A Steve Cote production
Short episodes. Real sources. No filler.
UFOs, the paranormal, and the cases that never quite closed. Alex Sloane reads the declassified files so you don't have to — and on Friday nights, Jack Sterling turns down the lights for Strange Skies After Dark: legends, cryptids, ghost stories, and the things that follow you home.
Hear the trailer Show trailer · 2:15
The regular show · Hosted by Alex Sloane
Short episodes on UFO cases and the declassified record: what's really in the Pentagon's files, minus the hype and the headlines — plus haunted places, strange legends, and stories from the edge of what we know. Not a believer. Not a debunker. Just someone who reads the file before she believes the headline.
Friday nights · Hosted by Jack Sterling
Longer stories, slower, darker. Legends, cryptids, and ghost stories — the things people only tell when the lights go out — plus special radio dramas in the tradition of the golden age of radio, with a full cast, sound effects, and music.
The regular show digs into UFO cases and the declassified record; every Friday night, After Dark goes longer and darker.
October 4th, 1967. A seventeen-year-old named Laurie Wickens is driving his friends home from a dance through the little fishing village of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, when four lights appear in the sky — and go down into the water. The Mounties come. The Coast Guard comes. Navy divers go down. What they find is a wide patch of strange yellow foam — and nothing else. No wreckage. No bodies. No oil. It became the best-documented UFO case in Canadian history, and fifty-nine years later, the water still hasn't given it back.
Does a paper trail with no wreckage make this case stronger for you, or just more unfinished?
Sunday night, November 8th, the President of the United States sat down on 60 Minutes — and the interviewer asked him about UFOs. What did he actually say, what did he not say, and why does it matter? Plus: whistleblower Jake Barber moves into Congress, and a former Pentagon UFO chief says the answers were stripped out.
Twenty years ago tonight, a silent disc hovered over Gate C-17 at Chicago's O'Hare Airport — in front of a dozen United Airlines employees — then shot straight up and punched a hole through the clouds. The FAA called it weather. A 154-page NARCAP investigation disagreed. Plus: tonight is also the 36th anniversary of the Montreal sighting from Episode 1. Two anniversaries, one date.
Newly released Pentagon files detail UAP sightings off Catalina Island from 1949 to 1955 — and one researcher says disclosure won't come from the sky, but from under the ocean. Plus: tonight marks 36 years since the Montreal sighting and 20 years since O'Hare.
September 12th, 1952. A bright light crosses the sky over West Virginia, and seven people climb a hill in Flatwoods with one flashlight to see where it came down. What they meet in the mist is a tall figure with shining eyes and a hooded face — and it sends them running for their lives. The Air Force called it a meteor. An investigator fifty years later called it a barn owl. The town of Flatwoods kept the monster anyway.
If you'd been on that hill with one flashlight, would you have kept climbing?
Point Pleasant, West Virginia. November 15th, 1966. Four young people driving home through the abandoned TNT area meet something standing in the road — seven feet tall, wings folded against its back, eyes glowing red. Thirteen months later, the Silver Bridge falls. Jack Sterling tells the legend, then a full-cast radio drama, told the way it deserves to be told. The bridge scene stays respectful: forty-six people died that evening, and the story treats them that way.
Sixty years on — was the Mothman a warning, or just a bird that got too big for the story?
A short briefing of everything strange in the skies, in under three minutes. The first edition will look at the White House quietly in the UFO business, the midterms flipping both chambers of Congress, and researcher Mark Christopher Lee's argument that the real disclosure may come from the ocean, not the sky.
Coming soonEvery Friday night
This Friday: The Mothman: 60th Anniversary Special. Jack Sterling tells the legend, then a full-cast radio drama.
Follow free so every Friday night lands in your library the moment it drops.
A sister show · Hosted by Alex Sloane
Unsolved cases from around the world.
Weird unsolved true crime, told with a quiet, respectful horror. Alex Sloane takes one case at a time — the files that never closed, the names we still don't know. New episodes weekly.
First case: the Isdal Woman — Norway, 1970.
Hear the trailer Show trailer · 1:34
Two shows, a sister show coming November 29, and the man behind all of them. Alex investigates the record. Jack keeps the stories. Steve built the studio they live in.
Strange Skies · the regular show
"I'm Alex Sloane. And the skies are strange indeed. Keep looking up."
She's the calm voice in the dark — curious, dry-witted, and allergic to hype. She digs through declassified files, witness reports, and the cases that never quite closed, chasing the paper trail behind the phenomenon. Her happy place is an archive; her fuel is coffee, black, late. Starting November 29, she also hosts Strange Crimes.
Strange Skies After Dark · Friday nights
"This is Strange Skies After Dark. I'm Jack Sterling. Friday nights belong to the dark: legends, cryptids, ghost stories, and the things that follow you home."
He's the voice you hear after midnight — slow, low, and unhurried, like a man who's in no rush because the dark isn't going anywhere. He collects the stories people only tell when the lights go out. He doesn't argue with the dark. He sits with it, and he tells you what it said.
The producer · Behind the console
"Alex and Jack got the AI treatment — so I joined them."
Creator & producer, ex-paranormal investigator, sky-watcher. He's the one at the console putting it all together — LA cap on, coffee nearby, still looking up. The UFO footage his audience knows him for? He shot it himself. Follow along at Instagram @stevecote1974.
How the show is made: Alex Sloane and Jack Sterling are AI-voiced hosts. Steve Cote is the real person behind Strange Skies — he creates and produces every episode.
Got a story? Seen something in the sky you can't explain? Write to us — your story could be our next episode. The show retells cases in its own words, with attribution. The best stories start with a witness.
Follow Strange Skies on Spotify and Apple Podcasts — following is free. Listening on Apple Podcasts? Please tap ★★★★★ and leave a short review telling us which case kept you looking up. It helps new listeners find the show more than anything else.