The Paracast Newsletter
September 13, 2026
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Award-winning UFO flmmaker Ron James talks but his friend, the late UFO investigtor Chris O'Brien, and UFO disclosure this week on The Paracast.
The Paracast is released every Sunday and available from our site, https://www.theparacast.com, your favorite podcast app, and the IRN Internet Radio Network. All episodes from 2022 and later now feature better audio and fewer ads. We are also re-releasing some of our most popular classic episodes.
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This Week's Episode (September 13,, 2026): Filmmaker Ron James, producer of major UFO documentaries, joins an extensive discussion about his work and the prospect for disclosure. Speaking with Gene and Geneva, he detais the tragic passing of Chris O’Brien, a former co-host of The Paracast and author of several signifiant books on UFO phenomena, such as Stalking the Herd . Ron shared details about Chris’s final days, including his poor health condition requiring oxygen and a nebulizer, and the circumstances of his fatal car crash while trying to reach the emergency room. The conversation also covers Ron’s recent documentary “Accidental Truth: Next,” which became the number one documentary worldwide on Apple for a few days after its June 2nd release. In his professional life he is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator, entrepreneur, and Media Relations Director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, where he works to bring the truth about UAPs into mainstream culture through entertainment and media. His acclaimed documentary Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations , narrated by Matthew Modine, has won 28 film festival awards and was cited by name during a UAP congressional hearing by Representative Tim Burchett. The film has been called “one of the most important UFO documentaries of all time” for its compelling case regarding legacy programs and its ability to anticipate many of the headlines that followed. His newest film, Accidental Truth: Next, again narrated by Matthew Modine and featuring actor Thomas Jane, has already earned 7 festival wins, 3 honorable mentions, and 5 semifinalist placements. His website: https://www.accidentaltruthnext.com
After The Paracast — Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers: Gene and Geneva are joined by UFO filmmaker Ron James. whoo\ talks about a variety of subjects that include the challenges faced by whistleblowers in the UFO field, explaining how they risk losing their retirement, facing legal issues, and being debunked for sharing information about extraterrestrial crafts and technology. He predicted that official acknowledgment of non-human intelligence would come gradually, starting with evidence of life on Mars and other planets, followed by admission of recovered crafts, though he believed the full truth would be delayed. In his professional life he is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator, entrepreneur, and Media Relations Director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, where he works to bring the truth about UAPs into mainstream culture through entertainment and media. His acclaimed documentary Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations , narrated by Matthew Modine, has won 28 film festival awards and was cited by name during a UAP congressional hearing by Representative Tim Burchett. The film has been called “one of the most important UFO documentaries of all time” for its compelling case regarding legacy programs and its ability to anticipate many of the headlines that followed. His newest film, Accidental Truth: Next, again narrated by Matthew Modine and featuring actor Thomas Jane, has already earned 7 festival wins, 3 honorable mentions, and 5 semifinalist placements. His website: https://www.accidentaltruthnext.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. And look for @theparacast on Bluesky Social, Facebook, Threads and X.
Editors Note: Several months have passed since the episode with Preston Dennett was first recorded. In the interim I suffered from yet another bout of pneumonia. After a prolonged period of recovery, I’m back in the game with new Paracast episodes.
As you might expect, I am still overloaded with medical copays and other expenses. Please try to help the cause with your donations. You can send a PayPal payment (friends or family option), online or through the app with my thanks to:
paypal@technightowl.live
The Empire Strikes Our Backs.
By Ron James
Everyone in the UFO field, whether investigator, documentarian or both, has a sense of what we’re doing. We are engaged in the noble cause of exposing hidden truths to the rest of the planet. Why do we do it? We all have our reasons.
As Richard Dolan says, we're "fighting the good fight."
We do this, hopefully, for the good of humanity. We believe that such enlightenment might make us a better species.
We live for this stuff. We've sacrificed picket fences and normality to become characters in our own sci-fi epic.
Cue Music:
It’s got flying saucers and spaceships, secret weapons, mysterious creatures, dark forces, time travel - you name it. åAnd we're right in the middle of it.
On one side is the hopeful outcome: an enlightened humanity. On the other is darkness, delivered by psychopaths who seized control of something that rightfully belongs to all of us and turned it to their own ends.
That sounds pretty cool, actually. I mean, think about it. People pay money to plug into games and pretend they have this kind of life. I'm on a full-time, semi-treacherous adventure every day.
But...
We've grown comfortable in our roles. We're happy bloviating on podcasts and shaking hands at conferences. Being a warrior for the truth has become strangely cathartic, relaxing, routine, even enjoyable.
But that's just it. Until recently, it hasn’t really felt like much of a war.
That’s because we’ve been winning. Winning with one admission, one witness, one news article, and one ally in Congress at a time. We’ve almost forgotten who the enemy is, or that we even have an enemy at all.
But now, we're being told that years of research, thousands of witnesses, countless discoveries and overwhelming evidence of intense deception is... well, a bunch of bullshit.
Wait. What?
We’ve all walked into the bar of UFO secrecy and punched the biggest guy in the room. And we’ve been going at it with defiant courage.
What did we expect was going to happen?
Well, folks, in one fell swoop, these people have tried to dismantle the life’s work of hundreds of people. They are delivering falsehoods so preposterous that no one in their right mind would believe them.
Yes, I'm talking about the Wall Street Journal articles. Think about the back-room conversations that undoubtedly helped bring them about. Worse, these articles are just part of the story. It's a full court press coming at us from angles we don't even see coming yet.
This is the physical manifestation of the hidden hands. And they’re pissed. For every precious bit of information they’ve allowed to slip out, we’ve been able to figure out far too much more for them to stay comfortable.
So here we are. We are up against invisible people who have the ability to shape media, manipulate movies, and ruin lives. And they want their narrative back.
Just like the crash test dummies that “fell through time” in the Roswell report, those of us in the know recognize the deception once again that is being force-fed to John Q. Public.
But really, who would believe such nonsense?
I’ll tell you who: your mother, your father, your girlfriend who thinks you’re a little crazy for being involved in this field, and all of your friends who talk about you as the tinfoil hat guy when you’re not around.
That’s who.
Yep. We forgot, for a minute, that we’re fighting a WAR for the truth. And that our enemy is sophisticated, well-financed, capable of horrible things, and determined not to let us win.
We might have dinged the Death Star…
But the enemy still holds all the cards, and they have recently shown us how adeptly they can play them.
So what are we going to do? Are we going to continue fighting to fill in the missing information? Or will we sit back in quiet surrender and let them have their way?
And make no mistake about it. Their "way" is an engineered version of Disclosure. One that allows them to get away with everything they’ve done. One that lets them continue hiding civilization-changing information from all of us.
But at this point… what can we do about it?
The closer I got to completing "Accidental Truth – Next", the more I sense forces aligning to make sure you never see it. For those who stay in the fight, it’s going to get intense. Good people are going to get hurt.
Are we in it to win it?
Or is it time to ask… what if we can’t?
Let's just trust that the forces of light will prevail. And let's just hope we know who they are.
Ron James is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator, entrepreneur, and Media Relations Director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, where he works to bring the truth about UAPs into mainstream culture through entertainment and media.
His acclaimed documentary Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations, narrated by Matthew Modine, has won 28 film festival awards and was cited by name during a UAP congressional hearing by Representative Tim Burchett. The film has been called “one of the most important UFO documentaries of all time” for its compelling case regarding legacy programs and its ability to anticipate many of the headlines that followed. His newest film, Accidental Truth: Next, again narrated by Matthew Modine and featuring actor Thomas Jane, has already earned 7 festival wins, 3 honorable mentions, and 5 semifinalist placements.
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September 13, 2026
www.theparacast.com
Award-winning UFO flmmaker Ron James talks but his friend, the late UFO investigtor Chris O'Brien, and UFO disclosure this week on The Paracast.
The Paracast is released every Sunday and available from our site, https://www.theparacast.com, your favorite podcast app, and the IRN Internet Radio Network. All episodes from 2022 and later now feature better audio and fewer ads. We are also re-releasing some of our most popular classic episodes.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED UP FOR THE PARACAST+ YET? PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARACAST+ SO YOU CAN 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 bonus podcast, After The Paracast, plus a special version of The Paracast with all the ads removed, when you join The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes on your device. Episodes for subscribers to The Paracast+ are now released 24 hours earlier. Flash! Now includes over 100 classic episodes, so take advantage of our lowest rates ever! Act now! It's easier than ever to susbcribe! For the easiest signup ever, please visit: https://www.theparacast.plus
This Week's Episode (September 13,, 2026): Filmmaker Ron James, producer of major UFO documentaries, joins an extensive discussion about his work and the prospect for disclosure. Speaking with Gene and Geneva, he detais the tragic passing of Chris O’Brien, a former co-host of The Paracast and author of several signifiant books on UFO phenomena, such as Stalking the Herd . Ron shared details about Chris’s final days, including his poor health condition requiring oxygen and a nebulizer, and the circumstances of his fatal car crash while trying to reach the emergency room. The conversation also covers Ron’s recent documentary “Accidental Truth: Next,” which became the number one documentary worldwide on Apple for a few days after its June 2nd release. In his professional life he is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator, entrepreneur, and Media Relations Director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, where he works to bring the truth about UAPs into mainstream culture through entertainment and media. His acclaimed documentary Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations , narrated by Matthew Modine, has won 28 film festival awards and was cited by name during a UAP congressional hearing by Representative Tim Burchett. The film has been called “one of the most important UFO documentaries of all time” for its compelling case regarding legacy programs and its ability to anticipate many of the headlines that followed. His newest film, Accidental Truth: Next, again narrated by Matthew Modine and featuring actor Thomas Jane, has already earned 7 festival wins, 3 honorable mentions, and 5 semifinalist placements. His website: https://www.accidentaltruthnext.com
After The Paracast — Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers: Gene and Geneva are joined by UFO filmmaker Ron James. whoo\ talks about a variety of subjects that include the challenges faced by whistleblowers in the UFO field, explaining how they risk losing their retirement, facing legal issues, and being debunked for sharing information about extraterrestrial crafts and technology. He predicted that official acknowledgment of non-human intelligence would come gradually, starting with evidence of life on Mars and other planets, followed by admission of recovered crafts, though he believed the full truth would be delayed. In his professional life he is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator, entrepreneur, and Media Relations Director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, where he works to bring the truth about UAPs into mainstream culture through entertainment and media. His acclaimed documentary Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations , narrated by Matthew Modine, has won 28 film festival awards and was cited by name during a UAP congressional hearing by Representative Tim Burchett. The film has been called “one of the most important UFO documentaries of all time” for its compelling case regarding legacy programs and its ability to anticipate many of the headlines that followed. His newest film, Accidental Truth: Next, again narrated by Matthew Modine and featuring actor Thomas Jane, has already earned 7 festival wins, 3 honorable mentions, and 5 semifinalist placements. His website: https://www.accidentaltruthnext.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. And look for @theparacast on Bluesky Social, Facebook, Threads and X.
Editors Note: Several months have passed since the episode with Preston Dennett was first recorded. In the interim I suffered from yet another bout of pneumonia. After a prolonged period of recovery, I’m back in the game with new Paracast episodes.
As you might expect, I am still overloaded with medical copays and other expenses. Please try to help the cause with your donations. You can send a PayPal payment (friends or family option), online or through the app with my thanks to:
paypal@technightowl.live
The Empire Strikes Our Backs.
By Ron James
Everyone in the UFO field, whether investigator, documentarian or both, has a sense of what we’re doing. We are engaged in the noble cause of exposing hidden truths to the rest of the planet. Why do we do it? We all have our reasons.
As Richard Dolan says, we're "fighting the good fight."
We do this, hopefully, for the good of humanity. We believe that such enlightenment might make us a better species.
We live for this stuff. We've sacrificed picket fences and normality to become characters in our own sci-fi epic.
Cue Music:
It’s got flying saucers and spaceships, secret weapons, mysterious creatures, dark forces, time travel - you name it. åAnd we're right in the middle of it.
On one side is the hopeful outcome: an enlightened humanity. On the other is darkness, delivered by psychopaths who seized control of something that rightfully belongs to all of us and turned it to their own ends.
That sounds pretty cool, actually. I mean, think about it. People pay money to plug into games and pretend they have this kind of life. I'm on a full-time, semi-treacherous adventure every day.
But...
We've grown comfortable in our roles. We're happy bloviating on podcasts and shaking hands at conferences. Being a warrior for the truth has become strangely cathartic, relaxing, routine, even enjoyable.
But that's just it. Until recently, it hasn’t really felt like much of a war.
That’s because we’ve been winning. Winning with one admission, one witness, one news article, and one ally in Congress at a time. We’ve almost forgotten who the enemy is, or that we even have an enemy at all.
But now, we're being told that years of research, thousands of witnesses, countless discoveries and overwhelming evidence of intense deception is... well, a bunch of bullshit.
Wait. What?
We’ve all walked into the bar of UFO secrecy and punched the biggest guy in the room. And we’ve been going at it with defiant courage.
What did we expect was going to happen?
Well, folks, in one fell swoop, these people have tried to dismantle the life’s work of hundreds of people. They are delivering falsehoods so preposterous that no one in their right mind would believe them.
Yes, I'm talking about the Wall Street Journal articles. Think about the back-room conversations that undoubtedly helped bring them about. Worse, these articles are just part of the story. It's a full court press coming at us from angles we don't even see coming yet.
This is the physical manifestation of the hidden hands. And they’re pissed. For every precious bit of information they’ve allowed to slip out, we’ve been able to figure out far too much more for them to stay comfortable.
So here we are. We are up against invisible people who have the ability to shape media, manipulate movies, and ruin lives. And they want their narrative back.
Just like the crash test dummies that “fell through time” in the Roswell report, those of us in the know recognize the deception once again that is being force-fed to John Q. Public.
But really, who would believe such nonsense?
I’ll tell you who: your mother, your father, your girlfriend who thinks you’re a little crazy for being involved in this field, and all of your friends who talk about you as the tinfoil hat guy when you’re not around.
That’s who.
Yep. We forgot, for a minute, that we’re fighting a WAR for the truth. And that our enemy is sophisticated, well-financed, capable of horrible things, and determined not to let us win.
We might have dinged the Death Star…
But the enemy still holds all the cards, and they have recently shown us how adeptly they can play them.
So what are we going to do? Are we going to continue fighting to fill in the missing information? Or will we sit back in quiet surrender and let them have their way?
And make no mistake about it. Their "way" is an engineered version of Disclosure. One that allows them to get away with everything they’ve done. One that lets them continue hiding civilization-changing information from all of us.
But at this point… what can we do about it?
The closer I got to completing "Accidental Truth – Next", the more I sense forces aligning to make sure you never see it. For those who stay in the fight, it’s going to get intense. Good people are going to get hurt.
Are we in it to win it?
Or is it time to ask… what if we can’t?
Let's just trust that the forces of light will prevail. And let's just hope we know who they are.
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Ron James is a filmmaker, on-camera personality, writer, editor, researcher, content creator, entrepreneur, and Media Relations Director for MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Disclosure Alliance, where he works to bring the truth about UAPs into mainstream culture through entertainment and media.
His acclaimed documentary Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations, narrated by Matthew Modine, has won 28 film festival awards and was cited by name during a UAP congressional hearing by Representative Tim Burchett. The film has been called “one of the most important UFO documentaries of all time” for its compelling case regarding legacy programs and its ability to anticipate many of the headlines that followed. His newest film, Accidental Truth: Next, again narrated by Matthew Modine and featuring actor Thomas Jane, has already earned 7 festival wins, 3 honorable mentions, and 5 semifinalist placements.
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