The Cote Photo: Investigating One of History's Most Mysterious UFO Images

In 1971, a Costa Rican government mapping aircraft captured one of the most mysterious UFO photographs in history. Known as Frame 300, the image reveals a strange, disc-shaped object over Lake Cote that nobody aboard the aircraft reported seeing.

More than five decades later, the mystery remains.

Filmmakers Megan Woomer and Adam Pillon join Dr. Tim Mounce on All Things Unexplained to discuss their documentary The Cote Photo: Frame 300, the extraordinary history behind the photograph, the evidence, eyewitness accounts, and the unanswered questions surrounding one of ufology's most intriguing images.

What really appeared over Lake Cote?

EPISODE CHAPTERS
0:00 Audio only version – check out our YouTube channel
0:24 Preview
0:50 Intro by @mindforked17 (check out her channel, she is amazing)
2:03 Megan and Adam
2:19 Commercial
3:07 Meet the filmmakers
12:23 The Trailer
14:21 What happened that day...September 4th, 1971?
57:23 Hot Takes
57:33 Alien Abductions
1:00:22 Costa Rican coffee
1:01:32 Bigfoot
1:04:35 Pizza
1:06:04 Listener questions
1:11:36 What's next for Megan and Adam?
1:12:47 The mystery of it all
1:14:08 What stayed with them?
1:14:35 Super serious question
1:15:23 Final thoughts
1:15:45 What do Megan and Adam think it is?
1:16:14 Signing off
1:16:51 Outro by @mindforked17 (check out her channel, she is amazing)
1:18:05 Sub and comment to win!
1:18:34 Post-credit scenes

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EXTENDED INTRO/OUTRO CREDIT
Akashi from @mindforked17 (check out her channel, she is amazing)

MUSIC CREDITS  
ATU music is sourced via the YouTube Audio Library.
Asian Drums - Vadodara by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100396
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Creators and Guests

Dr. Tim Mounce
Host
Dr. Tim Mounce
⚡️#718 #beastgames @mrbeast ⚡️Best-selling author. Narrator @audible_com. Host @atunexplained. ☕️ addict. 🛸 researcher.
Megan Woomer & Adam Pillon
Guest
Megan Woomer & Adam Pillon
Their first feature film is The Cote Photo. Adam Pillon and Megan Woomer are a husband-and-wife filmmaking team based in Detroit.
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