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August 18, 2013
UFO Documentary Filmmaker James Fox Featured on The Paracast!
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About The Paracast: 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 is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris welcome movie documentary producer James Fox back to the show. On this episode, the outspoken filmmaker will explain what went wrong with the National Geographic "Chasing UFOs" reality show, on which he was a co-host. He also recount his amazing eight-day visit with long-time UFO investigator Ray Stanford, and some of what he learned. Fox will also give you a preview of the forthcoming UFO documentary he is working on, which has the working title of "701." This number represents the number of UFO cases the Air Force's Project Bluebook failed to explain.
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
701 The Movie: 701 The Movie | Bios
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Now About the Silence Group and the MIB
By Gene Steinberg
The story is a legend in the UFO field. In 1953, researcher Albert K. Bender abruptly closed down his multinational flying saucer club, claiming that he had somehow come upon the “secret” of the flying discs, only to be visited by three men in black suits who exhorted him to keep his mouth shut. Thus formed the core tale that filled the pages of the late Gray Barker’s popular UFO title, “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.”
Now some suggest that Barker, after investigating the Flatwoods monster and confronting Bender’s curious departure from the field, decided to treat the subject as, for the most part, a huge joke. He and his pal, Jim Moseley, who died last year, engaged in several notable hoaxes involving the flying saucers and some of the people involved in the subject.
But what happened to Bender?
Well, more stories emerged about the possibility that agents from the government or perhaps somewhere else were busy warning some people involved in the field, and even some UFO witnesses, that they cannot discuss the subject, or their experiences. Sometimes the visitors claimed to be government agents; at other times, the connection was merely implied.
In some of his books, UFO author John Keel, whose “Mothman Prophecies” became a somewhat successful sci-fi movie starring Richard Gere, wrote of all sorts of MIB-related experiences. He even claimed to be a victim of what he regarded as MIB-related dirty tricks.
The MIB became famous after the black-garbed visitors were featured in a series of graphic comic books, which, in turn, were turned into three blockbuster comedy sci-fi action movies featuring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
As to Bender, after over a decade of silence, he wrote a book, heavily edited and published by Barker, where he claimed his visitors were not government officials, but aliens. In other words, he was another UFO contactee.
In passing, yes, I did meet Bender, and actually attended one of his lectures. A curious story that, but it’s hard to say where reality ends and Bender’s apparently vivid imagination begins. The long and short of it is that I found him to be basically a sincere person, but I wondered if he didn’t concoct this fanciful tale to stop people from annoying him about the MIB. And maybe collect a few book royalties and lecture fees along the way.
Regardless, there was no stopping the MIB. Over the years, such visitors have turned up again and again in connection with UFO cases. In one example, a witness to the Phoenix Lights, which occurred in 1997, claimed to have taken pictures of the phenomenon. He was invited to submit his material to a local city representative, but before he had a chance to actually deliver his evidence, he was visited by two men in black suits. They claimed to represent the local politician, and he gave them the pictures.
As you might imagine, his evidence simply disappeared. The person to whom he promised to give the pictures said she never dispatched anyone to retrieve them. You wonder, in passing, how his visitors (two men in black?) knew what he had and what he was planning to do with it.
Now as a practical matter, the existence of the MIB has never been confirmed. It is possible that government operatives have, from time to time, visited witnesses of UFO-related events to retrieve evidence. It is also possible that hoaxers, familiar with the MIB legend, have donned the requisite garb and harassed people for reasons known only to themselves.
Some suggest that the MIB are really agents for “them,” the force behind the UFO’s presence in our skies. But there is no evidence whatever that such a thing is true.
So there you go!
Meantime, there continues to be speculation that there is a Silence Group or Control Group somewhere in the U.S. government that has continued to study UFOs years after the original investigative agency, Project Bluebook, was shut down. They have allegedly preserved the secret that they are extraterrestrial.
But the existence of a Silence Group was posited by Major Donald Keyhoe in the 1950s, even when Project Bluebook was still around. Keyhoe believed that the civilian and military officials in charge were simply afraid to tell the truth, but he felt the public could accept what he regarded as the reality of ET visiting Earth.
But how do you prove the existence of such an agency? Can you ask a member of Congress or the Senate to check the line item budget for an entry labeled “Silence Group”? Even if such a group existed, where would the money come from, and would the threat of a government shutdown by recalcitrant conservative Republicans impact that group’s existence? Or maybe just postpone their paychecks for a few days till the politicians got their acts together?
Consider, though, what might happen if this UFO secrecy thing was pawned off to private industry. The budget would be buried among perfectly normal projects, so even accountants wouldn’t know that the funds were being allocated to hide the truth of alien visitations. Such a move would give the government plausible deniability: “We don’t have a Silence Group, we don’t have a Control Group, and we got out of the UFO investigating business when Project Bluebook was shuttered.”
Well, they haven’t actually used those words, but you get the picture.
So can we expect that, some day soon or in the distant future, we will finally be told the truth about UFOs? Well, this week the CIA revealed something we all know anyway, that there is indeed an Area 51 in Nevada, and that the place is used as an aircraft test facility. But, no, there are no aliens there, no spaceship wreckage, or at least that’s what the news media reported, sometimes with a half chuckle.
So is it possible that the CIA leases out Area 51 to private contractors to cover everything up? If so, they could safely tell you that nobody in the government is doing anything stranger than developing faster and more reliable aircraft and more powerful weapons. Alien technology? Give me a break!
But who believes the government anyway?
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August 18, 2013
UFO Documentary Filmmaker James Fox Featured on The Paracast!
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Why It's Important for You to Donate to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough to pay your humble hosts decent wages. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able 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 and utility bills. No contribution is too small (or too large
. It’s easy to send a donation. We have aDonate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com. And if you’ve had a problem getting to our Donate screen, please try again. We just fixed a serious PayPal access problem, and it should wor k properly now.Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional 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 on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: 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 is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris welcome movie documentary producer James Fox back to the show. On this episode, the outspoken filmmaker will explain what went wrong with the National Geographic "Chasing UFOs" reality show, on which he was a co-host. He also recount his amazing eight-day visit with long-time UFO investigator Ray Stanford, and some of what he learned. Fox will also give you a preview of the forthcoming UFO documentary he is working on, which has the working title of "701." This number represents the number of UFO cases the Air Force's Project Bluebook failed to explain.
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
701 The Movie: 701 The Movie | Bios
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. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Now About the Silence Group and the MIB
By Gene Steinberg
The story is a legend in the UFO field. In 1953, researcher Albert K. Bender abruptly closed down his multinational flying saucer club, claiming that he had somehow come upon the “secret” of the flying discs, only to be visited by three men in black suits who exhorted him to keep his mouth shut. Thus formed the core tale that filled the pages of the late Gray Barker’s popular UFO title, “They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.”
Now some suggest that Barker, after investigating the Flatwoods monster and confronting Bender’s curious departure from the field, decided to treat the subject as, for the most part, a huge joke. He and his pal, Jim Moseley, who died last year, engaged in several notable hoaxes involving the flying saucers and some of the people involved in the subject.
But what happened to Bender?
Well, more stories emerged about the possibility that agents from the government or perhaps somewhere else were busy warning some people involved in the field, and even some UFO witnesses, that they cannot discuss the subject, or their experiences. Sometimes the visitors claimed to be government agents; at other times, the connection was merely implied.
In some of his books, UFO author John Keel, whose “Mothman Prophecies” became a somewhat successful sci-fi movie starring Richard Gere, wrote of all sorts of MIB-related experiences. He even claimed to be a victim of what he regarded as MIB-related dirty tricks.
The MIB became famous after the black-garbed visitors were featured in a series of graphic comic books, which, in turn, were turned into three blockbuster comedy sci-fi action movies featuring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
As to Bender, after over a decade of silence, he wrote a book, heavily edited and published by Barker, where he claimed his visitors were not government officials, but aliens. In other words, he was another UFO contactee.
In passing, yes, I did meet Bender, and actually attended one of his lectures. A curious story that, but it’s hard to say where reality ends and Bender’s apparently vivid imagination begins. The long and short of it is that I found him to be basically a sincere person, but I wondered if he didn’t concoct this fanciful tale to stop people from annoying him about the MIB. And maybe collect a few book royalties and lecture fees along the way.
Regardless, there was no stopping the MIB. Over the years, such visitors have turned up again and again in connection with UFO cases. In one example, a witness to the Phoenix Lights, which occurred in 1997, claimed to have taken pictures of the phenomenon. He was invited to submit his material to a local city representative, but before he had a chance to actually deliver his evidence, he was visited by two men in black suits. They claimed to represent the local politician, and he gave them the pictures.
As you might imagine, his evidence simply disappeared. The person to whom he promised to give the pictures said she never dispatched anyone to retrieve them. You wonder, in passing, how his visitors (two men in black?) knew what he had and what he was planning to do with it.
Now as a practical matter, the existence of the MIB has never been confirmed. It is possible that government operatives have, from time to time, visited witnesses of UFO-related events to retrieve evidence. It is also possible that hoaxers, familiar with the MIB legend, have donned the requisite garb and harassed people for reasons known only to themselves.
Some suggest that the MIB are really agents for “them,” the force behind the UFO’s presence in our skies. But there is no evidence whatever that such a thing is true.
So there you go!
Meantime, there continues to be speculation that there is a Silence Group or Control Group somewhere in the U.S. government that has continued to study UFOs years after the original investigative agency, Project Bluebook, was shut down. They have allegedly preserved the secret that they are extraterrestrial.
But the existence of a Silence Group was posited by Major Donald Keyhoe in the 1950s, even when Project Bluebook was still around. Keyhoe believed that the civilian and military officials in charge were simply afraid to tell the truth, but he felt the public could accept what he regarded as the reality of ET visiting Earth.
But how do you prove the existence of such an agency? Can you ask a member of Congress or the Senate to check the line item budget for an entry labeled “Silence Group”? Even if such a group existed, where would the money come from, and would the threat of a government shutdown by recalcitrant conservative Republicans impact that group’s existence? Or maybe just postpone their paychecks for a few days till the politicians got their acts together?
Consider, though, what might happen if this UFO secrecy thing was pawned off to private industry. The budget would be buried among perfectly normal projects, so even accountants wouldn’t know that the funds were being allocated to hide the truth of alien visitations. Such a move would give the government plausible deniability: “We don’t have a Silence Group, we don’t have a Control Group, and we got out of the UFO investigating business when Project Bluebook was shuttered.”
Well, they haven’t actually used those words, but you get the picture.
So can we expect that, some day soon or in the distant future, we will finally be told the truth about UFOs? Well, this week the CIA revealed something we all know anyway, that there is indeed an Area 51 in Nevada, and that the place is used as an aircraft test facility. But, no, there are no aliens there, no spaceship wreckage, or at least that’s what the news media reported, sometimes with a half chuckle.
So is it possible that the CIA leases out Area 51 to private contractors to cover everything up? If so, they could safely tell you that nobody in the government is doing anything stranger than developing faster and more reliable aircraft and more powerful weapons. Alien technology? Give me a break!
But who believes the government anyway?
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