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October 31, 2021
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Paranormal Investigator/Broadcaster Paul Eno Talks About the Pentagon UAP Task Force Report, Ancient Documents & More on The Paracast!
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.
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This Week's Episode: Gene and special guest cohost Tim Swartz present paranormal researcher and broadcaster Paul Eno. Now celebrating over 51 years in paranormal research, Paul is regarded as one of the world’s most experienced and controversial supernatural adventurers. One of the first ghost investigators of the early 1970s, beginning while he was studying for the priesthood, his theories and methods are now shaking the paranormal world to its core. When he began running into UFOs during ghost cases in the late 1970s, he began to develop the idea of the “flap area,” later discovering that paranormal legends Dr. Jacques Vallee and John Keel had already suggested the idea. In this episode, Paul will focus on the entire history of paranormal events as described through the ages in such documents as the Bible. And what about the Pentagon UAP Task Force? Paul has co-hosted the WOON 1240 AM/99.3 FM Boston/Worcester/Providence Sunday radio show, “Behind the Paranormal with Paul & Ben Eno,” for nearly 13 years.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on October 31: Paranormal researcher/broadcaster Paul Eno covers the amazing phenomena he has covered over the years, including sessions involving possible exorcism and paranormal parasites. And then there are poltergeists. Paul’s early mentors included parapsychology pioneer Dr. Louisa Rhine, Fr. John J. Nicola S.J. (technical advisor for the film The Exorcist) and legendary, first-generation ghost hunters Ed & Lorraine Warren (of The Conjuring fame). He graduated from two seminaries but, in 1977, was expelled from a third because of his paranormal work with less than two years to go before ordination. He ended up as an award-winning New England journalist, including six years as a news editor at The Providence Journal. As this show was recorded, Paul’s latest book is Dancing Past the Graveyard: Poltergeists, Parasites, Parallel Worlds and God, Red Feather, 2019. The next, to appear in 2022 and co-authored with his son, Ben, is Behind the Paranormal 3: Uneasy Skies, featuring their own UFO encounters and those of their most prominent radio guests. Our special guest cohost is Tim Swartz.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop/, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel
Where Have All the Spacemen Gone?
Special Guest Editorial By Tim R. Swartz
It used to be in the good old days of UFOs, (June 24, 1947 to 1973) the strange craft were seen to be piloted by a wide range of flying saucer folk. There were little people, giants, blond blue-eyed space brothers, monsters, robots, saints and demons from the heavens, and many more.
It seemed as if we were being visited by every inhabited planet in the galaxy. The Earth must have been the Disney world of the universe to account for all the different types of space people dropping in to check us out.
Today, that has all changed. Instead of a nice diverse mix of UFOnauts, we are stuck with the same, boring old big-eyed greys. What has happened to all the others? Has the Earth been shut down for economic reasons? Have we been auctioned off in a celestial eBay to the highest bidders, namely the greys? Where have all the spacemen gone?
All Shapes and All Sizes
Unidentified flying objects have been zipping through the skies of planet Earth as long as there have been people around to watch them. Ancient writings, folklore and religious texts are full of tales of unusual, glowing airships and the weird creatures contained within them, and much like the UFOs, the strange beings inside come in an amazing and prolific range of extraordinary shapes and sizes.
For someone whose only knowledge of UFOs comes from the popular media, this may seem perplexing. After all, anyone who has watched television or gone to the movies in the last twenty years knows flying saucers are spaceships carrying little grey men from outer space. The grey alien with large black eyes has seemingly supplanted the hundreds of other weird beings reported over the last sixty years by UFO witnesses. However, the grey alien stereotype is a relatively recent addition to the pantheon of "aliens" that have interacted with mankind throughout history.
It was not until the 20th century that unexplained aerial objects received worldwide attention and were given a name, UFOs, or flying saucers. Starting in the late 1940s the first investigators became convinced early on that UFOs were extraterrestrial spacecraft. Not surprisingly, the phenomena quickly seemed to adapt to this belief structure. Books like Major Donald Keyhoe's “The Flying Saucers Are Real” (1950), which argued that the Air Force knew flying saucers were extraterrestrial, quickly reinforced public opinion that UFOs were not of this Earth.
It is difficult to resist the siren call of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. From the very beginning strange beings have been seen in association with UFOs. The 1950s saw the beginnings of the "contactee movement" when the UFOnauts got tired of simply collecting dirt, and began to actually initiate conversations with the shocked witnesses alongside lonely country roads. From that point, the UFOs stopped being a strange sky phenomenon, and instead became a strange social phenomenon.
In 1979, researchers from MUFON's Humanoid Study Group compiled a long list of more than 1,600 different UFO entity incidents. Contrary to the popular belief that sightings of UFO beings are generally rare, researchers found that many of the reports are well-documented, firsthand investigations involving credible witnesses.
Enter the Grays
It's hard to pinpoint when the so-called "greys" first made their appearance. Several reports from the 1954 UFO wave described little creatures with large black eyes, but researchers have not found any substantial reports of the grays until the early 1970’s.
The mid to late 70's saw an increase in UFO abduction reports. A majority of cases involved beings that appeared to be what we now refer to as the grays.
The movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” portrayed its aliens as big eyed, large headed, grey creatures. So even by 1977 this shape was already starting to become the cultural ideal of a typical extraterrestrial.
The Homogenization of the Alien
Today, unless someone has been living in a cave, anyone seeing a picture of a grey would identify it as a space alien. The grays have wormed their way into almost every part of our society. Television commercials portray greys frolicking at night over beers. Magazine ads show us greys coveting the newest line of sports sneakers. They are on tee shirts, bumper stickers, key chains, and anything else that could be used to sell a product. If these creatures do exist, they could conquer us simply by demanding royalty payments on all the merchandise sold using their image.
By the beginning of the 21st century, the grey alien meme had pretty much reached every corner of the planet. Many UFO groups went as far as no longer accepting UFO occupant reports unless it involved a grey, so at least in the U.S., reports of beings other than greys have dwindled.
Like most other things in our society, the extraterrestrial has been homogenized down to the basic creature we all know and love. All differences have been eliminated to produce a simple, cuddly, big-eyed alien, fit for mom and dad and all the kids back home. But not me! I'll always remember the time when there were all kinds of different spacemen. I will tell my grandchildren that when I was their age I could pick from a dozen or more of the silly flying saucer folk.
We didn't have fancy schmancy greys, and we had to walk fifteen miles a day through waist-deep snow to see the flying saucers and their many different pilots. My grand kids will smile understandingly at me, hoping I'll soon fall back to sleep so they can continue to watch their grey alien cartoons and play their grey alien video games. I will go back to my happy dreams of space brothers, little hairy dwarfs, and weird glowing giants, wondering…where have all the spacemen gone.
***
Tim R. Swartz is one of the guest cohosts for The Paracast, and is the author of such books as “Incredible Alien Encounters”; “The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla”; and “Gef the Talking Mongoose.” His website is: www.conspiracyjournal.com
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October 31, 2021
www.theparacast.com
Paranormal Investigator/Broadcaster Paul Eno Talks About the Pentagon UAP Task Force Report, Ancient Documents & More on The Paracast!
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.
SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY THE ULTIMATE PARACAST EXPERIENCE AT A SPECIAL LOW PRICE! We have another radio show and we’d love for you listen to it. So for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to an exclusive podcast, After The Paracast, plus an enhanced version of The Paracast with the network ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Flash! Use the coupon code ufo20 to receive a 20% discount on five-year or lifetime subscriptions. And PayPal now accepts cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in payment, so act now! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode: Gene and special guest cohost Tim Swartz present paranormal researcher and broadcaster Paul Eno. Now celebrating over 51 years in paranormal research, Paul is regarded as one of the world’s most experienced and controversial supernatural adventurers. One of the first ghost investigators of the early 1970s, beginning while he was studying for the priesthood, his theories and methods are now shaking the paranormal world to its core. When he began running into UFOs during ghost cases in the late 1970s, he began to develop the idea of the “flap area,” later discovering that paranormal legends Dr. Jacques Vallee and John Keel had already suggested the idea. In this episode, Paul will focus on the entire history of paranormal events as described through the ages in such documents as the Bible. And what about the Pentagon UAP Task Force? Paul has co-hosted the WOON 1240 AM/99.3 FM Boston/Worcester/Providence Sunday radio show, “Behind the Paranormal with Paul & Ben Eno,” for nearly 13 years.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on October 31: Paranormal researcher/broadcaster Paul Eno covers the amazing phenomena he has covered over the years, including sessions involving possible exorcism and paranormal parasites. And then there are poltergeists. Paul’s early mentors included parapsychology pioneer Dr. Louisa Rhine, Fr. John J. Nicola S.J. (technical advisor for the film The Exorcist) and legendary, first-generation ghost hunters Ed & Lorraine Warren (of The Conjuring fame). He graduated from two seminaries but, in 1977, was expelled from a third because of his paranormal work with less than two years to go before ordination. He ended up as an award-winning New England journalist, including six years as a news editor at The Providence Journal. As this show was recorded, Paul’s latest book is Dancing Past the Graveyard: Poltergeists, Parasites, Parallel Worlds and God, Red Feather, 2019. The next, to appear in 2022 and co-authored with his son, Ben, is Behind the Paranormal 3: Uneasy Skies, featuring their own UFO encounters and those of their most prominent radio guests. Our special guest cohost is Tim Swartz.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: https://www.theparacast.com/forum/. Visit our new online shop for great branded merchandise at: https://www.theparacast.shop/, and check out our new YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheOfficialParacastChannel
Where Have All the Spacemen Gone?
Special Guest Editorial By Tim R. Swartz
It used to be in the good old days of UFOs, (June 24, 1947 to 1973) the strange craft were seen to be piloted by a wide range of flying saucer folk. There were little people, giants, blond blue-eyed space brothers, monsters, robots, saints and demons from the heavens, and many more.
It seemed as if we were being visited by every inhabited planet in the galaxy. The Earth must have been the Disney world of the universe to account for all the different types of space people dropping in to check us out.
Today, that has all changed. Instead of a nice diverse mix of UFOnauts, we are stuck with the same, boring old big-eyed greys. What has happened to all the others? Has the Earth been shut down for economic reasons? Have we been auctioned off in a celestial eBay to the highest bidders, namely the greys? Where have all the spacemen gone?
All Shapes and All Sizes
Unidentified flying objects have been zipping through the skies of planet Earth as long as there have been people around to watch them. Ancient writings, folklore and religious texts are full of tales of unusual, glowing airships and the weird creatures contained within them, and much like the UFOs, the strange beings inside come in an amazing and prolific range of extraordinary shapes and sizes.
For someone whose only knowledge of UFOs comes from the popular media, this may seem perplexing. After all, anyone who has watched television or gone to the movies in the last twenty years knows flying saucers are spaceships carrying little grey men from outer space. The grey alien with large black eyes has seemingly supplanted the hundreds of other weird beings reported over the last sixty years by UFO witnesses. However, the grey alien stereotype is a relatively recent addition to the pantheon of "aliens" that have interacted with mankind throughout history.
It was not until the 20th century that unexplained aerial objects received worldwide attention and were given a name, UFOs, or flying saucers. Starting in the late 1940s the first investigators became convinced early on that UFOs were extraterrestrial spacecraft. Not surprisingly, the phenomena quickly seemed to adapt to this belief structure. Books like Major Donald Keyhoe's “The Flying Saucers Are Real” (1950), which argued that the Air Force knew flying saucers were extraterrestrial, quickly reinforced public opinion that UFOs were not of this Earth.
It is difficult to resist the siren call of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. From the very beginning strange beings have been seen in association with UFOs. The 1950s saw the beginnings of the "contactee movement" when the UFOnauts got tired of simply collecting dirt, and began to actually initiate conversations with the shocked witnesses alongside lonely country roads. From that point, the UFOs stopped being a strange sky phenomenon, and instead became a strange social phenomenon.
In 1979, researchers from MUFON's Humanoid Study Group compiled a long list of more than 1,600 different UFO entity incidents. Contrary to the popular belief that sightings of UFO beings are generally rare, researchers found that many of the reports are well-documented, firsthand investigations involving credible witnesses.
Enter the Grays
It's hard to pinpoint when the so-called "greys" first made their appearance. Several reports from the 1954 UFO wave described little creatures with large black eyes, but researchers have not found any substantial reports of the grays until the early 1970’s.
The mid to late 70's saw an increase in UFO abduction reports. A majority of cases involved beings that appeared to be what we now refer to as the grays.
The movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” portrayed its aliens as big eyed, large headed, grey creatures. So even by 1977 this shape was already starting to become the cultural ideal of a typical extraterrestrial.
The Homogenization of the Alien
Today, unless someone has been living in a cave, anyone seeing a picture of a grey would identify it as a space alien. The grays have wormed their way into almost every part of our society. Television commercials portray greys frolicking at night over beers. Magazine ads show us greys coveting the newest line of sports sneakers. They are on tee shirts, bumper stickers, key chains, and anything else that could be used to sell a product. If these creatures do exist, they could conquer us simply by demanding royalty payments on all the merchandise sold using their image.
By the beginning of the 21st century, the grey alien meme had pretty much reached every corner of the planet. Many UFO groups went as far as no longer accepting UFO occupant reports unless it involved a grey, so at least in the U.S., reports of beings other than greys have dwindled.
Like most other things in our society, the extraterrestrial has been homogenized down to the basic creature we all know and love. All differences have been eliminated to produce a simple, cuddly, big-eyed alien, fit for mom and dad and all the kids back home. But not me! I'll always remember the time when there were all kinds of different spacemen. I will tell my grandchildren that when I was their age I could pick from a dozen or more of the silly flying saucer folk.
We didn't have fancy schmancy greys, and we had to walk fifteen miles a day through waist-deep snow to see the flying saucers and their many different pilots. My grand kids will smile understandingly at me, hoping I'll soon fall back to sleep so they can continue to watch their grey alien cartoons and play their grey alien video games. I will go back to my happy dreams of space brothers, little hairy dwarfs, and weird glowing giants, wondering…where have all the spacemen gone.
***
Tim R. Swartz is one of the guest cohosts for The Paracast, and is the author of such books as “Incredible Alien Encounters”; “The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla”; and “Gef the Talking Mongoose.” His website is: www.conspiracyjournal.com
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