THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
May 29, 2016
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Stanton T. Friedman and Traditional UFO Research Featured on The Paracast
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This Week's Episode: He’s back. The dean of UFO researchers, Stanton T. Friedman, returns to The Paracast to discuss the full range of UFO-related issues, including the latest on Roswell, recent sightings, abductions and more. He’ll be asked how the key Roswell evidence has stood the test of time, whether there’s a compelling case for the Aztec UFO crash, and if the best UFO cases occurred decades ago, that more recent sightings may not as compelling in terms of evidence. Friedman is one of the key researchers into the Roswell crash and other events over the years, and has posited a strong case that the phenomenon is the result of extraterrestrials visiting Earth.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Stanton Freidman’s Site: Stanton Friedman - Physicist, Lecturer, UFO Researcher
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on May 29: [PG-13]: Gene and Chris briefly visit areas where Stanton T. Friedman sidestepped important questions about Roswell, such as whether the elite military on the scene took proper radiation readings of the crashed disk. What about the possibility of alien microbes? But Chris soon begs off Roswell, saying he’s just sick and tired of it. Chris proceeds to list some of his favorite cases over the yeas, which include the UFO landing at Socorro, New Mexico in 1964 that he regards as a cornerstone case. The discussion moves to the problems getting accurate coverage of the UFO in the so-called mainstream media. Chris also offers some hard-won hints and tips about doing a proper skywatch in search of UFOs and how to spot genuine unknowns, such as objects that engage in “non-ballistic” motion, such as pinpoint turns.
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.
Are UFOs Making You Grumpy?
By Gene Steinberg
In response to last week’s episode of The Paracast, where we interviewed long-time researcher Kevin D. Randle, one of our listeners remarked that my co-host, Chris O’Brien, seemed to be somewhat grumpy.
Chris admits to that feeling, largely as the result of endless frustrations in trying to get a handle on the UFO phenomenon. Ever since the late 1940s, people have been looking into the mystery. Early on, it was felt they must be from other planets, because they appeared to exhibit flight capabilities beyond that of Earthly aircraft. Add to that recurring reports of possible alien creatures seen in and around some UFOs, and the theory appeared to be a lock.
What else could they be?
After all these years, though, it often seems as if researchers can’t get past first base. The same old UFO cases are discussed and debated over and over again. It doesn’t help that some of these sightings, particularly the Roswell crash, have become modern legends and myths.
So the story goes that Roswell involved the crash of a spaceship, and that its alien crew, perhaps dead or dying, was taken along with the wreckage to a secret military facility for examination. The story mostly ends there. There has been speculation of where. So could it have been Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio? What about the always-mysterious Area 51 near Las Vegas? Both have become the stuff of sci-fi fare. In the 1996 movie blockbuster, “Independence Day,” much of the key third act occurs at a fictional version of Area 51, where the wreckage of the Roswell spaceship is being examined, and its evil crew are being kept in airtight containers.
Indeed, over the years, it has become difficult to separate fact from fiction, and it’s not improbable to conclude that at least some of the original Roswell witnesses were influenced, or contaminated, by popular culture. That appears to explain why Randle has become more skeptical about the case.
At the same time, when you speak to one of the original Roswell researchers, researcher/lecturer Stanton T. Friedman, it doesn’t seem as if much has changed. His account of Roswell appears to have barely changed over the years. But I’ll leave it to the reader to decide whether Friedman is perhaps too stuck in the past when he talks about his favorite cases.
But even if you set Roswell aside, and I’ve long given very little credence to what is supposed to be a similar case, in Aztec, New Mexico, there are loads of compelling sightings that aren’t easily explained.
True, what science has learned over the years has made it easier to dismiss reports with a conventional explanation. That’s a good thing, because it gives researchers more time to focus on the cases that remain unexplained.
While it’s true that the number of unsolved cases is in the single digits, what’s left presents a huge mystery. Skeptics might prefer to believe that, with a little more information, most of them can be solved too, but it hasn’t quite worked out that way.
Indeed, it would seem that science is on our side. Every few months there are news reports about the discovery of additional exosolar planets. These are worlds that orbit star systems light years distant, some of which may harbor conditions that are conducive to life.
From there, it’s easy to speculate on the possibilities. Perhaps there are millions or billions of planets in our galaxy that might harbor life. Some of that life might have evolved and built advanced civilizations that are capable of space travel. If you allow that some of these advanced civilizations are hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us — and maybe even older — it’s not a huge stretch to expect that they might be visiting Earth from time to time.
So there you have it! Since there might be aliens who travel through space, it’s inevitable they’d come across our corner of the galaxy and discover planet Earth. How could it be otherwise?
Some suggest that ET’s presence may go back thousands of years, thus accounting for the theory of ancient astronauts. So perhaps advanced beings visited and interacted with humans. Some of the tales told in the Bible and other religious texts might not refer to the presence of divine beings, but creatures from outer space.
Before I go on, that doesn’t necessarily mean there is no God, or any sort of Supreme Being. But if aliens are among us, it would be interesting to learn about their religious beliefs, if they have any.
But are aliens truly here, or are we assuming a little too much?
Despite claims of interactions with advanced aliens, and don’t forget all those so-called UFO abductions, there is no smoking gun. At the same time, people are still seeing strange things in the sky, and having encounters, sometimes extremely frightening, with strange visitors.
Where are they from? If not outer space, is there some location here on Earth that might harbor an intelligent species that is not human? What about the speculation about so-called “breakaway civilizations,” where bands of humans, for reasons best known to themselves, chose to remove themselves from our civilization.
Certainly UFOs appear to be a terrestrial phenomenon, even though they are seen to travel in the skies. While there have been reports of astronauts seeing strange objects in space, that doesn’t necessarily demonstrate an extraterrestrial origin.
We can speculate about space visitors, and about the strong possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. But it’s still speculation, since we don’t know enough about any exosolar planet to demonstrate that it is inhabited, and that its inhabitants are capable of interstellar travel.
Except for a few anomalies, our main effort to detect possible intelligent radio signals from space, SETI, has yet to deliver a successful result. But if ET is here, wouldn’t they communicate with some sort of radio system? Perhaps they shield or scramble their transmissions so we cannot receive them. If that’s the case, we couldn’t detect their presence anyway, except when their craft are seen. Even then, they may not care if we see them or not.
But the fact that UFOs seem to be largely an Earth-based phenomenon shouldn’t be ignored. After all these years, none of the suggested solutions can be proven beyond the shadow of a doubt. It may be convenient to believe that Earth governments know the truth, if we could only persuade them to reveal what they know. But that’s dropping the ball. They may know little more than the rest of us. Unfortunately, UFO research hasn’t progressed very much beyond that.
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May 29, 2016
www.theparacast.com
Stanton T. Friedman and Traditional UFO Research Featured 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.
SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY A PREMIUM PARACAST EXPERIENCE! 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 After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, and chat rooms when you sign up for The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes, and we've launched The Paracast+ Video Channel. Check out our new “Lifetime” membership! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: He’s back. The dean of UFO researchers, Stanton T. Friedman, returns to The Paracast to discuss the full range of UFO-related issues, including the latest on Roswell, recent sightings, abductions and more. He’ll be asked how the key Roswell evidence has stood the test of time, whether there’s a compelling case for the Aztec UFO crash, and if the best UFO cases occurred decades ago, that more recent sightings may not as compelling in terms of evidence. Friedman is one of the key researchers into the Roswell crash and other events over the years, and has posited a strong case that the phenomenon is the result of extraterrestrials visiting Earth.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Stanton Freidman’s Site: Stanton Friedman - Physicist, Lecturer, UFO Researcher
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on May 29: [PG-13]: Gene and Chris briefly visit areas where Stanton T. Friedman sidestepped important questions about Roswell, such as whether the elite military on the scene took proper radiation readings of the crashed disk. What about the possibility of alien microbes? But Chris soon begs off Roswell, saying he’s just sick and tired of it. Chris proceeds to list some of his favorite cases over the yeas, which include the UFO landing at Socorro, New Mexico in 1964 that he regards as a cornerstone case. The discussion moves to the problems getting accurate coverage of the UFO in the so-called mainstream media. Chris also offers some hard-won hints and tips about doing a proper skywatch in search of UFOs and how to spot genuine unknowns, such as objects that engage in “non-ballistic” motion, such as pinpoint turns.
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.
Are UFOs Making You Grumpy?
By Gene Steinberg
In response to last week’s episode of The Paracast, where we interviewed long-time researcher Kevin D. Randle, one of our listeners remarked that my co-host, Chris O’Brien, seemed to be somewhat grumpy.
Chris admits to that feeling, largely as the result of endless frustrations in trying to get a handle on the UFO phenomenon. Ever since the late 1940s, people have been looking into the mystery. Early on, it was felt they must be from other planets, because they appeared to exhibit flight capabilities beyond that of Earthly aircraft. Add to that recurring reports of possible alien creatures seen in and around some UFOs, and the theory appeared to be a lock.
What else could they be?
After all these years, though, it often seems as if researchers can’t get past first base. The same old UFO cases are discussed and debated over and over again. It doesn’t help that some of these sightings, particularly the Roswell crash, have become modern legends and myths.
So the story goes that Roswell involved the crash of a spaceship, and that its alien crew, perhaps dead or dying, was taken along with the wreckage to a secret military facility for examination. The story mostly ends there. There has been speculation of where. So could it have been Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio? What about the always-mysterious Area 51 near Las Vegas? Both have become the stuff of sci-fi fare. In the 1996 movie blockbuster, “Independence Day,” much of the key third act occurs at a fictional version of Area 51, where the wreckage of the Roswell spaceship is being examined, and its evil crew are being kept in airtight containers.
Indeed, over the years, it has become difficult to separate fact from fiction, and it’s not improbable to conclude that at least some of the original Roswell witnesses were influenced, or contaminated, by popular culture. That appears to explain why Randle has become more skeptical about the case.
At the same time, when you speak to one of the original Roswell researchers, researcher/lecturer Stanton T. Friedman, it doesn’t seem as if much has changed. His account of Roswell appears to have barely changed over the years. But I’ll leave it to the reader to decide whether Friedman is perhaps too stuck in the past when he talks about his favorite cases.
But even if you set Roswell aside, and I’ve long given very little credence to what is supposed to be a similar case, in Aztec, New Mexico, there are loads of compelling sightings that aren’t easily explained.
True, what science has learned over the years has made it easier to dismiss reports with a conventional explanation. That’s a good thing, because it gives researchers more time to focus on the cases that remain unexplained.
While it’s true that the number of unsolved cases is in the single digits, what’s left presents a huge mystery. Skeptics might prefer to believe that, with a little more information, most of them can be solved too, but it hasn’t quite worked out that way.
Indeed, it would seem that science is on our side. Every few months there are news reports about the discovery of additional exosolar planets. These are worlds that orbit star systems light years distant, some of which may harbor conditions that are conducive to life.
From there, it’s easy to speculate on the possibilities. Perhaps there are millions or billions of planets in our galaxy that might harbor life. Some of that life might have evolved and built advanced civilizations that are capable of space travel. If you allow that some of these advanced civilizations are hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us — and maybe even older — it’s not a huge stretch to expect that they might be visiting Earth from time to time.
So there you have it! Since there might be aliens who travel through space, it’s inevitable they’d come across our corner of the galaxy and discover planet Earth. How could it be otherwise?
Some suggest that ET’s presence may go back thousands of years, thus accounting for the theory of ancient astronauts. So perhaps advanced beings visited and interacted with humans. Some of the tales told in the Bible and other religious texts might not refer to the presence of divine beings, but creatures from outer space.
Before I go on, that doesn’t necessarily mean there is no God, or any sort of Supreme Being. But if aliens are among us, it would be interesting to learn about their religious beliefs, if they have any.
But are aliens truly here, or are we assuming a little too much?
Despite claims of interactions with advanced aliens, and don’t forget all those so-called UFO abductions, there is no smoking gun. At the same time, people are still seeing strange things in the sky, and having encounters, sometimes extremely frightening, with strange visitors.
Where are they from? If not outer space, is there some location here on Earth that might harbor an intelligent species that is not human? What about the speculation about so-called “breakaway civilizations,” where bands of humans, for reasons best known to themselves, chose to remove themselves from our civilization.
Certainly UFOs appear to be a terrestrial phenomenon, even though they are seen to travel in the skies. While there have been reports of astronauts seeing strange objects in space, that doesn’t necessarily demonstrate an extraterrestrial origin.
We can speculate about space visitors, and about the strong possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. But it’s still speculation, since we don’t know enough about any exosolar planet to demonstrate that it is inhabited, and that its inhabitants are capable of interstellar travel.
Except for a few anomalies, our main effort to detect possible intelligent radio signals from space, SETI, has yet to deliver a successful result. But if ET is here, wouldn’t they communicate with some sort of radio system? Perhaps they shield or scramble their transmissions so we cannot receive them. If that’s the case, we couldn’t detect their presence anyway, except when their craft are seen. Even then, they may not care if we see them or not.
But the fact that UFOs seem to be largely an Earth-based phenomenon shouldn’t be ignored. After all these years, none of the suggested solutions can be proven beyond the shadow of a doubt. It may be convenient to believe that Earth governments know the truth, if we could only persuade them to reveal what they know. But that’s dropping the ball. They may know little more than the rest of us. Unfortunately, UFO research hasn’t progressed very much beyond that.
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