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The Micah Hanks Program
The Micah Hanks Program is a weekly podcast that covers science and the mysteries of our universe. Taking a critically-minded approach to the study of our world, each week Micah presents commentary and discussions with guests on subjects that include mysteries of physics and astronomy, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), UFOs, myths and folklore, archaeology and ancient mysteries, artificial intelligence, futurism, cryptozoology, science fiction, and entertainment. Each week we…
Episodes
The Micah Hanks ProgramOrigin: Language, Consciousness, and Alien Life | MHP 11.16.20.
For centuries, humans have wondered whether alien life exists on other worlds. Today, astronomers agree that in the coming decades--perhaps within some of our…
The Micah Hanks ProgramStar Gate: Remote Viewing the UFO Phenomenon | MHP 11.09.20.
During the Cold War, U.S. Intelligence agencies learned that the Soviet Union was funneling large amounts of funding toward unlocking mysteries of the human…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe UFO Hackers: In Search of Suppressed Technology | MHP 11.02.20.
It was the most high-profile case involving a hacker in the history of Britain, and at the time the story broke, one of the biggest stories in the UK, if not…
The Micah Hanks ProgramA Magician Among the Spirits: Houdini, Doyle, and the Occult | MHP 10.26.20.
Some of the most famous minds of the 19th century became swept up in the allure of Spiritualism and mediumship. No less among these had been Sir Arthur Conan…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Disappearance of Joan Risch | MHP 10.19.20.
It was an Autumn afternoon like any other. The date was October 24, 1961, and Joan Carolyn Risch had just returned with her daughter from shopping after a…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: A Brief History | MHP 10.12.20.
The Second World War had barely ended by the time reports of "flying saucers" began to make headlines in 1947. What were these mysterious objects, and were…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Mind Hackers: MK Ultra Secrets | MHP 10.05.20.
At the height of the Cold War, the entire world was on edge. Desperate times often lead to desperate measures, and during this tense period, the Central…
The Micah Hanks ProgramLost in Space: Secrets of the Soviet Space Program | MHP 09.28.20.
Some have called it the "ultimate" Cold War-era urban legend. It is a story of two space programs: but rather than those of Soviet Russia and the United…
The Micah Hanks ProgramCult of the Saucer: Contactees and Visitors from Venus | MHP 09.21.20.
Last week, the search for extraterrestrial life got quite a boost after a team of researchers announced that they may have discovered signs of life on one of…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Coyne Encounter: Near-Collision with a UFO | MHP 09.14.20.
On Monday, Oct 22, 1973, the Ohio Lancaster Eagle-Gazette carried a most unusual headline. "Helicopter Nearly Tangles With UFO" the story read, which recounted…
The Micah Hanks ProgramBigfoot: Origins of the Beast | MHP 09.07.20.
In 1958, a series of large, human-like footprints were discovered by employees at a California logging site. A casting of one of the prints was made by the man…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe USO Enigma: Maritime UAP Encounters | MHP 083120
In 1970, zoologist and popular author Ivan T. Sanderson wrote, "it may come as somewhat of a shock... to learn that, by actual count, over 50 percent of all…
The Micah Hanks ProgramIncident at O'Hare: The Case File Reopened | MHP 082420
In November 2006, something odd appeared in the late afternoon skies above one of the world's busiest airports. More than a decade later, no simple explanation…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Unidentified: Science and the Study of UAP | MHP 08.16.20
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, after news and a segment that takes a deep look at what is currently known about the DoD's recent announcement about its…
The Micah Hanks ProgramPentacle: Anatomy of a Coverup | MHP 08.10.20.
It was the summer of 1967, and Jacques Vallee was feeling troubled. A young French computer scientist living in America, Vallee had been tasked with one of the…
The Micah Hanks ProgramJohn Keel and the Men in Black | MHP 08.03.20.
During the 1960s, American author and UFO researcher John Keel had a problem: it involved reports of Men in Black, the mysterious strangers in dark suits said…
The Micah Hanks ProgramSigns of the Times: The UFO Controversy in the Media | MHP 07.27.20.
"For more than a decade," reads the latest in a series of New York Times articles on UFOs that have appeared since late 2017, a shadowy Pentagon UFO program…
The Micah Hanks ProgramStrange Effects of UFO Encounters | MHP 07.20.20.
In December 1967, Maryellen Kelley felt an electric shock go through her body as she stood outside her home in Mohomet, Illinois, watching an orange UFO pass…
The Micah Hanks ProgramIncident at Stephenville | MHP 07.13.20.
It was shortly after 6 PM on January 8, 2008, when witnesses Mike Odom, Lance Jones, and Steve Allen first noticed a series of bright, flashing lights passing…
The Micah Hanks ProgramCrash-Retrieval Syndrome: Legend of the Crashed Saucers| MHP 07.06.20.
In July 1947, something crashed on a sprawling ranch outside the town of Roswell, New Mexico. The wreckage was discovered by the property owner, Mac Brazel…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe UAP Task Force and the Hunt for Zero Point | MHP 06.29.20.
"The [Senate Intelligence] Committee supports the efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence to standardize…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe UFO Problem | MHP 06.22.20.
What are UFOs, and what constitutes actual UFO study? While the term "UFOlogy" is commonly used for modern UFO research, there is very little science involved…
The Micah Hanks ProgramSpace Signals: Decoding the Mystery of FRBs | MHP 06.15.20.
Recently, astronomers have begun to notice something odd about a long-standing space mystery: the curious fast radio bursts (or FRBs) that were first…
The Micah Hanks ProgramMystery Booms: Tracking the Phenomenon | MHP 060820
Mysterious sounds of unexplained origin have been documented in places all around the world. Such noises are often likened to thunder-like "booms" or…
The Micah Hanks ProgramThe Myth and Mystery of UFOs | MHP 06.01.20.
What are UFOs? Is there more than one answer to this question, and does new information forthcoming on the subject in recent years, which includes videos of…
The Micah Hanks ProgramPaleo-SETI: UFOs and Space Explorers in Antiquity | MHP 05.25.20.
Most historians of the UFO subject would recognize its beginning in 1947 with Kenneth Arnold's sighting of mysterious flying "saucers" over Mount Ranier…
The Micah Hanks ProgramNavy Encounters With Rogue Aircraft | MHP 05.18.20.
Between 2013 and 2019, several incidents involving unidentified "rogue" aircraft encountered by Navy pilots occurred in military airspace off the East Coast of…
The Micah Hanks ProgramNASA's "Secret" UFO Files | MHP 05.11.20.
What does the government really know about UFOs? Does our military possess information about unexplained aerial phenomena that remains unknown to the general…
The Micah Hanks ProgramUFOs, the Military and the Media | MHP 05.04.20.
In 2017, the New York Times featured the article "Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program," which initiated a system reset…
The Micah Hanks Program04.27.20. Big Footprints: Sasquatch and Science
For many, the idea of any large, unrecognized mammals still existing in North America would seem impossible; add to that that the words bipedal primate, and…
The Micah Hanks Program04.20.20. Death, Abduction and the UFO: A Modern Mythology
In 1958, psychologist Carl Jung authored one of the most unusual essays of his entire lifetime. Titled Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the…
The Micah Hanks Program04.13.20. Interstellar: Visitors From Beyond
In October 2017, a mysterious visitor was spotted by astronomers as it passed through our solar system. First believed to be a comet, the strange object was…
The Micah Hanks Program04.06.20. Black Triangles Over Belgium
On the night of March 30, 1990, a Belgian gendarmerie placed a call to the Control Reporting Station at Glons to report a sighting of an unidentified flying…
The Micah Hanks Program03.30.20: Strange Survivors and Credible Cryptids
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, as we celebrate National Doctor's Day, we send a special thank you to doctors everywhere for their work in the midst of…
The Micah Hanks Program03.23.20. Outbreak: The Disease Detectives
On this edition of The Micah Hanks Program, after news and listener emails pertaining to strange things in our skies, we have an odd question about pandemics…
The Micah Hanks Program03.16.20. Bodies of Evidence: Death of the Sasquatch
For centuries, there have been stories about large, manlike animals in the Pacific Northwest and other remote parts of America. The creature known as Sasquatch…
The Micah Hanks Program03.09.20. Operation Saucer: Incident at Colares
In 1977, panic had struck the northern coast of Brazil. Many residents on the island of Colares and nearby locales like Belém were reporting nighttime…
The Micah Hanks Program03.02.20. Ghosts in the Sky: Mystery Aircraft of Area 51
This week, biologists are excited about what might be a unique protein found inside an ancient meteorite, which could have tremendous implications not just for…
The Micah Hanks Program02.24.20. The Hynek Report: UFOs, Radar & Close Encounters
This week, we lead off with news about artificial intelligence, and the passing of an influential NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson, before turning our…
The Micah Hanks Program02.17.20. The Real X-Files: Inside the Government's UFO Program
On this special edition of The Micah Hanks Program, after opening news pertaining to astronomy and the search by scientists for extraterrestrial life, we are…
The Micah Hanks Program02.10.20. Strange Times at Skinwalker Ranch
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we launch into this week's news with a look at the European Space Agency's ambitions to study our Sun. Meanwhile…
The Micah Hanks Program02.03.20. UFOs, Dreams & the Modern Shamanic Experience
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we celebrate a belated Groundhog Day, and the peculiar annual tradition about an immortal groundhog who can predict the…
The Micah Hanks Program01.27.20. The Tehran UFO Incident of 1976
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, after news updates related to the current coronavirus scare, as well as a House Resolution aimed at getting NASA to…
The Micah Hanks Program01.20.20. Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: The Language of Myth
This week on the Micah Hanks Program, our discussion ensues with a look at a true sea monster, the giant squid, and what the sequencing of its genome has…
The Micah Hanks Program01.13.20. Chasing Disclosure: UFOs, Sci-Fi and Alien Life
This week on the Micah Hanks Program, we have science fiction on our minds, and questions about what fictional stories about aliens actually tell us about…
The Micah Hanks Program01.06.20. Space Force: The Military and the Final Frontier
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, it appears that Earth had a close encounter over the weekend... with the Sun. In addition to astronomy news, we look at…
The Micah Hanks Program12.30.19. The Eve of Tomorrow: 2019 Wrap-Up and 2020 Forecast
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, as we look back on another year we cover stories in the news of mysterious archaeological discoveries, interspecies…
The Micah Hanks Program12.23.19. Christmas in the Cosmos: The Power of Myth
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, 'tis the season, and we lead off with NASA news, a last-minute shopping list for the adventurous among us, and the…
The Micah Hanks Program12.16.19. UFOs: Theories of Origin
This week on The Micah Hanks Podcast, we remember the words of the late astronomer J. Allen Hynek, who said of the study of UFOs, "the 'U' in UFO, of course…
The Micah Hanks Program11.09.19. Coffee With Forteans: David Weatherly Drops In
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we lead off with stories that include the discovery of a new an enigmatic ancient archaeological site in Turkey, as well…
The Micah Hanks Program12.02.19. Mad Scientists and Metamaterials
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we lead off with a recap of the debate over alleged samples of "alien" meta-materials, which are currently in the hands…
The Micah Hanks Program11.25.19. The Nimitz Witnesses
On this week's edition of The Micah Hanks Program, we continue our discussion of what is widely known as The USS Nimitz UFO Incident, involving events that…
The Micah Hanks Program11.18.19. Interception: UFO Data and the Military
On this edition of the program, after opening with news in the world of zoology that includes the rediscovery of a species that had been unseen for decades, as…
The Micah Hanks Program11.11.19. Charles Fort: Prophet of the Damned
On this episode of The Micah Hanks Program, we lead off with the latest update in the ongoing search for Amelia Earhart, as well as an unusual planetary…
The Micah Hanks Program11.04.19. The Airships: UFOs in the 1890s
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we lead off with a story of odd magic and the strange disappearance of the famous "Wizard Rock" bolder in Arizona, and…
The Micah Hanks Program10.28.19. The Man in Black
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, as Halloween is just around the corner, we bring in the season with tales of haunted houses, mysterious monstrous eggs…
The Micah Hanks Program10.21.19. Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, we lead off with a Halloween-themed news segment that looks at a pair of real "monsters" of nature, as well as a strange…
The Micah Hanks Program10.14.19. Wolf Man: Origins of the Werewolf
This week on The Micah Hanks Program, as the passing weeks bring us closer to the Halloween season, we lead off with the discussion of cricket swarms in Texas…
The Micah Hanks Program10.07.19. UFOs and All That Jazz
On this edition of The Micah Hanks Program, we lead off with news of an exciting physics experiment where physicists caused a massive particle two appear in…
The Micah Hanks Program09.30.19. Sasquatch: An Unnatural History
This week on the program, after recapping an excellent visit Micah had with Scott Philbrook of the Astonishing Legends podcast, we turn our attention to Elon…