My guest today, Nigel Watson has investigated UFOlogy, mostly in Northern England but we discussed the whole world, for 55 years, from the 60s & 70s on.  He took some time off in the early 90s but came back to it by late 90s.

Instead of wrestling with theories and speculation, Nigel has spoken directly with ‘ordinary’ people in the United Kingdom who have reported seeing or communicating with UFOs and alien entities and a wide range of other startling associated phenomena, all of which is usually considered to be too far-fetched or ‘crazy’ to be investigated.

Nigel’s decades-long research shows how a simple sighting of a light in the sky can escalate to sightings of alien entities, robots, men in black and angelic beings.

UFO witnesses and experiencers can also be plagued by a life-changing poltergeist or other ghostly experiences, telepathic messages, alien communications, strange coincidences, visions of the future, and abductions but are there other explanations?

It was good to hear another view. I often hear, and talk to people who completely believe in UFOs and give very good information for believing this way, but is it true?  Have we taken on the archetypes that are in humans through history and objectified and called them ‘Aliens’, per Nigel Watson and Carl Jung.

Nigel is a skeptic. In the end I asked, after 55 years, does he believe in UFOs?  Aliens?  He does not although he wishes he did.  He says he would be happier to be able to believe in a simpler explanation and belief in UFOs, but he does not.

Thank you, Nigel, for bringing me the skeptic’s view to consider.

NIGEL WATSON

Nigel Watson has researched and investigated historical and contemporary reports of UFO sightings since the 1970s.

He writes a regular monthly column 'Saucers of the Damned' about UFOs for Fortean Times magazine. He has regularly contributed to Magonia, All About Space, Outer Limits Magazine, Fate, Flying Saucer Review and UFO Magazine, and is the author of 'UFOs of the First War,' the 'UFO Investigations Manual' and 'Captured by Aliens? A History and Analysis of American Abduction Claims' which is dedicated to the memory of Peter Rogerson and has a foreword by him.

With Jenny Randles he has contributed to and provided commentary to a selection of Fortean Times articles in The UFO Files.

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BOOKS:

Paranormal Perspectives:  Portraits of Alien Encounters Revisited

Portraits of Alien Encounters, VALIS Books, London, 1990. ISBN: 978-0951625101

UFO Investigations Manual: UFO Investigations from 1892 to the Present Day, Haynes, Yeovil, UK, 2013. ISBN: 978-0857334008

UFOs of the First World War: Phantom Airships, Balloons, Aircraft and Other Mysterious Aerial Phenomena, History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2015. ISBN: 978-0750959148

Captured by Aliens? A History and Analysis of American Abduction Claims, McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2020. ISBN: 978-1476681412