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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

December 30, 2018 — Jan Harzan

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

News, Society & Culture, Science

3.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2018

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

For the final episode of 2018, Gene and Randall present a return appearance from Jan Harzan, Executive Director of MUFON. With the organization's 50th anniversary coming in 2019, Jan catches up on its history, how and why it was founded originally as the Midwest UFO Network, as Gene expands upon his own related experiences in the early days. Jan also engages in a discussion about various theories about UFO reality. He is a 37-year veteran at IBM, and holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering. He's been Executive Director of MUFON since 2013.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:28.0

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

0:32.5

So before we got started, we learned that Jan Harzan of Mufon has a real life. He does real things.

0:39.9

You know, like, for example, he takes his car into the car dealer for service, waits for the car

0:45.3

dealer to get their shuttle vehicle to take them home. You know, this is a common practice.

0:52.0

I don't know how it works in Canada.

0:55.4

Randall, the same thing?

1:00.5

Yeah, if I go to the dealership, they'll put me on a bus and ship me back to my house,

1:03.2

and then I can call them, and they'll come and get me again.

1:06.1

A few places will have loaner vehicles even.

1:10.7

So, yeah, if you go to the right place, you can get a ride back and course.

1:16.9

Well, I have a VW dealer about a mile from here, so I don't worry about it.

1:19.3

I just worry about the price of service.

1:24.8

The other thing Jan and I were talking about before is he asked whether this is audio or video.

1:31.2

And I told him that the reason we don't do video is I don't want to frighten our viewers.

1:33.5

And then what did you say, Jan?

1:36.1

I don't remember.

1:38.7

I'm not sure.

1:39.2

What did I say?

1:39.8

You tell me.

1:42.4

You agreed with me about yourself.

1:44.2

I mean, you look normal.

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