December 17, 2023 — Maxim W. Furek with Tim Swartz

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🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present an encore appearance by paranormal researcher Maxim W. Furek, whose eclectic background includes aspects of psychology, addictions, and rock journalism. He has a master’s degree in Communications from Bloomsburg University and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Aquinas College. The main focus of this episode is the legend of the Philadelphia Experiment, about a purported attempt during World War II to make ships invisible to the enemy, with results that went awry. Furek will also explore the pop culture of the early days of the modern UFO field, featuring such controversial characters as Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver. Furek has written numerous rock biographies, as well as paranormal-themes books, such as Coal Region Hoodoo: Paranormal Tales from Inside the Pit and Flying Saucer Esoteric. He is a contributor to Fate Magazine, Normal Paranormal, and Paranormal Underground. The book Flying Saucer Esoteric: The Altered States of Ufology cxplores the chronology of “flying saucers,” tracing historical accounts of theologians and astronomers who lived in the days Before Christ to the 2023 Congressional hearings and the Mexican alien corpses myth.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:02.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:27.8	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:31.9	We have a lot to talk about on this episode of The Paracast, and I really wanted to jump right in.
0:37.4	Rejoining us, Maximurek, a UFO researcher, and it's me and Tim.
0:43.8	And there's a lot, as I said, to talk about.
0:45.9	A little bit later, we'll be getting into the infamous Philadelphia experiment.
0:50.9	And I go way, way back with that because I knew the author of one of the most famous
0:56.3	books on the subject, Charles Burlitz. But that waits a little bit later. Right now,
1:02.2	UFOs are in the media. There's an article in the New York Times says Congress orders UFO reports
1:09.3	released, but drops bid for broader disclosure. And the
1:15.3	subtext is a newly passed measure directs the national archives to collect documents related to
1:22.1	UFOs and disclose confidential records within 25 years, but stops short of ordering more transparency.
1:31.3	This is in the 2024 defense bill for the U.S., and evidently it lacks teeth.
1:37.3	You know, we had the July 2023 UFO congressional hearings with David Grush and some of the other folks, we thought we're
1:46.6	going to have the disclosure. Grush said that he knew where the bodies were, where the saucers were.
1:52.7	He claimed that in the 1930s, Mussolini captured a craft, gave it to the Vatican, and that
1:58.9	the United States retrieved it. So all of that stuff
2:01.8	was good and well and juicy, and we're waiting for that door to open that, you know, and then
2:07.6	it just stopped. So it was almost like a tease. And I just wrote a letter to Marco Rubio. I'm a
2:14.3	Floridian, and I wanted to know know where's the rest of the story?
2:18.3	Where's the evidence?
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