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Vanishing Act: The Disappearance of Gerry Irwin | MHP 11.01.21.

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

Society & Culture, Science

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

A strange light moving through the sky... the word "STOP" scribbled across the side of a parked vehicle... and a young man discovered lying face down in the mud, unconscious. Having all the workings of a true-crime mystery, these were among the actual events which gave rise to the bizarre story of the disappearance of Gerry Irwin. A USAF volunteer, Irwin was on his way back to report for duties in Texas in February 1959 when he observed a UFO passing above him. Concerned, he parked and trudged off into the snowy mountains of Utah to determine whether the object he saw had been a plane crash... and the story only gets stranger from there.

This week, we examine Irwin's strange sighting, the ensuing memory loss, and other effects that led some to consider his case a possible "abduction" incident, or even somehow involved with the CIA's MK ULTRA program prior to his own desertion from the military and eventual disappearance. The fact that Irwin resurfaced again decades later only makes his story all the more strange, as we explore this week on The Micah Hanks Program.

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0:00.0

News, science, unexplained space in the cosmos, exploring our past, our future, and the mysteries

0:09.6

of our universe, taking a critical look at reality and a journey to the edges of human

0:15.0

understanding.

0:16.0

The future is now, this is Micahanks.

0:23.1

From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground, welcome one at all, it

0:27.6

is the Micahanks program, glad as always to be your host, and of course, leading you followers

0:33.3

of the unexplained in pursuit of the mysteries of our existence as we do every week, in

0:38.6

homes around the world every pocket virtually, that's right, listen on demand via podcasting

0:43.8

apps everywhere.

0:45.8

So hope you guys had a great Halloween weekend, lots of news to cover, including via a record

0:50.6

number of Americans, according to one recent poll, have said that they are relocating

0:55.8

the reason might surprise you, this and also ancient discoveries that are rewriting history,

1:02.5

and on a peculiar note, why the White House says it is delaying the release of a batch

1:07.6

of files, that it says is going to protect against identifiable harm, yeah, I don't think

1:14.7

I'm the only one who's concerned about their reasons for withholding this information,

1:18.8

that's an Aussie UFO update, and much more, but then later in the program, we're going

1:24.5

to travel back in time and look at truly what is one of the strangest stories that I think

1:31.5

I have ever come across, and that's saying a lot, considering how long I have been providing

1:38.9

news, updates, storytelling, analysis, investigation about the unusual on programs like this, yeah this

1:48.6

is definitely one for the books, it involves a UFO siding, a mysterious illness, and then

1:56.7

the disappearance of a man, in 1959, this is the story of a man named Jerry Irwin, about

2:04.3

whom a book was written by a gentleman by the name of David Boor a few years ago, I first

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