This week I am talking to Peter Robbins about the UFO phenemenon.
Robbins UFO CV/Bio
Peter Robbins is an investigative writer, author, and lecturer whose writing and research are focused on the subject of truly anomalous UFOs and their implications for humanity. He has appeared as a guest on and been consultant to numerous radio shows, television programs and documentaries. His also host of the live weekly two-hour radio talk show, \u201cMeanwhile, Here On Earth\u201d on KGRA Digital Broadcasting. (Monday nights, 7-9 PM EST. Go to kgradb.com, click on \u201cLivestream,\u201d and you\u2019re there).
Lecture topics include:
Media, Ridicule and UFOs: The Origins of UFO Ridicule
Politics, History and Human Nature: Roadblocks on the Path to Disclosure
Comets, Cults and Fundamentalist Thinking: A UFO Related Cautionary Tale
Little Green Men and the New York Times: How America\u2019s Greatest Newspaper Helped Perpetrate Our Government\u2019s Greatest Deception
The Remarkable Life and Suspicious Death of America\u2019s first Secretary of Defense, Early Casualty of the UFO Cover-up
Critical Thinking, Deductive Reasoning and Ufology
UFO and Alien Imagery in Advertising: Innocent Sales Device or Calculated Social Engineering?
The Life and Scientific Discoveries of Dr. Wilhelm Reich: An Introductory Talk
Wilhelm Reich and UFOs
The UFO Abduction Phenomenon
Budd Hopkins, Pioneer Abduction Researcher: An Appreciation
Budd Hopkins, Children and UFO Abduction: A Personal Remembrance
The 1989 Voronezh Incident: Russia\u2019s Best Known CE3
Controversial Deaths and UFO Investigation: Murder, Conspiracy or Happenstance?
Excerpts and Outtakes: True Stories from Forty-plus Years in Ufology, illustrated.
The Graphics and the Classics: Illustration and the Golden Age of UFO Literature
Workshops. Each designed to focus on the specifics of the area of study requested. Other workshops specifically for students. educators, mental health professionals, people of faith, members of the business, community, UFO investigators and researchers and whomever else.
Appearances in the UK have included a British national book tour and talks at the Royal College of Science and Technology, London, the Universities of Hallam, Sheffield, Leeds, Yorkshire, Glasgow, and Cardiff. For the faculty and students of the Summerhill School, Suffolk East Anglia; Quest International Conferences, and East Midlands UFO Research (EMPHORA) Conference, Nottingham. \u2018Conference of The Centre for Fortean Zoology,\u2019 Devon; the \u2018Beyond Knowledge Conference,\u2019 Liverpool; BUFORA (British UFO Research Association) conferences and Woodbridge Suffolk UFO conferences. Most recently, Peter presented at the Edinburg UFO Festival and Conference, Edinburg TX (April), was the featured speaker at the Outer Limits Magazine UFO Conference in Hull England (May 2022), and the annual International MUFON Symposium in Denver Colorado.
Robbins has spoken at X-Conferences in Washington, D.C. and Virginia; at the UFO Reykjavik Summit in Lawrence Kansas, and at International UFO Congresses in Phoenix Arizona and Laughlin Nevada. He has emceed and spoken at Annual MUFON International UFO Symposiums and for numerous MUFON state and regional affiliates. He\u2019s presented for Michigan MUFON\u2019s 2016 Swamp Gas UFO Conference; the Scientific Bureau of Investigation UFO Symposium in Albany NY; Experiencers Speak Conferences, Portland Maine; keynote speaker, National Conference of the UFO Organization of Japan, Tokyo; the 6th World UFO Forum in Brazil, and the Exobiology International Meeting in Segrate Italy; Travis Walton\u2019s Skyfire UFO Summits, Heber Arizona; Exeter New Hampshire UFO Festival and Conference; Greater New England UFO Conference, Leominster MA; Pine Bush NY UFO conferences; Budd Hopkins\u2019 Intruders Foundation conferences and seminars in New York City. He has spoken at the Omega UFO Conferences, North Haven CT; McMinnville Oregon UFO Festival/conferences; Crash/Retrieval UFO Conferences, Las Vegas NV; Gulf Coast UFO Conference, Gulf Breeze Florida; Biloxi UFO Conference, Biloxi Mississippi; Metaphysical Center of New Jersey; and the Fortean Research Center, Lincoln, Nebraska. Peter was made a member of the French Acad\xe9mie d'Ufologie in 2012 and has given talks in Paris, Nice, Bordeaux and Toulouse France.
Robbins\u2019 longtime interest in the life and scientific discoveries of Dr. Wilhelm Reich led to the publication of a series of published papers and conference talks in the US, England, at the International Conference on the Scientific Discoveries of Wilhelm Reich, Nice France; the American College of Orgonomy\u2019s conferences in New York City and Princeton New Jersey, and at the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory in Ashland Oregon. In 2012 Robbins presented two papers at the Academy of Orgonomy conference in Karavomilos, Central Greece, and in 2013 at the Italian Association of Orgonomy\u2019s annual conference in Rome. In 2016 and 2017 he returned to Greece to speak at the \u201cContact With Space Conference\u201d in Athens.
Professional credits include editorial assistant on United Nations\u2019 Secretary General's (requested) report \u201cfor the establishment of a UN-UFO Department,\u201d and editorial assistant for Member of Parliament, the Honourable Brinsley Le Pour Trench, Earl of Clancarty\u2019s (requested) paper for The House of Lords Debate on UFOs. Robbins was a founding member of Budd Hopkins\u2019 Intruders Foundation, a member of its Advisory Board, and was Executive Assistant to Mr. Hopkins. He was Event Coordinator for the SCI FI Channel\u2019s \u2018Alien Abduction Phenomenon: A Symposium, organized to promote the release of the Steven Spielberg miniseries \u2018Taken,\u2019 and writer, planner and commentator for the "Ultimate UFO" and \u201cUltimate Crop Circle\u201d DVD sets. He has written for Open Minds magazine, FATE, Phenomena (UK) Outer Limits Magazine, (UK), UFO Data Magazine (UK), UFO Matrix (UK), UFO Magazine (both the UK & US publications), OUR-J Journal of UFO Studies (Japan), Phenomena Magazine (UK), and numerous other publications and websites. He has been a consultant to the McMinnville Oregon UFO Festival and Conference and Experiencers Speak Conference in Portland Maine,
From 2007 until 2010 Peter served as consultant to the City of Roswell New Mexico and was their liaison to Gov. Richardson\u2019s office on UFO-related matters. He was coordinator of Roswell\u2019s annual UFO Symposium, and testified before the Senate/Congressional (retired) committee at the Disclosure Hearings held at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. in 2013. He is proud to be an Associate Producer of the award-winning documentary \u201cTravis: The True Story of Travis Walton,\u201d and writer, director and producer of the documentary, \u201cThe Extraordinary Life and Suspicious Death of James Forrestal.\u201d
TV appearances include \u201cAncient Aliens,\u201d the History Channel\u2019s \u201cBritain\u2019s Roswell;\u201d "Unsolved Mysteries;" "Good Day New York;" \u201cThe O\u2019Reilly Factor,\u201d FOX-NY; \u201cThe Real Roswell,\u201d Nat Geo Channel; The SCI FI Channel documentary \u201cUFO Invasion At Rendlesham;\u201d \u201cThe Early Show,\u201d CBS; CBS NEWS, Denver; \u201cCultural Odyssey:\u201d Voice of America TV Chinese Branch; \u201cThe Geraldo Show,\u201d NYC; "L'Odyssee De L'Etrange" (France); \u201cThe Nina Hagen Show\u201d (Germany); "Network First: UFO" (UK); Lifetime Network and \u201cConspiracy\u201d(Film One Production) Canada; "EXOCILIZATIONS," La Locale Television, Paris, as well as numerous BBC TV affiliates.
Radio interviews include \u201cCoast To Coast\u201d with hosts George Noory and George Knapp; "The Art Bell Show;\u201d \u201c21st Century Radio\u201d (Baltimore); \u201cMidnight In the Desert,\u201d \u201cThe Richard Dolan Show;\u201d \u201cWake Up U.S.A;\u201d \u201cUFO Undercover\u201d (New Orleans); "Sightings On the Radio with Jeff Rense\u201d (LA); \u201cThe James Whale Show\u201d (London); \u201cThe Alan Colmes Show\u201d (NYC); \u201cThe Paracast;\u201d \u201c\u201dWhere Did the Road Go?,\u201d WBAI-NY's "UFO Desk;" NYC; \u201cThe Jerry Pippin Show;\u201d \u201cCold Cases, Hot Leads;\u201d \u201cEncounters\u201d on KGRA; \u201cBeyond the Paranormal;\u201d BBC World Service "UFO's - Fact, Fiction or Fantasy?" (Iran), and numerous podcasts and BBC Radio affiliates.
Peter Robbins was born in Queens New York and studied art, design, and theater at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He received his BFA (painting, film history) from New York City\u2019s School of Visual Arts (SVA) and taught painting there for a dozen years. He was also a member of the art faculties of St. Anns School in Brooklyn Heights, and the Oklahoma Council on the Arts summer program, Arts Encounters. Following his graduation from SVA, he worked as a deckhand aboard a Norwegian freighter, then traveled the world for a year. Peter was studio assistant to Abstract Expressionist painter Adolph Gotlieb, studio assistant to American na\xefve painter William Cply (correct spelling), and assistant to pioneer kinetic light sculptor Stanley Landsman. Robbins has worked as a carpenter, art gallery assistant, band manager, copywriter, ghostwriter, editor, website director (ufocity.com, 1998-2004), and throughout most of the Eighties was House Manager for New York City\u2019s celebrated Mirror Repertory Company. And was a crisis intervention volunteer and shift supervisor for Samaritans International New York City office. He is an experienced New York City walking touring guide and an accomplished photographer. <
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