UFO Lecture Series

INDEX-TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT | November 2, 2017

Jim Ledwith returns to lead the ninth annual UFO Lecture Series at the Sonoma Community Center next week.

On Monday, Nov. 6, Ledwith will explore “Planet Serpo – The Human/Alien Exchange Program.”

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. Ledwith has researched two unexplained topics covered in the film, Planet Serpo and the Bermuda Triangle. On Monday he will discuss Planet Serpo, 39 light years from Earth, and explain the exchange program footage that appears in “Close Encounters.”

The program will also include a discussion with researcher Len Kasten, author of “Secret Journey to Planet Serpo — A True Story of Interplanetary Travel.”

The program, open to all ages, runs from 7 to 9 p.m on Monday, Nov. 6. Tickets are $10 general, $5 youth. 276 E. Napa St. 938.4626. Svbo.org.

UFO lecture series lands in Sonoma

DAVID TEMPLETON
INDEX-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER | October 13, 2016

“Be amongst the first 50 earthlings to learn the truth!”

Jim Ledwith, aka “UFO Jim,” Sonoma’s resident promoter of up-to-the-minute extraterrestrial information, is returning to the Sonoma Community Center this October with his annual Fall UFO Lecture series.

The above quote, from the website of the Sonoma Community Center, where the two-part series will take place, shines a strange bright light on Ledwith’s planned Monday, Oct. 24 talk, titled simply, “Roswell.”

As promised, attendance is indeed limited to just 50 earthlings. Presumably that’s not because of any government effort to keep the information under wraps, so much as the fact that the maximum occupancy of the room means that space is at a premium.

Opening the series, on Monday, Oct. 17, is a sequel, of sorts.

Titled “Hollywood & UFOs II,” a follow up to last year’s well-received exploration of movies and extraterrestrial story-telling, the talk is designed to disclose what Ledwith will argue is a careful campaign of disclosure on the part of certain Hollywood filmmakers. Looking at notable UFO-themed documentaries, in addition to feature films (expect at least a glimpse of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”), Ledwith will ask attendees to question how much these films have shifted public perspectives toward gradual acceptance of the possibility of UFOs.

The series continues the following week with “Roswell,” during which Ledwith will screen evidence of what he calls “the multiple layers of cover-up” regarding the site, in New Mexico, where many believe an alien spacecraft crashed in 1947, sparking a massive campaign of government subterfuge that continues to this day.

Email David at david.templeton@sonomanews.com.

Crop circles, animal abductions discussed at Sonoma Community Center

SOURCE: Sonoma Index-Tribune
STAFF REPORT | October 20, 2013

Jim Ledwith, better known as “UFO Jim”, has been a ufologist for more than 45 years, researching UFOs and extraterrestrials, which he compiles on his website, ufosRreal.com.

He will host two lectures at the Sonoma Community Center on his work, including “Animal Abductions” on Tuesday, Oct. 22; and “Crop Circles” on Tuesday, Oct. 29, with both set for 7 to 9 p.m.

Ledwith’s investigative work includes interviews with retired military and defense industry personnel. His research encompasses England’s crop circles, Area 51, Roswell, UFO conferences and on-going literature and Internet fact-finding. For nearly 10 years, he has been teaching his UFO classes through adult education, Rotary Clubs and other organizations both domestically and internationally. He also brought the genre to the Sonoma International Film Festival, which was the first film festival to show documentaries of this subject matter.

On Oct. 22, Ledwith will discuss the phenomenon of animal abductions. Since 1967, more than 10,000 have occurred on private ranches and farms, he said. Ledwith will talk about the significance of this mysterious act, and will show actual footage of a bovine abduction, along with substantiating FBI files and US statistics of these strange harvests.

Linda Moulton Howe, a graduate of Stanford University with a master’s degree in communication, will join Ledwith in conversation via Skype. She has devoted her documentary film, television and radio career to productions concerning science, medicine and the environment. Howe has received local, national and international awards, including three regional Emmys and a national Emmy nomination. Her films have included “Poison in the Wind” and “A Sun Kissed Poison,” which compared smog pollution in Los Angeles and Denver; “Fire in the Water” about hydrogen as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels; “A Radioactive Water” about uranium contamination of public drinking water in a Denver suburb; and “A Strange Harvest,” which explored the worldwide animal mutilation mystery which has haunted the United States and other countries for decades.

Howe has also received honors as a medical producer in Boston’s WCVB Peabody Award; earned the Aviation and Space Writers Association’s award for “Writing Excellence in Television” and Sigma Delta Chi “Excellence in Journalism” award and a Golden Plaque from the Chicago Film Festival.

Then on Oct. 29, Ledwith will give the lecture “Crop Circles Update.” Early crop circles were simply that – circles, he said. Since the late ’80s, crop circles have exhibited complex geometric shapes.

Scientific evidence shows intense “ball of light” orbs are used in the creation of these intricate designs. Ledwith will speak in-depth about the Wickham Green circle along with an update on new crop circles.

The lectures are fun and informative, and all proceeds benefit the Sonoma Community Center. Adult tickets are $10 each; kids 8 to 17 are $5 each (parental discretion is advised for the “Animal Abduction” lecture). Tickets are available at the door, online at sonomacommunitycenter.org, or by phone at 938-4626, ext. 1.

The Sonoma Community Center is located at 276 E. Napa St., and lectures will be held in room 110.