Campbellton UFO with Franky Corcoran

January 2, 2026·38 min·3 clips

Frankie guesses the 1989 Campbellton UFO was disc-shaped, but learns it was triangular and commemorated on a glow-in-the-dark coin.

1. Static Radio's Mondo Freako podcast interviews Franky Corcoran, host of Corcoran Entertainment from New Brunswick, Canada, about the 1989 Campbellton UFO sighting. 2. Franky Corcoran runs Corcoran Entertainment, available on Instagram and Facebook at @CorcoranEntertainment, and Bob describes him as consistently booking high-profile guests on his own show. 3. The episode's central question is whether the Campbellton sighting — and UFO reports broadly — represent genuine unexplained phenomena or systematic misidentification. 4. Bob runs a five-question multiple choice quiz about the 1989 sighting; Franky opts to go in cold without hearing the topic first. 5. Franky scores 1 out of 5: he misses the year (1989 vs. his guess of 1979), the landmark (Sugarloaf Mountain vs. his guess of Mount Carlton), the craft shape (triangular vs. his guess of disc), and the mint commemoration (a $20 silver glow-in-the-dark coin vs. his guess of a postage stamp), but correctly identifies the RCMP as the reporting agency. 6. In November 1989, two sisters on Van Holm Crescent in Campbellton, New Brunswick reported three large triangular craft hovering silently over Sugarloaf Mountain before accelerating and vanishing. 7. The RCMP officially logged the event as an unexplained sighting; NORAD confirmed there were no known rocket launches or military exercises in the area at the time. 8. The Royal Canadian Mint issued a $20 silver glow-in-the-dark coin in 2021 as part of its 'Canada's Unexplained Phenomena Series,' currently priced at $100.12 USD on mint.ca. 9. Franky's position is that witnesses genuinely believed what they saw, but the sightings likely represent misidentification — a 'grizzly bear mistaken for a dog' analogy he uses to describe the gap between what was seen and what it actually was. 10. Franky's grandmother, now 92, personally ran from a bear she initially thought was a neighborhood chocolate lab, which directly inspired the analogy he used. 11. Bob counters by revealing his own UFO sighting from approximately May 5, 2005 in broad daylight: a shiny metal sphere roughly four times the diameter of a 747 nose cone crossed from southwest to northwest in approximately 30 seconds while he watched with his young children. 12. Bob says no camera was available in 2005 and even if he had his cell phone the quality would have been unusable; his children were too young to notice and kept swinging. 13. Bob says the 2005 sighting moved him from full skepticism to genuine uncertainty, but he does not claim the sphere was extraterrestrial — only that it was unlike anything he has seen before or since. 14. Bob argues that the Campbellton sighting gains credibility from two corroborating witnesses plus official acknowledgment, compared to his own single-witness experience. 15. Bob draws a contrast between US and Canadian government transparency, citing the Tuskegee syphilis study (in which participants were deliberately infected) and a documented case of the US government releasing a bacterial agent over San Francisco and denying it for 50 years. 16. Bob argues the US government has a documented pattern of scapegoating anomalous-event witnesses, while Canada appears not to have a comparable history of systematically discrediting its own citizens. 17. Franky acknowledges he is not well-versed in Canadian historical parallels but agrees the RCMP's handling of the Campbellton case seems more transparent than typical US UFO reporting. 18. The conversation is interview-plus-quiz in format, casual and exploratory, with genuine disagreement about the nature of UFO sightings handled respectfully. 19. Listeners interested in Canadian paranormal history, government credibility on UAP disclosures, and first-person UFO accounts will find this episode substantive. 20. Listeners expecting in-depth investigation, expert witnesses, or documentary-quality production will find the format too conversational.

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A skeptical UFO story with enough banter to keep it moving.

The episode keeps the UFO segment loose and conversational, starting with New Year small talk and bitter Canadian cold before settling into a skeptical back-and-forth about what people thought they saw in Campbellton, New Brunswick in 1989 over Sugarloaf Mountain.

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