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Program Details for 2025
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February 11, 2025 -7:30 p.m. EST via Zoom-Eric Mintel Investigates: Paranormal Projection Room: UFO’s Dogman, Bigfoot, Ghosts and more!
Eric Mintel (Lead Investigator)
For over 30 years, Eric Mintel has been celebrated as an acclaimed jazz musician, leading the renowned Eric Mintel Quartet. His music career has taken him to prestigious stages nationwide, including The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the United Nations in New York City. Eric has even performed twice at the White House, entertaining Presidents Clinton and Obama.
But beyond his success in music, Eric has a lifelong passion for investigating the paranormal and exploring the unexplainable mysteries of our world. Fascinated by the paranormal since childhood, Eric turned his curiosity into reality by creating Eric Mintel Investigates, a grassroots paranormal investigation program for TV.
His groundbreaking work has captured the attention of newspapers, television, radio, and podcasts worldwide. Over the years, Eric and his team have gathered astonishing footage and documented paranormal phenomena like never seen before, pushing the boundaries of what we know about the unexplained.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. EST via Zoom -
Chris Rutkowski-
Close Encounters of the Canadian Kind: Cases You’ve Never Known
Whether it’s a sovereign country or a 51st state, Canada has always played an important role in ufology. Some of the most intriguing and unexplained UFO (and UAP) cases have occurred within Canada, including many with physical evidence, with official government documentation, and with highly qualified observers as witnesses, such as pilots, police, and air traffic controllers. Hear about some of these cases, and see many official Canadian government documents proving that UFOs and UAP are taken very seriously in the Great White North.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025-
Robert Powell-UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know)
Robert Powell is a founding Board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), a 350-member organization with the mission of bringing science to the investigation of UFOs. He was the Director of Research at MUFON from 2007-2017 and created MUFON's Science Review Board in 2012. Robert is one of two authors of the detailed radar/witness report on the “Stephenville Lights” as well as the SCU report "UAP: 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico". He is also the primary author on the recently published paper, “A Forensic Analysis of Navy Carrier Strike Group Eleven’s Encounter with an Anomalous Aerial Vehicle” and a secondary author of a paper published in the journal Entropy entitled, “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles.” Robert is a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, the UFODATA project, and the National Space Society. Robert has released a new book in April 2024: UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know). He is also a co-author of a book published in July 2012: UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry and is an author of a book designed for children published in Nov. 2020 entitled, The Truth About UFOs: A Scientific Perspective.
Robert has a BS in Chemistry and is a former collegiate debater. He has 28 years of experience in engineering management in the semiconductor industry. He helped Advanced Micro Devices develop its first flash memory technology that is used in today’s flash cards for cameras, PCs, video cameras, and other products. His experience includes managing a state-of-the-art chemistry laboratory and managing a Research and Development group that worked on nanotechnology using atomic force microscopes, near-field optical microscopy, and other techniques. Robert is also a co-holder of four patents related to nanotechnology. Robert currently resides in Austin, Texas.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. EST via Zoom -Wajid Hassan
From Pakistan to England and then settling in America, Wajid has lived an interesting and varied life in many fields of endeavor.
From a technical background as a Field Service Engineer to a stand-up comedian with over twenty years as a union actor doing voice-over, narration, commercials as well as TV and movie roles.
He also encompasses over forty years of experience in the fields of metaphysics, healing, spirituality, and new age concepts.
An avid hiker he managed to climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in 2006 Africa’s highest mountain in Tanzania.
He is a humanitarian and environmentalist always looking for ways to improve life for people along with a deep love for our planet and all the plants and animals who reside upon her back.
As a qualified speaker, healer, and teacher he can demonstrate how to reignite the spiritual flame within us and send it outwards to all, improving not only our own lives but those of every lifestream that lives in our beautiful world.
He outlines in detail in his book “The Struggle for World Sanity.”