Ted, you've entered the Powercast with your host, Jane Steinberg and David Bealey.

Ted, you've been involved in doing the really hardlifting in the area of UFO research

for a heck of a long time.

You're someone who has gone out to reported landing sites and collected evidence.

How, in God's name, did you get involved in this field?

Because it seems like you're almost an anomaly in terms of the people who inhabit this realm.

How did you get involved in this?

What's your background?

You know, at this point, in my life, I actually feel like an anomaly but an old one and so I've even been called

almost mythical but which is probably true but I see in my case Ted they actually think I'm a

myth or a horror show I'm not sure which. But go ahead, please.

Yeah, I've been to those.

No, my interest started as really a little kid, nine, ten years old, because I was big into astronomy and meteorology.

And I volunteered for what was then called the, what was it, Civil Observation Corps or something.

I don't know. It's been too many years.

And I started hearing, you know, reports over the short waves of UFO sightings, flying saucers in those days.

And I knew some of the people involved and I felt, well, you know, these are really

reliable folks.

And if they claim they're seeing something, then perhaps they are.

And then my father introduced me to a World War II bomber pilot who had seen what then

was called a food fighter, a circular bright object that flew beneath the complement of bombers, and all the cruise pilots saw this thing.

And the bombers were actually rock as it flew under the planes. And after it passed the flight, it suddenly

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