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<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE: memberaction_dropdown --> gstetphan wrote of Roswell: "It is time to put this story to bed. . . ." Amen to that. I say adieu, adieu to this particular thread. See you elsewhere on the forums. S. Saladin

For an interesting yet bleak analysis of the probable future of the space program, one can read pages 229-39 of Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott's Time Travel in Einstein's Universe. After noting that "The goal of the human spaceflight program should be to increase our survival...

Here are Jesse Marcel's own words as quoted in a pro-ET Roswell book, proving that he said the famous photo was not a staged photograph: "Just after we got to Carswell, Fort Worth, we were told to bring some of this stuff up to the general’s office - that he wanted to take a look at it...

Jesse Marcel was of course only one of many behind the Roswell story, but he was the first, and his shifting stories and unreliability are paradigmatic of subsequent "witnesses." I do not find it odd that there was a press release in 1947 about a crashed disc being retrieved. This is precisely...

My assessment agrees with what most experts have observed, that is, that the illustrations seem to treat of subjects related to the general field of herbal science in the medieval period. At that time fields such as cosmology were felt to be associated with herbal science. In other words, I...

The Redfern interview was superb in my opinion. Also in my opinion, Nick Redfern and Greg Bishop are the most insightful of the newer generation of researchers of the UFO phenomenon. It would be wonderful to have them both on the Paracast more often. Dr. Sami Saladin Pisa, Italy

Dear blowfish, Thank you for sharing your perspective; I truly appreciate it. It is only that my perspective differs. Major Marcel was of course an officer and a gentleman, but the historical record is undeniable, based on Marcel's own words, that he made exaggerated and untrue claims about his...

Bravo to Mr Biedny and Mr Steinberg for their latest show! Mr. Sapalio actually sounded more circumspect towards the end of the show about his ET assumptions. I think the civilized manner the two hosts used in confronting him with counter-arguments was quite productive. I definitely enjoyed the...

Since the time I worked on a rare collection of medieval manuscripts and books collected by William Newbold, an early 20th century scholar who tried to decipher the Voynich manuscript, I have been intrigued by the mysterious document. My considered opinion is that the book is an example of...

Dear bobheck, Thank you for your comments, which I enjoyed very much. I feel the same as you, because I suspect it all must have meaning, a profound meaning indeed, "and that may be a clue to the truth behind it." I hadn't thought about it in just that way before, but it strikes a deep chord...

"I doubt anyone on this Forum would argue with your views concerning the cults surrounding Greer and the Exopoliticians." That's one of the reasons I like the Paracast so much. I agree, it's the gold standard of paranormal podcasts. S. Saladin

Jacques Vallee reminds us that in his Passport to Magonia that in Robert Kirk's book The Secret Commonwealth, written in 1691, we are assured that "sooner than we think . . . the relations with the aerial beings" (then thought of as faeries and the like) would be revealed to us to the point that...

I have raised the subject of dolphins as an intelligent species with self-reflective awareness in the on-going thread elsewhere on the forums in a debate on whether ET life would look like us humans, that is, generally humanoid. Such a concept for me seems somewhat arrogant, as does the...

Dear Trajanus, I can agree to disagree with you in peace. The fact is that it is only one opinion among others in science that "either a different world is earthlike or there's no evolution, so similar outcomes seem reasonable." Depending on which scientist you ask, you'd get different...

Dear AdamI, I think you are wise to point out that "We really don't know how convergent evolution could be on an entirely different planet." Evolution requires so many components, many of which would seem to be unrepeateable on account of the central role of chance. As I mentioned on another...