5. Free Audio/Visual material

Category: Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack

Section 5 : Free Audio/Visual UFO material online

Audio/visual material available free online includes:

 

 

Section 5.1 : Alien and UFO photos online

There are masses of purportedly genuine photographs online of UFOs and aliens. I’ve discussed some of the issues relating to such photographs, and given links to relevant material, in my posts:

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Section 5.2 : Documentaries and UFO videos online

There is a thread on ATS about UFO documentaries. That thread discusses documentaries available online, as well as documentaries available on DVD or shown on television.

The copyright position in relation to many of the UFO documentaries online is rather, um, questionable. For this reason, links to specific documentaries quickly become out of date. While this sometimes gives rise to conspiracy theories, it is generally simply the result of copyright enforcement. So, I’ll avoid giving links to specific documentaries online. I’ll briefly note, however, that it is possible to limit a search for UFO videos on Google Video limited to those with a duration of over 20 minutes. In effect, this is one quick search that can be performed to find UFO documentaries available on Google Video.

There are numerous video clips purportedly showing UFOs. Masses of such clips can be found on the following websites:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many of these clips are known hoaxes. There are quite a few (although generally superficial) articles on-line about creating, and spotting, UFO video hoaxes. Some of the better ones are Tim Printy’s general article about hoaxes here and Tom Callen’s article “Faking UFO Photos in the 21st Century”.

I think it may be useful to note that you can keep streamed media (e.g. Youtube clips) on your computer by using the free functions on the Keep Vid website. You can also usefreeware on this website to convert relevant video and audio files from one format to another.

 

 

Section 5.3 Podcasts / Internet radio programs

I prefer to read about UFOs, rather than listen to them. I find it considerably more efficient. However, I think it is worth noting that in the last few years there has been a dramatic growth in the amount of free audio material about UFOs (which you can either listen to on a website, or download onto your MP3 player for you to listen to during your commute to work). If you have a high-speed internet link, in a matter of seconds you can download a podcast which will take an hour to listen to.

Because of my strong preference for reading about ufos rather than listening to others talk about them, I’m sure some of you can add to the short list I’ll give below of sources of free audio material about ufology:

 

  • A good source of interesting discussions is The Paracast. Jeff Ritzmann makes frequent appearances. The hosts of The Paracast, i.e. Gene Steinberg and David Biedny have rather generously made the archives of their show available as free downloads. Click on this link and scroll down to the section entitled “Episode Downloads”.

 

 

  • Binnall Of America includes a mass of interviews of famous ufologists. See the lists of interviews in “Season One” and “Season Two”. These include interviews of Stanton Friedman, Richard Dolan, Royce Myers of the UfoWatchDog.com website and many others. He has an interest in examining ufology as a global phenomenon (and, hence, interviewing some ufologists from outside Northern America) and encouraging more young people to participate. Also, his interviews tend to be considerably longer than most online podcast interviews (many of his interviews are over an hour long). Binnall has clearly made considerable efforts to interview ufologists from outside the USA, but the researchers from Europe that he has interviewed appear to have been fairly active on the international UFO lecture circuit rather than researchers that maintain a low-profile.

 

 

  • I’m afraid that I have great difficulty listening to the X-zone radio because of the amount of advertising. Perhaps I’ve been spoilt by listening for too long to the BBC’s Radio 4 channel, which has no advertising at all. All the interruptions for fairly long advertising segments during the X-zone radio made it simply too painful to listen to more than a few shows.

 

 

  • ATS has its own section for podcasts here. I must confess that, unlike most other sections of ATS, I’ve found it difficult to identify the items that are the most popular and/or most likely to be of interest to me. So, I’ve listened to very, very few items from that section. As far as I can tell, this section of ATS has never really taken off.

 

 

  • Although not free, I can’t refer to podcasts without at least mentioning Strange Days Indeed (“SDI”). Run by Errol Bruce-Knapp, the chap behind the UFO Updates discussion List (see Section 6.1 below), SDI regularly features the biggest names within ufology and tends the discussions tend to be more topical than on other podcasts.