The Paracast Newsletter
December 3, 2023
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A Very Special UFO Roundtable Featuring Cohosts Curt Collins and Tim Swartz Covers Loads of UFO and Pop Culture Topics on The Paracast
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
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This Week's Episode: We feature a special UFO Roundtable, featuring cohosts Curt Collins and Tim Swartz. The list of topics includes UFO research updates, the influence of pop culture on the phenomenon, faulty memories of reported UFO crashes such as Roswell, and remembrances of the late Tim Beckley, known to some as "Mr. UFO." Curt is the author behind Blue Blurry Lines, a website focused on the UFO mystery, as well as its legends and hoaxes. After a career in retail management Curt began writing about UFOs, with a special interest in re-investigating the paradoxical 1980 Texas Cash-Landrum case.More recently, he launched The Saucers That Time Forgot with Claude Falkstrom, focused on unearthing “tales that UFO history has overlooked, or would rather forget.” Tim is an Indiana native and Emmy-Award winning television producer/videographer. He is also the author of a number of popular books including "The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla," "America's Strange and Supernatural History," and "Time Travel: Fact Not Fiction!"
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on December 3: In Part II of a special UFO Roundtable, cohosts Curt Collins and Tim Swartz discuss the "UFO Puppeteers," a number of people who continue to show up as participants in UFO research, UFOs and rock 'n roll, the possibilities that the sightings are caused by craft from a breakaway civilization (Cryptoterrestrials), and possible demonic influences. Curt is the author behind Blue Blurry Lines, a website focused on the UFO mystery, as well as its legends and hoaxes. He is also responsible for The Saucers That Time Forgot with Claude Falkstrom, focused on unearthing “tales that UFO history has overlooked, or would rather forget.” Tim is an Indiana native and Emmy-Award winning television producer/videographer. He worked with Tim "Mr. UFO" Beckley for a number of years, and is the author of a number of popular books including "The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla," "America's Strange and Supernatural History," and "Time Travel: Fact Not Fiction!"
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop.
UFO Disclosure As Comfort Food
By Gene Steinberg
Sometimes I wonder whether people who believe the governments of Earth — or at least some of them — know the UFO secret are being lazy. By assuming the answers are already known, it means there’s no point in doing any further investigation to figure out what’s really going on.
So what to do if there’s no need to investigate anything?
Well, I suppose evangelizing is number one on the agenda. Go around and tell people about the best sightings, your belief in alien visitors, and that the Silence Group within the government must tell us the truth. They owe it to us. Demand it!
As I’ve said before — and I’ll say it again — there’s nothing new about clamoring, or begging, for UFO disclosure. It goes back to the early days of the modern UFO era, particularly in the pages of the best-selling books by Major Donald E. Keyhoe.
A few years after his first books hit the store shelves, he took over as director of a floundering UFO club, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). In their newsletter, UFO Investigator, he explained that it was his goal to put NICAP out of business by achieving hearings on the matter by the U.S. Congress. He naively believed they’d find the truth, and he and believers around the world would be vindicated.
Not through any efforts on his part, but those long-sought hearings were held in 1966. They were spearheaded by a Michigan Congressman, Gerald R. Ford. Yes, the same gentleman who was later appointed Vice President, and assumed the role of President when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.
Those hearings led to the formation of the Condon Committee, where the conclusions were predetermined. If you read the summary, you’d believe there was nothing at all to the phenomenon, that it was high time for the Air Force to shutter Project Blue Book. If you read the rest of the report, you would probably come to the conclusion that something strange was really going on.
All this, however, put the kibosh on hopes for UFO disclosure in the 1960s. With the firing of Major Keyhoe from NICAP in 1969 due to financial and managerial irregularities, it appeared to be a death knell for hopes of finding out some sorely-needed answers to what was going on.
In any case, whatever caused UFOs to appear clearly had its own agenda. The sightings continued, with a peak reached in 1973, the year of the Pascagoula abduction.
When The Paracast debuted in 2006, there were active movements urging UFO disclosure. The promise was the same, that they had the inside goods on efforts to convince the U.S. government to bare all and tell us that ET was at hand.
It would happen any year now, they said.
But as the years passed, there was little or no progress in doing what Major Keyhoe and even hearings by a Congressional committee failed to accomplish decades ago.
Hopes for a true revelation improved in 2017 with articles from The New York Times revealing a secret Pentagon UFO study early in the century, where some $22 million — a paltry amount by government standards — was earmarked for the study.
Over the following years, such projects started and stopped, names were changed to confuse the innocent, hearings were held. But it’s not as if much was resolved. All right, the current venture, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, better known as AARO (AARO Home) launched a web site to receive military sightings. Those hearings in Congress failed to reveal much beyond some new sightings and the promise of further scientific research.
Well at least that was an improvement, but the Pentagon continued to assert that there was no evidence that UAPs were extraterrestrial in origin. Unfortunately, the media, who took down such statements mostly as stenographers, didn’t bother to ask the key question: Just what sort of evidence would AARO require to accept the possibility of off world visitors?
I presume you could just guess, that it would require physical evidence of some sort, a genuine spaceship or fragment of some wreckage, or the bodies of beings who were not of this Earth.
There is hope, however. More and more scientists have publicly called for a more intense investigation of the phenomenon. Efforts to set up networks of so-called UFO detectors have also gained steam.
So there is the Unidentified Flying Object Data Acquisition Project (UFODAP at UFODAP), which has been set up to expand a network of sensors to record the presence of such phenomena. It’s the brainchild of people familiar to listeners of The Paracast, such as our former cohost, Christopher O’Brien, along with Ronald Olch (a former guest).
Chris brings to the table his own venture, the UFO Camera Project, which he has touted and expanded for a number of years. The first installation was set up at “UFO Watchtower,” which is located near Hooper, CO in the San Luis Valley. As covered in his “Mysterious Valley” books, that locale has long been regarded as a hotbed of paranormal activities.
The long and short is that Chris and his colleagues are not sitting still in the hopes that some government agency somewhere will disclose anything at all. They are doing the hard work to get the sort of data scientists will need to continue their investigations.
Bottom line: Do the governments of Earth really have evidence of what the UFOs are? Possibly, although such claims from so-called whistleblowers over the years haven’t been verified. It’s all-so-intriguing but not much else.
If you have a conspiratorial bent, of course, it’s possible these alleged secrets are themselves disinformation. It may even be possible that these agencies really don’t know anything significant about the phenomenon. The compartmentalization of military bodies may work against progress, because it inhibits assembling and collating data from different sources to reach a conclusion.
Indeed, admitting they don’t have the answers may not rest well with people who have claimed for years that a Silence Group exists to protect the UFO secret. Maybe there is no UFO secret beyond the inability to understand what’s really going.
If history is a guide, waiting for disclosure may be futile because it will not — indeed cannot — happen. That would be true even if a secret of some sort were known, even if that secret presented no danger to humanity.
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December 3, 2023
www.theparacast.com
A Very Special UFO Roundtable Featuring Cohosts Curt Collins and Tim Swartz Covers Loads of UFO and Pop Culture Topics on The Paracast
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED UP FOR THE PARACAST+ YET? PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARACAST+ SO YOU CAN SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY THE ULTIMATE PARACAST EXPERIENCE AT A SPECIAL LOW PRICE! We have another radio show and we’d love for you listen to it. So for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to an exclusive bonus podcast, After The Paracast, plus an enhanced version of The Paracast with the network ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Flash! Take advantage of our lowest rates ever! Act now! It's easier than ever to susbcribe! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: We feature a special UFO Roundtable, featuring cohosts Curt Collins and Tim Swartz. The list of topics includes UFO research updates, the influence of pop culture on the phenomenon, faulty memories of reported UFO crashes such as Roswell, and remembrances of the late Tim Beckley, known to some as "Mr. UFO." Curt is the author behind Blue Blurry Lines, a website focused on the UFO mystery, as well as its legends and hoaxes. After a career in retail management Curt began writing about UFOs, with a special interest in re-investigating the paradoxical 1980 Texas Cash-Landrum case.More recently, he launched The Saucers That Time Forgot with Claude Falkstrom, focused on unearthing “tales that UFO history has overlooked, or would rather forget.” Tim is an Indiana native and Emmy-Award winning television producer/videographer. He is also the author of a number of popular books including "The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla," "America's Strange and Supernatural History," and "Time Travel: Fact Not Fiction!"
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on December 3: In Part II of a special UFO Roundtable, cohosts Curt Collins and Tim Swartz discuss the "UFO Puppeteers," a number of people who continue to show up as participants in UFO research, UFOs and rock 'n roll, the possibilities that the sightings are caused by craft from a breakaway civilization (Cryptoterrestrials), and possible demonic influences. Curt is the author behind Blue Blurry Lines, a website focused on the UFO mystery, as well as its legends and hoaxes. He is also responsible for The Saucers That Time Forgot with Claude Falkstrom, focused on unearthing “tales that UFO history has overlooked, or would rather forget.” Tim is an Indiana native and Emmy-Award winning television producer/videographer. He worked with Tim "Mr. UFO" Beckley for a number of years, and is the author of a number of popular books including "The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla," "America's Strange and Supernatural History," and "Time Travel: Fact Not Fiction!"
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop.
UFO Disclosure As Comfort Food
By Gene Steinberg
Sometimes I wonder whether people who believe the governments of Earth — or at least some of them — know the UFO secret are being lazy. By assuming the answers are already known, it means there’s no point in doing any further investigation to figure out what’s really going on.
So what to do if there’s no need to investigate anything?
Well, I suppose evangelizing is number one on the agenda. Go around and tell people about the best sightings, your belief in alien visitors, and that the Silence Group within the government must tell us the truth. They owe it to us. Demand it!
As I’ve said before — and I’ll say it again — there’s nothing new about clamoring, or begging, for UFO disclosure. It goes back to the early days of the modern UFO era, particularly in the pages of the best-selling books by Major Donald E. Keyhoe.
A few years after his first books hit the store shelves, he took over as director of a floundering UFO club, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). In their newsletter, UFO Investigator, he explained that it was his goal to put NICAP out of business by achieving hearings on the matter by the U.S. Congress. He naively believed they’d find the truth, and he and believers around the world would be vindicated.
Not through any efforts on his part, but those long-sought hearings were held in 1966. They were spearheaded by a Michigan Congressman, Gerald R. Ford. Yes, the same gentleman who was later appointed Vice President, and assumed the role of President when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974.
Those hearings led to the formation of the Condon Committee, where the conclusions were predetermined. If you read the summary, you’d believe there was nothing at all to the phenomenon, that it was high time for the Air Force to shutter Project Blue Book. If you read the rest of the report, you would probably come to the conclusion that something strange was really going on.
All this, however, put the kibosh on hopes for UFO disclosure in the 1960s. With the firing of Major Keyhoe from NICAP in 1969 due to financial and managerial irregularities, it appeared to be a death knell for hopes of finding out some sorely-needed answers to what was going on.
In any case, whatever caused UFOs to appear clearly had its own agenda. The sightings continued, with a peak reached in 1973, the year of the Pascagoula abduction.
When The Paracast debuted in 2006, there were active movements urging UFO disclosure. The promise was the same, that they had the inside goods on efforts to convince the U.S. government to bare all and tell us that ET was at hand.
It would happen any year now, they said.
But as the years passed, there was little or no progress in doing what Major Keyhoe and even hearings by a Congressional committee failed to accomplish decades ago.
Hopes for a true revelation improved in 2017 with articles from The New York Times revealing a secret Pentagon UFO study early in the century, where some $22 million — a paltry amount by government standards — was earmarked for the study.
Over the following years, such projects started and stopped, names were changed to confuse the innocent, hearings were held. But it’s not as if much was resolved. All right, the current venture, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, better known as AARO (AARO Home) launched a web site to receive military sightings. Those hearings in Congress failed to reveal much beyond some new sightings and the promise of further scientific research.
Well at least that was an improvement, but the Pentagon continued to assert that there was no evidence that UAPs were extraterrestrial in origin. Unfortunately, the media, who took down such statements mostly as stenographers, didn’t bother to ask the key question: Just what sort of evidence would AARO require to accept the possibility of off world visitors?
I presume you could just guess, that it would require physical evidence of some sort, a genuine spaceship or fragment of some wreckage, or the bodies of beings who were not of this Earth.
There is hope, however. More and more scientists have publicly called for a more intense investigation of the phenomenon. Efforts to set up networks of so-called UFO detectors have also gained steam.
So there is the Unidentified Flying Object Data Acquisition Project (UFODAP at UFODAP), which has been set up to expand a network of sensors to record the presence of such phenomena. It’s the brainchild of people familiar to listeners of The Paracast, such as our former cohost, Christopher O’Brien, along with Ronald Olch (a former guest).
Chris brings to the table his own venture, the UFO Camera Project, which he has touted and expanded for a number of years. The first installation was set up at “UFO Watchtower,” which is located near Hooper, CO in the San Luis Valley. As covered in his “Mysterious Valley” books, that locale has long been regarded as a hotbed of paranormal activities.
The long and short is that Chris and his colleagues are not sitting still in the hopes that some government agency somewhere will disclose anything at all. They are doing the hard work to get the sort of data scientists will need to continue their investigations.
Bottom line: Do the governments of Earth really have evidence of what the UFOs are? Possibly, although such claims from so-called whistleblowers over the years haven’t been verified. It’s all-so-intriguing but not much else.
If you have a conspiratorial bent, of course, it’s possible these alleged secrets are themselves disinformation. It may even be possible that these agencies really don’t know anything significant about the phenomenon. The compartmentalization of military bodies may work against progress, because it inhibits assembling and collating data from different sources to reach a conclusion.
Indeed, admitting they don’t have the answers may not rest well with people who have claimed for years that a Silence Group exists to protect the UFO secret. Maybe there is no UFO secret beyond the inability to understand what’s really going.
If history is a guide, waiting for disclosure may be futile because it will not — indeed cannot — happen. That would be true even if a secret of some sort were known, even if that secret presented no danger to humanity.
Copyright 1999-2023 The Paracast Company. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy: Your personal information is safe with us. We will positively never give out your name and/or e-mail address to anybody else, and that's a promise!