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Our co-host this week is Christopher O'Brien.

I'm Gene Steinberg.

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Before we get on with our guests, Philip M. Brockno.

I want to talk about field investigation. You know, a lot of people who research UFOs and other paranormal

events, they spend most of their time in the armchair. And certainly Charles Fort is the classic

armchair investigator, right? He basically spent all his time in libraries pretty much checking

over books and musty newspaper clippings. Is that a valuable thing to do, or does that do a disservice to research?

Well, you can only go so far, Gene, with that kind of research.

You know, having done quite a bit of it myself, I've come to the conclusion that media reports by themselves

aren't oftentimes completely accurate.

I found, for instance, you know, reading a neat newspaper story about someone's strange experience

and then contacting the witness on my own and comparing their actual firsthand, first-person

account to what eventually ended up in a newspaper article.

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