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April 3, 2022
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Lifetime UFO Contactee Dolly Safron, and UFO Author Preston Dennett, Reveal the Inside Story of the Book, "Symmetry: A True UFO Adventure,” on The Paracast!
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This Week's Episode: Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz are joined by UFO author/researcher Preston Dennett to discuss his newest book, “Symmetry: A True UFO Adventure,” which tells the story of a UFO experiencer named Dolly Safran, who is also present to relate her experiences. Her journey, she says, began when she was just 10 months old, and has continued through her life. You’ll also learn about what she says are the motives for the alleged appearance of aliens on planet Earth. Her story remained a secret until very recently, and the interview is being conducted in the classic Paracast tradition. Dennett began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he discovered that his family, friends and co-workers were having dramatic unexplained encounters. Since then, he has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of paranormal phenomena.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on April 3: UFO contactee Dolly Safran and author Preston Dennett join Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz to discuss the book of which she is the subject: “Symmetry: A True UFO Adventure.” During this episode, Preston explains why he believes Dolly’s claims of a lifetime of contact with ET, and what he did to verify them. Safran talks further about her evidence, which she says include eyewitnesses to some of her flying saucer encounters. And if you can handle it, there’s also a description of the restrooms she used when she visited another planet in a distant star system. Preston is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of more than 24 books and more than 100 articles about UFOs and the paranormal.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop/, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel
Are Flying Saucer Contactees Credible?
By Gene Steinberg
In the very early days of the modern UFO era, there were two distinct camps of Ufologists. The first, so-called scientific researchers, focused on trying to figure out what was going on using traditional investigative techniques. Many of these people — and that holds true to this very day — were convinced that we are being visited by intelligent beings from another world.
But there was another faction in the field, one that quickly became controversial. It involved people who claimed not only to believe in ET, but to have actually met them.
At first, the alleged beings were said to come from nearby planets, perhaps Mars or Venus. But as astronomers realized that those worlds were not quite hospitable for life as we know it, the stories changed. So our “Space Brothers” really came from planets orbiting distant star systems, sometimes communicating with us by channeling.
One of the early and most infamous contactees was one George Adamski, a Polish immigrant who built a following around his claims of meeting a handsome, long-haired human, wearing a silvery uniform, in the California desert in November, 1952. Named Orthon, the being allegedly came from Venus.
Several people came forward claiming to have actually witnessed the encounter, but over the years, that support appeared to fall apart. One of the more complete probe’s into Adamski’s claims appeared in a small magazine published by the late “court jester” of UFOdom, Jim Moseley, in his Saucer News magazine in 1957.
Despite his penchant for fake feuds with his good buddy, Gray Barker, and ongoing hoaxes, Jim’s coverage of Adamski was dead serious.
You’ll learn more about it at a site managed by Paracast guest cohost Curt Collins, which honors Jim. Here’s the link, which also points to a site where you can download a scan of the Adamski Expose issue:
With the success of the book Adamski co-authored with Desmond Leslie, “Flying Saucers Have Landed,” others got into the game. Some of the better known fellow travelers were Truman Bethurum, Daniel Fry, Howard Menger and George Van Tassel.
Their stories might have differed to some degree, but the claims were similar. ET, the Space Brothers, were here to alert us as to the follies of humankind, and guide us to follow the path of peace.
Over the years, the pronouncements have expanded to include protecting the environment. But despite all these edicts from beings purported to act in our best interests, they’ve done absolutely nothing to make the human condition any better.
So at best, I regard ET as feckless.
While claims of alleged contacts with human-like or Nordic beings have continued, these days more attention is paid to so-called abductions. In such cases, people are taken — call it kidnapped — from their homes, or perhaps from their cars when driven on a rural road somewhere, and are at times forced to undergo painful physical experiments.
When there is communication between experiencers and their abductors, often described as grays, it’s not so much about moral pronouncements. There may even be references to creating hybrid races, for example.
While the victims of these invasions of their privacy often embrace their captors — the Stockholm syndrome perhaps? — that doesn’t make the actions any more acceptable. It’s not as if they routinely land and ask nicely if someone could come aboard their spaceship for a visit. People are often just taken without regard to their rights. Awakening someone who is asleep in their own beds, in their own homes, is especially intrusive. And surely criminal.
Maybe the proper response to ET then should be “lock ‘em up.”
But the “traditional” UFO contacts continue and some people have actually reconsidered the original claimants, such as George Adamski.
Indeed, when one of those people inquired about appearing on The Paracast some years back, they seemed unaware of how completely Adamski’s claims were debunked years ago. The Saucer News expose was unknown to any of them, but to be fair, it was published in a small magazine having a circulation closer to the hundreds than the thousands.
But there was plenty of data with which to dispute the claims, starting with a set of silly-looking flying saucer photos that were easily duplicated with conventional pieces. In “Inside the Space Ships,” Adamski’s follow-up book, he described a trip around the moon with details that have nothing to do with what we’ve learned from our real trips there.
And certainly it is not possible for humans to survive on Venus without some serious environmental gear. Then again, maybe Adamski was watching too many of those Saturday morning sci-fi children’s shows and got some wrong ideas about travels to nearby worlds.
To be charitable, I suppose it’s possible that some of these contactees had genuine paranormal encounters of one sort or another, but couched them in descriptions that would more closely line up with cultural memes.
Now I thought about Adamski and others of his ilk the other day when Tim Swartz and I recorded an interview with contactee Dolly Safran. She’s the subject of a new book from prolific UFO author Preston Dennett, who told us that he is clearly impressed by what she has to say.
Now I prefer if you actually listen to the show first before deciding. As you’ll see from my questioning, and that of Tim, I wasn’t terribly impressed. I posed some difficult questions of her, and her responses could possibly be explained as just making them up on the spot.
Again, I’m not going to say she isn’t recounting real encounters. I’ve known Preston for years, and while he appears a little too willing to accept questionable UFO claims at times, he’s still nobody’s fool. Something about Dolly and her tale of lifelong encounters with flying saucers and their occupants impressed him enough to write that book.
In the meantime, I checked out some of the videos of alleged UFOs that she posted on YouTube; she has a channel under her name.
To make a long story short, all I saw were faint lights in the sky, including a couple that appeared to depict the blinking lights of conventional airplanes immersed in clouds. I saw nothing there that would indicate the presence of an unworldly craft.
More to the point, if she is so friendly with ET — and she claims to be a hybrid — surely they could land their spaceships in the daytime and allow her to take some clear photos or videos. Getting a clear shot of a distant flying object on a smartphone, particularly at night, is usually a waste of time.
This doesn’t mean she’s telling tall tales. Please listen to the show and make up your own minds. As always, we welcome your comments in our forums.
But for now, no traditional UFO contactee has impressed me with their claims and the alleged evidence they provide. When it comes to abductions, it appears that something strange may indeed be happening to many of these people, but what that something is remains a mystery.
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April 3, 2022
www.theparacast.com
Lifetime UFO Contactee Dolly Safron, and UFO Author Preston Dennett, Reveal the Inside Story of the Book, "Symmetry: A True UFO Adventure,” 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 THE ULTIMATE PARACAST EXPERIENCE AT A SPECIAL LOW PRICE! 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 an exclusive podcast, After The Paracast, plus an enhanced version of The Paracast with the network ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Flash! Use the coupon code ufo20 to receive a 20% discount on five-year or lifetime subscriptions. And PayPal now accepts cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in payment. And if you don't want to use PayPal, we now also offer a second payment option, from Stripe, that accepts major credit or debit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. For "qualified users," you can now take advantage of Pay Later options, so act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz are joined by UFO author/researcher Preston Dennett to discuss his newest book, “Symmetry: A True UFO Adventure,” which tells the story of a UFO experiencer named Dolly Safran, who is also present to relate her experiences. Her journey, she says, began when she was just 10 months old, and has continued through her life. You’ll also learn about what she says are the motives for the alleged appearance of aliens on planet Earth. Her story remained a secret until very recently, and the interview is being conducted in the classic Paracast tradition. Dennett began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he discovered that his family, friends and co-workers were having dramatic unexplained encounters. Since then, he has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of paranormal phenomena.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on April 3: UFO contactee Dolly Safran and author Preston Dennett join Gene and guest cohost Tim Swartz to discuss the book of which she is the subject: “Symmetry: A True UFO Adventure.” During this episode, Preston explains why he believes Dolly’s claims of a lifetime of contact with ET, and what he did to verify them. Safran talks further about her evidence, which she says include eyewitnesses to some of her flying saucer encounters. And if you can handle it, there’s also a description of the restrooms she used when she visited another planet in a distant star system. Preston is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of more than 24 books and more than 100 articles about UFOs and the paranormal.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop/, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel
Are Flying Saucer Contactees Credible?
By Gene Steinberg
In the very early days of the modern UFO era, there were two distinct camps of Ufologists. The first, so-called scientific researchers, focused on trying to figure out what was going on using traditional investigative techniques. Many of these people — and that holds true to this very day — were convinced that we are being visited by intelligent beings from another world.
But there was another faction in the field, one that quickly became controversial. It involved people who claimed not only to believe in ET, but to have actually met them.
At first, the alleged beings were said to come from nearby planets, perhaps Mars or Venus. But as astronomers realized that those worlds were not quite hospitable for life as we know it, the stories changed. So our “Space Brothers” really came from planets orbiting distant star systems, sometimes communicating with us by channeling.
One of the early and most infamous contactees was one George Adamski, a Polish immigrant who built a following around his claims of meeting a handsome, long-haired human, wearing a silvery uniform, in the California desert in November, 1952. Named Orthon, the being allegedly came from Venus.
Several people came forward claiming to have actually witnessed the encounter, but over the years, that support appeared to fall apart. One of the more complete probe’s into Adamski’s claims appeared in a small magazine published by the late “court jester” of UFOdom, Jim Moseley, in his Saucer News magazine in 1957.
Despite his penchant for fake feuds with his good buddy, Gray Barker, and ongoing hoaxes, Jim’s coverage of Adamski was dead serious.
You’ll learn more about it at a site managed by Paracast guest cohost Curt Collins, which honors Jim. Here’s the link, which also points to a site where you can download a scan of the Adamski Expose issue:
Saucer News presents: the George Adamski Exposé — In Honor of Jim Moseley
Moseley is best known as the editor of Saucer News and its successor Saucer Smear, the former a magazine, the latter a newsletter, specializing in controversy, gossip, and even— once in a while— serious investigation. Together the two periodicals comprise an invaluable record of an evolving...
www.jimmoseley.com
With the success of the book Adamski co-authored with Desmond Leslie, “Flying Saucers Have Landed,” others got into the game. Some of the better known fellow travelers were Truman Bethurum, Daniel Fry, Howard Menger and George Van Tassel.
Their stories might have differed to some degree, but the claims were similar. ET, the Space Brothers, were here to alert us as to the follies of humankind, and guide us to follow the path of peace.
Over the years, the pronouncements have expanded to include protecting the environment. But despite all these edicts from beings purported to act in our best interests, they’ve done absolutely nothing to make the human condition any better.
So at best, I regard ET as feckless.
While claims of alleged contacts with human-like or Nordic beings have continued, these days more attention is paid to so-called abductions. In such cases, people are taken — call it kidnapped — from their homes, or perhaps from their cars when driven on a rural road somewhere, and are at times forced to undergo painful physical experiments.
When there is communication between experiencers and their abductors, often described as grays, it’s not so much about moral pronouncements. There may even be references to creating hybrid races, for example.
While the victims of these invasions of their privacy often embrace their captors — the Stockholm syndrome perhaps? — that doesn’t make the actions any more acceptable. It’s not as if they routinely land and ask nicely if someone could come aboard their spaceship for a visit. People are often just taken without regard to their rights. Awakening someone who is asleep in their own beds, in their own homes, is especially intrusive. And surely criminal.
Maybe the proper response to ET then should be “lock ‘em up.”
But the “traditional” UFO contacts continue and some people have actually reconsidered the original claimants, such as George Adamski.
Indeed, when one of those people inquired about appearing on The Paracast some years back, they seemed unaware of how completely Adamski’s claims were debunked years ago. The Saucer News expose was unknown to any of them, but to be fair, it was published in a small magazine having a circulation closer to the hundreds than the thousands.
But there was plenty of data with which to dispute the claims, starting with a set of silly-looking flying saucer photos that were easily duplicated with conventional pieces. In “Inside the Space Ships,” Adamski’s follow-up book, he described a trip around the moon with details that have nothing to do with what we’ve learned from our real trips there.
And certainly it is not possible for humans to survive on Venus without some serious environmental gear. Then again, maybe Adamski was watching too many of those Saturday morning sci-fi children’s shows and got some wrong ideas about travels to nearby worlds.
To be charitable, I suppose it’s possible that some of these contactees had genuine paranormal encounters of one sort or another, but couched them in descriptions that would more closely line up with cultural memes.
Now I thought about Adamski and others of his ilk the other day when Tim Swartz and I recorded an interview with contactee Dolly Safran. She’s the subject of a new book from prolific UFO author Preston Dennett, who told us that he is clearly impressed by what she has to say.
Now I prefer if you actually listen to the show first before deciding. As you’ll see from my questioning, and that of Tim, I wasn’t terribly impressed. I posed some difficult questions of her, and her responses could possibly be explained as just making them up on the spot.
Again, I’m not going to say she isn’t recounting real encounters. I’ve known Preston for years, and while he appears a little too willing to accept questionable UFO claims at times, he’s still nobody’s fool. Something about Dolly and her tale of lifelong encounters with flying saucers and their occupants impressed him enough to write that book.
In the meantime, I checked out some of the videos of alleged UFOs that she posted on YouTube; she has a channel under her name.
To make a long story short, all I saw were faint lights in the sky, including a couple that appeared to depict the blinking lights of conventional airplanes immersed in clouds. I saw nothing there that would indicate the presence of an unworldly craft.
More to the point, if she is so friendly with ET — and she claims to be a hybrid — surely they could land their spaceships in the daytime and allow her to take some clear photos or videos. Getting a clear shot of a distant flying object on a smartphone, particularly at night, is usually a waste of time.
This doesn’t mean she’s telling tall tales. Please listen to the show and make up your own minds. As always, we welcome your comments in our forums.
But for now, no traditional UFO contactee has impressed me with their claims and the alleged evidence they provide. When it comes to abductions, it appears that something strange may indeed be happening to many of these people, but what that something is remains a mystery.
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