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December 17, 2017
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A UFO Field Update from Alejandro Rojas 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 an exclusive podcast, After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, when you sign up for The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes, the Paracast+ Video Channel, episode transcripts, Special Features, Classic Episodes and there’s more to come! We also feature selected podcasts and videos from Paul Kimball’s “Other Side of Truth,” and we are now offering special access to the first two episodes of the ghost haunting show he cohosts, "Haunted." Check out our new lower rates, starting at just $1.49 per week, plus our “Lifetime” membership and special free print and eBook book offers! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present Alejandro Rojas of OpenMinds.tv for a 2017 retrospective and a preview of the 2018 International UFO Congress and Film Festival. Alejandro is the host for Open Minds UFO Radio show, and emcee for IUFOC. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating anomalous phenomena up close and personal. Gene and Chris will also talk shop with a focus on UFOs. There will also be a pop culture-related discussion about what both regard as the sad state of pop music.
Chris O’Brien’s Blog: Our Strange Planet
OpenMinds: Openminds.tv | Exploring UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on December 17: After a brief discussion about his rattling iPhone, special guest Greg Bishop, of “Radio Misterioso,” talks briefly with Gene about technology and the longevity of Apple gear. The conversation moves swiftly from there into Greg’s theory about a UFO co-creation theory, in which we actively participate in how a paranormal experience is perceived by us. Greg also talks about the book he’s co-authoring with Adam Gorightly about the contactee movement, entitled, “A is for Adamski.” After briefly recounting contactee Frank Stranges’ arrest and incarceration for allegedly attempting to smuggle marijuana, he focuses on Charles Hickson, one of the two men reportedly abducted by possible aliens in Pascagoula, MS in 1973, and his subsequent UFO contacts.
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. Check out our new YouTube channel at: The Official Paracast Channel
Are We Creating Our Own UFO Mystery?
By Gene Steinberg
Leave it to cutting-edge commentator Greg Bishop, host of the offbeat “Radio Misterioso” podcast, a frequent Paracast guest and an occasional forum poster, to posit an original slant on a paranormal mystery. Or just come up with a unique way to talk about it.
As most of you know, I have long been skeptical of the extraterrestrial explanation for the flying saucers. It’s not that I don’t believe that there are aliens, or reject the possibility that they may have visited us from time to time. After all, with growing indications of possible Earth-like planets out there, it stands to reason that some of them (and “some” could represent millions of advanced races) might have decided to pay us a visit.
Unfortunately, none of this can actually be proven. There are indications that we are dealing with solid aircraft, capable of advanced maneuvers, which may have left trace evidence of their presence. Add to that reports of beings seen in the vicinity of those UFOs, and the theory seems to make perfect sense.
But there’s no smoking gun. It’s just a theory based on mostly anecdotal evidence. Alleged physical evidence doesn’t appear to confirm an alien origin. Attempts to capture what we see in photos and movies usually fail. You see blurs and lights in the sky. Most clear images appear to be fakes, so there are only a relatively small number showing a defined object that are not easily debunked.
It all conveys the ever-elusive character of UFOs, always a step or two ahead of us, always impossible to pin down. If they’d only land and let us in on the secret, we could get on with our lives. Or at least deal with the consequences of their presence.
Maybe if we can persuade, petition or browbeat the governments of Earth to let us in on what they know. And what about those new reports about a secret U.S. program to investigate UFO encounters involving military aircraft?
If anything, the story disproves the belief that the U.S. government has something significant to disclose about UFOs. According to a Politico report quoting one of the members of the group doing the probe: “After a while the consensus was we really couldn’t find anything of substance. They produced reams of paperwork. After all of that there was really nothing there that we could find. It all pretty much dissolved from that reason alone—and the interest level was losing steam. We only did it a couple years.”
In all, some $20 million was spent by this group, identified as the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, before the plug was pulled. As government programs go, it was chump change. But it does appear that no great effort was made to keep the effort a secret.
So if the truth about the UFOs is a matter of government secrecy, if they have captured or crashed alien spaceships and bodies on ice, if they have any guilty knowledge at all, why spend money to conduct this investigation? Wouldn’t they already know the answers? Even though it happened at the instigation of former U.S. Senator Harry Reid, then the majority leader, I suppose someone could have taken him aside and said not to bother.
UFO disclosure evangelists might just assert that it was all disinformation, an effort to refocus attention in case someone gets too close to the secret.
So what is Greg Bishop’s take the UFOs? Well, one of his theories involves co-creation, in which we are actively participating in establishing the image or reality of what we see. He doesn’t pretend to know how much of a UFO encounter is the product of our own beliefs and expectations, and how much of it is caused by an external reality with which we interact. Maybe that varies from sighting to sighting, and what about UFO abductions?
What about contacts with beings who admonish us to give up the art of war, and love and respect one another? Are all those claims made up out of whole cloth, or do at least some of the so-called contactees believe they actually met physical creatures flying in physical aircraft?
If UFOs and other paranormal events involve our direct participation in creating that event, are they even real? Are they imaginary, or does the co-creation process result in a phenomenon that is as physical as anything we can see, smell and touch?
Just what is going on here?
In his appearance on this weekend’s episode of After The Paracast, Greg reminded us how UFO-related events appear to reflect our expectations and beliefs. We look at encounters with strange beings that occurred, say, 100 years ago, and interpret them as possible abduction events.
But how will we look at such events 100 years from now? It reminds me of an article the controversial sci-fi and paranormal writer/editor Ray Palmer wrote in Flying Saucers magazine back in the 1960s. He wondered whether, if there were intelligent beings on Mars (or any other planet), they’d have their own UFO mystery.
In other words, does the force behind such phenomena interact with all intelligent beings around the universe in some form? Is reality itself something consistent from planet to planet, solar system to solar system, star to star, and galaxy to galaxy?
Or is it forever malleable, forever changing, at least within the limits of what intelligent beings can perceive?
Sure, we’re just talking, just theorizing. Besides, the extraterrestrial theory is surely the simpler approach. It’s about dealing with physical beings, possibly human or humanoid, who are more advanced scientifically. It takes a sci-fi concept about visitors from space and turns it into a clear and present reality.
Once you start to consider more abstract concepts, such as a collective unconscious or superconsciousness with which we interact to create a paranormal event, all bets are off. It makes almost anything possible, so long as it’s something that we can imagine in some form.
It takes us to the core of reality. Or are we all lying in stasis somewhere, collectively creating the environment in which we live? If that’s true, maybe we can work together and do it better? I am not at all persuaded that this is the reality I want.
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December 17, 2017
www.theparacast.com
A UFO Field Update from Alejandro Rojas 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 an exclusive podcast, After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, when you sign up for The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes, the Paracast+ Video Channel, episode transcripts, Special Features, Classic Episodes and there’s more to come! We also feature selected podcasts and videos from Paul Kimball’s “Other Side of Truth,” and we are now offering special access to the first two episodes of the ghost haunting show he cohosts, "Haunted." Check out our new lower rates, starting at just $1.49 per week, plus our “Lifetime” membership and special free print and eBook book offers! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present Alejandro Rojas of OpenMinds.tv for a 2017 retrospective and a preview of the 2018 International UFO Congress and Film Festival. Alejandro is the host for Open Minds UFO Radio show, and emcee for IUFOC. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. As a UFO/Paranormal researcher and journalist, Alejandro has spent many hours in the field investigating anomalous phenomena up close and personal. Gene and Chris will also talk shop with a focus on UFOs. There will also be a pop culture-related discussion about what both regard as the sad state of pop music.
Chris O’Brien’s Blog: Our Strange Planet
OpenMinds: Openminds.tv | Exploring UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on December 17: After a brief discussion about his rattling iPhone, special guest Greg Bishop, of “Radio Misterioso,” talks briefly with Gene about technology and the longevity of Apple gear. The conversation moves swiftly from there into Greg’s theory about a UFO co-creation theory, in which we actively participate in how a paranormal experience is perceived by us. Greg also talks about the book he’s co-authoring with Adam Gorightly about the contactee movement, entitled, “A is for Adamski.” After briefly recounting contactee Frank Stranges’ arrest and incarceration for allegedly attempting to smuggle marijuana, he focuses on Charles Hickson, one of the two men reportedly abducted by possible aliens in Pascagoula, MS in 1973, and his subsequent UFO contacts.
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. Check out our new YouTube channel at: The Official Paracast Channel
Are We Creating Our Own UFO Mystery?
By Gene Steinberg
Leave it to cutting-edge commentator Greg Bishop, host of the offbeat “Radio Misterioso” podcast, a frequent Paracast guest and an occasional forum poster, to posit an original slant on a paranormal mystery. Or just come up with a unique way to talk about it.
As most of you know, I have long been skeptical of the extraterrestrial explanation for the flying saucers. It’s not that I don’t believe that there are aliens, or reject the possibility that they may have visited us from time to time. After all, with growing indications of possible Earth-like planets out there, it stands to reason that some of them (and “some” could represent millions of advanced races) might have decided to pay us a visit.
Unfortunately, none of this can actually be proven. There are indications that we are dealing with solid aircraft, capable of advanced maneuvers, which may have left trace evidence of their presence. Add to that reports of beings seen in the vicinity of those UFOs, and the theory seems to make perfect sense.
But there’s no smoking gun. It’s just a theory based on mostly anecdotal evidence. Alleged physical evidence doesn’t appear to confirm an alien origin. Attempts to capture what we see in photos and movies usually fail. You see blurs and lights in the sky. Most clear images appear to be fakes, so there are only a relatively small number showing a defined object that are not easily debunked.
It all conveys the ever-elusive character of UFOs, always a step or two ahead of us, always impossible to pin down. If they’d only land and let us in on the secret, we could get on with our lives. Or at least deal with the consequences of their presence.
Maybe if we can persuade, petition or browbeat the governments of Earth to let us in on what they know. And what about those new reports about a secret U.S. program to investigate UFO encounters involving military aircraft?
If anything, the story disproves the belief that the U.S. government has something significant to disclose about UFOs. According to a Politico report quoting one of the members of the group doing the probe: “After a while the consensus was we really couldn’t find anything of substance. They produced reams of paperwork. After all of that there was really nothing there that we could find. It all pretty much dissolved from that reason alone—and the interest level was losing steam. We only did it a couple years.”
In all, some $20 million was spent by this group, identified as the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, before the plug was pulled. As government programs go, it was chump change. But it does appear that no great effort was made to keep the effort a secret.
So if the truth about the UFOs is a matter of government secrecy, if they have captured or crashed alien spaceships and bodies on ice, if they have any guilty knowledge at all, why spend money to conduct this investigation? Wouldn’t they already know the answers? Even though it happened at the instigation of former U.S. Senator Harry Reid, then the majority leader, I suppose someone could have taken him aside and said not to bother.
UFO disclosure evangelists might just assert that it was all disinformation, an effort to refocus attention in case someone gets too close to the secret.
So what is Greg Bishop’s take the UFOs? Well, one of his theories involves co-creation, in which we are actively participating in establishing the image or reality of what we see. He doesn’t pretend to know how much of a UFO encounter is the product of our own beliefs and expectations, and how much of it is caused by an external reality with which we interact. Maybe that varies from sighting to sighting, and what about UFO abductions?
What about contacts with beings who admonish us to give up the art of war, and love and respect one another? Are all those claims made up out of whole cloth, or do at least some of the so-called contactees believe they actually met physical creatures flying in physical aircraft?
If UFOs and other paranormal events involve our direct participation in creating that event, are they even real? Are they imaginary, or does the co-creation process result in a phenomenon that is as physical as anything we can see, smell and touch?
Just what is going on here?
In his appearance on this weekend’s episode of After The Paracast, Greg reminded us how UFO-related events appear to reflect our expectations and beliefs. We look at encounters with strange beings that occurred, say, 100 years ago, and interpret them as possible abduction events.
But how will we look at such events 100 years from now? It reminds me of an article the controversial sci-fi and paranormal writer/editor Ray Palmer wrote in Flying Saucers magazine back in the 1960s. He wondered whether, if there were intelligent beings on Mars (or any other planet), they’d have their own UFO mystery.
In other words, does the force behind such phenomena interact with all intelligent beings around the universe in some form? Is reality itself something consistent from planet to planet, solar system to solar system, star to star, and galaxy to galaxy?
Or is it forever malleable, forever changing, at least within the limits of what intelligent beings can perceive?
Sure, we’re just talking, just theorizing. Besides, the extraterrestrial theory is surely the simpler approach. It’s about dealing with physical beings, possibly human or humanoid, who are more advanced scientifically. It takes a sci-fi concept about visitors from space and turns it into a clear and present reality.
Once you start to consider more abstract concepts, such as a collective unconscious or superconsciousness with which we interact to create a paranormal event, all bets are off. It makes almost anything possible, so long as it’s something that we can imagine in some form.
It takes us to the core of reality. Or are we all lying in stasis somewhere, collectively creating the environment in which we live? If that’s true, maybe we can work together and do it better? I am not at all persuaded that this is the reality I want.
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