The 'X' Zone UFO Files

The Congressional Hearing on July 26, 2023, focused on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) and featured testimonies from witnesses Ryan Graves, David Grusch, and Cdr. David Fravor. However, many critics argue that the hearing was ultimately a waste of time. They believe that despite the intriguing nature of UAPs, the hearing failed to provide any concrete evidence or conclusive answers regarding the origin or nature of these phenomena. While the witnesses' testimonies were fascinating, they offered subjective accounts and personal experiences rather than definitive proof. As a result, skeptics argue that the hearing lacked the necessary scientific approach and evidence-based investigation to move the discussion forward on a substantive level. Ultimately, the hearing left many unresolved questions and failed to provide any meaningful progress in understanding UAPs.

Greg Lawson has spent much of his adult life exploring strange places. From the first Russian colony in Three Saints Bay, Alaska to the pyramids of Egypt, he has explored paranormal hot spots in over 40 countries. He is a career law enforcement officer with over 30-years of experience and currently serves as a patrol lieutenant. Previously he has worked as a hostage negotiator, SWAT officer, mental health investigator, academy instructor and as a sex crimes and homicide detective. Greg is also a 10-year military veteran and has served as a paratrooper with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, as a Navy Operations Specialist onboard USS Nimitz, and as a Range Master with the US Air Force. He is a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). Greg has a master’s degree in education from Texas State University where he studied Complex Adaptive Human Systems (CAHS). He also specializes in investigative procedures and teaches these skills to Texas law enforcement officers and paranormal investigators. He is an international lecturer and the author of seven books, three addressing the paranormal: How to Be a Paranormal Detective, Diaries of a Paranormalist, and his latest book is: Roswell: The After-Action Report.The XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Ben Moss is MUFON’s Chief Field Investigator in Virginia and a member of the rapid deployment Star Team (Strike Team Area Research)l He is a guest expert on History’s Hangar 1 TV show, and has written numerous articles for the MUFON UFO Journal and various online websites. He has appeared on Paranormal TV and The Paracast Radio show. Ben has been with MUFON since the early 90’s. As a MUFON investigator, Ben has also studied such disciplines as History, Archaeology, Physics, Astronomy, Religion and many other sciences required to investigate such an elusive subject as UFOs.Tony has been studying UFOs since the early 90s. He became an investigator in 1999 while living in Northern Virginia. A computer network administer by profession, Tony gives his spare time to studying and researching UFO cases. As an Assistant State Director and STAR Team member, Tony works closely with other experts in the field to gain further knowledge on using current technology to further the field of UFOlogy in a scientific way. Studying radiation, electromagnetic fields, general physics, and string theory are a few of the subjects on his short list. Tony is also an avid scuba diver and hopes to discover some kind of trace evidence left behind from anomalous craft seen under water. Tony is also a public speaker and appears as an expert on season 2 of Hangar 1.The XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Bob Young is a life-long amateur astronomer who was a planetarium educator at the State Museum of Pennsylvania Planetarium for 29 years before his retirement. He is activewith the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg, Pa.’s Naylor Observatory where he has taught a public adult Observational Astronomy course for more than 40 years. Robert received a B.A. in English in 1966 from Elizabethtown College and was a teacher, educator and public relations professional.The XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Mike Rogers has worked in logging much of his life, even summers when he went to school. When he was 28, he had his own crew. In 1975, he had a 6-man crew, of which Travis Walton was a sawyer. A year after that well-known UFO encounter and Walton's apparent abduction, he started working with his father again, then went back to school for a time. In 1997, he was witness to the Phoenix Lights while standing on a hill near Prescott, Arizona. Before and after the Lights, he operated a domestic tree service business, which did very well.Ever since witnessing the Phoenix Lights, he has conducted his own very thorough, 22-year, in-depth investigation into the Lights, discovering numerous never-before-known realities. Two years ago, he started speaking of these revelations, some are quite disturbing, even to hardened skeptics. His scientific abstract was published in the May issue of the MUFON Journal, endorsed by Astronomer, Hal Povenmire.The XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Mike Rogers has worked in logging much of his life, even summers when he went to school. When he was 28, he had his own crew. In 1975, he had a 6-man crew, of which Travis Walton was a sawyer. A year after that well-known UFO encounter and Walton's apparent abduction, he started working with his father again, then went back to school for a time. In 1997, he was witness to the Phoenix Lights while standing on a hill near Prescott, Arizona. Before and after the Lights, he operated a domestic tree service business, which did very well.Ever since witnessing the Phoenix Lights, he has conducted his own very thorough, 22-year, in-depth investigation into the Lights, discovering numerous never-before-known realities. Two years ago, he started speaking of these revelations, some are quite disturbing, even to hardened skeptics. His scientific abstract was published in the May issue of the MUFON Journal, endorsed by Astronomer, Hal Povenmire.The XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Kevin Randle has, for more than forty-five years, studied the UFO phenomena in all its various incarnations. His training by the Army and the Air Force provides Randle with a keen insight into the operations and protocols of the military, their investigations into UFOs, and into a phenomenon that has puzzled people for more than a century.During his investigations, Randle has traveled the United States to interview hundreds of witnesses who were involved in everything from the Roswell, New Mexico crash of 1947, to the repeated radar sightings of UFOs over Washington, D.C. in 1952, to the latest of the abduction cases.Listen to Kevin Randle on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network at www.xzbn.net ad visit his website at www.kevinrandle,blogspot.comThe XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Robert Sheaffer is a writer with a lifelong interest in astronomy and the question of life on other planets. He is one of the leading skeptical investigators of UFOs, a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry cleverly known as CSI and his written the Psychic Vibration column in the Skeptical Inquirer for over 35 years. He is a founding director and past chairman of the Bay Area Skeptics. He has written books on a variety of paranormal topics and has appeared on many television and radio shows over the years. His book, Bad UFOs, is what is of interest to us here.The XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Dr. Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, where he was the longest-serving chair in the history of the astronomy department, from 2011 to 2020, and where he directs the Black Hole Initiative and the Institute for theory and Computation. A member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology as well as the advisory board for the educational platform “Einstein: Visualize the Impossible,” he also chairs the advisory committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative and the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies, and services as the science theory director for all initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The author of five books and 800 scientific papers, Loeb is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2012, Time selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influence people in space. He lives near Boston, MA.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Blair MacKenzie Blake is the author of several books, including two novels (The Othering and The Paragon Junk), with a third projected for the summer of 2022. Other works include Ijynx (a collection of occult prose-poems), The Wickedest Books In The World – Confessions Of An Aleister Crowley Bibliophile (issued in three impressions), The Curious Diary Entries Of Verity Pennington (a short story) and Remember The Future (of which he is the co-author). He has contributed essays to ten volumes of the anthology, Darklore (Daily Grail Publishing) as well as to numerous esoteric-themed magazines, including The CoSM Journal, Sub Rosa, Silkmilk and Dagobert’s Revenge. For over 22 years he has been the writer/content manager for www.toolband.com and www.dannycarey.com. Hobbies include collecting UFO-related books, of which he currently has over 850 volumes in his private collection. He resides in Las Vegas, NV.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Mike Rogers has worked in logging much of his life, even summers when he went to school. When he was 28, he had his own crew. In 1975, he had a 6-man crew, of which Travis Walton was a sawyer. A year after that well-known UFO encounter and Walton's apparent abduction, he started working with his father again, then went back to school for a time. In 1997, he was witness to the Phoenix Lights while standing on a hill near Prescott, Arizona. Before and after the Lights, he operated a domestic tree service business, which did very well.Ever since witnessing the Phoenix Lights, he has conducted his own very thorough, 22-year, in-depth investigation into the Lights, discovering numerous never-before-known realities. Two years ago, he started speaking of these revelations, some are quite disturbing, even to hardened skeptics. His scientific abstract was published in the May issue of the MUFON Journal, endorsed by Astronomer, Hal Povenmire.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Michael Schratt (private pilot/aviation historian) has been investigating UFO encounters for over 25 years. Between 2008 and 2009, Michael meticulously reviewed a minimum of 50,000 cases which were preserved at the CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) archives in Chicago. In an effort to maintain an important part of our national history, Michael has re-created dozens of highly credible UFO cases by the use of drawings, illustrations and commissioned artwork. Many of these include USO (Unidentified Submerged Objects), actual extraterrestrial encounters, and pre-history UFO cases which have never seen the light of day. Michael has appeared on multiple media platforms including the following: Coast to Coast AM, History Channel, Paranormal Matrix, UFO Hunters, Fade to Black. In addition, Michael has been a guest speaker at multiple UFO conferences including the following: Phoenix MUFON, Orange County MUFON, International UFO Congress, MUFON Symposium and UFO CON.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Thomas J. Carey, a native Philadelphian, holds degrees from Temple University (B.S. in Business Administration) and California State University, Sacramento (M.A. in Anthropology) and also attended the University of Toronto’s Ph.D. Program in Anthropology.An Air Force veteran who held a Top Secret/CRYPTO clearance, Tom is now a retired Philadelphia area businessman. He has been a MUFON State Section Directory, a Special Investigator for CUFOS and a member of the CUFOS board of directors. Tom began investigating aspects of the Roswell crash in 1991 and since 1998 he has teamed with Don Schmitt.Tom has written more than 40 published articles about Roswell, has contributed to a number of books, not to mention having co-written a number of Roswell related books himself. We're plugging our new book right now, Roswell: the Chronological Pictorial.Coming out June 15th is the newest book, titled, Roswell: The Ultimate Cold Case - CLOSED.He has been the guest on many radio shows including A Different Perspective. He has appeared in a number of television documentaries and programs.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Stan Gordon began his interest in the UFO subject and other strange incidents at the age of ten in 1959. In the late 1960’s, he acted as the telephone UFO sighting report investigations coordinator for the UFO Research Institute of Pittsburgh. Stan began in the field investigations of UFOs and other mysterious events in 1965, and is the primary investigator of the December 9,1965, UFO crash-recovery incident that occurred near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. In 1969, Gordon established a UFO Hot-line for the public to report UFO sightings to him to investigate. In 1970, Gordon founded the Westmoreland County UFO Study Group, the first of three volunteer research groups which he would establish to investigate UFO sightings and other strange occurrences reported in Pennsylvania. Since November, 1993, he continues to investigate and document strange incidents from across the Keystone state as an independent researcher. Gordon is a former PA State Director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and was its first recipient in 1987 of the MUFON Meritorious Achievement in a UFO investigation Award. Gordon has been involved with the investigation of thousands of mysterious encounters from across Pennsylvania. He has appeared on numerous local and network TV news and documentary shows. Since the late 1960’s, Gordon has been lecturing to the public on the UFO subject both locally and nationally various groups and conferences. Some of the topics include a synopsis of Kecksburg case, UFO and Bigfoot incidents, and mysterious creature encounters.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Rob has a degree in physics and spent his career at the US Patent and Trademark Office working on intellectual properties in a number of areas including aeronautics and astronautics.His UFO involvement goes back to 1968 during what he called his larval stage, when the ongoing sightings and the University of Colorado UFO study permanently nailed his attention. Once he arrived in Washington, D.C. area, he joined the Fund for UFO Research and was subsequently elected to the executive committee. Around 2006, as the Fund wound down dur to the rise of the Internet and other factors, he was asked to join MUFON’s Board of Directors and continues to serve there.He wanted to note that although the Fund still exists, it is largely dormant.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Jennifer W. Stein is best known for her award winning 90-minute documentary film about the famous 1975 Travis Walton story. She has been an activist in the UFO community for about 20 years, as a coordinator and founding member of Main Line MUFON., a community educational service of the Mutual UFO Network in Pennsylvania. Jennifer serves as a State Section Director for the Mutual UFO Network in PA. She has published articles in periodicals about the UFO phenomena, precognition, synchronicity, the Crop Circle phenomena, as well as articles about the Travis Walton story and her documentary. She has spoken for numerous conferences on UFOs, Crop Circles, the Travis Walton story, and Ancient architectural features advanced for their time. As a young adult Stein developed entrepreneurial skills working in a family-owned business while earning a Batcher of Science in Textiles from the University of AZ in 1983. She is married to her life partner of 40 years and has two adult children in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Nick Pope worked for the UK Ministry of Defence for 21 years. In the course of his career he held a number of different jobs, but is best-known for having run the British Government's UFO program, leading the media to call him "the real Fox Mulder". Because of his inside knowledge and level-headed views, he's acted as consultant and spokesperson on numerous alien-themed movies, TV shows and video games. He's often the media's go-to person when a story on this subject breaks, and he's a regular guest on various TV news shows and documentaries.Nick's latest DVD is called ALIENS AT THE PENTAGON, a documentary about the US government's AATIP program. His latest book is an action thriller about terrorist attacks in the UK and is called BLOOD BROTHERS.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

James (Jim) Houran received his PhD in Medicine with a Psychology focus from Adelaide University in 2004. He is currently Director of Research at Integrated Knowledge Systems, Inc. and a Research Professor in the Laboratory for Statistics and Computation, Instituto Politécnico de Gestão eTecnologia. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers in both mainstream psychology and a variety of anomalous areas, as well as currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals. As of January 2022, he was appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Scientific Exploration. Jim will talk about his UFO-related research, including his controversial work on the Ramey Memo controversy within the broader Roswell Incident of 1947.The ‘X’ Zone Radio/TV Show is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Bill MacGregor author, and preacher, talked to Rob in the first segment was talking about him being kicked off of YouTube and when Rob asked why, he said it was because of his videos about Covid - but Rob being Rob, dug in deep and asked him hard-hitting questions about his view and why he was so rebellious against the Covid Regulations,The rest of the show is about how God built the UFOs of ancient times and that they are the same UFOs that are being reported today. Rob stumped him when he asked why the angels had wings instead of borrowing the keys to God UFO.Enjoy the interview.Thank you for listening to this XZBN Show episode.XZBN radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; and many others! To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X’ Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X’ Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.comThe XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.

Kevin D. Randle has, for more than thirty-five years, studied the UFO phenomena in all its various incarnations. Training by the Army as a helicopter pilot, intelligence officer and military policeman, and by the Air Force as both an intelligence officer and a public affairs officer, has provided Randle with a keen insight into the operations and protocols of the military, their investigations into UFOs, and into a phenomenon that has puzzled people for more than a century. Randle's educational background is as diverse as his military experience. As an undergraduate at the University of Iowa, he studied anthropology. Graduate work included journalism, psychology and military science at the University of Iowa, California Coast University and the American Military University. He has both master and doctoral degrees in psychology and a second master degree in the Art of Military Science. During his investigations, Randle has traveled the United States to interview hundreds of witnesses who were involved in everything from the Roswell, New Mexico crash of 1947, to the repeated radar sightings of UFOs over Washington, D.C. in 1952, to the latest of the abduction cases. Randle was first writer to review the declassified Project Blue Book files while they were still housed at Maxwell Air Force Base and before they were redacted, among the first to report on animal mutilations and among the first to report on alien abductions. He also was the first to report the alien home invasions and among the first to suggest humans working with the aliens. Randle has written extensively on UFOs beginning in 1973 with articles in various national magazines. He had published many books about UFOs starting with The UFO Casebook in 1989 and continuing with Crash in 2010. Randle was away from his UFO studies while recalled to active duty with the Army in Iraq from 2003 to 2004. He recently retired from the Iowa Army National Guard as a lieutenant colonel. - www.KevinRandle.blogspot.comFor Your Listening Pleasure all the radio shows available on The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network with our compliments, visit - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; and many other!That’s The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotvThe XZBN Network Programming is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca.