Frank Edwards
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Oct 20, 2026
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
You know, I stuck my neck out.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
Frank Edwards, I don't know if you've heard of him.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
He wrote a book, Flying Saucer, Serious Business.
Stanton FriedmanGUEST
He was a journalist.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
The Associated Press and other wire services in Washington had no report.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Requests for details by Frank Edwards, Mutual Newscaster, and other radio commentators ran into a blank wall.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
At the Pentagon, I was told that the Air Force had no knowledge of the sighting or the vapor trail maneuvers.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
On February twenty-second, two similar glowing objects were seen above Boca Chica Naval Air Station at Key West.
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Roger MelinNARRATOR
The mysterious object circled Bonham twice, then raced off to the east and vanished.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Descriptions of the strange machine varied from round or oval to cigar-shaped.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
The details of the Bonham sighting were later confirmed for me by Frank Edwards, Mutual Network newscaster, who investigated this case.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Twenty-four hours after the Bonham incident, a device of the same description appeared at Fort Scott, Kansas.
Richard BeckwithHOST
He has had numerous articles published in various UFO-related magazines around the world, including four MUFON journal cover stories, and he has appeared in several television series as a photo analyst, including UFOs, The Lost Evidence, and Ancient Aliens.
Richard BeckwithHOST
A lifelong UFO enthusiast, after reading Frank Edwards' Flying Saucers Serious Business as a child in the 1960s, he has only had two ball-of-light sightings to speak of, but has concentrated his area of expertise around that particular phenomenon as well.
Richard BeckwithHOST
I am honored to have him here as my guest tonight here on the official MUFON podcast, Bob Spearing.
Richard BeckwithHOST
Welcome to the program.
Steve BergHOST
Mm-hmm
Michael M. HughesGUEST
... and read, like, Frank Edwards' book or something-
Steve BergHOST
I know
Michael M. HughesGUEST
... than, than watch, you know, Grusch's latest testimony or, you know-
Leo SprinkleGUEST
So, uh, uh, so after that second sighting, I knew that, uh, flying saucers, uh, were real.
Leo SprinkleGUEST
I, I'm slow, but I've had two sightings, and, and I started to read reports, Frank Edwards, uh, Kehoe, and others.
Leo SprinkleGUEST
And, uh-
Art BellHOST
It really sounds as though it had a very profound effect on your life.
Sookie SooksonHOST
Both of these are recounting experiences at Borley Rectory.
Sookie SooksonHOST
The writer Frank Edwards delved into ghost stories in books of his, such as Stranger Than Science.
Sookie SooksonHOST
Children's Benevolent Ghost Stories eventually became popular, such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, created in the 1930s and appearing in comics, animated cartoons, and eventually a 1995 feature film, My Fave with Christina Ricci.
Sookie SooksonHOST
and then later with little hillary duff when casper meets wendy with the advent of motion pictures television screen depictions of ghosts became common and spanned by a variety of genres from the works of shakespeare dickens and wilds all these books that have been made into cinematic cinematic versions novel length tales of have been difficult to adapt to cinema.
Stan GordonGUEST
And I hosted a show with the late Mike Levine.
Stan GordonGUEST
And he had a special guest on whose name you probably will be familiar with, Frank Edwards.
Stan GordonGUEST
who had written some books on unusual occurrences.
Stan GordonGUEST
I was tuned in to listen to him.