The episode opens with a look at Tehran in the 1970s, a modern city under the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, with one of the strongest air forces in the Middle East. We set the stage for the night of September 18–19, when dozens of residents began calling the control tower at Mehrabad International Airport, describing a brilliant object glowing above the city.

The first act covers the initial sightings: how air traffic controller Hossein Pirouzi saw a pulsating multicolored light that moved erratically across the sky, not a star, not a plane, but something entirely different. The Iranian Air Force took the matter seriously and scrambled a U.S.-built F-4 Phantom II interceptor from Shahrokhi Air Base.

Listeners will hear how that first pilot’s approach ended in disaster when every instrument in his aircraft failed, radar, communications, and flight controls, only to return to normal as he turned away from the object.

In the second act, we follow Major Parviz Jafari, one of Iran’s most skilled pilots, as he takes off in a second F-4. His encounter reads like a movie: a radar lock on a massive object the size of a tanker, a visual sighting of a sphere flashing red, blue, and orange lights, and an attempt to fire a missile that fails the moment he presses the trigger. Then comes the most chilling moment, a smaller, glowing object detaches from the main one and speeds directly toward his jet.

Listeners will experience Jafari’s adrenaline and fear as his controls die, his jet goes silent, and the object stops just short of collision before returning calmly to its “mother ship.” We’ll recount the strange descent of another smaller object that seemed to land near the city of Rey, and how a dawn helicopter search found nothing, no debris, no crater, no explanation.

The episode closes with the aftermath: how U.S. intelligence took immediate interest, producing a Defense Intelligence Agency report circulated all the way to the White House. The report called the case “a classic” that met every criterion for a genuine study of the UFO phenomenon.

I’ll reflect on why the Tehran incident remains one of the most credible military UFO cases ever recorded, a perfect storm of technology, testimony, and mystery, and how its legacy continues to influence today’s discussions about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

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Is there life in space? Mainstream science is converging on a positive answer. So why are people still talking about the so-called Fermi paradox?

We examine the evidence for some important questions: Is there water beyond our little blue ball? Is there life in space? If so, what do we know about it? Where is everybody? Have they already arrived?

Bio

Ken is the author of several books, including UFOs In the Bible, Before Roswell, and Fermi’s Paradox is Bullshit. I have also authored commentaries on two of the major Sumerian creation myths, the Enuma Elish, and the Atrahasis Epic, and am the lead translator and commentator for the Bara Bible, a completely new Old Testament translation like nothing you have seen before, based on a fresh etymological deep dive into the original ancient Hebrew texts. I have also written a couple of novels and a lot of poetry just for fun.

As a professional systems analyst, I have come to realize that any system is only as good as its data, and that one of the key factors in data quality is consistency. While my degree from the University of Northern British Columbia is in computer science, I minored in anthropology, and have studied a broad range of other topics including physics and electronics engineering at the College of New Caledonia and Vancouver Island University, religion and philosophy at Briercrest College, and business administration at the University of British Columbia. These further studies cemented the fact that there exists a set of universally consistent patterns, the true essence of which we have only scratched the surface of. Even with our limited understanding, we have developed truly miraculous technologies and have come to understand our place in the universe as a unique one.

However, the consistent story that is becoming more and more evident is that this uniqueness may be somewhat misinformed. The big picture of patterns emerging from phenomenology, mythology, archaeology, astronomy, and physics is beginning to form an emergent view of consistency across these varied disciplines – a view where modern man is not the pinnacle of creation as we have been led to believe.

My writing thus far has endeavored to begin exploring some of the puzzle pieces, in a way that is consistent with an overarching paradigm that includes seemingly disparate views. It is my hope to continue to bring these viewpoints one step closer together, with an eventual goal of possibly integrating more of them in an explicit way. So far, I am working with a lot of hints, but each of these hints is solidly evidence based. The more I dig, the more amazed I become at where the evidence seems to lead, but only when we have defined a more complete and widespread dataset can we truly draw meaningful conclusions with a foundation stronger than speculation. It is my dream that soon the evidence will coagulate in a truly meaningful and incontrovertible manner, and it is to this end that I will continue to aim my efforts.

Please subscribe to Ken's free substack channel for occasional articles on topics including but not limited to conceptual ancient mythology and ancient alien theory… or whatever else catches his eye.

You may also like to catch a couple of his Appearances on other channels, or read a couple articles he wrote for Ancient Origins Magazine.

He is the host of the Dimensionfold Youtube channel featuring discussions on many fascinating subjects and interviews with authors, researchers, alien abductees and paranormal witnesses.

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On the morning of April 6th, 1966, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South, hundreds of schoolchildren were enjoying their morning recess when the ordinary became extraordinary. Over the playing fields of Westall High School, a strange silver disc appeared in the sky, silent, gleaming, and moving in ways no aircraft should. Within minutes, one of Australia’s most intriguing UFO mysteries had begun.

In this episode, we explore what really happened on that clear autumn day when a whole school witnessed something unexplainable. Students described a metallic disc-shaped object, round with a domed top, gliding across the sky and descending toward a nearby open field known as The Grange Reserve. Some said it landed. Others said it hovered just above the ground before shooting away at incredible speed. And hovering above it all, literally, were several light aircraft, seemingly chasing or circling the mysterious object.

More than 200 people, students, teachers, and locals, witnessed the event. Their accounts, though varied in detail, shared a striking consistency: a strange object, a sudden descent, and a rapid, silent departure. In the minutes after it vanished, several students raced to The Grange and found a circular patch of flattened grass, as if something heavy or hot had pressed down upon it. One girl reportedly fainted at the site and was carried away by ambulance, a name that would later vanish from the school’s records.

Then, the men in suits arrived.

Witnesses recall that uniformed officers and possible air-force personnel showed up soon after. Teachers were told not to speak to the media, and students remember their headmaster warning them to stay silent. But the story leaked anyway. Local papers ran headlines like “Flying Saucer Mystery: School Silent.” Reporters came knocking, and for a short while, Melbourne buzzed with talk of flying saucers over the suburbs.

The official explanations came quickly: it must have been a weather balloon, or perhaps a secret military experiment. Some researchers later suggested the HIBAL project, a Cold War program using large silver balloons to monitor radiation, could have been responsible. But no HIBAL launches were logged near Melbourne that day, and witnesses insisted what they saw moved with purpose and speed, nothing like a drifting balloon.

Almost six decades later, the Westall UFO incident remains Australia’s largest mass sighting of an unidentified flying object. No official report has ever surfaced, and the mystery has only deepened with time. The children who once looked up from their schoolyard are now adults, still wondering what it was they saw that morning, and why they were told to forget.

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