I thought that Dr. Hunter had a lot of interesting things to say, and it’s nice to hear from somebody new who’s looking at things from a novel perspective.
But honesty this episode drove home a couple of the big problems that I see with the show.
The Paracast has become an echo chamber for the extremely fringe “co-creation hypothesis” crowd within the ufology community. Everyone on this episode shared the same perspective, and hearing a group of people agreeing with each other isn’t interesting. And hearing Gene lavish praise upon anyone and everyone who blindly adheres to the co-creation hypothesis/mythology is starting to give me indigestion. Likewise, hearing everyone on this show agree that ETH proponents are shallow, mouth-breathing religious fanatics, is becoming genuinely intolerable.
Trying to explain an unexplained phenomenon with an unexplainable theory is not forward progress. You guys are basically trying to explain ufo sightings as ghost sightings. I think that’s patently absurd, because that doesn’t explain anything. It’s evoking a mystery to try to explain another mystery, which is at best a lateral move (and at worst, it’s a backward move toward the superstitious thinking of the Dark Ages). Nobody has yet been able to explain, even tacitly, how this alleged “co-creation hypothesis” actually works: it’s a fairy tale.
On the other hand, a rapidly expanding sphere of scientific knowledge across multiple disciplines continues to build a solid empirical foundation for the validity of the ETH. We now know that at least 40 billion Earth-like planets reside in the habitable zones of their parent stars in this galaxy alone, and there are 1-2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe (which is only a miniscule fraction of the entire universe). We now know that the organic chemicals required for the formation of life are ubiquitous throughout the universe. We also now have a theoretical physics model for a method of superluminal spaceflight. And we have radar-visual cases that conform to the predicted physical performance characteristics of that form of propulsion principle. And we have a plethora of compelling cases like the Zimbabwe school sighting of 1994 where alien beings have emerged from structured metallic craft. The diversity and sheer magnitude of the scientific and anecdotal evidence for the ETH is frankly overwhelming at this point.
And yet on The Paracast, the people who recognize this clear and convincing body of diverse evidence are openly mocked and ridiculed…in favor of a co-creation hypothesis that can’t even be cogently explained. And what’s even worse – nobody can offer a logical argument against the ETH, so the co-creation adherents resort to vapid rhetorical attacks instead, using BS inflammatory phrases like “true believers” (to make ETH advocates sound like religious zealots when in fact the vast bulk of the credible data supports their position), or “space aliens” (to make the idea of extraterrestrial intelligent life sound silly, just like the “little green men” catchphrase that preceded it), and “nuts and bolts” (to make the idea of advanced alien technology sound like a crude explanation). All such rhetorical attacks are empty emotional appeals employed to disguise the fact that co-creation adherents have no logical basis to challenge the ETH, nor an intelligible alternative theory of their own. But it sounds neat-o so it’s the go-to explanation on The Paracast.
Until somebody can offer a phenomenological explanation of it that doesn’t directly conflict with all known laws of physics, the co-creation hypothesis remains a classic example of “the Emperor has no clothes.”
That said, I do agree with this point that was made on the show: there appears to be a spectrum of different phenomena happening in our skies from time to time. Some may be natural phenomena, others very clearly appear to be extraterrestrial technology operating in our airspace, quite a few are certainly advanced military projects, and still others may be forms of life and/or some kind of hologram that we don’t yet understand.
But to suggest that extraterrestrial technology isn’t a central phenomenon under the umbrella of ufology, is a logically and empirically unsupportable position. And I challenge anyone – Gene, Goggs, Dr. Hunter, etc., to engage in a rational debate with me on this subject. Because frankly I’m tired of the snarky dismissals and the disingenuous mockery of the only fully rational and cogent explanation that’s on the table.
And since somebody needs to say it, I will: the vast majority of people on this planet who take this subject seriously, favor the ETH for the reasons I've listed, among others. So The Paracast alienates >95% of the millions of potential audience members by routinely deriding this clearly superior, consummately logical explanation. That's a steep price to pay for a rigid ideological bias that flies in the face of fact and reason.