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Donald R. Schmitt

Donald R. Schmitt is a five-time best-selling author and a former co-director of the J.Allen Center for UFO Studies of Chicago. He is a Cum Laude graduate of Concordia University and served as director of special investigations for 10 years at the center. Schmitt is also a founder and board advisor of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. He has written several books on UFOs and related topics, including “701”, “The Roswell Crash: Startling New Evidence”, and “UFO Crash at Roswell”.

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Episode 549 CASE DISCLOSED W/ DONALD SCHMITT

People are questioning the so-called UFO monopoly on information and why these investigations and reports are so blatantly, “Americacentric.” Unfortunately, other nations’ research and perspectives relating UFOs have not been readily accepted or a part of the cosmic disclosure equation…until now. Tonight on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis talks with Director of the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research, Donald Schmitt about CASE DISCLOSED.

Originally Broadcast 5/28/21

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Episode 520 SIGN W/ SAM CHORTEK AND DONALD SCHMITT

From the times of Project Sign to Blue Book and now, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, we know what is out there and we know there may be advanced weapons and aircraft that can be created by our enemies, and, there are others that cannot be accounted for. It seems that in the first few weeks of 2019, the information is now blatant and that there are most certainly unknown aerial phenomena and signs in the sky being discovered and reported.

Originally Broadcast On 1/10/19

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Episode 457 – UFO CANON – THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE W/ DONALD R. SCHMITT

There have been numerous conspiracy theories spun about the Roswell Incident in 1947. Alleged eyewitnesses to the crash debris had come forward and raised questions as to what exactly happened out in the middle of the hot New Mexico desert. A darker side to the story began most notably with the publication of Leonard Stringfield’s, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, a book that surmised the country was in the midst of a wave of increasingly violent UFO encounters, incidents that had led to physical injuries and abductions. Furthermore, it detailed how US government cover-up was not only alive and well, but far bigger, deeper, and more nefarious than anything the enthusiasts and researchers had ever imagined. Tonight on Ground Zero (7-10 pm, pacific time), Clyde Lewis talks with UFO author and investigator, Donald R. Schmitt about UFO CANON – THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE.

Originally Broadcast On 7/2/24

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Episode 456 – UNCOMFORTABLE FLYING OBJECT W/ DONALD R. SCHMITT

Lately, there’s been an increase in UFO sightings including some anomalous objects that were shot down by the military over Alaska, Canada, Lake Huron, and off the South Carolina coast. Simultaneously, strange crafts were observed over China, Poland, and Uruguay. Pilots that engaged with the targets said the objects interfered with their sensors. Regardless of what was shot down, the vague nature of these reports makes it a media spectacle and psychological operation. Tonight on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis talks with UFO researcher and author, Donald R. Schmitt about UNCOMFORTABLE FLYING OBJECT.

Originally Broadcast On 2/14/23

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Episode 289 – ROSWELL: THE SYMBOLIC MISREPRESENTATION W/ DON SCHMITT

On June 24th 1947, the word, flying saucer was coined by journalists who were reporting an odd story about Kenneth Arnold who while flying his plane over Washington spotted nine boomerang shaped craft that seemed to skip across the air as a “saucer would skip across water.” These unknown craft were mirror bright and traveled at fast speeds, faster than any jet that would eventually show up in the skies many years later.
The “flying saucers” had arrived only because the media said so.
The flying saucer was most definitely a media creation; a marketing label developed to sell newspapers. It would become a word that not only was used to encourage the believers and the witnesses but it also was used in a derisive manner.

Originally Broadcast 6/29/2016

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Episode 111 – ROSWELL BEING 75 W/ DONALD R. SCHMITT

Right after the Roswell UFO crash 75 years ago, there was a photo of Major Jesse Marcel and General Roger Ramey in the Roswell Record with Ramey holding a memo or message that is folded in his hand. You can barely make out some sentences in the message but later using advanced computer imagery there are those who have deciphered some of the words that were on the memo that may give clues as to what was happening on that day. If what they found was accurate, and others could corroborate what they had seen, then it was a breakthrough in the Roswell case. Here was a document with an indisputable provenance of what may have really occurred amid the coverup. Tonight on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis talks with UFO investigator and author, Donald R. Schmitt about ROSWELL BEING 75.

Originally broadcast On 06/30/2022