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The Paracast β€” The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

August 24, 2014 β€” Robert Sheaffer

The Paracast β€” The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

Science, News, Society & Culture

3.4 β€’ 683 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 24 August 2014

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Gene and Chris present a special episode featuring UFO/paranormal skeptic Robert Sheaffer. According to his Wikipedia bio, "Sheaffer writes for Skeptical Inquirer (for which he writes the regular "Psychic Vibrations" column), Fate Magazine, and Spaceflight. He was a founding member (with Philip J. Klass and James Oberg) of the UFO Subcommittee of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal), and is a fellow of that organization. He is a member of MENSA." In other words, he's a real smart dude, and he'll be asking the hard questions about the potential reality of UFOs.

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0:00.0

You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.

0:27.9

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

0:34.0

With Gene and with Chris, we're back on the powercast.

0:38.5

And it's interesting, you know, how discussions on the show fuel further interviews.

0:43.6

So last week, for example, our guest, Micah Hanks, mentioned having a conversation with Robert

0:50.1

Schaefer, one of the most famous UFO skeptics on the planet.

0:55.0

And that discussion got me thinking,

0:59.0

hey, let's have Robert Schaefer on the show.

1:01.0

I've known the guy for like 40 years or something.

1:04.0

Let's get him on the show and see what he has to say and see if he has great answers to your questions and ours.

1:10.0

And he said yes.

1:11.7

So a little bit later, we'll be hearing from Robert Schaefer, and we'll also have questions

1:15.7

from Micah Hanks, who's posted them in our forums at forum.com.

1:22.1

Now, in last week's show, Chris decided to give away the store, didn't you, Chris?

1:28.0

Not really, but I guess that's what I'm doing.

1:31.1

What he means is that he's giving away a free copy of the e-book version of Secrets of the Mysterious Valley.

1:37.8

It's a great book over 440 pages.

1:42.0

Still a lot of stuff in there.

1:43.4

And if you sign up to the Paracast newsletter, you get a copy of

1:48.0

the e-book. Have fun. It's a good book. I like it. It kind of shows the reader what it's like to

1:55.6

run around a very remote area and be the only go-to person really for people to report the unusual

2:03.0

events to and create a database for somehow fielding these reports, investigating them, and then

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