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August 31, 2025
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Historical Occult Mystery Researcher Walter Bosley is Front and Center About the 2017 Pentagon UAP Disinformation Scam This Week on The Paracast.
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This Week's Episode (August 31, 2025): Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a long-time Paracast favorite, the inimitable Walter Bosley. He is an investigator of historical occult mysteries, author of pulp fiction novels and a screenwriter. Bosley is an inactive reserve officer in the United States Air Force for which he served as a Special Agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Following his military service, he spent six years as a counter-terrorism operational consultant. He spends his time investigating historical occult mysteries as well as paranormal/UFO phenomena. In this episode, Bosley will pop into pop culture, and then deliver a reality check on the UFO field, especially after the 2017 disclosure of an alleged secret Pentagon program to purportedly investigate UAPs. He’ll also cover reports of a secret space program that has allegedly been run by the U.S. for decades. Bosley is the publisher of classic and gothic adventure, steampunk, science fiction, noir thrillers and non-fiction, and has appeared on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and Gaia’s Beyond Belief. He was also featured in the film “Mirage Men,” in which former government agents discussed UFO mythology as a powerful weapon of mass deception and the perfect cover for clandestine technologies and operations. His website: https://walterbosley.com
After The Paracast — Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers: Historical occult mystery researcher Walter Bosley returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about such topics as government UFOs and ancient cities from India and possibly Atlantis and Lemuria. So was the Roswell legend a cover-up to hide the secrets of early efforts by the U.S. to build a space program? Other topics on the agenda include pop culture, and New York City bagels and pizzas. Bosley is an inactive reserve officer in the United States Air Force for which he served as a Special Agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He spends his time investigating historical occult mysteries as well as paranormal/UFO phenomena. In this episode, Bosley will pop into pop culture, and then deliver a reality check on the UFO field, especially after the 2017 disclosure of an alleged secret Pentagon program to purportedly investigate UAPs. He’ll also cover reports of a secret space program that has allegedly been run by the U.S. for decades. Bosley is the publisher of classic and gothic adventure, steampunk, science fiction, noir thrillers and non-fiction, and has appeared on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and Gaia’s Beyond Belief. He was also featured in the film “Mirage Men,” in which former government agents discussed UFO mythology as a powerful weapon of mass deception and the perfect cover for clandestine technologies and operations. His website: https://walterbosley.com
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. And look for @theparacast on Bluesky Social, Facebook, Threads and X.
It’s All in Your Head
By Tim R. Swartz
In the twentieth century a new technology called Focused Electromagnetic Broadcasting was developed that is startling in its power and implications. These weapons are part of the new “non-lethal” arsenal, a misnomer, since this weaponry might just as well be called a Death Ray – touted by the military as a humane way for conducting war in the years to come. It may also be a way of conducting “peace” of the 1984 and Brave New World mind-controlled variety.
In 1965 the McFarlane Corporation in America came up with the science fiction sounding “modulated electron gun X-ray nuclear booster,” a breakthrough in the Death Ray technology. Reports indicate that the device could also be used in communications, telemetry, and remote controlled guidance systems. McFarlane later claimed that NASA stole the system and that the principles were used in the MIROS communications satellite.
The Moscow Death Beam
In 1960 there were rumors of a fantastic new Soviet super weapon employing Nikola Tesla electromagnetic technology. With subsequent revelations about Soviet research in these areas, it seems that these rumors were true.
During the 1960s high levels of electromagnetic radiation were detected at the American embassy in Moscow. It was determined that the face of the embassy was being systematically swept with electromagnetic emissions by the Soviets.
One guess was that a microwave beam was used to activate electronic equipment hidden within the building; another guess was more macabre: that the beam was being used to disrupt the nervous systems of American workers in the embassy.
Giving weight to the latter supposition, many of the employees of the embassy became ill. Ambassador Walter Stoessel suffered a rare blood disease likened to leukemia, and experienced headaches and bleeding from the eyes. At least two other employees contracted cancer. According to researcher Alex Constantine, rather than informing embassy personnel of what was going on, the CIA chose to study the effects of the radiation.
Dr. Milton Zaret, called in to investigate what was termed “the Moscow Signal,” reported that the CIA wondered, “Whether I though the electromagnetic radiation beamed at the brain from a distance could affect the way a person might act,” and, “could microwaves be used to facilitate brainwashing or to break down prisoners under investigation.”
Zaret's conclusion about the Moscow Signal was that, “Whatever other reasons the Russians may have had, they believed the beam would modify the behavior of personnel.”
Author Len Bracken, who was present in Moscow at the time, reported to the late author Jim Keith that the microwave radiation was beamed from a shack on a building across from the embassy. In 1977 the microwave shack caught fire and burned. Bracken also relates that “in '79 a strange box was installed in the wall in my room (in Moscow), supposedly relating to the heating system.”
Irradiation of the American embassy reportedly prompted a response from the Americans: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Project PANDORA, conducted at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research from 1965 to 1970. One aspect of the project involved bombarding chimpanzees with microwave radiation. Referencing a reported statement by the head of the project, “the potential for exerting a degree of control on human behavior by low level microwave radiation seems to exist and he urged that the effects of microwaves be studied for possible weapons applications.”
Within three years, Dr. Gordon J.F. McDonald, a scientific advisor to the president at the time reported, “Perturbation of the environment can produce changes in behavioral patterns.” The perturbation that McDonald was alluding to was EM waves, and the changes in behavior were altered brain wave patterns.
That the electromagnetic arsenal is being used against citizenry in Russia is quite apparent from a statement published at the end of 1991 by SovData Dialine: “Psychological warfare is still being used by state security agents against people in Russia, even after the abortive August coup,” said Emilia Chirkova, a Deputy of the Zelenograd Soviet and member of the Human Rights Commission.
During his exile in Gorky, Andrei Sakharov noticed the presence of a high-tension electromagnetic field in his flat. It was reported recently in the press that Ruslan Khasbulatov, Speaker of the Russian Parliament, had to move from his flat to another district of Moscow. High-level electromagnetic radiation has been included among the possible causes of the discomfort he felt in his flat.
Further Developments
In 1972 the army admitted extensive research into the effects of irradiation on life forms, and the technology of electromagnetic weaponry. One of the by products of this research led to the invention of a powerful “electronic flame thrower.” This may have been the weapon described in a study of the U.S. Army Mobility Equipment Research and Development Center, Analysis of Microwaves for Barrier Warfare, describing the use of electromagnetic energy for an anti-personnel and vehicle weapon. The weapon discussed in this study was stated to be capable of producing third-degree burns on human skin.
According to Eldon Byrd, of the Naval Surface Weapons Center in Silver Springs, Maryland, “Between 1981 and September 1982, the Navy commissioned me to investigate the potential of developing electromagnetic devices that could be used as non-lethal weapons by the Marine Corps for the purpose of ‘riot control,’ hostage removal, embassy and ship security, clandestine operations, and so on.”
Byrd wrote of experiments in irradiating animals with low level electromagnetic fields, mentioning changes in brain function, and stating that the animals “exhibited a drastic degradation of intelligence later in life…couldn't learn easy tasks…indicating a very definite and irreversible damage to the central nervous system of the fetus.”
According to Microwave News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory was looking into the possibility of Death Ray “thermal guns” that would disable an individual by causing his body to overheat, “seizure guns” that would induce epileptic fits, and “magnetosphere guns” that would cause a person to “see stars.”
If you take a close look at the CIA agents and U.S. embassy workers who reportedly suffered some sort of mysterious attacks, now known as the “Havana Syndrome,” their symptoms sound suspiciously like the result of being targeted by an electromagnetic device.
The idea of weapons like these being used clandestinely is disturbing, but just how easy would they be to build and operate? According to Bill Radasky, an expert in electromagnetic interference with Metatech in Goleta, California, a basic microwave weapon can be cobbled together with bits from an electrical store for just a few hundred dollars. Such a system would be small enough to fit in the back of a car and could crash a computer from 100 meters away.
Other systems are even easier to acquire with the help of the internet. There are electronic outlets selling compact microwave sources that are designed to test the vulnerability of electronics. But they could just as easily be used for more nefarious purposes.
“We've done experiments that show it's very easy to do,” says Radasky. “We've damaged a lot of equipment with those little boxes and with the right kind of hardware they could be used to hurt or even kill people from a distance.”
Tim R. Swartz is an Indiana native and Emmy-Award winning television producer/videographer, and is the author of a number of popular books including The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla, and Gef the Talking Mongoose. His most recent books, along with author Sean Casteel, are Weird Time – Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space, and Mimics - The Others Among Us.
As a photojournalist, Tim Swartz has traveled extensively and investigated paranormal phenomena and other unusual mysteries in such diverse locations as the Great Pyramid in Egypt to the Great Wall in China. He has worked with major television networks both national and international.
Tim has appeared on the documentary “The Myth of Tesla,” as well as The History Channels programs "Ancient Aliens", "Evidence", "Ancient Aliens: Declassified", "The UnXplained", and the History Channel Latin America series "Contacto Extraterrestre.”
His articles have been published in magazines such as Mysteries, FATE, Strange, Atlantis Rising, UFO Universe, Flying Saucer Review, Renaissance, and Unsolved UFO Reports.
Tim is also the co-host of The Paracast with Gene Steinberg www.theparacast.com
His website is: www.weirdtimebook.com
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August 31, 2025
www.theparacast.com
Historical Occult Mystery Researcher Walter Bosley is Front and Center About the 2017 Pentagon UAP Disinformation Scam This Week on The Paracast.
The Paracast is released every Sunday and available from our site, https://www.theparacast.com, your favorite podcast app, and the IRN Internet Radio Network. All episodes from 2022 and later now feature better audio and fewer ads. We are also re-releasing some of our most popular classic episodes.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED UP FOR THE PARACAST+ YET? PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARACAST+ SO YOU CAN 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 bonus podcast, After The Paracast, plus a special version of The Paracast with all the ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Episodes for subscribers to The Paracast+ are now released 24 hours earlier. Flash! Now includes over 100 classic episodes, so take advantage of our lowest rates ever! Act now! It's easier than ever to susbcribe! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode (August 31, 2025): Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a long-time Paracast favorite, the inimitable Walter Bosley. He is an investigator of historical occult mysteries, author of pulp fiction novels and a screenwriter. Bosley is an inactive reserve officer in the United States Air Force for which he served as a Special Agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Following his military service, he spent six years as a counter-terrorism operational consultant. He spends his time investigating historical occult mysteries as well as paranormal/UFO phenomena. In this episode, Bosley will pop into pop culture, and then deliver a reality check on the UFO field, especially after the 2017 disclosure of an alleged secret Pentagon program to purportedly investigate UAPs. He’ll also cover reports of a secret space program that has allegedly been run by the U.S. for decades. Bosley is the publisher of classic and gothic adventure, steampunk, science fiction, noir thrillers and non-fiction, and has appeared on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and Gaia’s Beyond Belief. He was also featured in the film “Mirage Men,” in which former government agents discussed UFO mythology as a powerful weapon of mass deception and the perfect cover for clandestine technologies and operations. His website: https://walterbosley.com
After The Paracast — Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers: Historical occult mystery researcher Walter Bosley returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about such topics as government UFOs and ancient cities from India and possibly Atlantis and Lemuria. So was the Roswell legend a cover-up to hide the secrets of early efforts by the U.S. to build a space program? Other topics on the agenda include pop culture, and New York City bagels and pizzas. Bosley is an inactive reserve officer in the United States Air Force for which he served as a Special Agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He spends his time investigating historical occult mysteries as well as paranormal/UFO phenomena. In this episode, Bosley will pop into pop culture, and then deliver a reality check on the UFO field, especially after the 2017 disclosure of an alleged secret Pentagon program to purportedly investigate UAPs. He’ll also cover reports of a secret space program that has allegedly been run by the U.S. for decades. Bosley is the publisher of classic and gothic adventure, steampunk, science fiction, noir thrillers and non-fiction, and has appeared on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and Gaia’s Beyond Belief. He was also featured in the film “Mirage Men,” in which former government agents discussed UFO mythology as a powerful weapon of mass deception and the perfect cover for clandestine technologies and operations. His website: https://walterbosley.com
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. And look for @theparacast on Bluesky Social, Facebook, Threads and X.
It’s All in Your Head
By Tim R. Swartz
In the twentieth century a new technology called Focused Electromagnetic Broadcasting was developed that is startling in its power and implications. These weapons are part of the new “non-lethal” arsenal, a misnomer, since this weaponry might just as well be called a Death Ray – touted by the military as a humane way for conducting war in the years to come. It may also be a way of conducting “peace” of the 1984 and Brave New World mind-controlled variety.
In 1965 the McFarlane Corporation in America came up with the science fiction sounding “modulated electron gun X-ray nuclear booster,” a breakthrough in the Death Ray technology. Reports indicate that the device could also be used in communications, telemetry, and remote controlled guidance systems. McFarlane later claimed that NASA stole the system and that the principles were used in the MIROS communications satellite.
The Moscow Death Beam
In 1960 there were rumors of a fantastic new Soviet super weapon employing Nikola Tesla electromagnetic technology. With subsequent revelations about Soviet research in these areas, it seems that these rumors were true.
During the 1960s high levels of electromagnetic radiation were detected at the American embassy in Moscow. It was determined that the face of the embassy was being systematically swept with electromagnetic emissions by the Soviets.
One guess was that a microwave beam was used to activate electronic equipment hidden within the building; another guess was more macabre: that the beam was being used to disrupt the nervous systems of American workers in the embassy.
Giving weight to the latter supposition, many of the employees of the embassy became ill. Ambassador Walter Stoessel suffered a rare blood disease likened to leukemia, and experienced headaches and bleeding from the eyes. At least two other employees contracted cancer. According to researcher Alex Constantine, rather than informing embassy personnel of what was going on, the CIA chose to study the effects of the radiation.
Dr. Milton Zaret, called in to investigate what was termed “the Moscow Signal,” reported that the CIA wondered, “Whether I though the electromagnetic radiation beamed at the brain from a distance could affect the way a person might act,” and, “could microwaves be used to facilitate brainwashing or to break down prisoners under investigation.”
Zaret's conclusion about the Moscow Signal was that, “Whatever other reasons the Russians may have had, they believed the beam would modify the behavior of personnel.”
Author Len Bracken, who was present in Moscow at the time, reported to the late author Jim Keith that the microwave radiation was beamed from a shack on a building across from the embassy. In 1977 the microwave shack caught fire and burned. Bracken also relates that “in '79 a strange box was installed in the wall in my room (in Moscow), supposedly relating to the heating system.”
Irradiation of the American embassy reportedly prompted a response from the Americans: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Project PANDORA, conducted at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research from 1965 to 1970. One aspect of the project involved bombarding chimpanzees with microwave radiation. Referencing a reported statement by the head of the project, “the potential for exerting a degree of control on human behavior by low level microwave radiation seems to exist and he urged that the effects of microwaves be studied for possible weapons applications.”
Within three years, Dr. Gordon J.F. McDonald, a scientific advisor to the president at the time reported, “Perturbation of the environment can produce changes in behavioral patterns.” The perturbation that McDonald was alluding to was EM waves, and the changes in behavior were altered brain wave patterns.
That the electromagnetic arsenal is being used against citizenry in Russia is quite apparent from a statement published at the end of 1991 by SovData Dialine: “Psychological warfare is still being used by state security agents against people in Russia, even after the abortive August coup,” said Emilia Chirkova, a Deputy of the Zelenograd Soviet and member of the Human Rights Commission.
During his exile in Gorky, Andrei Sakharov noticed the presence of a high-tension electromagnetic field in his flat. It was reported recently in the press that Ruslan Khasbulatov, Speaker of the Russian Parliament, had to move from his flat to another district of Moscow. High-level electromagnetic radiation has been included among the possible causes of the discomfort he felt in his flat.
Further Developments
In 1972 the army admitted extensive research into the effects of irradiation on life forms, and the technology of electromagnetic weaponry. One of the by products of this research led to the invention of a powerful “electronic flame thrower.” This may have been the weapon described in a study of the U.S. Army Mobility Equipment Research and Development Center, Analysis of Microwaves for Barrier Warfare, describing the use of electromagnetic energy for an anti-personnel and vehicle weapon. The weapon discussed in this study was stated to be capable of producing third-degree burns on human skin.
According to Eldon Byrd, of the Naval Surface Weapons Center in Silver Springs, Maryland, “Between 1981 and September 1982, the Navy commissioned me to investigate the potential of developing electromagnetic devices that could be used as non-lethal weapons by the Marine Corps for the purpose of ‘riot control,’ hostage removal, embassy and ship security, clandestine operations, and so on.”
Byrd wrote of experiments in irradiating animals with low level electromagnetic fields, mentioning changes in brain function, and stating that the animals “exhibited a drastic degradation of intelligence later in life…couldn't learn easy tasks…indicating a very definite and irreversible damage to the central nervous system of the fetus.”
According to Microwave News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory was looking into the possibility of Death Ray “thermal guns” that would disable an individual by causing his body to overheat, “seizure guns” that would induce epileptic fits, and “magnetosphere guns” that would cause a person to “see stars.”
If you take a close look at the CIA agents and U.S. embassy workers who reportedly suffered some sort of mysterious attacks, now known as the “Havana Syndrome,” their symptoms sound suspiciously like the result of being targeted by an electromagnetic device.
The idea of weapons like these being used clandestinely is disturbing, but just how easy would they be to build and operate? According to Bill Radasky, an expert in electromagnetic interference with Metatech in Goleta, California, a basic microwave weapon can be cobbled together with bits from an electrical store for just a few hundred dollars. Such a system would be small enough to fit in the back of a car and could crash a computer from 100 meters away.
Other systems are even easier to acquire with the help of the internet. There are electronic outlets selling compact microwave sources that are designed to test the vulnerability of electronics. But they could just as easily be used for more nefarious purposes.
“We've done experiments that show it's very easy to do,” says Radasky. “We've damaged a lot of equipment with those little boxes and with the right kind of hardware they could be used to hurt or even kill people from a distance.”
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Tim R. Swartz is an Indiana native and Emmy-Award winning television producer/videographer, and is the author of a number of popular books including The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla, and Gef the Talking Mongoose. His most recent books, along with author Sean Casteel, are Weird Time – Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space, and Mimics - The Others Among Us.
As a photojournalist, Tim Swartz has traveled extensively and investigated paranormal phenomena and other unusual mysteries in such diverse locations as the Great Pyramid in Egypt to the Great Wall in China. He has worked with major television networks both national and international.
Tim has appeared on the documentary “The Myth of Tesla,” as well as The History Channels programs "Ancient Aliens", "Evidence", "Ancient Aliens: Declassified", "The UnXplained", and the History Channel Latin America series "Contacto Extraterrestre.”
His articles have been published in magazines such as Mysteries, FATE, Strange, Atlantis Rising, UFO Universe, Flying Saucer Review, Renaissance, and Unsolved UFO Reports.
Tim is also the co-host of The Paracast with Gene Steinberg www.theparacast.com
His website is: www.weirdtimebook.com
Copyright 1999-2025 The Paracast Company. All Rights Reserved.
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