THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
November 2, 2014
www.theparacast.com
The Paracast Celebrates Halloween Weekend
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.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But 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!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: 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 is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: If it's paranormal, Micah Hanks is covering it on his various blogs and his radio show, The Gralien Report. So you'll hear about his fundamental philosophy not just on UFOs, but about hauntings and the like. He'll also cover the latest scuttlebutt in the UFO field, such as the renewed MJ-12 debate with Stanton Friedman and Robert Hastings (with Stanton in for, Robert against), Mirage Men, sightings, disclosure, and lots more. We are joined by one of our friendly forum moderators and guest co-host, Goggs Mackay.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
The Gralien Report: The Gralien Report | The Future Is Now
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.
The Mole in the Room
By Gene Steinberg
Over the years, when I was talking shop with one of the co-hosts about The Paracast and our forums, I would wonder aloud if there wasn’t a mole in our midst, a sort of government agent who was observing the goings on. In fact, a very few of our members have government-related email addresses, which we keep confidential of course. But that doesn’t imply anything more than an individual expressing their, well, individuality. It doesn’t have to mean anything more.
Now some of our guests on the show, including historian and UFO writer/lecturer Richard Dolan, state that they are in regular touch with former military personnel with intelligence connections, and that’s where they get some inside information about UFO sightings and such. He’s not the only one, and it does seem as if a few possible whistle-blowers will on occasion reveal possibly important information to outsiders about the subject.
This doesn’t mean they are necessarily revealing much of anything new. It might mean that they are just telling stories, or spreading disinformation to advance an unknown agenda. I suppose it’s not easy to know. Certainly if the government, any government, takes UFOs seriously, you expect that they will wonder what outsiders — civilians — are doing and whether they possess some significant information about the subject that they need to understand or exploit. You also wonder about the sort of disinformation that might be passed around, such as the controversial MJ-12 documents. You know, the ones that purportedly describe a group of individuals who were allegedly charged with heading up the investigation of the Roswell crash and other UFO events.
True, MJ-12 has its advocates. Dolan made an important point on last week’s episode, that the sheer quantity of roughly similar documents represents far more work than could be accomplished by a few government agents. It really seems to argue in favor of their reality. Or perhaps a few ringers were put in place to draw the attention of those looking for evidence of a hoax, thus deflecting attention from the authentic documents that described the “real” MJ-12.
This is certainly unrelated, but as some of you know, my very first full-time job was Managing Editor of Jim Moseley’s Saucer News in the late 1960s. This happened at a time when it was a serious magazine, and not just a small nonscheduled newsletter with a mixture of humor and fact. I actually got a fairly good salary in those days, $5 per hour, which would be the equivalent of nearly $38 in 2014 dollars, or $1,520 per week, based on 40 hours, which is a decent middle-class wage by anyone’s estimate. Now imagine a student living with his parents.
In any case, Jim and I would sometimes ruminate about whether one or more of the readers of the magazine was a “secret” government agent. It was fun to discuss, especially during an all night gabfest. Sometimes we’d look over the subscription roster to locate the suspected agent or mole. More than likely, I thought, the real agent would be someone who pretended to be nothing more than an innocent civilian who happened to be interested in the subject.
It’s not that we ever had evidence of any such thing, but it was fun to talk about. But I also felt that the real mole would be someone who would seem to be an unlikely government plant, someone who was, on the surface, a counterculture sort who lived a bohemian lifestyle. Someone like Jim Moseley!
Yes, in those days, some people believed Jim to be a government agent. The very prospect seemed extremely unlikely when it came to my old, dear friend. But it was also true that he was the trust fund son of Army Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who became Deputy Chief of Staff for General Douglas MacArthur in the early 1930s. Now Jim was one of the most accepting persons I ever knew, but his father was a notorious anti-semite. What a contrast!
So when he left home to seek his fortune, or live his life on the family largesse, Jim stayed as far away from government service as possible. Yes, he was an occasional visitor to the Air Force’s Project Blue Book to get the latest sightings, and even formed friendships with one or two of the people who headed up that agency. But I regarded it at the time as just a reflection of Jim’s even-handed policy about making friendships.
During our private conversations, Jim even showed me letters from his father to his mother suggesting that their wayward son be sent off to a military boarding school to give him some character. That never happened, so it was clear to me that he was a poor candidate to become a government agent. Or was that his cover, a source of plausible deniability?
Not that I believe Jim was a government agent. Just saying.
When I sponsored a UFO convention in 1975, in Valley Forge, PA, my compatriots and I wondered if we had a government mole in our midst. Of course, one of my closest friends, who helped me organize the convention, happened to be a former Air Force Sergeant, who, after a stint as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer, returned to government service as a public information specialist. But, no, I did not regard him — then or now — as a possible agent. He was just a friend, and I never felt suspicious of him.
Again, the real government mole would most likely be someone whom you’d never suspect, in the spirit of a mystery novel.
So perhaps one or more of our listeners does work for the government, and is involved in some sort of disinformation effort, and possibly one or more of these individuals regularly participates in our forums. But before you begin to look at each other for possible culprits — and remember what I wrote about the least suspected individual — let me just tell you that I’m merely speculating. I’m only half serious about such matters.
After all, everything we do on The Paracast is public. Nobody has to appear in a secret guise to get information. It’s all out there, and even if some of our forum posts are meant to disinform, I am fully confident our regular members would spot the mole fairly quickly.
In short, I don’t really believe much of this is really going on, at least in our sandbox. Sure, if the government continues to be interested in what civilian paranormal researchers are doing, they’d be watching. But it would hardly require the extraordinary effort of someone pretending to be someone else.
Why You Should Donate to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough to pay your humble hosts decent wages. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able 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 and utility bills. No contribution is too small (or too large
. It’s easy to send a donation. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. Or use the Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. You can also send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.
Copyright 1999-2014 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!
November 2, 2014
www.theparacast.com
The Paracast Celebrates Halloween Weekend
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.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But 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!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: 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 is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: If it's paranormal, Micah Hanks is covering it on his various blogs and his radio show, The Gralien Report. So you'll hear about his fundamental philosophy not just on UFOs, but about hauntings and the like. He'll also cover the latest scuttlebutt in the UFO field, such as the renewed MJ-12 debate with Stanton Friedman and Robert Hastings (with Stanton in for, Robert against), Mirage Men, sightings, disclosure, and lots more. We are joined by one of our friendly forum moderators and guest co-host, Goggs Mackay.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
The Gralien Report: The Gralien Report | The Future Is Now
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.
The Mole in the Room
By Gene Steinberg
Over the years, when I was talking shop with one of the co-hosts about The Paracast and our forums, I would wonder aloud if there wasn’t a mole in our midst, a sort of government agent who was observing the goings on. In fact, a very few of our members have government-related email addresses, which we keep confidential of course. But that doesn’t imply anything more than an individual expressing their, well, individuality. It doesn’t have to mean anything more.
Now some of our guests on the show, including historian and UFO writer/lecturer Richard Dolan, state that they are in regular touch with former military personnel with intelligence connections, and that’s where they get some inside information about UFO sightings and such. He’s not the only one, and it does seem as if a few possible whistle-blowers will on occasion reveal possibly important information to outsiders about the subject.
This doesn’t mean they are necessarily revealing much of anything new. It might mean that they are just telling stories, or spreading disinformation to advance an unknown agenda. I suppose it’s not easy to know. Certainly if the government, any government, takes UFOs seriously, you expect that they will wonder what outsiders — civilians — are doing and whether they possess some significant information about the subject that they need to understand or exploit. You also wonder about the sort of disinformation that might be passed around, such as the controversial MJ-12 documents. You know, the ones that purportedly describe a group of individuals who were allegedly charged with heading up the investigation of the Roswell crash and other UFO events.
True, MJ-12 has its advocates. Dolan made an important point on last week’s episode, that the sheer quantity of roughly similar documents represents far more work than could be accomplished by a few government agents. It really seems to argue in favor of their reality. Or perhaps a few ringers were put in place to draw the attention of those looking for evidence of a hoax, thus deflecting attention from the authentic documents that described the “real” MJ-12.
This is certainly unrelated, but as some of you know, my very first full-time job was Managing Editor of Jim Moseley’s Saucer News in the late 1960s. This happened at a time when it was a serious magazine, and not just a small nonscheduled newsletter with a mixture of humor and fact. I actually got a fairly good salary in those days, $5 per hour, which would be the equivalent of nearly $38 in 2014 dollars, or $1,520 per week, based on 40 hours, which is a decent middle-class wage by anyone’s estimate. Now imagine a student living with his parents.
In any case, Jim and I would sometimes ruminate about whether one or more of the readers of the magazine was a “secret” government agent. It was fun to discuss, especially during an all night gabfest. Sometimes we’d look over the subscription roster to locate the suspected agent or mole. More than likely, I thought, the real agent would be someone who pretended to be nothing more than an innocent civilian who happened to be interested in the subject.
It’s not that we ever had evidence of any such thing, but it was fun to talk about. But I also felt that the real mole would be someone who would seem to be an unlikely government plant, someone who was, on the surface, a counterculture sort who lived a bohemian lifestyle. Someone like Jim Moseley!
Yes, in those days, some people believed Jim to be a government agent. The very prospect seemed extremely unlikely when it came to my old, dear friend. But it was also true that he was the trust fund son of Army Major General George Van Horn Moseley, who became Deputy Chief of Staff for General Douglas MacArthur in the early 1930s. Now Jim was one of the most accepting persons I ever knew, but his father was a notorious anti-semite. What a contrast!
So when he left home to seek his fortune, or live his life on the family largesse, Jim stayed as far away from government service as possible. Yes, he was an occasional visitor to the Air Force’s Project Blue Book to get the latest sightings, and even formed friendships with one or two of the people who headed up that agency. But I regarded it at the time as just a reflection of Jim’s even-handed policy about making friendships.
During our private conversations, Jim even showed me letters from his father to his mother suggesting that their wayward son be sent off to a military boarding school to give him some character. That never happened, so it was clear to me that he was a poor candidate to become a government agent. Or was that his cover, a source of plausible deniability?
Not that I believe Jim was a government agent. Just saying.
When I sponsored a UFO convention in 1975, in Valley Forge, PA, my compatriots and I wondered if we had a government mole in our midst. Of course, one of my closest friends, who helped me organize the convention, happened to be a former Air Force Sergeant, who, after a stint as a newspaper reporter and freelance writer, returned to government service as a public information specialist. But, no, I did not regard him — then or now — as a possible agent. He was just a friend, and I never felt suspicious of him.
Again, the real government mole would most likely be someone whom you’d never suspect, in the spirit of a mystery novel.
So perhaps one or more of our listeners does work for the government, and is involved in some sort of disinformation effort, and possibly one or more of these individuals regularly participates in our forums. But before you begin to look at each other for possible culprits — and remember what I wrote about the least suspected individual — let me just tell you that I’m merely speculating. I’m only half serious about such matters.
After all, everything we do on The Paracast is public. Nobody has to appear in a secret guise to get information. It’s all out there, and even if some of our forum posts are meant to disinform, I am fully confident our regular members would spot the mole fairly quickly.
In short, I don’t really believe much of this is really going on, at least in our sandbox. Sure, if the government continues to be interested in what civilian paranormal researchers are doing, they’d be watching. But it would hardly require the extraordinary effort of someone pretending to be someone else.
Why You Should Donate to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough to pay your humble hosts decent wages. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able 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 and utility bills. No contribution is too small (or too large
. It’s easy to send a donation. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. Or use the Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. You can also send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.Copyright 1999-2014 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!
