UAP Files Podcast

What if the biggest obstacle to UFO disclosure isn't the government, but the UFO community itself?

In this episode of UAP Files, I'm joined by documentary filmmaker Darcy Weir, who has spent almost two decades investigating UFOs, government secrecy, extraterrestrial encounters and some of the most controversial personalities in the subject.
Darcy doesn't hold back.

We discuss the growing influence of UFO celebrities, the money being made from disclosure, the increasingly divided UFO community and whether some of the people promising us answers are actually making it harder to uncover the truth.

From Dr Steven Greer and Chris Bledsoe to Mick West, Susan Gerbic, Sean Kirkpatrick and the Pentagon, we explore some uncomfortable questions about an industry built around one of humanity's greatest mysteries.

In this episode, we discuss:
🛸 The UFO Industry: Has the search for extraterrestrial life become a business where money and influence matter more than evidence?
👽 Steven Greer: Darcy shares his personal experience attempting to arrange an interview with Greer, including the financial and contractual demands he says he received.
🔎 Mick West & UFO Sceptics: Are some sceptics too quick to dismiss potentially anomalous footage, and are believers equally guilty of confirmation bias?
📚 Wikipedia & Narrative Control: We discuss Susan Gerbic, Guerrilla Skeptics, Wikipedia editing controversies and the influence of online fact-checking.
🛸 Chris Bledsoe: Darcy questions some of the claims and predictions associated with one of ufology's most talked-about experiencers.
🏛️ The Pentagon & Disclosure: Why would an institution historically associated with secrecy suddenly become more open about UFOs? And can we trust the information being released?
🎥 The Best UFO Evidence: From military encounters and infrared footage to unexplained aerial objects, Darcy discusses what he believes deserves serious investigation.
👽 Alien Mummies: We also touch on Darcy's latest documentary, which investigates the controversial Nazca mummy claims.
Throughout our conversation, one question keeps coming back:
If we're genuinely getting closer to discovering whether we're alone in the universe, how do we know who to trust?

Darcy Weir is an independent documentary filmmaker whose work includes The Underground, Secret Space UFOs: Fastwalkers and his latest documentary, The Dripton Files: Mummy Mania.

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*TIMESTAMPS*

00:00 Intro
01:29 Meet filmmaker Darcy Weir
02:11 From Phil Schneider's underground bases to his first film
06:32 How the UFO conversation has changed since 2009
08:56 Gaia TV, social media & the content flood
11:31 Factions, cults and "don't go on that show" lists
13:04 Steven Greer's interview demands & where the money goes
15:51 Money vs integrity in ufology
20:12 The backlash for interviewing Kirkpatrick & Susan Gerbic
22:30 Guerrilla Skeptics and the Wikipedia edits
24:50 Lucky Louie, sourcing & why Darcy stopped donating to Wikipedia
30:09 Chris Mellon's deleted page, Community Notes & Metabunk
32:54 Why won't both sides debate live?
34:43 Interviewing Mick West & the Denbigh "power line" debate
37:18 Seth Shostak and the Tic Tac "sensor error"
39:54 Birds, "winged orbs" & the new military footage
42:48 The Occam's razor problem
44:28 Darcy's focus now: cover-up, disclosure & who's visiting
47:37 Why is the Pentagon talking now?
52:04 Angels, demons & a wide-open conversation
53:40 Wrap-up: Nazca mummies & where to find Darcy

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On 22 June 2020, filmmaker and drone pilot Jay Enticknap was filming a performance on a barge at Tottenham Lock in London. Nobody on the boat saw or heard anything. A couple of months later, clicking through the footage frame by frame, he found something flying directly over the heads of the performers… and then coming back along exactly the same path. In this clip from UAP Files Podcast S3E49, Jay talks me through his footage.
In this clip:
• The one moment in the shoot when the drone was directly overhead, looking straight down on the barge
• Finding a “really quick movement” in the edit, and his housemate’s reaction when he saw it
• Using focus and the drone’s height (around 60–70 ft) to work out roughly where the object was
• What it looks like: a greenish, tarnished-metal colour, small fins front and back, and yellowish bands
• Why it seems to turn translucent as it crosses the barge, “like in the Predator movie”
• The return pass: the same flight path in half the number of frames, twice the speed
• Why Jay says it doesn’t behave like an insect, and looks almost intentional
The full episode goes through the frame count, the speed maths and the other explanations we ruled out.
 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/e5Cl4pDnnDU
 This clip starts at 11:57 in the full episode: https://youtu.be/e5Cl4pDnnDU?t=717
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The first director of the Pentagon’s UFO office, AARO, goes head-to-head with Jimmy. Asked about Skywatcher and Jake Barber’s claim that they can summon UAP, Dr Sean Kirkpatrick says AARO talked to them and “found absolutely nothing credible about it.” Then Jimmy pushes back on his radar explanations with the testimony of Navy pilots like Commander David Fravor.
In this clip:
• Skywatcher and Jake Barber: what AARO says it found
• Jimmy reads back Kirkpatrick’s own Politico quotes. Was it aliens, adversaries or neither?
• Some cases looked like foreign adversaries at first but never reached even 70% confidence, and some turned out to be sensor anomalies
• How a radar can produce a false fast-moving target from something like a rotating balloon with metal ribs, and why analysing the raw data takes months
• Fravor, Dietrich and Kevin Day: Kirkpatrick says humans are “just as fallible” as sensors, and talks about optical illusions and pilots using their thumb to estimate speed
• Why he says Navy pilots, not Air Force ones, insist they don’t make mistakes
• Why he thinks the Nimitz case will probably never get an answer
 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/q-IncaY7zQ8
 This clip starts at 45:41 in the full episode: https://youtu.be/q-IncaY7zQ8?t=2741
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Aran Devereux was flying his drone over Doolough Valley in County Mayo, Ireland, grabbing one last panning shot before heading home. He didn’t see anything at the time. Back home, his girlfriend spotted it on the laptop: an object rising out of the ground and shooting past the drone, against the wind. Then he found two more objects shooting off in the background.

And while editing this interview, Jimmy spotted even more UAPs in the footage that nobody had noticed before.

In this clip:

• How Jimmy found extra UAPs in the footage while editing, ones even MUFON hadn’t flagged

• Aran’s background: a family of aviators and drone flying since 2017

• Doolough Valley, County Mayo: one last panning shot before heading home

• “Hey, what’s that?”: his girlfriend spots the object rising from the ground and shooting past the drone

• Two more objects shooting left and right in the background

• Going against the wind while the drone was doing about 26mph with it

• Ruling out lens flare, showing his dad (a commercial pilot) and sending the telemetry and raw footage to MUFON

• Famine Valley: a remote spot with no other drones or people around 

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/03w03U6SouA 

This clip starts at 0:48 in the full episode: https://youtu.be/03w03U6SouA?t=48

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UAP Files Podcast S4|E40

*TIMESTAMPS BELOW*

Could artificial intelligence make contact with the UFO phenomenon before humanity does? And could this explain why some insiders are warning that time is running out for UFO disclosure?In this special episode of the *UAP Files Podcast*, I'm joined by Tom Vernon from *Tom Vernon UAP* for an extraordinary conversation with legendary UFO researcher, scientist and computer pioneer *Jacques Vallée*.

With over 60 years of research behind him, Jacques shares fascinating insights into UFO crash retrievals, artificial intelligence, government secrecy and the true nature of the phenomenon.

*"The thing it could do on its own is to contact the phenomena, without us." — Jacques Vallée*

🛸 *SUBJECTS DISCUSSED:*

• Could AI independently contact non-human intelligence?
• Catastrophic UFO disclosure and warnings that time is running out.
• The secretive AAWSAP/BAASS programme and its database of 260,000 UFO cases.
• The 1945 Trinity UFO crash and alleged classified government records.
• Roswell, Socorro and Valensole UFO encounters.
• Scientific analysis of alleged UFO materials with Dr Garry Nolan.
• A remarkable 1966 UFO encounter involving nuclear-level energy.
• Skinwalker Ranch and mysterious creatures in Utah.
• Radar spoofing and the manipulation of military sensors.
• The USS Nimitz encounter and limitations of infrared footage.
• A database of 763 pilot UFO encounters.
• UFOs operating outside conventional space and time.
• Government secrecy, disinformation and the future of disclosure.

*"Disclosure without trust is worthless." — Jacques Vallée*

Jacques has been on my podcast bucket list for years, and this was genuinely one of the most fascinating conversations I've had.

A huge thank you to Jacques and Tom for joining me.

*TIMESTAMPS*

00:00 Could AI Contact UFOs Before We Do?
01:14 Intro & Sponsor
03:37 Is This Jacques' Final Book?
09:00 Can Science Ever Measure the Phenomenon?
16:03 Utah's Wolf Creature That Ran at 60 mph
19:48 Radar Spoofing: Can We Trust Our Sensors?
21:22 BAASS: 260,000 Cases & the Lost AI Phase
26:28 1966: A Forest Light With Reactor-Level Energy
32:21 Inside Project Blue Book & the Condon Committee
38:39 The Burned Tree Bark Under Lab Analysis
45:52 763 Pilot Reports Since World War I
53:10 Nimitz Image: Raytheon's "Not a Photograph" Memo
57:55 What Happens When AI Probes the Phenomenon?
1:03:28 "It's Not Going to Be a Dialogue"
1:05:38 America's "Unknown Means Threat" Bias
1:10:42 Landing Cases & the Trinity Crash
1:18:50 Is AI the Catastrophic Disclosure?
1:22:09 Why Would Advanced Craft Crash?
1:33:07 Time Running Out... For What?
1:35:14 Trust Is Deteriorating Fast
1:38:09 Vallée's Three Mile Island Crisis Network
1:50:00 "Disclosure Without Trust Is Worthless"

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