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🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is a Glassbox Media Podcast. |
0:30.0 | And welcome to another episode of Strange Planet and Thanks is always for sticking me in your ear. |
0:42.0 | If you've encountered an extraordinary paranormal event and you need some support and you need help, |
0:50.0 | you might consider reaching out to the organization for paranormal understanding and support we're going to discuss Opus. |
0:58.0 | Tonight, with Lester Valais, he's a graduate of the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. |
1:06.0 | And beginning in September of 1970, he served in the U.S. Army as a field artillery officer and was later vice president at Luscom Engineering, a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer's representative company. |
1:18.0 | He joined Mufon, the Mutual UFO Network in 1991, and has held the following positions, field investigator, training coordinator for field investigators, the assistant state director in Northern California, chairman of the Abduction Experience Research Committee, and team leader of the Abduction Response Team. |
1:39.0 | Also during that time he became a facilitator for an Abduction Support Group in San Jose, California. |
1:47.0 | And in 1994, co-founded Opus, the organization for paranormal understanding and support he's the author of the unknown other and the existential proposition of alien contact. |
2:02.0 | Les, welcome aboard Sir, how are you? |
2:05.0 | Good, good Richard, thank you very much for having me tonight. |
2:08.0 | First of all, thank you for your service, appreciate that. |
2:11.0 | Thank you. |
2:13.0 | So what precipitated you joining Mufon back in 1991? |
2:19.0 | Well, I have to go back even further than I was 11 years old living in Connecticut. |
2:27.0 | And I was coming back into the house, it was October, late October evening, I think I would just finish feeding my dog. |
2:36.0 | And I saw this object that was totally silent, hovering over a tree line. |
2:44.0 | And it was oval in nature, it was kind of whitish in color. |
2:50.0 | And it was slowly moving from a westerly direction to an easterly direction. |
2:59.0 | And it scared the hell out of me. |
3:01.0 | And I ran in a house and tried to get my father to come out. |
3:05.0 | And by the time I convinced him to come out, he, I mean, the object had disappeared. |
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