Ep.353 Encounters with the Unexplained

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)

  • Date: 17 February 2023

  • Location: Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland

  • Witnesses: The speaker and his wife (both lawyers).

  • Description:

    • Three fiery orange lights appeared through clouds in a triangular formation.

    • A matte black triangular craft became visible with lights at each corner.

    • The craft moved erratically (circles, sudden shifts, straight up, back through clouds).

    • Two additional fiery orange orbs moved rapidly across the sky.

    • Witnesses captured photos and a short video showing the orbs’ erratic movement.

    • Estimated craft size: at least 100 meters per side.

    • No sound emitted despite being on a flight path.

    • Duration: First sighting ~3 minutes, second ~30 seconds.

    • Reported to local newspaper; Irish Aviation Authority confirmed nothing in the sky.

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)

  • Location: Local library during a séance with friends.

  • Event:

    • After incantations, a folded piece of paper rose to eye level while they maintained a circle.

    • When the circle was broken, the paper fell.

    • Witnesses ran to the church and placed the paper in holy water, terrified.


3. “Our Father Backwards” Incident (Teen Years, Cork)

  • Action: Said the Lord’s Prayer backwards in a mirror.

  • Later that night, at an aunt’s house:

    • Loud sound “like rocks pulling apart.”

    • Bright light and violent wind pushed bed against the wall.

    • Books and objects flung across room.

    • Felt a figure’s presence but kept eyes shut.

    • After chaos subsided, room was wrecked; spent hours restoring it.

  • 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)

  • Location: Castle Leslie, “Moorv Room,” known as haunted.

www.castleleslie.com

  • Experience:

    • Saw what he thought were glow worms or green flashes moving around the room.

    • Bands of green light, some wide as a foot, moving up and down.

    • His wife saw nothing.

    • Next morning, Sir John Leslie asked if they had seen orbs; told them the room is reputedly the most haunted in Ireland.


5. Other Observations

  • Has seen meteors and military drones, but distinguishes those from the 2023 UFO event.

  • 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

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1.Childhood UFO Sighting – Powassan, Ontario (1992

 

Age: 7 years old

  • Date: July 1992

  • Location: Powassan, Ontario (small town, ~1200 people, north of Toronto)

  • Event:

    • While being driven home from babysitter’s house, saw a black triangular object moving horizontally across the sky.

    • Triangle had three lights, one at each corner; none were blinking.

    • Object appeared low, silent, and moved in a way that felt strange and frightening.

    • Duration: ~20 seconds before treeline obscured it.

    • Occurred in daylight, around 6:30–7:00 PM.

    • Family in car did not see it; he never spoke up at the time due to fear and confusion.

    • Later revisited the spot as an adult; the memory returned vividly.


2. Long-Term Impact

  • Drew repeated pictures of the triangle in schoolwork through elementary years.

  • Submitted a UFO sighting report via a magazine form (unclear if MUFON or similar).

  • Saw similar imagery in media: The X-Files (1993), Fire in the Sky (1993).

  • These cultural references amplified both his fear and fascination.

  • 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

  • In later years, while researching, found a 1992 Mississauga, Ontario sighting report describing the same triangular craft.

  • Mississauga is far from Powassan by car, but only ~30 minutes by aircraft.

  • This discovery strengthened his conviction that what he saw was real.


4. Connection to NORAD Base

  • Powassan is near North Bay, Ontario, home to a major NORAD base built underground.

  • Grew up hearing stories about “aliens at NORAD” and that North Bay would be a nuclear target.

  • Speculates his sighting could have been linked to experimental or secret technology related to the base.


5. Adult Reflections

  • Still scans skies regularly, uses flight-tracking apps to rule out planes.

  • Once mistook a plane in Arizona for a UFO but confirmed via tracker.

  • Notes modern mystery drone swarms resemble the same triangle he saw in 1992.

  • 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.

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