About this episode

The episode explores a fictionalized series about UFO crash retrievals and the implications of a leaked email regarding its authenticity.

In 1998, UFO Magazine published a strange three-part series written by an apparent pseudonymous author named Greg Halifax. The articles followed a character called Sedge Masters, an intelligence operative recruited into a deeply classified UFO crash-retrieval program known as Zodiac.Across the series, Masters is briefed on alleged recovered craft, non-human bodies, reverse-engineering efforts and a specialized military recovery team whose members return from a mission with ninety minutes of missing time. He is brought in to interrogate the men, investigate what happened during the recovery and gradually descend into a compartmentalized world involving Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, underwater objects, recovered technology and decades of UFO secrecy.For this complete readthrough, I’m reading all three original installments published in:UFO Magazine — May/June 1998, Volume 13, Number 3Featuring “Deep Files Trans ‘X’ Communiqué: Letter to a UFO Recruit”UFO Magazine — September 1998, Volume 13, Number 5UFO Magazine — December 1998, Volume 13, Number 8The articles were presented as fictionalized and largely unverified. However, their significance changed after a leaked 1999 email…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Ramsay

Topics covered

• UFOs
• intelligence operations
• military secrecy
• reverse engineering
• UFO crash retrieval

Keywords

• UFOs
• Sedge Masters
• Greg Halifax
• Wright-Patterson
• military recovery
• Zodiac
• reverse engineering
• UFO Magazine

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UFO Magazine, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

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