Conversation 13 – Simone Mendez

Recorded: 19 September 2018

Released: 22 September 2018

Duration: 55 minutes 14 seconds

Simone Mendez in the Air Force in the early 1980s

Transcript for this Episode

Paul Carr welcomes Simone Mendez, whose contact with what appeared to be an official document detailing detection of extraterrestrial spacecraft when she was in the US Air Force caused her several months of grief and resulted in the loss of her Top Secret clearance.

Here we give Ms. Mendez a chance to tell her story and set the record straight. Her story  turns out to have many unanswered questions.

A statement for listeners from Simone Mendez:

After the audio was released, Ms. Mendez e-mailed and asked if I could make public the following statement.

I regret having kept the ufo printout, and having believed the providing co worker.  I know exactly what you listeners are thinking of that.  Just as it was derogatorily repeatedly made known to me in no uncertain terms, over the years, by certain ufo enthusiasts and online commenters.

I have a reason, that is not an excuse.  

In the year 2018, I see and know the truth about me, of 1981.  

I would rather not publicize (in medical vernacular,) a condition.

I am an Autistic person, which I was not awake to that fact, until my mid 40’s.  

We types tend to latch our focus onto one thing, with mental blinders on the sides.

I was naive and socially inept, and my then-unacknowledged condition also did not help me on polygraph exams.

If I could go back in time knowing what I know now, I would never have entered the service

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A very short introduction to Google Earth Pro for UFO Witnesses

We put this video together to encourage witnesses to use the application to explore the area in which they had their experience, and to help us pin down location and direction(s). With just a few minutes messing about in the app on your own, you can quickly learn to move about, change orientation and position, use Street View where available, and draw direction lines.

See our Video Page for a complete list of all our videos, including some we haven’t published yet.

API is seeking alliances with other independent research groups

Here is our complete statement of the sort of alliances we are seeking.

In summary, so long as we can assure the protection of witness privacy, we want to establish exchange agreements with like-minded UFO research organizations. No money will change hands, – just information, expertise, and effort.

400 Legit Followers on Twitter and growing

Update: over 500 now (Jan 2019)

We’ve been slowly rebuilding our social media presence over the last year or so. It’s taken that long to work up to 400 Twitter followers, but these are all real people. if we didn’t block the spammers and egg accounts, we’d probably have 6-700.

Anyway, if you are on Twitter regularly, please follow us, and we’ll very likely follow back. We tweet all the content from this website as it appears, so you can use it as an alert system.

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Episode 10 – A Few Good Field Investigators

Released: 5 January 2017
Runtime: 64 minutes, 9 seconds

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Report a UFO to API

API Case Files is the official podcast of Aerial Phenomena Investigations.

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 most recent case still under investigation in Texas.

Antonio, Paul and Marsha discuss the attributes of what they’re looking for in prospective investigators to join the API Team; that discussion began with the scientific and academic communities extreme reticence to engage in UAP and anomalous phenomena research.

Paul Carr presents the 8th installment in the series Unidentified Science, this time on Scientific Skywatching.

Images from Marsha’s Case 16-042 (Colorado):

Case 16-042

Case 16-042




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Conversation 6 – Alexander Wendt

Recorded: 17 May 2017
Released: 20 June 2017
Duration: 60 minutes

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Host Marsha Barnhart welcomes Alexander Wendt of Ohio State University to talk about Sovereignty and UFOs.

Dr. Wendt is Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1989, and taught at Yale University, Dartmouth College, and then the University of Chicago before coming to Ohio State in 2004. His research in political science focuses on philosophical aspects of world politics, and he is well known in his field for his book, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which won the International Studies
Association’s award for ‘Best Book of the Decade’ in 2006.  He also wrote, in 2008, a provocative paper entitled Sovereignty and the UFO with Dr. Raymond Duvall in the peer reviewed academic journal, Political Theory. Dr. Wendt recently published his latest book, Quantum Mind and Social
Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology.

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