This probably fits in this thread as well as any. I want to address a few things I've read here over the weekend, on some closely related topics. As far as podcasts and good websites to visit for news of the "paranormal" as it is commonly known, well, I used to trawl teh innternets daily for new reports and anything else that popped up, with dozens of links stored in well organized folders within Firefox, before they fucked that process all up. Really it was great, and now they keep fooling with it, fixing one thing and breaking another. But I digress.
When Captain Sully "landed" his dead airplane in the Hudson with no loss of life, it was at a time when Amurricah desperately needed some indication that we could still do awesome things. It was an inspiring event on many levels. How did the posters on the forums I visited react? Way too many of them instantly began contriving conspiracy theories about how it was a hoax designed to distract us from the real news, which of course was all bad. That was some of the more sensible crap that sprung up like mushrooms. Suddenly it dawned on me that I was wasting my time hanging around with dumbasses and lunatics. I deleted well over half the links I had stored, and ignored most of the "paranormal" news and discussions on the web. Should have done it years earlier. By now, there are a handful of sites I visit with any regularity, and much of what I find there is just tedious. There are some great people posting intelligent things here, but still I ignore the vast majority of the threads for various reasons. Mostly it just doesn't interest me.
The San Luis Valley is an amazing part of the world for many reasons. Chris O'Brien's first two books are not to be missed if you have any interest in the valley or the sorts of things reported to have happened there. The first widely known animal mutilation case happened there around fifty years ago. It's known as a "paranormal hotspot" mostly because of O'Brien's work, but this "spot" covers about 8,000 square miles. That's bigger than some states, particularly in terms of land area (not including bodies of water).
I have never lived in the valley, but I have owned property there, spent a fair amount of time working and visiting there, and have friends who live there. There are some truly magical places to explore and camp in. If you want to meet some real backwoods characters, rural Colorado style, you just have to be physically present for a short time. I love it there, but have no desire to live there. I've seen a few things that definitely seemed odd, but have never seen a "UFO" in my travels and time there. Most of the people there who have even mentioned the subject to me have what I consider a healthy attitude about it. Generally they smile, shrug, and say well maybe, I don't know. It's not like you are likely to see something weird on your first day there, or encounter kooks who think Billy Meier is cool. I'm sure there are some, but the area has a wide variety of people, if not huge numbers of them. There are hard-bitten old ranchers still living and working there, potato farmers, lots of retirees, flaky white dudes in dreadlocks (mostly from Boulder), professionals on sabbatical, studying under their favorite guru, random seekers-after-the-truth who thought they just needed to get there and Nirvana would ensue. Those generally last a few months before hitchhiking out of the valley with all their worldly possessions in their backpacks. If the desert will kill you if you give it half a chance, and it will, then the SLV will show you what you are really made of if you move there.
Internet service in the SLV, and in the Crestone area in particular, is spotty at best. Cell phone service is very hit and miss. Usually there is one carrier that can give useful service, and it varies. Until about a year ago, it was Verizon that worked most of the time there, but they stopped renting bandwidth and left lots of customers high and dry, stuck with contracts and useless phones. Assholes. AT&T works passably well there at the moment. Like a lot of Coloradans, I keep two phones going on different carriers. That will get you coverage on most days in most places but still with huge holes. Sprint works sometimes, depending on cloud cover, wind direction, humidity and of course one's specific location. As far as I can tell, T Mobile is useless there. Even where I live (a thriving metropolis by comparison), it's a bad idea to try to watch something on Netflix around the time school is out. Internet service can be non-existent for days or even weeks in rural Colorado just because of a forest fire a hundred miles away. I am not at all surprised that finding bandwidth is an issue for the UAP project, which by the way I think is quite an achievement. It's easy to take a cynical and curmudgeonly attitude about what it might ever show us, but it's still impressive. It would be impressive anywhere, but to get it working in that part of the world really is remarkable. We're talking about a part of the world where it can take a week or more to get in contact with a roofing contractor, who might just blow you off and not show up at all.
A whole book on a single topic like that has vastly more information and context than can found on any number of websites. I think of it as a difference in "depth of field".