Ep.353 Encounters with the Unexplained
Published: 28 September 2025
Tonight’s episode features DJ from rural Ireland, recounting his 2023 encounter in County Longford, where he and his wife witnessed a massive black triangular craft with fiery orange lights. Alongside this sighting, DJ shares chilling experiences from his youth, including a séance gone wrong, a violent paranormal event after reciting the Our Father in a mirror, and a night in Ireland’s most haunted room. Then we travel to Northern Ontario with Michael, who was only seven years old when he saw a silent black triangle cross the sky above his hometown in July 1992. Decades later, he discovered another sighting from the very same month in a city just hours away, reinforcing that what he saw was real. Michael reflects on how that single moment shaped a lifelong curiosity about the skies.
DJ’s Accounts (P1)
1. UFO Encounter in County Longford (2023)
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Date: 17 February 2023
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Location: Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland
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Witnesses: The speaker and his wife (both lawyers).
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Description:
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Three fiery orange lights appeared through clouds in a triangular formation.
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A matte black triangular craft became visible with lights at each corner.
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The craft moved erratically (circles, sudden shifts, straight up, back through clouds).
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Two additional fiery orange orbs moved rapidly across the sky.
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Witnesses captured photos and a short video showing the orbs’ erratic movement.
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Estimated craft size: at least 100 meters per side.
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No sound emitted despite being on a flight path.
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Duration: First sighting ~3 minutes, second ~30 seconds.
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Reported to local newspaper; Irish Aviation Authority confirmed nothing in the sky.
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Below: Article in LongfordLive
Longford UFO? Unusual aerial activity in the night sky around Ballymahon
https://www.longfordleader.ie/news/home/1045169/longford-ufo-unusual-aerial-activity-in-the-night-sky-around-ballymahon.html
2. Paranormal Experience with Ouija Board (Teen Years)
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Location: Local library during a séance with friends.
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Event:
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After incantations, a folded piece of paper rose to eye level while they maintained a circle.
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When the circle was broken, the paper fell.
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Witnesses ran to the church and placed the paper in holy water, terrified.
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3. “Our Father Backwards” Incident (Teen Years, Cork)
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Action: Said the Lord’s Prayer backwards in a mirror.
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Later that night, at an aunt’s house:
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Loud sound “like rocks pulling apart.”
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Bright light and violent wind pushed bed against the wall.
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Books and objects flung across room.
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Felt a figure’s presence but kept eyes shut.
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After chaos subsided, room was wrecked; spent hours restoring it.
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Years later: An aunt confirmed the same phenomenon occurred to her in the house the same night, though she never told anyone.
4. Orbs in Castle Leslie (County Monaghan)
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Location: Castle Leslie, “Moorv Room,” known as haunted.
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Experience:
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Saw what he thought were glow worms or green flashes moving around the room.
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Bands of green light, some wide as a foot, moving up and down.
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His wife saw nothing.
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Next morning, Sir John Leslie asked if they had seen orbs; told them the room is reputedly the most haunted in Ireland.
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5. Other Observations
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Has seen meteors and military drones, but distinguishes those from the 2023 UFO event.
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Conversation with a Norwegian pilot: pilot casually stated he sees UFOs “all the time,” more frequently the further north you go.
MICHAEL’S ACCOUNT (P2)
Michael Newton
Time Passages
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1.Childhood UFO Sighting – Powassan, Ontario (1992
Age: 7 years old
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Date: July 1992
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Location: Powassan, Ontario (small town, ~1200 people, north of Toronto)
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Event:
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While being driven home from babysitter’s house, saw a black triangular object moving horizontally across the sky.
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Triangle had three lights, one at each corner; none were blinking.
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Object appeared low, silent, and moved in a way that felt strange and frightening.
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Duration: ~20 seconds before treeline obscured it.
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Occurred in daylight, around 6:30–7:00 PM.
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Family in car did not see it; he never spoke up at the time due to fear and confusion.
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Later revisited the spot as an adult; the memory returned vividly.
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2. Long-Term Impact
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Drew repeated pictures of the triangle in schoolwork through elementary years.
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Submitted a UFO sighting report via a magazine form (unclear if MUFON or similar).
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Saw similar imagery in media: The X-Files (1993), Fire in the Sky (1993).
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These cultural references amplified both his fear and fascination.
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Still has at least one childhood drawing of the triangle UFO with lights at each corner and a glow in the center.
3. Corroborating Sighting – Same Month, Different City
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In later years, while researching, found a 1992 Mississauga, Ontario sighting report describing the same triangular craft.
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Mississauga is far from Powassan by car, but only ~30 minutes by aircraft.
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This discovery strengthened his conviction that what he saw was real.
4. Connection to NORAD Base
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Powassan is near North Bay, Ontario, home to a major NORAD base built underground.
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Grew up hearing stories about “aliens at NORAD” and that North Bay would be a nuclear target.
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Speculates his sighting could have been linked to experimental or secret technology related to the base.
5. Adult Reflections
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Still scans skies regularly, uses flight-tracking apps to rule out planes.
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Once mistook a plane in Arizona for a UFO but confirmed via tracker.
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Notes modern mystery drone swarms resemble the same triangle he saw in 1992.
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Considers the experience a “bruise”—always there, unseen but permanent in his life.
Below Images: Micheal’s childhood drawing of UFO and location of sighting.