The Paracast

Gene and Randall present UFO researcher Erica Lukes for a return visit, where she’ll give you her unvarnished views of the state of UFO research and possible hopes for disclosure due to the Pentagon UAP Task Force. Erica is a multi-talented artist and paranormal personality with an undying passion for the mysteries of the universe, particularly UFO reports and other strange aerial phenomena. UFO reports became her specialty and she joined the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 2014 as a field investigator. She eventually became its State Director for Utah. Erica has been a favorite guest on The Paracast, participating in a half dozen episodes, including the March 5, 2017 special — Women’s Roundtable with Erica Lukes, Chase Kloetzke and Kathleen Marden.

Gene and Randall welcome long-time UFO researcher and science writer Chris Rutkowski, who will reveal details about the 2020 Canadian UFO Survey, which concluded that “it was an exceptional year for UFOs, as well as being a strange year for all of us because of the pandemic.” Chris will also bring you up to date on genuine lunar mysteries.  Since the mid-1970s, he’s written about his investigations and research on UFOs, for which he is best known. However, he has been involved in many other writing and media projects for more than 30 years, including TV specials (“The Monster of Lake Manitoba”), planetarium shows (“Moonlight Serenade,” and “Amateur Nights”). He is author of “A World of UFOs” (2008), “I Saw It Too!” (2009), and “The Big Book of UFOs” (2010).

Gene and Randall present paranormal researcher and writer Constance Victoria Briggs, to discuss one of her recent books, “The Encyclopedia of Moon Mysteries: Secrets, Conspiracy Theories, Anomalies, Extraterrestrials and More.” As a researcher of metaphysical, paranormal and cosmic subjects, Constance has come across stories and information about the Moon that tell us that indeed there is activity there, and there has been for generations. Her other books include: “The Encyclopedia of Angels,” “Encyclopedia of God,” and “The Encyclopedia of the Unseen World. She has been invited as a guest speaker on several radio shows discussing such topics as angels, extraterrestrials, ancient aliens, life-after-death, after death communication, out-of-body experiences, Moon mysteries and more.

Gene and Randall present paranormal author/adventurer Jeff Belanger to discuss his memoir: The Call of Kilimanjaro: Finding Hope Above the Clouds, which describes a journey of enlightenment that began with the  terminal illness of a close relative. Jeff is the Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer of the New England Legends series which debuted on PBS in October of 2013, and the weekly New England Legends Podcast. Since 1997, he has interviewed thousands of eyewitnesses to paranormal occurrences. He is also the author of over a dozen books on the paranormal,) including the best sellers: The World’s Most Haunted Places, Weird Massachusetts, Our Haunted Lives, and Who’s Haunting the White House? (for children). He’s the founder of Ghostvillage.com, the web’s most popular paranormal destination according to Google.

Gene and Randall welcome Fortean investigator Stan Gordon. Stan has been researching UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, and other mysterious events in Pennsylvania since 1959, and in 1969 he began taking calls on UFO sightings and other strange reports from the public. Since then, he has led teams of scientists, engineers, and research specialists to investigate mysterious occurrences across Pennsylvania. He is the primary investigator of the 1965 UFO crash near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. In this episode, Stan will provide updates on the thousands of reports he’s researched, including a number of sights and other paranormal encounters from 2020. He says his main focus is on the continuing cases concerning the stranger side of the Bigfoot phenomenon.

Gene and Randall present Trey Hudson, author of “The Meadow Project – Explorations Into The South’s Skinwalker Ranch.” The book chronicles in-depth research into another Skinwalker Ranch-like area in America’s remote south, known among select researchers simply as the “Meadow,” where UFOs, cryptid beasts, portals, missing time, crop circle like formations, men/women in black, orbs, strange beams of light, mysterious beings and many other oddities have been reported. Trey is the Director of the Oxford Paranormal Society and its Anomalous Studies and Observation Group ( ASOG ). He has a 30-plus year career as a U.S. government Security Specialist specializing in security of sensitive assets, anti-terrorism, security of WMD, emergency management and other specialties. Trey also served a tour in Afghanistan.

UFO researcher and religious scholar David Halperin returns to talk about his recent columns about UFOs and the Bible, including the theories that ancient man was visited by beings from outer space. He continues to focus on his theory that UFOs are a myth, manifestations of a collective unconscious, and not physical spaceships from other planets. Back in the 1960s, David was a teenage UFO investigator. Later he became a professor of religious studies — his specialty, religious traditions of heavenly ascent. From 1976 through 2000, David taught Jewish history in the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He’s the author of five non-fiction books on Jewish mysticism and messianism, the coming-of-age novel Journal of a UFO Investigator, and Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO.

After 15 years, The Paracast is still here, as Gene and Randall present a special episode featuring veteran UFO researchers and authors Tim “Mr. UFO” Beckley and Jerome Clark. The discussion takes us way back to the early days of the UFO field, and how they became lifelong friends in the pages of Ray Palmer’s Flying Saucers magazine. Topics include the reasons why people interested in sci-fi often reject UFO believers, and the concept of “event anomalies,” and “experience anomalies” to describe the sort of encounters people report. Beckley boasts that he has had “so many careers that even his own girlfriend doesn’t know what he does for a living.” He has published hundreds of books covering paranormal topics. Clark is best known as author of the sprawling “UFO Encyclopedia.” He has also written numerous articles covering “Fortean” topics, and also worked with the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek at the Center for UFO Studies, and as an editor for Fate magazine.