February 28, 2021 — Tim Beckley and Jerome Clark

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🗓️ 28 February 2021

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

After 15 years, The Paracast is still here, as Gene and Randall present a special episode featuring veteran UFO researchers and authors Tim “Mr. UFO” Beckley and Jerome Clark. The discussion takes us way back to the early days of the UFO field, and how they became lifelong friends in the pages of Ray Palmer’s Flying Saucers magazine. Topics include the reasons why people interested in sci-fi often reject UFO believers, and the concept of “event anomalies,” and “experience anomalies” to describe the sort of encounters people report. Beckley boasts that he has had “so many careers that even his own girlfriend doesn’t know what he does for a living.” He has published hundreds of books covering paranormal topics. Clark is best known as author of the sprawling “UFO Encyclopedia.” He has also written numerous articles covering “Fortean” topics, and also worked with the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek at the Center for UFO Studies, and as an editor for Fate magazine.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:28.0	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.2	Folks, it's hard to believe that we're doing this show 15 years later. Really? We started on the 28th of February, 2006,
0:43.3	and we have a couple of special guests joining us. But when we started out, our first two guests
0:51.2	with Jim Mosley and Brad Steiger, both of whom are no longer here.
0:57.1	So if we were to want to have them back, we would have to engage in some kind of weird paranormal or multi-dimensional practice.
1:05.0	And since we've discussed every kind of subject on the paracast.
1:11.3	I suppose that's always possible.
1:13.8	The people I will welcome are some longtime favorites of mine.
1:18.4	And together I've known these people for a total of over 100 years.
1:22.8	I just heard groaning.
1:25.0	No, it was an agreement.
1:30.7	It sound like you groaned. I've known this guy over 50 years no way uh yeah longer than that that's right tim beckley you were maybe 13 or 14 and i was
1:38.9	maybe 15 or 16 when we first crossed paths as it were and let's not forget my old friend, Jerry Clark.
1:46.2	Yeah, we were all teenagers once, and that's when we met.
1:50.5	That's when our paths crossed, courtesy of Ray Palmer.
1:54.3	Ray Palmer, yeah, yeah, it was because of Ray Palmer and Richard Schaeber that we sit here today and reminisce.
2:02.2	Jerry, yeah, why don't you explain how it was that Ray Palmer somehow got us all introduced?
2:10.6	Well, I never met Ray Palmer.
2:12.8	I saw him one time at a conference, but I didn't speak with him.
2:17.0	But he was a big presence in those days,
2:19.7	and he was a well-known and controversial editor of science fiction Pulps. And then he and Curtis
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