This week on the show, former FBI employee and former agent for the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

Walter Bosley

Walter Bosley, welcome for the very first time I can't believe I'm saying this, the very first time to somewhere in the skies.

It's great to be here, right? It's always interesting to talk with you.

Absolutely, man. And I know, you know, we've had a few adventures together now, one of which was in Nova Scotia, when I was born.

First getting to know you, and Greg Bishop was there in Paul Kimball, and it was like this rag-tailed group of guys that I have just been like dreaming about spending a weekend with and talking UFOs, paranormal, you know, the occult and everything in between.

And yeah, we had some good times when we were talking about, you know, the occult and everything in between.

And yeah, we had some good times, man. And then, and then I learned about your extensive background. And I was like, why have I not interviewed this guy earlier? So we're finally making it happen.

The goofy, beret-wearing friend of, you know, Greg's, you know, back then, if you don't know.

They don't, did I know? I know.

For those who in my audience may not be familiar with your work, you are an author, you are a filmmaker, screenwriter, but you've had a lot of different lives.

And I'd love to kind of walk through those. So would you mind kind of telling us how your career first started with all the various agencies you've worked with.

And yeah, give us the origin story of Walter Bosley, turn professional spook.

Well, it's interesting. There's actually, when you look at it, there's, there's two threads, two tracks or streams to my career.

Now, a lot of people, they assume that I retired from the military or I retired from the FBI. And what's interesting is, I never officially retired from any of the organizations I worked for because I didn't work for any of them long enough.

My career was almost 20 years. It was 19 and a half years between really four different employers, but I started with the FBI in 1988.

Now, to kick off the other track, so that you realize there's this other track going along with this, and I'll go back and forth to, you know, illuminate things, you know, maybe make it clear how it worked for me.

I had an uncle, one of my mom's brothers, who had spent, by the time he retired in 99, he'd spent 44 years in the intelligence community of the US.

And he had started out an army special forces have been drafted, I think, in 1950 or 51, something like that. And he started mentoring me directly in 1986, about the time I got out of college.

I finished at San Diego State in December of 1985. And he was the one who suggested that I go apply to the FBI.

And this was after already, like a year and a half, two years of, he and I having some really interesting conversations, both about the intelligence Spook World and the paranormal Spook World, actually, and where those two worlds cross over and they do.

But in November of 87, he told me, hey, go apply to the local FBI office. So I did. And by February of 88, I was offered the job by the FBI and I started as a mail clerk.

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