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Sunday, October 3, 2010: 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: Co-host Christopher O'€™Brien presents co-host Nicholas Redfern, who joins us to talk about his controversial new book, "Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife."€
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Nick Redfern's Site: Nick Redfern
Coming October 10: Dulce. The very word conjures up hellish visions of “Nightmare Hall,” bubbling vats filled with human body parts, evil reptoids killing spec op troops invading their underground lair. But is there anything to these fantastic rumors? In this episode, co-host Christopher O’Brien presents Anthony Sanchez, who reveals shocking info about Dulce from a retired Colonel who claims to have worked there.€
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Anthony Sanchez's Site: UFO Highway - www.UFOHighway.com
Reminder: Don't forget to visit our always-active Discussion Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal (and note our new Internet address): The Paracast Community Forums.
Are UFOs Now Being Taken Seriously?
By Christopher O’Brien
I couldn’t begin to count how many times inane media coverage of UFO events have made me cringe and look the other way. Or the number of times we have suffered through the predictable smarmy “little green men” giggle jokes at the end of local news segments, or listened to reporters out-in-the-field nervously mouthing an approximation of the “Twilight Zone” theme before launching into earnest deadpan coverage of the latest manifestation of this perplexing phenomenon. It would appear that woo-woo you-foe mystery won’t fly long enough and far enough away to be explained or denied by the media with any appreciable modicum of dignity. Sometimes, I have to remind myself that all my consternations around the media’s unease of UFOs is not a personal problem, and I think I that I speak for many of us who became fed up with this disingenuous approach a long time ago.
Admit it, over the years there have been simply far too many biased, judgmental, uninformed small-minded examinations of this important scientific mystery and its obvious why this pivotal subject has drawn the scorn of mainstream science and high-status culture. One thing that has slowly changed is that sighting events and news conferences like this week’s National Press Club event with Rob Hastings and Bob Salas, carried live on CNN, are now routinely making mainstream news.
Since 1992 and the advent of the wildly popular “X-Files” TV program, and the Art Bell Coast to Coast AM radio show, there has been a gradual but discernable shift in the media’s attitude toward the UFO subject. UFOs have quietly and unassumingly gone mainstream as the hundreds of modest start-up UFO/Paranormal-themed Internet podcasts suggest.
Unfortunately, the media and the public continues to be memorized by a Roswell feedback loop fixation, but how should we define “mainstream’? Is this increased public awareness and acceptance based on a quantity of media coverage or in the quality of coverage? With the stunted blossoming of the X-File generation in the early nineties, we have seen a gradual but definite upsurge in objective media coverage of the UFOs and major sighting events (such as the March 17, 1997 “Phoenix Lights” event(s), the Stephenville, TX sightings, and the Chicago O’Hare Airport Incident) that now prompt instant international news coverage without too much of that irritating “giggle” factor being injected.
But something else has replaced the old-fashioned media style of incredulity. Instead of the standard tactic of attacking the credibility of the witness to refute the validity of a particular Ufological event, we now have the unspoken assumption that something otherworldly was observed flying around and “if it wasn’t ours, it must be…” aliens or extraterrestrials. Absent an effective debunking, off-planet “ETs” are now automatically assumed to be responsible.
This cultural gestalt is equally troubling gto me. As a proponent of exhausting all non-ET “closed system” explanations before jumping off-planet, for me this knee-jerk “alien” assumption is as disingenuous as all the mundane explanations proposed over the decades by the mainstream media that has helped deflect and confuse public perception of the UFO mystery. The old adage, “if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck,” doesn’t necessarily work in regard to UFOs and the paranormal. We simply don’t know enough to come to any unequivocal, firm conclusions.
The inauguration of the San Luis Valley Camera Monitoring Project; the ongoing Ted Phillips “Marley Woods” Project, and Douglas Trumball’s recent announcement of his mobile UFO monitoring effort, may herald a new step forward toward hard-data monitoring efforts of the UFO phenomena. These programs are designed to acquire the data necessary for the scientific community to be finally put on notice by the emerging proto-scientific UFO field. Now that it appears we have turned the corner with respect to the media, it would appear the scientific community is next in our sights. Perhaps at some point in time, data may truly overwhelm the mystery, but until that day arrives, there is no substitute for the scientific process, keeping an open mind and not jumping to conclusions.
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Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM (Central Time) on the GCN radio network.
The Paracast Humbly Requests Your Donations: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough, and we don't want to overwhelm the show with them, so we hope you'll be willing 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. 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, right below our logo. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.You Can Now Order The Official Paracast T-Shirt: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and a collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt, just pay a visit to our new online store at Welcome to The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We now also offer a lineup of other premium merchandise featuring The Paracast logo.
Sunday, October 3, 2010: 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: Co-host Christopher O'€™Brien presents co-host Nicholas Redfern, who joins us to talk about his controversial new book, "Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife."€
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Nick Redfern's Site: Nick Redfern
Coming October 10: Dulce. The very word conjures up hellish visions of “Nightmare Hall,” bubbling vats filled with human body parts, evil reptoids killing spec op troops invading their underground lair. But is there anything to these fantastic rumors? In this episode, co-host Christopher O’Brien presents Anthony Sanchez, who reveals shocking info about Dulce from a retired Colonel who claims to have worked there.€
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Anthony Sanchez's Site: UFO Highway - www.UFOHighway.com
Reminder: Don't forget to visit our always-active Discussion Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal (and note our new Internet address): The Paracast Community Forums.
Are UFOs Now Being Taken Seriously?
By Christopher O’Brien
I couldn’t begin to count how many times inane media coverage of UFO events have made me cringe and look the other way. Or the number of times we have suffered through the predictable smarmy “little green men” giggle jokes at the end of local news segments, or listened to reporters out-in-the-field nervously mouthing an approximation of the “Twilight Zone” theme before launching into earnest deadpan coverage of the latest manifestation of this perplexing phenomenon. It would appear that woo-woo you-foe mystery won’t fly long enough and far enough away to be explained or denied by the media with any appreciable modicum of dignity. Sometimes, I have to remind myself that all my consternations around the media’s unease of UFOs is not a personal problem, and I think I that I speak for many of us who became fed up with this disingenuous approach a long time ago.
Admit it, over the years there have been simply far too many biased, judgmental, uninformed small-minded examinations of this important scientific mystery and its obvious why this pivotal subject has drawn the scorn of mainstream science and high-status culture. One thing that has slowly changed is that sighting events and news conferences like this week’s National Press Club event with Rob Hastings and Bob Salas, carried live on CNN, are now routinely making mainstream news.
Since 1992 and the advent of the wildly popular “X-Files” TV program, and the Art Bell Coast to Coast AM radio show, there has been a gradual but discernable shift in the media’s attitude toward the UFO subject. UFOs have quietly and unassumingly gone mainstream as the hundreds of modest start-up UFO/Paranormal-themed Internet podcasts suggest.
Unfortunately, the media and the public continues to be memorized by a Roswell feedback loop fixation, but how should we define “mainstream’? Is this increased public awareness and acceptance based on a quantity of media coverage or in the quality of coverage? With the stunted blossoming of the X-File generation in the early nineties, we have seen a gradual but definite upsurge in objective media coverage of the UFOs and major sighting events (such as the March 17, 1997 “Phoenix Lights” event(s), the Stephenville, TX sightings, and the Chicago O’Hare Airport Incident) that now prompt instant international news coverage without too much of that irritating “giggle” factor being injected.
But something else has replaced the old-fashioned media style of incredulity. Instead of the standard tactic of attacking the credibility of the witness to refute the validity of a particular Ufological event, we now have the unspoken assumption that something otherworldly was observed flying around and “if it wasn’t ours, it must be…” aliens or extraterrestrials. Absent an effective debunking, off-planet “ETs” are now automatically assumed to be responsible.
This cultural gestalt is equally troubling gto me. As a proponent of exhausting all non-ET “closed system” explanations before jumping off-planet, for me this knee-jerk “alien” assumption is as disingenuous as all the mundane explanations proposed over the decades by the mainstream media that has helped deflect and confuse public perception of the UFO mystery. The old adage, “if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck,” doesn’t necessarily work in regard to UFOs and the paranormal. We simply don’t know enough to come to any unequivocal, firm conclusions.
The inauguration of the San Luis Valley Camera Monitoring Project; the ongoing Ted Phillips “Marley Woods” Project, and Douglas Trumball’s recent announcement of his mobile UFO monitoring effort, may herald a new step forward toward hard-data monitoring efforts of the UFO phenomena. These programs are designed to acquire the data necessary for the scientific community to be finally put on notice by the emerging proto-scientific UFO field. Now that it appears we have turned the corner with respect to the media, it would appear the scientific community is next in our sights. Perhaps at some point in time, data may truly overwhelm the mystery, but until that day arrives, there is no substitute for the scientific process, keeping an open mind and not jumping to conclusions.
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