Desert Oracle

05/15/2026

Coming this Aug. 14-15 in Pioneertown, it's the SPACE CRAFT festival w/ Steve Roach, Tangerine Dream & two nights of DESERT ORACLE. https://www.spacecraftjoshuatree.com/

05/12/2026

If you love flying saucers, maybe you’ve been following the release of a bunch more government UFO files. E.T. isn't in there, signing a treaty with F.D.R,but it's a very interesting window on the 80-year-old American UFO era. PLUS: A tale from Death Valley, told at our recent Campfire Stories event in Joshua Tree. Listen to the podcast now, or on the radio in Joshua Tree on Friday nights at 10, KCDZ 107.7 FM. https://www.desertoracle.com/episode-262-the-new-ufo-files/

04/22/2026

New episode for this windy windy night in the desert. 💨

Tonight’s episode features a previously secret recording of Campfire Stories from years gone by, plus an examination of the so-called “Mosquito Hawk” (or Skeeter Eater), which doe…

04/09/2026

Dear friends, next month (May 2026) we will be doing three Campfire Stories events in Joshua Tree. Strange & scary desert tales outside under the stars (and UFOs). Herb Benham IV will be playing some cowboy songs by the fire & your radio host Ken Layne will be spinning stories. Tickets on sale now. https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/desertoracle/desert-oracle-campfire-stories-242577523

04/04/2026

New episode tonight on the podcast, and a different new episode on the radio at 10PM, Z107.7 FM in Joshua Tree/29 Palms/Pioneertown. It's about Artemis & the Goldstone Deep Space Network base just beyond Death Valley.

We still live in the Time of Ancient Gods. At this very moment, in memory of a mission named for the god Apollo, astronauts of the Artemis mission are aboard the Orion spaceship, headed for La Luna…

03/29/2026

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03/27/2026

New episode tonight on Z107.7 FM in the High Desert, from Amboy to Zzyzx. Or listen to the podcast, if you're out of range.

What’s going on with all these meteors & fireballs in the dark skies above? Where did Elvis Presley see a big UFO hovering over the Mojave Desert? And what drives so many people to the p…

03/07/2026

New episode on the radio tonight @ 10PM, Z107.7 FM in the High Desert. Fresh from the windy old desert at the start of wild spring. You never know what kind of characters might be coming through. Barbarian Franks from the 7th Century, Monkey Wrench Gangs, US Marines on the move, even trampolines from a backyard half a mile away.

It’s the magical time when the cold winter desert becomes an Eden of Wildflowers, as we luxuriate in the the spring warmth of the Sun & the birds are all delirious. Just like that, way up…

02/12/2026

In the Mojave foothills.

02/12/2026

The Los Angeles Times names “Six Essential Desert Reads” and Desert Oracle Vol. 1 is #3, after Mary Hunter Austin's “Land of Little Rain” and Ed Abbey's “Desert Solitaire.” 🦉 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2026-02-11/six-best-desert-southwest-books