First I want to say that Norio is great researcher and I always love his interviews, he is very articulate and his contribution to the field should not go unnoticed. With that said I called into the show with a bone to pick.
I wanted to make the point that Norio is hell bent on discrediting the ETH, however, for over 20 years he dedicated his life to promoting it. I find it curious that if the ETH theory has no legs, how could he have been so compelled to spend so much time and effort pursing it (and arguably believing it).
He now says "well in 1970 I entertained the Ultra-Diminesonal theory," but if that was the case, he would not have been down at the little Alie-Inn in Rachel Nevada (1992), investigating and promoting Bob Lazar and his claims of working on a physical nuts and bolt alien craft. Additionally, he would not have been wowed by Mike Younger and his "insider information."
In short, I simply find it odd Norio suggests that there is absolutely NO evidence for physicals UFOs when he actually spent the majority of his life looking into that very subject. If, as he contends, it was so cut and dry, how do you spend so much time hanging out with Lazar and Lear. Clearly, there must have been something compelling there that led him on this journey after all he wasn't spending this time researching mermaids or the easter bunny.
Similarly, there is a guy named Stan Deyo. Originally, he spent the 1980's promoting himself as a Bob Lazar lite. He too was supposedly recruited by Ed Tellar, he too had hands on experience with zero point energy and anti-gravity, he talked about reverse engineering and black budget disk shaped craft. Similar to Lazar he too "escaped" the long reach of the U.S. government (by moving to Australia). However, today he is a proponent of the whole demonic UFO theory. Again, if the whole phenomena is merely a manifestation of evil, then how did he spend half of his time dealing with the scientific physics of the whole thing. How was there a black budget nuts and bolts craft? Was it back engineered from devils?
It seems to me that it is now popular to diss ET UFOs in general. All the "cool kids" are now out there downplaying this hypothesis, despite spending half their lives living and breathing it. Greg Bishop, Tim Binall, Norio, etc now go out of their way to relegate UFO's to nothing more than "more reports". Greg Bishop dedicated an entire interview with Tim Binall to the topic of "why we are bored with UFOs." They then went on to explain how far-fetched the notion has become (all while suggesting more bizarre theorys like hollow earth and lost civilizations that live in the ground are plausible). If the topic is so outlandish and so easy to dismiss (the ETH that is) why 20 years later are you still carrying on about it, making radio shows about it, basking in prior glory over it. Simply move on, make a baseball podcast or one that revolves around pink unicorns.