Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world, on the internet by webcast, and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the unexplained.

And I really can't believe that this is edition 140. I remember sitting exactly here recording edition 10, and thinking, wow, look what we've achieved, and now we've done 140 shows,

and we're powering into 2014 with your help and support. Thank you very much indeed. I've had some great emails from you recently.

You've made some really innovative and really interesting guest suggestions, a lot of people that I've never heard of.

And sometimes when you suggest somebody I've never heard of, I contact them, put them on the show, and they turn out to be great.

So this is all the work in progress, and thank you very much.

The way to contact me is to go to the website www.theunexplain.tv, that's www.theunexplain.tv, and send me an email through the site, and if you'd like to make a donation, you can do that on the site as well. There's a PayPal link there.

And thank you to Adam Cornwell, at Creative Hotspot in Liverpool, the man who devised the website, and also gets the show out to you.

A lot of stuff happening in the news, some of it way too depressing to talk about here, but I read in the papers this morning that America's NSA is harvesting, I don't know, maybe this shouldn't be a big surprise, maybe it isn't.

It's harvesting about 200 million texts per day, which should for most of us prompt a couple of questions, and those questions are, what do they do with that amount of information? How can you collate that? And why are they doing this? Are they doing that in our name?

I think there are lots of questions to be asked about that, don't you? The weather continues to be bizarre, a lot of rain, very mild temperatures in the UK, a lot, a lot of flooding here, which continues to be a problem.

46 degrees Celsius temperatures in Adelaide, Australia, yesterday making this the hottest place on Earth.

Norway, deep freeze there, talked to somebody on radio this morning in Norway where temperatures have been so cold that a bay froze and managed to freeze solid all the fish in the bay or a lot of the fish in that bay.

So something weird is going on with our weather. Now, before we get to our guest this time, a return visit from Micah Hanks, very briefly, I'd just like to ask you a favor.

There are two people I've been trying to get on this show for a very long time. Dr Stephen Greer is number one and Graham Hancock is number two.

I know you've heard me mention them before. If you could email them through their websites and please ask them to come on this show, that would be great.

I have tried so many times over the last two, three years. So I'd like you to help me if you possibly could and maybe we can put some pressure on them.

Okay, let's get to the guest this time. It is Micah Hanks in America, writer, researcher, lecturer, radio personality and his biography says his work addresses a variety of scientific concepts and unexplained phenomena.

And he's open-minded and skeptical in his approach. I like the sound of that. Very good guest last time. This time we're going to talk principally about his book, The Ghost Rockets, Mystery Missiles and Phantom Project Isles in our skies.

From 1946 on, should be a fascinating conversation. Thank you very much for your support. Please keep your emails coming. I will do some shout outs next time. Let's get to the guest now in the United States and Micah Hanks. Welcome back to the unexplained.

Oh, always my pleasure Howard. So remind me where you are again. You know me. I'm very forgetful.

I'm in Western North Carolina in the town of Asheville, North Carolina. It's a beautiful little place. And maybe maybe as beautiful as you could ever ask for because of the weather differential. If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes and it's something different.

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