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June 2, 2024
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Discover the Myths and Possible Realities Behind the Mandela Effect, Missing Time, Nonhuman Entities and More with Tillie Treadwell on The Paracast!
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This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz introduce Tillie Treadwell, a modern day author and paranormal scholar. In her own words, she is a conscious experiencer of phenomena, having had what she fully believes to be personal, true encounters with The Mandela Effect, odd glitches in time, both main topics for this episode, plus wild night crawlers, the Glimmer Man, UFOs, nonhuman people such as the fae and others. In past years, Tillie co-headed a paranormal investigation and exorcism team in blessing with leadership from the Catholic church, worked as an independent energetic healer, Tarot interpreter, and intuitive medicinal/ nutritional advisor in cooperation with local naturopathic and allopathic medical staff for her clientele. Today and since retiring from her previous full-time spiritual-social ventures, Tillie often quietly advises behind the scenes on books and YouTube channels. She is an avid reader and writer, a lover of communication and storytelling. Tillie joins Gene as one of the contributors to a new book, "Weird Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space."
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on June 2: Modern day author and paranormal scholar Tillie Treadwell returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartzabout the infamous Philadelphia Experiment myth, related to possible time travel, ongoing UFO disinformation, MKUltra experimentation on innocent people and the theory of quantum immorality. She joins Gene as one of the contributors to the book, "Weird Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space."In her own words, she is a conscious experiencer of phenomena, having had what she fully believes to be personal, true encounters with The Mandela Effect, wild nightcrawlers, the Glimmer Man, UFOs, nonhuman people such as the fae and others, and odd glitches in time. In past years, Tillie co-headed a paranormal investigation and exorcism team in blessing with leadership from the Catholic church, worked as an independent energetic healer, Tarot interpreter, and intuitive medicinal/ nutritional advisor in cooperation with local naturopathic and allopathic medical staff for her clientele. Today and since retiring from her previous full- time spiritual-social ventures, Tillie often quietly advises behind the scenes on books and YouTube channels. She is an avid reader and writer, a lover of communication and storytelling.
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.
The Government Did It!
By Gene Steinberg
From the Kennedy assassination to the UFO enigma, it’s not unpopular to say that the U.S. government was or is up to no good. It may not be an overt act, but maybe there is some top secret organization that has its own nasty agenda. Maybe that nasty agenda is being carried out without the knowledge of our elected officials.
Or perhaps they know and don’t care, or they are regarded as not having the need to know, or not trustworthy — you get the picture.
Now when it comes to UFOs, some of the very earliest researchers and authors, such as Major Donald E. Keyhoe, chafed at the perceived inability to get an honest response from the U.S. Air Force about the sightings that he was investigating. Thus they must know the truth, he believed, and they have a policy of concealing that truth.
All well and good; perhaps he was right. After all that theory has existed for decades, ebbing and flowing. Even the latest Pentagon project to explore UAPs, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), continues to pooh-pooh the subject. The sightings, they say, are not caused by offworld vehicles, not by ET. There is no evidence for it. So they say.
There’s very little original content in that explanation. It’s pretty much what the authorities have been telling us since the 1940s. You’d think they ought to get some clever copy writers over there to come up with better prose. I’m sure they can find plenty of people who’d do a credible job at a normal pay level.
No I am not volunteering. I wouldn’t give up my integrity for such a task. And they couldn’t pay me enough to sacrifice that integrity.
But the assumption being made in criticizing government denials is that there is a deep dark secret that the powers-that-be are trying to hide from the population. The question is whether that assumption is correct.
To be fair, I don’t pretend to know. It may well be that they truly do not believe UAPs represent something unknown — whether spaceships from elsewhere or something else — and they are doing their best to cope with the situation.
Or perhaps those in charge would rather not confront the possibility that an unknown phenomenon exists. It’s far easier to deal with knowns. It may also be that they don’t want to admit to failure, that we have been visited by UAPs from outer space for decades and we haven’t a clue about what they are all about.
It may also be that at least some of the reported UAPs, UFOs, flying saucers or whatever, are indeed test aircraft of one sort or another. But since they are national secrets, it’s not that they can admit to it.
Consider the various iterations of the Stealth Fighter, dating back to the 1960s and no doubt before. They all featured technology that made it more difficult for the enemy to see them and take them down. From time to time people mistook test flights of such aircraft for UFOs.
But it’s not as if the authorities are going to admit that such things exist. It’s a matter of national security, and they would not want other countries, friendly or otherwise, to know what’s up. In fairness, it may benefit the military to have some test aircraft misidentified as UFOs. It gives them plausible deniability. It’s not ours, and since UFOs don’t exist, you really didn’t see anything.
Indeed, UFOs and government misinformation are tightly intwined. There is a history of people with alleged government contacts saying and doing things that are just plain false. Followers of UFO lore can cite some examples, such as the ever-controversial Richard Doty, a retired Special Agent who did his thing for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI). Or maybe even after he left government service.
He is blamed — or credited — with helping to hoax UFO investigator Paul Bennewitz to the point where he was pushed into a mental breakdown. But it wasn’t just Doty who appears to have been involved. In a controversial appearance before a MUFON symposium in 1989, William Moore confessed to have been a perpetrator in this misbegotten plot.
What is surprising is that Moore is actually one of the people who first brought the Roswell UFO case to the public arena, as co-author, with Charles Berlitz, of “The Roswell Incident,” which pushed a forgotten possible UFO incident into the public’s eye. Over the years, it became the stuff of legend as possible key evidence that an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed and burned in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1947. Indeed, some people who claimed to have been eyewitnesses to the recovery operation claim to have seen the bodies of presumed aliens as part of the process.
Moore’s participation might have ended there, but he has been alleged to have attempted to goose the Roswell myth by being, in part, responsible for manufacturing the MJ-12 documents, purportedly demonstrating the existence of a secret government group charged with investigating Roswell and other crashes.
A possible inside joke was to include Harvard astronomer Donald Menzel as a member. He was a notorious flying saucer skeptic, having written books on the subject. I recall seeing him on a TV talk show years ago being disassembled, verbally, for his lackadaisical approach to examining UFO sightings.
While some still believe in MJ-12, it has long been obvious to people familiar with government documents and their formatting, that it was a fake.
So was Moore responsible for MJ-12? Doty? Both, or did the former simply take advantage of the situation to advance the Roswell myth?
This isn’t to say that there isn’t a mystery behind Roswell. Such highly dedicated and highly credible researchers as Kevin D. Randle, a former military man, maintain that the episode involved the crash of an extraterrestrial craft. But it may also be possible that Roswell can be traced to some sort of test aircraft, though it would seem that any top secret project in 1947 would be revealed since it would no longer present a potential threat to national security.
But it’s not all about physical phenomena. Its appears that the U.S. government has not been above experimenting with the people in questionable ways. Consider Project MKUltra, a CIA venture ostensibly designed to develop procedures, including administering drugs, to engage in brainwashing and psychological torture. Supposedly the end result was commendable, helping to force confessions, perhaps from enemy combatants.
The core of MKUltra may be traced back to World War II, where the possibility of using hypnosis and drugs for interrogation was investigated.
To be sure, the project wasn’t legal. Officially it began in 1953, and was ended in 1964. But that doesn’t mean some MKUltra variant wasn’t continued, that it may remain in force to this very day. What’s more, it is quite possible that the process of causing people to experience hallucinations, under the right conditions, might make them believe they are seeing flying saucers. Or even claim they have actually met up with the saucer people.
I recall an incident involving contactee Orfeo Angelucci, where he met a military man at a diner, took a tab of some unknown substance, and he “went into a dream.”
Again, this doesn’t mean there isn’t a real UFO mystery that cries out for an explanation, but at the same time, there may very well be a strong dose of disinformation that has been injected into UFO lore. It only makes it more difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. As if things weren’t difficult enough.
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June 2, 2024
www.theparacast.com
Discover the Myths and Possible Realities Behind the Mandela Effect, Missing Time, Nonhuman Entities and More with Tillie Treadwell on The Paracast!
The Paracast is released every Sunday and available from our site, https://www.theparacast.com, your favorite podcast app, and the IRN Internet Radio Network. All episodes from 2023 and 2024 now feature better audio and fewer ads.
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 bonus podcast, After The Paracast, plus a special version of The Paracast with all the 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! Take advantage of our lowest rates ever! Act now! It's easier than ever to susbcribe! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz introduce Tillie Treadwell, a modern day author and paranormal scholar. In her own words, she is a conscious experiencer of phenomena, having had what she fully believes to be personal, true encounters with The Mandela Effect, odd glitches in time, both main topics for this episode, plus wild night crawlers, the Glimmer Man, UFOs, nonhuman people such as the fae and others. In past years, Tillie co-headed a paranormal investigation and exorcism team in blessing with leadership from the Catholic church, worked as an independent energetic healer, Tarot interpreter, and intuitive medicinal/ nutritional advisor in cooperation with local naturopathic and allopathic medical staff for her clientele. Today and since retiring from her previous full-time spiritual-social ventures, Tillie often quietly advises behind the scenes on books and YouTube channels. She is an avid reader and writer, a lover of communication and storytelling. Tillie joins Gene as one of the contributors to a new book, "Weird Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space."
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on June 2: Modern day author and paranormal scholar Tillie Treadwell returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartzabout the infamous Philadelphia Experiment myth, related to possible time travel, ongoing UFO disinformation, MKUltra experimentation on innocent people and the theory of quantum immorality. She joins Gene as one of the contributors to the book, "Weird Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space."In her own words, she is a conscious experiencer of phenomena, having had what she fully believes to be personal, true encounters with The Mandela Effect, wild nightcrawlers, the Glimmer Man, UFOs, nonhuman people such as the fae and others, and odd glitches in time. In past years, Tillie co-headed a paranormal investigation and exorcism team in blessing with leadership from the Catholic church, worked as an independent energetic healer, Tarot interpreter, and intuitive medicinal/ nutritional advisor in cooperation with local naturopathic and allopathic medical staff for her clientele. Today and since retiring from her previous full- time spiritual-social ventures, Tillie often quietly advises behind the scenes on books and YouTube channels. She is an avid reader and writer, a lover of communication and storytelling.
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.
The Government Did It!
By Gene Steinberg
From the Kennedy assassination to the UFO enigma, it’s not unpopular to say that the U.S. government was or is up to no good. It may not be an overt act, but maybe there is some top secret organization that has its own nasty agenda. Maybe that nasty agenda is being carried out without the knowledge of our elected officials.
Or perhaps they know and don’t care, or they are regarded as not having the need to know, or not trustworthy — you get the picture.
Now when it comes to UFOs, some of the very earliest researchers and authors, such as Major Donald E. Keyhoe, chafed at the perceived inability to get an honest response from the U.S. Air Force about the sightings that he was investigating. Thus they must know the truth, he believed, and they have a policy of concealing that truth.
All well and good; perhaps he was right. After all that theory has existed for decades, ebbing and flowing. Even the latest Pentagon project to explore UAPs, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), continues to pooh-pooh the subject. The sightings, they say, are not caused by offworld vehicles, not by ET. There is no evidence for it. So they say.
There’s very little original content in that explanation. It’s pretty much what the authorities have been telling us since the 1940s. You’d think they ought to get some clever copy writers over there to come up with better prose. I’m sure they can find plenty of people who’d do a credible job at a normal pay level.
No I am not volunteering. I wouldn’t give up my integrity for such a task. And they couldn’t pay me enough to sacrifice that integrity.
But the assumption being made in criticizing government denials is that there is a deep dark secret that the powers-that-be are trying to hide from the population. The question is whether that assumption is correct.
To be fair, I don’t pretend to know. It may well be that they truly do not believe UAPs represent something unknown — whether spaceships from elsewhere or something else — and they are doing their best to cope with the situation.
Or perhaps those in charge would rather not confront the possibility that an unknown phenomenon exists. It’s far easier to deal with knowns. It may also be that they don’t want to admit to failure, that we have been visited by UAPs from outer space for decades and we haven’t a clue about what they are all about.
It may also be that at least some of the reported UAPs, UFOs, flying saucers or whatever, are indeed test aircraft of one sort or another. But since they are national secrets, it’s not that they can admit to it.
Consider the various iterations of the Stealth Fighter, dating back to the 1960s and no doubt before. They all featured technology that made it more difficult for the enemy to see them and take them down. From time to time people mistook test flights of such aircraft for UFOs.
But it’s not as if the authorities are going to admit that such things exist. It’s a matter of national security, and they would not want other countries, friendly or otherwise, to know what’s up. In fairness, it may benefit the military to have some test aircraft misidentified as UFOs. It gives them plausible deniability. It’s not ours, and since UFOs don’t exist, you really didn’t see anything.
Indeed, UFOs and government misinformation are tightly intwined. There is a history of people with alleged government contacts saying and doing things that are just plain false. Followers of UFO lore can cite some examples, such as the ever-controversial Richard Doty, a retired Special Agent who did his thing for the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI). Or maybe even after he left government service.
He is blamed — or credited — with helping to hoax UFO investigator Paul Bennewitz to the point where he was pushed into a mental breakdown. But it wasn’t just Doty who appears to have been involved. In a controversial appearance before a MUFON symposium in 1989, William Moore confessed to have been a perpetrator in this misbegotten plot.
What is surprising is that Moore is actually one of the people who first brought the Roswell UFO case to the public arena, as co-author, with Charles Berlitz, of “The Roswell Incident,” which pushed a forgotten possible UFO incident into the public’s eye. Over the years, it became the stuff of legend as possible key evidence that an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed and burned in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1947. Indeed, some people who claimed to have been eyewitnesses to the recovery operation claim to have seen the bodies of presumed aliens as part of the process.
Moore’s participation might have ended there, but he has been alleged to have attempted to goose the Roswell myth by being, in part, responsible for manufacturing the MJ-12 documents, purportedly demonstrating the existence of a secret government group charged with investigating Roswell and other crashes.
A possible inside joke was to include Harvard astronomer Donald Menzel as a member. He was a notorious flying saucer skeptic, having written books on the subject. I recall seeing him on a TV talk show years ago being disassembled, verbally, for his lackadaisical approach to examining UFO sightings.
While some still believe in MJ-12, it has long been obvious to people familiar with government documents and their formatting, that it was a fake.
So was Moore responsible for MJ-12? Doty? Both, or did the former simply take advantage of the situation to advance the Roswell myth?
This isn’t to say that there isn’t a mystery behind Roswell. Such highly dedicated and highly credible researchers as Kevin D. Randle, a former military man, maintain that the episode involved the crash of an extraterrestrial craft. But it may also be possible that Roswell can be traced to some sort of test aircraft, though it would seem that any top secret project in 1947 would be revealed since it would no longer present a potential threat to national security.
But it’s not all about physical phenomena. Its appears that the U.S. government has not been above experimenting with the people in questionable ways. Consider Project MKUltra, a CIA venture ostensibly designed to develop procedures, including administering drugs, to engage in brainwashing and psychological torture. Supposedly the end result was commendable, helping to force confessions, perhaps from enemy combatants.
The core of MKUltra may be traced back to World War II, where the possibility of using hypnosis and drugs for interrogation was investigated.
To be sure, the project wasn’t legal. Officially it began in 1953, and was ended in 1964. But that doesn’t mean some MKUltra variant wasn’t continued, that it may remain in force to this very day. What’s more, it is quite possible that the process of causing people to experience hallucinations, under the right conditions, might make them believe they are seeing flying saucers. Or even claim they have actually met up with the saucer people.
I recall an incident involving contactee Orfeo Angelucci, where he met a military man at a diner, took a tab of some unknown substance, and he “went into a dream.”
Again, this doesn’t mean there isn’t a real UFO mystery that cries out for an explanation, but at the same time, there may very well be a strong dose of disinformation that has been injected into UFO lore. It only makes it more difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. As if things weren’t difficult enough.
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