THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
April 3, 2016
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Cutting-Edge Commentator Greg Bishop Featured on The Paracast
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
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This Week's Episode: We welcome cutting-edge commentator Greg Bishop, of “Radio Misterioso,” to talk about his fascinating new book, “It Defies Language.” The book, with amazing illustrations from Red Pill Junkie, is “A collection of essays about the UFO subject and related phenomena. The first chapter discusses the U.S. Government’s involvement along with the author’s personal experiences with agents and military personnel. The text also includes historical perspectives on the subject, and theories and opinions on the current search for answers about UFOs from a viewpoint that is neither belief-based nor that of a doctrinaire skeptic. There are also entries about square craters on the Moon, black-eyed kids, and baseball games at Area 51.” Nick Redfern wrote the foreword.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Radio Misterioso: Radio Misterioso | In-depth conversations on the paranormal alternating with weird music. Live on Sundays 8-10 PM PST @ killradio.org
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on April 3: Gene and Chris present a special appearance by UFO researcher Greg Bishop, on location at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, the location of the Kennedy assassination in November 1963. The discussion moves to what Gene and Chris remember about the episode; Greg was a month old at the time, and he didn’t start looking into the case until he was in his late 20s. The discussion moves to the way politics has changed since then, such as the unfortunate polarization of the electorate, expanding to how society has changed for the worse in many respects. The discussion takes a peculiar turn when Chris, Greg and Gene discuss the importance of actualizing Kennedy’s vision to get to the moon in 1969, and the conspiracy theories that it was all a fake. Greg goes on to explain why he thinks the Kennedy assassination will never be solved.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
About Those Endless Flying Saucer Sightings
By Gene Steinberg
As most of you know, I cannot say I ever saw a real UFO. Well, let me take that back: On time, in the 1960s, I did see a fast moving light in the sky, and perhaps it was something strange. But I didn’t see it long enough, and it didn’t seem strange enough to know for certain that it would fit into the category of an unknown. So let’s set that aside.
But I have to tell you that I have long followed my old friend, Jim Moseley, in caring less about the sightings but more about the people who see them. For most of you, and no doubt for most UFO research organizations, the focus is on the cases. Sure, the witness is important insofar as that person is a credible observer, and the descriptions appear to be reasonably accurate. But that’s where it begins and usually ends.
But the people who see UFOs, particularly when there is more than one sighting, don’t always accept those experiences with equanimity. Sometimes it changes their lives, and I’ll leave it to he reader to decide whether the results are good or bad. Sometimes it’s a little bit of both. Sometimes their lives take a downhill trend that haunts them until the end of their days.
Even being exposed to the subject, without actually seeing anything unusual, can have unexpected consequences.
I’m an example. My lone UFO sighting may have been nothing more than a conventional object. But another event years earlier clearly changed my life.
I still recall the occasion when my mother and I visited my brother’s home in Brooklyn, New York and how the world never seemed the same afterward.
Wally wasn’t home, but his wife invited us into their small apartment on Carroll Street. I happened to notice a book on the coffee table in the living room, and casually picked it up and began to read. After a page or two, I was hooked, and so I asked whether I could borrow that book, “Flying Saucers From Outer Space” by Major Donald E. Keyhoe.
She said yes, but since it was a library book, I had to promise to return it in time to avoid a fine. I agreed, and in case you are wondering, yes, I did return it at the appointed time.
I was 11, and I had already become interested in sci-fi and comic book super heroes. But here was a book that claimed those flying disks were real; not just real but genuine visitors from other planets. Fiction became fact! What could I say?
Over the next few years, I read dozens and dozens of similar books, and a number of magazines, such as Fate, Ray Palmer’s Flying Saucers, and even Jim Moseley’s original Saucer News. I absorbed loads of sighting reports, and it seemed that the very same classic cases were repeated over and over. And sometimes over again ad infinitum.
After a while I took a deep breath and sighed whenever I saw yet another account of Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of June 24, 1947. Was he truly the “man who started it all” or just someone in the right place at the right time? After all, there were loads of sightings that were reported before he had his brush with fame, if you can call it that. There were other sightings that week, and once the public looked to the skies in search of those mysterious flying things, there were more sightings.
After a number of years, my reading on the subject became more focused. I often set aside just another sighings collection in favor of books written by authors who attempted to put those strange events into perspective. From time to time, I’d learn about people who not only saw UFOs more frequently than would seem to make sense from the law of averages, but who had other strange experiences over the years. Maybe they lived in or near haunted houses, or perhaps saw strange creatures in the woods. A very few claimed to have not only met up with the pilots of UFOs, but to have been abducted by them.
I became friendly with other researchers who felt that the UFO mystery was a whole lot more complicated than it seemed to be, that the witness may often play a part in what they said they saw. Whether it was a strange event that was made less strange after being filtered through their consciousness, or some strange phenomenon in which the witness was an active participant, clearly those who favored physical spaceships as the solution were only looking at part of the problem.
Once the mystery became more about people than distant flying things, it became more fascinating than ever. Some people even got off on the personalities of the people who got heavily involved in the UFO field, particularly if those personalities were a little offbeat.
Certainly that’s what drove Jim Moseley’s lifelong interest in the subject. During the mid-1960s, I worked as a full time Managing Editor for Saucer News, at a time when Jim actually made an effort to turn the magazine into a profit-making venture. Well, that didn’t quite work out so well, but that’s another story.
In any case, Jim would often fret over having to write summaries of the latest sightings for a new issue. I handled the chore from time to time, and I soon learned to mimic his writing style, and thus my choice of words sometimes seemed indistinguishable from his.
I suspect this knack of imitating someone else’s writing style — and I managed the task with other writers who contributed to Jim’s magazine — was merely a process in developing my skills. After leaving Saucer News — and seeking fame and fortune, or at least a living wage as a broadcaster — I helped create and co-publish another UFO/paranormal magazine, Caveat Emptor. Some years after it folded, I drifted towards more mainstream writing.
If you look at my catalog, it’s more about books and articles about consumer electronics and personal computers, with a smattering of science fiction.
Well, at least until The Paracast debuted in 2006. After all these years, I am still more interested in the people who see UFOs or have other strange experiences. If UFOs represent a strictly external reality, wouldn’t they appear the same regardless of the person, their cultural background or ancestry, or the country in which they live? But that’s not quite what’s really going on.
Just focusing on UFOs as incidents separated from a witness has taken us nowhere, but maybe if we work harder towards understanding the people who see them, their personal histories and their family histories, we might just come a little bit closer to discovering what’s really going on in our paranormal universe.
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April 3, 2016
www.theparacast.com
Cutting-Edge Commentator Greg Bishop Featured on The Paracast
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY A PREMIUM PARACAST EXPERIENCE! We have another radio show and we’d love for you listen to it. So for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, and chat rooms when you sign up for The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for fast updates of the latest episodes and we give free ebooks for long-term subscriptions. We’ve also launched The Paracast+ Video Channel. Check out our new “Lifetime” membership! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: We welcome cutting-edge commentator Greg Bishop, of “Radio Misterioso,” to talk about his fascinating new book, “It Defies Language.” The book, with amazing illustrations from Red Pill Junkie, is “A collection of essays about the UFO subject and related phenomena. The first chapter discusses the U.S. Government’s involvement along with the author’s personal experiences with agents and military personnel. The text also includes historical perspectives on the subject, and theories and opinions on the current search for answers about UFOs from a viewpoint that is neither belief-based nor that of a doctrinaire skeptic. There are also entries about square craters on the Moon, black-eyed kids, and baseball games at Area 51.” Nick Redfern wrote the foreword.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Radio Misterioso: Radio Misterioso | In-depth conversations on the paranormal alternating with weird music. Live on Sundays 8-10 PM PST @ killradio.org
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on April 3: Gene and Chris present a special appearance by UFO researcher Greg Bishop, on location at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, the location of the Kennedy assassination in November 1963. The discussion moves to what Gene and Chris remember about the episode; Greg was a month old at the time, and he didn’t start looking into the case until he was in his late 20s. The discussion moves to the way politics has changed since then, such as the unfortunate polarization of the electorate, expanding to how society has changed for the worse in many respects. The discussion takes a peculiar turn when Chris, Greg and Gene discuss the importance of actualizing Kennedy’s vision to get to the moon in 1969, and the conspiracy theories that it was all a fake. Greg goes on to explain why he thinks the Kennedy assassination will never be solved.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
About Those Endless Flying Saucer Sightings
By Gene Steinberg
As most of you know, I cannot say I ever saw a real UFO. Well, let me take that back: On time, in the 1960s, I did see a fast moving light in the sky, and perhaps it was something strange. But I didn’t see it long enough, and it didn’t seem strange enough to know for certain that it would fit into the category of an unknown. So let’s set that aside.
But I have to tell you that I have long followed my old friend, Jim Moseley, in caring less about the sightings but more about the people who see them. For most of you, and no doubt for most UFO research organizations, the focus is on the cases. Sure, the witness is important insofar as that person is a credible observer, and the descriptions appear to be reasonably accurate. But that’s where it begins and usually ends.
But the people who see UFOs, particularly when there is more than one sighting, don’t always accept those experiences with equanimity. Sometimes it changes their lives, and I’ll leave it to he reader to decide whether the results are good or bad. Sometimes it’s a little bit of both. Sometimes their lives take a downhill trend that haunts them until the end of their days.
Even being exposed to the subject, without actually seeing anything unusual, can have unexpected consequences.
I’m an example. My lone UFO sighting may have been nothing more than a conventional object. But another event years earlier clearly changed my life.
I still recall the occasion when my mother and I visited my brother’s home in Brooklyn, New York and how the world never seemed the same afterward.
Wally wasn’t home, but his wife invited us into their small apartment on Carroll Street. I happened to notice a book on the coffee table in the living room, and casually picked it up and began to read. After a page or two, I was hooked, and so I asked whether I could borrow that book, “Flying Saucers From Outer Space” by Major Donald E. Keyhoe.
She said yes, but since it was a library book, I had to promise to return it in time to avoid a fine. I agreed, and in case you are wondering, yes, I did return it at the appointed time.
I was 11, and I had already become interested in sci-fi and comic book super heroes. But here was a book that claimed those flying disks were real; not just real but genuine visitors from other planets. Fiction became fact! What could I say?
Over the next few years, I read dozens and dozens of similar books, and a number of magazines, such as Fate, Ray Palmer’s Flying Saucers, and even Jim Moseley’s original Saucer News. I absorbed loads of sighting reports, and it seemed that the very same classic cases were repeated over and over. And sometimes over again ad infinitum.
After a while I took a deep breath and sighed whenever I saw yet another account of Kenneth Arnold’s sighting of June 24, 1947. Was he truly the “man who started it all” or just someone in the right place at the right time? After all, there were loads of sightings that were reported before he had his brush with fame, if you can call it that. There were other sightings that week, and once the public looked to the skies in search of those mysterious flying things, there were more sightings.
After a number of years, my reading on the subject became more focused. I often set aside just another sighings collection in favor of books written by authors who attempted to put those strange events into perspective. From time to time, I’d learn about people who not only saw UFOs more frequently than would seem to make sense from the law of averages, but who had other strange experiences over the years. Maybe they lived in or near haunted houses, or perhaps saw strange creatures in the woods. A very few claimed to have not only met up with the pilots of UFOs, but to have been abducted by them.
I became friendly with other researchers who felt that the UFO mystery was a whole lot more complicated than it seemed to be, that the witness may often play a part in what they said they saw. Whether it was a strange event that was made less strange after being filtered through their consciousness, or some strange phenomenon in which the witness was an active participant, clearly those who favored physical spaceships as the solution were only looking at part of the problem.
Once the mystery became more about people than distant flying things, it became more fascinating than ever. Some people even got off on the personalities of the people who got heavily involved in the UFO field, particularly if those personalities were a little offbeat.
Certainly that’s what drove Jim Moseley’s lifelong interest in the subject. During the mid-1960s, I worked as a full time Managing Editor for Saucer News, at a time when Jim actually made an effort to turn the magazine into a profit-making venture. Well, that didn’t quite work out so well, but that’s another story.
In any case, Jim would often fret over having to write summaries of the latest sightings for a new issue. I handled the chore from time to time, and I soon learned to mimic his writing style, and thus my choice of words sometimes seemed indistinguishable from his.
I suspect this knack of imitating someone else’s writing style — and I managed the task with other writers who contributed to Jim’s magazine — was merely a process in developing my skills. After leaving Saucer News — and seeking fame and fortune, or at least a living wage as a broadcaster — I helped create and co-publish another UFO/paranormal magazine, Caveat Emptor. Some years after it folded, I drifted towards more mainstream writing.
If you look at my catalog, it’s more about books and articles about consumer electronics and personal computers, with a smattering of science fiction.
Well, at least until The Paracast debuted in 2006. After all these years, I am still more interested in the people who see UFOs or have other strange experiences. If UFOs represent a strictly external reality, wouldn’t they appear the same regardless of the person, their cultural background or ancestry, or the country in which they live? But that’s not quite what’s really going on.
Just focusing on UFOs as incidents separated from a witness has taken us nowhere, but maybe if we work harder towards understanding the people who see them, their personal histories and their family histories, we might just come a little bit closer to discovering what’s really going on in our paranormal universe.
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