The Untold Story of Childhood UFO Encounters w/ Michael Huntington (SITS CLASSIC)

Summary

Host Ryan Sprague and UFO researcher Michael Huntington explore a frequently overlooked side of the UFO phenomenon: encounters witnessed by children. They trace cases from the 1917 Fatima apparitions through mass school sightings in Australia, Florida, Wales, and Zimbabwe, along with landing and creature reports in West Virginia, California, and the Soviet Union. The conversation asks why so many children, often in large groups, report remarkably similar craft and beings, and whether perception, hysteria, or genuine contact explains it.

Key takeaways

• 1The 1917 Fatima 'Miracle of the Sun' on October 13 reportedly drew around 70,000 witnesses, and Huntington argues the children's accounts resemble later UFO contactee stories.
• 2In the 1952 Flatwoods Monster case, children playing football plus adult Kathleen May reported a 10-foot creature with glowing eyes near a downed object on the Bailey Fisher farm, and Project Blue Book looked into it.
• 3In the 1966 Westall encounter in Melbourne, hundreds of students saw silvery discs, and some reported a landing in 'the Grange' that left a perfect circle in the grass. Huntington says reports and paperwork later disappeared, and Shane Ryan continues to investigate.
• 4The 1967 Opa-locka/Crestview School sighting in Florida was explained by the military as helicopters and flares, including a demonstration flare drop, an explanation that angered locals.
• 5The 1976 Camp Delaware sighting in Connecticut, involving teenage hikers who saw a red-domed saucer, was investigated by APRO. The 1977 Broad Haven school case in Wales involved children reporting a silvery craft and a robot-like being.
• 6J. Allen Hynek reportedly ranked the 1977 West Pittsburg, California case, in which three boys saw shadowy robotic beings, among the year's three credible humanoid cases. Other cases discussed include the 1989 Voronezh, USSR landing of a three-eyed giant who allegedly paralyzed a boy with a rod, and the 1994 Ariel School case in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, where 60 children were interviewed by Harvard psychiatrist John Mack.

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Excerpt from Somewhere in the Skies, Jul 16, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.