THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
April 23, 2011
Explore the Unknown with Micah A. Hanks on The Paracast
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM (Central Time) on the GCN radio network.
The Paracast Humbly Requests Your Donations: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network. So we hope you'll be willing to help fill the gap if you can to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch. No contribution is too small (or too large
. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, right below our logo. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Let's Bring The Paracast to Your City! Last summer, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. Now we want your help to add more affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact directly. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
You Can Now Order The Official Paracast T-Shirt: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and a collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt, just pay a visit to our new online store at Welcome to The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We now also offer a lineup of other premium merchandise featuring The Paracast logo.
Sunday, April 24, 2011: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast hosts interview long-time researchers in the field, to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join us as we explore the realms of the known and unknown, and hear great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present an encore appearance by paranormal investigator and writer Micah A. Hanks, publisher of The Gralien Report, who will deliver new information about the legendary “Mothman” creature of West Virginia, and other compelling mysteries.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Micah A. Hanks' Publication: The Gralien Report
Reminder: Don't forget to visit our always-active Discussion Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal (and note our new Internet address): The Paracast Community Forums.
Making Wrong Predictions About UFOs
By Gene Steinberg
Ever since UFOs became a significant part of our pop culture in the late 1940s, there have been ongoing predictions as to when the truth will be found. Or perhaps when those who know the truth will disclose what they knew and when they knew it.
At the same time, not a single one of those predictions has come to pass, not one!
Let’s go back to the 1950s, when the concept of a working Silence Group controlling the truth about flying saucers – which later became known as UFOs – first arose in books from Major Donald E. Keyhoe and others. To their way of thinking, the authorities in the U.S. held the cards, and they only needed sufficient public and congressional pressure to tell all.
If you read Keyhoe’s books of that period, it appeared he had a peculiarly naïve belief that legislators were honest brokers, that they would, if prodded sufficiently by their constituents, do whatever was necessary to serve the public good and find out what was really happenig. This was before we regarded elected representatives as generally bought and paid for by corporate interests.
Nothing came of this until, in the late 1960s, Congressman Gerald Ford demanded an investigation in the wake of an ongoing UFO flap in Michigan. As you might recall, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, then an astronomy advisor to the government’s supposed UFO investigative body, Project Blue Book, labeled one of the most compelling sighting reports, from Dexter, Michigan, as probably caused by “swamp gas.”
That statement dogged Hynek for the rest of his life, even after admitting he was too quick – and too pressured – to make a guess as to what was responsible for that UFO event. In any case, the wish for congressional hearings was granted, thus resulting in the creation of the Condon Committee.
Unfortunately, the committee’s efforts, which resulted in the Condon Report, did little to help resolve the controversy. Although the document contained a fair number of intriguing UFO cases, the conclusion that there was nothing to any of it was pretty much regarded as a whitewash.
In the wake of the publication of the Condon Report, Project Blue Book was shuttered, thus closing the door on any public investigation of UFOs. Congressman Ford didn’t press the issue further then, or even after becoming Vice President and then President after Richard Nixon resigned.
This didn’t stop the UFOs from doing their thing. Major UFO flaps were reported in the 1970s, almost as if the forces behind those flying craft were mocking the U.S. government and the conclusion that nothing strange was going on. Sightings have ebbed and flowed through the years, and continue to this very day.
From time to time, people who claim to know what’s happening inside the U.S. government insist that investigations are still going on, only under the shield of Above Top Secret classifications. Others suggest that there may even be disclosure at a particular point in time, but every single one of those predictions has failed to come to pass. None of this bodes well for the credibility of members of the Exopolitics movement and others who continue to claim that the truth is not only out there, but that we are being prepared for revelations about the presence of ET on our planet.
Now asking for disclosure is not strictly a demand from extremists. Some very serious people have also been clamoring for the release of all documents about UFOs that do not threaten national security. While loads of sighting reports have been released by foreign governments over the years, little in the way of a Smoking Gun has been found. If they know more, we cannot find the evidence. We just suspect that something has been left on the table.
It may well be that nobody in any capacity in any government truly knows what’s really going on. So long as there’s no evidence that UFOs present a threat to the national security of any nation, perhaps they don’t care. Out of sight, out of mind.
But such disinterest isn’t going to help get to the bottom of this mystery. It may also be that the final answer remains out of our hands, and any significant revelation may be the responsibility of the force behind the UFOs. Perhaps they don’t even care.
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April 23, 2011
Explore the Unknown with Micah A. Hanks on The Paracast
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM (Central Time) on the GCN radio network.
The Paracast Humbly Requests Your Donations: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network. So we hope you'll be willing to help fill the gap if you can to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch. No contribution is too small (or too large
. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, right below our logo. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.Attention U.S. Listeners: Let's Bring The Paracast to Your City! Last summer, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. Now we want your help to add more affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact directly. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
You Can Now Order The Official Paracast T-Shirt: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and a collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt, just pay a visit to our new online store at Welcome to The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We now also offer a lineup of other premium merchandise featuring The Paracast logo.
Sunday, April 24, 2011: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast hosts interview long-time researchers in the field, to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join us as we explore the realms of the known and unknown, and hear great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present an encore appearance by paranormal investigator and writer Micah A. Hanks, publisher of The Gralien Report, who will deliver new information about the legendary “Mothman” creature of West Virginia, and other compelling mysteries.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Micah A. Hanks' Publication: The Gralien Report
Reminder: Don't forget to visit our always-active Discussion Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal (and note our new Internet address): The Paracast Community Forums.
Making Wrong Predictions About UFOs
By Gene Steinberg
Ever since UFOs became a significant part of our pop culture in the late 1940s, there have been ongoing predictions as to when the truth will be found. Or perhaps when those who know the truth will disclose what they knew and when they knew it.
At the same time, not a single one of those predictions has come to pass, not one!
Let’s go back to the 1950s, when the concept of a working Silence Group controlling the truth about flying saucers – which later became known as UFOs – first arose in books from Major Donald E. Keyhoe and others. To their way of thinking, the authorities in the U.S. held the cards, and they only needed sufficient public and congressional pressure to tell all.
If you read Keyhoe’s books of that period, it appeared he had a peculiarly naïve belief that legislators were honest brokers, that they would, if prodded sufficiently by their constituents, do whatever was necessary to serve the public good and find out what was really happenig. This was before we regarded elected representatives as generally bought and paid for by corporate interests.
Nothing came of this until, in the late 1960s, Congressman Gerald Ford demanded an investigation in the wake of an ongoing UFO flap in Michigan. As you might recall, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, then an astronomy advisor to the government’s supposed UFO investigative body, Project Blue Book, labeled one of the most compelling sighting reports, from Dexter, Michigan, as probably caused by “swamp gas.”
That statement dogged Hynek for the rest of his life, even after admitting he was too quick – and too pressured – to make a guess as to what was responsible for that UFO event. In any case, the wish for congressional hearings was granted, thus resulting in the creation of the Condon Committee.
Unfortunately, the committee’s efforts, which resulted in the Condon Report, did little to help resolve the controversy. Although the document contained a fair number of intriguing UFO cases, the conclusion that there was nothing to any of it was pretty much regarded as a whitewash.
In the wake of the publication of the Condon Report, Project Blue Book was shuttered, thus closing the door on any public investigation of UFOs. Congressman Ford didn’t press the issue further then, or even after becoming Vice President and then President after Richard Nixon resigned.
This didn’t stop the UFOs from doing their thing. Major UFO flaps were reported in the 1970s, almost as if the forces behind those flying craft were mocking the U.S. government and the conclusion that nothing strange was going on. Sightings have ebbed and flowed through the years, and continue to this very day.
From time to time, people who claim to know what’s happening inside the U.S. government insist that investigations are still going on, only under the shield of Above Top Secret classifications. Others suggest that there may even be disclosure at a particular point in time, but every single one of those predictions has failed to come to pass. None of this bodes well for the credibility of members of the Exopolitics movement and others who continue to claim that the truth is not only out there, but that we are being prepared for revelations about the presence of ET on our planet.
Now asking for disclosure is not strictly a demand from extremists. Some very serious people have also been clamoring for the release of all documents about UFOs that do not threaten national security. While loads of sighting reports have been released by foreign governments over the years, little in the way of a Smoking Gun has been found. If they know more, we cannot find the evidence. We just suspect that something has been left on the table.
It may well be that nobody in any capacity in any government truly knows what’s really going on. So long as there’s no evidence that UFOs present a threat to the national security of any nation, perhaps they don’t care. Out of sight, out of mind.
But such disinterest isn’t going to help get to the bottom of this mystery. It may also be that the final answer remains out of our hands, and any significant revelation may be the responsibility of the force behind the UFOs. Perhaps they don’t even care.
The Paracast Copyright 1999-2011 Making The Impossible, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy: Your personal information is safe with us. We will positively never give out your name and/or e-mail address to anybody else, and that's a promise!