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.

And it's a return after four or five weeks away. I'm really sorry that I haven't been able to be here over that period.

I think it's the longest gap we've ever had, and I do apologize. Very good reason for it if you got my message online on Christmas Day.

It's because just before Christmas, my father was taken very seriously ill with a severe stroke. He is now in respite care, despite the fact that he's going up in years.

He made it through it, but the road back to recovery is going to be a long and difficult one for him. He's having speech therapy, movement therapy, just about every kind of therapy.

He's in a respite home at Southport in North West England, and we're all praying for him. And thank you very much for your good thoughts and your good wishes.

And your own personal stories that you are kind enough to tell me. It means a very great deal to me. Thank you so much that the show that I'm doing here means something in your life.

And the fact that clearly I do. Thank you. You know, a lot of you are never even going to meet, but we are part of a family here in a way, and thank you very, very much.

Thank you also to my very supportive webmaster Adam Cornwell at Creative Artspot in Liverpool, who gets the show out to you. Now, if you want to make contact with me to make a donation to the show to leave me feedback to make me a guest suggestion, go to the website www.theunexplained.tv.

By the way, Martin, who did our theme tune, been a long time since we've been in touch Martin, but happy 2012 to you, my friend. I hope it's all okay.

Now, the show you're about to hear is one that was literally set up in about three hours this morning. I got up and I thought, okay, time to get the unexplained rolling again. I've got a couple of days off work.

So let's do this. And I checked my emails to find one from a guy called Mac Maloney near Boston in the US, who's written a book. It's out in paperback in Penguin books called UFOs in wartime, what they don't want you to know.

That title grabbed me from the start, and then I read more about this book, and I thought, got to get this guy on. So I emailed him and I said, are you available in Boston today?

And it turned out he was, and he's about to come on this show. So that's what we're going to do this time.

As I say, if you have any ideas for shows that we can get into in the future, please let me know. Go to the website www.theunexplained.tv.

And I will put in bids. I will try to get the people on and I will action your request because this is your show.

Right, let's get to Boston United States and talk now to Mac Maloney, who is a journalist and author. Mac, thank you for coming on the show.

Well, thanks for having me, Howard. Now, before we get into talk of UFOs and why wartime stories of UFOs and military combat stories of UFOs may have been covered up by somebody over the years, tell me about you because you've got a journalistic background, haven't you?

Right, I went to I grew up in Boston and I went to high school and then college for journalism. And then I went on to get a graduate degree in filmmaking from Emerson College in Boston.

But the first job I got after leaving college was as a sports writer. So I was a sports writer for a couple of years. And then I actually was a PR guy for a general electric company for a few years and just didn't like that at all.

So when I had the opportunity to start writing books full time about 20 years ago, I jumped at it and I've been I've been writing books full time ever since. So you didn't like working for the man.

I didn't like working for the man and that was a pretty big man general electric is a pretty big.

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