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Join The Alien Theorists as they wade through the BS and get inspired by the possibilities. An open-minded comedy podcast discussing: Space exploration, the UFO and ET phenomenon, cold case mysteries, cryptozoology, and anything else in the world of the weird.

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Flock Cameras | Case File 389
Today at 7:00 AM

Mounted inconspicuously on suburban utility poles, streetlamps, and highway overpasses, an army of small, solar-powered black cylinders is quietly watching. In just a few years, one company has transformed from a niche neighborhood security startup into a nationwide surveillance network, blanketing American towns with automated license plate readers. Logging billions of scans every month, these AI-driven cameras don't just read license plates; they record bumper stickers, vehicle colors, and alterations—cataloging the everyday movements of ordinary drivers into a searchable digital dragnet.

To police departments and neighborhood associations, the technology is a vital crime-fighting breakthrough for recovering st...


The Ruins of Great Zimbabwe | Case File 388
09/14/2026

Rising from the rolling savannas of southern Africa stands a sprawling medieval fortress carved entirely of granite—constructed without a single drop of mortar. The grand capital of a vanished trading empire that once spanned continents, boasts thirty-foot dry-stone walls and towering conical structures that have held their ground for nearly a thousand years. 

For centuries, early European colonizers refused to accept that Indigenous African hands had built such architectural perfection, fabricating myths of lost Phoenician fleets and the fabled gold mines of King Solomon to erase its true creators. But even as modern archaeology rightfully returned cre...


The White River Monster | Case File 387
09/07/2026

Beneath the murky, slow-moving currents of Arkansas’s White River lies one of the American South’s most enduring aquatic enigmas. First documented during the Civil War when it reportedly overturned a Confederate transport boat, the creature resurfaced with a vengeance in 1937, spotted by hundreds of eyewitnesses who described a massive, gray-skinned beast the size of a boxcar.

The sightings became so frequent and feverish that in 1973, the Arkansas State Legislature took the unprecedented step of establishing an area as a legally protected sanctuary for the beast, making it officially illegal to harm or harass the elusive crea...


The Disappearance of Jason Landry | Case File 386
08/31/2026

On a freezing December night in 2020, a 21-year-old Texas State University student packed his bags, loaded his car, and began the drive home to Missouri City for the holidays. He never arrived. In the early morning hours, his vehicle was found wrecked and abandoned on a desolate, unpaved gravel road in Caldwell County, Texas—miles off his intended route, with the lights still on and the keys still in the ignition.

The scene grew exponentially stranger with every passing hour. Scattered along the dark, desolate roadway were his phone, wallet, backpack, and the clothes he had been we...


Magic Chang, Costco Rage, and Byron Returns | PH 54
08/24/2026

Braden, Zel and Byron crack a few beers (three in, and Zel's already "high school right now") for a wide-ranging, unfiltered hang. Topics include: training for a triathlon while definitely not training for a triathlon, the case for a 24-episode Lord of the Rings miniseries, home winemaking chemistry gone wrong (cork taint is real, folks), the mythical "Magic Chang" beer of Thailand, a Costco cart-swinging folk hero, getting into it with a stranger at a kids' connect-four table, self-checkout ethics ("stealing on principle"), and a legendary teenage HMV heist operation. Grab a drink — this one's a ride.



Trenches, Tranches, and the Singularity | PH 53
08/17/2026

The boys are finally back in the same room after a summer of wildfires, vacations, and triathlon training got in the way. Zel recaps his race getting cancelled (not for the smoke, allegedly) right as a new fire broke out near Summerland, BC — which somehow leads to a deep dive on 150 years of fire suppression, "super fires," and who's really to blame for the haze rolling up from Washington.

From there it's full chaos mode: leaked memos hint the government might finally have to let UAP whistleblowers talk, a fresh batch of declassified UFO videos gets torn ap...


Guy Fieri Didn't Swallow | PH 52
08/10/2026

Zel no-shows for a "surprise" camping trip, Spider-Man: Brand New Day gets three spideys out of three, and the boys go deep on the Guy Fieri swallowing conspiracy. From there it's COINTELPRO and hip-hop, El Grande Americano stealing the show in Lucha, Conor McGregor's comeback odds, and a very detailed Coke Zero customer service complaint. Plus: kids, YouTube algorithms gone wrong, and keeping your eyes on the skies.



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UFO Crash Retrievals | Case File 385
08/03/2026

For decades, the idea of intact extraterrestrial craft hidden in subterranean military vaults was relegated to the fringes of science fiction and late-night radio. But in recent years, those wild whispers crossed the threshold into congressional committee rooms. A wave of high-ranking whistleblowers—former intelligence officers, defense officials, and decorated veterans—have stepped forward under oath, testifying to the existence of clandestine, multi-decade crash retrieval and reverse-engineering programs operating completely outside legislative oversight.

These aren't just stories of lights in the sky; they are claims of exotic material recoveries, non-human biologics, and crash sites cordoned off by shad...


Smoke Screens, Super Pigs & the Denzel Doctrine | PH 51
07/27/2026

The boys are scattered, the internet's garbage, and Zell's nowhere to be found — but that won't stop a full power hour of unfiltered tangents. Wildfire smoke gets reverse-engineered into a UFO cover story (and a possible Bigfoot fire-starting conspiracy), JD Vance squirms on Rogan, Braden plots a mayoral run against a guy named Kermit, AM radio gets buried, and the trio settles once and for all whether Denzel Washington is even an actor or just a vibe. Loose, unhinged, and 100% off the case file this week



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New UAP File Drops, the Tyler Robinson Prelim Fallout & James Franco's Alien Problem | PH 50
07/20/2026

It's a stripped-down Power Hour edition of the show — no Mongoose, just Braden, Dan, and Zel riffing through a stacked news week. The Department of War just dropped a fourth tranche of UAP footage straight from the White House site, and the Theorists break down the new star-shaped IR anomaly, a possible mid-frame near-collision, and why "official government disclosure" might just be the world's best-funded misinformation campaign. Then it's over to the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing, where inconclusive ballistics, unmatched DNA on the rifle, and a very specific number of maroon shirts in the crowd have the internet spiraling ag...


The Khara-Hora Shaft | Case File 384
07/13/2026

High in the North Caucasus mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria, a landslide once tore open a hole no wider than a dinner plate — and what lay beneath it defied every explanation the men who found it could offer. A narrow shaft plunges forty meters through solid rock, its walls polished smooth and fitted with two-hundred-ton blocks locked together so precisely that not even a blade can slide between the seams. No natural cave on Earth looks like this. No known civilization in the Caucasus had the tools to build it.

The men who dared to map it never got th...


Jacko The Ape Boy | ATT Confidential
07/06/2026

n 1884, a British Columbia newspaper reported that railway workers had captured a four-foot-tall, ape-like creature near Yale, BC — they called him Jacko. This week, the Theorists dig into one of Canada's oldest and strangest cryptid cases: a supposed juvenile sasquatch caged and put on public display over a century before Bigfoot became a household name. Was Jacko a genuine cryptozoological discovery lost to history, an escaped circus animal, or one of the 19th century's great hoaxes? The gang breaks down the original newspaper account, the mysterious disappearance of all physical evidence, and why this story keeps getting resurrected by sa...


The Death of Charlie Kirk | Case File 383
06/29/2026

On a bright September afternoon in 2025, a 31-year-old activist stepped onto a stage in front of three thousand people at Utah Valley University — and into the sightline of a gunman perched on a rooftop more than a hundred yards away. A single shot cracked across the Orem campus, and one of the most polarizing voices in modern American politics was gone before the crowd even understood what they had witnessed.

What followed was not closure, but chaos. A botched early announcement that a suspect was already in custody. A frantic manhunt that ended only when the accused sh...


The Deaths on Aconagua | Case File 382
06/22/2026

In the thin, freezing air of January 1973, an elite eight-member expedition set out to conquer the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere. But what was meant to be a triumph of endurance quickly spiraled into one of the most harrowing and heavily debated tragedies in mountaineering history. Ambushed by a ferocious, sudden storm near the summit, the team fractured under the pressure of extreme altitude, leading to the bizarre and agonizing deaths of leader Janet Johnson and NASA engineer John Cooper.

The tragedy deepened when subsequent rescue teams and forensic experts struggled to reconcile the physical evidence...


The Great Cryptid State Debate | Case File 381
06/15/2026

Across the vast expanse of the American landscape, every region guards its own local nightmares. From the dense, pine-scented woods of New Jersey to the muddy, mist-shrouded banks of the Ohio River, communities have long shared encounters with creatures that defy the laws of biology. But these aren't just campfire stories anymore. In a fascinating intersection of folklore and local pride, a growing movement has seen state governments formally debating, and sometimes officially adopting, these legendary beasts as official state symbols.

Whether it's the fierce debate over the winged Jersey Devil, the elusive Bigfoot of the Pacific...


Return to Plum Island, The Lonestar Tick | Case File 380
06/08/2026

Just off the coast of Long Island, a heavily restricted animal disease center has served as a fortress of federal agricultural defense since 1954, studying dangerous foreign pathogens to protect American livestock. However, the facility's geographic proximity to Old Lyme, Connecticut, where Lyme disease was first identified in the 1970s,has long fueled curiosity about the origin of tick-borne illnesses. 

This curiosity has intensified with the recent, aggressive expansion of the Lone Star tick and the rise of Alpha-gal syndrome, a condition that triggers a severe allergy to red meat. Public health officials and ecologists point to climate s...


The Artemis Missions | Case File 379
06/01/2026

What are The Artemis Missions? Great human achievement, or a sophisticated hoax?


With the successful splashdown of Artemis II fresh in our rearview, the path to the stars is no longer a distant dream, it’s an active, aggressive roadmap. Under a radically overhauled strategy, NASA has shifted into high gear, aiming for an unprecedented launch cadence that will fundamentally change humanity's relationship with the cosmos. The upcoming Artemis III mission, slated for late 2027, has been entirely redesigned as a high-stakes, low-Earth orbit crucible, a crewed dress rehearsal to push commercial megaships from SpaceX an...


Holy Relic Heists | Case File 378
05/25/2026

In the quiet northern hills of the Czech Republic, inside the ancient Basilica of Saint Lawrence, an 800-year-old sanctuary was quietly shattered. An intruder breached the security of the shrine, targeting its most sacred treasure: the skull of Saint Zdislava of Lemberk, a medieval noblewoman revered for her miraculous healings and deep compassion. When authorities finally tracked down the culprit, they uncovered a plot that reads less like a standard burglary and more like a macabre psychological thriller.

For over a millennium, the theft of sacred body parts, known historically as furta sacra, or holy theft, was...


The UFO Files, PURSUE Documents for UAP Encounters | Case File 377
05/18/2026

For decades, the vaults of the Pentagon were a black hole for the unexplained—a place where radar tracks of impossible speeds and cockpit footage of physics-defying craft went to be buried under layers of "top secret" clearance. But in May 2026, the seal was finally broken. Under a sweeping executive directive, the initiative has begun the systematic dismantling of a century’s worth of cosmic silence.  

From the server rooms of the newly minted WAR.GOV/UFO portal, a digital flood has been unleashed. We are no longer looking at grainy, leaked snippets, but at the raw, high-f...


POWER HOUR | 49
05/11/2026

-Running often leads to justifying poor eating habits.

-Fire-roasting cookie dough is a genius idea.

-Running can cause chronic injuries if not approached carefully.

-Owls can be surprisingly aggressive when protecting their young.

-Cults often attract smart, gullible individuals.

-Confidence can sometimes outweigh actual ability.



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The Trump Assassination Attempts | Case File 376
05/04/2026

On a sweltering July afternoon in the heart of Pennsylvania, the cadence of a political rally was shattered by a sound that hadn't echoed in American civic life for over forty years. In a matter of seconds, the line between a campaign event and a national tragedy blurred as a sniper’s bullet grazed the ear of a former president. But the events in Butler were only the beginning. From the dense shrubbery of a Florida golf course to the chaos outside a Washington gala, a series of increasingly brazen security breaches has left the world asking: how did th...


The Mystery of the Disappearing Scientists | Case File 375
04/27/2026

Across the quiet suburbs of American research hubs, from the high deserts of New Mexico to the prestigious halls of MIT, a pattern is emerging that has captured the attention of both the FBI and the halls of Congress. In the last two years, a string of disappearances and sudden deaths has swept through the elite tiers of the scientific community—individuals whose work touched the 

very boundaries of nuclear physics, aerospace engineering, and unidentified aerial phenomena.


Is a hidden hand at work to ensure certain breakthroughs never see the light of day...


Dr. Gary Nolan | Case File 374
04/20/2026

In the sterile, high-tech labs of Stanford University, a world-renowned immunologist is hunting a different kind of subject. A man with hundreds of patents and a reputation for rigorous pathology, has stepped out of the traditional ivory tower and into the crosshairs of the world’s most enduring mystery. For him, the question of non-human intelligence isn't a matter of belief. It’s a matter of data.


Armed with mass spectrometers and atomic probe tomography, he doesn't look for grainy footage in the sky; he looks for the fingerprints of the "others" in the very...


POWER HOUR | 48
04/13/2026

Last-minute recording streaks

Conspiracy theories about G-spot and aliens

Gaming and online interactions

Bizarre stories about police and mob figures Sedona's mineral-rich environment and UFO hotspots

The making of independent UFO documentaries and their quirks

Humorous critique of alien conspiracy theories and documentary editing

Speculation on alien hybridization and extraterrestrial interest in human biomes

The role of satire and parody in UFO culture and media



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POWER HOUR | 47
04/06/2026

Topics discussed

Buried structures beneath the Giza plateauCapabilities of quadruple amputee athletesAncient megalithic sites and underground chambers Disappearance of UFO researchers and scientistsThe significance of plasma science in space explorationRecent conspiracy theories about UFOs, Bigfoot, and the DMT realmThe Artemis moon mission and skepticism about moon landingsThe potential of plasma as a limitless energy source

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DARPA, LifeLog and Facebook | Case File 373
03/30/2026

From the windowless offices of the Pentagon to the glass-walled campuses of Menlo Park, a silent thread of DNA connects the world’s most powerful defense agency to the apps in your pocket. A secretive agency for military research has long been the forge where the future is hammered out, responsible for the internet, GPS, and the very foundations of the digital age. But as the Cold War faded and the Information Age dawned, the agency’s focus shifted from the physical battlefield to the cognitive one.

Long before "engagement metrics" and "algorithmic feeds" became household terms, prog...


Harry Price | Case File 372
03/23/2026

Beyond the gaslit streets of Edwardian London, tucked away in the shadowed corners of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, one man stood at the intersection of science and the supernatural. Known as a self-styled "Ghost Hunter," he was a figure as polarizing as the phenomena he chased—a master of deception who dedicated his life to unmasking the fraudulent, while desperately seeking the one miracle he couldn't debunk.

From the infamous "talking mongoose" of the Isle of Man to the bone-chilling corridors of Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England, he brought the precision of a...


Nan Madol | Case File 371
03/16/2026

What and where is Nan Madol?


Rising from the dark waters of the Remote Pacific, far from the trade routes of the modern world, lies a city that shouldn't exist. Constructed from thousands of tons of basalt columns—some weighing as much as fifty tons—it stands as a prehistoric engineering impossibility. To the local Pohnpeians, it is the "Venice of the Pacific," a place of ritual and taboo. To the outside world, it is a megalithic mystery that defies the conventional laws of ancient logistics.

The legends speak not of pulleys and...


The Anunnaki With Mad Mark | Case File 370
03/09/2026

Who are The Anunnaki?


In this episode, we explore the mystery of the Anunnaki with MAD MARK from the podcast Who Are The Aliens?The History of Anunnaki on Planet Earth —ancient beings from Sumerian mythology that some believe were extraterrestrials who visited Earth thousands of years ago. Discover the origins of the Anunnaki story, the ancient texts behind the legends, and why theories about alien influence on early human civilization continue to captivate people today.


Watch the interview on our YouTube channel.


All li...


The KGB UFO Files | Case File 369
03/02/2026

UFO Podcast, Alien Podcast, Secret Alien Technology.


From the frozen vaults of Cold War secrecy, a new cache of documents has surfaced—KGB files brought to light by investigative journalist George Knapp, detailing the Soviet Union’s quiet obsession with unidentified flying objects. Long rumored and often dismissed, these records hint at structured programs, military encounters, and scientific inquiries that unfolded behind the Iron Curtain, far from Western scrutiny.

The files reference initiatives like “Setka-AN” and other lesser-known Soviet research efforts—projects tasked with cataloging sightings, analyzing anomalous materials, and determining whether these aeri...


Van Meter Monster | CONFIDENTIAL
02/24/2026

The Van Meter Monster, Iowa’s infamous Bigfoot-like cryptid first spotted in the small town of Van Meter in 1903. In this episode, Dan and Braden explore eyewitness accounts, historical newspaper reports, and the lasting mystery behind this winged creature with a glowing horn. Was it mass hysteria, folklore, or something truly unexplained? Tune in for a deep dive into one of America’s strangest unsolved cryptid encounters.



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The Epstein Files | Case File 368
02/16/2026

We discuss the Epstein Files. No bias, just real talk, relax.


In the sealed courtrooms and heavily redacted documents surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, a paper trail lingers like a stain that won’t fade. Flight logs, sealed depositions, names whispered in transcripts—what was once dismissed as scandal has evolved into a labyrinth of unanswered questions.

Who knew what? Who looked the other way? And why did so many powerful connections seem to orbit a man whose empire thrived in the shadows?

This case file, join the Theorists as we sift thro...


The Dodleston Messages | Case File 367
02/09/2026

In a quiet English village in the mid-1980s, an ordinary home computer became the unlikely gateway to something profoundly unsettling. As personal computing was still in its infancy, the residents of Dodleston Hall began receiving messages that seemed to break every rule of time, technology, and reason. What started as strange glitches and corrupted text soon evolved into full conversations with an unseen intelligence seeming to hail from the year 1547.

The messages claimed to originate from the distant past—specifically the 16th century. The entity spoke of plague, famine, and religious persecution, describing a life that pr...


The Thunderbirds | Case File 366
02/02/2026

What areThungerbirds? Let's talk about them.


High above the horizon of myth and memory, where storm clouds gather and folklore takes flight, there exists a creature spoken of in whispers and witnessed in flashes of shadow against thunderheads. Long before the term “cryptid” entered the modern lexicon, Indigenous nations across North America told stories of colossal birds whose wings summoned thunder, whose eyes flashed with lightning, and whose presence shaped the balance between sky, earth, and spirit.

But these legends don’t remain confined to ancient tradition. Scattered throughout the 19th and early...


Case File 365-Who Was Edgar Cayce?
01/26/2026

Who was Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping prophet?

In the vast mental plains between sleep and waking, one man claimed to walk the corridors of time itself— the so-called Sleeping Prophet. A humble photographer from Kentucky, he entered trance states where his voice changed, his eyes closed, and answers flowed—answers to questions about health, lost civilizations, human destiny, and the unseen mechanics of the universe.

Over decades, he delivered thousands of readings while apparently unconscious, speaking on everything from holistic healing and reincarnation to Atlantis, earth changes, and humanity’s spiritual evolution. His followers hailed him as...


24 | The Great Wall of China
01/19/2026

Stretching like a stone serpent across mountains, deserts, and centuries, this engineering marvel stands as one of humanity’s most enduring symbols—part fortress, part frontier, part myth. Built and rebuilt by successive dynasties, it was never a single wall, but a living project shaped by fear of invasion, imperial ambition, and the sheer will to impose order on a vast and unpredictable land.

Historically, it marked the boundary between worlds: agrarian empires to the south and nomadic steppe cultures to the north. It was a line of defense, but also a conduit of trade, communication, and cult...


23 | Baba Vanga Prophecies
01/12/2026

On the blurry line between prophecy and paranoia, one name continues to surface whenever the future feels uneasy. A psychic seer, blind from childhood and surrounded by an aura of mysticism, the Bulgarian prophet has been credited with predicting everything from global conflicts to technological upheaval. Whether mythologized, mistranslated, or eerily accurate, her words linger like heavy fog over the future.

As 2026 approaches, a new wave of predictions attributed to her circulates online—whispers of escalating conflict, breakthroughs that blur the line between human and machine, and sudden shifts in global power. Some interpretations paint a world te...


22 | Sierra Sounds and Fraud Talk
01/06/2026

Canadian commercials, political commentary, daycare fraud, Epstein files, media influence, public trust, nostalgia, social media, political satire, Bigfoot, Sierra Sounds, Ron Morehead, paranormal, conspiracy, cryptozoology, podcast, pop culture.



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ExtravaDANza 2025
12/29/2025

Merry christmas and happy holidays, you filthy animals.


Feed Merge In the new year. Pay attention, as we no not what will happen.



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20 | Psyops
12/22/2025

In an age of endless feeds, breaking alerts, and narratives that shift by the hour, a quieter war may be unfolding—not on battlefields, but in minds. These coordinated operations of persuasion, no longer rely on leaflets dropped from planes or radio broadcasts crackling through the night. Today, they move through memes, metrics, algorithms, and outrage cycles, blurring the line between information, and manipulation.

From coordinated social media campaigns and influence networks to emotionally engineered headlines and weaponized misinformation, the tools of perception-shaping have evolved alongside technology. Governments deny, corporations deflect, and platforms insist on neutrality—but patt...