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January 22, 2017
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The Paracast Explores Modern UFO Cases — for a Change
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This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present a double-header. First up is Alejandro Rojas, of OpenMinds.tv, as we catch up on recent UFO cases. Alejandro also offers a preview of the International UFO Congress, which will be held February 15-17, 2017 in Fountain Hills, AZ. Part II of the episode features Robert Powell, MUFON’s Director of Research and head of their Science Review Board. He is one of two authors of the detailed radar/witness report on the “Stephenville Lights” as well as the SCU report “UAP: 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico”. Robert is also a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, the UFODATA project, and the National Space Society. This episode also features forum moderator Goggs Mackay.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
OpenMinds: You are being redirected...
MUFON: Recent UFO Sightings | Daily Alien News & Encounters
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on January 22: With the upcoming Phoenix Lights 20th anniversary, on March 13, 2017, Dr. Lynne Kitei, a longtime follower and breathless evangelist of lore about the event, recounts the happenings back in 1997 that involved multiple sightings that evening and was reportedly witnessed by over 10,000 people. She also responds to the efforts to debunk the case and explains why she feels some of the conventional explanations aren’t correct.
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.
Setting Aside the UFO Past
By Gene Steinberg
Over the years, I’ve made a huge deal of trying to learn the lessons of the past in our little corner of the universe. There’s a critical reason, which is the absolute lack of progress in UFO research. So even though it’s been nearly 70 years since the famous Kenneth Arnold sighting that is regarded as the beginning of the modern UFO era, it’s hard to say that we’ve learned much of anything about what’s really going on.
The prevailing theory, that they are spaceships, was formulated in the very early days. The same was true with the belief that the U.S. government and other authorities know some or all of the truth about the phenomenon, but have kept it a secret for reasons best known to themselves.
All right, there are possible reasons, such as national security concerns and the possible impact on our lives if it were known we were being visited by advanced beings from other planets.
Certainly national security would be a preeminent issue. If our visitors are warlike, we’d very likely be unable to defend ourselves against them. It’s not that we could fire nuclear warheads in response to an attack, since we’d suffer too as our planet was devastated during such a battle. We would have little idea whether such a counterattack would even make any impact on the enemy.
All right, I’m thinking of the evil insectoid race that attacked Earth in the 1990s sci-fi popcorn movie, “Independence Day.” As it turned out, ET was invulnerable to a small-scale nuclear response. Certainly an advanced race that’s hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us would hardly be hurt by our primitive weaponry.
If it were known that ET was hostile, you could well understand why the governments of Earth wouldn’t want to tell us. Perhaps they’d be working on solutions in secret — with the research dispatched to private industry so it would be more difficult for outsiders to discover this terrible secret.
Indeed, even if ET was peaceful, or didn’t care one way or the other, passing the actual investigations off to private contractors would give the government plausible deniability. They could rightly say they have no evidence that UFOs are real or represent a national security threat, because they deliberately chose not to possess that evidence.
Understand that I am not suggesting UFOs have a hostile intent. Even if there are space visitors out there, it may well be that we wouldn’t even understand their motives in visiting Earth. Recently I read an article suggesting that an alien race may be so far advanced that we wouldn’t even be capable of recognizing them as living creatures, and we’d be regarded by them as less important than ant colonies.
Then again, if we couldn’t detect the presence of ET, how would we be able to detect the mode of travel? Such are the contradictions in UFO theories.
I realize all or most of this strikes you as familiar, which is the point. After all these years, why are we no closer in finding a solution to the mystery? If UFOs are spaceships in the way we understand spaceships, surely we’d have enough evidence at hand by now to prove it. If UFOs aren’t physical objects, that’s another story entirely.
Yet another possibility is that the forces behind the presence of UFOs are engaged in misdirection. When you see a UFO in one place, you are thus ignoring what’s really going on someplace else. This is similar to a magician’s trick to keep you from discovering what they’re really doing to create an illusion.
Indeed, one big problem with UFO research is that we are dealing with the same unproven assumptions. We assume they must be physical craft that’s piloted by physical beings — or robots — and that we are seeing what is really there.
If they appear to wink in and wink out again, well perhaps they are traveling too fast for our senses to detect the change in motion, or they are being instantly transported to another place, perhaps another dimension. But how can we know? Wouldn’t it also be possible that we are seeing a projection of some sort? When the UFOs disappear, it’s the same as a film projector being turned off.
But since it’s a projection rather than something real, it doesn’t have to obey the laws of physics. Indeed, it may obey laws of physics that we do not understand yet, since it is the height of hubris for humans to believe that we have a full understanding of all of the principles of science. Again, we have to consider just what an advanced race would be capable of. To be sure, it is probably way beyond our understanding.
Indeed, that’s what makes the entire presence of UFOs doubly suspicious. If we are dealing with a highly advanced race of space travelers, why do their aircraft seem only a step or two beyond our own technology? Sure, we can imagine a future, a few hundred years hence, as portrayed in the various “Star Trek” movies and TV shows. But that’s all about sci-fi writers in the 20th and 21st centuries imagining the nature of future advances.
It certainly helps inspire scientists, who are already considering the possibilities of warp drive and teleportation, the transporter device. It doesn’t mean that either will become practical technologies in the near future, or even decades from now. We also have 3D printers, and that’s not a far cry from a replicator device that can generate food and other materials from raw substances.
And don’t forget smartphones and tablets and talking computers.
Of course, if UFOs continue to remain a step or two ahead of us, that may be part of the plan. They are here not because they represent visits from ET, but to reveal the future to us. As we progress in technological development, they will, accordingly, seem even more advanced. They are thus here to make us think.
But that’s an old idea, and some listeners to The Paracast used to freak out when I would repeat the suggestion. But it sometimes seems apt.
The main point of this discussion is that the most prominent theory about UFO reality isn’t really helping us prove their existence. While some dedicated researchers continue to seek other answers, most of the research into the mystery, after all these years, has taken us nowhere.
I do hope, however, that most of you aren’t expecting disclosure of the wreckage of the mythical Roswell spaceship in a government installation or private research lab. That idea is just so yesterday.
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January 22, 2017
www.theparacast.com
The Paracast Explores Modern UFO Cases — for a Change
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, the Paracast+ Video Channel, episode transcripts, Special Features, Classic Episodes and there’s more to come! We’ve just begun to add podcasts and videos from Paul Kimball’s “Other Side of Truth.” Check out our new lower rates, starting at just $1.49 per week, plus our “Lifetime” membership and special free eBook offers! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present a double-header. First up is Alejandro Rojas, of OpenMinds.tv, as we catch up on recent UFO cases. Alejandro also offers a preview of the International UFO Congress, which will be held February 15-17, 2017 in Fountain Hills, AZ. Part II of the episode features Robert Powell, MUFON’s Director of Research and head of their Science Review Board. He is one of two authors of the detailed radar/witness report on the “Stephenville Lights” as well as the SCU report “UAP: 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico”. Robert is also a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, the UFODATA project, and the National Space Society. This episode also features forum moderator Goggs Mackay.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
OpenMinds: You are being redirected...
MUFON: Recent UFO Sightings | Daily Alien News & Encounters
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on January 22: With the upcoming Phoenix Lights 20th anniversary, on March 13, 2017, Dr. Lynne Kitei, a longtime follower and breathless evangelist of lore about the event, recounts the happenings back in 1997 that involved multiple sightings that evening and was reportedly witnessed by over 10,000 people. She also responds to the efforts to debunk the case and explains why she feels some of the conventional explanations aren’t correct.
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.
Setting Aside the UFO Past
By Gene Steinberg
Over the years, I’ve made a huge deal of trying to learn the lessons of the past in our little corner of the universe. There’s a critical reason, which is the absolute lack of progress in UFO research. So even though it’s been nearly 70 years since the famous Kenneth Arnold sighting that is regarded as the beginning of the modern UFO era, it’s hard to say that we’ve learned much of anything about what’s really going on.
The prevailing theory, that they are spaceships, was formulated in the very early days. The same was true with the belief that the U.S. government and other authorities know some or all of the truth about the phenomenon, but have kept it a secret for reasons best known to themselves.
All right, there are possible reasons, such as national security concerns and the possible impact on our lives if it were known we were being visited by advanced beings from other planets.
Certainly national security would be a preeminent issue. If our visitors are warlike, we’d very likely be unable to defend ourselves against them. It’s not that we could fire nuclear warheads in response to an attack, since we’d suffer too as our planet was devastated during such a battle. We would have little idea whether such a counterattack would even make any impact on the enemy.
All right, I’m thinking of the evil insectoid race that attacked Earth in the 1990s sci-fi popcorn movie, “Independence Day.” As it turned out, ET was invulnerable to a small-scale nuclear response. Certainly an advanced race that’s hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us would hardly be hurt by our primitive weaponry.
If it were known that ET was hostile, you could well understand why the governments of Earth wouldn’t want to tell us. Perhaps they’d be working on solutions in secret — with the research dispatched to private industry so it would be more difficult for outsiders to discover this terrible secret.
Indeed, even if ET was peaceful, or didn’t care one way or the other, passing the actual investigations off to private contractors would give the government plausible deniability. They could rightly say they have no evidence that UFOs are real or represent a national security threat, because they deliberately chose not to possess that evidence.
Understand that I am not suggesting UFOs have a hostile intent. Even if there are space visitors out there, it may well be that we wouldn’t even understand their motives in visiting Earth. Recently I read an article suggesting that an alien race may be so far advanced that we wouldn’t even be capable of recognizing them as living creatures, and we’d be regarded by them as less important than ant colonies.
Then again, if we couldn’t detect the presence of ET, how would we be able to detect the mode of travel? Such are the contradictions in UFO theories.
I realize all or most of this strikes you as familiar, which is the point. After all these years, why are we no closer in finding a solution to the mystery? If UFOs are spaceships in the way we understand spaceships, surely we’d have enough evidence at hand by now to prove it. If UFOs aren’t physical objects, that’s another story entirely.
Yet another possibility is that the forces behind the presence of UFOs are engaged in misdirection. When you see a UFO in one place, you are thus ignoring what’s really going on someplace else. This is similar to a magician’s trick to keep you from discovering what they’re really doing to create an illusion.
Indeed, one big problem with UFO research is that we are dealing with the same unproven assumptions. We assume they must be physical craft that’s piloted by physical beings — or robots — and that we are seeing what is really there.
If they appear to wink in and wink out again, well perhaps they are traveling too fast for our senses to detect the change in motion, or they are being instantly transported to another place, perhaps another dimension. But how can we know? Wouldn’t it also be possible that we are seeing a projection of some sort? When the UFOs disappear, it’s the same as a film projector being turned off.
But since it’s a projection rather than something real, it doesn’t have to obey the laws of physics. Indeed, it may obey laws of physics that we do not understand yet, since it is the height of hubris for humans to believe that we have a full understanding of all of the principles of science. Again, we have to consider just what an advanced race would be capable of. To be sure, it is probably way beyond our understanding.
Indeed, that’s what makes the entire presence of UFOs doubly suspicious. If we are dealing with a highly advanced race of space travelers, why do their aircraft seem only a step or two beyond our own technology? Sure, we can imagine a future, a few hundred years hence, as portrayed in the various “Star Trek” movies and TV shows. But that’s all about sci-fi writers in the 20th and 21st centuries imagining the nature of future advances.
It certainly helps inspire scientists, who are already considering the possibilities of warp drive and teleportation, the transporter device. It doesn’t mean that either will become practical technologies in the near future, or even decades from now. We also have 3D printers, and that’s not a far cry from a replicator device that can generate food and other materials from raw substances.
And don’t forget smartphones and tablets and talking computers.
Of course, if UFOs continue to remain a step or two ahead of us, that may be part of the plan. They are here not because they represent visits from ET, but to reveal the future to us. As we progress in technological development, they will, accordingly, seem even more advanced. They are thus here to make us think.
But that’s an old idea, and some listeners to The Paracast used to freak out when I would repeat the suggestion. But it sometimes seems apt.
The main point of this discussion is that the most prominent theory about UFO reality isn’t really helping us prove their existence. While some dedicated researchers continue to seek other answers, most of the research into the mystery, after all these years, has taken us nowhere.
I do hope, however, that most of you aren’t expecting disclosure of the wreckage of the mythical Roswell spaceship in a government installation or private research lab. That idea is just so yesterday.
Copyright 1999-2017 The Paracast LLC. 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!