Close Encounter Club

Close Encounter Club
Podcast Description
Real people. True stories. Unexplained experiences. Close Encounter Club, hosted by Justin Gearheart, invites you to explore UFO sightings, alien encounters, and paranormal phenomena through captivating firsthand accounts that will challenge your perception of reality. This isn’t just a podcast—it’s a place for curious minds to connect and delve into the mysteries of our world and beyond.
Ready to uncover the stories that defy explanation? Tune in and join the club!
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on a range of intriguing topics, including reincarnation, consciousness, alien abductions, unexplained events, and historical mysteries, with episodes such as The Rising exploring past lives and the interconnectedness of souls, and The New Jersey Drones discussing military insights into unidentified aerial phenomena.

Real people. True stories. Unexplained encounters — and experts to help us make sense of it all.
Hosted by Justin Gearheart, Close Encounter Club dives into UFO sightings, alien encounters, and paranormal phenomena through firsthand accounts that challenge your sense of reality.
What happens when a lifelong skeptic, a science communicator, and an astrophysicist sees something in the sky he can’t explain?
In this episode, we step back from the eerie and the unexplainable… and zoom all the way out.
To galaxies, black holes, and the limits of what we think we know.
We talk with Ethan Siegel about the moment that shook his worldview—and what it really means to stay grounded in science while keeping your mind open to the unknown.
Whether you’re here for the mystery or the math… this one will rewire your brain.
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