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Great show for sure. I enjoyed it, even savored it. As pointed out by others, not much has changed, that's for sure. And UFOs still seem to have the features that are standard equipment on automobiles, antenna, lights, the whole works! Superb show. Kim
 
lancemoody said:
Greg Bishop at Radio Misterioso has posted a speech by Albert Bender that was given at Jim Moseley's 1967 convention (discussed on this week's Paracast).

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I heard the one Bender gave before one of Jim's smaller lecture events. He seemed sincere enough, but Jim's ex-wife, Sandy (to whom he was married at the time) insisted that Bender exhibited some serious psychological issues. Jim and Sandy broke up not long after that, by the way.
 
This episode was one of my all-time favorites, seriously. I completely enjoyed it. I was far too young to have been in UFO's at the time these guys were bantering about but this gives us a case of what things were like back then, and the severe differences of how they are now.

I mean investigators back then investigated; they didn't just sit on YouTube and pull up videos, then draw their conclusion from there. However as Gene and Chris both lamented where are the guys like The Mystic Barber and such, these days? Well, we still have some of them like this guy, but they're rarely, if ever, taken seriously any more (the guy I linked to admit's he's more of an entertainer anyway.) I think the reason why we don't see more of these guys, including the guy who told the tale about derro's, is that in this day-and-age the people who DO investigate UFO's simply do not have the tolerance for that stuff any more. And I think that's a good thing.

I mean we're more critically minded and (most of us) more sound in our judgements. While listening to the derro-tale last week, even then, I was asking aloud (to no one else in the car), we'll, where was this southwest village? Who were the witnesses? Where, exactly, is this mesa where the derros came out of? Put a story like this out on the Internet today and you get a few hundred, or thousand, people, (investigators, thrill seekers, skeptics) out there flooding the area looking for evidence. Back then it was a story and people just nodded their heads and said, "Wow, that's amazing."
 
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