THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
October 21, 2012
The Paracast Explores Reports of Wolfmen and Other Strange Creatures
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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 have a howling good time with paranormal writer Linda Godfrey, author of "Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America." You'll learn about the legends of humanoid wolves, shape shifters, and possible creatures that materialize in portal or window areas around the world.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Our Strange Planet
Linda Godfrey's Blog: Lindagodfrey's Blog
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.
The Dream of a Presidential UFO Revelation
By Gene Steinberg
Some time back, one of the movements devoted to UFO disclosure sent along a petition, containing several thousand names, to the office of the President of the United States. The request was obvious: Reveal that UFOs are extraterrestrial.
As you might expect, President Obama didn’t hold a press conference on the subject. Instead, the petition was passed on to a low-level bureaucrat who gave the standard boilerplate response that there was no evidence that we are being visited by ET. End of story.
Well, not quite, since the petitioners have modified their approach, and have decided to focus more tightly on significant sightings involving military personnel. But it’s clear that such a move probably won’t make a lick of a difference. It would take the requests of millions of Americans to deliver a response, and even then, there’s no guarantee that you’d hear the answers you expect.
The real issue, of course, is how much does the President know about UFOs, beyond, of course, what they might read in the papers or in a book. You may not even know if they are actually interested in looking into the matter. Sure, we know that President Carter had a UFO sighting, but that didn’t make him any more forthcoming in revealing anything new about the subject during his single term in office. President Reagan once spoke cryptically about the next war being a war in space, but maybe that was all about his so-called “Star Wars” program, the popular branding of his proposal for a Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, which involved ground and space-based defense systems to protect the country against a possible nuclear attack.
There is also that story that, when he was President, Bill Clinton and First Lady Hilary Clinton sat down with Laurence Rockefeller to discuss UFOs. There is actually an alleged draft letter from Rockefeller suggesting ways in which the release of UFO information could be coordinated.
Now it is true that Rockefeller did make grants to private researchers to look into various paranormal matters. Our own Christopher O’Brien got a small sum from Rockefeller for one investigative project.
Now if you can believe the controversial MJ-12 documents, it may well be that President Truman had an interest in the subject, which would be understandable regardless of the authenticity of the documents. In those days, the arrival of the flying saucers was a worldwide phenomenon, and there was a U.S. agency, later known as Project Blue Book, which was devoted to investigating the growing number of sightings. Or maybe just running a public relations disinformation campaign to divert attention from a real investigation.
There are rumors that President Eisenhower, upon taking a trip to visit his dentist, really got to see aliens being held at a secret base. Well, that’s the story, and it’s undeniably fascinating. But it’s not as if there’s final proof that such a thing ever really occurred.
The picture is murkier about Kennedy, Nixon, and other occupants of the oval office. Yes, while in Congress, Gerald Ford was a key mover and shaker when it came to the hearings that resulted in the Condon Committee in 1966. But it’s not as if that attempt to figure out what is really going on delivered results that were satisfactory to anyone but a diehard skeptic.
In the intervening years, you wonder just how much any U.S. President actually knew about the subject, beyond popular coverage. Did they receive sighting reports as part of their regular intelligence briefings? Did science advisors sit down and alert a newly-elected chief executive of the existence of visitors from another planet? Or were they warned off, because they were delving into matters that were not only too hot to handle, but could have dreadful effects on their political future, particularly if they hoped to run for another term? Perhaps the threats were more personal in nature.
Does the President of the U.S. even have the need to know? After all, he only hangs around for a period of four or eight years. After that he’s out the door, and the entrenched system doesn’t change as the result of the deeds, or lack thereof, of any single chief executive.
Would a President’s treatment about such mysteries resemble the way it was handled in the blockbuster popcorn movie, “Independence Day”? In that film, the mythical President Whitmore, as portrayed by an earnest Bill Pullman, is alerted as to the existence of a secret base housing a spaceship and alien bodies at Area 51. When he asks why he wasn’t told about this before the aliens arrived to invade planet Earth, his Secretary of Defense (portrayed by James Rebhorn) simply utters two words, “plausible deniability.”
However, if the President is kept in the dark, would his cabinet secretaries have a clue, even if they managed the departments that would be involved in any UFO coverup? Remember, their tenure is temporary too, and the President will frequently change the occupants of those offices even before a term is over. So why should they be privy to any information their boss doesn’t know?
If there’s a UFO secret that is not yet disclosed, the government bureaucracy may even farm out the ongoing investigations and evidence to private industry, conveniently financing the whole enterprise with funds that are cleverly buried. You might even find it within an appropriation that is, in part, meant to fund a completely different function having nothing whatever to do with national defense. I don’t for a moment dispute the possibility that entrenched government officials, who don’t depend on public officials for their employment, long ago figured out how to hide significant amounts of money in ways that even a skilled businessperson would find difficult to discover.
But is any of that true? Is the U.S. government, and its counterparts around the world, as mystified as the rest of us about UFOs, their origins and their purpose in being here? It’s not as if they’d ever admit they’re stumped, right?
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October 21, 2012
The Paracast Explores Reports of Wolfmen and Other Strange Creatures
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 have a howling good time with paranormal writer Linda Godfrey, author of "Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America." You'll learn about the legends of humanoid wolves, shape shifters, and possible creatures that materialize in portal or window areas around the world.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Our Strange Planet
Linda Godfrey's Blog: Lindagodfrey's Blog
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.
The Dream of a Presidential UFO Revelation
By Gene Steinberg
Some time back, one of the movements devoted to UFO disclosure sent along a petition, containing several thousand names, to the office of the President of the United States. The request was obvious: Reveal that UFOs are extraterrestrial.
As you might expect, President Obama didn’t hold a press conference on the subject. Instead, the petition was passed on to a low-level bureaucrat who gave the standard boilerplate response that there was no evidence that we are being visited by ET. End of story.
Well, not quite, since the petitioners have modified their approach, and have decided to focus more tightly on significant sightings involving military personnel. But it’s clear that such a move probably won’t make a lick of a difference. It would take the requests of millions of Americans to deliver a response, and even then, there’s no guarantee that you’d hear the answers you expect.
The real issue, of course, is how much does the President know about UFOs, beyond, of course, what they might read in the papers or in a book. You may not even know if they are actually interested in looking into the matter. Sure, we know that President Carter had a UFO sighting, but that didn’t make him any more forthcoming in revealing anything new about the subject during his single term in office. President Reagan once spoke cryptically about the next war being a war in space, but maybe that was all about his so-called “Star Wars” program, the popular branding of his proposal for a Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, which involved ground and space-based defense systems to protect the country against a possible nuclear attack.
There is also that story that, when he was President, Bill Clinton and First Lady Hilary Clinton sat down with Laurence Rockefeller to discuss UFOs. There is actually an alleged draft letter from Rockefeller suggesting ways in which the release of UFO information could be coordinated.
Now it is true that Rockefeller did make grants to private researchers to look into various paranormal matters. Our own Christopher O’Brien got a small sum from Rockefeller for one investigative project.
Now if you can believe the controversial MJ-12 documents, it may well be that President Truman had an interest in the subject, which would be understandable regardless of the authenticity of the documents. In those days, the arrival of the flying saucers was a worldwide phenomenon, and there was a U.S. agency, later known as Project Blue Book, which was devoted to investigating the growing number of sightings. Or maybe just running a public relations disinformation campaign to divert attention from a real investigation.
There are rumors that President Eisenhower, upon taking a trip to visit his dentist, really got to see aliens being held at a secret base. Well, that’s the story, and it’s undeniably fascinating. But it’s not as if there’s final proof that such a thing ever really occurred.
The picture is murkier about Kennedy, Nixon, and other occupants of the oval office. Yes, while in Congress, Gerald Ford was a key mover and shaker when it came to the hearings that resulted in the Condon Committee in 1966. But it’s not as if that attempt to figure out what is really going on delivered results that were satisfactory to anyone but a diehard skeptic.
In the intervening years, you wonder just how much any U.S. President actually knew about the subject, beyond popular coverage. Did they receive sighting reports as part of their regular intelligence briefings? Did science advisors sit down and alert a newly-elected chief executive of the existence of visitors from another planet? Or were they warned off, because they were delving into matters that were not only too hot to handle, but could have dreadful effects on their political future, particularly if they hoped to run for another term? Perhaps the threats were more personal in nature.
Does the President of the U.S. even have the need to know? After all, he only hangs around for a period of four or eight years. After that he’s out the door, and the entrenched system doesn’t change as the result of the deeds, or lack thereof, of any single chief executive.
Would a President’s treatment about such mysteries resemble the way it was handled in the blockbuster popcorn movie, “Independence Day”? In that film, the mythical President Whitmore, as portrayed by an earnest Bill Pullman, is alerted as to the existence of a secret base housing a spaceship and alien bodies at Area 51. When he asks why he wasn’t told about this before the aliens arrived to invade planet Earth, his Secretary of Defense (portrayed by James Rebhorn) simply utters two words, “plausible deniability.”
However, if the President is kept in the dark, would his cabinet secretaries have a clue, even if they managed the departments that would be involved in any UFO coverup? Remember, their tenure is temporary too, and the President will frequently change the occupants of those offices even before a term is over. So why should they be privy to any information their boss doesn’t know?
If there’s a UFO secret that is not yet disclosed, the government bureaucracy may even farm out the ongoing investigations and evidence to private industry, conveniently financing the whole enterprise with funds that are cleverly buried. You might even find it within an appropriation that is, in part, meant to fund a completely different function having nothing whatever to do with national defense. I don’t for a moment dispute the possibility that entrenched government officials, who don’t depend on public officials for their employment, long ago figured out how to hide significant amounts of money in ways that even a skilled businessperson would find difficult to discover.
But is any of that true? Is the U.S. government, and its counterparts around the world, as mystified as the rest of us about UFOs, their origins and their purpose in being here? It’s not as if they’d ever admit they’re stumped, right?
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