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Your Paracast Newsletter — March 1, 2015


Gene Steinberg

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THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
March 1, 2015
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Rendlesham UFO Witness Finally Receives VA Coverage for His Injuries

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This Week's Episode: This week we’re joined by guest cohost Goggs Mackay. Our three guests discuss a significant victory in the efforts to John Burroughs to receive medical disability coverage for the injuries he claims to have suffered in connection with the 1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO case. We’re also joined by former UK Ministry of Defence official and UFO author Nick Pope, a co-author with Burroughs of “Encounter in Rendlesham Forest,” and J. Patrick Frascogna, the attorney who helped Burroughs achieve his victory with the U.S. Veterans Administration. This episode also covers the UK’s Project Condign UAP (UFO) report, and some of the side issues that have arisen about the Rendlesham case.

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Nick Pope’s Site: Nick Pope

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Resurrecting a Dead Story
By Gene Steinberg

There’s an unfortunate phenomenon in the political world, where someone shown to be lying, at least according to fact checkers, continues to lie. A dose of truth has no effect whatsoever. The usual tactic is to claim that the people exposing the lies are merely serving the interests of the other party, whatever that is, or the so-called mainstream media.

A similar phenomenon plays out in the online world, where people sometimes want to start flamewars, online arguments, often on the basis of a lie. I once had a quick exchange with one of these people who treated it as a game: “I flame you, you flame me.”

Only to me, it wasn’t a game. It was about fact versus fiction. Differing opinions were never the issue. This sort of behavior has only expanded as the online world has become more diverse with social networks and endless blogging.

In the world of paranormal research, you hope that it’s about facts and evidence, not someone’s agenda in the search for glory and profit. There’s nothing wrong about being paid for one’s labors, but if that profit comes from deceiving people, that’s another story entirely.

So over the years, some outright hoaxes have been exposed again and again. Unfortunately, the perpetrators of those hoaxes will usually ignore the evidence of blatant fakery and just go about their business. Well, maybe they’ll pause to collect their thoughts, or until the furor dies down, and they are back at it all over again.

One of the former Paracast guest cohosts once compared a certain story about an alleged UFO crash as similar to the Dracula legend. You put a stake into it to kill the story, but it isn’t long before it returns, as if the act of removing the stake brought the dead back to life.

The statement reminds me of a 1945 horror movie from Universal, “House of Dracula.” In one of the better scenes of that boilerplate movie, Boris Karloff, playing a mad doctor, removes the stake from the corpse of Count Dracula, lying in a coffin. Within seconds, the skeletal remains of the “prince of darkness” undergoes a metamorphosis and turns into the living vampire, there portrayed by John Carradine.

Oh well, it was a fun movie even if it fell apart from any standpoint of logic.

The point is that you just can’t kill a good story regardless of the truth. The example cited by our former cohost was the Aztec, NM UFO crash, which allegedly occurred in 1948. Even though evidence that such an event occurred doesn’t really extend far behind the original claim, made to the late author and gossip columnist Frank Scully, which was delivered by two alleged conmen.

Yes, I realize supporters of Aztec can make a case that those two individuals were somehow railroaded by the criminal justice system. But if you take them out of the equation, does the story about a UFO crash sustain itself? That’s a difficult argument to make, and the evidence, to my way of thinking, is flimsy.

But whatever you do to bury this story and focus on other crashes that might have more evidence to support them, such as the 1947 Roswell, NM incident, it returns as if there’s still a mysterious event to be explored.

I’ll give the existing Aztec supporters their due, however. They appear to be totally sincere, and not trying to earn money by promoting false claims. Maybe there is evidence still to be found that will validate the crash report, but after all these years, it’s hard to believe there are smoking guns ripe for the picking.

But what about outright fakery? Well, the contact claims from Billy Meier, as a key example, have been exposed again and again. The photos he’s produced to support his stories about being in touch with ET have been shown to be pathetic fakes. But Meier’s supporters continue to maintain that his claims are true.

The situation is hardly different with some other UFO contactees over the years. In the 1950s, there were compelling exposes of George Adamski, who may be regarded as the grandfather of the UFO contactee movement. His alleged flying saucer photos were pathetic fakes. After all these years, this case would seem to be a curiosity from the past, but a few years ago, one of our guests on The Paracast, Timothy Good, a respected author of UFO books, continued to maintain Adamski’s claims were true. There are others who hold similar points of view.

It just won’t go away.

Now to be charitable, I suppose it’s quite possible some of these contactees had one or more genuine experiences early on. Ordinary people, hardly noticed by anyone except perhaps for friends and family, they basked in the attention of people who hung on their every word. But when such experiences weren’t repeated, they simply made up new encounters, gradually building upon the original claims with even more sensational stories.

It didn’t matter if the new claims were exposed as fanciful. Facts didn’t matter. And even if they had truly confronted the unknown at some point in their lives, the lies destroyed their credibility.

Unfortunately, when the media makes that all-too-rare effort to run a story about UFOs, they often seize upon the most sensational claims as fodder for sarcasm and silly jokes. The recent International UFO Congress near Phoenix had a fair amount of media present. One story from the Arizona Republic was even reprinted in USA Today, a Gannett newspaper that happens to be the second largest daily in the country.

If you read that report, though, you'd think it was all about people who thought they’d been abducted by aliens seeking support and treatment for their horrendous experiences. That most of the presentations had nothing to do with abductions didn’t matter. The main photo that accompanied the piece depicted a display of alleged implants removed from people who reported abduction experiences.

Presentations that focused on incredible UFO sightings witnessed by seasoned observers didn’t matter. To this ill-informed reporter, it was all about abductions.

Unfortunately, correcting false press accounts rarely works. At best it merits a tiny correction buried away in the back of a paper or in an obscure place on the publication’s site. The original story, true or otherwise, can never just rest in peace.

LLAP: When the late actor and Renaissance man Leonard Nimoy, known to most people as the half-human/half-alien Spock from “Star Trek,” signed his tweets, it was almost always “LLAP,” for Live Long and Prosper. This was the common greeting voiced by the Vulcans in those famous TV shows and movies.

Well, Nimoy died this past week, at the age of 83, from a chronic lung ailment. He thus joins two other members of the legendary crew of Starship Enterprise, James Doohan, Scotty, and DeForest Kelley, Dr. McCoy. As the surviving crew of the original series slims, I wish those who remain with us Peace and Long Life.

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