Ep. 282: The UFO Above Us

Ryan Rex shares the night a UFO came down out of the sky and hovered right over him and his friends when he was 15 years old.

Author Ryan Rex joins the show to discuss a strange experience he kept mostly to himself for more than three decades.

In 1994, when Ryan was fifteen years old, he and two friends were crossing a golf course late at night when he says a large circular object descended directly above them. Ryan describes a stationary inner section surrounded by a rotating outer ring of multicolored lights, hovering only about fifteen feet off the ground. One of his friends reported seeing it too, while the third claimed he couldn't see anything at all.

There is another complication Ryan doesn't shy away from: they had taken psychedelic mushrooms earlier that evening. Years later, after continuing to think about the encounter, experiencing recurring dreams involving aliens, and noticing similarities to other UFO reports, Ryan eventually submitted the case to MUFON and began openly talking about what happened.

From there, the conversation expands into UFO disclosure, secret military technology, Roswell, whether some unexplained craft could originate from classified government programs, and the possibility that whatever is behind the phenomenon may be much stranger than extraterrestrials simply visiting from another planet.

Ryan also discusses his American Dysfunction series and how his own experiences, interest in UFOs, ancient mythology, the Anunnaki, biblical stories, Lovecraftian creatures, lost civilizations, catastrophic floods, and suppressed technology all found their way into the fictional universe he created.

We also get into the writing process itself, using real life as inspiration, creating believable dialogue, and why Ryan considers himself a plumber by day and an author by night. His third novel, American Dysfunction: The Prince of Death, continues the series with a future shaped by global catastrophe, disclosure, hidden technology, and humanity discovering that its history may not be what it believed.

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