Charlton (Chuck) Hall, PhD is a retired psychotherapist and author. He has been engaged in research into psychotherapy and psychology for most of his professional life and has had a lifelong interest in paranormal topics after having his own encounters with the paranormal growing up on a farm in rural South Carolina.

He calls himself a “hopeful skeptic” in that he has had personal experiences he can’t explain easily, but also draws a distinction between what he would like to believe and what he can demonstrate to the skeptical scientific community to be factual. He focuses on the difference between making the claim that paranormal events do not exist, and withholding personal judgment until convincing evidence is presented.

Belief exists on a spectrum. We all have different criteria for what constitutes convincing evidence and Chuck tries to take this into consideration as well in his studies and in his writing.

Charlton Hall’s presentation on his latest book, Tin Foil Aliens, recounts his adventures in the 1970s creating UFO pranks and hoaxes - so he knows from personal experience how easy it is to fool some of the people all the time. He'll share his perspective on his hopeful skepticism and how to evaluate paranormal evidence by looking at all the evidence on both sides of a phenomenon before making a decision.

Steve Edmiston is a business and entertainment lawyer with Bracepoint Law, and an indie film screenwriter and producer. Edmiston has keynoted for the Pacific Northwest History Conference, Washington State Historical Museum, McMenamins History Pubs, and numerous film festivals, conferences, and business groups. He is currently speaking through 2025 about Northwest’s UFO history around Washington State as an appointee to the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau. Steve was the screenwriter and co-producer of “The Maury Island Incident,” a short film chronicling the true story of Harold Dahl and his alleged 1947 sighting of a UFO over Puget Sound.

Steve is also co-founder of the infamous “Burning Saucer,” a private, secretive festival celebrating the Maury Island Incident, and the “Men in Black Birthday Bash” (MIBBB Fest), a new, three-day regional festival celebrating Washington’s 1947 Men in Black origin story. 

Edmiston lives in Des Moines.

Sponsored by Humanities Washington

On August 1, 1947, the tragic crash of a B-25 bomber in Washington State triggered an FBI investigation of “The Maury Island Incident”—an infamous Northwest UFO sighting, and history’s first alleged encounter with the so-called “Men in Black.”

The FBI’s records from 1947, which were sealed for decades, reveal Cold War fears, jurisdictional disputes, cover-ups, false confessions, a courageous FBI Special Agent, and the hands-on involvement of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Relying on the FBI records, Steve’s talk exposes a Washington story that shapes our current UFO narratives, from 1950’s pulp magazines to the ubiquitous X-Files and Men in Black film franchises.

Kevin M. Day is a 21 year Navy veteran. Serving his entire career in San Diego and Hawaii, he completed 8 Western Pacific Deployments and visited many of the countries that touch the sea between the West Coast of the United States and the Middle East. Day retired from active duty in November of 2007.

Day is a witness to the now famous NIMITZ TIC-TAC UFO encounter that happened in November 2004 off the coast of San Diego, California.

On November 14, 2004 – Navy pilots from the USS Nimitz spotted a UFO while on a training mission off the coast of San Diego, California. The sighting, now famously known as the “Tic-Tac UFO”, is one of the most universally heralded UFO sightings in the modern era. In the past few years, it has become the avatar of the “Disclosure” movement.

As a witness to this historic event, Kevin Day will be presenting eye witness accounts along with radar observations and various explanations to try to unravel the truth behind this era-defining moment.

Connie Willis has been one of the most enthusiastic guest hosts on COAST TO COAST AM since 2014, and is a professional national radio/television broadcaster of 25 years.

Connie has a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Kentucky and is a Certified Advance Controlled Remote Viewer taught under the direction of Lyn Buchanan, one of the military's top 'Psychic Spies' from the top-secret program, Project Stargate, and Lori Williams.

Also known as Chef Connie, she is also a graduate of the CIA, Culinary Institute of America/Greystone! Yes, an educated foodie!

Connie is a serious student of high strangeness, due to having her own experiences since the early age of three and still researching today. These experiences left her with strong desires to find the truth of those phenomena. As a woman, her perspective is as much emotional as it is factual, which goes hand in hand. She has interviewed many people in her life and is best

known for going into the field of all types of strange anomalies, to experience it for herself, then to connect the dots.

As a guest host of the legendary Coast To Coast AM, Connie has been involved in countless discussions on UFOs and high strangeness. Join her at McFiler's Chehalis Theater as she shares her views on "UFO Disclosure" in what is sure to be a thought provoking event!