This Paranormal Life - Podcast From Area 51 We Go Hunting For Ufos

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

In this limited series, Kit and Rory are podcasting recording right outside the gates of Area 51 and investigating it’s shocking history to figure out whether something paranormal is really happening here… In this episode, we investigate the 1994 Nellis airforce base UFO encounter, where military cameras recorded a strange object hovering above the site. Was it an experimental aircraft? Or something from another planet? There’s only one way to find out… If they can catch a UFO on camera, then so can we. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Secret Society Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get access to weekly bonus episodes! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Official TPL Merch!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thisparanormallife.com/store⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Intro music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.purple-planet.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to This Paranormal Life. We are recording this podcast in the Nevada Desert, right beside Area 51, the most top-secret military base in the world, and possibly home to secret alien technology. First off, Kit, do you believe in aliens? 100%. Good. Some say that this base was where they took the UFO that crashed at Roswell. Others say that it's home to top-secret military weapons. All I know is, there's a store up the road.

that sells alien jerky, which does make sense because if aliens were on this planet in some form, we would be killing them and eating them immediately. Alien jerky is what I call it when my arm falls asleep and I touch myself. If you're listening to this podcast, we are not joking, by the way. We are actually recording this in the Nevada desert all the way out in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, we're kind of legally as close as we can possibly get to Area 51. I think if we took a step further, we'd be shot in the back of the head and burn. A guy tried to snipe me. I took one step towards the fence and a bullet went past. That was sorry, that was a cowboy trying to make you dance.

Oh, right. Okay. It's very, very exciting. If you are able to watch this, if you're watching this in YouTube or Spotify, we are literally, you can see it. There's signs behind us indicating the perimeter of the facility, which we are, thankfully, on the right side of. But it's otherwise an incredibly vast, desolate and I don't know if you can hear it, but windy place. Well Kit, despite being so close to the grounds of Area 51, our story today takes place in the sky. In 1994, a strange object was spotted in the sky above the Nevada desert. Not only was the craft captured on video, but the video was taken by the U.S. Air Force. This is the case of the Nellis Air Force UFO.

That name might sound familiar because actually, Kit, on the drive up here, we passed a sign a turnoff just to the right that said Nellis Air Force Base. We did. It wasn't that long ago in the car. It wasn't. It was just about an hour down the road just north of Vegas. We are very close to that Air Force Base right now. Nellis Air Force Base has been around for over 80 years, serving as an institute for advanced combat aviation training. So the jets flying above grounds were known to pull off some pretty crazy maneuvers. Think top gun style Okay, they're doing some Tom Cruise level shit.

I'm assumed the ground floor is just a bunch of sexy guys all oiled up, playing volleyball in the hot Nevada sun. That feels like a figment of your imagination. I don't know why they'd be oiled up for one. But this day, in 1994, the high-tech motion tracking radar cameras caught something strange. We acquired an unknown object, an aircraft of some type. It seems to be hovering there. What the f f f*** is it? He might not have sworn, I'm not sure, but I'm sure it was very scary.

I don't know. Floating against the desert sky was a mysterious oval-shaped object. They met on the ground assumed at first it was simply another military craft, but this thing was barely turning up on radar. Also, it was moving f*** weird. It's more with the swearing. Listen, that's how you know this is scary. I assume the military are dropping F bombs, C,

B bombs, S bombs, at a base where usually you just drop regular bombs. Right, sure. The craft had no wings or rotor blades, which for 1994 was extremely strange. And later, when the footage was digitally enhanced, it even looked like at times the object was changing shape. Changing shape? I know. I don't know if a drone or a helicopter or plane can do that. You're fighting some sort of goo blob in this.

guy at this point. Yeah. The best part is that I have this footage. Really? Check this up. Alright, let me see. This is some grainy ass military footage, but it is showing something pretty clearly in the air moving kind of unusually. Okay, it's being repeated and slowed down. Zoom and in hands please. This thing's moving like a fruit fly. It's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's, it's being repeated and slowed down. It's just whimsical, straight whimsy. This thing is hunting down a ripe mango in a kitchen somewhere. Do you know what this looks and moves like? Is a, you know, like a spinning top, like in Inception?

You know, the way they kind of like, they move around, like kind of very, very hard to predict pattern, spinning really, really fast? That, but in the sky. Terrifying. 3D chess. Is there anything more truly terrifying that the concept of children's, toys in the sky. Honestly, not where you expect them. I mean, the craziest thing about this is, I assume if even a children's balloon drifted onto a military air force base, it would be obliterated

within seconds by a century turret. Yeah, there'd be like a 70-year-old general, one who's not really with it that says things he's not supposed to anymore, but they're like, hey, he's going to retire soon. He'd be like, nuke it. We need to drop at least three nooks on it. Oh, you absolutely know that. If so much as a Girl Scout knocked on the hangar door of Area 51, I assume that little girl will be hit by a thermal nuclear warhead. Those generals, they're like,

you see the way me and you open up the fridge to check if there's a yogurt that's out of date? He's going through the nuclear arsenal regularly. Just like, I was like a week left on that one. Better use that up tonight. Use some leftovers. Is that a Soviet drone on the corner of our airspace? Sir, I think that's a pigeon eating crumb.

in the park, nuke the bird. So you know it's a bird. You know it's a bird. Bird is slang. Bird is slang for unidentified drone. It stands for big... I can think of it. It sounds like, Colonel, you're trying to make it up now on the spot.

You didn't get very far. Shut up! It stands for big, important. Shut up! It stands for Bolivian Intercontinental Reconnaissance drone. Oh, shit, oh, no. Oh, what's happening? What's up?

Oh. They're coming for me. Don't get too close to that offense. You might get smoked. I think I just got hit by one of those CIA wind cannons. Sorry, that doesn't make any sense to anyone who's not watching this, but Rory was blown away. Through the sky.

Roy was like Dorothy in Kansas. It was almost blown away. I love that if we talk to anyone about this. we're like, oh, why has no one ever filmed out by Area 51? Is it restricted space? They're like, no, it's a stupid, f***ing idea. It's going to sound and look terrible. I knew it was in the desert.

I didn't know it was at like 4,000 feet of elevation. Can we talk about how hot I am right now? It's very windy. I am boiling in this sun. My mouth is so dry. And yet, we must continue to investigate the paranormal because that's what we're here to do today. It turns out the desert is slightly warmer than east.

of course this footage was supposed to be classified but when one individual secretly leaked it to the public it wasn't long before it was front page news startling videotape of a UFO and it comes from an unexpected source the US Air Force exclusive the Air Force UFO once the footage was in the public domain one video processing expert named Chip Peterson decided to study it in detail, stabilizing and enhancing several minutes of the video in order to try and track the object's flight path. Pretty cool idea, you know? Even if we only have a very small image of this thing, by analyzing the way it moves and tracking it, we can create a 3D graph of how it moved over the Nevada desert. Sure, sure, sure, sure. We've seen that in

other investigations too, like the Phoenix Lights in Arizona. People were able to were able to make like 3D digital reconstructions, models of how it traversed the state. Yeah. But when Chip Peterson finished mapping the flight path of the object, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. This thing wasn't just moving in strange patterns. It was moving as if it was alive. For example, when talking about the moment that the craft was picked up on radar, Peterson said, it would seem to me like this object was interested in who who was observing it and it turned in order to find out. I will say this is going quite well with a lot of other UFO cases we've heard of, even since

then, a kind of ability to not only just not move like modern crafts, but also to be, I don't know about alive, but yeah, to move with intent and to move in response to what's going on around it. Yeah. Even if you are a seagull and you think you spot a... What do seagulls eat? Chips, apparently. After that day in Brighton where they stole my lunch,

they eat everything, basically. All right. Even if you are a pigeon and you think you see a slice of bread on a park bench, you kind of do like a flyby and you're like, oh shit, let me swoop by again. Krr was that bread? They don't coo.

You kind of, you move like this. Whereas if you were a bird and you just kind of went like this, You went like this? You can't do that. Flying objects need to obey the laws of physics. I understood zero of that. For a pigeon to fly.

Birds can... For an object to go... If you're trying to make the argument that birds can turn... It's impossible. Birds can turn... It's impossible. No. This is the worst analogy of all time.

Birds can turn just fine. It's spacecraft... It's planes that can't. Sit down. Do you want me to let your seat fly away? Did you know pigs will never see the stars? Because they don't have necks. It's not true.

They have necks and they can look up. It's like a myth. And flying objects need to obey the laws and the rules of physics. This thing did not. It stopped dead in the sky and turned around. Yeah. Birds can do that. So let's just make that.

That's fine. They can't do that. They literally cannot do that. Nothing can do that because it went to fire physics. Sun's almost set too, so you better, you better. Again, that's for a video. That's for a video watcher. I'm so hot.

They know that the sun is almost set. We're almost... We've been trying to record this since midday. And Rory's kind of... He kept lecturing me about birds and how they can move. Did you say pigs will never see the stars? Yeah, that's just another animal fact, kind of relating to space in the universe.

Yeah, okay. One reason why this is such a famous UFO encounter is because of the witnesses and the origin of the footage. You know, this isn't shaky footage from a handheld camcorder. This was military-grade... equipment operated by trained personnel. This is as good as UFO evidence can get. It's coming from the guys who are trying to tell you this stuff doesn't exist. I don't disagree. I also said it looked a lot like a spinning top. So like, you know, we can't see, we can't see the windows and the little

gray's like, hey, it's so, it's, you know, we're, yes, it's a high bar. I don't disagree. It's also low-key a children's toy. That's fine. That's fine. Kit, the fact that you are trying to find windows with little green men in it, makes me realize that you're trying to understand this object with your limited human mind. We don't know what a UFO can be. Unlike you, what is your mind? It can be goo, it can be dust, it can be an illusion.

They're trying to get me with a wind cannon to shut me up. You think it's goo? Why did you spend so long comparing it to a bird? It should come as no surprise that the area that we're in right now is a hotbed for reported UFO sightings, not just because of the Nellis incident or our proximity right now to Area 51. But because out here in the desert, there is almost zero light pollution. So if there is something lighting up the night sky, you're going to see it.

It's kind of true. I know that you're a little skeptical of the evidence that we've seen today, but I know something that might change your mind. Are you ready to go hunting for UFOs? Yeah, always. We can't go back in time to investigate the Nellus UFO, Not unless those crystals I bought off eBay really do work. So if we want to find out whether or not there really was a UFO that night back in 1994,

I say you and I go out tonight to the extraterrestrial highway by Area 51 and do some UFO hunting of our own. Let's bring those f***ers down. You guys are coming with us. All right, the sun has set, and it's time for us to go hunt for a UFO. We are right here at the start of the extraterrestrial highway. We're going to head out there, look into the night sky. We've got a bunch of equipment here, but we're going to try and see if Kit and I can see a UFO.

Before we hit the road, I'm going to run you through some of the amazing bits of UFO hunting equipment. We're bringing with us out there. First off, military torch. It may look like just a regular torch, but it's so powerful. This thing is essentially a beam up to the heavens that you can use as a beacon to summon them down to Earth. Oh, that is genuinely... It's quite a lot.

It's so bright. We also have another bit of important gear, a set of night vision goggles. Very cool. Now, Rory might have a lot of great equipment, but don't think I turned up empty-handed, right off the bat chewing gum. No, double mint.

None of that single-mint nonsense. The aliens probably, if I had to guess, are operating some kind of intergalactic barter system. I don't think they respect the US dollar like me and Rory do. So I think something like that, it hard to imagine they would have encountered double mint. Right. It's going to be a kind of prison-style bartering system

where you'll pay for goods and services with gum and noodles. Yes, and similar to prison, hopefully we can avoid sexual favors. Okay. Well, hey, then my next bit of equipment's really going to help. And that is, of course, a six-pack of beer. This is illegal. Full disclosure, I'm driving.

This is nothing to do with me. This is very important. This is essential equipment for any paranormal hunting that takes place out in the wilderness. You've got to go full Dad Squad. We got a little six-pack of Coors Banquet right here. And yeah, you'll notice that if you look at the crate, a couple of them are missing already. Which looks bad because it makes it look like we had one each. Rory had both.

I had two beers. And anyone who lose this paranormal life, knows instinctually that's true. Well, I'm nervous, all right, I might get abducted tonight. It's my first time. All right, that's all the gear we have. We are ready to head down the extraterrestrial highway. Let's go find ourselves a UFO.

Let's hit it. Let's get out of here. We fired up the Jeep and drove into the desert, looking for the perfect location to hunt for some UFOs. And after driving for 30 minutes down the extraterrestrial highway, we discovered the perfect spot. So we grabbed our night vision camera and started hunting. Seeing a lot of orbs in the sky, but those might just be bugs. I'm not going to lie to you.

Yeah, I think these are bugs. Thought we had a UFO. We had a B-U-G. After an hour of searching the skies, we were still coming up empty-handed. Luckily, we had one trick left up our sleeves. Okay, so we've been out here for a while, and the truth is, we haven't really seen anything. I haven't even really seen any planes. It is a very empty night sky out there. But we do have one ace left up our sleeve. And that is something that actually a listener of this podcast emailed in and told us, if we're out in the desert and we want to see a UFO, we have to try something called the UFO whistle, which I believe is a certain frequency when broadcast, you can summon them, communicate directly with the object. Sounds absolutely

mental enough of it. Just might work. I'm almost out of beer. So I say, we try it and if it doesn't work we call it here. All right, we're going to try and sync it up now to the car's speaker system and blast whatever this noise is. All right, let's check it out. Into the desert. UAP-UAP-Dog whistle app. This isn't just a sound.

This is an entire app at night. Bearing in mind it says advanced frequency synthesis tool, it is tagged and says experimental research tool and then in red says use with caution. Oh, God. Well, we will not be doing that. today. All right, let me roll down these windows and let's give it a blast. Here we go. Let's do it. Oh, God. Oh, it's like oscillating. Yeah, I can see how this would work. If I heard this super loud, I would also pull over my car and fight whoever was playing this noise. Is there anything out

there? Anything out there in the universe? We are this paranormal life. We're not perverts. We may not have managed to spot a UFO by Area 51, but what an adventure it's been! From hunting the Yucca Man to finding the mysterious black mailbox, this has been one of the wildest adventures we've ever been on. If you did enjoy this series, we're excited to say that this is not the end. We filmed two more episodes that are available to watch right now over on patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life. In these bonus episodes, we finally visited the Integratron, a mysterious building in the desert that's allegedly capable of time travel. We also attended Contact in the Desert, the world's largest UFO convention, where we were taught how to remote view an astral project. Both episodes are available to watch right now on Patreon, so head on over and check them out.

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