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Mysterious Universe

35.02 - MU Podcast - Close Encounters of the Texas Kind

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.56.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Thank you for joining us! Support your favorite show at the link below and catch this episode’s Plus+ Extension and access to all things Mysterious Universe. Michel Whittington has compiled an ode to such unexplainables in a book called “Close Encounters of the Texas Kind”. Its pages are the inspiration and contain the stories brought forth for this episode. From the first reported flying saucer, before Kenneth Arnold, to death from above, to the most bizarre series of encounters with an unexplainable technological wonder that remains a mystery which continues to amaze and delight to this day. Then for our Plus+ Extension, we piece together the story of the Gulf Breeze Six, a crazy story about six military intelligence analysts who went AWOL because of messages received during ouija board sessions. Their mission? To stop the impending arrival of the Antichrist! Were these the collective delusions of young, impressionable soldiers? Or was it yet another example of low level entities sending their victims on a wild goose chase? Close Encounters of the Texas kind Article - Denton’s 1897 Aeroship Invasion Article - Close Encounters of the Lone Star Kind Article - The 1897 Texas Airship Invasion  LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join. click ⁠HERE⁠. Gulf Breeze Six Arrest and Aftermath Vance Davis Coast to Coast AM interview transcript Unbroken Promises: A True Story of Courage and Belief  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Welcome to Mysterious Universe Season 35 episode number two.

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We have an outstanding show for you find folks today all about the freaky woo-woo found in the lone star state

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from the first reported flying saucer before kenneth arnold mind you to death from above

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to the most bizarre encounters with the highest of strangeness all without having to leave the

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comfort of just i guess wherever you are right now i suppose i'm

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your host brandon thomas and with me as always is jo you think you can dance hodgian oh it's great

1:39.4

i i look forward to your names for me every time trust me i love you i it. I do too. Mary is helpful in those as well. So thank you. And shout out. We actually have a team of folks. Yes, our group that we meet with has submitted some as well. And thank you for those. We are going to go through them all. So what is this that you're getting into now? You didn't give me much of a heads up on this. And I kind of like it that way when we don't tell each other what we're doing. But what is it? So this is actually inspired by a book, and most of the stories come out of this close encounters of the Texas cat. You all. Cam on. So this is by Mitchell Whittington. And it's a badass book. It's an autographed copy, actually, that I found, again, in a half-price bookstore. Shout-out. He's got a sexy picture of him on the back there. I highly recommend it just for the author photo, honestly. So it's a 23-house publishing, and it's an amazing little book. It's just got 30-year- or so stories in here about freaky woo-woo in the Lone Star State, which is, of course, my home. This is where I was born, sort of shot out of my mom. She decided to do it in Fort Worth, Texas. And there's a story that pertains to that. We've got quite a few freaky woo-woo out here. If you look into the Texas history, it's riddled, especially

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you've got, you know, even zoned things, sort of cryptids are kind of hanging out in East Texas,

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and you've got UFOs just kind of doing whatever the hell they want. And it's just a wild place

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with all sorts of anomalous stuff, especially the airship flap of 1896, 1897, that whole thing involved specifically California and Texas.

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And we're going to go through some of it.

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Very nice.

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Yeah.

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Well, I have, well, for Plus, I'm doing a story submitted by a listener for something I'd never

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heard of before.

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And I gave you kind of a heads up, but it's called the Gulf Breeze 6. It's from the early 90s, some soldiers that went AWOL for a really weird reason, so that'll be coming up in plus. I did want to mention at the top of the show, too, though. We haven't, I don't think we've mentioned it on the show, but we are on Instagram, we are on Twitter and we are

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on Facebook. So if you want to follow us there, we are posting, you know, show updates. And I recently,

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just a couple weeks ago, took over the social media end. So I'll be posting more, probably funny

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