Episode 58 – Night of the Mendo UFOs
SnapSessions! presents Episode 58—a special podcast for us. We take a look at a bizarre night in Mendocino’s history, an evening we are calling “Night of the Mendo UFOs”. SnapSessions! presents an in depth exposé of a time in the Fall of 1978 when the Mendocino Coast was haunted by a series of UFO sightings remembered by 9 Northcoast citizens including me, Doug Nunn. In addition, SnapSessions! places this in the history of UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon), recent US congressional hearings with Navy and Air Force pilots, as well a look at the place of UFOs in the history of Science Fiction since that big surge of flying saucer sightings in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
This is a different sort of episode for SnapSessions, which usually features interviews with artists/activists and articles on art, politics and the environment. Snapper Doug Nunn has long remembered the Fall of 1978 when he and a friend, Laurie Hill and her son, Johnny Fort were followed by a seeming spaceship for many minutes on a back road in Little River. When he got home that night, Nunn tuned into radio station, KMFB, and listened with rapture as DJ Karl Toubman fielded phone call after phone call from a variety of Mendocino Coast residents relating similar sightings. He decided to follow up on this night 45 years later and managed to interview 9 people who remembered the evening well. “Night of the Mendo UFOs” is the exciting result of our research. It includes interviews with present and former Mendocino Coast residents Laurie Hill, Johnny Fort, Max Salkin, Danielle Belinger, Karl Toubman, Steve Jordan, Christine Franks, Laura Jean Cardinal, and Summer Makovkin, all eyewitnesses to an evening of unusual celestial activity. Tune in, Mendo Coast Earthlings and enjoy a podcast of very extraordinary memories!
Episode 58 is 71 minutes long. “Night of the Mendo UFOs” begins at :53 after a short introduction.
SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown and interns Max Oatney & Frej Barty, voiceovers by Doug Nunn and Marshall Brown, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.
SnapSessions! includes original music by Marshall Brown, production by Marshall Brown, Max Oatney, and Frej Barty. Voiceovers by Doug Nunn and Marshall Brown, and articles and interviews by Doug Nunn. Our SnapSessions! artist and logo maker is caricaturist, Daniel Stieglitz.
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