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November 1, 2015
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We Explore Ghost Rockets with UFO Sweden 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.
Announcing The Paracast+: We have another radio show, and for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast without the network ads, and chat rooms. NEW! We’ve added an RSS feed for fast updates of the latest episodes and we give free ebooks for long-term subscriptions. A Paracast+ video channel is coming soon. Check out our new “Lifetime” membership! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: We focus on serious investigations of UFOs without prejudging or snap judgments with Clas Svahn, international director for UFO Sweden. The Paracast has covered the 1946-1949 “ghost rocket” mystery with Nick Redfern, Micah Hanks and “The Rosetta Deception” author James Carrion, but this week we’ll expand on the subject with a noted Swedish researcher who has spent years investigating this little-known wave of hundreds of anomalous aerial objects seen over Scandinavia in the years surrounding the end of World War II. Contrary to what some believe, this mystery is ongoing, and there have been reports of this phenomenon almost to the present day. An introduction to UFO Sweden’s documentary on “ghost rockets” can be found at: http://www.ghostrockets.se.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
UFO Sweden: UFO-Sweden
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on November 1: Gene and guest co-host Don Ecker, of Dark Matters Radio, talk about the implications of the ghost rocket phenomenon that forms the basis of this week’s episode of The Paracast with Clas Svahn. Don recounts the early history of the UFO field, where people were seeing unusual aircraft performing absolutely impossible maneuvers, traveling at speeds we couldn’t achieve. Moving on to the polarizing UFO abduction phenomenon and debate, Don refers to it as “the tale wagging the dog.” He points out how abductions took over the discussion back in the early 1990s. He goes on to suggest that people who report such experiences who are suffering deeply should see their own doctor, first. If the symptoms are serious, they should seek out a mental health professional. He argues against laymen getting involved in hypnotizing subjects about their abductions. We also discuss the U FO Data project, designed to set up UFO monitoring stations around the world. Gene and Don talk about efforts to find patterns to UFO sightings, at which point the pattern changes.
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.
Online Lynchings — The Search for the Gray Basket
By Gene Steinberg
We live in a polarized society, particularly here in the U.S. When it comes to politics, your side is good, the other side is bad. Compromise, old fashioned wheeling and dealing to find a solution that satisfies all parties, is something to be shunned. Indeed, some politicians in this country have campaigned, sometimes successfully, about always sticking to their guns, and not giving up on their principles. The “C” word, for compromise, is vulgar.
When you get caught up in the UFO mess, it’s easy to got lost in a narrow universe where it’s us versus them. The classic battles involve the believers versus the debunkers. So the believers maintain that UFOs are visitors from other planets. The governments of Earth know this, maybe even have physical evidence to confirm this theory. But due to reasons that are kept secret, they refuse to reveal the truth.
It’s a “Cosmic Watergate,” says veteran researcher Stanton T. Friedman.
The debunkers? Well, their position is obvious. UFOs are mirages, misidentified conventional objects, just plain frauds. That sort of thing, but there’s nothing to indicate they are extraterrestrial. Since extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, it’s up to the believers to demonstrate that we are confronting a phenomenon that remains unexplained.
Without sounding too partisan — well it doesn’t really matter — at least some debunkers are notorious for refusing to actually check the facts. It’s easier to just shoot from the hip, and, besides, UFOs don’t deserve serious attention.
That’s two sides of the coin, but the so-called believer side is far more nuanced than that. Some suggest that UFOs, if real, may represent some unknown phenomenon that we color with our cultural perceptions. So as we take our halting steps towards space travel, we imagine that UFOs represent advanced technology from other planets. It’s a “Star Trek” approach, mostly, the belief that ET, being highly advanced, would mean us no harm.
But it gets more complicated than that, as listeners to The Paracast and visitors to our forums know full well. People claim to have actually been in contact with extraterrestrials. Some look basically humanoid, witness the reports of so-called gray aliens, which are said to be small, slim creatures with large heads and bulbous eyes.
Other aliens are almost insect-like, while there are also beings that, on the surface, appear to be all or mostly human.
When contactees encounter human-like aliens, they claim to be given verbal or telepathic warnings that the Earth is out of control, that we are despoiling our environment, that we are warlike. We must change our ways and live in peace and harmony.
Other contactees talk of aliens who don’t seem so friendly. They don’t just happen upon a landed spaceship, and meet up with friendly aliens. Instead, they are kidnapped while driving on isolated country roads, or even in their own bedrooms.
Their abductors have no concerns about the privacy or comfort of their subjects, or victims. They may perform painful physical examinations, and some experiencers report forced sexual encounters — let’s call it what it is, rape — with beings who claim to be creating a hybrid race.
Why?
Well, as you know, it has been suggested that this hybrid race is even now infiltrating our society with an unknown goal in sight. But they may not be just trying to fit in, or preserve a dying race. Instead, they plan to quietly assume control of various elements of Earthly society. The end game is to take over planet Earth.
The very idea is outlandish. The evidence largely consists of testimony from abductees who are recounting frequent visits with aliens. This testimony may require retrieving buried memories through hypnotic regression, or they might have full memories of what happened to them without any assist.
Without scratching old wounds, there has been heated debate about a controversy involving a well-known abduction researcher and one of his former subjects. There are claims and counterclaims about abusive behavior of one sort or another.
Certainly, any researcher’s methods should be open to independent scrutiny, particularly if it involves extreme claims. If there’s no physical evidence, all you have are those claims, and unless they involve multiple witnesses describing the same episode, or different people describing identical experiences, there’s not much to investigate other than a mass of anecdotal data.
It may amount to something akin to modern folklore, although that doesn’t tell us what’s actually happening to these people. Assuming they aren’t just making it all up, are they actually interacting with extraterrestrials? Are these abductions all or mostly due to bad dreams, some sort of waking dream, sleep paralysis, or some deep psychological disorder? I’ve only scratched the service.
The encounters may actually be based on reality, but involve subconscious interactions with some external force that we don’t quite understand. That possibility may, in fact, be a potential cause of all or most UFO sightings.
But due to our deeply polarized attitudes, having a sensible debate about these and other possibilities is often impossible. When two individuals have a falling out over a UFO-related matter, with claims and counterclaims, you may have other people siding with one or the other. Those who hold a different point of view are often demonized, attacked as yet another evildoer who is ignoring an obvious truth.
Someone who asks people to look at both sides of an issue before reaching a conclusion will often be attacked is being in the pocket of one side or the other. How can you possibly ask anyone to treat such matters in a way that doesn’t agree with their expectations and beliefs? The concept of being fair and balanced is foreign to them. Take a stand, our stand, they say. If you haven’t taken a stand, you have taken a stand — against them.
Unfortunately, this attitude has polluted the UFO field for a long time, and there’s little indication that things will settle down now or ever. Having witnessed the latest emotional outbursts in our forums, before I shut it down, I only hope people will sit back, and take stock of the situation and their behavior. But they should also realize how all this looks to outsiders who care not one whit about UFOs, UFO reality and personality conflicts.
To them, we are just a bunch of wacky ET believers. The first step towards demonstrating there is something to this mystery is to consider the impact of first impressions. It’s no wonder some people are just disgusted with everything that’s going on, so they choose to just go elsewhere.
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November 1, 2015
www.theparacast.com
We Explore Ghost Rockets with UFO Sweden 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.
Announcing The Paracast+: We have another radio show, and for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast without the network ads, and chat rooms. NEW! We’ve added an RSS feed for fast updates of the latest episodes and we give free ebooks for long-term subscriptions. A Paracast+ video channel is coming soon. Check out our new “Lifetime” membership! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: We focus on serious investigations of UFOs without prejudging or snap judgments with Clas Svahn, international director for UFO Sweden. The Paracast has covered the 1946-1949 “ghost rocket” mystery with Nick Redfern, Micah Hanks and “The Rosetta Deception” author James Carrion, but this week we’ll expand on the subject with a noted Swedish researcher who has spent years investigating this little-known wave of hundreds of anomalous aerial objects seen over Scandinavia in the years surrounding the end of World War II. Contrary to what some believe, this mystery is ongoing, and there have been reports of this phenomenon almost to the present day. An introduction to UFO Sweden’s documentary on “ghost rockets” can be found at: http://www.ghostrockets.se.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
UFO Sweden: UFO-Sweden
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on November 1: Gene and guest co-host Don Ecker, of Dark Matters Radio, talk about the implications of the ghost rocket phenomenon that forms the basis of this week’s episode of The Paracast with Clas Svahn. Don recounts the early history of the UFO field, where people were seeing unusual aircraft performing absolutely impossible maneuvers, traveling at speeds we couldn’t achieve. Moving on to the polarizing UFO abduction phenomenon and debate, Don refers to it as “the tale wagging the dog.” He points out how abductions took over the discussion back in the early 1990s. He goes on to suggest that people who report such experiences who are suffering deeply should see their own doctor, first. If the symptoms are serious, they should seek out a mental health professional. He argues against laymen getting involved in hypnotizing subjects about their abductions. We also discuss the U FO Data project, designed to set up UFO monitoring stations around the world. Gene and Don talk about efforts to find patterns to UFO sightings, at which point the pattern changes.
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.
Online Lynchings — The Search for the Gray Basket
By Gene Steinberg
We live in a polarized society, particularly here in the U.S. When it comes to politics, your side is good, the other side is bad. Compromise, old fashioned wheeling and dealing to find a solution that satisfies all parties, is something to be shunned. Indeed, some politicians in this country have campaigned, sometimes successfully, about always sticking to their guns, and not giving up on their principles. The “C” word, for compromise, is vulgar.
When you get caught up in the UFO mess, it’s easy to got lost in a narrow universe where it’s us versus them. The classic battles involve the believers versus the debunkers. So the believers maintain that UFOs are visitors from other planets. The governments of Earth know this, maybe even have physical evidence to confirm this theory. But due to reasons that are kept secret, they refuse to reveal the truth.
It’s a “Cosmic Watergate,” says veteran researcher Stanton T. Friedman.
The debunkers? Well, their position is obvious. UFOs are mirages, misidentified conventional objects, just plain frauds. That sort of thing, but there’s nothing to indicate they are extraterrestrial. Since extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, it’s up to the believers to demonstrate that we are confronting a phenomenon that remains unexplained.
Without sounding too partisan — well it doesn’t really matter — at least some debunkers are notorious for refusing to actually check the facts. It’s easier to just shoot from the hip, and, besides, UFOs don’t deserve serious attention.
That’s two sides of the coin, but the so-called believer side is far more nuanced than that. Some suggest that UFOs, if real, may represent some unknown phenomenon that we color with our cultural perceptions. So as we take our halting steps towards space travel, we imagine that UFOs represent advanced technology from other planets. It’s a “Star Trek” approach, mostly, the belief that ET, being highly advanced, would mean us no harm.
But it gets more complicated than that, as listeners to The Paracast and visitors to our forums know full well. People claim to have actually been in contact with extraterrestrials. Some look basically humanoid, witness the reports of so-called gray aliens, which are said to be small, slim creatures with large heads and bulbous eyes.
Other aliens are almost insect-like, while there are also beings that, on the surface, appear to be all or mostly human.
When contactees encounter human-like aliens, they claim to be given verbal or telepathic warnings that the Earth is out of control, that we are despoiling our environment, that we are warlike. We must change our ways and live in peace and harmony.
Other contactees talk of aliens who don’t seem so friendly. They don’t just happen upon a landed spaceship, and meet up with friendly aliens. Instead, they are kidnapped while driving on isolated country roads, or even in their own bedrooms.
Their abductors have no concerns about the privacy or comfort of their subjects, or victims. They may perform painful physical examinations, and some experiencers report forced sexual encounters — let’s call it what it is, rape — with beings who claim to be creating a hybrid race.
Why?
Well, as you know, it has been suggested that this hybrid race is even now infiltrating our society with an unknown goal in sight. But they may not be just trying to fit in, or preserve a dying race. Instead, they plan to quietly assume control of various elements of Earthly society. The end game is to take over planet Earth.
The very idea is outlandish. The evidence largely consists of testimony from abductees who are recounting frequent visits with aliens. This testimony may require retrieving buried memories through hypnotic regression, or they might have full memories of what happened to them without any assist.
Without scratching old wounds, there has been heated debate about a controversy involving a well-known abduction researcher and one of his former subjects. There are claims and counterclaims about abusive behavior of one sort or another.
Certainly, any researcher’s methods should be open to independent scrutiny, particularly if it involves extreme claims. If there’s no physical evidence, all you have are those claims, and unless they involve multiple witnesses describing the same episode, or different people describing identical experiences, there’s not much to investigate other than a mass of anecdotal data.
It may amount to something akin to modern folklore, although that doesn’t tell us what’s actually happening to these people. Assuming they aren’t just making it all up, are they actually interacting with extraterrestrials? Are these abductions all or mostly due to bad dreams, some sort of waking dream, sleep paralysis, or some deep psychological disorder? I’ve only scratched the service.
The encounters may actually be based on reality, but involve subconscious interactions with some external force that we don’t quite understand. That possibility may, in fact, be a potential cause of all or most UFO sightings.
But due to our deeply polarized attitudes, having a sensible debate about these and other possibilities is often impossible. When two individuals have a falling out over a UFO-related matter, with claims and counterclaims, you may have other people siding with one or the other. Those who hold a different point of view are often demonized, attacked as yet another evildoer who is ignoring an obvious truth.
Someone who asks people to look at both sides of an issue before reaching a conclusion will often be attacked is being in the pocket of one side or the other. How can you possibly ask anyone to treat such matters in a way that doesn’t agree with their expectations and beliefs? The concept of being fair and balanced is foreign to them. Take a stand, our stand, they say. If you haven’t taken a stand, you have taken a stand — against them.
Unfortunately, this attitude has polluted the UFO field for a long time, and there’s little indication that things will settle down now or ever. Having witnessed the latest emotional outbursts in our forums, before I shut it down, I only hope people will sit back, and take stock of the situation and their behavior. But they should also realize how all this looks to outsiders who care not one whit about UFOs, UFO reality and personality conflicts.
To them, we are just a bunch of wacky ET believers. The first step towards demonstrating there is something to this mystery is to consider the impact of first impressions. It’s no wonder some people are just disgusted with everything that’s going on, so they choose to just go elsewhere.
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