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 return of the unexplained.

With a very, very special guest for the third edition of 2015, a man whose name I think

if you're interested in these things you'll probably have heard.

If you haven't, your infra-treat, his name is Eric Von Daniken.

He's a man who is not easy to get on shows like this, he doesn't do a lot of interviews

these days and it's always a real event when he does do one.

So thank you to Roger Sanders in California for his help setting this up.

If you've never heard about him, I'll tell you about him in just a moment.

Just a couple of things to talk about before we get into the interview.

Not going to do any shout-outs because this is going to be a big show and no time at

the moment, but I'll do them next time.

Just to say I've had a few emails recently about various guests and your objections or

some emailers' objections, to various points of view that they have which have not been

expressed in the interview and were nothing to do with the subjects we've talked about.

In one case, one guest was criticized for supposed anti-environmentalist views that I don't

know anything about.

Other guests have been criticized for political views of the left or the right.

The only thing that I would say is that if you start ruling people out on the basis

of things that you think they've said about subjects that are not connected with the subjects

we're discussing, then we're going to rule an awful lot of people out of this show.

And I cannot know every detail of everybody's life that I interview.

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