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Your Paracast Newsletter — December 24, 2017


Gene Steinberg

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December 24, 2017
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After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on December 24: Gene and Chris focus primarily on the recent stories about a secret UFO research program housed in the Pentagon. Does this portend a new serious attitude towards UFO research, or will the human interest stories soon fade away as other pop culture tales take precedence? Why are the published and broadcast reports so similar? Is it a red herring, something contrived to misdirect us? Is it an early step towards gradual disclosure, maybe a trial balloon? Gene and Chris also talk about theories of demonic UFOs, that they are here to do us harm. Besides, have UFOs ever done anything that actually saved lives?

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No, Disclosure Hasn’t Happened Yet!
By Gene Steinberg

After so many years of disappointment, I’m sure some of you are wondering about the potential impact of that recent report about a “secret” program to investigate UFOs. Are we on the threshold of disclosure after decades of disappointment, or is this yet another false hope?

I first read about it in a mid-December report in The New York Times, where it was revealed that some $22 million was allocated towards something known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Obviously the title is typical government-speak, and not at all likely to be connected to UFOs.

According to the Times, the investigation was funded at the request of former Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, then Majority Leader. Although reportedly managed by one Luis Elizondo, identified as a “military intelligence official,” from a fifth floor office at the Pentagon, most of the funds were sent to a third party, a friend of Senator Reid, one Robert Bigelow, the sometimes reclusive billionaire entrepreneur who has a long history of studying UFOs and keeping the results, if any, to himself.

The study, which began in 2007, was reportedly shut down in 2012. Or maybe not. At first glance, I wondered whether any of that money was used to fund the aborted deal that Bigelow made with MUFON for UFO research.

But if you are wondering whether this is yet another example of government waste, remember that the U.S. defense budget totals hundreds of billions of dollars. So a spare $22 million or so here and there is hardly noticed. By any sense of perspective, there are far worse abuses, such as those persistent cost overruns in building new military hardware.

Now working with Tom Delonge and others on the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, Elizondo has joined the talking head brigade in making media appearances to discuss some of reports he came across, such as gun camera photos of UFOs.

Is there a book in his future?

I hate to be cynical about it all, but there have been a number of dashed hopes in the UFO field over the years. Consider those Congressional hearings in the 1960s, and the establishment of the Condon Committee, supposedly to get to the bottom of the UFO mess. Most of you recall how that turned out. There were hopes aplenty, and when the committee’s report came down on the negative side of UFO reality, the Air Force used it as an excuse to shutter Project Blue Book.

Those of you who were interested in UFOs in those days might have felt that the UFO field was poised to collapse. For a time, sightings were at a low ebb. By the 1970s, we were back where we started.

I certainly don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, and I can see where those of you who believe in disclosure might be feeling optimistic that we’re finally on the right track.

But consider this: If the U.S. government has been accumulating wads of evidence about the flying saucers since the late 1940s, why would this new study make a difference? Why is it even needed? If an alien spaceship was recovered near Roswell, NM in 1947, wouldn’t we already have tons of knowledge about our visitors and their capabilities?

So what is this new study supposed to accomplish anyway?

Now the Majority Leader is an ex-officio member of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which comes with it certain clearances to be able to access secret information.

Besides, when Senator Reid was making moves to have the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program established and funded, couldn’t some official have taken him aside, reminded him of his obligations to God and country, and explain why such a project was unnecessary?

The existence of this agency appeared to imply that there was otherwise no active government investigation of UFOs going on, and, worse, that they didn’t possess a vast treasure trove of data about them.

Or was this all a public relations stunt to deflect attention from what was really being done about UFOs, whatever that might be?

Despite the occasional whistleblower, we can only suspect what the governments of Earth know about them. Certainly they have lots of sighting reports, but other than determining whether or not the objects represent a possible threat to a nation, is anything actually being investigated?

Again, if the U.S. government possesses guilty knowledge of UFO reality, funding an investigation agency or project doesn’t make any sense at all. What’s the point?

So do disclosure advocates have any reason to hope that, after years of disappointment, this time might be different?

Well, for one thing, the media has, by and large, taken the story seriously. It’s not getting major play with daily coverage, however. It’s more in the form of the occasional human interest or pop culture piece. You might feel, for the moment, that the news media has borrowed a few tricks from paranormal reality shows in presenting these segments. There’s no onslaught of daily coverage that delivers new details. It’s mostly focusing on the same things with some of the same participants.

If it’s about implementing a disclosure plan, you might wonder what happens next? Is that all there is?

At least the report influenced one White House journalist to ask the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, what President Trump had to say about UFOs. Her response was that she’d ask him, but she does that often with other inquiries for which she has no answers. There’s never a follow-up.

In the meantime, what about Elizondo’s involvement with that group run by former rocker Tom Delonge? Is the To The Stars organization’s fundraising effort taking off? Not by a whole lot? Within days after it went public, over $2 million was tallied. But it hasn’t increased much since then despite all the publicity about the Pentagon’s UFO initiative and the To The Stars tie-in.

While I’m certainly following this story with great interest, I’m not holding out any hope that anything in the UFO field is poised to change now or in the near future.

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