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Rich Sarradet and I knew her pretty well. He even went out to visit her at her place in rural Arkansas and came back with some strange stories. Perhaps I could have him on my show to talk about it. Karla and I talked by phone fairly regularly until her death. I admired her "here's what happened...

This exact scenario is one of the first things Mac Tonnies wrote about in his last book. We discussed it (while he was alive of course) and speculated that our ideas about and interaction with the dancing lights might be just as important as what might be directing it. Our interpretation usually...

I think Rich hinted at such things in interviews during his life, such as his statement that we had the technology to "send E.T. home." That covers a lot of possibilities from the mundane to the fantastic, so I'd be skeptical of these new revelations until the source and method of gaining access...

OK, I realize that I am so tired of the ETH that I get ridiculous sometimes. It may be the most logical-sounding explanation to us at this point in history, but there is no evidence for the reality of extraterrestrial contact yet, as far as I can see. We just seem to make that assumption every...

I respect Randle a lot, however I do not agree with some of his statements, particularly this one: As one example, let’s look, briefly, at the photographs taken by Paul Trent in May 1950. There are two possible explanations, given the clarity of the photographs and the story told by Trent and...

I guess I'd put that in the "most likely bullcrap" basket then. Labeling it (or any claim) as "fiction" closes all discussion, even if there is little left to debate. I like the discussion. Listening without interrupting doesn't mean that I accept any particular premise. Perhaps what occurs is...

I prefer to call a lot of this stuff "unproven," with degrees varying from "certainly possible" to "almost certainly bullcrap" and subject to revision at any time as more or less supporting evidence comes to light. In 2007, I wrote about skeptics, and discovered the philosophy of the...

I've always enjoyed The Gods Of Eden by Bramley. A weird premise, but as I remember, a little better supported than Van Daniken and that ilk.

I still maintain that the UFO subject is very low on the world agenda. Something quite extraordinary and significant would need to happen (either from the phenomenon or how we view it) to bring it up a few spaces. As it is, it's not ameanable to convenient categorization except as something that...

Ted, I didn't include the reference to the JBIS paper because I disagreed with it, it was because I thought it was the most recent eloquent vote for the ETH, which I do not throw out at all. In fact, it looks like we essentially agree on most of this stuff! My main arguments in this and the...

The focus is wrong because the larger society's focus is not on UFOs. You can't make people care about something that they generally ignore. Serious people will not look at the question for the reasons that Paul listed. The other, larger problem is that the subject and its reported...

The reason that I don't have any interest in the ETH is that it's been the go-to theory for the last 60 years and hasn't brought us any closer to an explanation for UFOs and other strange encounters. Other theories, like Mac's Cryptos and Keel's Ultraterrestrials, don't have any more proof going...

I am not going to reply to Bragalia, as his sole reason for writing his articles is to stir up shit. When he investigates a case and writes more than a few thousand words on it that are based on a balanced examination of the subject rather than a desire to simply piss people off, he may be taken...

It was taken by a news photographer for the LA Times I believe.

...or on Radio Misterioso, where Paul talks about this case as well!

I (respectfully) disagree. Is Teller going to mime his part in the discussion?

To "debunk" is to expose that which is "bunk." There should be no negative association with that word. True skeptics reserve judgment before all the facts are in. I would go further and call myself a "Pyrrhonist." Quoted in an article I wrote for Ufomystic in 2007: “Nothing can be known, not...

I read the article carefully. I am not a Catholic or believer in any sort of religious dogma, but the explanations offered seem to adequately explain some effects and events, but not others. The discussion of the crowd size is not really conclusive, since it is not possible to determine how many...

ParaS, Sorry you found the recent RM show "self-indulgent." I don't know if we (the guests and I) ever agreed that 9/11 was not fishy. I also am not sure if we agreed that the government is hiding anything of substance on UFOs. We all have differing opinions, even politically. When four...

As Paul wrote, the only sane and intelligent answer should be "I have no idea." I did one of these polls in Nov of 2007. I asked "What causes UFO reports," NOT what UFOs "really are." The semantic difference was important to me. The winner with 47%, was "Some the above." I was proud of the readers!