THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
July 23, 2011
The Paracast Again Exposes the Fakes in the UFO Field
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. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, right below our logo. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! Last summer, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. On July 3, The Paracast was introduced to millions of listeners in New York City, New Jersey, and Long Island, when we arrive on WVNJ radio. But that's just one recent conquest.
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!
You Can Now Order The Official Paracast T-Shirt: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and a collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt, just pay a visit to our new online store at Welcome to The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We now also offer a lineup of other premium merchandise featuring The Paracast logo.
Sunday, July 24, 2011: 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 hosts interview long-time researchers in the field, to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join us as we explore the realms of the known and unknown, and hear great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present long-time investigative UFO journalist Don Ecker, a forum moderator for The Paracast, and host of the Dark Matters radio show. Ecker will focus mostly on the frauds he has exposed in the UFO field, but he will also bring you up to date on all sorts of incredible lunar mysteries.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Don Ecker's Site: Dark Matters Radio - Cause it matters in the Dark ! !
Reminder: Reminder: Don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
On Teflon UFO Personalities
By Gene Steinberg
In 1957, Jim Moseley, in one of his notable efforts to rid the UFO field of fakers, published a “Special Adamski Expose Issue” of Saucer News. That was years before the publication became a periodic personal newsletter, “Saucer Smear,” perhaps a forerunner of those ubiquitous Internet blogs. Only Jim never used a computer, and has no plans of doing so. Just shy of his 80th birthday, he continues to use an old fashioned electric typewriter, and his publication has printed on real paper. There is an online edition, published by a third party.
Reading that expose, you’d quickly come to the conclusion that the late George Adamski’s contact claims were bogus, and that the people who supposedly witnessed his infamous 1952 meet up with an alleged being from outer space, in the desert, actually weren’t close enough to see anything strange. But Adamski also said that sometimes you had to go through the back door to spread the truth. His message of peace and brotherhood wouldn’t be taken seriously by anyone, but if that very same message originated with advanced beings from another world, you’d definitely give it a second look. Or so he hoped.
Some years after that issue of Saucer News was published, Adamski was still giving lectures and writing books as if nothing had happened. After his death in 1965, his followers were still touting his silly flying saucer photos as real, and his alleged encounters with ET as genuine. Had Adamski been a far younger man when he first entered the public stage, he might have continued his career for many more years.
So being exposed as a fraud in the UFO isn’t necessary a badge of dishonor, except to those with long memories. Years later, such people might return from obscurity to cash in on newfound fame. I wasn’t surprised, therefore, to find news that Butch Witkowski, a Pennsylvania UFO investigator whose credentials have been called into question, is apparently back on the lecture trail as if nothing ever happened. He was, for example, booked as a speaker at a Midwestern UFO event earlier this year. Curious, or maybe not.
If you go through the history of discredited UFO researchers and claims, you’ll find that, more often than not, both survive intact. As with Adamski, the truth is long forgotten, and the claimant’s followers keep the legend alive. It’s almost as if the exposes were never published. I suppose you might call them “Teflon UFO personalities,” since pointed criticisms and evidence of fakery can’t stop them. They survive the critics and continue as before.
It’s no wonder then, if you examine the material at such online repositories as ufowatchdog.com, you’ll find loads of evidence that certain people in the UFO field are outright frauds. But most are still active, still telling tall tales. None of it seems to have mattered.
I can’t say that one radio show, however popular around the globe, is going to be able to put a stop to the cranks and the liars in the UFO field. It hasn’t happened in over 60 years, and I don’t expect that things are about to change as the result of our efforts.
Unfortunately, the frauds in the field are cited by debunkers as examples that you can’t take any of it seriously. It doesn’t matter that the majority of UFO researchers and witnesses are honest people, trying their level best to figure out just what’s going on, and persuade the public that subjects of this sort deserve serious investigation.
As I’ve said several times already in these columns and on the show, we have to clean our own houses, first. If we allow the debunkers to have their way, all the years of research, and the collective experiences of perhaps millions of people, will have no meaning whatever. I’m sure you don’t want to see that happen, which is why separating the signal from the noise remains our number one goal.
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July 23, 2011
The Paracast Again Exposes the Fakes in the UFO Field
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM (Central Time) on the GCN radio network.
Here's How You Can Help The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network. So we hope you'll be willing to help fill the gap if you can to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch. No contribution is too small (or too large
. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, right below our logo. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! Last summer, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. On July 3, The Paracast was introduced to millions of listeners in New York City, New Jersey, and Long Island, when we arrive on WVNJ radio. But that's just one recent conquest.
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!
You Can Now Order The Official Paracast T-Shirt: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and a collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt, just pay a visit to our new online store at Welcome to The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We now also offer a lineup of other premium merchandise featuring The Paracast logo.
Sunday, July 24, 2011: 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 hosts interview long-time researchers in the field, to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join us as we explore the realms of the known and unknown, and hear great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present long-time investigative UFO journalist Don Ecker, a forum moderator for The Paracast, and host of the Dark Matters radio show. Ecker will focus mostly on the frauds he has exposed in the UFO field, but he will also bring you up to date on all sorts of incredible lunar mysteries.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Don Ecker's Site: Dark Matters Radio - Cause it matters in the Dark ! !
Reminder: Reminder: Don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
On Teflon UFO Personalities
By Gene Steinberg
In 1957, Jim Moseley, in one of his notable efforts to rid the UFO field of fakers, published a “Special Adamski Expose Issue” of Saucer News. That was years before the publication became a periodic personal newsletter, “Saucer Smear,” perhaps a forerunner of those ubiquitous Internet blogs. Only Jim never used a computer, and has no plans of doing so. Just shy of his 80th birthday, he continues to use an old fashioned electric typewriter, and his publication has printed on real paper. There is an online edition, published by a third party.
Reading that expose, you’d quickly come to the conclusion that the late George Adamski’s contact claims were bogus, and that the people who supposedly witnessed his infamous 1952 meet up with an alleged being from outer space, in the desert, actually weren’t close enough to see anything strange. But Adamski also said that sometimes you had to go through the back door to spread the truth. His message of peace and brotherhood wouldn’t be taken seriously by anyone, but if that very same message originated with advanced beings from another world, you’d definitely give it a second look. Or so he hoped.
Some years after that issue of Saucer News was published, Adamski was still giving lectures and writing books as if nothing had happened. After his death in 1965, his followers were still touting his silly flying saucer photos as real, and his alleged encounters with ET as genuine. Had Adamski been a far younger man when he first entered the public stage, he might have continued his career for many more years.
So being exposed as a fraud in the UFO isn’t necessary a badge of dishonor, except to those with long memories. Years later, such people might return from obscurity to cash in on newfound fame. I wasn’t surprised, therefore, to find news that Butch Witkowski, a Pennsylvania UFO investigator whose credentials have been called into question, is apparently back on the lecture trail as if nothing ever happened. He was, for example, booked as a speaker at a Midwestern UFO event earlier this year. Curious, or maybe not.
If you go through the history of discredited UFO researchers and claims, you’ll find that, more often than not, both survive intact. As with Adamski, the truth is long forgotten, and the claimant’s followers keep the legend alive. It’s almost as if the exposes were never published. I suppose you might call them “Teflon UFO personalities,” since pointed criticisms and evidence of fakery can’t stop them. They survive the critics and continue as before.
It’s no wonder then, if you examine the material at such online repositories as ufowatchdog.com, you’ll find loads of evidence that certain people in the UFO field are outright frauds. But most are still active, still telling tall tales. None of it seems to have mattered.
I can’t say that one radio show, however popular around the globe, is going to be able to put a stop to the cranks and the liars in the UFO field. It hasn’t happened in over 60 years, and I don’t expect that things are about to change as the result of our efforts.
Unfortunately, the frauds in the field are cited by debunkers as examples that you can’t take any of it seriously. It doesn’t matter that the majority of UFO researchers and witnesses are honest people, trying their level best to figure out just what’s going on, and persuade the public that subjects of this sort deserve serious investigation.
As I’ve said several times already in these columns and on the show, we have to clean our own houses, first. If we allow the debunkers to have their way, all the years of research, and the collective experiences of perhaps millions of people, will have no meaning whatever. I’m sure you don’t want to see that happen, which is why separating the signal from the noise remains our number one goal.
The Paracast Copyright 1999-2011 Making The Impossible, Inc. 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!