August 17, 2025 — UFO Explorer Nigel Watson

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🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present long-time UFO researcher and author Nigel Watson, who has researched and investigated historical and contemporary reports of UFO sightings. In collaboration with Granville Oldroyd and David Clarke, he has written several articles about phantom airships seen over Britain in 1909 and 1913. A wider survey of these historical reports is contained in his e-book titled, The Origin of UFOs: Phantom Airships 1807 to 1917, and he has produced another e-book titled The Flying Saucer Cinema. Watson is also the author of Portraits of Alien Encounters(1990), Supernatural Spielberg (with Darren Slade, 1992) and editor/writer of The Scareship Mystery: A Survey of Phantom Airship Scares, 1909- 1918 (2000). In all, he has written for numerous books, publications and websites, including How It Works, All About Space, All About History, Aquila, Fortean Times, Wired, Flipside, Strange Magazine, Beyond, Paranormal Magazine, History Today, Alien Worlds, Magonia, The Unexplained, Flying Saucer Review, UFO Matrix and UFO Magazine. Watson has also contributed for the books Alien Artifacts, Mimics: The Others Among us, and Weird Time - Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space. As of the show date, Nigel's latest book is: Paranormal Perspectives: Portraits of Alien Encounters Revisited — UFOs and Unexplained Phenomena in Northern England.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:28.2	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.5	So, having become the seventh, the seventh step of Kevin Bacon, say, seven six, you're the seventh, right?
0:44.3	Who, me?
0:44.8	Yeah, sure.
0:46.8	The seventh degree of Kevin Bacon.
0:51.0	And because you were, so you vanished last week, were you on a secret mission or what?
0:57.0	No, no, no, no.
0:59.0	Just, uh, just tending to, uh, some, uh, some family business, that's all.
1:04.0	Oh, that sort of thing. Okay, well, let you get at this time.
1:08.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, just, just required a required a little bit of a little bit of traveling.
1:14.0	Well, I hope that was fun.
1:18.2	Yeah, well, I mean, you know, like that family business.
1:22.3	So sure, fun.
1:25.6	Well, okay, there's another story there, we won't get into it.
1:30.1	Nigel, welcome to the Paracast, and I really haven't explored your backstory for a long,
1:36.5	long time.
1:37.4	But how did you get interested in chasing, as they say, the flying saucers?
1:43.1	Okay, well, it was in the late 60s, early 70s.
1:47.8	I got fascinated by space exploration and the moon landing missions,
1:53.8	and that led me to the local library.
1:56.7	And at first I just got books on space or astronomy,
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