So you've entered the Paracast with your host Jane Steinberg and David Vieti.

So riddle me this.

We have this civilization that's thousands or millions of years ahead of us,

and yet their quality control of their aircraft, their spacecraft, is so bad that they are constantly

crashing on our planet. From 1897 on, how many crash retrieval episodes have there been?

Well, Ryan Woods book documents, not directly documents, but brings up about 70 of them.

Okay, with all those cases, you have to wonder, now, what's happening?

With these aliens, are they using the lowest bidder to build their spacecraft like we do?

Well, let's look at a bigger question in that if there are this many incidents of crashes,

that begs the question how many visitations are really going on.

We could probably take, Gene,

the statistics of the number of airplane crashes versus the number of flights. One of the things

that's always boggled my mind is how many airplanes, for example, are flying over the

continental United States at any given moment. It's in the thousands of the number. That's every day. So when you hear about an airplane

crash, it turns out, I mean, realistically, that is such a small percentage of the overall

number of flights. If we have 70-some-odd crashes, well, my God, man, how many visitations has

the Earth undergone to generate that percentage of crashes?

And I would hope that the quality control of the spacecraft is better than our quality control.

There's an interesting aspect of this, which is that do they use undocumented alien workers?

Well, no, but maybe what they use are entities that are not fully autonomous.

Maybe what these creatures in these vessels are to some large degree are engineered entities,

engineered creatures that essentially are designed for this specific task,

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