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To me the whole concept of reverse engineering alien technology is solely based on speculation. Besides, would a government and/or company spend years and millions of dollars on such effort just to put it "under wraps"? Where's the benefit in there? They would suck everything they could out of...

The funny thing is that this incomprehensibility also works the other way around. There are many artifacts from our past whose purpose still eludes us (and probably will always do). Also there are ancient languages/writing systems that remain unreadable. And all that was created by human beings...

We only have Earth's example as a template for the emergence of life. Intelligent life could have evolved (and still can in the future) from beings such as cephalopods, birds or sea mammals. This is an assumption solely based on the species we know here on Earth. Our knowledge of the morphology...

From what you've wrote in the posts published in this thread, I can infer that your analysis of the UFO phenomenon led you to conclude that it has an extraterrestrial origin. I don't criticize that per se and I hate when people put all "ETH proponents" in the same bag, labeling them as idiots...

I think that the Universe must be swarming with life. But I also think that the characteristics of such life must be so different from the ones we know here on Earth that any communication between humans and an extraterrestrial civilization is ultimately improbable (not to say impossible). An...

"But previous decades had their share of sci fi like Flash Gordon, the WOW novel and the '38 broadcast." Sure! But the following decades were the ones that really defined science fiction as a widespread and worldwide phenomenon. The 50's were particularly rich on that aspect with films such as...

There are many factors to consider when saying that the amount of UFO sightings increased after the 40's. Firstly there was a much larger media interest on the subject during the 40's, 50's and 60's, particularly due to some famous cases (Kenneth Arnold's observation for instance) and the US Air...

I'm already happy today. Jacques Vallee is returning to The Paracast for an interview about "Wonders in the Sky". Sunday will be a great day!

Personally I don't think it should be "forbidden" to criticize Vallee. I'm an admirer of his work but he isn't above criticism. The question about the quality of pre-1900 reports on aerial phenomena is a very important one, but I always ask myself: are today's chroniclers of such manifestations...

Great news for all Jacques Vallée fans. He'll be releasing a new book in October, written in colaboration with Magonia Exchange Group founder Chris Aubeck. "Wonders in the Sky" will compile inumerous reports of strange aerial phenomena since biblical times down to the 1800's. The description of...

I'm a Jacques Vallée fan and the Paracast interview was the best I've listened. Hope Gene and David get to bring him back soon. One of the best and most interesting interviews in the Paracast collection (see how savvy that sounds, the Paracast Collection :)) was the one with NARCAP's Richard...

I've been interested in the Antikythera mechanism for almost 20 years and I can't cease to be amazed by it. It's one of the true, historically verified ancient technology artifacts that's more that 1000 years before it's time. I suggest the excellent book by Jo Marchant "Decoding the Heavens"...

There's nothing substatial to the crystal skulls theme. A lot of myths have been weaved around them, including a fake association with the Mayan civilization (no proof of such thing exists) and the idea that they were scattered around the world by an ancient civilization (possibly the...

I think it isn't possible to say with total confidence what these "objects" portrayed in the paintings are. Almost all of them are representations of religious/biblical scenes and that should also make us think for a while. Is there something in the mechanisms of human perception that makes us...