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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

December 16, 2018 — Cheryl Costa

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

News, Society & Culture, Science

3.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2018

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Gene and Randle present UFO researcher and columnist Cheryl Costa, author of the “New York Skies” column published weekly at SyracuseNewTimes.com. She’ll cover the UFO mystery from a nuts and bolts perspective. Cheryl saw her first UFO at age 12. A military veteran, she’s a retired information security professional from the aerospace Industry. She’s been a speaker at the International UFO Congress and at the MUFON Symposium. Besides being a journalist, she’s also a published playwright who holds a bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Empire State College in entertainment writing. She is also co-author of “UFO Sightings Desk Reference: United States of America 2001-2015.”

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And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

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0:58.0

In the last few months over here at the paracast with jena randall we've been bringing on guests that we haven't had before so randall brought

1:04.5

to my attention cheryl costa who does an article called new yorkies for the Syracuse New Times.

1:13.4

Cheryl becomes one of the rare people to do a UFO column for a newspaper.

1:19.6

Now, Cheryl, I wanted to ask you first, the Syracuse New Times, is that like the Phoenix New Times, a weekly?

1:25.7

Yeah, it is. It's a weekly. In fact, very similar, yes.

1:30.1

I'll tell you, the New Times in Phoenix has done exposés at the Arizona Republic would never

1:36.7

touch, hard hitting. How did you get this gig? Well, okay, I was working for a different newspaper.

1:47.0

I had just retired out of 32 years at Lockheed Merton, and I was sort of working on my second career in journalism. Okay. Now, to say that

1:53.9

doesn't mean I just got into journalism five years ago. No, I've been around the edges. I was an

1:59.1

industrial film producer for the early version of my career was at IBM Federal Systems, which got bought by Lockheed.

2:06.6

But I used to make industrial movies, made about 70 of them.

2:10.4

And I produced a cable television program in 1991, 1992.

2:15.8

It was supposed to be a six-episode summer replacement program.

2:20.5

And I did it on American Witchcraft and Shamanism.

2:23.5

There was a little 400-word AP story went out about it.

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