The Black Swan Rising Podcast

8) Audio Woes and UFOs

Michael B. Rush Season 1 Episode 8

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A studio confession kicks things off: we’ve been talking into a world-class microphone without the preamp it needs, and you’ve heard the consequences. Thankfully that is about to change, and it will make Rush's voice easier on your ears, if such a thing is possible. 

From there, we unpack highlights from a recent Congressional hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, where military witnesses described gigantic hovering craft, transmedium objects moving from sea to sky to space, and even a Hellfire missile that broke apart attempting to destroy a UFO.  

We also spotlight Avi Loeb’s commentary on a peculiar space object sparking debate about origin and measurement. Love him or challenge him, Loeb models a useful stance: bold hypotheses tied to open data that is easily verifiable. Then we extend last week’s strange-beasts theme with two gripping recommendations: Matchbook Flashback episode 22, Lola Kansas Dogman and NDE, and The In Between’s The Trucker That Killed a Dog Man, Joe Wagner Story. These accounts push us to ask what makes a story credible, how patterns repeat across cases, and where folklore meets forensic thinking.

The throughline is simple: improve the sound, sharpen the signal, and keep seeking with rigor. If you’re ready for better audio and braver questions about UFOs, space mysteries, and modern monster lore, you’re in the right place. Subscribe, share this episode with a curious friend, and drop your take: which account deserves a deeper dive next?

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Host Greets And Sets Context

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Hello, friends. If you are a longtime listener to this podcast, if you can call yourself a longtime listener since I've only been recording it for two months, you've probably realized that there have been some audio issues with my prior episodes. I am not a very disciplined podcaster. I flow around in front of the microphone. Sometimes I need to wear eye protection or I'll poke my own eyes out with my flailing hands. So I'm a little too dynamic for the microphone that I have, which, believe it or not, is the best microphone money can buy. But it requires a preamp, which I did not understand and I don't have. And so I have ordered it and it will be arriving within the next couple of days. And my understanding is that is going to revolutionize the sound quality. So you will not have to pull your hair out when you're listening to me, and it sounds like I am being waterboarded while I'm giving the podcast. So I am looking forward to that. But in the meantime, I have a couple of homework assignments for my podcast listeners. In November of 2025, Congress had another UFO hearing. The title of the hearing was Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Exposing the Truth. It was hosted by the subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee, and it had three military veterans with first hand accounts of their UAP encounters. One of the witnesses talked about several objects that were larger than football fields that came and hovered over the Air Force base where he was at, and a massive black triangle object. Another one talked about objects that were going in and out of the sea and then up into space. Another one talked about a UFO that they shot with a hellfire missile, and the hellfire missile just broke apart on impact. It didn't do anything to the UFO, and the UFO just flew away. So it's you know worth your time looking into the quality of people that are coming forward and talking about these things. It's really interesting. Also, if you have not been listening to Avi Loeb, he has some very interesting things to say about this three-eye atlas uh object that's coming through space and all of the anomalous things that are associated with it. It's definitely worth your time looking into that as well. And then on the tales of my last episode where we talked about beasts, strange beasts, and the roles that those strange beasts will have in the last days. There is a couple of podcast episodes that I am going to recommend that you listen to. The first is episode 22 of Matchbook Flashback. It's called Lola Kansas Dogman and N D E. That's the title. It's definitely worth you listening to this one. It's uh frankly uh astounding. Again, that is Matchbook Flashback, and it's episode 22. The other homework assignment that I'll give you is actually a YouTube video. It's on the channel The In Between, and the video is called The Trucker That Killed a Dog Man, Joe Wagner Story, and then it's The In Between. So listen to those. It will definitely give you something to think about on the tale of my last episode, which frankly was quite peculiar. All right, friends, I'm looking forward to uh better sound quality on future episodes. And until then, keep seeking. God bless.