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September 1, 2024
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UFO Author and Commentator Graeme Rendall Explores Vintage Sightings and More 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, 2023 and 2024 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: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Graeme Rendall, a full time author and a commentator on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). Graeme has written a critically-acclaimed work looking at the “Foo-Fighters” witnessed during World War Two and the numerous wartime cases that occurred before the term was coined in November 1944, as well as other books dealing with aerial UFO encounters between 1946 and 1954 that include “The French UFO Wave of 1954.” In this episode, Rendall will also give his preliminary reaction to the book from former Pentagon UAP official Luis Elizondo, entitled “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs.” Rendall is an acquaintance of Elizondo. In addition, he has been an aviation and World War Two history enthusiast from an early age, when he was given model aircraft kits “to keep him quiet.” He is also a contributor to the “The Debrief,” an American news website dealing with cutting edge science, tech and defense news, and a guest on various podcasts dealing with UAP. Rendall is also a member of UAP Media UK, a group advocating government transparency on the UAP issue. Married to Jo, he lives in Upper Weardale, a quiet but picturesque part of County Durham.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on September 1: UFO author and commentator Graeme Rendall continues to explore vintage sightings, focusing on cases from World War II through the mid-1950s. Speaking with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz, he covers compelling sightings from Russia and other countries, and also describes his interest in aviation and World War Two history dating from his childhood. Graeme has written a critically-acclaimed work looking at the “Foo-Fighters” witnessed during World War Two and the numerous wartime cases that occurred before the term was coined in November 1944, as well as other books dealing with aerial UFO encounters between 1946 and 1954 that include “The French UFO Wave of 1954.” In addition, he has been an aviation and World War Two history enthusiast from an early age, when he was given model aircraft kits “to keep him quiet.” He is also a contributor to the “The Debrief,” an American news website dealing with cutting edge science, tech and defense news, and a guest on various podcasts dealing with UAP. Rendall is also a member of UAP Media UK, a group advocating government transparency on the UAP issue. Married to Jo, he lives in Upper Weardale, a quiet but picturesque part of County Durham.
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.
The Case of the Disappearing Crashed Spaceship
By Gene Steinberg
This is something that, to me at least, is so very obvious that I’m surprised that it’s not mentioned very often. But it goes to the core of the theories about crashed flying saucers across the decades.
Before I go on, I have my doubts about most of these cases. So far as I’m concerned, Roswell remains the best documented, though it is not at all certain that it really involved a flying machine from some far off planet. Maybe it did, but, unless physical evidence is disclosed, it will remain tantalizing steps away from resolution.
Who knows? Maybe was meant to be that way.
Now I realize lots of crashes have been reported over the years. The late UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield collected such cases in his heyday, but it was more about putting all the reports together and leaving it to others to do the actual research.
Over the history of The Paracast, we have also covered claims of UFO crashes from such places as Aztec, NM in 1948 and Kingman, AZ in 1953.
Of these, there has been lots of discussion about Aztec. The first revolutions about the alleged incident appeared in a 1950 book, “Behind the Flying Saucers” from gossip columnist Frank Scully.
But early on, its origins were traced to a pair of conmen who were engaged in separating people from their money and not UFO research.
Still, some researchers persisted in trying to explore the possibility that, despite its questionable origins, Aztec was based on fact. Most recently, Scott Ramsey, a businessman who spent in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars on his quest to find out what really happened. Or so he told me. He put together his research in 2012, in a privately published book, “The Aztec Incident,” written by Ramsey and his wife, Suzanne, along with Dr. Frank Thayer, Ph.D. It carried an introduction from the late UFO lecturer Stanton T. Friedman.
Another edition was published in 2016 from New Page Books, retitled “The Aztec UFO Incident” for clarity. While Scott claimed that the book was substantially revised from the original, he was never actually able to explain to me what those changes were.
I read the original book, and found its evidence threadbare. In the July 28, 2013 episode of The Paracast, we presented a “Great Aztec Debate” with Ramsey and Roswell expert Kevin D. Randall. While Randall hadn’t explored the case as thoroughly as Ramsey, he did better in the debate. But the nail was finally put in the coffin when former Aztec resident Monte Shriver wrote several articles in Randall’s “A Different Perspective” blog pointing out errors in Ramsey’s book, and reminding us that the residents in the area had no institutional memory of such an event.
Shriver also appeared in an episode of After The Paracast on May 14, 2017. It has since been re-released as a free episode for all our listeners.
Contrast that to Roswell, where loads of witnesses emerged over the years. Sure, some were just trying to cash in on all the fun, but there were enough genuine reports to indicate something strange may have indeed occurred.
But was it a spaceship?
This is where the ultimate contradiction emerges, at least to me. But it also depends on whether we buy into the possibility that extraterrestrials would behave similar to humans if one of their vessels crashed.
So it’s common with our military that, if an aircraft crashes behind enemy lines, some effort will be made to recover the wreckage, or at least blow it up if possible. It’s all done in the interests of national security.
Now imagine an advanced race of intelligent beings that are hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us. Despite their technological expertise, one or more of their spacecraft crashes on Earth and falls into the hands of the military.
So what happens next?
Do they just leave it there for the primitives of Earth to figure it all out and perhaps advance their own technology? Or do they take the all-so-logical step and engage the self-destruct function? Or is it possible that every effort would be made to recover the wreckage, whether the locals witnessed it or not.
Just think what might have occurred: A crew of military personnel is transporting the Roswell wreckage to a facility for examination. It doesn’t matter whether its Wright-Patterson Air Force base or somewhere else. But instead of reaching their destination, the vehicles involved are confronted by UFOs, who quickly remove the evidence of their technology.
So what happens next?
Not wanting any witnesses, they might arrange to engage some sort of mind control mechanism to wipe the memories of those involved. Recall that neuralyzer, a device featured in the Men In Black films. But even though that is a work of sci-fi, it certainly makes sense that a device of this sort might exist and be employed by alien visitors to preserve their secrets.
Or perhaps the wreckage just ups and vanishes without a trace. Again, a mind wiping device is used on those transporting the evidence.
That might make more sense than to leave hundreds of witnesses with clear memories of ET’s chicanery. That is clearly a secret that could not be kept.
In other words, there is no evidence of a crashed UFO, but not because such incidents never happened. It’s all because the powers-that-be from that other world took steps to recover or destroy their crashed spaceship.
As I said, only logical.
But that assumes ET even cares. Their technology may be so far advanced compared to humans that they knew it would take many of our years, perhaps decades or more, to reverse engineer the spaceship. It would put the lie to claims that the transistor, invented in 1947, was developed based on reverse engineering the wreckage of a spaceship that crashed just a few months earlier. That possibility doesn’t pass the absurd test. Even if ET used solid state hardware, it would be far too complex for us to understand.
Just imagine taking today’s iPhone and giving it to the best scientists and engineers from 1947, and leaving it to them to make heads or tales from it. Just imagine.
Or perhaps ET just doesn’t care. When we discover the secrets of their technology we will, one hopes, be advanced enough to deal with it in a responsible fashion. But maybe that’s just too optimistic when the human condition is concerned.
Copyright 1999-2024 The Paracast Company. All Rights Reserved.
September 1, 2024
www.theparacast.com
UFO Author and Commentator Graeme Rendall Explores Vintage Sightings and More 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, 2023 and 2024 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 are now released 12-24 hours earlier. Flash! 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: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present Graeme Rendall, a full time author and a commentator on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). Graeme has written a critically-acclaimed work looking at the “Foo-Fighters” witnessed during World War Two and the numerous wartime cases that occurred before the term was coined in November 1944, as well as other books dealing with aerial UFO encounters between 1946 and 1954 that include “The French UFO Wave of 1954.” In this episode, Rendall will also give his preliminary reaction to the book from former Pentagon UAP official Luis Elizondo, entitled “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs.” Rendall is an acquaintance of Elizondo. In addition, he has been an aviation and World War Two history enthusiast from an early age, when he was given model aircraft kits “to keep him quiet.” He is also a contributor to the “The Debrief,” an American news website dealing with cutting edge science, tech and defense news, and a guest on various podcasts dealing with UAP. Rendall is also a member of UAP Media UK, a group advocating government transparency on the UAP issue. Married to Jo, he lives in Upper Weardale, a quiet but picturesque part of County Durham.
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on September 1: UFO author and commentator Graeme Rendall continues to explore vintage sightings, focusing on cases from World War II through the mid-1950s. Speaking with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz, he covers compelling sightings from Russia and other countries, and also describes his interest in aviation and World War Two history dating from his childhood. Graeme has written a critically-acclaimed work looking at the “Foo-Fighters” witnessed during World War Two and the numerous wartime cases that occurred before the term was coined in November 1944, as well as other books dealing with aerial UFO encounters between 1946 and 1954 that include “The French UFO Wave of 1954.” In addition, he has been an aviation and World War Two history enthusiast from an early age, when he was given model aircraft kits “to keep him quiet.” He is also a contributor to the “The Debrief,” an American news website dealing with cutting edge science, tech and defense news, and a guest on various podcasts dealing with UAP. Rendall is also a member of UAP Media UK, a group advocating government transparency on the UAP issue. Married to Jo, he lives in Upper Weardale, a quiet but picturesque part of County Durham.
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.
The Case of the Disappearing Crashed Spaceship
By Gene Steinberg
This is something that, to me at least, is so very obvious that I’m surprised that it’s not mentioned very often. But it goes to the core of the theories about crashed flying saucers across the decades.
Before I go on, I have my doubts about most of these cases. So far as I’m concerned, Roswell remains the best documented, though it is not at all certain that it really involved a flying machine from some far off planet. Maybe it did, but, unless physical evidence is disclosed, it will remain tantalizing steps away from resolution.
Who knows? Maybe was meant to be that way.
Now I realize lots of crashes have been reported over the years. The late UFO researcher Leonard Stringfield collected such cases in his heyday, but it was more about putting all the reports together and leaving it to others to do the actual research.
Over the history of The Paracast, we have also covered claims of UFO crashes from such places as Aztec, NM in 1948 and Kingman, AZ in 1953.
Of these, there has been lots of discussion about Aztec. The first revolutions about the alleged incident appeared in a 1950 book, “Behind the Flying Saucers” from gossip columnist Frank Scully.
But early on, its origins were traced to a pair of conmen who were engaged in separating people from their money and not UFO research.
Still, some researchers persisted in trying to explore the possibility that, despite its questionable origins, Aztec was based on fact. Most recently, Scott Ramsey, a businessman who spent in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars on his quest to find out what really happened. Or so he told me. He put together his research in 2012, in a privately published book, “The Aztec Incident,” written by Ramsey and his wife, Suzanne, along with Dr. Frank Thayer, Ph.D. It carried an introduction from the late UFO lecturer Stanton T. Friedman.
Another edition was published in 2016 from New Page Books, retitled “The Aztec UFO Incident” for clarity. While Scott claimed that the book was substantially revised from the original, he was never actually able to explain to me what those changes were.
I read the original book, and found its evidence threadbare. In the July 28, 2013 episode of The Paracast, we presented a “Great Aztec Debate” with Ramsey and Roswell expert Kevin D. Randall. While Randall hadn’t explored the case as thoroughly as Ramsey, he did better in the debate. But the nail was finally put in the coffin when former Aztec resident Monte Shriver wrote several articles in Randall’s “A Different Perspective” blog pointing out errors in Ramsey’s book, and reminding us that the residents in the area had no institutional memory of such an event.
Shriver also appeared in an episode of After The Paracast on May 14, 2017. It has since been re-released as a free episode for all our listeners.
Contrast that to Roswell, where loads of witnesses emerged over the years. Sure, some were just trying to cash in on all the fun, but there were enough genuine reports to indicate something strange may have indeed occurred.
But was it a spaceship?
This is where the ultimate contradiction emerges, at least to me. But it also depends on whether we buy into the possibility that extraterrestrials would behave similar to humans if one of their vessels crashed.
So it’s common with our military that, if an aircraft crashes behind enemy lines, some effort will be made to recover the wreckage, or at least blow it up if possible. It’s all done in the interests of national security.
Now imagine an advanced race of intelligent beings that are hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us. Despite their technological expertise, one or more of their spacecraft crashes on Earth and falls into the hands of the military.
So what happens next?
Do they just leave it there for the primitives of Earth to figure it all out and perhaps advance their own technology? Or do they take the all-so-logical step and engage the self-destruct function? Or is it possible that every effort would be made to recover the wreckage, whether the locals witnessed it or not.
Just think what might have occurred: A crew of military personnel is transporting the Roswell wreckage to a facility for examination. It doesn’t matter whether its Wright-Patterson Air Force base or somewhere else. But instead of reaching their destination, the vehicles involved are confronted by UFOs, who quickly remove the evidence of their technology.
So what happens next?
Not wanting any witnesses, they might arrange to engage some sort of mind control mechanism to wipe the memories of those involved. Recall that neuralyzer, a device featured in the Men In Black films. But even though that is a work of sci-fi, it certainly makes sense that a device of this sort might exist and be employed by alien visitors to preserve their secrets.
Or perhaps the wreckage just ups and vanishes without a trace. Again, a mind wiping device is used on those transporting the evidence.
That might make more sense than to leave hundreds of witnesses with clear memories of ET’s chicanery. That is clearly a secret that could not be kept.
In other words, there is no evidence of a crashed UFO, but not because such incidents never happened. It’s all because the powers-that-be from that other world took steps to recover or destroy their crashed spaceship.
As I said, only logical.
But that assumes ET even cares. Their technology may be so far advanced compared to humans that they knew it would take many of our years, perhaps decades or more, to reverse engineer the spaceship. It would put the lie to claims that the transistor, invented in 1947, was developed based on reverse engineering the wreckage of a spaceship that crashed just a few months earlier. That possibility doesn’t pass the absurd test. Even if ET used solid state hardware, it would be far too complex for us to understand.
Just imagine taking today’s iPhone and giving it to the best scientists and engineers from 1947, and leaving it to them to make heads or tales from it. Just imagine.
Or perhaps ET just doesn’t care. When we discover the secrets of their technology we will, one hopes, be advanced enough to deal with it in a responsible fashion. But maybe that’s just too optimistic when the human condition is concerned.
Copyright 1999-2024 The Paracast Company. All Rights Reserved.