Making the Colorado Swarm Lights Episode

03.31.24

Launching a podcast about esoterica —particularly paranormal Americana, has been a years’ long yearning. It all started with curiosity, with passing the time early on back in 2014. I was in a new city, trying to feel at home in a then empty apartment, and listening to podcasts —probably for the first time, as I emptied moving boxes and took brief breaks to eat pizza (the only food available in an otherwise empty fridge).

I started to take an interest in the UFO phenomena, casually listening to podcasts by who, though lacking almost any basic technical prowess, managed to get fascinating interview guests on a weekly basis. Though I had grown up with sci-fi classics like Star Trek and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I still believed that most likely we’ve never been visited. But, as fiction, the idea of alien technology and intergalactic species making a pit-stop on our little old blue planet, it all seemed a thrilling prospect.

Yet, as time went by, it became apparent to me that there was at root something quite more profound happening. Having grown up in the Southwest and Mountain West, UFO and cryptid lore was bountifully available to me. Colorado, even just ten years ago, was and still is a remote region of the U.S. —I was astounded by how outsized this region’s connection to so many supernatural and unexplained phenomena.

Jumping in time a full ten years from 2014 and I find myself realizing a dream —becoming part of the conversation surrounding the mysteries which abound upon this Western land. I see connections to its past, to its present, and to its far-flung, barely imaginable future. I picked this little episode in the long catalog of events this region has experienced in baffling events because it is fairly recent, made headlines, and was really close to where I live (the Denver-Metro area).

It’s really only the tip of the iceberg –this Colorado Swarm Lights episode, and I hope to launch myself into the fray of investigation and research which will involve field work, travel, interviews, and communion with those who have experienced or wish to deepen their understanding of what could be one of our civilization’s most paradigm-breaking events: The very real circumstances of a much more complex and other-worldly visited planet.

I call this venture peeking behind the veil. The veil is, if we allow it, if we’re perceptive enough, lucky or unlucky enough, thicker or thinner in some places, some fleeting instances, and around some people.

If you’re reading this, I aim to bring you along. I invite you to follow this blog, the podcast, and the writing these experiences have inspired and share with you, as I hope you do with others, what we learn, what astounds us.