Nuremberg UFO Battle

In 1946, Rocket Engineer Jack Parsons and the Future Founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, spent months trying to summon a Goddess.Together, using the teachings of Aleister Crowley, they practiced Sex Magic, performed the infamous Babalon Working Summoning Ritual, and reported ... Show More

In 1934, a self proclaimed Baroness and her lover vanished from Floreana Island in the Galapagos, supposedly aboard a yacht nobody could verify. Within months, three other men were dead, and the surviving settlers told conflicting stories. We investigate the Galapagos Affair, fro ... Show More

In 1992, researchers reported finding cocaine, nicotine, and THC inside ancient Egyptian mummies, chemicals that shouldn’t have been there. We investigate the controversial tests and the theories behind the Cocaine Mummies mystery, from contamination and unknown plants to ancient ... Show More

An amazing case of an early modern mass sighting of UFOs came in Nuremberg, Germany in 1561. Except it wasn’t that at all.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In what is considered to be the earliest recorded examples of UFOs, strange objects were sighted emerging from the sun in 1561 and 1566. This 16th century celestial phenomena is often interpreted through a religious lens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com ... Show More

For the people of 16th-century Europe, the sky was a place of divine mystery, not a battlefield for mortal men. But in 1566, the heavens over Basel, Switzerland, became just that, as hundreds of dark spheres waged a mysterious war before the eyes of the citizens below. See Privac ... Show More

As a teenager in a NY boarding school, Peter Bertine had an extraordinary UFO encounter. Well-respected UFO expert Linda Zimmerman compares his encounter to many other UFO sightings called "The Hudson Valley Wave." To find out more about this case visit: https://unsolved.com/podc ... Show More

UFO culture of the 1950s revolved around two competing visions; one of contact with advanced beings from within our solar system and another focusing sightings of distant flying objects in the sky. Under hypnosis, the Hills told a story that differed from both of these narratives ... Show More

<p>Is there anybody out there? Max Pearson hears about a UFO sighting in rural Zimbabwe in 1994 and talks to Gideon Lewis-Kraus of the New Yorker about whether the US Pentagon is taking UFOs more seriously. Plus, the birth of communist China, a wind power pioneer, trailblazing C ... Show More

Meteor crashes with no remains, metallic objects over small villages, and jellyfish creatures hovering above city centers... These were just a few UFO sightings within the Soviet Union in the last century. Did the USSR cover up the truth about its extraterrestrial visitors? Learn ... Show More

It was one of the most reported UFO sightings in recent history. Local people in the quiet rural town of Ruwa in Zimbabwe reported a 'strange craft' and lights in the sky. Around 60 children said they'd seen a 'space ship' and 'aliens' in bush land near their school playground in ... Show More

This season on Strange Arrivals, 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 the paranormal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.