From Science to Sacrilege:
Analyzing the Enigma of UFOs and Abductions

Astronomers are now discovering Earth-like planets and searching for signs of intelligent life but what have we learned so far? Why are scientists so stubbornly skeptical about the possibility of alien visitors? Why has the US government been so interested in the subject of UFOs for the past 80 years? What clues, if any, can the abduction phenomenon offer about the possible existence of another, non-human intelligence? Have humans already made contact?

Chris Grant is a science educator, planetarium presenter, published author, and host of the podcast Universe University. In 2017, he wrote and presented the show When E.T. Calls at the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado. He is currently working on a book about the history of space exploration.

Mr. Grant holds a Master of Public Administration and a Bachelor of Science in political science.

https://universeuniversity.fireside.fm/25

Lewis County: First Contact

In the 1950s, concepts of alien visitors evolved from menacing Martians to more benevolent human-looking ETs delivering a message of world peace and unity. And the human messengers who were chosen to receive and spread these teachings were known as The Contactees; a disparate crowd of would-be-gurus who hypnotized American popular culture resulting in countless TV and radio appearances, thousands of tell-all books, and eventually splintering into modern New Age and UFO themed cults.

The history books tell us that the first Contactee was a man named George Adamski who claimed to have been contacted by visitors from the planet Venus in the California desert in 1952. However, just two years prior, a Centralia man named Samuel Eaton Thompson told a strikingly similar tale – only to be then relegated to the footnotes of UFO history.

Did the Contactee movement truly start right here in Lewis County? Did Samuel Eaton Thompson first witness a phenomenon that would soon grip the hearts and minds of America and the world? Researcher Vince Ynzunza will lay out the confounding, and sometimes zany, history of the Contactees and how an idea that changed the world may have started right here in WA state.

Vince Ynzunza grew up in Washington State and has been interested in UFOs and the paranormal since he was a child. He is an independent videographer, researcher, and the producer of the YouTube series Pacific NorthWEIRD which chronicles the bizarre happenings and history of the Northwest. He also co-produces the Chehalis Flying Saucer Party which celebrates Kenneth Arnold’s historic 1947 flight out of the airport in Chehalis, WA that resulted in a UFO sighting that kickstarted the modern UFO craze.

Currently, Vince is working on a number of projects and presentations ranging from documenting a small town feud that erupted between two quarreling Bigfoot hoaxers to studying the UFO/Extraterrestrial pop culture wave of the 1990s.
Vince lives in Tacoma with his wife Sabrina.

We Are The Aliens

Since the age of four, Dr. Bruce Olav Solheim has encountered a vast spectrum of paranormal phenomena, including ghosts, demons, angels, mediumship, telepathy, psychokinesis, and alien contact. After a lifetime immersed in extraordinary experiences, he has shifted his academic focus toward uncovering the truth about humanity's origins and purpose. In his exploration, he introduces the Quantum Nexus theory—a groundbreaking concept that interconnects all paranormal, supernatural, and extraterrestrial occurrences.

Bruce Olav Solheim was born in Seattle, Washington, to Norwegian immigrant parents. A disabled veteran, he served for six years in the US Army as a jail guard in West Germany, and later as a warrant officer helicopter pilot at the 82nd Airborne Division. As a civilian, Solheim worked as a defense contractor at Boeing for five years, then went on to earn his Ph.D. in history from Bowling Green State University in 1993, with his main field being US foreign policy. Bruce was the first person in his family to go to college and is currently a distinguished professor of history at Citrus College in Glendora, California, where he has taught for 27 years. As a Fulbright Professor and Scholar, Dr. Solheim taught at the University of Tromsø in northern Norway in 2003.

He has published several books about the paranormal and his personal experiences with ghosts, demons, angels, telepathy, psychokinesis, mediumship, and NHI contact (Timeless, Timeless Deja Vu, Timeless Trinity, Anzar the Progenitor, and We Are the Aliens). In fact, Dr. Solheim teaches a Paranormal Personal History course at Citrus College. In addition to countless podcasts and radio shows, he has appeared on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and George Knapp, and New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove several times. Bruce was also featured in Alien Encounters Declassified on the Discovery Channel.

Email: bsolheim@citruscollege.edu or bootstobooks@gmail.com

Website: https://www.bruceolavsolheim.com/

Instagram: @snarccomic

Apocalypse in the Age of Aquarius: Doom or Divine Deliverance

Brace yourself for the amazing story of Chris Bledsoe that encompasses celestial beings, healings, missing time, portals, remote viewing, shape-shifting orbs, UFOs, visitations with the Lady in White, and a spiritual journey of awakening. Highest-level US government, intelligence, and military officials, as well as scientists, academics, and the Vatican investigated his encounters with the ‘Lady in White’, who prophesied impending worldwide changes to take place in 2026—and found them credible.

“Apocalypse in the Age of Aquarius: Doom or Divine Deliverance” is the true story of hope, love, lies and deception involving officials from the U.S. Government, CIA, NASA, academics, scientists, and UFO investigators. It is the story of the millenium.

Maurene was the former Washington Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) State Director from 2017 until 2023, and was a member of MUFON’s Experiencer Research Team (ERT). Maurene graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in Communication Studies at the age of 43, and then worked for 12 years as an editorial assistant on a university philosophy journal.

She has presented programs at several conferences and meetings on a variety of topics ranging mysterious ancient megaliths in the South Pacific to Marian Apparitions (Lady of Fatima and Guadalupe), and been interviewed on both radio stations and online podcasts.

In addition, Maurene spent more than 20 years exploring the world that included crewing aboard a square rigger during an Atlantic passage (SV Unicorn), and sailing around the world aboard a 40’ sailboat (Finisterre IV). A small-town girl from the Midwest, these experiences have given her a sense of how magical and mysterious our world truly is, and how much more there is to explore.