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September 22, 2024
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Author and Paranormal Scholar Tillie Treadwell Compares Humans with Nonhuman Entities on The Paracast!
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This Week's Episode: Gene and cohost Tim Swartz welcome back the one and only Tillie Treadwell, a modern day author and paranormal scholar. In her own words, she is a conscious experiencer of phenomena, having had what she fully believes to be personal, true encounters with The Mandela Effect, wild nightcrawlers, the Glimmer Man, UFOs, nonhuman people such as the fae and others, and odd glitches in time. In past years, Tillie co-headed a paranormal investigation and was a key component in a local, official exorcism team in blessing with leadership from the Catholic church. During this episode there will be an extensive discussion of the best-selling book from former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo, "Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs." Does it provide any new information on finding a resolution to the mystery? Tillie will also explain why she prefers what she prefers "nonhumans" to humans. Except for your friendly Paracast hosts we hope. Tillie is a contributor, along with Sean Casteel, Gene and Tim, to their latest book "Weird Time — Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space." She also provides regular, exclusive articles for the International Dogman Project and The Quad Coalition of Sciences, and has reached an agreement with fellow writer and speaker Joshua Cutchin to produce a new book together in the near future. Her YouTube channel is: The Weird Walk Home
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on September 22: Author and paranormal scholar Tillie Treadwell returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about a variety of topics that include her encounters with nonhuman entities the nature of reality and The Mandela Effect, along with her recent personal history that includes recovering from serious illnesses. Such arcane topics as quantum sciences are also on the agenda. Tillie considers herself a persistent, passionate multi-disciplinary student, and believes that it is her life mission to note patterns and ties between the subjects she studies. In her own words, she is a conscious experiencer of phenomena, having had what she fully believes to be personal, true encounters with The Mandela Effect, wild nightcrawlers, the Glimmer Man, UFOs, nonhuman people such as the fae and others, and odd glitches in time. In past years, Tillie co-headed a paranormal investigation and was a key component in a local, official exorcism team in blessing with leadership from the Catholic church. She is a contributor along with Sean Casteel and Tim Swartz to their latest book “Weird Time — Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space.” She is also preparing to collaborate with fellow writer and speaker Joshua Cutchin on a new book. Her YouTube channel is: The Weird Walk Home
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.
An Imminent Tale
By Gene Steinberg
To be sure, having a UFO book become number one on The New York Times non-fiction bestsellers list is an extraordinary achievement, even if it’s only for a week or two. Such sales aren’t usually achieved by books on paranormal topics.
So for that reason alone, I suppose Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon official involved in Pentagon UAP studies, should be commended. To be sure, his book, “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs” has the earmarks for success. It’s written in a breezy style reminiscent of Major Donald E. Keyhoe and Edward Ruppelt. The hardcover edition, which fills slightly over 300 pages with the Introduction and Index, is a quick read.
Elizondo, a man with a long military background that includes intelligence, became a celebrity of sorts when, in 2017, The New York Times disclosed the existence of a Pentagon project chasing the flying saucers. Well some naval airplane sightings at any rate.
“Imminent” carries a high level of credibility with a Foreword from Christopher Mellon, whose background includes a stint as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. But Elizondo’s book also carries the baggage of having been evaluated by the Department of Defense. The end result appears to be a few segments of the book, consisting of a word or two or a short paragraph, that were redacted.
You may be able to get a sense of what was deleted by the context, but why even brother including such passages? No doubt to demonstrate that Elizondo is being censored, which might appeal to the more conspiratorial among us.
He also makes it clear he can’t tell us everything he knows because they are matters of national security. That’s understandable, but it seems to mean that he can’t, or won’t tell us the sources for some of the information he provides.
So when it comes to the legendary Roswell case from 1947, Elizondo reports that the bodies of four aliens were recovered along with the wreckage. He also writes about their possible fate, which might include attempts to reverse engineer alien technology by private industry.
Such revelations might fulfill the fantasies of Roswell believers, but Elizondo’s coverage is brief, and he doesn’t get around to telling us his source for all this information. Is it the Legacy Group, the modern day designation for the infamous UFO Silence Group from Major Keyhoe’s day? Or is he just regurgitating things he read in some UFO books as he was educating himself on the field’s checkered history?
Perhaps the most intriguing revelation appears in the early portions of the book, where Elizondo writes that he was part of the military’s Project Stargate, a program to establish a band of remote viewers. He even claims success, but never quite gets to detailing the specifics of his training or his achievements.
Does he, for example, still practice remote viewing? Is that where he got his secret Roswell information? I doubt it, but therein lies the biggest problem with “Imminent.” He asks lots of questions, points us down many highways, but doesn’t exactly complete the journey.
The few sighings quoted are given short shrift. But since most followers of UFO lore know the gory details, maybe it doesn’t matter. But what about readers who only have a fleeting knowledge of the swerving highways and byways of the field?
Elizondo is more interested in his personal story, where he was recruited to work on the Pentagon’s misleadingly named Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. It’s original $22 million budget largely went to an outside contractor, the National Institute of Discovery Sciences, owned by hotel and space magnate Robert Bigelow.
The experience is complicated. Chasing the flying saucers was only part of his work for the Pentagon. But it also thrust him and his family into the paranormal world when, he reports, orbs started showing up in his home.
In passing, Elizondo mentions the Collins Elite, a group among Pentagon insiders that considers UFOs to represent demonic forces. In examining the possible motives of the presence of this phenomenon, he does seem to seriously consider the possibility that they may be hostile.
After several years of toiling in the land of UAPs, and confronting bureaucratic opposition from people who’d rather he never got involved, such as members of the Legacy Group, he decides to hand in his papers. He now has a mission in life other than to defend his country. And that is to spread the truth about UAPs and generate public interest.
Among his first acts as a private citizen was to meet with the authors of that New York Times article, which included Leslie Kean, well known to Paracast listeners and author of a bestselling UFO book, ‘UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record,” and retired reporter Ralph Blumenthal.
Blumenthal is, by the way, a winner of a Pulitzer as head of the team that reported on the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He also wrote a UFO-themed book, “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack.” The third member was Helene Cooper, the Times’ Pentagon correspondent.
His journey as a public figure in progress, Elizondo, in need of a job, was hired by the curious To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, established by a rock star, Blink 182’s Tom Delonge. It’s original staff included parapsychologist Harold Edward "Hal" Puthoff, Mellon and others.
It’s overall goals were murky, but part of it was to promote UFOs and other fringe science research.
Now heading up a popular rock band, Delonge is supposedly very rich, worth many millions. But the To The Stars Academy had its growing pains. Before long, Elizondo’s salary was cut in half, said to be a “temporary” measure. It was temporary, since he was soon laid off.
So Elizondo and his family were forced to live an RV for a while.
As with other parts of the book, the experience with Delonge’s company is spare of details. There are more questions than answers. Elizondo make himself the book’s hero and thus leaves out some critical details of the Pentagon’s various UAP projects. A key example is their regular insistence that there is no evidence that the phenomenon represents offworld technology.
That’s essentially what the Air Force said about Project Blue Book all those years ago. They never learn.
There’s not much information about the work of the latest iteration of the Pentagon UAP project, the clumsily named All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. One of its key personnel, former director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, isn’t even named.
This isn’t to say I didn’t like the book. As I said, it was a relatively quick read. But in terms of detail, it’s threadbare. There are surely 500 or more pages of material clumsily compressed into its relatively small size. Or maybe there’s room for a Volume II to provide some of the missing information.
Or maybe Elizondo’s publisher was skeptical of the sales potential of a larger book. But after its initial success, perhaps there will be a sequel. I hope so. I have loads of questions I’d like answered, but it may well be that Elizondo just can’t answer them given his national security constraints.
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September 22, 2024
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Author and Paranormal Scholar Tillie Treadwell Compares Humans with Nonhuman Entities 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 welcome back the one and only Tillie Treadwell, a modern day author and paranormal scholar. In her own words, she is a conscious experiencer of phenomena, having had what she fully believes to be personal, true encounters with The Mandela Effect, wild nightcrawlers, the Glimmer Man, UFOs, nonhuman people such as the fae and others, and odd glitches in time. In past years, Tillie co-headed a paranormal investigation and was a key component in a local, official exorcism team in blessing with leadership from the Catholic church. During this episode there will be an extensive discussion of the best-selling book from former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo, "Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs." Does it provide any new information on finding a resolution to the mystery? Tillie will also explain why she prefers what she prefers "nonhumans" to humans. Except for your friendly Paracast hosts we hope. Tillie is a contributor, along with Sean Casteel, Gene and Tim, to their latest book "Weird Time — Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space." She also provides regular, exclusive articles for the International Dogman Project and The Quad Coalition of Sciences, and has reached an agreement with fellow writer and speaker Joshua Cutchin to produce a new book together in the near future. Her YouTube channel is: The Weird Walk Home
After The Paracast — Available exclusively for Paracast+ subscribers on September 22: Author and paranormal scholar Tillie Treadwell returns to talk with Gene and cohost Tim Swartz about a variety of topics that include her encounters with nonhuman entities the nature of reality and The Mandela Effect, along with her recent personal history that includes recovering from serious illnesses. Such arcane topics as quantum sciences are also on the agenda. Tillie considers herself a persistent, passionate multi-disciplinary student, and believes that it is her life mission to note patterns and ties between the subjects she studies. In her own words, she is a conscious experiencer of phenomena, having had what she fully believes to be personal, true encounters with The Mandela Effect, wild nightcrawlers, the Glimmer Man, UFOs, nonhuman people such as the fae and others, and odd glitches in time. In past years, Tillie co-headed a paranormal investigation and was a key component in a local, official exorcism team in blessing with leadership from the Catholic church. She is a contributor along with Sean Casteel and Tim Swartz to their latest book “Weird Time — Exploring the Mysteries of Time and Space.” She is also preparing to collaborate with fellow writer and speaker Joshua Cutchin on a new book. Her YouTube channel is: The Weird Walk Home
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.
An Imminent Tale
By Gene Steinberg
To be sure, having a UFO book become number one on The New York Times non-fiction bestsellers list is an extraordinary achievement, even if it’s only for a week or two. Such sales aren’t usually achieved by books on paranormal topics.
So for that reason alone, I suppose Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon official involved in Pentagon UAP studies, should be commended. To be sure, his book, “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs” has the earmarks for success. It’s written in a breezy style reminiscent of Major Donald E. Keyhoe and Edward Ruppelt. The hardcover edition, which fills slightly over 300 pages with the Introduction and Index, is a quick read.
Elizondo, a man with a long military background that includes intelligence, became a celebrity of sorts when, in 2017, The New York Times disclosed the existence of a Pentagon project chasing the flying saucers. Well some naval airplane sightings at any rate.
“Imminent” carries a high level of credibility with a Foreword from Christopher Mellon, whose background includes a stint as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. But Elizondo’s book also carries the baggage of having been evaluated by the Department of Defense. The end result appears to be a few segments of the book, consisting of a word or two or a short paragraph, that were redacted.
You may be able to get a sense of what was deleted by the context, but why even brother including such passages? No doubt to demonstrate that Elizondo is being censored, which might appeal to the more conspiratorial among us.
He also makes it clear he can’t tell us everything he knows because they are matters of national security. That’s understandable, but it seems to mean that he can’t, or won’t tell us the sources for some of the information he provides.
So when it comes to the legendary Roswell case from 1947, Elizondo reports that the bodies of four aliens were recovered along with the wreckage. He also writes about their possible fate, which might include attempts to reverse engineer alien technology by private industry.
Such revelations might fulfill the fantasies of Roswell believers, but Elizondo’s coverage is brief, and he doesn’t get around to telling us his source for all this information. Is it the Legacy Group, the modern day designation for the infamous UFO Silence Group from Major Keyhoe’s day? Or is he just regurgitating things he read in some UFO books as he was educating himself on the field’s checkered history?
Perhaps the most intriguing revelation appears in the early portions of the book, where Elizondo writes that he was part of the military’s Project Stargate, a program to establish a band of remote viewers. He even claims success, but never quite gets to detailing the specifics of his training or his achievements.
Does he, for example, still practice remote viewing? Is that where he got his secret Roswell information? I doubt it, but therein lies the biggest problem with “Imminent.” He asks lots of questions, points us down many highways, but doesn’t exactly complete the journey.
The few sighings quoted are given short shrift. But since most followers of UFO lore know the gory details, maybe it doesn’t matter. But what about readers who only have a fleeting knowledge of the swerving highways and byways of the field?
Elizondo is more interested in his personal story, where he was recruited to work on the Pentagon’s misleadingly named Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. It’s original $22 million budget largely went to an outside contractor, the National Institute of Discovery Sciences, owned by hotel and space magnate Robert Bigelow.
The experience is complicated. Chasing the flying saucers was only part of his work for the Pentagon. But it also thrust him and his family into the paranormal world when, he reports, orbs started showing up in his home.
In passing, Elizondo mentions the Collins Elite, a group among Pentagon insiders that considers UFOs to represent demonic forces. In examining the possible motives of the presence of this phenomenon, he does seem to seriously consider the possibility that they may be hostile.
After several years of toiling in the land of UAPs, and confronting bureaucratic opposition from people who’d rather he never got involved, such as members of the Legacy Group, he decides to hand in his papers. He now has a mission in life other than to defend his country. And that is to spread the truth about UAPs and generate public interest.
Among his first acts as a private citizen was to meet with the authors of that New York Times article, which included Leslie Kean, well known to Paracast listeners and author of a bestselling UFO book, ‘UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record,” and retired reporter Ralph Blumenthal.
Blumenthal is, by the way, a winner of a Pulitzer as head of the team that reported on the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He also wrote a UFO-themed book, “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack.” The third member was Helene Cooper, the Times’ Pentagon correspondent.
His journey as a public figure in progress, Elizondo, in need of a job, was hired by the curious To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, established by a rock star, Blink 182’s Tom Delonge. It’s original staff included parapsychologist Harold Edward "Hal" Puthoff, Mellon and others.
It’s overall goals were murky, but part of it was to promote UFOs and other fringe science research.
Now heading up a popular rock band, Delonge is supposedly very rich, worth many millions. But the To The Stars Academy had its growing pains. Before long, Elizondo’s salary was cut in half, said to be a “temporary” measure. It was temporary, since he was soon laid off.
So Elizondo and his family were forced to live an RV for a while.
As with other parts of the book, the experience with Delonge’s company is spare of details. There are more questions than answers. Elizondo make himself the book’s hero and thus leaves out some critical details of the Pentagon’s various UAP projects. A key example is their regular insistence that there is no evidence that the phenomenon represents offworld technology.
That’s essentially what the Air Force said about Project Blue Book all those years ago. They never learn.
There’s not much information about the work of the latest iteration of the Pentagon UAP project, the clumsily named All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. One of its key personnel, former director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, isn’t even named.
This isn’t to say I didn’t like the book. As I said, it was a relatively quick read. But in terms of detail, it’s threadbare. There are surely 500 or more pages of material clumsily compressed into its relatively small size. Or maybe there’s room for a Volume II to provide some of the missing information.
Or maybe Elizondo’s publisher was skeptical of the sales potential of a larger book. But after its initial success, perhaps there will be a sequel. I hope so. I have loads of questions I’d like answered, but it may well be that Elizondo just can’t answer them given his national security constraints.
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