{"podcast":{"title":"UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT","slug":"ufos-paranormal-with-preston-dennett-7679731","podcast_index_feed_id":7679731,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6865165/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ufos-paranormal-with-preston-dennett--6865165","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/141928d47ded217a7c6502ce372ce7f2.jpg","author":"Preston Dennett","episode_count":172,"summary":"WELCOME TO \"UFOS & THE PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT.\" THIS PODCAST EXPLORES TRUE FIRSTHAND EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF UFO CONTACT. IT TAKES YOU DEEP INTO THE HEART OF THE UFO PHENOMENON, PRESENTING BOTH FAMOUS CASES AND MANY YOU'VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE. --UFO SIGHTINGS --LANDINGS OF ET CRAFT --HUMANOIDS & EXTRATERRESTRIALS --ONBOARD UFO ENCOUNTERS --PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES --CRYPTOZOOLOGY --AND MORE! PRESTON DENNETT IS A LEADING RESEARCHER IN THE FIELD OF UFOS AND THE PARANORMAL. HE HAS WRITTEN MORE THAN 30 BOOKS AND 100 ARTICLES AND HAS APPEARED ON COUNTLESS RADIO AND TV SHOWS.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T20:21:04.751925+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ufos-paranormal-with-preston-dennett-7679731"},"episode":{"title":"The Greatest Evening in My Life: The Onboard UFO Encounter of Sid Padrick","slug":"the-greatest-evening-in-my-life-the-onboard-ufo-encounter-of-sid-padrick","published_at":"2026-06-27T13:42:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ufos-paranormal-with-preston-dennett-7679731/the-greatest-evening-in-my-life-the-onboard-ufo-encounter-of-sid-padrick","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ufos-paranormal-with-preston-dennett-7679731","url":"https://prestondennett.weebly.com/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72715329/spreaker138_thegreatesteveninginmylife.mp3","summary":"For more than a year, Sid Padrick (a TV and radio repairman) had repeatedly felt compelled to take early morning walks on Manresa Beach near his home in Watsonville, California. On the morning of January 30, 1965, he learned the reason why. It was 2am; he had finished his walk and was in the parking lot at Manresa Beach when he heard a buzzing sound. Looking up, he saw a strange disc-shaped craft descend and move closer. As it moved closer, he saw it was a massive flying saucer, 50 feet wide and 30 feet high. Terrified, he turned and ran. A male voice came from the craft, and said, “Do not be frightened, we are not hostile.” Sid was still frightened and kept running, and the voice repeated the phrase and told him, “You may come aboard, we assure you of no harm.” Sid became curious and stopped to watch the craft descend and hover a few feet above the ground. As he moved closer a door opened, and somehow, Sid found the courage to step inside. He entered a small room which suddenly brightened with a blinding light. As it dimmed, he realized that it was some kind of decontamination chamber. Another door opened and voice invited him to step through. With no idea what kind of creature he would meet, and still trembling with fear, Sid stepped through the door. He was greeted by a young-looking, dark-haired man wearing a skin-tight blue-white suit who introduced himself as Xeno. The man invited Sid to ask him questions. What followed was a lengthy question and answer session, with Sid asking the ET a long list of questions. Who are you? Where do you come from? Why are you here? Why did you contact me? Are there others like you? What do you eat? How do you power your craft? Have you met with world governments? And many other questions. The human-looking ET answered all of Sid’s…","meta_description":"For more than a year, Sid Padrick (a TV and radio repairman) had repeatedly felt compelled to take early morning walks on Manresa Beach near his home in W…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3548,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ufos-paranormal-with-preston-dennett-7679731/episodes/the-greatest-evening-in-my-life-the-onboard-ufo-encounter-of-sid-padrick/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ufos-paranormal-with-preston-dennett-7679731/the-greatest-evening-in-my-life-the-onboard-ufo-encounter-of-sid-padrick.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}