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Conversation 20 – Airman Pat at Cannon AFB in the 70s

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Recorded: 7 June 2023
Released: 30 July 2023
Duration: 54 Minutes 21 Seconds

This is our first anonymous API Conversation, although we are using the 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.

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Case 21-023 (Isle of Man) closed as low strangeness Unidentified

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Case 21-023 were three objects of highly variable brightness observed and recorded on video by two witnesses in Douglas, Isle of Man. They chased the objects in a car until they were no longer visible. Since we were unable to confirm that the objects were moving with the wind, we can’t conclude that they were balloons, although the movement is not anomalous and is consistent with balloons. Furthermore, assuming they remained near where they were when they last disappeared, they would have to be very large. Birds were also considered as a possible explanation. although the identification wasn’t clear.

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We ask for sketches, and here is some scientific support of that practice

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We encourage our witness to make sketches as soon as possible after their sightings – before they contact us, and certainly before they discuss any details with other witnesses. This is true regardless of whether there are photos or videos. Now, some new research at University of Waterloo in Canada lends some scientific support to this practice. They found that drawing is superior to other memory retention techniques. So, not only does making a sketch help us understand what witnesses saw, it helps the witnesses retain their memory better.

We hope this will be followed up by more research that will help us understand in more detail how the sketch reinforces or affects witness memories.

Episode 8 – Improving the UFO Database

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Released: 22 November 2015
Duration: 53 minutes, 38 seconds

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Martin Willis

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 Barnhart discuss the need to collate well-investigated UFO cases to narrow down information into a solid, usable database. And they talk about the propensity of videos on YouTube that are hoaxed or poorly vetted by people just interested in making money off the UFO side-show.

 

 

  • Intro
  • Marsha Barnhart’s report on Case 15-041: Winston-Salem, North Carolina 2-Witness sighting.
  • Excerpt from Paul Carr’s API Conversations interview with Podcast UFO host Martin Wills.
  • Antonio Paris, Paul Carr and Marsha Barnhart discuss the need for a well-documented UFO database, and lament the hoaxers making money on YouTube.
  • Outro/Closing (DJ Spooky, Check Your Math)

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Redacted Report of Investigation for Case 18-017 CE1 – Bethlehem, PA

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This single witness sighting occurred on the early morning of 2 July 2018 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  No lights were observed – just a large, saucer shaped object completely blocking the road in a residential area of Bethlehem.  unfortunately, no corroboration was found.

Read the complete redacted Report of Investigation (PDF)