Hello again, it's Howard in London at the home of the unexplained.

You know, many times over the years that I've been doing this show both on radio and online

and that's since 2004, I've sat here and tried to compose my thoughts in order to make

tribute to somebody who's passed.

Last year it was Art Bell.

Before that it was people like Neil Armstrong and Sir Patrick Moore here.

I've done tributes to all of those people and the words that I was able to assemble

were never nearly enough to do justice to the remarkable people that I was talking about.

Well, on this occasion, if you haven't heard it, I have to pass to you the very sad news

of the death of Stanton T. Friedman, the man they rightly called the father of modern

uphology, a man who gave his life to this field of research, and a man who was a friend

of mine and supporter of my show from its very beginning.

Over all of those years I was able to phone him up in New Brunswick, Canada.

He would pick up the phone and if he was able, he would come straight on air.

He would always help me and he was always incisive, informative and funny.

I will never forget his infectious laugh and he is going to be an enormous loss not only

as the father of modern uphology but as somebody who supports the work of people like me,

which he did.

And I feel this one particularly personally, as I'm sure you will if you ever heard him

on my shows on Radio or Online.

Stanton T. Friedman held dual Canadian and American nationality and he was, we have to say,

an incredible character in a world when the number of characters and the number of people

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