THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
October 20, 2013
Veteran UFO Researcher Jerome Clark Returns to The Paracast
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.
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. It’s easy to send a donation. We have aDonate 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.And if you’ve had a problem getting to our Donate screen, please try again. We just fixed a serious PayPal access problem, and it should wor k properly now.
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: The UFO field remains embroiled in the usual group of feuds and other time-wasting pursuits. To provide a reality check, Gene and Chris present veteran UFO researcher and historian Jerome Clark. He has been been involved in UFO research since the 1960s and has written a number of books on UFO and paranormal subjects that includes "The UFO Encyclopedia : The Phenomenon from the Beginning (2 Volume Set)."
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
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.
Sponsored Message: Don’t get ripped off when you need to liquidate your precious jewelry and silverware. Call Steve at Numis Gems at (480) 878-7678 and get the straight scoop!
Assuming Facts Without Proof
By Gene Steinberg
When people mention UFOs, they usually mean spaceships. People who believe UFOs to be something other than conventional objects or phenomena generally attribute the phenomenon to visits by beings from other worlds. This so-called ETH, short for extraterrestrial hypothesis, dates back decades. But the fundamentals have barely changed.
In the early days, such UFO investigators as the late Major Donald E. Keyhoe, suggested that the UFOs came from nearby planets, perhaps even Mars. But as we discovered that Mars and other planets in our solar system had surface conditions that were, at the very least, unsuitable for life as we know it, or any advanced lifeforms, we began to look outward, far outward, to other star systems.
So maybe the specifics about the source had changed, but it was still just more ETH. Once that theory became accepted by more and more people in the UFO field, expectations were less about getting answers to persuading others to tell us what they knew. If we have been visited by spaceships for decades, or even hundreds or thousands of years, wouldn’t those in charge know about it?
Certainly the expectation that someone has the answers takes the pressure off. You don’t have to investigate anything. You just demand action from those who are keeping the secret. Once they reveal that secret, everything will be right in the world, or at least we will know the truth about what we are confronting.
But that assumes somebody knows the truth, and that may not be true. That also assumes that UFOs are actually spaceships, and that could be true. But we don’t have any final evidence that this is so. Yes, people see UFOs. Yes, some of those UFOs are photographed and filmed, and at least some of those pictures do not appear to be faked. Yes, UFOs are sometimes seen visually and on radar at the same time. Yes, UFOs sometimes leave trace evidence. Yes, mysterious entities, clearly alien, are sometimes seen in connection with UFO sightings.
You can go through all the mundane explanations. Some UFOs are airplanes or planets or stars seen under unusual conditions. Test aircraft might explain some sightings, and other UFOs may be some sort of natural phenomenon. Indeed, over 90% of the sightings appear to have conventional explanations, so they are really IFOs or Identified Flying Objects.
The entire mystery is all about the residue, the sightings that cannot be explained, and that’s where assumptions are being made.
When you ask for evidence of the ETH, the response often involves a process of elimination. The objects appear to be physical, intelligently controlled, and we do not have any terrestrial aircraft that can match them in perceived maneuverability. So if we aren’t responsible for UFOs, it must be ET. What other explanation can there be?
Now debating other possible origins is not necessarily a major distinction. So you can talk about possible time travelers, dimensional portals, and maybe even a hidden race that occupies caverns, mountain tops, or perhaps exists in cities beneath the oceans. It’s still all about physical aircraft and where the pilots come from.
But it may be more complicated than that. In his appearances on The Paracast and elsewhere, long-time UFO historian Jerome Clark has talked of two different mysteries. One is the event phenomenon, consisting of the UFO cases that convey the impression of being physical aircraft possibly from other worlds. There is also the experiential phenomenon, involving people who have strange and often frightening experiences, including possible UFO abductions. The experiences, by and large, are not accompanied by any physical evidence, but are usually limited to eyewitness testimony.
All right, with UFO abductions, some people have reportedly received alleged alien implants, perhaps some sort of futuristic RFD chip that may be used to keep tabs on them. It’s hard to know because, while some implants have been recovered, there doesn’t seem to be any clear evidence of what they really are. But if the experiences exist solely in one’s mind, how could there possibly be physical evidence of any kind?
The ongoing problem with UFO evidence is that we get close but no closer. There are tantalizing hints at a larger reality that may embrace visitors from other worlds or at least from somewhere else. Perhaps with enough mainstream scientists tackling the problem, maybe we would be closer to an answer. So far, however, the phenomenon appears to stay one or more steps ahead of us, ever elusive, with no solutions in sight.
Some suggest the inability to find the end of the rainbow is deliberate, and we have little or no control over the outcome. You chase the phenomenon in one direction, and it moves in another. When some suggest we may never learn the answers in our lifetimes, that does appear to be a reasonable conclusion. It’s not as if we have come any closer after all these years of chasing UFOs.
But the larger question is where to go next. It may be convenient and comforting to expect the governments of the world to reveal the truth, if only you apply the right amount of pressure. But that doesn’t appear to be the case. There is no smoking gun yet to indicate that any authority has guilty knowledge of what’s really going on. Sure, maybe they do, and maybe they believe they are protecting the populace from mass panic by not letting us in on the secret.
In the meantime, however, all those UFO clubs around the world haven’t done much more than collect sightings and sometimes publish the reports. How much actual effort is being expended to sift through all that data and see where it leads? Oh, that’s right! UFOs are spaceships, so we already know the answers, and we are just collecting evidence to help validate those answers.
But since no theory has been proven, is it even possible to set limits on the scope of the evidence? What about sightings of strange creatures and other events that seem to occur in the vicinity of the appearance of UFOs? Is it just an arbitrary decision to declare them separate mysteries? Does the widespread belief in the ETH constrain investigators from finding out what is really going on?
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October 20, 2013
Veteran UFO Researcher Jerome Clark Returns to The Paracast
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.
Why It's Important for You to 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 aDonate 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.And if you’ve had a problem getting to our Donate screen, please try again. We just fixed a serious PayPal access problem, and it should wor k properly now.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: The UFO field remains embroiled in the usual group of feuds and other time-wasting pursuits. To provide a reality check, Gene and Chris present veteran UFO researcher and historian Jerome Clark. He has been been involved in UFO research since the 1960s and has written a number of books on UFO and paranormal subjects that includes "The UFO Encyclopedia : The Phenomenon from the Beginning (2 Volume Set)."
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
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.
Sponsored Message: Don’t get ripped off when you need to liquidate your precious jewelry and silverware. Call Steve at Numis Gems at (480) 878-7678 and get the straight scoop!
Assuming Facts Without Proof
By Gene Steinberg
When people mention UFOs, they usually mean spaceships. People who believe UFOs to be something other than conventional objects or phenomena generally attribute the phenomenon to visits by beings from other worlds. This so-called ETH, short for extraterrestrial hypothesis, dates back decades. But the fundamentals have barely changed.
In the early days, such UFO investigators as the late Major Donald E. Keyhoe, suggested that the UFOs came from nearby planets, perhaps even Mars. But as we discovered that Mars and other planets in our solar system had surface conditions that were, at the very least, unsuitable for life as we know it, or any advanced lifeforms, we began to look outward, far outward, to other star systems.
So maybe the specifics about the source had changed, but it was still just more ETH. Once that theory became accepted by more and more people in the UFO field, expectations were less about getting answers to persuading others to tell us what they knew. If we have been visited by spaceships for decades, or even hundreds or thousands of years, wouldn’t those in charge know about it?
Certainly the expectation that someone has the answers takes the pressure off. You don’t have to investigate anything. You just demand action from those who are keeping the secret. Once they reveal that secret, everything will be right in the world, or at least we will know the truth about what we are confronting.
But that assumes somebody knows the truth, and that may not be true. That also assumes that UFOs are actually spaceships, and that could be true. But we don’t have any final evidence that this is so. Yes, people see UFOs. Yes, some of those UFOs are photographed and filmed, and at least some of those pictures do not appear to be faked. Yes, UFOs are sometimes seen visually and on radar at the same time. Yes, UFOs sometimes leave trace evidence. Yes, mysterious entities, clearly alien, are sometimes seen in connection with UFO sightings.
You can go through all the mundane explanations. Some UFOs are airplanes or planets or stars seen under unusual conditions. Test aircraft might explain some sightings, and other UFOs may be some sort of natural phenomenon. Indeed, over 90% of the sightings appear to have conventional explanations, so they are really IFOs or Identified Flying Objects.
The entire mystery is all about the residue, the sightings that cannot be explained, and that’s where assumptions are being made.
When you ask for evidence of the ETH, the response often involves a process of elimination. The objects appear to be physical, intelligently controlled, and we do not have any terrestrial aircraft that can match them in perceived maneuverability. So if we aren’t responsible for UFOs, it must be ET. What other explanation can there be?
Now debating other possible origins is not necessarily a major distinction. So you can talk about possible time travelers, dimensional portals, and maybe even a hidden race that occupies caverns, mountain tops, or perhaps exists in cities beneath the oceans. It’s still all about physical aircraft and where the pilots come from.
But it may be more complicated than that. In his appearances on The Paracast and elsewhere, long-time UFO historian Jerome Clark has talked of two different mysteries. One is the event phenomenon, consisting of the UFO cases that convey the impression of being physical aircraft possibly from other worlds. There is also the experiential phenomenon, involving people who have strange and often frightening experiences, including possible UFO abductions. The experiences, by and large, are not accompanied by any physical evidence, but are usually limited to eyewitness testimony.
All right, with UFO abductions, some people have reportedly received alleged alien implants, perhaps some sort of futuristic RFD chip that may be used to keep tabs on them. It’s hard to know because, while some implants have been recovered, there doesn’t seem to be any clear evidence of what they really are. But if the experiences exist solely in one’s mind, how could there possibly be physical evidence of any kind?
The ongoing problem with UFO evidence is that we get close but no closer. There are tantalizing hints at a larger reality that may embrace visitors from other worlds or at least from somewhere else. Perhaps with enough mainstream scientists tackling the problem, maybe we would be closer to an answer. So far, however, the phenomenon appears to stay one or more steps ahead of us, ever elusive, with no solutions in sight.
Some suggest the inability to find the end of the rainbow is deliberate, and we have little or no control over the outcome. You chase the phenomenon in one direction, and it moves in another. When some suggest we may never learn the answers in our lifetimes, that does appear to be a reasonable conclusion. It’s not as if we have come any closer after all these years of chasing UFOs.
But the larger question is where to go next. It may be convenient and comforting to expect the governments of the world to reveal the truth, if only you apply the right amount of pressure. But that doesn’t appear to be the case. There is no smoking gun yet to indicate that any authority has guilty knowledge of what’s really going on. Sure, maybe they do, and maybe they believe they are protecting the populace from mass panic by not letting us in on the secret.
In the meantime, however, all those UFO clubs around the world haven’t done much more than collect sightings and sometimes publish the reports. How much actual effort is being expended to sift through all that data and see where it leads? Oh, that’s right! UFOs are spaceships, so we already know the answers, and we are just collecting evidence to help validate those answers.
But since no theory has been proven, is it even possible to set limits on the scope of the evidence? What about sightings of strange creatures and other events that seem to occur in the vicinity of the appearance of UFOs? Is it just an arbitrary decision to declare them separate mysteries? Does the widespread belief in the ETH constrain investigators from finding out what is really going on?
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