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Welcoming Don Berliner to The Paracast


Gene Steinberg

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Long-time UFO investigator Don Berliner makes his first appearance on The Paracast in an episode that will be recorded on Thursday, August 7th, mid-day.

His books include "Crash at Corona," written with Stanton Friedman and "UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence." Berliner has according to his bio, written 300 magazine articles and 25 books on aviation history and space, and also worked as a staff writer for NICAP.

He has a wealth of solid information to deliver about the UFO mystery and we're glad to welcome him to the show.
 
From last weeks article by Billy Cox featuring a blog entry by Don Berliner...

What's to lose at this point?

Cox..."Don Berliner, former NICAP investigator and director of the mostly dormant Fund For UFO Research, has some ideas on how to jump-start a sober re-evaluation of The Great Taboo that doesn't involve new research: Declassify all the Project Blue Book files (yes, some are still censored more than 40 years later), assemble a team of independent credentialed scientists to render evaluations on the true unknowns, case by case, and air them out in the contemporary public arena..."

Don goes on to talk about ways to improve research on the phenomenon but poses no ideas one how to actually get still classified Blue Book Files released. How does he propose to get this done?

Also, among other things, he talks about getting rid of the acronym UFO and replacing it with UAP, which has already been suggested and used by many. How?

And then...
"2. Get rid of "Ufology" and "Ufologist," which strongly imply that the collecting of information and the subsequent study of it constitute a science." But goes on to suggest that we need to have scientists study the phenomena instead of "hobbyists"...
"Stress the need for field investigators having advanced educations and/or practical experience in appropriate scientific fields."

I believe a larger network of "hobbyists" collecting information from a vast network of sources would serve more purpose than just a select few "curious scientists". Which is it?

I'm not slamming DB by any means as I have mush respect for the work he has done, just wondering how do you change publicly accepted and used nomenclature?
 
From last weeks article by Billy Cox featuring a blog entry by Don Berliner...

What's to lose at this point?

Cox..."Don Berliner, former NICAP investigator and director of the mostly dormant Fund For UFO Research, has some ideas on how to jump-start a sober re-evaluation of The Great Taboo that doesn't involve new research: Declassify all the Project Blue Book files (yes, some are still censored more than 40 years later), assemble a team of independent credentialed scientists to render evaluations on the true unknowns, case by case, and air them out in the contemporary public arena..."


More than 40 years later. It boggles the mind.
 
1. Mr Don Berliner did you ever interview any US test pilots who were stationed in the Roswell Area in 1947 or later on ?

2. Was there any Foreign spies arrested prior to Roswell incident or after ?

3. Also was there any unusual murders within the military bases or outside the surrounding area of the Roswell?
 
Do you have a reliable list of the high-level military and government officials from Washington who were seen at the Roswell base in the days after the news release and retraction? Also of the presence there of significant scientists from Los Alamos and other nearby bases? Thanks. I want to add how grateful we all should be, and I am, for the immense amount of research you've accomplished concerning ufo phenomena.
 
As well all know, the establishment intellectual culture, at least in the US, largely dismisses the legitimacy of UFOlogical research. How do you propose then that we communicate the legitimacy of UFOlogical research to potential allies in academia and among thought leaders in general?

Do you agree with the assessment that UFO skeptics are skeptics, at least in part, because they operate on a dogmatic presupposition that there can’t be anything of substance behind UFOs?

Do you have any guess as to how widespread is the belief in commercial and military piloting that there is a real and unexplained reality behind UFOs?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how convinced are you that behind the UFO phenomenon is something real and non-human in origin, with 1 being certainty that there’s nothing to this phenom., and 10 being certainty that there is? Could you explain your thinking behind this estimate?

Could you relate a story or two from anyone who has contacted you, whether in the capacity of pilot, radar operator, intelligence personnel, etc., with what you believe to be a highly credible account of a UFO encounter?

What to your mind is the most inexplicable, high-strange UFO account you’ve heard of that to you, nevertheless, appears to be highly credible?
 
Does he know much about Operation Saucer in Brazil 1977? If yes, then is it likely a Military/Spook PSYOPS??? Corales was very near the ocean in an isolated area. Many of the pictures drawn look like Human made craft including shapes of Hot Air Balloons or Aerial Objects that could be Light-Air based. All the UFO's came in from the ocean at night, and all the Brazilian military ever did was observe and record the events. Bright lights were beamed down to blind the cameras and Human vision to impair night vision and obscure details of the aerial objects. No effort was made to protect the people, yet some were "zapped" by directed heat-energy that caused burn marks that were round maybe 1-2 centimeters in size with several pock-dot marks inside that small area. This went on for about 3 months.

Could this PYSOPS be related to the Pentacle document or anything else you might know of? Thanks.

2) If he doesn't know much about Operation Saucer, then have him comment about the Pentacle document including whether some PSYOPS were done based on that idea.
 
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