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July 19, 2020
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Discover More Amazing Paranormal Encounters From "Down Under" with Australian UFO Investigator Tino Pezzimenti on The Paracast!
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This Week's Episode: Gene and Randall present Australian UFO researcher/experiencer Tino Pezzimenti, who has worked closely with UFO Research of Queensland (UFORQ), one of the world's oldest existing UFO organizations. Tino started experiencing ghosts at his home in Brisbane Australia when he was six years old; he saw a UFO at age 17. At age 19, he attended a meeting at the Flying Saucer Research Bureau which was to become UFORQ. He became a researcher with UFORQ and soon after became President, a position he held for for 9 years. For 17 years he on was on Paranormal Panel, a radio 4 BC production in Brisbane where he spoke publicly with many authors and experiencers world wide. Tino has a reputation for being a skeptical believer because he's not easily swayed by conspiracy theories and fringe groups.
J. Randall Murphy's Ufology Society International: Ufology Society International (USI) - Explore the UFO Phenomenon
UFO Research of Queensland (UFORQ): UFO Research Queensland
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on July 19: Gene and Randall continue the discussion with Australian UFO researcher and experiencer Tino Pezzimenti that began on the July 19, 2020 episode of The Paracast. Tiny has worked with UFO Research of Queensland,one of the oldest existing UFO organizations. The discussion moves through whether we are ready for visits by extraterrestrials, Tino’s personal paranormal experiences, and two UFO abductions involving friends of us. One of those cases included a possible alien implant, and the other a possible missing time episode. And whatever happened to the “angel hair” phenomenon of the early UFO era, which involved a sticky, fibrous substance sometimes reported in connection with UFO sightings?
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. Check out our new YouTube channel at: The Official Paracast Channel
So Is ET Ready for Us — Are We Ready for Them?
By Gene Steinberg
It is clear to most everyone that we are not alone in the universe. What has been part and parcel of sci-fi stories galore is very much based on fact. Discoveries of exoplanets makes it quite clear there are numerous candidates for conditions for life as we know it.
So it is quite possible that life is bountiful in the vast reaches of space, and that some of it may have developed advanced civilizations and are capable of interstellar travel. It doesn’t take much of a stretch to speculate that some of those space travelers have or are visiting Earth.
Therein forms one of the key reasons for the belief that UFOs are visitors from outer space.
Now we assume, based on reports of abductions, that many of these extraterrestrials are small gray-skinned beings with huge heads, large eyes and thin mouths. I wouldn’t presume to speculate on their diets, or even if they have the need for food anymore. Maybe they absorb energy as plants do, or they are actually surveillance robots.
But there’s no sense wondering about their physicality. The real question is, if they are here, why are they paying us a visit, and why is there no massed landing?
Those who claim to be in contact with ET — or unknown beings of any kind — assert they are here to alert us to the folly of our tribal warfare, as if we didn’t know. Or at least that’s what they tell us.
So we should not be engaging in war, or despoiling our environment. Our flirtation with nuclear energy, even for peaceful purposes, is a huge mistake. We need to get our acts together or —
Well, there really isn’t an or. It’s not as if we are being threatened to get our acts together. Indeed, it doesn’t seem as if those advanced beings are capable of enforcing their wishes. Or maybe that is taking things too far.
But not quite: What about reports of UFOs seen in an around military facilities and nuclear plants? Surely they are paying attention, even though it’s not as if they are interfering with us, right? Well, there have been reports of possible interference, but it appears to be hit or miss.
I mean, clearly humans aren’t doing anything terribly different despite the possible presence of alien visitors. Indeed, we are still debating who and what they are, and their motives for being here are still unknown.
But there are a host of assumptions, that physical alien beings are visiting us, from one or more civilizations, and that they sometimes abduct humans for possible experimentation, sometimes involving our reproductive organs.
Still, there is no massed landing. UFOs still remain one step beyond when it comes to enough evidence to convince mainstream science that they are really here.
It’s almost as if it’s all meant to be that way. Again, this assumes physical beings taking physical fights across the skies in physical aircraft, that when they contact us, those experiences are physical as well.
We can try to judge alien motives and behavior, but that involves assumptions as well. How can we presume to fully understand beings from other planets that may or may not be physically similar to us. We can only judge them in terms of what we understand about intelligence, and that is still mostly human.
Even if they tell us why they are here, why believe them? Indeed, communication with an alien species may involve policies that do not include being truthful. They may just tell us what we want to hear, or what we they consider us capable of understanding.
A fascinating sci-fi film, “Arrival,” from 2016, is very much about the dilemma of communicating with ET. It involves the landing of a dozen spaceships around the world, and efforts to break bread with these alien visitors. The story is not about aliens on the loose, but on translating their message, which, once understood, alters our perception of time, the past and the future.
It’s a far more sophisticated plot than what one usually finds in sci-fi fare, and, despite its relative success, it’s not easy to wrap your head around if you’re not paying close attention.
But what it demonstrates here is the possibility is that we may not easily understand why alien visitors are here, and that our assumptions about their behavior might be way off the mark.
The film, however, has a fatal flaw. If ET is advanced enough to come here, and that if communication with us is a matter of extreme importance, they’d probably find a way to interact with us. They wouldn’t depend on having a lone linguist figure it all out just in time to avoid a world war.
In the Star Trek universe, a universal translating system is used as a means to communicate with alien races. But that assumes that we first make contact and thus modify the systems to include their languages.
Of course, Star Trek used the translator as a plot device of convenience. Actual communication was secondary. Everyone could just speak English, although they did develop a real, working language for the Klingons.
So I’ve little doubt that, however it’s done, if ET really wanted to interact with humans, there’d be no question that they’d figure it out.
But the entire UFO mystery may very much be about unknown visitors acting in ways that are meant to appear acceptable to humans. Their spaceships are no more advanced than what our sci-fi writers have envisioned, their messages to us encompass the basic plots of those stories.
They do not in any way act alien, beyond our simple understanding of what we expect aliens to be.
It’s almost as if we are, in part, participating in the experiences that involve visits and occasional meetings with extraterrestrials. They appear the way they do, because that’s what we expect of them.
And that only raises some very important questions about what’s really going on. So maybe it’s not about ET after all, even though I have little doubt they are out there.
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July 19, 2020
www.theparacast.com
Discover More Amazing Paranormal Encounters From "Down Under" with Australian UFO Investigator Tino Pezzimenti 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 A PREMIUM 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! For a limited time you can save up to 40% on your subscription. So act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: Choose Your Membership Upgrade
This Week's Episode: Gene and Randall present Australian UFO researcher/experiencer Tino Pezzimenti, who has worked closely with UFO Research of Queensland (UFORQ), one of the world's oldest existing UFO organizations. Tino started experiencing ghosts at his home in Brisbane Australia when he was six years old; he saw a UFO at age 17. At age 19, he attended a meeting at the Flying Saucer Research Bureau which was to become UFORQ. He became a researcher with UFORQ and soon after became President, a position he held for for 9 years. For 17 years he on was on Paranormal Panel, a radio 4 BC production in Brisbane where he spoke publicly with many authors and experiencers world wide. Tino has a reputation for being a skeptical believer because he's not easily swayed by conspiracy theories and fringe groups.
J. Randall Murphy's Ufology Society International: Ufology Society International (USI) - Explore the UFO Phenomenon
UFO Research of Queensland (UFORQ): UFO Research Queensland
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on July 19: Gene and Randall continue the discussion with Australian UFO researcher and experiencer Tino Pezzimenti that began on the July 19, 2020 episode of The Paracast. Tiny has worked with UFO Research of Queensland,one of the oldest existing UFO organizations. The discussion moves through whether we are ready for visits by extraterrestrials, Tino’s personal paranormal experiences, and two UFO abductions involving friends of us. One of those cases included a possible alien implant, and the other a possible missing time episode. And whatever happened to the “angel hair” phenomenon of the early UFO era, which involved a sticky, fibrous substance sometimes reported in connection with UFO sightings?
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. Check out our new YouTube channel at: The Official Paracast Channel
So Is ET Ready for Us — Are We Ready for Them?
By Gene Steinberg
It is clear to most everyone that we are not alone in the universe. What has been part and parcel of sci-fi stories galore is very much based on fact. Discoveries of exoplanets makes it quite clear there are numerous candidates for conditions for life as we know it.
So it is quite possible that life is bountiful in the vast reaches of space, and that some of it may have developed advanced civilizations and are capable of interstellar travel. It doesn’t take much of a stretch to speculate that some of those space travelers have or are visiting Earth.
Therein forms one of the key reasons for the belief that UFOs are visitors from outer space.
Now we assume, based on reports of abductions, that many of these extraterrestrials are small gray-skinned beings with huge heads, large eyes and thin mouths. I wouldn’t presume to speculate on their diets, or even if they have the need for food anymore. Maybe they absorb energy as plants do, or they are actually surveillance robots.
But there’s no sense wondering about their physicality. The real question is, if they are here, why are they paying us a visit, and why is there no massed landing?
Those who claim to be in contact with ET — or unknown beings of any kind — assert they are here to alert us to the folly of our tribal warfare, as if we didn’t know. Or at least that’s what they tell us.
So we should not be engaging in war, or despoiling our environment. Our flirtation with nuclear energy, even for peaceful purposes, is a huge mistake. We need to get our acts together or —
Well, there really isn’t an or. It’s not as if we are being threatened to get our acts together. Indeed, it doesn’t seem as if those advanced beings are capable of enforcing their wishes. Or maybe that is taking things too far.
But not quite: What about reports of UFOs seen in an around military facilities and nuclear plants? Surely they are paying attention, even though it’s not as if they are interfering with us, right? Well, there have been reports of possible interference, but it appears to be hit or miss.
I mean, clearly humans aren’t doing anything terribly different despite the possible presence of alien visitors. Indeed, we are still debating who and what they are, and their motives for being here are still unknown.
But there are a host of assumptions, that physical alien beings are visiting us, from one or more civilizations, and that they sometimes abduct humans for possible experimentation, sometimes involving our reproductive organs.
Still, there is no massed landing. UFOs still remain one step beyond when it comes to enough evidence to convince mainstream science that they are really here.
It’s almost as if it’s all meant to be that way. Again, this assumes physical beings taking physical fights across the skies in physical aircraft, that when they contact us, those experiences are physical as well.
We can try to judge alien motives and behavior, but that involves assumptions as well. How can we presume to fully understand beings from other planets that may or may not be physically similar to us. We can only judge them in terms of what we understand about intelligence, and that is still mostly human.
Even if they tell us why they are here, why believe them? Indeed, communication with an alien species may involve policies that do not include being truthful. They may just tell us what we want to hear, or what we they consider us capable of understanding.
A fascinating sci-fi film, “Arrival,” from 2016, is very much about the dilemma of communicating with ET. It involves the landing of a dozen spaceships around the world, and efforts to break bread with these alien visitors. The story is not about aliens on the loose, but on translating their message, which, once understood, alters our perception of time, the past and the future.
It’s a far more sophisticated plot than what one usually finds in sci-fi fare, and, despite its relative success, it’s not easy to wrap your head around if you’re not paying close attention.
But what it demonstrates here is the possibility is that we may not easily understand why alien visitors are here, and that our assumptions about their behavior might be way off the mark.
The film, however, has a fatal flaw. If ET is advanced enough to come here, and that if communication with us is a matter of extreme importance, they’d probably find a way to interact with us. They wouldn’t depend on having a lone linguist figure it all out just in time to avoid a world war.
In the Star Trek universe, a universal translating system is used as a means to communicate with alien races. But that assumes that we first make contact and thus modify the systems to include their languages.
Of course, Star Trek used the translator as a plot device of convenience. Actual communication was secondary. Everyone could just speak English, although they did develop a real, working language for the Klingons.
So I’ve little doubt that, however it’s done, if ET really wanted to interact with humans, there’d be no question that they’d figure it out.
But the entire UFO mystery may very much be about unknown visitors acting in ways that are meant to appear acceptable to humans. Their spaceships are no more advanced than what our sci-fi writers have envisioned, their messages to us encompass the basic plots of those stories.
They do not in any way act alien, beyond our simple understanding of what we expect aliens to be.
It’s almost as if we are, in part, participating in the experiences that involve visits and occasional meetings with extraterrestrials. They appear the way they do, because that’s what we expect of them.
And that only raises some very important questions about what’s really going on. So maybe it’s not about ET after all, even though I have little doubt they are out there.
Copyright 1999-2020 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!