Somewhere in the Skies - The Cote Photo: The Clearest UFO Image Ever Captured? | Adam Pillon & Megan Woomer
Episode Date: September 7, 2026Could the Cote Photo be one of the clearest UFO photographs ever captured? We are joined by filmmakers Adam Pillon and Megan Woomer to explore their new documentary, The Cote Photo, investigating the ...mysterious disc shaped object photographed over Lake Cote, Costa Rica, during an official government aerial mapping mission in 1971. We discuss the photo’s government provenance, analysis by Jacques Vallée and Richard Haines, a modern high resolution scan, theories surrounding the object and Lake Cote, and the remarkable story of cartographer Sergio Loaiza. Adam and Megan also share strange synchronicities from making the film and why, more than 50 years later, the Cote Photo remains one of UFO history’s most enduring mysteries. Watch The Cote Photo: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0HFWGMPNH?ref_=atv_dp_share_cu_r Join us at ANOMACON on September 12th: http://www.anomacon.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/somewhereskies ByMeACoffee: http://www.buymeacoffee.com/UFxzyzHOaQ Send us a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/SomewhereSkiesPod Substack: https://ryansprague.substack.com/ All socials and books: https://linktr.ee/somewhereskiespod Follow Suzanne on X: https://x.com/csuzannelanders Email: ryan.sprague51@gmail.com Opening theme song by Septembryo Closing song by Per Kiilstofte Copyright © 2026 Ryan Sprague. All rights reserved. #UFO #UAP #UFOs #TheCotePhoto #UFOPhoto #UFODocumentary #UFOEvidence #SomewhereInTheSkies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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While our government's official position is not to speculate on this subject,
we can choose to let our minds explore other possibilities to use our imaginations.
For if we consider that astroscientists agree on one point
that the possibility of life elsewhere is not only quite probable,
some feel that is there without a shout.
Let us suppose them that these objects are real space vehicles,
extraterrestrial origin, and not an illusion of the mind.
I'm Ryan Sprague, and you are now somewhere in the skies.
Welcome to Somewhere in the Skies.
I am your host, Ryan Sprague, and today we are joined by filmmakers,
Adam Pillon and Megan Woomer, the creators of the new documentary, the Cote Photo.
The Cote photo is a documentary that investigates one of the most compelling and enduring UFO photographs ever taken.
A mysterious disc-shaped object captured over Lake Cote in Costa Rica during an official government aerial mapping mission in 1971.
Through the people connected to the photograph, its remarkable history, and decades of analysis.
The film explores why this single image has remained so difficult.
to explain. And that perhaps the most important thing is rather than claiming to solve the mystery,
the co-tape photo asks a bigger question. What happens when a piece of evidence survived scrutiny,
and we're still left without an answer? Now, Suzanne Landers and I both had the opportunity to
advance screen this documentary, and we were both completely blown away. So it was an absolute honor and
pleasure to talk to Adam and to Megan all about their film. We really get in the weeds with this
one and it was a lot of fun. So you're going to learn all about the Cotei photo, the thoughts and
theories on what it could be, how they were able to find the actual photographer who took
the photo and the rich history that this individual has with the UFO topic. We also get to
learn more about how they analyze the photo and why we know.
know for a fact that it is an actual solid object in this photo. It's amazing. It's one of the
clearest UFO photos ever taken, and we get to learn so, so much about it in the new documentary
and in this interview. So I cannot wait for you guys to watch the documentary and to listen
to this interview. There are links in the show notes or in the video description to go to the
documentary to order it, to watch it, and a link to the official Cote photo website as well,
where you can learn so much more about the filmmakers and the film itself.
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But let's get to this awesome interview, and I cannot wait for you guys to see the Cote photo.
Welcome to Somewhere in the Skies, and a huge welcome to our two guests today.
We have Adam and Megan from the Cote.
photo documentary, a new documentary coming to you guys in, gosh, just a few days as we're recording this.
And we're joined today also by our wonderful co-host, Suzanne.
We're going to be talking all about the new documentary.
What could be the clearest UFO photo in history?
We're going to be showing it to you guys tonight.
You're going to see it all over the documentary.
And yeah, we're just going to kind of dissect,
what the Cote photo is, why it's so important, and why these two lovely people decided to make this
documentary about it. So, Megan, Adam, welcome to Summer in the Skies. Thank you. Thank you for having us.
It's a pleasure to be on. Absolutely. And it was a pleasure to watch the documentary. Now,
you guys were kind enough to give Suzanne and I advanced screeners to watch. So we have a lot of questions,
and a lot of them are answered in the film, too. So we won't give away too much tonight.
but let's start kind of from the very beginning.
Now, for those who may not know what the Cote photo is, obvious first question.
Whoever wants to take that, what exactly is the Cote photo?
Do you want to start or do you want me to go?
You can start.
All right. I'll start us off.
Cool.
In 1971 in Costa Rica, Sergio Loiza, a cartographer, was flying in a Arrow Commander airplane.
and they were on a mapping expedition for the Costa Rican government.
And during that mapping expedition, they caught this object on a high-resolution piece of film.
The film was taken by a specialized cartographic camera designed to make maps.
And there's this stunning 3D object that appears on it that resembles.
what a lot of people call flying saucers.
And it's a remarkable image.
It's the test of time.
It's been in the hands of the Costa Rican government.
It has a very distinct chain of custody.
And it is often regarded as one of the clearest images of a UFO ever taken.
Absolutely.
I mean, when, you know, I have those.
skeptic friends, obviously.
You know, things are changing in the UFO world.
It's more widely accepted now.
But if they ever ask me, like, give me the smoking gun evidence.
Give me the photo, the video, the, you know, the dead alien.
I don't have that.
But I do have the Cote photo to show them.
And I will tell you, this is the one I turn people to all the time.
And I want to get your guys' thoughts on that a little bit later, like what you consider good evidence.
is the Cote photo the only one.
But before we get there, that's kind of the background of the photo itself.
But how did you guys get involved?
What was your interest in the UFO topic?
How did the Cote photo kind of end up in your guy's lap?
And what made you decide to want to do a documentary about it?
I was visiting my friend Kelly.
She's in the documentary in Costa Rica.
and she was just telling me about this UFO photo that was taken right by where she lived,
and it was so interesting.
And Adam is my husband, and he's always been really, really enthusiastic about UFOs and UAPs.
So I told him this would be a cool project to do, to make a documentary.
We both worked in production for about 20 years.
Adam is a commercial editor by trade, but he's been wanting to do his own things too.
and then everything just kind of fell in mind.
So it was very fortuitous.
That's pretty cool.
It's all on the timing, right?
And what a time to make the UFO documentary.
My God, it's like this,
Suzanne and I have been studying these phenomena,
this topic for, gosh, of our lives, if not more.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah.
And now is the time where we're like,
finally, people are listening to us.
You know, we're no longer the tinfoil hatters, you know,
screaming from the roof.
Maybe we are a little bit.
Maybe a little.
We're still, yeah.
You got to keep, you got to keep that tinfoil hat, you know, back in the closet somewhere.
You never know.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
You might.
Always.
Always.
Exactly right.
Now, I'm going to let Suzanne take over in a minute, but I do want to touch on kind of whose eyes we see the documentary through.
Now, obviously, you know, you guys are the producers, the directors, like, this is your
vision. But for us, watching this documentary, we're seeing it through the eyes of a gentleman named
Esteban, which is really cool that you found kind of a local researcher to be our window into
Costa Rica into this world. So how did that all happen? How'd you meet Esteban? And like,
what is his connection to all? After, after Megan came home from that trip and we decided to,
you know, take a shot at it, we started reaching out to people and sending out a couple
emails to see what kind of feedback we could get. And we ended up getting in contact with Michael
Strickland. Michael Strickland is also in the documentary. He's a drum scan technician and an amazing
photographer in his own right. And we just kind of found him on the internet and we said,
hey, are you the guy that took did the scan of the Cotei photo? And he said, yes, I am. And through
Michael, he's like, you really should talk to Esteban. So he sent Esteban an email for us,
and then he responded, and we made a call to him, and he answered the phone like he was expecting
that call all along. And so Esteban's been a great partner in all of this. He's a lawyer by day
and a UFO researcher by night. And he found the photo. He found the photo. He's a
He was shown the photo from his uncle at an early age, just a picture of the negative.
So after his uncle had passed away, his aunt decided that Esteban should be the person to get his trunch of UFO researcher material.
And so he was going through it, expecting to see the photo that he saw when he was a kid and ended up coming across an actual contact copy.
of the negative, which is pretty rare.
So he got a hold of this photo and it really kicked off his own journey into the subject, right?
He was fascinated by it and was like amazed and really kind of use that to like kind of inform some of his research.
And he really went deep on the topic.
But like I said, he's a lawyer by day.
So he's a very analytical mind and he's a consummate professional and he's very smart.
But he's also very open to, you know, different ideas and different possibilities.
So he was an amazing tour guide, if you will.
He really did open the window for us and let us see all the things that this photo had to offer.
Right, which we'll definitely get into
Because I mean, it's not just the photo
The story that unravels in your documentary
Is so much more so much more powerful as well
And Suzanne
We got a lawyer by day UFO researcher by night
Does that sound familiar?
Sounds very familiar to me, yeah
Yeah, Suzanne also is a former attorney
And UFO researcher by night
So I think she had a close connection
To Esteban as well in this
but
I can see things
quite easily.
For sure.
But yeah,
Suzanne, I'll let you take it
from here.
Yeah, and Esteban is
fascinating in and of himself,
but I am taken
with Sergio.
Oh, I love it.
Now, Sergio is
the cartographer
who was just in the plane
doing his thing
in 1971.
And, but a very
young man at 29 years old.
And he has
had other
experiences as well. But I would love for you to tell our listeners sort of this, how this happened from
Sergio's perspective. Yeah, he was on the plane when he took it. He was responsible for making these
maps. He is such an amazing person. And he's got such a beautiful, kind, welcoming, loving soul.
when we first started this project, started texting back and forth with him.
And neither we don't speak Spanish and Sergio doesn't speak English, but through the power of
modern technology, they were able to communicate through translation apps. And they became the best
of friends. They really got to know each other really well. And he really welcomed us in
as part of the Cote family, if you will.
Yeah.
So in our documentary, and we kind of go about once an experiencer, always an
experiencer, when people start to see phenomena, they tend to keep seeing it for unknown reasons
or maybe they just kind of open up to it.
And so Sergio has seen phenomena his entire life ever since he was a young boy and his
parents have also seen it too. So it's very open in his family. And then he's still,
a couple times a week, if you're on his WhatsApp or some of his, some of the other groups he's
involved in, he takes pictures all the time of little things he sees, like the Tick-Tac ones and
other things out in the sky. Yeah, they really, they really took to Sergio and they present
themselves to him quite often. When he was on the plane, he didn't see them, but he's, as she mentioned,
And he's been a lifelong experienceer.
So from, I think, five years old, he went out and saw some with his parents and his brothers.
And I think they've been a major part of his life ever since.
And he grew up in the jungle, the rural jungle.
So it's not like he was growing up in New York City where he had aircraft flying over constantly.
I mean, it was really rare to see, let alone a UFO and also anything out in the jungles of Costa Rica and the fifth.
right right i think even in the film he mentions like the only aircraft he'd ever seen was like a medical
helicopter or something like that that yeah and you know this idea of like phenomena following a lineage
or whatnot is fascinating you know uh Suzanne and I have both had UFO uh sightings encounters in our
lives um and it does kind of open something up you know and it's so interesting with Sergio like
we think of like the cote photo being the pivotal experience of his life yet this has been going
on since he was a kid like that was kind of like the halfway point was the cote and the the irony
that no one actually saw that craft you know um i do want to ask about that in a little bit too uh but
to go back to the um i guess the photo itself something that really stood out to susan and i was this
idea of the frames that they would take, you know, when they would do the cartography and map
these things. And frame 300 is kind of the buzzword here. Yeah, 99, not 301. Exactly. It just happens
to be this one frame where this object was seen, not the one before or after, as Suzanne said.
Now, I'd love to get an idea of like how much time in your research.
is between each of these frames where they would take the photograph.
And to you guys, what is that kind of mean for like, I guess the speed of what this object could have been?
Or do you have any thoughts or theories on that?
Let's break that down a little bit, the frame, I guess.
Yeah, I mean, it opens up a world of possibilities.
And that's one of the most intriguing things about it is that it is only on this one frame.
It is a very specialized camera.
It is mounted to the bottom of a plane.
So they flying on a flight line and about approximately every 13 seconds,
once they kind of set it up and find their navigation,
it flies along and every 13 seconds it takes a picture from underneath
to map the different landscapes.
So the idea that it's only on one frame gives us, you know, I believe that it had some movement to it or there's so many possibilities.
It could be that it's really fast or it could be that it's popping in and out of dimensions or it came out of the water for just a split second or it's bending space time around it so that you can only see it from a certain angle.
So there's, you know, there is a world of possibilities for why it's only on that particular frame, but it's on that frame.
And so, you know, it's quite remarkable that it was able to capture that image in the first place.
And so, you know, then the rest is up for debate, to be honest with you.
Like we encourage people to analyze it and think about it and come up with their own ideas because there's there's so many options there.
And, you know, it's we don't know what, um, what it really means because we can only make guesses.
We can only have assumptions.
And, um, I think that's part of the intrigue of this photo is that like it, it opens a book, but it doesn't close it.
you know and it really really gives you the chance to um kind of let your imagination run with it and
see where you go with it absolutely you know the kind of tricksterish nature of these phenomena
it makes sense to me that it'd be like i'm gonna just show up in frame 300 you know like
i'm not gonna let them have any preconceived see notion of what happened before after that
Yeah.
You have a sense, by the way, of whether you think it was coming out of or returning to the water.
My first impression was that's what was happening, based on nothing, of course.
You know, my radar, I wondered if Sergio had any opinion about that.
Sergio didn't really say that specifically, but we have been told by other locals in Costa Rica that there is a,
ship that lives in Lago-Code and kind of comes in and out.
So obviously, unverified, I would love to get them to sign a release and be in our next movie.
We can somehow arrange that.
But that is, and I think, too, that's kind of what people are now talking about is the underwater
phenomenon with the phenomena.
Right.
Yeah, and Lake Cote, Lago de Cote, is this sort of mystical
place, right? It's long been regarded by the local tribes as a place where the gods live.
So there's this kind of oral tradition in Costa Rica that shows reverence to the lake as a special
place. It's a crater lake. It's not crazy deep, but it goes to about like 59, 60 feet in the
middle there. And so, you know, is there something in there? I don't know.
But it's an amazing place to be.
And when you're at the lake, we went to the lake to film in the early morning,
and we got there at like 4 a.m.
and we kind of saw the sunrise.
And by the end of it, like we were just having like this overwhelming emotional sensation
of really being in a special place.
So it really gives off this energy that truly is something remarkable.
It's beautiful.
It's beautiful.
Yeah.
Because here in Santa Fe, it's a little bit of the same.
Yeah.
It's the same vibe.
Well, I'm curious, too.
Do you have any thoughts on what the size of this thing was?
I know that there are aerodynamics involved and that makes it hard.
But any thoughts on size?
Well, the film negative is 23 by 23 centimeters.
It's huge.
So it's essentially nine inches by nine inches.
which is much bigger than, you know, a standard 35 millimeter film or even IMAX.
When you go to these big IMAX theaters, you're looking at a film negative that's like two and a half-ish inches.
And it's the tiniest spec on the negative.
So, but the scale of the photo is one in 20,000.
And so if you do the math on that, the disk itself is 0.420,000.
centimeters, which if you do the math tells us that at ground level, that's 84 meters in
diameter, which is quite large.
Almost three and eight, something like that.
Wow.
So that's, that's really big.
But there's no way to tell really how high it was in the sky, right?
It's under, it's under the plane, which was flying at 10,000 feet.
So we know that.
But, you know, there's no real way to tell.
exactly how high it was in the sky. So that can, it can vary in size drastically. But if it were at
ground level, that's, that's 84 meters, which is a very big ship. Yeah. So yeah, that's what we do
know about it. And the rest is kind of, the rest is kind of guesswork. We've seen, you know,
since we made this documentary, a lot of people are like reach it out and saying like,
oh, hey, I've done this research and I've done this research and they're analyzing shadows and
angles.
I think I watched that video. After I watched your documentary, there is a good video analysis
where the glint on the object is analyzed sort of in a 3D study using basically Google Maps.
And Google Maps, the fact that this got captured and that no one saw it in real time is a fascinating thing.
It makes me want to help somebody go through like the Google Map data, throw some AI in there and let's see what we're capturing.
You know, every day.
So we're like the Disclosure Foundation is about to do with the NASA Archives.
Let's see what we have.
I suspect we have things much like this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, we didn't use any AI in the film.
It's all very analog and very real.
But I did, just out of curiosity,
put the high-resolution scan into an AI generator.
And I didn't ask the AI to do anything.
I just put the image in and hit render,
and it took the disc, and it spun it around,
and it turned it right into a UFO and had it fly right off.
So, like, AI knows what's up.
Yeah, the good and the bad.
for sure.
Yeah, and you know, even in your film, you know,
you have the analyst who did the highest resolution possible.
And I love how in-depth he gets with like, you know,
here's where the sun was coming in from the land,
and it meets up with where it reflects off of the metal of the object.
So this is an authentic object.
It isn't like an artifact of the camera or the film.
And I love how in-depth that got.
And it truly does show.
Like this was there.
This went over the water, presumably towards the land, or the opposite into the water.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a real thing.
It is an object.
It's a real thing, exactly.
And Jack L.A.
came to that conclusion with Richard Haynes as well.
Oh, yeah.
I tried to vet it.
And the conclusion was it was anomalous.
It was a physical object, and the glint was real.
That's right.
Yeah.
Can you guys talk a little about that?
in terms of Haynes and valet and kind of what role they played in the film?
Yeah, they were some of the original researchers of the photo.
So it first came to prominence because of a group, the Vilchez brothers,
which were pioneers in Uphology in Costa Rica, managed to get a copy of the photo.
Nobody really knows how.
That's so interesting.
And how do we think that happened exactly?
You know, your guess is as good as mine.
And I have a better guess about how Esteban got it, but how the Vilchus brothers.
Maybe they just asked for it.
You know, they're a very open culture.
And, you know, like, it's, you know, they're very forthcoming.
So if they went to the National Geographic Institute of Costa Rica and asked for it, it's very possible that they just, you know, gave them a copy of the photo.
But from there, they got it to Jay Allen Heineck, who is an amazing research, who's historically one of the best researchers of the topic.
And later, Richard Haynes and Jacques Valle did an in-depth analysis on it.
And they actually did two reports on it.
And, you know, they don't claim it to be, you know, extraterrestrial, but they do claim that it's an actual physical three.
object, a craft that's captured on this photo. And, you know, they did, you know, these guys are
highly intelligent. They're so smart. The most brilliant minds, arguably, of, you know, the last
five decades. Dr. Valle is still alive, too. He's in his 90s, and we saw him from afar at
contact in the desert. And it's just amazing to be in his presence. And then Michael Strickland,
too, the analyst who Drumscander photo, he is an artist.
but he also has this engineering mind,
which is such a unique combination
that he can really, you know, do the math
and go through the processes and say why something is real.
Yeah, in his earlier life,
he wanted to be an aeronautical engineer.
So he was really, he was kind of going down that path anyway.
But he fell in love with music and art,
and he's this amazing photographer.
And so he ended up.
up getting a drum scanner, which is a Heidelberg tango drum scanner, which is the highest
best technology to replicate analog to digital. So he became sort of an expert on that because he
wanted to make high-res archival copies of his own 8x10 photographs that he was taking using
old world photographic techniques. And so this guy is like super smart. Like he is really,
really intelligent and one of the nicest people. And like we've had such a great experience with
everybody involved. That's awesome. Hey, we need more people like that looking at this UFO stuff for
sure. That's awesome. Suzanne, I'll let you take it from here. Well, do you think that Lake Cote might be
a bit of a hot spot? You know, I'm absolutely convinced that some areas are. I think I'm in a hot spot.
I think Ryan has been in a hot spot before.
With all the things that have gone on with Sergio and Esteban and then all of this as well,
and the culture's openness on the topic, it just makes me wonder, are they a hotspot?
What are your thoughts?
Yeah, this isn't the only UFO photo taken in Costa Rica.
You know, people have been seeing them there for years.
It's such a beautifully diverse place.
And ecologically, it's one of the most diverse places on the planet.
Right.
So like it's surrounded by water.
Volcanoes and minerals and the volcanoes.
It's such a place of beautiful, natural beauty that, like, yeah, I imagine that if you
were coming from the far reaches of the universe, you're going to look for a place that
has like this that is truly the most diverse place on the planet, you know, pound for pound.
And so I do think that's a hot spot.
We're in Michigan and I do believe that Michigan's a hot spot as well, which is always
kind of made me feel a close connection to the topic.
I was at a Mufon conference just recently, and there was this amazing presentation about,
multiple sightings over the course of a day and that was seen all over the state from the
west side to the east side and was actually caught on radar data so I do think
there are places in the world where you know some of these phenomenon happen more
readily and and you know Latin America all over Latin America there's a lot of
tradition with the phenomenon.
They got some of the greatest pyramids in the world.
We got to go to Chichenica on a family vacation once,
and you stand there and you're in just in all of these places.
And Costa Rica also doesn't have a military.
So there is no body trying to keep.
There's no clang- Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
Did they ever take a public position, the Costa Rican government
on this photo or what it might be?
Well, they certified a copy of the photo.
They're saying it's an authentic image.
Like she said, there's no military there.
So, you know, there isn't the same kind of classify it
for national security reasons that, you know,
we have here in the United States.
And it's become really kind of a source of national pride
for Costa Ricans.
Like it's part of the lore there.
Like everybody knows about it.
Everybody has a story about it.
Everybody kind of remembers, you know, like, oh, my uncle showed me that.
Or, you know, my dad was talking about that or my mom had this experience.
There's so many people there that are really kind of in tune with it and also in tune with the natural environment that they live in.
And nowadays, too, I think they're just very laid back about it.
Like, oh, yeah, like, obviously.
It happens.
Is it that?
Yeah.
How much of South America is, isn't it?
Right.
Much better perspective and assistance around it.
Does anybody else shocked that the Americans didn't show up and?
Shoot it down.
Yeah.
That's like we shoot first, ask questions.
I know.
Oh, my gosh.
It's so bad.
Oh, man.
I will say this, though, Adam.
Michigan is a hot spot.
I was speaking at an event in how.
out in Lake, Michigan, actually.
And we went out for a skywatch, and we,
lo and behold, saw like four orbs up there.
They weren't satellites.
They weren't drones.
They were right over the lake.
Again, the whole water thing.
So for sure.
And then obviously, you guys are known for the whole swamp gas explanation from Mr.
Hynek.
So you got that, too.
Yeah, I think all three of us in these rectangles,
you see here on screen have been in hot spots for sure.
In making this film, I've been talking to a lot of, you know, friends and, you know, people I come across
and my world and my friend Rob told me about his own experience at Houghton Lake.
And then he showed me the most amazing photo and video of an object that both him and his daughter saw there.
So, you know, we're, as we kind of develop our next couple of documentaries, that's, that's one of the things we might take a look at is sort of the USO aspects.
And we had another friend who took some amazing photos over Lake Superior of UFOs and formation.
So we're really, there's the potential for us to make an amazing Michigan documentary.
And so that's one of the things we're kind of exploring.
I love it.
You got the Detroit Lions and you got the UFOs.
Seeing stranger things have happened.
The Lions have started winning.
That's more.
So true.
So true.
Yeah, we'll probably get full disclosure before the Lions win a Super Bowl.
Oh, man.
Yeah, you're breaking my dad's arm.
Adam's a huge Lions fan.
But Suzanne, go ahead.
Oh, well, I'm just, again, fascinated with Sergio.
He has such a good feel to him.
And I know that he's had all these other experiences.
Did the fact that he has had so many experiences affect how you interacted with him in this project?
So we let Sergio lead the conversation.
We didn't really know what he, we came in with no script.
We, you know, we knew about the photo and I had been talking to him online.
but we also just came in and wanted to see where he brought the story and just kind of let him go.
And I mean, he says himself, it's time for him to start telling his stories.
And he has just led the most incredible life.
He's, you know, so accomplished, so smart, so wonderful.
His family's wonderful.
And as Esteban says, every talk with Sergio is a lesson.
Every, you know, you just let him go.
I love that.
Yeah, and we really, we really got to spend some time with him.
And he has the most, like she said, he has the most amazing stories.
But it wasn't just always when the cameras were rolling either.
Like, you know, like we got done interviewing.
And then he insisted that we stay around and have some coffee and break bread with them.
And again, we don't speak Spanish.
So we had a crew there with us and they would help translate.
and we had just this most amazing conversation.
And at the end of it, I was like,
I wish we could have caught that on camera as well.
But he is just so kind and loving.
And like, when you meet him in person,
you just like, there, he, you really feel like he's telling you his truth
and he's being completely honest with you.
So whether you choose to believe him or not,
he's really genuine and forthcoming in his own experience.
And you don't have to believe him, but he's telling you anyway because he thinks that this phenomenon should be shared with the world.
And it shouldn't be, you know, just something classified for a select few people in a government.
He really wanted to share some of the lessons he learned.
And those aren't just UFO lessons.
They're life lessons.
Well, that really comes through in your film, that he has such an open heart about this,
which I do think has some relationship to who sees what.
You have to, I think, be in a right kind of a heart place
in order for this to even happen.
So he sure does feel like he's in the right place.
He seems very kind and open.
And I remember the first time I met him,
he was saying how you can only wear one pair of shoes at a time.
You can only eat one meal at a time.
So just, you know, don't be greedy.
and just live a very peaceful, humble life.
You know, humble like, you know,
that's being satisfied within your own self.
You can feel that.
It's just a beautiful way to live.
And you only get frame 300.
Yes.
Don't be pretty.
Not 301.
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Yeah, Suzanne and I, that's why we love the topic of UFOs,
because it does teach you more about the world.
But I think ultimately, more than anything,
it teaches you more about yourself.
You know, for us, this topic,
while it might be theoretically about aliens
or, you know, something else out there,
it always kind of mirrors back to us.
And that's clearly how this topic has affected Sergio and kind of the knowledge he would impart.
I didn't have this question written down, Suzanne.
But if you don't mind me asking, we actually, we didn't write down here about the other
experiencers you have in the film as well.
I think they really brought a lot more humanity to all of this too.
Could you maybe tell us a little about the other experiencers that you feature in the film?
Yeah, so Emmy. Emmy is an Italian and her husband, David, is also Italian. They met in Costa Rica. But she kind of recounts, David doesn't do interviews. So she kind of relayed his experience to us. But he had his own abduction in 1971 where he was, he believes he was taking to Costa Rica. So on a later trip.
there he
you know was like I've seen this road
I've seen this cow I've been to this lake
and like a lot of the things kind of clicked
and he was like well this was part of my
abduction in 1971
and him and
emmy his wife
ended up opening a restaurant
in Nuevo
Aronal which is you know
the stones throw away from Lake Cote
and it's an alien themed restaurant
and it's
some of the best Italian food you'll ever have
And, but yeah, they really kind of open this restaurant to dedicate it to his cosmic brothers.
And so, yeah, they have amazing stories.
And she tells us a story about people coming in there and sharing vibrations with David.
And she thinks that they're not of this world.
And it's such an amazing story.
And Kelly, our friend that originally told us about.
this photo is is just this very kind of eccentric person she describes herself as the storm you know
like the calm is where nothing happens the storm is where she lives she was like my spirit and
you know in this documentary i swear but yeah she had her she had her own experience of seeing a desk
and that's kind of she relayed that to megan and that's really kind of what brought us into it wasn't just
the photo. It was the experiencers that have seen things around the lake. And really, we find that to be
the more fascinating part of all this is those stories, because, you know, the photo has been here
for a long time and people have researched it and, you know, greater minds than us have researched
it. And so we really, you know, took care to listen to other people's stories about it and
listen to their own experiences.
And they're truly remarkable.
Yeah.
Right.
She's very special.
She's very intuitive.
She's very.
So, you know, and as Estabana Sergio say, there are no coincidences in life.
So I don't, you know, I don't know why she brought that photo into her attention or what, you know,
maybe mystical things were behind it.
But she's definitely a channel for some.
For something.
Something.
then it does seem, you know, kind of synchronistic a lot of the ways that you,
this story unraveled.
Like, you can take the photo kind of as a prime example.
Like, you look at just the craft and you're like, okay, really interesting.
But then you zoom back and then you see the land and you're like, holy crap, that thing's huge.
And then you keep zooming back.
And, you know, I mean that more, I guess, existentially or whatnot.
And you get the fuller picture of Cote Lake and then, you know, what this could be in the history of activity around the area.
And then all the different experiences.
I love the more you zoom back, the clearer a picture you get of all of it, not just the photo.
And you guys do such a good job with that.
So, yeah, yeah.
A lot of synchronicity seems to have fell in line for this to happen, I feel.
Yeah.
So many.
And in a way, I kind of believe that.
I don't know if we chose it or it chose us.
It feels more like it chose us.
And it really, you know, when Megan went down there and saw the photo for the first time and came back and she's like, let's do this.
And then we called Michael and he's like, it's me.
And then he got us in touch with Esteban.
He got us in touch with Sergio and Leslie Kane because he's longtime friends with Leslie Kane.
That's right.
That's right.
He's bestseller about UFOs.
And all the things just started kicking.
in a place. And, you know, even like Michael Strickland lives in a town called Liberal Kansas.
Liberal Kansas is five hours from anything. It is absolutely in the middle of Kansas, and there is
not much around it. But there they have this little, you know, space for Wizard of Oz.
Dorothy, they claim Dorothy from Wizard of Oz as being from liberal Kansas.
Now, that's a fictional story, but they really kind of, they kind of claim it and say it's the birthplace of Dorothy.
And then they have this crazy air museum that has all these planes in it.
And, you know, stuck in the back of this giant warehouse with all these planes.
You know, we're talking to a town of a couple thousand people, but this,
this air hangar is just amazing.
And then at the back of it,
there's an arrow commander plane,
which is the plane that Sergio flew in.
Yeah, that's crazy.
And, you know, so we ended up shooting in that museum,
but we did it in like 15, 20 minutes on our way to the airport.
We stopped in and were like, can we shoot here?
We know this.
And then we were like, do you have an arrow commander?
And he's like, yeah, in the back.
And so, yeah, it's been.
Well, you know, it's funny.
Sorry to cut you off there.
I felt a deep connection when Esteban was in New York meeting with Leslie Kane,
because I knew the exact subway platform that he was on because I took that thing to work every day for almost 12 years.
And I was like, oh, my God, like, I've stood literally where Esteban is standing right now.
When he was like looking at the map and everything.
So, like, yeah, it's just those little times.
tiny intricacies that really resonates.
So, yeah, that was my personal connection.
I love that.
Not a connection, too.
Yeah, yeah, you think that would be,
that's the thing I took away from your film.
Wow, I've been on that subway platform.
Crazy.
No, I love that.
But yeah, it's connected to a lot of different people
in a lot of different ways.
And it seems to, it has this energy about it that kind of pulls you in.
Absolutely.
One more weird connection to this.
So here in Santa Fe,
have some lovely neighbors next door and we're just the best of friends. And when I saw Liberal
Kansas come up in the documentary, my heart stopped. And I took a quick screen picture of it and sent
it to my neighbors. And I said, they are from Liberal Kansas. And I said, you have to know this
imager. He says, neighbor. Oh, yeah. No, it's tiny, tiny. What are the odds? What are the odds?
I'm going to mess up his name, but I think it's Glenn Martin from Lockheed Martin had a special interest in liberal Kansas.
So like there's this, they did a lot of early flights there and hence the aeronautical, the plane museum.
And so, you know, it's like the small little town even has connections to Lockheed Martin, which is so crazy.
Yeah, yeah, which leads to area 51, which is exactly.
And when you fly in there, you know, it's one room.
It's the smallest airport I've ever been.
It's the same in Santa Fe.
Now, we do have a new trailer that's set up that someone cut a hole out of and the back
things got the luggage through.
I guess technically we're now two rooms.
Sounds like Rodswell too.
Yeah, like Roswell very much.
When we were shooting at the Air Museum, I was like, all right, we got to get back to, you know, the airport
because we're going to miss our flight.
We don't want to miss our flight.
And then we got there and there's like,
fine people.
We need about 30 minutes in Santa Fe to get on your flight.
You just kind of walk up to the plane.
Oh, that reminds me,
here's an impromptu question for you guys.
Are there any other, like, crazy, weird stories during filming this?
Like, did you run into any UFO people or any other UFO things happen?
Like, yeah, I always love behind the scenes sort of.
For me, absolutely.
Yeah.
You know, and like, besides all these synchronicities that happen, you know,
one of the things that we don't show in the film we're really talk about is this crazy
picture that we pulled, you know, we were pulled over to the side of the road and Esteban
took a picture of a volcano.
And then, you know, it doesn't show anything, but when you, it's a lot of.
live photo and when you you click on the photo and you watch you see a little happen and then like so
I brought it in to my editing software and I slowed it down and I'm like maybe that's something
coming out of the volcano we don't think it to be but like all these little things started happening
and yeah so we I you know I don't like to think I'm an experiencer in the way that Sergio's an
experiencer, but I've seen things in the sky that I can't explain. And some of those things
became more frequent for me as the stuff was going on. You know, and I have a little cabin in the
woods in northern Michigan, um, and a very dark part of the sky. And I've seen a couple
weird things happen up there that I just couldn't explain during all this. So like, you know,
maybe they were giving me a little, little taste. Yep. You're getting your initiative.
man, it's happening.
Welcome, welcome to the club.
For sure, for sure.
Cizette, go ahead.
Hey, Ryan, could you pull the photo backup of the office itself for me?
Because I have a question about it.
And you may not have any information on this,
but I am riveted by the little circle at the top.
Yeah, yeah.
What do we think this is?
Again, that's one of those things that is up for debate, really.
but, you know, I, when you look at the photo, it isn't, or the ship isn't exactly flat.
And it's kind of like that, which we've seen in other examples of craft, like the one that was, not the Tick-Tac one.
The Gimble?
The Gimble video.
The Gimble video looks like a disc, but it looks like it's cantered to the side.
And so, yeah, we don't, it doesn't appear to really be at the very center of the disc.
And, you know, like when we first started, we asked ourselves, is this like a porthole?
Is this something that people, that somebody from the inside view something from?
Is it a shadow from something even higher above it?
You know, there's, I wish I had a better answer for,
what it is. But, you know, like when Esteban scanned it, one of his intentions was to kind of take a
better look at what that was. And his uncle thought there might have been somebody even inside of that.
So they wanted, you know, when his uncle was doing his research, he, you know, before he had
drum scan technology, he used a microscope and then a camera to really kind of get a better photo
of the inside. And I think that's one of the things that he was most intrigued about is like,
what is this dark spot there? But yeah, there's a world of possibilities. But to me, you know,
I work in advertising on my day job is making car commercials. And so I look at a lot of sheet metal
and cars on film. And for me, it looks like a way that light is wrapping around a
piece of sheet metal. I don't know if it's metal or some kind of composite or you know obviously we
can't do a material analysis of what the craft is but it has a very metallic looking composite to me.
So yeah, I wish I had a better answer for what exactly that is, but I'm not entirely sure.
And you know, Bob Lazard recently kind of talked about the sport.
model. And, you know, so like this, you know, in my mind, it closely resembles to
this kind of disc. And so I'm wondering if there's like maybe a porthole up there that they use
for navigation or if it's a window to look out or even if it's just another shadow from
something above it because, you know, it's it's somewhere between groundwork.
level and 10,000 feet
in the air.
Well, hey, I mean, like you said,
you know cars. There's some features
on cars where I'm like, why the hell did they
put that there? Like, what purpose
does that serve? So who knows?
But you make a good point, too,
like the whole Bobbazar thing.
He, his whole thing,
whether you believe him or not, we know
he's a very controversial character in the
UFO lore.
But he always said that the craft
he saw would turn belly up.
up and like go forward and i think you did mention that earlier as well like is this a possibility
that like these craft can like rotate on their side and then that porthole is now in the back projecting
it forward who knows who knows or even pulling it uh who knows but yeah yep yeah that's the beauty of
this we can theorize all we want yeah we don't know the flight dynamics of these and i think that's why
they're so interesting because, you know, it's like, you know, we've seen military planes and we've seen
a lot of different things and and these things seem to defy the physics of those. So, you know,
it's, and really it is one photo. So like it doesn't give you all the answers. And,
but that's part of the intrigue about it. That's why it's so interesting is because it's,
It's this enigma. It's wrapped in mystery.
And I think that's part of what this whole phenomenon is about, perhaps teaching humans to sit quietly and comfortably in the enigma, even when we don't like that.
We don't do well in limbo of sorts. We need concrete answers. We need a clear path. We look to make concrete sense of things. This topic does not offer that often.
Nope. Keeps us on our toes every day. As frustrating as that is, it's a great. It's a great. It's a
exciting to living in the mystery.
You know, this definitely is one of the clearest UFO photos ever, if not the most clear.
But I got to ask you guys, like in your research, are there any other, like, famous UFO photos or videos or anything else you think kind of maybe even hold a flame to this or stack up with this?
Or yeah, yeah, anything you can think of?
I mean, I've seen so many really compelling photographs over the course of this.
There was one, I mean, I'm drawing a blank.
The Calvin photo was the other one that was really kind of like, oh, wow.
You know, and.
Coet, though, what sets it apart is that it's an official government photo with an unbroken chain of command.
So that's kind of what makes it a little more, I don't want to say authentic from the
Calvine photo, which I think is real and also amazing.
So definitely go research the Calvine photo.
But yeah, and this is one of the, if not the only one looking down on the craft, right?
It's a completely different perspective.
And I think part of the looking at things from different perspectives and looking at it from different angles will give you, inform you different things.
So, yeah, looking at it.
On the top that's driving me insane.
That's such a good point, though, that you guys bring up of the fact that this is an official, you know, government survey mapping photo.
Now, I do live in Scotland.
I have been to what we presume was the exact location of the Calvin photo where it was taken.
We were able to use, you know, the RAF press officer came with me and another documentary filmmaker to triangulate this area.
And we do believe we found the exact place where it was taken.
However, the big thing there is we don't know who the photographers are.
We think we have a first name.
That's as far as we've gotten so far.
But I'm working with a documentary filmmaker to still try to.
I go to Pitlockery all the time and go to the restaurants.
I'm like, hey, who does someone have to know who took this damn photo.
Someone help a brother out.
Come on.
Which was one of the amazing things about this.
project is our very first kind of email and out to Michael, like just sucked us right in.
And, you know, and, but yeah, we were able to find Sergio and get firsthand accounts about
his experience, which was I didn't see it there, but also I've had all these lifelong
experiences.
Let me tell you about them.
Yeah.
Yep.
And then it all unravels.
I love that.
Yeah, chain of custody is so important, especially with photos.
videos nowadays too, which is kind of where I want to fast forward with you guys as we kind of
begin to wrap things up here. Today's UFO world is unrecognizable from, again, what Suzanne
and I have experienced for decades at this point. I didn't dare talk about this topic with family
or friends because I was made fun of constantly. But now we live in a world where they're now
coming to me and being like, what's going on with like these congressional hearings and, you
you know, all that sort of stuff.
So what do you guys think?
Did you have any preconceived notions of this topic before making the documentary?
I know you had an interest in it, but what do you make of where we're at today with congressional UFO hearings?
All these UFO file releases that this current administration in the U.S. is doing.
Like, what do you think about modern uphology in 2026 and where does your documentary kind of?
What role does it play in that?
You know, it's been an interesting curve.
When we started this, the government hasn't released those tranches of UFO photos or reports that they have since released.
Right.
So, like, as we're making this, I was like, ah, well, we're going to get disclosure, and they're going to show something that's better than this, and nobody's going to care.
We'll have missed the boat on it.
But then they make these dumps and they're full of like black bars and, you know, like, they're not giving you the good stuff.
Megan uses the term trickle truth, you know, so they like give you just a little bit to satisfy something.
But then they're not giving you the real deal.
Yeah.
And but this one, it's been on the surface the whole time.
So even in starting this, like the, the.
the topic has gained momentum and more people have been brought into the fold and more people
are paying attention now. And Leslie Kane, who we were fortunate enough to interview,
she wrote this amazing article with Helen Cooper and Ralph Blumenthal in 2017 for the New York Times.
And that was a very kind of pivotal moment in UFO research because it showed that the U.S.
government does in fact fund research into the topic. And that kind of gave birth to,
you know, Lou Alizondo and David Grush and some of these other whistleblowers that, you know,
really put their reputations and lives on the line by coming forward and talking about it.
You know, we're artists from Detroit. So, you know, like nobody's like, oh, Adam's talking about
UFOs, he's crazy. They always thought I was crazy. So far for the course. But like, you know,
at a high level, people are paying attention now. And that's just, that's amazing. And it's been,
it's come such a far way since that article. And even in the last couple of years,
you know, with the, you know, what, five, five dumps by the government now of, of different things. And
And one of the videos there that intrigues me a lot is the one over Lake Huron because like
right.
It's in our own backyard and you go and you're like, what is that?
And is it at the loon?
Is it this?
Is it, you know?
So there's a lot of intrigue around it and a lot of questions and a lot of possibilities.
So, you know, the more we get from different sources, the more informed people are and the better, you
know, they can make their own decisions.
You know, we're not trying to force anybody to believe anything or even believe us.
You know, we really set out to just kind of point a camera and let people tell us their stories.
You know, we didn't try to, we didn't really set out with an agenda to, you know, prove or disprove anything.
We just wanted to make an interesting film and do it the best that we could.
And that's what we did.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, Suzanne and I, we've covered every one of those tranches and the releases.
And, you know, we were left wanting.
We were left with so many more questions than answers.
This is supposed to be about transparency, and it seems like anything but in some ways.
But, you know, the files are really cool.
The NASA stuff is cool.
But I will be honest, personally, the videos and photos have really let us down.
and I think that's where a documentary like yours comes in to kind of save the day and be like, hey, you want something clear?
Like, you want something with an actual history, backstory, government photos that were taken.
Like, here you go.
Like, so, yeah, I think this is the perfect time for something like what you guys did to combat a lot of the more ambiguous sort of stuff that has been released.
So yeah, yeah, that's all I have to say about that.
I'm fan-boying out about the Cote Day photo.
But, Suzanne, do you have any other questions before we could be obvious last two?
Yeah, one more question.
I would love for you to tell our listener sort of what your big takeaway is from this event and your documentary.
I think that the big takeaway is that as broad and expansive as this topic is,
that you really have the answers inside of you.
It's really, if you look internally and find peace and joy and happiness and love in your
own space and your own skin with your own family, I think that's the real takeaway is
that as big as this topic is, what it really comes down to,
and Sergio says this in the film,
is raise your family in peace,
how fortunate we would all be.
And so I think that's the big takeaway is that, like, it's within you.
You know, you have the answers.
You have the ability to love.
You have the ability to, you know, share and be part of something bigger than,
yourself. By looking within. So yeah, it's really, it's really a story about, you know,
connecting with yourself and connecting with your family and your friends and community.
Community and finding peace in life. And I know that's, you know,
different than some of the other documentaries that are like, the government's out to get you.
Don't trust them. Fear, fear, fear. Yeah. You know.
So tired of the fear narrative.
Yeah.
Your documentary is refreshing.
Yeah.
Very, very refreshing.
Well, it's so well done.
And I think our listeners are going to absolutely love watching your documentary.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
Last question for you guys.
Tell us a little bit more about the creative team.
If you don't mind behind the doc.
I know a lot of people were involved with making this thing.
I always love to shout them out.
You know, it takes a village to truly make something like this for sure.
And of course, other last question, two-prong question,
where and when can we find the Cote photo documentary?
Well, Megan was really the driving force behind all of this.
She really brought it together.
You have to really give a lot of love to Pablo.
Pablo Carales, who helped us produce it.
He's a Costa Rican filmmaker.
And he was really instrumental in making a lot of these connections.
Roberto Murillo, our cinematographer, one of our cinematographers, he was the main cinematographer,
really took the story and put all his heart and energy into making this beautiful Luis Garo was our AC.
He was with us on the first trip, and, you know, we're like, hey, guys, we're going to get in this car and we're going to drive around and we're going to be spending all night shooting.
And he's like, let's go.
Ben Keeler is a producer on the film, but he also did the mix and the audio with us,
and he was very instrumental in helping bring this thing to life.
Darren Clark was our local DP who really took charge of doing a lot of the B-roll inserts,
and he really helped us with production support.
You know, he was a source where we got our cameras and some of our gear from, and, you know, he was always there to bounce ideas off of.
Hudson.
A Hudson Edit, a company that I used to work for that I still do with from time to time was really helping and supportive on the post-production end of the process.
Katie Barkle, a friend of ours, really kind of stepped in to help with editing and give us.
kind of a second set of eyes on it.
Sammy.
Yeah, Sammy.
She really helped us get together our socials.
Michael,
Michael.
Yeah, Michael Moriardi helped us really in Lori.
There were so many people that really took ownership of this
and really shared in the experience.
And we can't thank them enough because we couldn't have done it without them.
We had an amazing crew.
We had a lot of friends and family that supported us just in conversations about it, you know,
and really kind of like helped guide us through this.
And so we really couldn't have done it alone.
And as far as where you can see it, it'll be on Apple TV.
It'll be on the cotephoto.com where you can rent or buy it.
And it'll eventually make its way into some other streamers.
And then it'll hopefully make its way around the world.
And it'll get a lot of attention.
So we did our best to make sure that it was made widely available for anybody who wanted to see it.
And we also make the high resolution skin available on our website for free.
So if you-
Esteban really wanted the high-resolution scan,
free to download because he said that these materials
should be available for everyone across the world.
Yeah.
Without-
I love that.
So yeah, we encourage you to, you know,
even if you don't watch the movie,
go download the scan and do your own analysis of it.
Oh, that can.
You can just put it in a frame and put it in your background.
It'll be back on this wall very soon.
Trust me.
that's happening for sure.
Is there an official release date yet, guys, or is that still up in the air?
September 4th, two days from now.
Oh, my gosh.
On the apple, so.
Awesome.
And then, yeah, it'll splinter its way out into the world.
And, yeah, we're very excited to, it's been an overwhelming,
positive response, which we're so grateful for.
People have really kind of embraced it.
And I think there's a lot of people who are very excited that something like this was made.
So, you know, thank you for sharing your platform with us and helping us get the word out about it.
We really appreciate that.
And, yeah, we would love it if people went and watched it and studied the photo and shared their own ideas about what it could be.
Yeah.
Right or wrong, you know, proof or no proof.
Yeah, like, however you want to dissect it.
And, you know, there will always be room for doubt and there will always be room for skepticism.
But there's also a lot of room for truth and honesty.
And there's a lot of room for many different people in this conversation.
I love that.
Yeah, we'll get the conversation going in the comments below, guys, on YouTube, on Spotify.
You let us know what you think of the Cote photo.
let these guys know too.
Go to the website.
We will have links to where you can get the film and the website below and in the show notes video description.
So be on the lookout for the Cote photo.
It will have dropped by the time this air.
So you have no excuses.
Go.
Download.
Rent, buy.
Do it.
It is worth every second.
And guys, we got to thank you.
It was a true honor and pleasure.
And thank you for your contribution to a field that desperately needs the respect that you
have given it in this documentary. So thank you for joining us on Summer in the skies.
Oh, thank you. Thank you. And thank you for all the kind words. And yeah, we really appreciate it.
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