Afraid of Alien Encounters

On your mark, get set, GO ... up into an alien spacecraft. But who do you talk to about the experience once you return from the Mother Ship? Yep, there's a support group for that.

Tonight's guest, Lester Velez, is a UFO investigator, author and founder of OPUS, the Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support. Sometimes-Cohost Cuyle Carvin joins us as we explore alien encounters and what it all means.

The truth is in this episode.

AI alien art created by NightCafe.

BIO:
Lester Velez is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. Beginning in September of 1970, he served in the U.S. Army as a field artillery officer and was later vice president of Luscombe Engineering, a Silicon-Valley based manufacturer’s representative company. He joined MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network, in 1991 and has held the following positions: Field investigator, Training Coordinator for field investigators, the Assistant State Director in Northern California, Chairman of the A.E.R.C. (Abduction Experiencer Research Committee), and team leader of the A.R.T. (Abduction Response Team). Also during that time, he became a facilitator for an abduction support group in San Jose California, and in 1994 co-founded OPUS, the Organization for Paranormal Understanding and Support.

BOOKS:
The Unknown Other and the Existential Proposition of Alien Contact

WEBSITE/LINKS:
https://www.opusnetwork.org/

E-MAIL:
Lesterv424@aol.com