This program features in-depth conversation/interviews with the leading names in the worlds of UFO and paranormal studies, with particular emphasis on how they became the public figures we’ve come to know and respect. Each week veteran investigative writer/researcher Peter Robbins brings you these as well as in-depth conversations with experiencers and UFO abductees and the best and the brightest of the next generation of writers, researchers, and experiencers. “Meanwhile, Here On Earth.” will also depart from strictly UFO/paranormal topics in featuring accounts and panel discussions with a surprising variety of writers, authors, artists, filmmakers, musicians, mental health professionals, actors, directors, theologians, and a myriad of other unforgettable individuals who share your interest in the subjects in question. The show that breaks new ground and welcomes all listener/viewers be they new to these subjects or veterans of them.

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Host Bio

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Peter Robbins is an investigative writer, author, and lecturer whose writing and research are focused on the subject of truly anomalous UFOs and their implications for humanity. He has appeared as a guest on and been consultant to numerous radio shows, television programs and documentaries, and is host of the live weekly two-hour radio talk show, “Meanwhile, Here On Earth” on the Un-X Network, Mondays at 7:00PM (EST).

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Robbins’ lecture topics and papers have included:

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• Media, Ridicule and UFOs: The Origins of UFO Ridicule

• Politics, History and Human Nature: Roadblocks on the Path to Disclosure

• Comets, Cults and Fundamentalist Thinking: A UFO Related Cautionary Tale

• Little Green Men and the New York Times: How America’s Greatest Newspaper Helped Perpetrate Our Government’s Greatest Deception

• The Remarkable Life and Suspicious Death of America’s first Secretary of Defense, Early Casualty of the UFO Cover-up

• Critical Thinking, Deductive Reasoning and Ufology

• UFO and Alien Imagery in Advertising: Innocent Sales Device or Calculated Social Engineering?

• The Life and Scientific Discoveries of Dr. Wilhelm Reich: An Introductory Talk

• Wilhelm Reich and UFOs

• The UFO Abduction Phenomenon

• Budd Hopkins, Pioneer Abduction Researcher: An Appreciation

• Budd Hopkins, Children and UFO Abduction: A Personal Remembrance

• The 1989 Voronezh Incident: Russia’s Best Known CE3

• Controversial Deaths and UFO Investigation: Murder, Conspiracy or Happenstance?

• Excerpts and Outtakes: True Stories from Forty-plus Years in Ufology, illustrated.

• The Graphics and the Classics: Illustration and the Golden Age of UFO Literature Workshops. Each designed to focus on the specifics of the area of study requested.

• Other workshops specifically for students. educators, mental health professionals, people of faith, members of the business, community, UFO investigators and researchers and whomever else. UK appearances have included a British national book tour, talks at the Royal College of Science and Technology, London, the Universities of Hallam, Sheffield, Leeds, Yorkshire, Glasgow, and Cardiff. For the faculty and students of the Summerhill School, Suffolk East Anglia; Quest International Conferences, and East Midlands UFO Research (EMPHORA) Conference, Nottingham.

 

Further lectures have been given at the following:

 

• Conference of The Centre for Fortean Zoology, Devon

• Beyond Knowledge

• Conference, Liverpool

• BUFORA (British UFO Research Association)

• Conferences and Woodbridge Suffolk UFO conferences

• Edinburg UFO Festival and Conference; Edinburg, TX, 2022

• Ozarks Mountain UFO Conference, 2023. He was the featured speaker

• at the Outer Limits Magazine UFO Conference in Hull England in May 2022 and

• will be a return speaker in 2023. He spoke at the 2022 International MUFON

• Symposium in Denver Colorado and is emceeing this year’s MUFON Symposium

• in Cincinnati.

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Robbins has spoken at X-Conferences in Washington, D.C. and Virginia; the UFO Reykjavik Summit in Lawrence Kansas, International UFO Congresses in Phoenix Arizona and Laughlin Nevada. Other MUFON Symposiums and for numerous MUFON state and regional affiliates around the country. He’s presented for Michigan MUFON’s 2016 Swamp Gas UFO Conference; the Scientific Bureau of Investigation UFO Symposium in Albany NY; Experiencers Speak Conferences, Portland Maine; keynote speaker, National Conference of the UFO Organization of Japan, Tokyo; the 6th World UFO Forum in Brazil, and the Exobiology International Meeting in Segrate Italy. He is a co-founder of Travis Walton’s Skyfire UFO Summits, Heber Arizona; co-founder of the Exeter New Hampshire UFO Festival and Conference. He helped organize and has spoken at Budd Hopkins’ Intruders Foundation conferences and seminars in New York City, and been a speaker at annual Pine Bush New York UFO conferences. He’s

presented at the Omega UFO Conferences, North Haven CT; McMinnville Oregon UFO Festival/conferences; Crash/Retrieval UFO Conferences, Las Vegas NV; Gulf Coast UFO Conference, Gulf Breeze Florida; Biloxi Mississippi UFO Conference, and the Fortean Research Center, Lincoln, Nebraska. Peter was made a member of the French Académie d'Ufologie in 2012 and has given talks in Paris, Nice, Bordeaux and Toulouse France. A longtime interest in the life and scientific discoveries of Dr. Wilhelm Reich led to the publication of a series of published papers by Robbins with and invitations to give a series of talks in the US and abroad, including the International Conference on the Scientific Discoveries of Wilhelm Reich, Nice France; the American College of Orgonomy’s conferences in New York City and Princeton New Jersey, and at the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory in Ashland Oregon. In 2012, Robbins presented two papers at the Academy of Orgonomy conference in Karavomilos, Greece, and in 2013 at the Italian Association of Orgonomy’s annual conference in Rome. In 2016 and 2017 he returned to Greece to speak at the “Contact With Space Conference” in Athens.

 

Professional credits include editorial assistant on United Nations’ Secretary General's requested report “for the establishment of a UN-UFO Department” in 1978, and editorial assistant to Member of Parliament Brinsley Le Pour Trench on a requested paper for The House of Lords Debate on UFOs in 1980. Robbins was a founding member of Budd Hopkins’ Intruders Foundation, a member of its Advisory Board, and Executive Assistant to Mr. Hopkins. He was Event Coordinator for the SCI FI Channel’s ‘Alien Abduction Phenomenon: A Symposium, organized to promote the release of the Steven Spielberg miniseries ‘Taken,’ and writer, planner and commentator for the "Ultimate UFO" and “Ultimate Crop Circle” DVD sets. He has written for Open Minds magazine, FATE, Phenomena (UK) Outer Limits Magazine, (UK), UFO Data Magazine (UK), UFO Matrix (UK), UFO Magazine (both the UK & US publications), OUR-J Journal of UFO Studies (Japan), Phenomena Magazine (UK), and numerous other publications and websites.

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From 2007 until 2010 Peter served as consultant to the City of Roswell New Mexico including being their liaison to Gov. Richardson’s office on UFO-related matters. He was coordinator of Roswell’s annual UFO Conference for two years, and testified before the Senate/Congressional (retired) committee at the Disclosure Hearings held at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. in 2013. He is proud to be an Associate Producer of the award-winning documentary “Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton”, and writer, director and producer of the documentary, “The Extraordinary Life and Suspicious Death of James Forrestal”.

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TV appearances include Ancient Aliens; the History Channel’s "Britain’s Roswell"; Unsolved Mysteries; Good Day New York; The O’Reilly Factor; FOX-NY; The Real Roswell; Nat Geo Channel; The SYFY Channel documentary "UFO Invasion At Rendlesham"; The Early Show; CBS; CBS NEWS, Denver; Cultural Odyssey: Voice of America TV, Chinese Branch; The Geraldo Show, NYC; Odyssee De L'Etrange (France); The Nina Hagen Show, Germany; Network First: UFO (UK); Lifetime Network and Conspiracy (Film One Production) Canada; EXOCILIZATIONS; La Locale Television, Paris; as well as numerous BBC TV affiliates.

 

Radio and podcast interviews and appearances too numerous to mention need not get in the way of mentioning a few anyway. “The Unexplained” with Howard Hughes, London; “Coast To Coast” alternately, with hosts George Noory and George Knapp; "The Art Bell Show;” “21st Century Radio,” Baltimore; “Midnight In the Desert,” “The Richard Dolan Show;” "Sightings On the Radio with Jeff Rense,” LA; “The James Whale Show,” London; “The Alan Colmes Show, ” NYC; “The Paracast;” “”Where Did the Road Go?,” WBAI-NY's "UFO Desk;" NYC; “The Jerry Pippin Show;” “Cold Cases, Hot Leads;” “Encounters” on the Un-X Network; “Beyond the Paranormal;” Providence RI;” BBC World Service

"UFO's - Fact, Fiction or Fantasy?" Iran, and numerous BBC Radio affiliates.

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Peter Robbins was born in Queens, New York and studied art, design, and theater at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He received his BFA (painting, film history) from New York City’s School of Visual Arts (SVA) and taught painting there for a dozen years. He was also a member of the art faculties of St. Anns School in Brooklyn Heights, and the Oklahoma Council on the Arts summer program, Bartlesville OK. Following his graduation from SVA, he was a deckhand aboard a Norwegian freighter, then traveled the world for a year. He was studio assistant to Abstract Expressionist painter Adolph Gottlieb, studio assistant to American naïve painter William Copley, and assistant to pioneer kinetic light sculptor Stanley Landsman. He worked as a carpenter, loft construction worker, apartment painter, art gallery assistant, band manager, copywriter, ghostwriter, editor, website director (ufocity.com, 1998-2004), and throughout most of the Eighties, as House Manager for New York City’s celebrated Mirror Repertory Company. From 1987 until 1996 he was a crisis intervention volunteer and shift supervisor for Samaritans International New York City office. He is an experienced New York City walking touring guide and an accomplished photographer. Robbins is coauthor of the British bestseller, Left At East Gate and author of Deliberate Deception, and Halt in Woodbridge. All three of which will remain out of print due to the many intentional falsehoods, confabulations and exaggerations by his former coauthor that the books contain. Live and learn! Peter Robbins can be contacted  at probbinsny@yahoo.com.