpack. We talk about a simple but powerful concept for organizing and preparing your gear,and show a couple of examples.
This case from the 16th of September 2019 (19-013) in Marysville, California was closed due to lack of witness communication. If you have any information about a sighting in the same time frame and location, please contact us.
Paul Carr just gave a talk in Gambrills, Maryland about API’s cases.
Here is the visual aid package from that talk.
Here is the text of the talk, which is not an accurate transcript of what was actually said.
A strange encounter in Western New York State. Closed as unidentified, but we were unable to find any corroboration.
A single witness close encounter from Wirral, near Liverpool. We closed this unidentified, but low probability due to the lack of corroboration.
If you go to our (temporary) Github repository and look in the data folder, that is where we are starting to locate our UFO case data. All data on Github has been cleaned to remove any witness Personal Identifying Information (PII). At present, all that is there are the Probability/Strangeness ratings from the cases we have issued public reports for, but the collection will grow, and we will eventually migrate to a new repository (we will give you plenty of advanced notice of that). We recommend you install the github app to access the repository.
In addition to the data, we also provide scripts to plot the data. Right now, all that is there is a simple R script, but that will also grow and diversify over time. Below is a simple plot using the script.
