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February 27, 2022
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UFO Historian and Archivist David Marler, an Expert on Triangular UFOs, Reveals the Secrets of Digitizing Vintage UFO-Related Content 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 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, so act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and special guest cohost Curt Collins present David Marler, who has had a lifelong interest in the UFO subject and has actively investigated and researched the subject for 32 years. He joined The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1990 as a Field Investigator Trainee. Since then, he has served as Field Investigator, State Section Director, as well as Illinois State Director. During his tenure with MUFON, he had conducted numerous investigations into alleged UFO sightings and related experiences. Evidence of his historical research is his acclaimed book, Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation. Here, he has provided a comprehensive analysis of triangular UFOs. He has collected, collated, and analyzed hundreds of reports. In the process, he has created a detailed profile of these objects and written a rich narrative of their history.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on February 27: Long-time UFO researcher and archivist David Marler joins Gene and guest cohost Curt Collins to present more details on his efforts to digitize old audio and video files containing UFO evidence. Marler talks about his views about the possible truth behind UFOs and its implications, and the type of case he'd like to be brought to academics and courts. He also reveals some details about the FBI's dossier of the controversial military officer, Philip J. Corso, whose 1997 book, "The Day After Roswell," made the unsupported claim that we have reversed alien technology from the flying saucer that reportedly crashed at Roswell, NM in 1947. David has one of the largest personal libraries of UFO books, journals, magazines, newspapers, microfilms, audio recordings, and case files from around the world that covers the last 75+ years. With this he has been examining the detailed history of UFO sighting reports and related patterns.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. 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
Can We Handle the Truth?
By Gene Steinberg
For so long, people who ache for UFO disclosure have been saying that it’s about to come, any time now. Except that such wishes were first voiced nearly seven decades ago, and we’re still waiting.
So I think of Aaron Sorkin’s famous lines in his screenplay for the 1992 Rob Reiner legal drama, “A Few Good Men”:
Kaffee (Tom Cruise): I want the truth!
Jessup (Jack Nicholson): You can't handle the truth!
Now in the real world, the first question you might ask is whether the U.S. government — or any government on Earth — has anything significant about UFOs to disclose; in other words whether they know the truth. It may be assumed that UFOs represent visitors from other planets, but that has not yet been proven.
While people have supposedly met up with space aliens claiming to be from out there, it’s easy to be skeptical. Maybe they did have a paranormal experience, and maybe some outside force told them something, but that doesn’t mean any of it is true. Just because someone is more advanced than you when it comes to technology doesn’t mean they should be believed.
If the cases are as represented, maybe it’s a matter of spin control, that this outside force creates a misleading impression because “the truth” we crave would not be accepted, or understood.
So we assume, for the moment at least, that ET is among us, flying around with abandon, and maybe kidnapping some Earthlings along the way for genetic tests, just to play with us, or for reasons we wouldn’t understand.
Regardless, can it be assumed the authorities know enough about the phenomenon to come to any reasonable conclusion about what’s going on? Consider that the military’s main concern would be whether the presence of unknown aircraft represents a threat to national security. If not — and that mostly appears to be the case — then it may just fall off their radar.
In other words, they’ll placate people who report sightings, but quickly dismiss them as something conventional or psychological. End of story!
On the other hand, if Earthly governments learned that our visitors — or whatever they are — are up to no good, what then? Would they tell their citizens? It’s highly unlikely without some immediate threat.
I suppose they might be quietly working on shoring up defenses to find a way to fight back if ET was expected to attack. At the end of the day, if there was an invasion, the results might be closer to that depicted in the 1996 sci-fi classic, “Independence Day,” where we would be conquered easily enough unless we learned the secrets to their technology.
But without Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith to figure it out for us and destroy the alien mother ship with a computer virus, as was done in that movie, just how would we fight back? Would we already have the wreckage of crashed UFOs to disassemble the technology and devise a working defense?
Forgetting Philip Corso’s controversial and — to put it bluntly — fanciful book from 1997, “The Day After Roswell,” reverse engineering a technology hundreds or thousand years ahead of us would be a difficult or impossible feat. That would be true even if our best scientists and engineers were committed to the task.
Think of taking an Apple Watch or iPhone back to the 15th century, handing them to a scientist and telling them to figure it out.
But since the force behind UFOs hasn’t actually attacked us — though they have reportedly done some mischief with nuclear installations — it may be fair to assume there is no immediate threat. Thus, it would not be an issue of serious concern to the military, although the new Pentagon UFO/UAP initiative, begun with a $22 million grant in the early 2000s, would seem to indicate they do want to know what’s going on.
Yet it seems that, to them, the UFO phenomenon first started up in 2004, and the tens or hundreds of thousands of sightings around the world before then just don’t count. As we know, of course, military personnel have encountered UFOs for decades, long before those “Tic Tac” videos were shot.
So what about the past? Hasn’t anything been learned in the nearly 75 years since Kenneth Arnold’s sighting essentially started the modern UFO era? What about flying saucers buzzing Washington, DC in 1952, what about the incident at Rendlesham Forest in the UK in 1980 in which there were multiple witnesses and possible human effects?
For the sake of argument, I am going to ignore the Roswell crash of something or other. Other than the U.S. Air Force’s periodic efforts to debunk the case, there doesn’t seem to be any solid evidence that a crashed spaceship — and possibly alien bodies — are being held anywhere.
If such evidence existed, why would the Pentagon have to establish new programs — there have been four so far in recent years — strictly to focus on recent sightings? Wouldn’t they already know what’s going on?
I suppose you could suggest the Pentagon is just placating us with assurances that UFOs are being thoroughly investigated — this time. It’s as if Project Blue Book and its predecessors never existed.
Or maybe some agency within the government knew all along what was going on, and is actively engaged in a long-term plan to let us in on the secret.
In other words, a gradual disclosure initiative.
But wouldn’t that be a ticking time bomb?
What if UFOs are extraterrestrial and they decide once and for all to make their existence known with one or more massed landings?
I can think of the opening scenes in the 1951 film classic, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” in which the military surrounds a landed flying saucer. Just as an alien in a silvery suit reaches for something in its uniform, a nervous soldier shoots him. In response, the being’s protector, a large robotic entity, fires a death ray.
How do we handle such a landing without panicking? Are the authorities quietly preparing for such an occurrence?
Even if no such thing happens, would Earth governments want to educate their citizens as to what’s going on? How would they manage the potential impact to the energy industry, organized religion, or, in fact, any major tech company?
Has any preparation been done to manage the presence of visitors from other worlds? Even if UFOs are not extraterrestrial, we live in a universe that may be teeming with life on other worlds, with some of those beings being way more advanced than we are. It is inevitable that some of them will pay us a visit even if it hasn’t already happened.
When or if that day comes, can we handle the truth? Is it already too late to plan for such an occurrence? Alas, most governments prepare for emergencies only after they happen, and then rush madly to catch up.
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February 27, 2022
www.theparacast.com
UFO Historian and Archivist David Marler, an Expert on Triangular UFOs, Reveals the Secrets of Digitizing Vintage UFO-Related Content 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 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, so act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and special guest cohost Curt Collins present David Marler, who has had a lifelong interest in the UFO subject and has actively investigated and researched the subject for 32 years. He joined The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1990 as a Field Investigator Trainee. Since then, he has served as Field Investigator, State Section Director, as well as Illinois State Director. During his tenure with MUFON, he had conducted numerous investigations into alleged UFO sightings and related experiences. Evidence of his historical research is his acclaimed book, Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation. Here, he has provided a comprehensive analysis of triangular UFOs. He has collected, collated, and analyzed hundreds of reports. In the process, he has created a detailed profile of these objects and written a rich narrative of their history.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on February 27: Long-time UFO researcher and archivist David Marler joins Gene and guest cohost Curt Collins to present more details on his efforts to digitize old audio and video files containing UFO evidence. Marler talks about his views about the possible truth behind UFOs and its implications, and the type of case he'd like to be brought to academics and courts. He also reveals some details about the FBI's dossier of the controversial military officer, Philip J. Corso, whose 1997 book, "The Day After Roswell," made the unsupported claim that we have reversed alien technology from the flying saucer that reportedly crashed at Roswell, NM in 1947. David has one of the largest personal libraries of UFO books, journals, magazines, newspapers, microfilms, audio recordings, and case files from around the world that covers the last 75+ years. With this he has been examining the detailed history of UFO sighting reports and related patterns.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. 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
Can We Handle the Truth?
By Gene Steinberg
For so long, people who ache for UFO disclosure have been saying that it’s about to come, any time now. Except that such wishes were first voiced nearly seven decades ago, and we’re still waiting.
So I think of Aaron Sorkin’s famous lines in his screenplay for the 1992 Rob Reiner legal drama, “A Few Good Men”:
Kaffee (Tom Cruise): I want the truth!
Jessup (Jack Nicholson): You can't handle the truth!
Now in the real world, the first question you might ask is whether the U.S. government — or any government on Earth — has anything significant about UFOs to disclose; in other words whether they know the truth. It may be assumed that UFOs represent visitors from other planets, but that has not yet been proven.
While people have supposedly met up with space aliens claiming to be from out there, it’s easy to be skeptical. Maybe they did have a paranormal experience, and maybe some outside force told them something, but that doesn’t mean any of it is true. Just because someone is more advanced than you when it comes to technology doesn’t mean they should be believed.
If the cases are as represented, maybe it’s a matter of spin control, that this outside force creates a misleading impression because “the truth” we crave would not be accepted, or understood.
So we assume, for the moment at least, that ET is among us, flying around with abandon, and maybe kidnapping some Earthlings along the way for genetic tests, just to play with us, or for reasons we wouldn’t understand.
Regardless, can it be assumed the authorities know enough about the phenomenon to come to any reasonable conclusion about what’s going on? Consider that the military’s main concern would be whether the presence of unknown aircraft represents a threat to national security. If not — and that mostly appears to be the case — then it may just fall off their radar.
In other words, they’ll placate people who report sightings, but quickly dismiss them as something conventional or psychological. End of story!
On the other hand, if Earthly governments learned that our visitors — or whatever they are — are up to no good, what then? Would they tell their citizens? It’s highly unlikely without some immediate threat.
I suppose they might be quietly working on shoring up defenses to find a way to fight back if ET was expected to attack. At the end of the day, if there was an invasion, the results might be closer to that depicted in the 1996 sci-fi classic, “Independence Day,” where we would be conquered easily enough unless we learned the secrets to their technology.
But without Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith to figure it out for us and destroy the alien mother ship with a computer virus, as was done in that movie, just how would we fight back? Would we already have the wreckage of crashed UFOs to disassemble the technology and devise a working defense?
Forgetting Philip Corso’s controversial and — to put it bluntly — fanciful book from 1997, “The Day After Roswell,” reverse engineering a technology hundreds or thousand years ahead of us would be a difficult or impossible feat. That would be true even if our best scientists and engineers were committed to the task.
Think of taking an Apple Watch or iPhone back to the 15th century, handing them to a scientist and telling them to figure it out.
But since the force behind UFOs hasn’t actually attacked us — though they have reportedly done some mischief with nuclear installations — it may be fair to assume there is no immediate threat. Thus, it would not be an issue of serious concern to the military, although the new Pentagon UFO/UAP initiative, begun with a $22 million grant in the early 2000s, would seem to indicate they do want to know what’s going on.
Yet it seems that, to them, the UFO phenomenon first started up in 2004, and the tens or hundreds of thousands of sightings around the world before then just don’t count. As we know, of course, military personnel have encountered UFOs for decades, long before those “Tic Tac” videos were shot.
So what about the past? Hasn’t anything been learned in the nearly 75 years since Kenneth Arnold’s sighting essentially started the modern UFO era? What about flying saucers buzzing Washington, DC in 1952, what about the incident at Rendlesham Forest in the UK in 1980 in which there were multiple witnesses and possible human effects?
For the sake of argument, I am going to ignore the Roswell crash of something or other. Other than the U.S. Air Force’s periodic efforts to debunk the case, there doesn’t seem to be any solid evidence that a crashed spaceship — and possibly alien bodies — are being held anywhere.
If such evidence existed, why would the Pentagon have to establish new programs — there have been four so far in recent years — strictly to focus on recent sightings? Wouldn’t they already know what’s going on?
I suppose you could suggest the Pentagon is just placating us with assurances that UFOs are being thoroughly investigated — this time. It’s as if Project Blue Book and its predecessors never existed.
Or maybe some agency within the government knew all along what was going on, and is actively engaged in a long-term plan to let us in on the secret.
In other words, a gradual disclosure initiative.
But wouldn’t that be a ticking time bomb?
What if UFOs are extraterrestrial and they decide once and for all to make their existence known with one or more massed landings?
I can think of the opening scenes in the 1951 film classic, “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” in which the military surrounds a landed flying saucer. Just as an alien in a silvery suit reaches for something in its uniform, a nervous soldier shoots him. In response, the being’s protector, a large robotic entity, fires a death ray.
How do we handle such a landing without panicking? Are the authorities quietly preparing for such an occurrence?
Even if no such thing happens, would Earth governments want to educate their citizens as to what’s going on? How would they manage the potential impact to the energy industry, organized religion, or, in fact, any major tech company?
Has any preparation been done to manage the presence of visitors from other worlds? Even if UFOs are not extraterrestrial, we live in a universe that may be teeming with life on other worlds, with some of those beings being way more advanced than we are. It is inevitable that some of them will pay us a visit even if it hasn’t already happened.
When or if that day comes, can we handle the truth? Is it already too late to plan for such an occurrence? Alas, most governments prepare for emergencies only after they happen, and then rush madly to catch up.
Copyright 1999-2022 The Paracast Company. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy: Your personal information is safe with us. We will positively never give out your name and/or e-mail address to anybody else, and that's a promise!