The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

Gene and Chris present Fortean investigator Andrew B. Colvin, author of “The Mothman Speaks: Candid Conversations Concerning Cosmic Conundrums – Cryptic Creatures, Chimeras, Contactees, and the Cleverly Coded Coincidences of the Collective Unconscious (Volume 1).” You’ll learn about Mothman encounters, military/UFO disinformation and other fascinating subjects, not to mention Andrew’s personal UFO sighting report, which includes photographic evidence.


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Gene presents his long-time friend, veteran UFO and occult researcher T. Allen Greenfield. You'll learn how Gene and Allen developed a theory about UFOs from other dimensions, or alternate realities. On the agenda is the work of John Keel. We also cover Allen's ongoing research not just into UFOs and related subjects, but into the occult. He is an original thinker who has made huge contributions to these fields.


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Gene and cohost Tim Swartz introduce Joseph Foster. He will speak about his experiences including; events at sea, other events involving UFOs and their impact on nuclear weapons and operations. Foster will discuss several of these major “events” that captured his attention and interests. He has had more than 11 such related life experiences he feels have had a profound and significant impact on his life. Foster's personal journey to gaining an understanding of these events has inspired his continuing research leading to developing a number of presentations of these phenomena. He grew up in East Hampton, Long Island, New York and in central New Jersey and enlisted in in the US Coast Guard in February of 1969 and served through February of 1973. While on active duty, he served as a Navigator and Signalman “Quartermaster.” He also participated in two Ocean Station Victor patrols, the first during the Apollo 11 mission. After that he deployed on duty in the Republic of Vietnam serving as part of “Operation Market Time” (interdiction, gunfire support with participation) during the Cambodian incursion and mutiny on the US Naval chartered, Columbia Eagle. In addition, Foster is a retired Information Technology, Electronics, and Communications Project/Program Manager. His work centered on meeting the technology needs for several organizations to include; computerized weapon sights, and advanced energy systems development activities. His website: www.millenniumoss.com

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Artist and abduction researcher Budd Hopkins, one of the controversial figures in the field, returned to The Paracast to talk about his memoir, “Art, Life and UFOs.” This discussion included a host of personal remembrances that also encompass subjects beyond UFOs. Hopkins died in 2011; Biedny died in 2024.


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In one of our most memorable episodes, Gene and David don their Consumer Protection hats and expose the questionable antics of UFO researcher Bill Knell, someone who has allegedly preyed on the unwary for several decades. They'll are joined in this worthy effort by investigator Frank Warren, who has done his own research into the questionable exploits of the offender in question.


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Decades before the 1997 sci-fi comedy "Men In Black" launched a multibillion dollar film franchise, a young folklorist, UFO promoter Gray Barker helped to spread the original MIB concept in a book, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers. The details about Barker's colorful life is told in Gabriel Mckee's book, The Saucerian: The Unbelievable Life of Gray Barker (MIT Press). It's the strange, but true biography of a central purveyor and promoter of flying saucer and conspiracist knowledge in the mid-twentieth century. Known mostly to people in the UFO field, Barker (who died in 1984) was an eccentric literary outsider, filled with ideas that were out of step with the world. An author and unreliable narrator of implausible stories, Barker founded and operated Saucerian Books, an independent publisher of books about flying saucers and other ideas at the fringes of popular discourse. In The Saucerian, Gabriel Mckee tells the fascinating story of Barker’s West Virginia–based press, the unique corpus of materials it published, and how office-copying and self-publishing techniques influenced the spread of paranormal beliefs and conspiratorial worldviews over the last century. Following the development of UFO subculture, Mckee explores the life and career of a larger-than-life hoaxer and originator of pseudoscientific ideas. In return, Gene and cohost Tim Swartz talk about their own encounters with Barker and his friends over the years. This is an episode you won't want to miss. Gabriel's site: https://gabrielmckee.com/

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Gene and Chris present noted parapolitics author Kenneth F. Thomas, publisher of Steamshovel Press, who will deliver the latest developments on the most significant conspiracies of our time, including the Kennedy Assassination, decades after the tragic event, the possible connection with UFOs, and other mysteries. The speculation about JFK's death was revitalized when more than 80,000 documents on the case were released in early 2025. Thomas died in 2023.

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Gene and Chris present veteran and prolific paranormal writer Nick Redfern, author of "Keep Out!: Top Secret Places Governments Don't Want You to Know About." This highly readable book is not just about UFOs, secret alien bases and so on, but about many of the mysteries and legends that surround a number of unusual places, often underground, around the world.


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Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a special appearance from veteran UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski, who offers a really check about the current state of research into the phenomenon. He has expansive credentials as an investigator and writer, including: contributing editor of International UFO Reporter and was the editor of the Swamp Gas Journal, an occasional Ufozine first published in 1978 when he was part of Decadent Winnipeg Fandom. He is a past-president of the Winnipeg Science Fiction Society and was part of the Winnipeg SF community that gathered Saturdays at the home of the legendary “first fan” Chester Cuthbert. He is also a past-president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada — Winnipeg Centre and has degrees in science and education. Chris Rutkowski blogs at: uforum.blogspot.com. Rutkowski also has nine published books, including: Visitations? (1989); Unnatural History (1993); Mysterious Manitoba, co-authored with Dave Creighton and Brian Fidler (1997); Abductions and Aliens (2000); The Canadian UFO Report, co-authored with Geoff Dittman (2006); A World of UFOs (2008), I Saw It Too! (2009), The Big Book of UFOs (2010) and When They Appeared, co-authored with Stan Michalak (2019). His last book was Canada's UFOs — Declassified (2022), and he has been working on a new book.

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Gene and Chris are joined by the irrepressible Jim Moseley, Editor/Publisher of Saucer Smear, who discusses the fakes and the outright frauds he has discovered, and sometimes exposed — and sometgimes perpetrated — in the UFO field since the 1950s. One of Gene's closest friends, he died in 2012. A memorial site dedicated to Jim is located at: www.jimmoseley.com. Chris died in 2024.


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