2025 – Anomaly Academy Lecture Events
Close Encounters of the Human Kind: Exploring the Cinema of the Unseen with Filmmaker Brad Abrahams
Thursday, December 18th at 7pm Central
Close Encounters of the Human Kind – Join Filmmaker Brad Abrahams for a presentation and discussion on his creative process of documentary storytelling. Learn about his journey in creating content on Esoteric examples such as…
- Love & Saucers: The Far Out World of David Huggins – LoveAndSaucers.com
- Do You See What I See? – “A short documentary about the unofficial artist of conspiracy theory culture, the controversial and recently departed David Dees.”
- The Spectral Voyager – QAA podcast miniseries
- The Outer Dimensional Forces UFO Cult – QAA podcast episode
- Telos or Bust! Ascended masters, new religions, inner earth cities, crystals and lost continents.
- Swan Song of the Skunk Ape – “It exists…”
Event Page: Anomaly Academy 2025-12 – Dec – Brad Abrahams
Expanding Frontiers Research’s Erica Lukes & Jack Brewer Present…
“The Cold War and UFOs”
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
Join Erica Lukes and Jack Brewer of Expanding Frontiers Research as they rely on such sources as FBI records released through the Freedom of Information Act to explore the people of the mid-20th century flying saucer chase. Lukes and Brewer argue that awareness of deception in the UFO genre is important in developing a thorough understanding of the topic, regardless of what genuinely yet to be better understood phenomena may exist. What’s more, events of yesteryear stand to tell us a great deal about circumstances today.
Erica Lukes is an experienced podcaster and longtime popular video show host. As executive director of Expanding Frontiers Research, she conducts engaging interviews with journalists, researchers and experts on a variety of social and technical issues. She also facilitates the Expanding Frontiers Archive, an online group of special collections inspired by a physical archive Erica maintains that includes the life work of select pioneers of UFO research. As a result of the organization’s effective use of public records requests and subsequent reporting, Expanding Frontiers Research was the recipient of an annual state-wide award from the Utah Investigative Journalism Project. Erica studied music and voice at the University of Utah and is a longtime successful Salt Lake City business owner in the health and wellness industry.
Jack Brewer is a researcher, writer, and member of the EFR Board of Directors. His work relies primarily on authenticated documents and verified source material to reconstruct historical chains of events. In addition to producing well-received investigative blogposts and two nonfiction books, he is a successful entrepreneur and business consultant. His activities include substantial participation in grassroots nonprofit movements.
Learn more about Expanding Frontiers Research, a Salt Lake City-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the public reliable information through proven research methods: ExpandingFrontiersResearch.org“
Event Page: Anomaly Academy 2025-10 – Oct – EFR’s Erica Lukes and Jack Brewer
Tui Snider Presents…
“Travel, Tombstones & Transformation”
Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 at 7pm Central
“Join author Tui Snider on a journey through the world’s historic cemeteries … deep in the heart of Texas and stretching to Romania, the jungles of Malaysia, the South Pacific, the ancient tombs of Egypt, and even the Arctic Circle.
This journey is as much inward as outward as Tui evades a kidnapper, encounters endangered butterflies and venomous snakes, visits a mysterious space alien grave in Texas, meets the grieving parents of a serial killer’s victim, and even finds herself mistaken for a ghost.
With her signature blend of humor and heartfelt observation, Tui brings these stories to life, demonstrating how cemeteries can be places of healing, wonder, and connection.
In a journey readers have called “Eat, Pray, Love—but with tombstones!” Tui will spark your curiosity and inspire you to enjoy graveyards as gateways to hidden wonders and meaningful connections.
As Tui puts it, “Cemeteries are for the living. Don’t wait for a funeral to visit one.”
Event Page: Anomaly Academy 2025-09 – Sept – Tui Snider
Adam Gorightly Presents…
“The Bob Beck Collection: Space Age Photos From The Past!”
Sunday, May 25th, 2025 at 5pm Central / 3pm Pacific
“What initially inspired myself and collaborator Greg Bishop to co-author A is for Adamski: The Golden Age of the UFO Contactees was the discovery of The Beck Collection, a series of photos taken by a fellow (you guessed it) named Bob Beck.
In 1948, Robert “Bob” Beck (1925-2002), started a photographic-audiovisual firm, Color Control Color Laboratories Company, that designed special lighting techniques for a number of MGM productions like An American in Paris and Show Boat. In the 1960s, Beck was responsible for the groundbreaking special effects featured in Roger Corman’s psychedelic epic The Trip.
Somewhere along the way, Beck befriended George Van Tassel, attending several Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Conventions where he photographed the UFO contactees in attendance, many of these photos which appear exclusively in A is for Adamski. Van Tassel’s work in “cellular rejuvenation” dovetailed with similar interests shared by Beck related to alternative health cures produced by electromagnetism. To this end, Beck was involved—at least in an advisory capacity—with the construction of Van Tassel’s Integratron.”
– Adam Gorightly on The Bob Beck Collection
AdamGorightly.com / ChasingUFOsBlog.com / HistoriaDiscordia.com
Event Page: Anomaly Academy 2025-05 – May – Adam Gorightly
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Michael M. Hughes Presents… “The Truth About Witchcraft”
Saturday, April 26th, 2025 at 6pm CDT / 7pm EDT
Michael M. Hughes is an author, speaker, and magical thinker. He speaks on politics, magic, pop culture, psychedelics, the paranormal, tarot, and other strange and esoteric subjects.
His most recent book, Magic for the Resistance: Rituals and Spells for Change, is published by Llewellyn Worldwide and is available via Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Llewellyn, and at your favorite local bookstore.
His acclaimed supernatural thriller series, the Blackwater Lights trilogy, is available from Penguin Random House.
When he’s not writing, Hughes speaks on Fortean, paranormal, and other topics.
Michael M. Hughes: Bio | Writer, Performer, Oneironaut.
Event Page: Anomaly Academy 2025-04 – April – Michael M. Hughes
Micah Hanks Presents… “Sasquatch: Relict Hominoids in History and Official Files”
Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
“Micah Hanks is a writer, podcaster, researcher and speaker whose interests cover a variety of subjects, including history, archaeology, science, and the future of humankind.
A longtime researcher and proponent of the scientific study of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs, Micah has authored a number of books and has contributed many essays, articles and blogs to various publications. Along with his podcasts, he has also worked as a narrator, lending his voice to several audiobooks, radio programs, and other recorded projects over the years.”
Websites: TheDebrief.org, MicahHanks.com, SevenAges.org / Radio-Shows & Podcasts: The Micah Hanks Program / Sasquatch Tracks / Middle Theory / Books
Event Page: Anomaly Academy 2025-03 – March – Micah Hanks
Chris Rutkowski, BSc, MEd, is a Canadian science writer and educator, with a background in astronomy but with a passion for teaching science concepts to children and adults. Since the mid-1970s, he also has been studying reports of UFOs and writing about his investigations and research. He has published several books, including: Visitations? (1989); Unnatural History (1993); Mysterious Manitoba, co-authored with Dave Creighton and Brian Fidler (1997); Abductions and Aliens (2000); The Canadian UFO Report , co-authored with Geoff Dittman (2006); A World of UFOs (2008), I Saw It Too! (2009) and The Big Book of UFOs (2010). Rutkowski also has contributed chapters to many anthologies such as Phenomenon, Frontiers of Reality and UFO 1947-1997, a 50th anniversary review of the UFO phenomenon. He was a contributing editor of International UFO Reporter and was the editor of the Swamp Gas Journal, an occasional ufozine first published in 1978 when he was part of Decadent Winnipeg Fandom. He is a past-president of the Winnipeg Science Fiction Society and was part of the Winnipeg SF community that gathered Saturdays at the home of the legendary “first fan” Chester Cuthbert. He is currently vice president of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild. Chris Rutkowski blogs at: uforum.blogspot.com. He was also a contributor to the anthology, UFOs: Reframing the Debate.
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