California has a spirit that is hard to explain until you’ve been away from it long enough to feel the difference. I returned to my home state in the middle of one of the most demanding transitions of my adult life. This commentary is what came to me.
We lost Nick Pope on April 6th, 2026. He was 60 years old — a British civil servant who spent 21 years at the UK Ministry of Defense, including three years as its sole UFO investigator. In February 2026, he announced a Stage 4 esophageal cancer diagnosis, acknowledged he could not beat it, and kept working and giving interviews until the end. He was known worldwide for his intellectual honesty, his restraint, and his willingness to say publicly what others in the field would not. The ufology community has lost an irreplaceable voice.
We also recently lost David Wilcock — author of The Source Field Investigations, The Synchronicity Key, The Ascension Mysteries, and other works. I speak about his passing honestly and without pretense.
I share what I have been discovering behind the scenes of this broadcast, some new facets of my professional work now available to you, and explain two things I just added to both my websites that every creator, podcaster, and business owner needs to understand right now: llms.txt files and heading hierarchy — and why the people who move on these in 2026 will be positioned ahead of 99% of their competition when AI assistants field recommendations in their field.
This one is personal. Enjoy the audio.
It’s Rainmaking Time! has explored Ufology and UAP research in depth over more than two decades. For those who want to go deeper into the archive, past episodes include conversations with nuclear physicist and Ufologist Stanton Friedman, investigative journalist Leslie Kean, Men in Black researcher and author Nick Redfern, Betty Hill abduction researcher Kathleen Marden, aviation pioneer John Lear, and Billy Meier representative Michael Horn. These episodes remain available in the archive at itsrainmakingtime.ch.
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