THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
February 24, 2013
Explore the Amazing Mysteries of the Star People on The Paracast
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Why It's Important for You to Donate to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough to pay your humble hosts decent wages. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able to help fill the gap, if you can, to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch and utility bills. No contribution is too small (or too large
. It’s easy to send a donation. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com. And if you’ve had a problem getting to our Donate screen, please try again. We just fixed a serious PayPal access problem, and it should work properly now.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, author of "Encounters with Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians," who is "a noted American Indian researcher [who] offers up a collection of intimate narratives of encounters between contemporary American Indians and the Star People. The first-person accounts, described as conscious experiences and recalled without hypnosis, reveal a worldview that unquestionably accepts the reality of the Star People."
Chris O'Brien's Site: Our Strange Planet
Ardy Sixkiller Clarke's Site: Ardy Sixkiller Clarke
Coming March 3: Gene and Chris present TV producer John Greenewald, Jr., founder of The Black Vault, who has scanned hundreds of thousands of documents he retrieved via the Freedom of Information Act, which cover UFOs, the Kennedy assassination and a number of other controversies and conspiracies. He'll also answer questions from our listeners.
Chris O'Brien's Site: Our Strange Planet
The Black Vault: The Black Vault
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. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Of Government Coverups and What-Not
By Gene Steinberg
It has long been a theme in the UFO field that the governments of Earth are fully aware that those strange ships in the sky are really visitors from other planets. That guilty knowledge has allegedly been hidden from the public at large for over 60 years.
But you can take the conspiracy theory yet further with the possibility that governments have actual proof, perhaps in the form of recovered spaceships, or even the beings who flew such craft to our world. Whether the aliens are living or dead depends on the version of the story that you hear.
Yes, there are even alleged whistleblowers, who claim to have some sort of guilty knowledge of our interactions with alien visitors. When you add it all up, however, there are lots of things that are being alleged, but none of it can be proven.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t stop some people from taking the unfounded speculation, assuming it’s all true, and demanding that the governments disclose what they knew. We can handle it, they say, even though actual proof of alien visitations, not to mention direct interaction with said aliens, could present frightening consequences to our civilization. Maybe you and I can handle it, but what about the energy industry if it was revealed that we might have access to technology that could put them out of business. Well, unless they can exploit that technology and earn even larger profits.
Indeed, one theory about alleged UFO secrecy has it that the so-called military/industrial complex is responsible for keeping the truth from us. They would have to be forced, kicking and screaming, into permitting disclosure. Since they help put our elected officials in office with their huge campaign contributions and other political and financial influences, the chance that, say, the U.S. government will reveal the truth is little to none.
Even assuming all this was true, just how can governments and industrialists be persuaded to tell us what they know? Does a petition help? Well, one group dedicated to disclosure tried that and it got shuffled off to a low-level White House bureaucrat who delivered the standard excuse that the government had no evidence that UFOs were extraterrestrial. So they had nothing to disclose.
No doubt a larger, more targeted petition would yield similar results. But why assume that governments know what’s really going on?
For a secret of this sort to be kept, it would have to be passed from elected representative to elected representative, from appointed official to appointed official, throughout the military chain of command and so forth and so on. Consider how the U.S. government makeup has changed over these decades, and imagine how things have fared in other countries where major upheavals are the norm.
Indeed, even if there had been interactions with aliens, why would it be restricted to the U.S.?
But there are other conspiracy theories, such as a secret society of some sort directing the actions and interplay among governments for reasons best known to themselves. If this is correct, petitions and electing new government officials won’t do a thing. It’s all out of our control.
Or maybe none of these theories are true.
What if governments simply haven’t a clue what UFOs are about, and are afraid to reveal that terrible truth because it would mean we cannot be defended in the event of an attack? What if they came to believe ET was evil, and that they could, eventually, decide to take us over? Would they reveal that evidence -- or belief -- and cause worldwide panic? Or would they keep such fears, proven or not, a secret until they could devise what they hope would be a workable defense?
So if they don’t know what’s going on, it’s far easier to simply sweep it all under the rug with convenient denials and disinformation. Just tell the people that nothing important is really going on, that people who believe in UFOs are just mistaken, or imagining things. Keep repeating such lies and, eventually, all those UFO buffs will just go away, or choose a different hobby.
Perhaps the persistent denials of UFO reality are having an effect, although it’s gradual. Polls taken of Americans up through the 1990s indicated that about half of them believed UFOs were real. The implicit explanation was, of course, that they were extraterrestrial. A more recent poll, commissioned by the producers of the National Geographic reality series, “Chasing UFOs,” pegged the number of believers as closer to one third. In other words, a substantial number of people in the U.S. no longer believe in the reality of UFOs. While a third is still an extremely high percentage of the populace, it may be that regular denials, and the lack of a “smoking gun” proving the source and motives behind the presence of UFOs in our airspace, has been more than sufficient to erode the belief system.
At the end of the day, it may never be possible to prove what UFOs are, even if they are physical aircraft from the stars. Speculate all you want, but even the best evidence we have only indicates an unknown phenomenon, not a final answer.
Or maybe the UFOs are somehow here to guide us all to an uncertain future. Maybe we aren’t meant to know the answers, but to think about them and their implications, and allow ourselves to be taken to places we haven’t dreamed of.
The Paracast Copyright 1999-2013 Making The Impossible, Inc. 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!
February 24, 2013
Explore the Amazing Mysteries of the Star People on The Paracast
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Why It's Important for You to Donate to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough to pay your humble hosts decent wages. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able to help fill the gap, if you can, to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch and utility bills. No contribution is too small (or too large
. It’s easy to send a donation. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com. And if you’ve had a problem getting to our Donate screen, please try again. We just fixed a serious PayPal access problem, and it should work properly now.Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, author of "Encounters with Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians," who is "a noted American Indian researcher [who] offers up a collection of intimate narratives of encounters between contemporary American Indians and the Star People. The first-person accounts, described as conscious experiences and recalled without hypnosis, reveal a worldview that unquestionably accepts the reality of the Star People."
Chris O'Brien's Site: Our Strange Planet
Ardy Sixkiller Clarke's Site: Ardy Sixkiller Clarke
Coming March 3: Gene and Chris present TV producer John Greenewald, Jr., founder of The Black Vault, who has scanned hundreds of thousands of documents he retrieved via the Freedom of Information Act, which cover UFOs, the Kennedy assassination and a number of other controversies and conspiracies. He'll also answer questions from our listeners.
Chris O'Brien's Site: Our Strange Planet
The Black Vault: The Black Vault
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. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Of Government Coverups and What-Not
By Gene Steinberg
It has long been a theme in the UFO field that the governments of Earth are fully aware that those strange ships in the sky are really visitors from other planets. That guilty knowledge has allegedly been hidden from the public at large for over 60 years.
But you can take the conspiracy theory yet further with the possibility that governments have actual proof, perhaps in the form of recovered spaceships, or even the beings who flew such craft to our world. Whether the aliens are living or dead depends on the version of the story that you hear.
Yes, there are even alleged whistleblowers, who claim to have some sort of guilty knowledge of our interactions with alien visitors. When you add it all up, however, there are lots of things that are being alleged, but none of it can be proven.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t stop some people from taking the unfounded speculation, assuming it’s all true, and demanding that the governments disclose what they knew. We can handle it, they say, even though actual proof of alien visitations, not to mention direct interaction with said aliens, could present frightening consequences to our civilization. Maybe you and I can handle it, but what about the energy industry if it was revealed that we might have access to technology that could put them out of business. Well, unless they can exploit that technology and earn even larger profits.
Indeed, one theory about alleged UFO secrecy has it that the so-called military/industrial complex is responsible for keeping the truth from us. They would have to be forced, kicking and screaming, into permitting disclosure. Since they help put our elected officials in office with their huge campaign contributions and other political and financial influences, the chance that, say, the U.S. government will reveal the truth is little to none.
Even assuming all this was true, just how can governments and industrialists be persuaded to tell us what they know? Does a petition help? Well, one group dedicated to disclosure tried that and it got shuffled off to a low-level White House bureaucrat who delivered the standard excuse that the government had no evidence that UFOs were extraterrestrial. So they had nothing to disclose.
No doubt a larger, more targeted petition would yield similar results. But why assume that governments know what’s really going on?
For a secret of this sort to be kept, it would have to be passed from elected representative to elected representative, from appointed official to appointed official, throughout the military chain of command and so forth and so on. Consider how the U.S. government makeup has changed over these decades, and imagine how things have fared in other countries where major upheavals are the norm.
Indeed, even if there had been interactions with aliens, why would it be restricted to the U.S.?
But there are other conspiracy theories, such as a secret society of some sort directing the actions and interplay among governments for reasons best known to themselves. If this is correct, petitions and electing new government officials won’t do a thing. It’s all out of our control.
Or maybe none of these theories are true.
What if governments simply haven’t a clue what UFOs are about, and are afraid to reveal that terrible truth because it would mean we cannot be defended in the event of an attack? What if they came to believe ET was evil, and that they could, eventually, decide to take us over? Would they reveal that evidence -- or belief -- and cause worldwide panic? Or would they keep such fears, proven or not, a secret until they could devise what they hope would be a workable defense?
So if they don’t know what’s going on, it’s far easier to simply sweep it all under the rug with convenient denials and disinformation. Just tell the people that nothing important is really going on, that people who believe in UFOs are just mistaken, or imagining things. Keep repeating such lies and, eventually, all those UFO buffs will just go away, or choose a different hobby.
Perhaps the persistent denials of UFO reality are having an effect, although it’s gradual. Polls taken of Americans up through the 1990s indicated that about half of them believed UFOs were real. The implicit explanation was, of course, that they were extraterrestrial. A more recent poll, commissioned by the producers of the National Geographic reality series, “Chasing UFOs,” pegged the number of believers as closer to one third. In other words, a substantial number of people in the U.S. no longer believe in the reality of UFOs. While a third is still an extremely high percentage of the populace, it may be that regular denials, and the lack of a “smoking gun” proving the source and motives behind the presence of UFOs in our airspace, has been more than sufficient to erode the belief system.
At the end of the day, it may never be possible to prove what UFOs are, even if they are physical aircraft from the stars. Speculate all you want, but even the best evidence we have only indicates an unknown phenomenon, not a final answer.
Or maybe the UFOs are somehow here to guide us all to an uncertain future. Maybe we aren’t meant to know the answers, but to think about them and their implications, and allow ourselves to be taken to places we haven’t dreamed of.
The Paracast Copyright 1999-2013 Making The Impossible, Inc. 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!
