Our Strange Skies
Rob Kristoffersen
Podcaster | Historian
Rob Kristoffersen is an amateur UFO researcher from the Adirondacks of Northern New York. His interest in the paranormal and UFOs started at a young age, influenced by shows like The Real Ghostbusters, Unsolved Mysteries, In Search Of…, and that cooky Alien Autopsy special that they aired on Fox twice.
Following a UFO sighting in 2015, he devoted much his time to the subject of strange objects in the sky, and in late 2017, debuted the podcast Our Strange Skies: UFOs Throughout History. To date, the podcast has been listened to over a million times.
When he is not perusing old UFO journals for obscure cases, he enjoys Table Top Role Playing Games like Dungeons and Dragons. Rob is the Game Master for Welcome to Sunderland, an alien themed Dungeons and Dragons campaign, set in a modern setting.
Podcast Archive
Pull out your humanoid catalogs and put your flaps on a map, it’s time for the season (maybe series?!) finale of Our Strange Skies. On…
We’re going to be taking a break from the Great UFO Conspiracy series, but before we do, I wanted y’all to hear this episode I…
Emily Louise from Weird Reads with Emily Louise joins the pod to unleash a torrent of paranoid skepticism. This episode contains a fair amount of…
Here is our uncut interview with David Riedel, son of Pat McGuire and author of “My Dad Was A Famous Alien Abductee. I Thought He…
Ten miles from Bosler, Wyoming sits a ranch with a rather unusual feature. A well over 350 feet deep. A miracle well whose builder was…
“Is it saucers, satanists or CIA?” wrote Tom Adams in Stigmata, the only zine dedicated to the cattle mutilation phenomenon of the 1970s and 80s,…
CW: Animal DeathOn June 5, 2023, The Debrief published an article titled “Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non Human Origins.” Written by…
In the final palette cleanser episode before we dive deep into serious UFO conspiracy territory, Jessica Knapik from What’s Up Weirdo joins me to talk…
This week, my good friend Steve Berg (Host of the wonderful podcast, Hi, Strangeness) returns to the pod to talk about Nebraska weirdness, the old…
Have you ever been so burnt out on a subject that you needed to just have a good therapeutic chat with a friend about UFOs,…
Researcher Cole Herrold (New World Explorers Society) returns to the podcast to talk about the numerous and varied experiences of Jennings Frederick, a resident of…
Do you like intergalactic wars between humans and aliens? Well, have we got a treat for you. This week, Rus Ryan from The Unbelievers podcast…
This week, Ryan Sprague, the host of Somewhere in the Skies, and author of the new book, Stories from Somewhere in the Skies. Culled from…
In 1977 a series of UFO and humanoid sightings would capture the headlines in and around West Wales. Sightings of cigar shaped objects and saucers…
In late 2021, when we relaunched OSS full time, I had my friend Brian Hastie from the Double Density podcast on to talk about the…
This week we welcome Mike Clelland to the show. We dive into the weirdness of Saranac Lake, NY, a town we both lived in, as…
On this week’s episode a couple of New York guys talk about some New York stories, as Mothboy Matt from the Mothboys podcast joins me…
Are you down with the clown? Well this week, guests Stephanie Quick, AP Strange & I dive into the weirdness of clowns, their trickster-like nature,…
The city of Villa Carlos Paz is a tourist destination in central Argentina, known for a number of outdoor activities, such as kite surfing and…
On the first installment of what we hope is a long running series, Fred Andersson and I shoot the shit about all things UFO, including…
On August 17, 1966, Paulo Cordeiro Azevedo dos Santos went bird hunting on Morro do Vintém, a hill that overlooked the Santa Rosa neighborhood of…
April Fools, suckers! Also, happy first night of Wrestlemania! The subject of this episode was voted on by our dear patrons.For this installment of The…
This week I got COVID… so I got my buddies, Brian and Angelo of the Double Density podcast, to step in and host this bad…
The picturesque island of Coronado, situated in the resort city of San Diego, California, is crawling with the Secret Service in preparation for the arrival…
The Pennine Hills, located in Northern England, played host to a number of strange phenomenon throughout the 1970s and into the 80s. From the “Phantom…
In the Spring of 1988, Dr. Karla Turner, an English instructor at the University of North Texas, unexpectedly asked her class to objectively evaluate evidence…
Scribd is a magical resource, full of the most obscure documents, journals, and manifestos ever assembled in one location. One fine day I stumbled upon…
In episode 140 we looked at a wave of UFO activity that occurred in 1967. Many reported seeing strange red lights and metallic structured craft,…
1967 was a unique year for Canada. While the United States was embroiled in its own flap that saw the Ohio Valley play host to…
We’re taking a bit of a break from our abduction series, and this week, Sequoyah Kennedy from The Nonsense Bazaar joins me to talk a…
Welcome back to the third and final part of our series on Whitley Strieber. If you thought the last episode was wild, prepare yourself to…
So, what happens when you have a hit book on your hands? Well, your publisher wants another one. In this episode we cover the first…
This week, we begin a three part series on one of the most important figures in alien abduction lore, Whitley Strieber. Through a singular image…
On this weeks episode, OSS teams up with the What If? Podcast to review David Paulides’ new documentary, Missing 411: The UFO Connection. Together we…
CW: Sexual abuseWhen it comes to the alien abduction phenomenon, no two figures have played a greater roll in its shaping than Budd Hopkins and…
Eight years before Whitley Strieber’s Communion was published, The Andreasson Affair hit the shelves and challenged the notion of what abductions could be. Part alien…
In our first installment of our History of Abductions series, I put forth the premise that abductions weren’t in print before 1957… welp, that’s not…
CW: Self-harm, Childhood Sexual Assault, and CSA MaterialWe’re taking a break this week from the abduction series to introduce a new series, UFO Grifters, featuring…
Abductions in the 1970s are characterized by cases that gained a level of popularity on their individual merits. The Pascagoula Abduction for instance was a…
Way back on episode three of this podcast, we featured our first of only two UFO Book Clubs, dedicated to The Close Encounters Man: How…
CW: RacismWhen it comes to the alien contact experience, and the cases that we’ve come to revere, we often forget that there are voices excluded…
First and foremost, I can’t thank you all enough for the overwhelming support for our first episode. It means the world. On this week’s episode…
This episode marks the beginning of a L O N G series about the history of the alien abduction phenomenon.Our premise, in part, can be…
For Halloween this year I wanted to do something special. I reached out to Stan Gordon, and he was kind enough to join me. Stan…
At the end of this week’s episode I referenced a webcomic that I’ve been working on with past guest and all around good dude, Todd…
Page space within UFO journals of the 50s, 60s, and 70s was dedicated to solely to the seasoned investigator, debuting important cases that we quote…
The 1970s produced a distinct flavor of Sasquatch, one that could be found in nationwide headlines in states like Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania.…
When it comes to the big hairy guy in the woods, most people are of the mind that Bigfoot is a salt of the earth…
CW: domestic abuseA couple of months ago, patrons of Our Strange Skies voted on a non-UFO topic that we would cover. Among the choices of…
On episode 96, we briefly touched upon the story of the Sunderland family, who’d had a series of encounters with UFOs and aliens in a…
On September 13, 2022, Vice Motherboard rand published an articled called “Ukraine’s Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs Over Kyiv.” Astronomers at the main…
CW: misogyny, fat phobia Back in April I did an impromptu live stream. The theme of this live stream was music. One thing I love…
Journalist Bob Pratt made several trips to Brazil, collecting stories from villagers of UFO encounters. Many of them proved to be random, violent encounters which…
In UFO circles, Puerto Rico’s reputation has largely been built upon that red eyed goat sucker known as El Chupacabras. In reality, their UFO and…
Am I phoning it in again? Yes, but I really like this episode and for those who haven’t subscribed to the Patreon, this is what…
In UFO research we have lots of strange terms for things. For instance, a flap is defined as a large cluster of sightings over a…
CW: Animal death and mutilationThis week Spencer Wirth Davis of Finding Quantum Quest and The What If? Podcast steps in to tell ME a story.Sometimes,…
After nearly 8 hours of content over the span of three episodes, I feel like we could use a bit of a breather. Okay, maybe…
As silent wings hovered over the TNT area north of Point Pleasant, the big gray birdman would soon be replaced with bright luminous lights, and…
On August 29, 1965 headlines across the country all read “UFO Prober Says There’s Nothing to Indicate Any UFOs Extraterrestrial.” Air Force Major Hector Quintanilla,…
1965 is often viewed as a turning point in ufology. Up until that time, the press had largely dismissed UFO reports at the behest of…
In February of 1978 a man known only as Julio F packed up his car, his dog and his .22 rifle and headed out into…
The Men in Black, MIBs, the UFO silencers; since the 1950s, UFO witnesses have reported encounters with shadowy figures who’ve threatened them into silence. Or…
On September 7, 1956, Thomas Hutchinson, a resident of Moneymore, Ireland, put a head lock on a miniature UFO that had landed on his property.…
They go by many different names and are found in cultures all throughout the world. Trolls, Leprechauns, the fae, various legends of “The Little People”…
As a life long resident of the Adirondack region of Northern New York, books covering topics like ghosts and cryptids were slim. And aside from…
CW: Domestic Violence, Childhood Sexual AssaultIn 1994 Jean Bilodeaux, a field investigator for MUFON in California, received a phone call form a woman. The voice…
When Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released to wide audiences, it was believed by some in the UFO community that it would have…
CW: ANIMAL DEATH, ANIMAL KIDNAPPING On September 21, 1967 Harry King went to the fence to give Nelly Lewis’ prized Appaloosa Horse, Lady, her usual treat…
UFO witnesses who describe contact with otherworldly beings are often told “do not be afraid”, that the beings “mean them no harm.” On this episode of…
When I ask a guest to be on the podcast, I often given them a list of topics to chose from, but with Stephanie Quick…
It’s safe to say that the new logo for the podcast is a fair representation of what would happen if I were to meet an…
The Yukon has this reputation where the sky is a theater itself. It’s a place known for its lights in the sky, where from August…
In 1968 Gordon Creighton of Flying Saucer Review received a rather angry letter from a man named F.D. Marrow of Flemington, New Jersey. Marrow, a…
1973 was an unprecedented year for abduction cases. 10 abduction cases were reported that year, 8 of which occurred during a 17 day period from…
“The fall of 1973 saw one of the largest and most concentrated waves of UFO reports in history… But the strangest reports from 1973 were…
The Year of the Humanoids was a unique time in UFO history. Over the course of four months, the eastern United States saw a high…
The Place Bonaventure Hotel Incident is the quintessential UFO event involving a big UFO hovering above the outdoor pool of a Hilton hotel in downtown…
“There are no other cases, this is the case” Frank Galvin, played by Paul Newman in Sidney Lumet’s 1982 classic, The Verdict, said. And it’s…
In 1994 it was not uncommon to see experiencers featured on shows like The Oprah Winfrey Show or Geraldo Rivera. The public attention that the…
Through the annals of UFO lore and literature, there are tales of short humanoid beings with long ears, beings that seem to be ripped straight…
On episode 77, I presented a wave of UFO activity from 1972 that was witnessed throughout South Africa. On this episode we head over to…
Pull out your humanoid catalogs and put your flaps on a map, it’s time for the season (maybe series?!) finale of Our Strange Skies. On…
We’re going to be taking a break from the Great UFO Conspiracy series, but before we do, I wanted y’all to hear this episode I…
Emily Louise from Weird Reads with Emily Louise joins the pod to unleash a torrent of paranoid skepticism. This episode contains a fair amount of…
Here is our uncut interview with David Riedel, son of Pat McGuire and author of “My Dad Was A Famous Alien Abductee. I Thought He…
Ten miles from Bosler, Wyoming sits a ranch with a rather unusual feature. A well over 350 feet deep. A miracle well whose builder was…
“Is it saucers, satanists or CIA?” wrote Tom Adams in Stigmata, the only zine dedicated to the cattle mutilation phenomenon of the 1970s and 80s,…
CW: Animal DeathOn June 5, 2023, The Debrief published an article titled “Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non Human Origins.” Written by…
In the final palette cleanser episode before we dive deep into serious UFO conspiracy territory, Jessica Knapik from What’s Up Weirdo joins me to talk…
This week, my good friend Steve Berg (Host of the wonderful podcast, Hi, Strangeness) returns to the pod to talk about Nebraska weirdness, the old…
Have you ever been so burnt out on a subject that you needed to just have a good therapeutic chat with a friend about UFOs,…
Researcher Cole Herrold (New World Explorers Society) returns to the podcast to talk about the numerous and varied experiences of Jennings Frederick, a resident of…
Do you like intergalactic wars between humans and aliens? Well, have we got a treat for you. This week, Rus Ryan from The Unbelievers podcast…
This week, Ryan Sprague, the host of Somewhere in the Skies, and author of the new book, Stories from Somewhere in the Skies. Culled from…
In 1977 a series of UFO and humanoid sightings would capture the headlines in and around West Wales. Sightings of cigar shaped objects and saucers…
In late 2021, when we relaunched OSS full time, I had my friend Brian Hastie from the Double Density podcast on to talk about the…
This week we welcome Mike Clelland to the show. We dive into the weirdness of Saranac Lake, NY, a town we both lived in, as…
On this week’s episode a couple of New York guys talk about some New York stories, as Mothboy Matt from the Mothboys podcast joins me…
Are you down with the clown? Well this week, guests Stephanie Quick, AP Strange & I dive into the weirdness of clowns, their trickster-like nature,…
The city of Villa Carlos Paz is a tourist destination in central Argentina, known for a number of outdoor activities, such as kite surfing and…
On the first installment of what we hope is a long running series, Fred Andersson and I shoot the shit about all things UFO, including…
On August 17, 1966, Paulo Cordeiro Azevedo dos Santos went bird hunting on Morro do Vintém, a hill that overlooked the Santa Rosa neighborhood of…
April Fools, suckers! Also, happy first night of Wrestlemania! The subject of this episode was voted on by our dear patrons.For this installment of The…
This week I got COVID… so I got my buddies, Brian and Angelo of the Double Density podcast, to step in and host this bad…
The picturesque island of Coronado, situated in the resort city of San Diego, California, is crawling with the Secret Service in preparation for the arrival…
The Pennine Hills, located in Northern England, played host to a number of strange phenomenon throughout the 1970s and into the 80s. From the “Phantom…
In the Spring of 1988, Dr. Karla Turner, an English instructor at the University of North Texas, unexpectedly asked her class to objectively evaluate evidence…
Scribd is a magical resource, full of the most obscure documents, journals, and manifestos ever assembled in one location. One fine day I stumbled upon…
In episode 140 we looked at a wave of UFO activity that occurred in 1967. Many reported seeing strange red lights and metallic structured craft,…
1967 was a unique year for Canada. While the United States was embroiled in its own flap that saw the Ohio Valley play host to…
We’re taking a bit of a break from our abduction series, and this week, Sequoyah Kennedy from The Nonsense Bazaar joins me to talk a…
Welcome back to the third and final part of our series on Whitley Strieber. If you thought the last episode was wild, prepare yourself to…
So, what happens when you have a hit book on your hands? Well, your publisher wants another one. In this episode we cover the first…
This week, we begin a three part series on one of the most important figures in alien abduction lore, Whitley Strieber. Through a singular image…
On this weeks episode, OSS teams up with the What If? Podcast to review David Paulides’ new documentary, Missing 411: The UFO Connection. Together we…
CW: Sexual abuseWhen it comes to the alien abduction phenomenon, no two figures have played a greater roll in its shaping than Budd Hopkins and…
Eight years before Whitley Strieber’s Communion was published, The Andreasson Affair hit the shelves and challenged the notion of what abductions could be. Part alien…
In our first installment of our History of Abductions series, I put forth the premise that abductions weren’t in print before 1957… welp, that’s not…
CW: Self-harm, Childhood Sexual Assault, and CSA MaterialWe’re taking a break this week from the abduction series to introduce a new series, UFO Grifters, featuring…
Abductions in the 1970s are characterized by cases that gained a level of popularity on their individual merits. The Pascagoula Abduction for instance was a…
Way back on episode three of this podcast, we featured our first of only two UFO Book Clubs, dedicated to The Close Encounters Man: How…
CW: RacismWhen it comes to the alien contact experience, and the cases that we’ve come to revere, we often forget that there are voices excluded…
First and foremost, I can’t thank you all enough for the overwhelming support for our first episode. It means the world. On this week’s episode…
This episode marks the beginning of a L O N G series about the history of the alien abduction phenomenon.Our premise, in part, can be…
For Halloween this year I wanted to do something special. I reached out to Stan Gordon, and he was kind enough to join me. Stan…
At the end of this week’s episode I referenced a webcomic that I’ve been working on with past guest and all around good dude, Todd…
Page space within UFO journals of the 50s, 60s, and 70s was dedicated to solely to the seasoned investigator, debuting important cases that we quote…
The 1970s produced a distinct flavor of Sasquatch, one that could be found in nationwide headlines in states like Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania.…
When it comes to the big hairy guy in the woods, most people are of the mind that Bigfoot is a salt of the earth…
CW: domestic abuseA couple of months ago, patrons of Our Strange Skies voted on a non-UFO topic that we would cover. Among the choices of…
On episode 96, we briefly touched upon the story of the Sunderland family, who’d had a series of encounters with UFOs and aliens in a…
On September 13, 2022, Vice Motherboard rand published an articled called “Ukraine’s Astronomers Say There Are Tons of UFOs Over Kyiv.” Astronomers at the main…
CW: misogyny, fat phobia Back in April I did an impromptu live stream. The theme of this live stream was music. One thing I love…
Journalist Bob Pratt made several trips to Brazil, collecting stories from villagers of UFO encounters. Many of them proved to be random, violent encounters which…
In UFO circles, Puerto Rico’s reputation has largely been built upon that red eyed goat sucker known as El Chupacabras. In reality, their UFO and…
Am I phoning it in again? Yes, but I really like this episode and for those who haven’t subscribed to the Patreon, this is what…
In UFO research we have lots of strange terms for things. For instance, a flap is defined as a large cluster of sightings over a…
CW: Animal death and mutilationThis week Spencer Wirth Davis of Finding Quantum Quest and The What If? Podcast steps in to tell ME a story.Sometimes,…
After nearly 8 hours of content over the span of three episodes, I feel like we could use a bit of a breather. Okay, maybe…
As silent wings hovered over the TNT area north of Point Pleasant, the big gray birdman would soon be replaced with bright luminous lights, and…
On August 29, 1965 headlines across the country all read “UFO Prober Says There’s Nothing to Indicate Any UFOs Extraterrestrial.” Air Force Major Hector Quintanilla,…
1965 is often viewed as a turning point in ufology. Up until that time, the press had largely dismissed UFO reports at the behest of…
In February of 1978 a man known only as Julio F packed up his car, his dog and his .22 rifle and headed out into…
The Men in Black, MIBs, the UFO silencers; since the 1950s, UFO witnesses have reported encounters with shadowy figures who’ve threatened them into silence. Or…
On September 7, 1956, Thomas Hutchinson, a resident of Moneymore, Ireland, put a head lock on a miniature UFO that had landed on his property.…
They go by many different names and are found in cultures all throughout the world. Trolls, Leprechauns, the fae, various legends of “The Little People”…
As a life long resident of the Adirondack region of Northern New York, books covering topics like ghosts and cryptids were slim. And aside from…
CW: Domestic Violence, Childhood Sexual AssaultIn 1994 Jean Bilodeaux, a field investigator for MUFON in California, received a phone call form a woman. The voice…
When Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released to wide audiences, it was believed by some in the UFO community that it would have…
CW: ANIMAL DEATH, ANIMAL KIDNAPPING On September 21, 1967 Harry King went to the fence to give Nelly Lewis’ prized Appaloosa Horse, Lady, her usual treat…
UFO witnesses who describe contact with otherworldly beings are often told “do not be afraid”, that the beings “mean them no harm.” On this episode of…
When I ask a guest to be on the podcast, I often given them a list of topics to chose from, but with Stephanie Quick…
It’s safe to say that the new logo for the podcast is a fair representation of what would happen if I were to meet an…
The Yukon has this reputation where the sky is a theater itself. It’s a place known for its lights in the sky, where from August…
In 1968 Gordon Creighton of Flying Saucer Review received a rather angry letter from a man named F.D. Marrow of Flemington, New Jersey. Marrow, a…
1973 was an unprecedented year for abduction cases. 10 abduction cases were reported that year, 8 of which occurred during a 17 day period from…
“The fall of 1973 saw one of the largest and most concentrated waves of UFO reports in history… But the strangest reports from 1973 were…
The Year of the Humanoids was a unique time in UFO history. Over the course of four months, the eastern United States saw a high…
The Place Bonaventure Hotel Incident is the quintessential UFO event involving a big UFO hovering above the outdoor pool of a Hilton hotel in downtown…
“There are no other cases, this is the case” Frank Galvin, played by Paul Newman in Sidney Lumet’s 1982 classic, The Verdict, said. And it’s…
In 1994 it was not uncommon to see experiencers featured on shows like The Oprah Winfrey Show or Geraldo Rivera. The public attention that the…