You're in the

You're in the

Paragast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

You're in the paracast with Gene Steinberg.

The co-host is Chris O'Brien.

And this week we have Jerry Clark.

Now, Jerry Clark joined us before in eulogizing some dear departed UFO investigators,

but now we have them all to himself.

No eulogies necessary, although we might bring up some of those people in terms of his life

experiences. Now, Jerry Clark has been a UFO investigator for longer than many people

have been alive. How, Jerry, did you first become attracted to this issue, this phenomena?

Well, when I was young and impressionable, I read a book. And that book, as is true of so many in my generation, was Ed Rupelt's, the report of non-identified flying objects, which was a memoir by the guy who headed Project Blue Book in the early 1950s. And it was a sensible, balanced book. And the first book I had read was a contact e-book like George Adamski's.

I don't think I would have been interested.

Even as a kid, I would have thought that was nonsense.

But Rupel got to the core of the mystery of this very interesting phenomenon, and I was hooked.

And I guess I've stayed hooked.

Now, the Rupel book is kind of curious because he had the original version in 1956,

as a matter of fact.

And then there was a sequel or an update where he added several chapters and kind of poo-poo

the whole thing.

Well, kind of pooh-poohed is putting it charitably.

...