THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
February 8, 2015
www.theparacast.com
UFO Disclosure and the Media Discussed 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.
Announcing The Paracast+: You asked for it! For a low monthly or annual subscription fee, you will receive access to a higher-quality ad-free version of The Paracast, chat rooms, the all-new After The Paracast podcast, featuring politically incorrect color commentary, and other exclusive content. The Paracast+ video channel is coming soon. For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Ron James, longtime "conscious media" producer will return to the Paracast to address a wide-range of subjects that will include, the Paracast+ video channel, The Disclosure Initiative; the future of multimedia education and coverage of paranormal subjects in the 21st Century, evolving understanding of human consciousness, emerging investigative approaches to "haunted sites," and much much more. We'll also ask your questions of our guest.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Ron James’ Site: Ivolve TV - Home
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.
The Ends and the Means
By Gene Steinberg
As some of you know, your friendly Paracast hosts have been down on the UFO “Disclosure” movement. It’s not that we don’t believe that the U.S. government knows more about UFOs than we do. If there’s any reality to the phenomenon, it’s very likely they have a lot of knowledge to which we don’t have access, but that might be more about the information redacted from sighting reports, or sightings to which they will not admit.
Indeed, it may also be possible that actual UFO investigations, or even the analysis of the evidence on hand that may or may not include the wreckage of crashed spaceships, has been passed on to private industry. The government can claim they have no such evidence and thus maintain plausible deniability.
But I’m not suggesting that any private company has any of this evidence, though it does make sense.
Regardless, disclosure demands continue without any tangible result. Some time back, when a disclosure activist organization, Stephen Bassett’s Paradigm Research Group, sent a petition demanding that the president admit we were being visited by extraterrestrials, there was actually a response from a low-level bureaucrat. Predictably the response didn’t differ in any significant way from what the U.S. Air Force has said for years. In short, they had no evidence that UFOs were real, or represented a possible threat to the nation. End of story.
In recent months, PRG has been touting yet another petition, in the hope of getting 100,000 signatures, which is the new minimum required by the White House to elicit a response. Unfortunately, when I checked its status on PRG’s site, I got a link to the White House that indicated the petition had expired without reaching the desired signature count.
Regardless, 100,000 names is a fairly small number as petitions go. Last year, some one million people signed a petition to the Federal Communications Commission urging net neutrality. With the FCC poised to pass a new ruling that is intended to enforce net neutrality — the concept that ISPs shouldn’t be allowed to throttle some traffic, such as Netflix, unless they get a special payment from the content provider — was no doubt highly influenced by public opinion on the matter.
I have little doubt that any petition of that size — and there have been others over the years — can influence governments or government agencies to take matters seriously. If that many signatures were received by the White House, there is little doubt the response would be far more nuanced than the one delivered by that low-level government flunky to the original PRG petition.
But it doesn’t mean it would result in hearings in the halls of Congress into the UFO mystery. It’s not that President Obama has a special relationship with the Republican-controlled Congress.
Even if such an effort succeeded, what do you really think is going to happen? Would the end result be the same as the last hearings, in the 1960s, that resulted in the Condon Committee? Their conclusions were little different from the usual government response. No spaceships, no real UFOs, end of story.
My problem with the disclosure advocates, though, is not that they shouldn’t ask a government to reveal what it knows about UFOs. By and large, however, the demand specifically talks about spaceships and the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth. That may indeed be the answer, but it’s also prejudging the result.
The media by and large regards people interested in UFOs as “extraterrestrial believers,” and that adds a cultist veneer that doesn’t help the case.
Consider, also, the plight of a politician in the U.S. They have to cater not only to their constituents, but to their wealthy donors so they can get enough money to get reelected. How would the individuals and organizations who finance those expensive political campaigns feel about a candidate who believes in UFOs? Would they lose the support of the very people they depend upon to finance their campaigns?
Do I have to give you the answer?
More to the point, we don’t have ironclad evidence where UFOs come from, or their actual purpose. That alleged Space Brothers may convey such information to some experiencers, even if those claims are genuine, doesn’t mean it’s true. If ET was among us, why should we accept what they tell us even if they appear to be taking us into their confidence?
In short, demanding that the government reveal the truth about ETs on Earth isn’t something the authorities are likely to take seriously.
Worse, even such usually respected UFO groups as MUFON will, nowadays, host people with questionable claims and theories at their public events. They will tell you that they merely want to present a balanced view of the phenomenon, or they need speakers who can attract an audience. That may be all right as far as it goes, particularly if these events are focused on true believers and there are bills to pay.
But the skeptics — and the media — will seize on the least credible presentations, or perhaps the wacky merchandise sold at the concession stands, and cite them as evidence that the UFO mystery is a load of nonsense.
Take Bassett’s Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, a 2013 event that featured former members of the U.S. Congress and Senate, who spent several days listening to presentations of UFO evidence in exchange for a decent honorarium. Now the effort was worthy and all, and much of the information was compelling. Unfortunately, as Bassett once admitted on The Paracast in our early days, he isn’t interested in necessarily vetting his speakers.
So we had the unfortunate situation of one such presenter, Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Minister of National Defence, clearly going off the rails. During his presentation, he casually claimed that some four species of aliens had been visiting Earth for thousands of years, that they “may have different agendas,” and that they walk among us.
Some he suggested, are working for the U.S. government.
Now I am not about to say that it’s all the fantasy of an old man, or a misguided effort to regain former glories as a once-prominent government official. But these claims were ripe for being seized upon by the skeptical media in search of a good story about crazy people chasing after spaceships.
All the solid evidence will carry no weight once the appropriately silly sound bite is recorded and played over and over again. To the media, UFOs are all about entertainment and not about the news. The stories mostly appear as filler, or if its a slow news day.
Yes I’m advocating political correctness, but people who want the governments of Earth to take UFOs seriously, or admit they are taking the mystery seriously, need to be careful and focus the message on the intended audience. Demanding that they reveal the alleged truth about the presence of ET on Earth is hardly likely to achieve that result.
But asking the governments to investigate a mystifying phenomenon involving mysterious objects observed by credible observers flying at incredible speeds far ahead of our technology, being photographed and tracked on radar, and sometimes leaving trace evidence on the ground, may have a more positive result.
Such a request isn’t so much demanding disclosure of a presumed truth that remains unproven as it’s asking for the authorities to figure out what’s going on.
Even if hearings were held in the U.S. House or Senate, wouldn’t witnesses do better to present the evidence without conclusions? In response to questions about whether UFOs are from other space, wouldn’t it make more sense to simply say we don’t know what they are or their origin, but their presence could present a potential security threat? For the safety of the nation, demand an investigation, not disclosure.
Any sales or marketing person worth their salt would recommend that you tailor your message to your audience for the best results. I rest my case.
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February 8, 2015
www.theparacast.com
UFO Disclosure and the Media Discussed 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.
Announcing The Paracast+: You asked for it! For a low monthly or annual subscription fee, you will receive access to a higher-quality ad-free version of The Paracast, chat rooms, the all-new After The Paracast podcast, featuring politically incorrect color commentary, and other exclusive content. The Paracast+ video channel is coming soon. For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Ron James, longtime "conscious media" producer will return to the Paracast to address a wide-range of subjects that will include, the Paracast+ video channel, The Disclosure Initiative; the future of multimedia education and coverage of paranormal subjects in the 21st Century, evolving understanding of human consciousness, emerging investigative approaches to "haunted sites," and much much more. We'll also ask your questions of our guest.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Ron James’ Site: Ivolve TV - Home
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.
The Ends and the Means
By Gene Steinberg
As some of you know, your friendly Paracast hosts have been down on the UFO “Disclosure” movement. It’s not that we don’t believe that the U.S. government knows more about UFOs than we do. If there’s any reality to the phenomenon, it’s very likely they have a lot of knowledge to which we don’t have access, but that might be more about the information redacted from sighting reports, or sightings to which they will not admit.
Indeed, it may also be possible that actual UFO investigations, or even the analysis of the evidence on hand that may or may not include the wreckage of crashed spaceships, has been passed on to private industry. The government can claim they have no such evidence and thus maintain plausible deniability.
But I’m not suggesting that any private company has any of this evidence, though it does make sense.
Regardless, disclosure demands continue without any tangible result. Some time back, when a disclosure activist organization, Stephen Bassett’s Paradigm Research Group, sent a petition demanding that the president admit we were being visited by extraterrestrials, there was actually a response from a low-level bureaucrat. Predictably the response didn’t differ in any significant way from what the U.S. Air Force has said for years. In short, they had no evidence that UFOs were real, or represented a possible threat to the nation. End of story.
In recent months, PRG has been touting yet another petition, in the hope of getting 100,000 signatures, which is the new minimum required by the White House to elicit a response. Unfortunately, when I checked its status on PRG’s site, I got a link to the White House that indicated the petition had expired without reaching the desired signature count.
Regardless, 100,000 names is a fairly small number as petitions go. Last year, some one million people signed a petition to the Federal Communications Commission urging net neutrality. With the FCC poised to pass a new ruling that is intended to enforce net neutrality — the concept that ISPs shouldn’t be allowed to throttle some traffic, such as Netflix, unless they get a special payment from the content provider — was no doubt highly influenced by public opinion on the matter.
I have little doubt that any petition of that size — and there have been others over the years — can influence governments or government agencies to take matters seriously. If that many signatures were received by the White House, there is little doubt the response would be far more nuanced than the one delivered by that low-level government flunky to the original PRG petition.
But it doesn’t mean it would result in hearings in the halls of Congress into the UFO mystery. It’s not that President Obama has a special relationship with the Republican-controlled Congress.
Even if such an effort succeeded, what do you really think is going to happen? Would the end result be the same as the last hearings, in the 1960s, that resulted in the Condon Committee? Their conclusions were little different from the usual government response. No spaceships, no real UFOs, end of story.
My problem with the disclosure advocates, though, is not that they shouldn’t ask a government to reveal what it knows about UFOs. By and large, however, the demand specifically talks about spaceships and the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth. That may indeed be the answer, but it’s also prejudging the result.
The media by and large regards people interested in UFOs as “extraterrestrial believers,” and that adds a cultist veneer that doesn’t help the case.
Consider, also, the plight of a politician in the U.S. They have to cater not only to their constituents, but to their wealthy donors so they can get enough money to get reelected. How would the individuals and organizations who finance those expensive political campaigns feel about a candidate who believes in UFOs? Would they lose the support of the very people they depend upon to finance their campaigns?
Do I have to give you the answer?
More to the point, we don’t have ironclad evidence where UFOs come from, or their actual purpose. That alleged Space Brothers may convey such information to some experiencers, even if those claims are genuine, doesn’t mean it’s true. If ET was among us, why should we accept what they tell us even if they appear to be taking us into their confidence?
In short, demanding that the government reveal the truth about ETs on Earth isn’t something the authorities are likely to take seriously.
Worse, even such usually respected UFO groups as MUFON will, nowadays, host people with questionable claims and theories at their public events. They will tell you that they merely want to present a balanced view of the phenomenon, or they need speakers who can attract an audience. That may be all right as far as it goes, particularly if these events are focused on true believers and there are bills to pay.
But the skeptics — and the media — will seize on the least credible presentations, or perhaps the wacky merchandise sold at the concession stands, and cite them as evidence that the UFO mystery is a load of nonsense.
Take Bassett’s Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, a 2013 event that featured former members of the U.S. Congress and Senate, who spent several days listening to presentations of UFO evidence in exchange for a decent honorarium. Now the effort was worthy and all, and much of the information was compelling. Unfortunately, as Bassett once admitted on The Paracast in our early days, he isn’t interested in necessarily vetting his speakers.
So we had the unfortunate situation of one such presenter, Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Minister of National Defence, clearly going off the rails. During his presentation, he casually claimed that some four species of aliens had been visiting Earth for thousands of years, that they “may have different agendas,” and that they walk among us.
Some he suggested, are working for the U.S. government.
Now I am not about to say that it’s all the fantasy of an old man, or a misguided effort to regain former glories as a once-prominent government official. But these claims were ripe for being seized upon by the skeptical media in search of a good story about crazy people chasing after spaceships.
All the solid evidence will carry no weight once the appropriately silly sound bite is recorded and played over and over again. To the media, UFOs are all about entertainment and not about the news. The stories mostly appear as filler, or if its a slow news day.
Yes I’m advocating political correctness, but people who want the governments of Earth to take UFOs seriously, or admit they are taking the mystery seriously, need to be careful and focus the message on the intended audience. Demanding that they reveal the alleged truth about the presence of ET on Earth is hardly likely to achieve that result.
But asking the governments to investigate a mystifying phenomenon involving mysterious objects observed by credible observers flying at incredible speeds far ahead of our technology, being photographed and tracked on radar, and sometimes leaving trace evidence on the ground, may have a more positive result.
Such a request isn’t so much demanding disclosure of a presumed truth that remains unproven as it’s asking for the authorities to figure out what’s going on.
Even if hearings were held in the U.S. House or Senate, wouldn’t witnesses do better to present the evidence without conclusions? In response to questions about whether UFOs are from other space, wouldn’t it make more sense to simply say we don’t know what they are or their origin, but their presence could present a potential security threat? For the safety of the nation, demand an investigation, not disclosure.
Any sales or marketing person worth their salt would recommend that you tailor your message to your audience for the best results. I rest my case.
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