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I'm suprised with the amount of certainties you have and the amazing ability of quantifying them with such precision. If only all my doubts could be solved in such straightforward manner, with percentages and all...

I know I may get bashed for this but I think James Randi, though he was right sometimes, approached the subject in the wrong manner. He had a clear penchant for the spectacular and frequently tried to prove his point in a showman-like fashion (maybe because he was a magician). I think one can be...

I don't doubt that fact and I'm truly happy that you did so. My remarks were oriented towards the group of podcasts/radio shows where Vallée has been interviewed and not specifically The Paracast. Nevertheless, the general feeling I got was one of disappointment (maybe I had set my standards too...

Ball lighting is a very interesting phenomenon. We have some fairly good reports of sightings that occured both out in the open and inside houses/airplanes. The movement of the luminous ball is quite fascinating, often exhibiting sudden turns in direction. One of the best cases I've read and...

There's nothing new in the association of some UFO sightings to meteor showers and ball lighting. The latter phenomenon, as I said in an earlier post, is a mystery of its own, for we still don't know exactly what causes it and what its physical and chemical properties are. It can certainly...

I agree with your evaluation of the latest Jacques Vallée interview on the Paracast. It was too short (apparently due to time restrictions imposed by the guest himself), too fragmentary (I know Paracast needs money to survive, but the amount of commercials has gone from acceptable to irritating)...

Who knows? We would have to clean up the mess first and then try to see what's left there, but that may be too difficult a task for just a few to handle. Sometimes I think the whole UFO subject is a case of collective pareidolia, a giant rock upon which everyone project their personal...

It's interesting to notice how labeling became an important factor of life, not just within the commonly called paranormal field. Maybe I'm wrong seeing myself as a skeptic. That erroneous assertion may come from the fact that english isn't my mother language and the meanings associated to the...

It must be quite difficult for someone who had a "paranormal experience" to cope with that on a rational basis. Many people came into the UFO field after seeing something they weren't able to explain and articulating that personal side with the detachment needed to approach the phenomenon may...

As the portuguese historician and UFO investigator Joaquim Fernandes once said: "We're not at a point where we can say what the UFO phenomenon is. We can only say what it isn't."

I haven't read your books (yet), but the summary of your take on this phenomenon surely seems interesting. One of the main questions that erupts when approaching the unknown is knowing what instruments you can take with you to the "battle". Should we be strictly scientific and rely on...

Things are only labeled as paranormal until science relabels them as explained or explainable. That doesn't make them comprehensible to the common citizen. How many in this forum, for instance, truly understands the workings of things such as gravity or black holes? Few if any. Gravity is still...

I've always thought that part (if not most) of the UFO phenomenon would eventually be explained by sciences such as psychiatry and psychology. I'm not saying that most witnesses suffer from mental conditions or are compulsive liars but, after some years reading and analyzing...

Man... This thread is becoming increasingly unpleasant. I frequently heard criticisms on the Paracast shows about the "UFO crowd" berating each other in a swordplay of egos and beliefs (by then the enigmas at hand were long forgotten). Never thought I'd see such skirmishing in Paracasts' own...

Our curiosity would probably be oriented towards other enigmas, at least for those who have a penchant for the unexplained. But, after all, the people who should really be spending time thinking (and working) on the UFO theme have always disregarded it. That's what makes it such a confused and...

I agree with the idea that counter-intelligence creates cover stories to hide the truth. That's their job after all. The essential problem remains nevertheless: what truth are they hiding? With regards to Bill Moore I don't doubt his good intentions (I never met the man, so I base my opinion on...

As James Jesus Angleton (director of CIA's Counter Intelligence Department during the sixties) once said "deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state". The intelligence agencies involvment in UFO disinformation may have more to it than just training purposes. It's important for a...

The question with people who, like Whitley, make such amazing claims is that they reach a point where believing in them is utterly impossible. I don't deny that he actually had the experiences put to paper on "Communion". Who knows how any of us would react after such horrifying happenings...

I actually agree with some of what you've been saying in your posts (without the apparent anger, though). Science has always been our primary instrument to make sense of the world, to turn what was incredible and unexplainable into a coherent frame. The problem with the UFO phenomenon is that...

No proof has ever been put forward to support alien crash retrieval tales anywhere in the world. Most cases are misinterpretations or outright lies sold by crooks to a gullible audience. To theorize on such bunk is a waste of time so, accordingly, I won't make any further comments on the subject.