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Your Paracast Newsletter — March 12, 2011


Gene Steinberg

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THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
March 12, 2011


The Myths and Realities of UFOs Explored on The Paracast

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Sunday, March 13, 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 introduce John B. Alexander, Ph.D, author of “UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities.” He’ll discuss his ongoing research, and what the government knows and doesn’t know about the subject.

Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet

Dr. John B. Alexander's Site: John B. Alexander - Home

Coming March 20: Gene and Chris present an encore appearance by plasma physicist Dr. John Brandenburg, author of “Life and Death on Mars: The New Mars Synthesis.” What’s the source of our endless fascination with the Red Planet, and was Mars ever the source of intelligent life?

Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet

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What Do They Know and When Did They Know It?
By Gene Steinberg

The conventional wisdom has it that the U.S. and other world governments have guilty knowledge of the origin and purpose of UFOs. If they are given the right amount of pressure, they might even be persuaded to reveal what they know. After all, we all deserve to know the truth about the strange objects we’ve seen for so many years.

The “Silence Group” meme has become part of the UFO myth ever since it was first voiced by such noted UFO book authors as the late Major Donald E. Keyhoe. Indeed, in his popular work, “The Flying Saucer Conspiracy,” Keyhoe began his fight for congressional hearings, believing that our citizen legislators, if given the full story about the reality of flying saucers, would force the military and intelligence agencies to disclose the evidence they were allegedly hiding.

That movement, in the wake of ongoing UFO flaps in the 1960s, did bring about such hearings. The end result, the Condon Report, has long been regarded as a whitewash rather than a factual document fairly analyzing the evidence.

Still, Keyhoe’s seminal work more or less represents the sum total of what many people involved in the UFO field believe to this very day: UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin, the government knows the truth, and we will eventually find a way, somehow, to bring about disclosure. There are even some people who are active in the field who maintain they know the truth that’s being withheld from us, and they continue to promise that those revelations will soon be made.

Indeed, some of the members of the Exopolitics movement, in essence an extreme faction of UFO enthusiasts seeking disclosure, frequently mention dates when the President of the U.S. will reveal the truth. Predictably, those dates come and go, and all you get from these people are excuses of why the event they expected failed to take place.

From time to time, some governments tantalize us with the release of previously classified UFO-related documents. There’s a wealth of compelling information to be found, but hardly the “Smoking Gun” that we all crave. Indeed, the last batch of material from the United Kingdom somehow failed to include anything about the incredible UFO events in Rendlesham forest dating back to 1980.

In his popular books under the collective title, “UFOs and the National Security State,” author Richard Dolan makes a compelling case for the existence of a policy of UFO secrecy by certain government agencies. But not everyone agrees with him.

This week, The Paracast features Dr. John Alexander, Ph.D., a scientist with a long and distinguished career in the military and private industry. His recent book, “UFOs: Myths Conspiracies and Realities,” posits that there are no secret UFO investigative projects, no classified information, that would prove, at long last, that UFOs are real. At the same time, Alexander does believe in the existence of UFOs.

Indeed Alexander and Dolan have debated their different viewpoints on the subject. Dolan staunchly maintains that Alexander isn’t asking the right people the right questions. And so it goes.

While I don’t pretend to have any secret information about whom to believe, it’s fair to say that, in keeping a secret of the possibility that we’re being visited by aliens from another planet or star system, the governments are behaving with a level of efficiency and competence that seems to otherwise elude them.

I mean, no matter where you live, I can almost bet you’ve confronted government incompetence of one sort or another. When my sister-in-law applied to the Social Security Administration to get disability payments for her handicapped son, it took months before they figured out that he was utterly unemployable. Even after they had her bring her son, who is now in his 30s, to a physician of their choosing, and received absolute confirmation of his condition, an extended amount of time passed before the money began to arrive.

Nearly two weeks ago, someone driving a large truck smashed the driver’s door of our one and only family car. It was a cut and dried case, and that person was given a citation by the police in Phoenix for making an illegal turn. The police report should have been posted online within five days of the incident, but it’s still not there. The police dispatcher’s excuse? “We’re running a little late.” Well, maybe Phoenix has had an avalanche of traffic accidents, although there haven’t been any weather-related issues in recent weeks to generate an exceptionally high number of mishaps.

The point of it all is that most of you have direct evidence that governments aren’t very good at what they do. Yet we are asked to believe that in just one category, that of UFO-related evidence, they are expert at keeping secrets for decades on end, despite changes in administrations, legislators, civilian and military personnel, and so on and so forth.

Sure, I realize that the level of competence required to approve an application for disability payments, or post an accident report, is far less than that required to run an intelligence agency, or, in fact, an entire country. But waste and inefficiency is the norm for governments, except, as I said, for UFOs.

This doesn’t mean there isn’t some “Above Top Secret” agency that has ruthlessly and efficiently managed the secret of UFOs since the 1940s. There have been a number of tantalizing “leaks” from people allegedly in the know that point in that direction. However, final proof is still lacking, and that proof will not arrive as the result of one’s hopes and dreams.

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You were quite a bit easier on that subject than I would have been. There is no good evidence at all that the governments of the world are involved in any kind of UFO conspiracy. In my twenties I entertained the notion that there might be. But as I've gotten older the accusations have seemed more and more absurd to me. When I look at the government all I see is red tape, inefficiency, and incompetence seeping from every pore. It's primary purpose for being seems to be the burning of cash on a staggering scale and little else.
 
You were quite a bit easier on that subject than I would have been. There is no good evidence at all that the governments of the world are involved in any kind of UFO conspiracy. In my twenties I entertained the notion that there might be. But as I've gotten older the accusations have seemed more and more absurd to me. When I look at the government all I see is red tape, inefficiency, and incompetence seeping from every pore. It's primary purpose for being seems to be the burning of cash on a staggering scale and little else.

I'm not closing the door, but I'm skeptical that they know an awful lot. I've long been of the opinion that part of the problem is that they don't what to admit ignorance.
 
Plausible deniability.There may be certain select persons within governments who have some knowledge of aspects of the phenomena but there would be little or no paper trail leading to them would be my guess. Anything of any importance i.e technology would probably be in the hands of private enterprise. Possibly where secrecy and anonymity would be easier to control. Who knows?:)
 
Excellent newsletter Gene:) ,

The whole field is merry go round of concepts within a web of layers which the famous Mr Ben Rich suggests it would take a act of god for all to come out about,,,,,, .
 
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