By Tim Binnall
Martian colonization, UFO crashes, and spirit communication were among the riveting realms explored this past week on Coast to Coast AM. And, here at the C2C site, we told you about a 'Thundercow' roaming around Oklahoma, a new effort to celebrate Ogopogo, and a strange swarm of UFOs filmed over a city in China. Check out our round-up of highlights from the past week ... In Coast You Missed It.
The UFO phenomenon was examined from multiple interesting angles on C2C this week, beginning with Sunday night's program, wherein researcher Ryan S. Wood detailed his investigation into alleged crash retrievals as well as the apocryphal group of proverbial secret keepers known as Majestic-12. In the latter half of the show, author Linda Powell recounted the enormous contributions of pioneering UFO Major Donald E. Keyhoe. Then, on Monday night's program, Dr. Eric Haseltine and Chris Gilbert talked about their study of the science of UFOs, which aimed to look at the feasibility of craft that can perform the fantastic maneuvers reported by witnesses as well as the physical effects reported by those who claim to have had physical contact with such objects.
This past week featured a couple of curious creature stories that wound up making headlines. In Oklahoma, a mysterious cow has been seen wandering around a lake for the better part of a year with no indication of its origin. The weirdly elusive bovine has been likened to Bigfoot by some residents and become such a local legend that it has even been given the fantastic moniker 'Thundercow.' Meanwhile, at a zoo in Nebraska, veterinarians removed a staggering 70 coins from the stomach of their resident American alligator. The reptile, named Thibodaux, was fortunately no worse for wear from the procedure which came about due to wish-casting patrons tossing change into its enclosure.
Contact with the other side was a hot topic of conversation on Coast to Coast AM this week as two separate psychic mediums shared insights into their work communicating with those who have 'crossed over.' First, on Saturday night's program, 'psychic detective' Melinda Williams detailed how she uses her gift to help bring closure to families by assisting law enforcement with cold cases involving missing and murdered people. Then, on Thursday night's program, clairvoyant medium Kim Dennis recounted how she discovered her unique abilities and ultimately came to understand that she could communicate with spirits.
A pair of peculiar UFO videos popped up on our radar this past week, starting with a strange piece of footage from China. The eerie scene, which unfolded over the city of Deyang, saw a swarm of illuminated dots that seemingly wafted through the night sky. Some viewers suggested that the weird glowing cloud could have been insects, while others wondered if the event was alien in nature. Later in the week, a resident of Fresno, California captured footage of a truly bizarre object floating over the city and many likened the bug-like anomaly to the alien invaders from films like Arrival and War of the Worlds.
The colonization of Mars was explored on Wednesday night's program as Dr. Robert Zubrin discussed his latest work looking at how such a scenario might unfold. He marveled that we may see humans arrive on the Red Planet within a decade and, once the six-month-long journey becomes routine, several settlements will likely begin to emerge. Positing that there could be up to 100,000 people in these Martian colonies, he mused that they would probably have different forms of government, customs, and culture, not unlike separate countries here on Earth. Zubrin also suggested that terraforming Mars will become easier and faster as new technology develops.
The legendary Canadian lake monster Ogogpogo was in the news this week thanks to a new effort to create an enormous statue celebrating the creature. The wooden sculpture was proposed for the community of Peachland, which sits on the shore of Okanagan Lake, where the iconic cryptid is said to reside. Behind the effort is a group of residents who say that they will pay for the creation of the envisioned piece, which would measure 25 feet long and around 8 to 10 feet tall, though they need the community to provide a place for the sizeable work of art. Should the proposal come to pass, the hope is that Peachland becomes something of a cryptozoological tourist destination.
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