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November 4, 2012
The Kansas City UFO Flap Explored on The Paracast
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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: Gene and Chris present Margie Kay, Assistant State Director for Missouri MUFON for a very nuts and bolts UFO session. The main focus will be what Margie regards as "an extraordinary number of sightings in Kansas City during two UFO flaps in 2011 and 2012 with some amazing close encounters, missing time, and possible abductions. I even had my own sightings along with other witnesses." She'll also be discussing various paranormal events, such as weird sounds reported by some people in her area.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Our Strange Planet
Margie Kay's Site: The Official Web Site of Margie Kay
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. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
All Right, So UFOs Are Still Here
By Gene Steinberg
From time to time, I’ve read stories that the original UFOs that started the modern UFO era beginning in 1947 are no longer here. We don’t have those incredible simultaneous radar/visual reports that caught the public’s imagination in the 1950s. They don’t switch direction on a dime, or cause electrical systems to fail. And certainly we don’t have blond-haired human-like aliens delivering messages of peace and love, and why we really need to join the galactic brotherhood.
What about crashes in the desert? Well, maybe the UFOs are built better these days, so they can manage to stay aloft when tracked by our radar?
I suppose if you read one of those nuts and bolts UFO books from the 1950s and 1960s, from such authors as Major Donald Keyhoe and Edward Ruppelt, you might quickly conclude that such craft just weren’t being seen near as often -- or at all. So you might as well get on with your life, figuring how to cope in a world where it seems the problems just continue to get worse, and maybe forget about UFOs for good.
But wouldn’t it be nice if ET came here to get us out of this mess?
Consider, also, the change in public perceptions about UFOs. Over the years, polls have shown that roughly half the people in the U.S. believe that UFOs are real, most likely visitors from another planet, likely orbiting another star system. Well, at least that’s what the surveys indicated through the 1990s.
A more recent survey taken in connection with the launch of the National Geographic cable TV reality show, “Chasing UFOs,” indicated that the number of believers was roughly a third. You wonder how and why things changed so significantly. Is it possible the population of the U.S. is less inclined to regard UFOs as a matter of any significance, let alone real?
I’m not about to evaluate someone’s belief system, because beliefs may often be divorced from reality. Indeed, a recent poll indicated that some 17% of the people in the U.S. (and I suspect most of these are Republicans) believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Another 49% correctly identified Obama as a Christian, while the rest said they just didn’t know. Yet another survey indicated that a quarter of the American people don’t even believe Obama was born in the U.S., even though the law specifies that only a “natural born” citizen is allowed to run for President.
Now I’m not about to get into the whys and wherefores of a particular set of beliefs, or how they impact the polarized political climate. Depending on your point of view, you may regard any of those survey results as wacky, while the other figures may make perfect sense.
Obviously, when it comes to someone’s professed religion or citizenship, there can be only one truth for either, while the other opinions must be wrong. Well, I suppose someone could attend houses of worship from different religions without being aligned with any of them.
With UFOs, we are dealing with a phenomenon where there may be many truths. You can believe what you want, but that doesn’t mean your theory is necessarily the correct one. Indeed, the real cause of the UFO mystery may be something we do not yet understand. There may not be one absolute truth, but many answers depending on your beliefs, expectations, and, perhaps, the choices made by the force or forces behind the phenomenon.
However, one thing is certain: While the ways in which UFOs manifest themselves may or may not have changed over the years, the mystery still exists. It is as tantalizing and as puzzling as ever. It has nothing whatever to do with whether you or I believe in them. At the same time, it’s always possible the phenomenon is reflected in what we expect of it.
Now on The Paracast this weekend, we’ll be featuring Margie Kay, the Assistant State Director for Missouri MUFON, and a long-time UFO and paranormal investigator, who found herself in the thick of it when a wave of sightings occurred in and around Kansas City beginning 2011 and continuing up until just a few weeks ago. As you’ll learn from her clear, detailed and compelling descriptions, the sightings ran the gamut, and even included reports of a mile-wide disk-shaped aircraft seen at very close range.
When I heard that description, I thought of the popcorn sci-fi movie from the 1990s, “Independence Day,” where immense spaceships hovered over major cities around the planet. Of course, that movie was simply the latest incarnation in the disaster film genre; E.T. was here to destroy us. The craft seen in the Kansas City area didn’t demonstrate any hostile motives.
But one thing is sure: Almost every sort of classic UFO sighting you’ve read about was replicated in that UFO flap. Large craft? Check. Close encounters? Check. Amazing maneuvers? Check. Electromagnetic effects? Check. Possible abductions? Check. Missing time? Check. The possible presence of government agents? Check. Cattle mutilations? Check.
Indeed, Ms. Kay is busy writing a book about the flap and, as you’ll learn from this weekend’s episode, she has a wealth of compelling material to present. But she’s not alone. If you read MUFON’s monthly magazine over the past year or so, you’ll find an amazing number of new UFO cases, and not just in Missouri.
Over the years, in fact, whenever it seemed as if UFOs weren’t being seen very often, things suddenly changed. So maybe the UFOs never left us. Maybe we just weren’t paying attention to what was still going on around us.
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November 4, 2012
The Kansas City UFO Flap Explored on The Paracast
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Please Send a Donation 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
. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.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: Gene and Chris present Margie Kay, Assistant State Director for Missouri MUFON for a very nuts and bolts UFO session. The main focus will be what Margie regards as "an extraordinary number of sightings in Kansas City during two UFO flaps in 2011 and 2012 with some amazing close encounters, missing time, and possible abductions. I even had my own sightings along with other witnesses." She'll also be discussing various paranormal events, such as weird sounds reported by some people in her area.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Our Strange Planet
Margie Kay's Site: The Official Web Site of Margie Kay
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. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
All Right, So UFOs Are Still Here
By Gene Steinberg
From time to time, I’ve read stories that the original UFOs that started the modern UFO era beginning in 1947 are no longer here. We don’t have those incredible simultaneous radar/visual reports that caught the public’s imagination in the 1950s. They don’t switch direction on a dime, or cause electrical systems to fail. And certainly we don’t have blond-haired human-like aliens delivering messages of peace and love, and why we really need to join the galactic brotherhood.
What about crashes in the desert? Well, maybe the UFOs are built better these days, so they can manage to stay aloft when tracked by our radar?
I suppose if you read one of those nuts and bolts UFO books from the 1950s and 1960s, from such authors as Major Donald Keyhoe and Edward Ruppelt, you might quickly conclude that such craft just weren’t being seen near as often -- or at all. So you might as well get on with your life, figuring how to cope in a world where it seems the problems just continue to get worse, and maybe forget about UFOs for good.
But wouldn’t it be nice if ET came here to get us out of this mess?
Consider, also, the change in public perceptions about UFOs. Over the years, polls have shown that roughly half the people in the U.S. believe that UFOs are real, most likely visitors from another planet, likely orbiting another star system. Well, at least that’s what the surveys indicated through the 1990s.
A more recent survey taken in connection with the launch of the National Geographic cable TV reality show, “Chasing UFOs,” indicated that the number of believers was roughly a third. You wonder how and why things changed so significantly. Is it possible the population of the U.S. is less inclined to regard UFOs as a matter of any significance, let alone real?
I’m not about to evaluate someone’s belief system, because beliefs may often be divorced from reality. Indeed, a recent poll indicated that some 17% of the people in the U.S. (and I suspect most of these are Republicans) believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Another 49% correctly identified Obama as a Christian, while the rest said they just didn’t know. Yet another survey indicated that a quarter of the American people don’t even believe Obama was born in the U.S., even though the law specifies that only a “natural born” citizen is allowed to run for President.
Now I’m not about to get into the whys and wherefores of a particular set of beliefs, or how they impact the polarized political climate. Depending on your point of view, you may regard any of those survey results as wacky, while the other figures may make perfect sense.
Obviously, when it comes to someone’s professed religion or citizenship, there can be only one truth for either, while the other opinions must be wrong. Well, I suppose someone could attend houses of worship from different religions without being aligned with any of them.
With UFOs, we are dealing with a phenomenon where there may be many truths. You can believe what you want, but that doesn’t mean your theory is necessarily the correct one. Indeed, the real cause of the UFO mystery may be something we do not yet understand. There may not be one absolute truth, but many answers depending on your beliefs, expectations, and, perhaps, the choices made by the force or forces behind the phenomenon.
However, one thing is certain: While the ways in which UFOs manifest themselves may or may not have changed over the years, the mystery still exists. It is as tantalizing and as puzzling as ever. It has nothing whatever to do with whether you or I believe in them. At the same time, it’s always possible the phenomenon is reflected in what we expect of it.
Now on The Paracast this weekend, we’ll be featuring Margie Kay, the Assistant State Director for Missouri MUFON, and a long-time UFO and paranormal investigator, who found herself in the thick of it when a wave of sightings occurred in and around Kansas City beginning 2011 and continuing up until just a few weeks ago. As you’ll learn from her clear, detailed and compelling descriptions, the sightings ran the gamut, and even included reports of a mile-wide disk-shaped aircraft seen at very close range.
When I heard that description, I thought of the popcorn sci-fi movie from the 1990s, “Independence Day,” where immense spaceships hovered over major cities around the planet. Of course, that movie was simply the latest incarnation in the disaster film genre; E.T. was here to destroy us. The craft seen in the Kansas City area didn’t demonstrate any hostile motives.
But one thing is sure: Almost every sort of classic UFO sighting you’ve read about was replicated in that UFO flap. Large craft? Check. Close encounters? Check. Amazing maneuvers? Check. Electromagnetic effects? Check. Possible abductions? Check. Missing time? Check. The possible presence of government agents? Check. Cattle mutilations? Check.
Indeed, Ms. Kay is busy writing a book about the flap and, as you’ll learn from this weekend’s episode, she has a wealth of compelling material to present. But she’s not alone. If you read MUFON’s monthly magazine over the past year or so, you’ll find an amazing number of new UFO cases, and not just in Missouri.
Over the years, in fact, whenever it seemed as if UFOs weren’t being seen very often, things suddenly changed. So maybe the UFOs never left us. Maybe we just weren’t paying attention to what was still going on around us.
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