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Strange Arrivals
Welcome to Strange Arrivals, where host Toby Ball unravels history's most famous cases of extraterrestrial encounters. This season three, we look at UFO researchers who developed theories to explain the phenomenon and the consequences those theories had for people who believed they had experienced t...
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53 episodesIntroducing: Rip Current
California, September 1975. Within a span of 17 days and less than 90 miles, two women, working separately, tried to assassinate the president of the...
Bonus Episode: Ben Zeller
In the second of two bonus episodes about the Heaven's Gate UFO group, Toby talks with Lake Forest University professor, Ben Zeller.
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Bonus Episode: George Chryssides
In the first of two bonus episodes about the Heaven's Gate UFO group, Toby talks with academic and researcher, George Chryssides.
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Bonus Episode: Sarah Krasnostein
In this bonus episode, Toby chats with Sarah Krasnostein, author of The Believer. They discuss the Creation Museum, people who cleanse houses of annoy...
Bonus Episode: Diana Pasulka
In this bonus episode, Toby chats with University of North Carolina, Wilmington, professor Diana Pasulka about aerial phenomena in Catholic history, h...
Priests at the Ziggurat
Historically, people have looked to religious authority figures to explain occurences that seem to exist outside normal human experience. A similar dy...
The Ranch
The media has reported that the government has some level of interest in UFOs. But, while you might think that this would mean investigating physical...
Invasion of the Ultraterrestrials
John Keel lived a weird and adventurous life. He brought UFOs and other strange phenomena to a larger audience through his compelling storytelling. An...
The Monster in the Igloos
"What is battleship gray, five to seven feet tall, has a pair of red eyes two inches in diameter which blaze like two lasers, wings which extend to te...
The Case of Emma Woods, Pt. 3
Emma Woods breaks off her contact with David Jacobs and tries to regain control over her life. David Jacobs responds to her allegations as she pushes...
The Case of Emma Woods, Pt. 2
As Emma Woods continued to work with abduction researcher David Jacobs, her hypnosis sessions turned stranger and darker. Then, Jacobs introduced a co...
The Case of Emma Woods, Pt. 1
A New Zealand woman who goes by the pseudonym of Emma Woods worked closely with abduction researcher David Jacobs to try to understand the strange exp...
Unseen Realms of the Infinite
In 1992, an alien aduction conference was held on the grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the goal of bringing the latest abduct...
Long Road to Hacklebury
Elizabeth Anglin has had paranormal experiences her entire life. Her work with Dr. John Mack helped her try to understand these experiences. Mack was...
Puppets
We are still in the early days of examining the events at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. Alternative explanations are beginning to emerge, includ...
Excited and Scared at the Same Time
Outside for recess, more than 60 students at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported seeing an unknown craft and strange creatures in a thicket of...
Boianai
Over three nights in 1959 at the remote Boianai Mission in Papua New Guinea, 38 people saw an unexplained craft hover over the ocean. Figures emerged...
Strange Arrivals: Season Three Trailer
This season on Strange Arrivals, we look at UFO researchers who developed theories to explain the phenomenon and the consequences those theories had f...
INTERVIEW 5: Glen Morgan
An interview with Glen Morgan, writer and producer for The X-Files. Glen talks about how he came to be involved in the series, the development of the...
INTERVIEW 4: Lynne McNeil
An interview with Lynne McNeill, associate professor of folklore in the English Department at Utah State University and Chair of the Folklore Program....
INTERVIEW 3: David J. Halperin
Interview with David J. Halperin, who taught in the Religious Studies department at the University of North Carolina until he retired in 2000, and aut...
INTERVIEW 2: Chris Carter
An interview with Chris Carter, the creator of a little television show you might have heard of called The X-Files.
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INTERVIEW 1: Colin Dickey
An interview with author Colin Dickey about his book, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained.
Mylar Batman
Photographs and videos are a critical component in UFO folklore, but there isn't a single example as iconic as ones for the Sasquatch and the Loch Nes...
Hypernormalization
Popular culture has been important in UFO folklore, both absorbing the existing stories around UFOs and creating new narratives. The 90s television sh...
The Rumor Equation
Richard Doty makes a deal with Bill Moore to trade what the government knows about flying saucers for information about the UFO community. But what is...
Enemy Above
In the late 1970s and early 80s, an electrical engineer named Paul Bennewitz filmed lights over Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, NM, and record...
Balloon Train
The Roswell crash is perhaps the most famous UFO incident in history. But for more than 30 years after the debris was found in 1947, the case was rela...
Radically Different and Richer Alternatives
After Project Blue Book was shuttered, J. Allen Hynek was the best known authority on UFOs and cemented this perception with his Close Encounters clas...
The Illusion of Motion
J. Allen Hynek arrives in Michigan to investigate a rash of UFO sightings. Under pressure to come to a quick conclusion, he delivers an explanation th...
Quicksand
J. Allen Hynek joins the Air Force’s UFO investigation effort in its earliest stages. He finds most cases easy to explain, but become increasingly tro...
Seagulls
In 1964, a patrolman on a desert stretch of highway hears an explosion. Investigating, he sees two beings standing outside an egg-shaped vehicle. As h...
Eyes of Your Eyes
The three main witnesses to the Rendlesham Forest encounters agree about the basic events that happened over the three nights. But there are parts whe...
The Lighthouse
The British tabloids get wind of the Rendlesham encounter and it becomes public in 1983. The news prompts a closer look at the Rendlesham narratives,...
This is Unreal
Two nights after the first encounter, strange lights are once again seen above RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. The US Air Force dispatches a group...
Boxing Day, 1980
On Christmas night, 1980, a light is observed descending into a forest just outside RAF Bentwaters, a British military air base on the eastern coast o...
Teaser: Rendlesham
In this extended trailer, we give you a sneak preview of the story at the heart of Strange Arrivals season two: The Rendlesham Forest Incident, someti...
Strange Arrivals: Season Two Trailer
This season on Strange Arrivals, we explore the Rendlesham Forest Incident, one of the most famous UFO sightings in history, sometimes described as Br...
INTERVIEW 3: Carol Rainey
An interview with documentary filmmaker Carol Rainey, who was the research partner and wife of UFO researcher Budd Hopkins in the late 1990s and early...
INTERVIEW 2: Stephanie Kelley-Romano
An interview with Stephanie Kelley-Romano, an associate professor at Bates College who has done academic work on alien abduction stories.