Jimmy Church is an American broadcaster who hosts Fade to Black, a live late-night interview program about UFOs, lost civilizations, conspiracy theories and the paranormal. He is also one of the rotating weekend hosts of Coast to Coast AM, the syndicated overnight show distributed by Premiere Networks. His place in the UFO record is as an interviewer: for more than a decade his program has given long blocks of airtime to researchers, experiencers and figures in the disclosure debate.

According to his published biography, Church started in the music business, producing bands in Hollywood during the 1980s while reading about UFOs and the paranormal. Coast to Coast AM's host page describes him as an internet radio pioneer who launched a sports-talk show, The Revolution, in 2008, and says he appeared in the second season of Hangar 1: The UFO Files on H2. He hosted the 2017 television series Breaking Mysterious. Fade to Black marked its seventh anniversary in December 2020 and passed 2,360 episodes in October 2026, airing live Monday through Thursday and distributed as a podcast.

The show became a regular stop for the post-2017 disclosure movement. Luis Elizondo, the former Pentagon official associated with AATIP, appeared several times between February 2021 and February 2022, and Ross Coulthart came on to discuss his book In Plain Sight in July 2021. The historian Richard Dolan has been a recurring guest, appearing more than 20 times since January 2021, including episodes on the 2023 David Grusch whistleblower claims, the U.S. government's UFO file releases of 2026 and, that August, the latest whistleblower developments.

A Fade to Black interview produced one of 2026's more widely shared UFO claims. The experiencer Chris Bledsoe, author of UFO of God, told Church he had heard rumors from insiders that something was heading toward Earth with an arrival time of late 2026 or early 2027, using the word "armada." Bledsoe said he could not confirm the information and did not want to spread fear, but clips of the exchange circulated on social media in February and again in August.

Church's booking choices have also drawn criticism. In October 2026 the researcher Joe Murgia recirculated his notes on Elizondo's February 2022 appearance, in which Elizondo said he wanted to "obliterate ufology as we know it" in favor of more scientific work. Murgia used the post to fault Church for repeatedly hosting Corey Goode, David Wilcock and Emery Smith, whose claims he rejects, because they drew ratings. Through Fade to Black and his Coast to Coast AM shifts, Church has carried the open-ended, multi-hour conversation of overnight AM radio into the podcast era, with UFOs and disclosure at its center.