It Defies Language: Ask Greg Bishop

[Gene Steinberg]

The one and only Greg Bishop returns to The Paracast to discuss his new book, "It Defies Language."

The book, illustrated by Red Pill Junkie, is "A collection of essays about the UFO subject and related phenomena. The first chapter discusses the U.S. Government's involvement along with the author's personal experiences with agents and military personnel. The text also includes historical perspectives on the subject, and theories and opinions on the current search for answers about UFOs from a viewpoint that is neither belief-based nor that of a doctrinaire skeptic. There are also entries about square craters on the Moon, black-eyed kids, and baseball games at Area 51."

Nick Redfern wrote the foreword.

Time Change: This interview will be recorded Wednesday, March 30 starting at 4:00 PM Pacific.

 

[EricTheRed]

Please describe the most interesting testimony you’ve heard from a government/military person about UFOs.

When you reflect on what you’ve learned about the Karla Turner & family case, what conclusions and questions do you draw from it?

For those who haven’t read your book or might be unfamiliar with the case, you could summarize the Paul Bennewitz story? What can be learned from this story that might give us greater understanding about UFOs or the government’s interest in them?

Until there is much more widespread interest in UFOlogy among open-minded skeptics in academia and in the general public, the UFOlogical community will be stumbling on for the foreseeable future, perpetually hoping for a definitive breakthrough, a final public confirmation or resolution of some type. Do you share the perception that it’s tactically necessary to enlist the support of many more academics and scientists? If so, what intellectually serious books or resources would you recommend they first read on the topic of UFOs?

Have you ever had a UFO sighting? If so, could you please describe it in detail and explain why you think it didn’t have a mundane, earthly or human explanation?

Do alien abductions really happen? Why or why not?

Have you heard any reliable testimony from government or military personnel that the U.S. has developed technology that could perform feats similar to those in the UFO literature like 90 degree turns at high speed, achieving very high speeds with little apparent acceleration from a hovering position, etc.?

Thank you Gene and Chris!

 

[DaveM]

Greg, have you ever witnessed any triangular aircraft? If so, where do you believe they originate from? Human means or something else?

 

[technomage]

1. What's your favorite case (i.e. one that you find to be the most mysterious)?
2. Are there any UFO cases where terrestrial mind control technologies/experimentation can be ruled out as a likely scenario?

 

[Sue]

When you reflect on what you’ve learned about the Karla Turner & family case, what conclusions and questions do you draw from it?

I'd like to add on to this question - I read Turner's Taken as conflating a variety of psi, paranormal, UFO, hypnotic and even group think phenomena into a single narrative about aliens. Are they all part of the same whole, or simply co-occurring?

In terms of Project Beta, Greg describes (don't know if it was in the book or a podcast somewhere) having serious paranoia for a year or so and then getting over it. Why did he become paranoid, how paranoid did he become and how did he finally manage to get over it? Does he have any suggestions for other people who might experience similar paranoia when studying weird stuff?

Are there any UFO cases where terrestrial mind control technologies/experimentation can be ruled out as a likely scenario?

To which I would add, when investigating/researching a case, what rules of thumb can one use to rule out/in the likelihood of human experimentation with so called mind control technologies? What if any special challenges does researching the possible role of human experimentation present?

 

[Honey-Pot]

1) How much information gathering needs to be on the witnesses vs whatever was witnessed? Is that kind of information equally important to learn and understand?

2) For those that study this subject or investigate sightings there seems to be little interest in long term follow-up with the witnesses, because the assumption has always been the real evidence is out there with the object seen. But given that external evidence is simply too elusive and subject to hoaxing and misidentification, then is it really productive to continue with these same unprovable methods? What should be done instead?