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Your Paracast Newsletter — February 19, 2017


Gene Steinberg

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February 19, 2017
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Robert Schroeder Reveals Possible UFO Propulsion Methods on The Paracast

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This Week's Episode: Gene and guest-co host Goggs Mackay interview Robert Schroeder, author of "Solving the UFO Enigma: How Modern Physics is Revealing the Technology of UFOs." So if UFOs are real an extraterrestrial, just how do they perform amazing stunts of maneuverability? What can we learn about advancing our own understanding of physics and possible propulsion systems for future spacecraft? It's going to be a fascinating journey to the frontiers of science. According to Robert: "I retired a few years ago from Hewlett-Packard after 26 years in operations and product management…I've done talks at Phoenix MUFON 2015; MUFON Symposium 2015, Irvine, Calif.; International UFO Congress 2014, Phoenix, Arizona, etc."

Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet

After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on February 19: Gene and Chris are joined by Goggs Mackay and Robert Schroeder, author of “Solving the UFO Enigma: How Modern Physics is Revealing the Technology of UFOs.” To flesh out the interview with Robert on The Paracast, he is asked about his viewpoints about such noted conspiracies as the Kennedy assassination. Robert tells of the time he and his brothers met Kennedy during the 1960 campaign for President, and some years earlier. The discussion briefly turns to disclosure, and whether the government possesses significant data about UFO reality. Chris presents an update from the 2017 International UFO Congress in Fountain Hills, AZ, where he talked with John Rao, founder of OpenMinds, about a rash of mysterious cattle mutilation cases in Argentina. So much for the 37th parallel theory about such happenings. Gene brings up the unexpected resignation of Dr. Richard F. Haines as C hief Scientist of NARCAP.

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Flying Saucers Are Here to Make Us Think
By Gene Steinberg

This is a debate I’ve had for years. The conventional wisdom among UFO believers is that the flying disks are visitors from other worlds. Even though the acronym UFO stands for “unidentified flying object,” to many they are identified. They aren’t unknown. They are spaceships pure and simple.

I’ve often mentioned how this theory aligns with our space program. As humans made their first pitiful efforts to build rocket ships and place satellites into orbit, UFOs were flying around the world. To some, maybe they showed us the way. After all, if another civilization, from another world, has managed to achieve space travel, we could as well.

But when did the UFOs arrive?

The modern era started up in earnest when businessman Kenneth Arnold observed nine shiny objects flying in formation past Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947. The case generated tons of coverage, and other sighting reports followed.

But the term reporters applied to what Arnold saw, “flying saucers,” created a modern legend of things seen in the sky.

As most of you know, the Arnold sighting wasn’t the first. There have been reports about strange flying things through the ages, but this one case came at a time when it was possible to spread the word about an important event around the world in a very short time. It’s not quite the instant news environment that exists today, but it was good enough.

If those reports about this sighting didn’t catch fire, you wonder if the UFO mystery would exist at all in the public’s consciousness. People would continue to see strange objects in the sky, but without the focal point of two words to unify the coverage. It didn’t matter what shape they took. They were flying saucers — at least until the acronym UFOs took over.

So was this a happy, or unhappy, accident, a story that gained traction on an otherwise light news day? When I did a speedy random search for the major news events of that day, I got one consistent headline:

“Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.”

If that didn’t happen, would another case have captured the public’s imagination? I often wonder how our lives would have turned out, but I suspect another sighting might have received coverage on a similar day, and we’d be talking about that witness or witnesses instead of Arnold.

Have UFOs actually changed lives?

Reading about UFO sightings did make people curious to know more. Significant sightings, of course. If possible abductions were involved, there’s no question that people were seriously impacted, sometimes in a not-too-pleasant fashion.

But what about the claims over the years that flying saucers appeared in Biblical times, and that the presence of alien creatures influenced our early history? Are some religious texts based on actual interactions with possible extraterrestrials, or tales of such interactions? How would we regard them anyway? Angels from the heavens? Did we actually speak with them, or imagine that we did?

Nowadays, the claimed interactions with extraterrestrials often follow a singular thread. Humans are hostile, warlike. The aliens come from places where peace has been achieved, and if we follow the path of lightness, we may someday qualify to become part of a galactic Federation. Or at least live a more fulfilling life. You take your choice.

So do these claims really involve contact with aliens? Are they physical events, or even real? If they are real, do they involve real encounters with physical beings, or some sort of alien or incomprehensible consciousness that we contact at a level we don’t understand?

Or is it all just fakery, from people who hope for a little more attention to give their lives some meaning? So they glom onto the alien visitor meme, claiming they are one of the privileged few who are lucky enough to be granted audiences with higher beings.

Now the origins of those supposed ETs have changed over the centuries. At one time, our visitors were messengers from God. In the 1950s and 1960s, they were visitors from Venus and Mars (are they alright tonight?) or even Saturn. When it became abundantly clear that humans or humanoid creatures have probably not established civilizations on those worlds — and we all know it can get mighty hot on Venus — the stories and the origins changed.

So I’ve read about people claiming to channel the “Star People” from Zeti Reticuli, which is a binary star system that does not, at least so far, appear to have any orbiting planets. I’ll grant that we know very little about extrasolar planets, and maybe we missed the one that the Star People inhabit.

Or maybe that’s what these forces choose to tell us for our benefit. They expect us to believe them without question, and even if they display evidence of their technology with a sighting or some other paranormal apparition, that doesn’t prove what they are. It doesn’t demonstrate their true motives either. Just because they say so, and have powers beyond those of mere mortals, doesn’t mean they are to be taken at face value.

Now several decades ago, controversial writer/editor Ray Palmer made an interesting statement that has lots of meaning. As most of you know, Palmer achieved fame, or infamy, in both the sci-fi and paranormal fields. He promoted Richard Shaver in Amazing Stories magazine, a fiction publication. Shaver, in turn, may have predicted the arrival of the flying saucers in some of his stories and letters.

Some of the early flying saucer reporters appeared in Fate magazine, co-founded by Palmer. Kenneth Arnold and Palmer coauthored a book on the subject, “The Coming of the Saucers.” And then in Flying Saucers magazine, which was established after he left Fate, Palmer wrote that, “flying saucers are here to make us think.”

He appeared to be saying that their origins may not matter so much. It was more important to consider their intent.

Think about what?

The alleged messages from the Space Brothers? Exploring outer space, the imperative that humans must ultimately leave this planet and travel to the stars?

Some even regard the way in which the UFOs fly, their pinpoint maneuvers, and imagine what sort of technology they might be using. Have they perfected antigravity travel? What about some sort of warp drive, a scheme to allow their craft to soar across space from one planetary system to another in hours or days, rather than years, decades or centuries?

The presence of UFOs, and their possible means of flight, influenced author Robert L. Schroeder to write, “Solving the UFO Enigma: How Modern Physics is Revealing the Technology of UFOs.”

In Robert’s appearance on The Paracast, he makes it quite clear that he takes UFOs at face value. They are physical aircraft using an advanced means of propulsion. Regardless of the truth behind their presence here, the flying saucers indeed made him think!

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