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May 21, 2017
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Walter Bosley Discusses Paperclip, Roswell, UFOs and Lost Races on The Paracast
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This Week's Episode: Gene and guest co-host Randall Murphy present a return visit from Walter Bosley. He's an author, blogger, former AFOSI agent and a former FBI counterintelligence specialist. He has researched mass shootings, breakaway civilizations, lost civilizations and more. On this episode, Walter will discuss one of his books, "Shimmering Light: Lost In An MKULTRA House of Anu." You'll learn about his father's bizarre story involving Roswell and a 1958 UFO retrieval operation in Arizona — and the curious role Operation Paperclip and the subsequent CIA MKULTRA mind control program may have played behind the scenes. Walter will also cover some of the mysteries of Antarctica.
Walter Bosley’s Blog: Empire of the Wheel
Randall Murphy’s Site: Ufology Society International (USI) - Explore the UFO Phenomenon
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on May 21: Gene and guest co-host Randall Murphy interview Walter Bosley, who phones in direct from the Contact in the Desert conference in Joshua Tree, CA. They discuss finding better ways to get the word out about UFOs. Since UFO convention attendees are not getting any younger, the trio discuss how to encourage more people, especially younger people, to attend. Comparisons are made with the Comic-Con and Burning Man events. The discussion moves to the failures of reality shows, particularly about the paranormal, to deliver anything more than a fake overly dramatized experience. Walter says it’s high time to give up on the church camp meeting approach for ET and disclosure believers and try something new.
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.
Revisiting the Earth Theory
By Gene Steinberg
In the early days of the UFO field, beginning in the mid-1950s, the late Jim Moseley had acquired the role as a somewhat controversial figure. No, not because he believed in crackpot theories about the saucers, but because he maintained that they were Earth-based.
Jim called it his “Earth Theory,” and I always thought he only half believed any of it. One reason why he touted this theory was to advance his fake feud with his good buddy, the late Gray Barker. So Gray would take the ET position, and Jim would argue that the saucers were really secret weapons and also promote the impression that he might be a government operative.
It helped that Jim’s dad, General George Van Horn Moseley, was once a big muckety-muck in the U.S. Army. But Jim was a family black sheep.
Now I do recall the time when Jim abruptly abandoned his theory, not because he felt it wasn't true, but when one individual, on whom he depended to validate that theory, told him it was essentially just a put-on.
That individual, Dr. Leon Davidson, had a distinguished career as a nuclear scientist, with stints at the Manhattan Project, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Pentagon before he joined private industry. He also established a company that explored touch-tone dialing for push-button phones in the days of rotary dials.
All right, “Dr. D” was a pretty serious guy. He also studied UFOs and managed to persuade the government to allow him to publish and distribute the Air Force’s Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14. This book contained many of the key cases you’ve read about in those early saucer books.
So I was there when Jim and Dr. D had a little argument on a matter. I was not able to pick out all the details of the discussion, and I felt they didn’t expect me to be listening. But I did hear Jim raise his voice when he complained that Dr. D mislead him into believing what had been a cornerstone of his Earth theory.
That’s when Jim began to take the ET hypothesis more seriously, but he later adopted a variation on the alternate reality theory that Allen Greenfield and I originally propounded in the mid-1960s. You might regard that theory as a simplified forerunner of what is referred to nowadays as the multiverse, which is currently being given serious consideration by scientists.
That said, I’ve come to suspect that Jim might just have been “shockingly close to the truth” when he wrote about test aircraft and balloons sometimes being mistaken for UFOs. Either way, it may also be that Dr. D, who no doubt had all sorts of security clearances with the government, may have, for a time, manipulated Jim in order to spread disinformation.
On the other hand, Jim’s magazine, Saucer News, had a genuine circulation of no more than a few hundred subscribers in those early days. So how much influence did he really have?
What has become more and more clear to me is the possibility that some of the early or classic flying saucer sightings in the early days, in 1947 and beyond, may be attributed to Earth-based test aircraft or balloons rather than anything from another planet.
It may even be that the government deliberately spread the illusion of ET visitation to deflect attention from what was really going on.
Obviously the Roswell crash is front and center. I’ve long had my suspicions about it, particularly since the major investigations didn’t begin until 30 years after the event occurred. There were lots of cultural changes between the 1940s and the 1970s, and it’s easy to see how one’s memories of what actually occurred there might have assumed a sci-fi veneer.
I recall the two interviews we did on The Paracast with the late Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. Author of “The Roswell Legacy,” he told the tale of handling some of the debris from the fabled crash while still a child. Only he didn’t speak of some mysterious metal or anything that would smack of the wreckage of a spaceship, or any aircraft for that matter. Instead, it came across to me as a memory of handling some debris from a crashed balloon.
Understand that Dr. Marcel was around 11 years of age when his dad, Jesse Marcel, Sr., presented him with some flexible material along with beams that evidently bore writing that, to him, resembled hieroglyphics. I suppose it’s possible the writing might have actually consisted of mathematical symbols, or even Japanese letterforms, but the details became muddled over the years.
But the main issue of concern is why such flimsy materials would be used to construct an aircraft meant to travel through the air and, perhaps, through space. Does that even make sense?
What does make sense is that the United States was flush with all sorts of technology seized from the Germans and Japanese. I recall that Jim occasionally published stories in his Saucer News magazine about possible test aircraft that was, conveniently, saucer-shaped.
There were also stories in those days that appeared to have intelligence — and not extraterrestrial — connections. Take the Maury Island case, in which Kenneth Arnold was dragged by Ray Palmer into investigating a supposed UFO event that resulted in falling debris. The incident, as recounted in “The Coming of the Saucers,” from Arnold and Palmer, sometimes reads like a poor James Bond novel. So Arnold arrives in Tacoma, and finds no hotel rooms available, except the one that was already reserved in his name, without his knowledge. In turn, the room appeared to have been bugged.
At the end of the day, there was tragedy, as a government plane carrying the supposed wreckage or fragments from the UFO crashed, resulting in deaths. Arnold himself nearly had a similar fate when his airplane’s engine shut down. None of this reads like interference from space people. Instead, it comes across as a case of Arnold being snagged, unwittingly, into an intelligence operation.
All this and other stories from the heady days of the UFO field read like evidence of the presence of government operatives, and the possibility that at least some of the flying saucer sightings were really cover stories for various and sundry government shenanigans.
The more I read about those events, the more I’m convinced that this is a story that needs to be told, if only to understand how the authorities took advantage of the presence of possible unworldly phenomena and used it for their own purposes.
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May 21, 2017
www.theparacast.com
Walter Bosley Discusses Paperclip, Roswell, UFOs and Lost Races 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! 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 After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, and chat rooms when you sign up for The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes, the Paracast+ Video Channel, episode transcripts, Special Features, Classic Episodes and there’s more to come! We’ve just begun to add podcasts and videos from Paul Kimball’s “Other Side of Truth.” Check out our new lower rates, starting at just $1.49 per week, plus our “Lifetime” membership and special free print and eBook book offers! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: Gene and guest co-host Randall Murphy present a return visit from Walter Bosley. He's an author, blogger, former AFOSI agent and a former FBI counterintelligence specialist. He has researched mass shootings, breakaway civilizations, lost civilizations and more. On this episode, Walter will discuss one of his books, "Shimmering Light: Lost In An MKULTRA House of Anu." You'll learn about his father's bizarre story involving Roswell and a 1958 UFO retrieval operation in Arizona — and the curious role Operation Paperclip and the subsequent CIA MKULTRA mind control program may have played behind the scenes. Walter will also cover some of the mysteries of Antarctica.
Walter Bosley’s Blog: Empire of the Wheel
Randall Murphy’s Site: Ufology Society International (USI) - Explore the UFO Phenomenon
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on May 21: Gene and guest co-host Randall Murphy interview Walter Bosley, who phones in direct from the Contact in the Desert conference in Joshua Tree, CA. They discuss finding better ways to get the word out about UFOs. Since UFO convention attendees are not getting any younger, the trio discuss how to encourage more people, especially younger people, to attend. Comparisons are made with the Comic-Con and Burning Man events. The discussion moves to the failures of reality shows, particularly about the paranormal, to deliver anything more than a fake overly dramatized experience. Walter says it’s high time to give up on the church camp meeting approach for ET and disclosure believers and try something new.
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.
Revisiting the Earth Theory
By Gene Steinberg
In the early days of the UFO field, beginning in the mid-1950s, the late Jim Moseley had acquired the role as a somewhat controversial figure. No, not because he believed in crackpot theories about the saucers, but because he maintained that they were Earth-based.
Jim called it his “Earth Theory,” and I always thought he only half believed any of it. One reason why he touted this theory was to advance his fake feud with his good buddy, the late Gray Barker. So Gray would take the ET position, and Jim would argue that the saucers were really secret weapons and also promote the impression that he might be a government operative.
It helped that Jim’s dad, General George Van Horn Moseley, was once a big muckety-muck in the U.S. Army. But Jim was a family black sheep.
Now I do recall the time when Jim abruptly abandoned his theory, not because he felt it wasn't true, but when one individual, on whom he depended to validate that theory, told him it was essentially just a put-on.
That individual, Dr. Leon Davidson, had a distinguished career as a nuclear scientist, with stints at the Manhattan Project, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Pentagon before he joined private industry. He also established a company that explored touch-tone dialing for push-button phones in the days of rotary dials.
All right, “Dr. D” was a pretty serious guy. He also studied UFOs and managed to persuade the government to allow him to publish and distribute the Air Force’s Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14. This book contained many of the key cases you’ve read about in those early saucer books.
So I was there when Jim and Dr. D had a little argument on a matter. I was not able to pick out all the details of the discussion, and I felt they didn’t expect me to be listening. But I did hear Jim raise his voice when he complained that Dr. D mislead him into believing what had been a cornerstone of his Earth theory.
That’s when Jim began to take the ET hypothesis more seriously, but he later adopted a variation on the alternate reality theory that Allen Greenfield and I originally propounded in the mid-1960s. You might regard that theory as a simplified forerunner of what is referred to nowadays as the multiverse, which is currently being given serious consideration by scientists.
That said, I’ve come to suspect that Jim might just have been “shockingly close to the truth” when he wrote about test aircraft and balloons sometimes being mistaken for UFOs. Either way, it may also be that Dr. D, who no doubt had all sorts of security clearances with the government, may have, for a time, manipulated Jim in order to spread disinformation.
On the other hand, Jim’s magazine, Saucer News, had a genuine circulation of no more than a few hundred subscribers in those early days. So how much influence did he really have?
What has become more and more clear to me is the possibility that some of the early or classic flying saucer sightings in the early days, in 1947 and beyond, may be attributed to Earth-based test aircraft or balloons rather than anything from another planet.
It may even be that the government deliberately spread the illusion of ET visitation to deflect attention from what was really going on.
Obviously the Roswell crash is front and center. I’ve long had my suspicions about it, particularly since the major investigations didn’t begin until 30 years after the event occurred. There were lots of cultural changes between the 1940s and the 1970s, and it’s easy to see how one’s memories of what actually occurred there might have assumed a sci-fi veneer.
I recall the two interviews we did on The Paracast with the late Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr. Author of “The Roswell Legacy,” he told the tale of handling some of the debris from the fabled crash while still a child. Only he didn’t speak of some mysterious metal or anything that would smack of the wreckage of a spaceship, or any aircraft for that matter. Instead, it came across to me as a memory of handling some debris from a crashed balloon.
Understand that Dr. Marcel was around 11 years of age when his dad, Jesse Marcel, Sr., presented him with some flexible material along with beams that evidently bore writing that, to him, resembled hieroglyphics. I suppose it’s possible the writing might have actually consisted of mathematical symbols, or even Japanese letterforms, but the details became muddled over the years.
But the main issue of concern is why such flimsy materials would be used to construct an aircraft meant to travel through the air and, perhaps, through space. Does that even make sense?
What does make sense is that the United States was flush with all sorts of technology seized from the Germans and Japanese. I recall that Jim occasionally published stories in his Saucer News magazine about possible test aircraft that was, conveniently, saucer-shaped.
There were also stories in those days that appeared to have intelligence — and not extraterrestrial — connections. Take the Maury Island case, in which Kenneth Arnold was dragged by Ray Palmer into investigating a supposed UFO event that resulted in falling debris. The incident, as recounted in “The Coming of the Saucers,” from Arnold and Palmer, sometimes reads like a poor James Bond novel. So Arnold arrives in Tacoma, and finds no hotel rooms available, except the one that was already reserved in his name, without his knowledge. In turn, the room appeared to have been bugged.
At the end of the day, there was tragedy, as a government plane carrying the supposed wreckage or fragments from the UFO crashed, resulting in deaths. Arnold himself nearly had a similar fate when his airplane’s engine shut down. None of this reads like interference from space people. Instead, it comes across as a case of Arnold being snagged, unwittingly, into an intelligence operation.
All this and other stories from the heady days of the UFO field read like evidence of the presence of government operatives, and the possibility that at least some of the flying saucer sightings were really cover stories for various and sundry government shenanigans.
The more I read about those events, the more I’m convinced that this is a story that needs to be told, if only to understand how the authorities took advantage of the presence of possible unworldly phenomena and used it for their own purposes.
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