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

Still hot as I record this, not quite as hot, still waiting for that great big thunderstorm that's going to clear the air.

We certainly need that, but the whole UK affected more or less by the hot weather and let's hope that temperatures that hot, that's the last time we'll see them this year.

Okay, enough about the weather. On this edition, an extended version of a radio conversation that I had with Philip Mancourt, the UK's leading publisher of UFO books, UFO researcher of Greater Claim himself.

This is a brand new version of his 1990s book, going to talk about, without consent. It's about close encounters of the very closest kind.

Those who were abducted or were nearly abducted or chased or had personal up close encounters with something from somewhere.

Some very credible accounts and Philip has put them in the book, increased the detail gone back to a lot of the cases, included some new material.

There's a lot of documentation, photographs, this has taken a lot of work. So well worth hearing about.

Without consent, the book Philip Mancourt coming very soon. Thank you very much to Adam, my webmaster, for his continued hard work on the show. Thank you to Haley for her continued hard work.

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Okay, let's get to the guest on this edition of the unexplained. This is an extended version of the radio conversation. There's a lot more material on this one.

Philip Mancourt returns to the unexplained. Philip, thank you very much for giving me your time again.

My pleasure, Howard. Looking forward to what we have coming up.

Now in this last year or two, Philip, you have established yourself really and we've known each other for many years, but you've established yourself as maybe the world's leading.

Certainly one of the world's leading publishers of UFO books in this world. Was that part of a plan?

No, no, not at all, Howard. I mean, you know, whenever I try and plant something, it seems to go disastrously wrong. So welcome to my life.

Yeah, I mean, what happened was in 2015, I had previously down the years been an editor of two or three magazines. So I had contacts through that and another unmarried.

It's around the world and a Polish colleague of mine and I apologize for trying to pronounce his name, but it's Peter Tielibius.

And he sent me a manuscript that he had written, not to be published. I mean, Peter's spoken English is pretty good, you know, but he was trying to brush up on his written English.

He wrote this manuscript, which was a UFO book about all things Polish, UFO wise. So I read it. And I, you know, I thought, well, that's good. And I left it in my, you know, in my inbox for some time. I got back to Peter and gave him some feedback, of course.

Then I have a colleague, the XCID police detective, John Hansen, John has published his own books under his banner of haunted skies for a number of years.

And John said, why don't you publish it out? You know, I'll show you the ropes. And it was always my intention to wait until I had officially retired. So anyway, I took the plunge in in 2015.

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