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February 26, 2023
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UFO Researcher George Wingfield Reveals Possible Solution to 1980 Rendlesham Forest UK UFO Encounter on The Paracast!
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This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present UFO researcher George Wingfield with a possible rational explanation to the 1980 Rendlesham Forest UK UFO encounter. His book on the topic is entitled: "The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery and Project Honey Badger," which examines the incident in considerable detail and reveals what appears to be extraordinary new evidence that proves exactly what this particular "UFO" really was. According to Winfield, previous claims by other authors that this UFO was a visiting alien spacecraft — or else one piloted by time-traveling humans from Earth’s future— can now be firmly dismissed. He has a BA Hons Degree in Natural Sciences from Trinity College Dublin and once worked as an astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Herstmonceux, UK, and then for many years with IBM UK Ltd in a variety of different roles.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on February 26: UFO researcher George Wingfield returns to continue to explore, with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz, the inner details of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest UK UFO encounter. As described in his book, "The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery and Project Honey Badger," witnesses to a landed craft and, later, lights in the sky, may have been the unwary victims of a government experiment. Wingfield also talks about the frightening possibilities of what has been labeled the "Havana Syndrome," and government efforts at mind control. He has written about and lectured on a number of subjects that include British history, prehistoric sites, astronomy, UFOs and crop circles. He has traveled extensively and spoken on radio and TV in Britain and the US. Wingfield has also attended and sometimes lectured at various UFO conferences over the last 32 years in both the UK and the US.
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. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel.
My UFO is Different From Your UFO
By Gene Steinberg
It’s a sure thing that UFOs come in many shapes and sizes. From tiny lights, to huge cigar-shaped craft, it’s hard to know where to begin. But rather than cite the ways, let me make it clear that the configuration of a UFO is not what this article is about.
It’s about what the idea of a UFO means to people by and large. Maybe sometimes to me.
I thought early on that we were being visited by extraterrestrials, as a sci-fi fan and, later, an author, it was a romantic vision. Somewhere out there exist planets revolving around far-off star systems that have spawned life as we know it. Maybe, as depicted in Star Trek, most are humanoid simply because it is a convenient evolutionary solution to enable lifeforms to develop an advanced technology. But that doesn’t eliminate the possibility of other shapes, such as the seven-limbed heptapods revealed in the fascinating 2016 movie, “Arrival.”
And, over the years, many sci-fi stories have shown ET to be perfectly ugly entities, at least according to Earthly standards. Some might be what is regarded as pure energy, meaning they are capable of shifting to any shape they want, or no shape at all. Consider the “Q-Continuum” entities from Star Trek: The Next Generation and the ascended beings in Stargate SG-1.
All of this, however, assumes the UFOs are alien in origin. Whether from another planet, or another dimension — or some combination of both — they are not of this Earth.
But that doesn’t mean that the UFO enigma doesn’t have multiple solutions, some of which may be readily resolved, some of which won’t.
In the years after World War II, when UFOs first appeared in abundance in the so-called modern era, some felt there were perfectly conventional explanations for many of these sightings. Some were planets, some were airplanes or balloons, possibly being tested, sand some were misinterpretations of conventional phenomena. Add to that an unknown number of hoaxes.
All told, had we enough information to consider, all or most UFO cases would be fully explained. Or that was what the governments of Earth frequently told us.
Now when I look over the sighting reports released by the U.S. government since the disclosure of a secret UAP project in the early 2000s, most could very well be due to balloons or drones. The question mark remains aircraft that engaged in rapid maneuvers that appear to be beyond Earthly technology, or at least any technology that we know about.
That’s always been true. If such an object is described relatively accurately, given the limits of human perception, they must be of unknown origin. Whether spaceships or something else, we still don’t know.
But if you fudge the descriptions somewhat, maybe observers are misinterpreting what appears to be the amazing performance of some UFOs. When Kenneth Arnold saw nine ellipsoid objects on June 24, 1947, which were later described as flying saucers, he estimated their speed at over 1,200 miles per hour.
He was an experienced pilot, and he used his skills to make a rough determination of the speed at which those objects were traveling. But what if he was wrong? What if he overestimated their performance level, and perhaps got the descriptions of the objects wrong? Could there have been a conventional explanation?
Remember that the Arnold sighting occurred just shy of four months before Captain Charles E. Yeager became the first pilot to fly an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. The maximum speed of the Bell X-1 he flew was measured at 700 mph, or Mach 1.06 to be technical.
No doubt there were other experimental flights that came close, but no cigars. So what if Arnold’s estimate was wrong, what if he overestimated and the actual speeds were closer to 600 mph or so? Is it possible that what he saw was a test aircraft? Just asking. I will certainly accept Arnold’s report as accurate, and he’s not around to discuss the matter in more detail.
Conventional?
In his 2014 book, “The Rosetta Deception,” former MUFON Director James Carrion suggests that Ghost Rockets from World War II might have represented an intelligence operation to spook the Russians before the Cold War began.
That takes us to the legendary 1947 Roswell crash of a possibly unknown craft. After referring to it as a crashed flying disk, the military said it was just a balloon, and produced a press picture to prove it. In 1979, some individuals who were present during the event revealed a possible cover-up, that it involved the crash of a flying saucer, possibly from outer space.
Over the years, the U.S. Air Force has fleshed out its claims by asserting that the crash involved a Project Mogul balloon. But Kevin D. Randle and other Roswell researchers determined that there was no evidence of the flight of such an object during the timeframe when the crash occurred.
Prolific paranormal author Nick Redfern’s 2005 book, “Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story,” has a different theory about a possible Earthly explanation. Redfern suggests it wasn’t a UFO with dead alien bodies. Instead, the incident involved gruesome top secret medical experiments involving deformed, handicapped, disfigured, and diseased Japanese POWs.
It’s wasn’t the first disclosure of possible attempts by the U.S. government to conduct tests of innocent private citizens. While Redfern’s theory has been highly disputed in the years following the publication of his book, it doesn’t mean that there haven’t been unwary victims of military shenanigans.
UFO researcher George Wingfield, who has been following the mystery for over 30 years, has written a book that focuses on the 1980 UFO episode in Rendlesham Forest in the UK. On The Paracast, we have featured over a dozen episodes covering the affair.
So in “The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery and Project Honey Badger,” he makes a foray into the politics of that era. He theorizes that the encounter involved a craft and technology that was being developed as part of a rescue mission to aid U.S. Special Forces troops in freeing the U.S. hostages held in Iran.
As history shows, that mission was never completed. A total of 52 hostages were otherwise freed, as the result of negotiations, on January 20, 1981. That’s when President Ronald Reagan took office, and there has been a long-simmering controversy over whether his people succeeded in delaying their release until after the 1980 election, the better to hurt President Carter’s election prospects.
Wingfield also theorizes that the 1980 Cash-Landrum UFO case in Texas also involved a test object, this time a balloon. In both this and the Rendlesham episodes, people suffered harmful physical effects as a result of the testing of experimental weaponry.
The possibility of government involvement in the UFO mystery arose again in the wake of the Chinese balloon flareup in early 2023, where one allegedly used for intelligence gathering flew over the U.S. before being taken down by a missile off the coast of Surfside Beach, South Carolina.
After three other balloons flying over North America were observed in the days that followed, the magic acronym UFO was raised. The Pentagon UAP project got into the news. This time, they claimed that roughly half of the few hundred military sightings they investigated involved balloons.
As to those three objects? They were also balloons, authorities said, and they were all shot down. At least two of them have not been located, and no further efforts will reportedly be made for their recovery. It’s just not important enough.
One published report claimed they were just $12 balloons, but that statement was clearly was meant as a joke. No $12 balloon, perhaps short of something acquired cheaply in a military surplus sale, could fly at an altitude of 40,000 feet.
So was the balloon report just yet another effort from the Pentagon to debunk possible UFO reality? Do those balloons really exist? It’s certainly possible.
At the same time, even though I do accept the reality of real UFOs, meaning unknown objects that defy explanation, it doesn’t mean that hasn’t been government participation in sending up test aircraft and balloons that were mistaken for UFOs. I suppose it’s even possible that the UFO meme is being exploited as a cover story to conceal or divert attention from what’s really going on.
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February 26, 2023
www.theparacast.com
UFO Researcher George Wingfield Reveals Possible Solution to 1980 Rendlesham Forest UK UFO Encounter 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.
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 podcast, After The Paracast, plus an enhanced version of The Paracast with the network ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Flash! Use the coupon code ufo20 to receive a 20% discount on five-year or lifetime subscriptions. And PayPal now accepts cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in payment. And if you don't want to use PayPal, we now also offer a second payment option, from Stripe, which accepts major credit or debit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. For "qualified users," you can also take advantage of Pay Later options, so act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present UFO researcher George Wingfield with a possible rational explanation to the 1980 Rendlesham Forest UK UFO encounter. His book on the topic is entitled: "The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery and Project Honey Badger," which examines the incident in considerable detail and reveals what appears to be extraordinary new evidence that proves exactly what this particular "UFO" really was. According to Winfield, previous claims by other authors that this UFO was a visiting alien spacecraft — or else one piloted by time-traveling humans from Earth’s future— can now be firmly dismissed. He has a BA Hons Degree in Natural Sciences from Trinity College Dublin and once worked as an astronomer at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Herstmonceux, UK, and then for many years with IBM UK Ltd in a variety of different roles.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on February 26: UFO researcher George Wingfield returns to continue to explore, with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz, the inner details of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest UK UFO encounter. As described in his book, "The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery and Project Honey Badger," witnesses to a landed craft and, later, lights in the sky, may have been the unwary victims of a government experiment. Wingfield also talks about the frightening possibilities of what has been labeled the "Havana Syndrome," and government efforts at mind control. He has written about and lectured on a number of subjects that include British history, prehistoric sites, astronomy, UFOs and crop circles. He has traveled extensively and spoken on radio and TV in Britain and the US. Wingfield has also attended and sometimes lectured at various UFO conferences over the last 32 years in both the UK and the US.
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. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel.
My UFO is Different From Your UFO
By Gene Steinberg
It’s a sure thing that UFOs come in many shapes and sizes. From tiny lights, to huge cigar-shaped craft, it’s hard to know where to begin. But rather than cite the ways, let me make it clear that the configuration of a UFO is not what this article is about.
It’s about what the idea of a UFO means to people by and large. Maybe sometimes to me.
I thought early on that we were being visited by extraterrestrials, as a sci-fi fan and, later, an author, it was a romantic vision. Somewhere out there exist planets revolving around far-off star systems that have spawned life as we know it. Maybe, as depicted in Star Trek, most are humanoid simply because it is a convenient evolutionary solution to enable lifeforms to develop an advanced technology. But that doesn’t eliminate the possibility of other shapes, such as the seven-limbed heptapods revealed in the fascinating 2016 movie, “Arrival.”
And, over the years, many sci-fi stories have shown ET to be perfectly ugly entities, at least according to Earthly standards. Some might be what is regarded as pure energy, meaning they are capable of shifting to any shape they want, or no shape at all. Consider the “Q-Continuum” entities from Star Trek: The Next Generation and the ascended beings in Stargate SG-1.
All of this, however, assumes the UFOs are alien in origin. Whether from another planet, or another dimension — or some combination of both — they are not of this Earth.
But that doesn’t mean that the UFO enigma doesn’t have multiple solutions, some of which may be readily resolved, some of which won’t.
In the years after World War II, when UFOs first appeared in abundance in the so-called modern era, some felt there were perfectly conventional explanations for many of these sightings. Some were planets, some were airplanes or balloons, possibly being tested, sand some were misinterpretations of conventional phenomena. Add to that an unknown number of hoaxes.
All told, had we enough information to consider, all or most UFO cases would be fully explained. Or that was what the governments of Earth frequently told us.
Now when I look over the sighting reports released by the U.S. government since the disclosure of a secret UAP project in the early 2000s, most could very well be due to balloons or drones. The question mark remains aircraft that engaged in rapid maneuvers that appear to be beyond Earthly technology, or at least any technology that we know about.
That’s always been true. If such an object is described relatively accurately, given the limits of human perception, they must be of unknown origin. Whether spaceships or something else, we still don’t know.
But if you fudge the descriptions somewhat, maybe observers are misinterpreting what appears to be the amazing performance of some UFOs. When Kenneth Arnold saw nine ellipsoid objects on June 24, 1947, which were later described as flying saucers, he estimated their speed at over 1,200 miles per hour.
He was an experienced pilot, and he used his skills to make a rough determination of the speed at which those objects were traveling. But what if he was wrong? What if he overestimated their performance level, and perhaps got the descriptions of the objects wrong? Could there have been a conventional explanation?
Remember that the Arnold sighting occurred just shy of four months before Captain Charles E. Yeager became the first pilot to fly an aircraft faster than the speed of sound. The maximum speed of the Bell X-1 he flew was measured at 700 mph, or Mach 1.06 to be technical.
No doubt there were other experimental flights that came close, but no cigars. So what if Arnold’s estimate was wrong, what if he overestimated and the actual speeds were closer to 600 mph or so? Is it possible that what he saw was a test aircraft? Just asking. I will certainly accept Arnold’s report as accurate, and he’s not around to discuss the matter in more detail.
Conventional?
In his 2014 book, “The Rosetta Deception,” former MUFON Director James Carrion suggests that Ghost Rockets from World War II might have represented an intelligence operation to spook the Russians before the Cold War began.
That takes us to the legendary 1947 Roswell crash of a possibly unknown craft. After referring to it as a crashed flying disk, the military said it was just a balloon, and produced a press picture to prove it. In 1979, some individuals who were present during the event revealed a possible cover-up, that it involved the crash of a flying saucer, possibly from outer space.
Over the years, the U.S. Air Force has fleshed out its claims by asserting that the crash involved a Project Mogul balloon. But Kevin D. Randle and other Roswell researchers determined that there was no evidence of the flight of such an object during the timeframe when the crash occurred.
Prolific paranormal author Nick Redfern’s 2005 book, “Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story,” has a different theory about a possible Earthly explanation. Redfern suggests it wasn’t a UFO with dead alien bodies. Instead, the incident involved gruesome top secret medical experiments involving deformed, handicapped, disfigured, and diseased Japanese POWs.
It’s wasn’t the first disclosure of possible attempts by the U.S. government to conduct tests of innocent private citizens. While Redfern’s theory has been highly disputed in the years following the publication of his book, it doesn’t mean that there haven’t been unwary victims of military shenanigans.
UFO researcher George Wingfield, who has been following the mystery for over 30 years, has written a book that focuses on the 1980 UFO episode in Rendlesham Forest in the UK. On The Paracast, we have featured over a dozen episodes covering the affair.
So in “The Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery and Project Honey Badger,” he makes a foray into the politics of that era. He theorizes that the encounter involved a craft and technology that was being developed as part of a rescue mission to aid U.S. Special Forces troops in freeing the U.S. hostages held in Iran.
As history shows, that mission was never completed. A total of 52 hostages were otherwise freed, as the result of negotiations, on January 20, 1981. That’s when President Ronald Reagan took office, and there has been a long-simmering controversy over whether his people succeeded in delaying their release until after the 1980 election, the better to hurt President Carter’s election prospects.
Wingfield also theorizes that the 1980 Cash-Landrum UFO case in Texas also involved a test object, this time a balloon. In both this and the Rendlesham episodes, people suffered harmful physical effects as a result of the testing of experimental weaponry.
The possibility of government involvement in the UFO mystery arose again in the wake of the Chinese balloon flareup in early 2023, where one allegedly used for intelligence gathering flew over the U.S. before being taken down by a missile off the coast of Surfside Beach, South Carolina.
After three other balloons flying over North America were observed in the days that followed, the magic acronym UFO was raised. The Pentagon UAP project got into the news. This time, they claimed that roughly half of the few hundred military sightings they investigated involved balloons.
As to those three objects? They were also balloons, authorities said, and they were all shot down. At least two of them have not been located, and no further efforts will reportedly be made for their recovery. It’s just not important enough.
One published report claimed they were just $12 balloons, but that statement was clearly was meant as a joke. No $12 balloon, perhaps short of something acquired cheaply in a military surplus sale, could fly at an altitude of 40,000 feet.
So was the balloon report just yet another effort from the Pentagon to debunk possible UFO reality? Do those balloons really exist? It’s certainly possible.
At the same time, even though I do accept the reality of real UFOs, meaning unknown objects that defy explanation, it doesn’t mean that hasn’t been government participation in sending up test aircraft and balloons that were mistaken for UFOs. I suppose it’s even possible that the UFO meme is being exploited as a cover story to conceal or divert attention from what’s really going on.
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