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Me & Dwight Schultz

Yesterday I had my buddy Rich Sarradet drop over to do a short opening on a past “classic” episode of UFOs Tonite!, my former radio program I hosted for about 6 years. The show “aired” on the Cable Radio Network and went “coast to coast.” Over those years we did a hell of a lot of shows that covered the spectrum of those “weird” things that the mainstream wouldn’t touch with your 10 foot pole. The highest percentage of shows dealt with the UFO subject but we also covered lots of conspiracy related things. I state, as a matter of pride, that I was doing “Art Bell” type stuff at least a year or two before Bell started his wildly popular show “Coast to Coast.” Art was still doing political talk on satellite radio when I was doing UFO stuff. Art however, back in the very early days, interested billionaire Bob Bigelow in his show and he started on a big station over in Las Vegas. He launched …. and the rest, as they say, is history.

Now, back in those days my wife and I were the sole publishers, and of course owned UFO Magazine along with Vicki’s partner, Sheri Stark. We busted some damn big stories, stories that often had national security implications. We were doing a whole hell of a lot of national media along the way, Television shows like “A Current Affair, Encounters, Larry King Live, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, CNN, Mo Gaffney, Oprah”, buddy if they talked about the UFO subject, we were there. Major Hollywood feature films also used us … and I mean used. Back when “Fire In The Sky” was opening, I was the “prize” that a bunch of British film fans got … I squired them down to Snowflake, Az. to the spot where Travis Walton was allegedly abducted by a UFO. When “ID 4” opened, Vicki and I were featured speakers at Rachel, Nv. when the state changed their highway to the ET Highway out by Area 51. All the big stars plus the Nevada Governor were there. Not only did we cover this in UFO Magazine but also on my national radio show. The folks that tuned in were “rabid” to get their weekly fix of UFO related matters. And … we interviewed anybody and everybody that had “anything to do with the subject!” Hell, I married my wife on my radio show in December of 1993. My audience loved that one!

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Just after the wedding!

To be honest, I had forgotten over the years how many feathers we ruffled. I reported here that in this past year the great folks over at the Paracast, Gene Steinberg and David Biedny offered me a forum to post these past shows so listeners today can hear them. I began posting them with explanations of what the show was about. A few months ago one of the Paracast forum users dropped me a note asking me about a show he just had heard with interviewer Greg Bishop, and his show Radio Misterioso, where Greg had interviewed a friend of mine, Rich Sarradet. Part of this interview involved a show I had done on UFOs Tonite! with Rich and another guy, Michael Younger. Now this is a weird story.

Younger, by all accounts, had some kind of intelligence connection. At the time I must say I was very suspicious of him, but he had some kind of access to some very sensitive information. Now, allow me to regress for just a second. I have been asked too many times to count if during all the years that Vicki and I did UFO Magazine and UFOs Tonite!, if we were ever threatened by anyone. I always told the questioner that never to my knowledge did anybody do that. (And I always wondered why considering some of the stories we broke and covered.) However, as I was to later discover, we were monitored by … someone. The night I did the show with Richard Sarradet and Michael Younger there was a guy in the parking lot taking photos of all the folks going into CRN for my show, and it was later discovered he was a private detective allegedly working for Lockheed. Huh? I mean like WTF??

One show I did with national security concerns was about the DSP satellite system that for decades was keeping the U.S. safe from missile attack. This satellite array, from 22,000 miles in space continuously looks for missile attack by scanning the infra-red range. These satellites are so sensitive that they have (reportedly) the ability to “see” your bar-b-que burning in your back yard. So, why was I interested? Well a story we broke concerned the DSP detecting UFOs entering the atmosphere of the planet from deep space and being tracked by NORAD. The codeword for these UFOs? FASTWALKERs. My guests on that show were two AeroJet employees who worked on the DSP systems, Lee Graham and Ron Regehr. Later I broke a story on Graham when the FBI and the AFOSI ran a “sting” on him, exposing Graham to classified information he did not have clearance for, in an attempt to get him fired and perhaps prosecuted. His crime in their eyes? He was running a campaign of filing Freedom of Information Act requests in an attempt to get the U.S. government to open up on UFO related matters. Do you remember what the big G always claims? UFOs have never had any national security implications…. oh sure and Obama’s health care won’t raise taxes. Sure ….

I never did discover what the real story was behind Michael Younger. He is dead now, reportedly the LAPD found his body by some rail road tracks here in the LA area. So I had Rich over to record a opening monologue to introduce this show that I just uploaded. A couple of days ago I uploaded the Lee Graham and Ron Regehr show also. Actually there are quite a few shows over on the Paracast to hear. Interested? If so here is the link to the Dark Matters forum and the shows are listed. As always, remember to keep those eyes to the skies … till next time!

DARKMATTERS FORUM You will find all the shows at this link.