January 16, 2022 — Jerry Clark with Curt Collins

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🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gene and special guest cohost Curt Collins present UFO researcher and historian Jerry Clark. Clark has served as a writer, reporter, and editor for a number of magazines which cover UFOs and other paranormal subjects. He has been an editor of Fate magazine and International UFO Reporter, and a member of the board of directors for the Center for UFO Studies. Clark authored the multi-volume The UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon From The Beginning with the first edition being published in 1992. In 1997 an abridged, one-volume edition of The UFO Encyclopedia, entitled The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial, was published as a trade paperback. In 1998, The UFO Book won the Benjamin Franklin Award in the Science/Environment category sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:18.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:26.6	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:31.6	So let me paint the picture for you folks, because technology always fouls us. So Kurt Collins normally communicates
0:40.0	with us on a microphone using Skype. Unfortunately we couldn't get that to work so I called
0:45.8	them on a telephone. Kurt, you sound really good.
0:48.7	Well, I apologize for the technical difficulties but here we are. Very good.
0:55.2	And because he doesn't use Skype at all, we have Jerry Clark on telephone.
1:01.6	Hi, Jean and Kurt. Nice to be here.
1:05.0	Hey, you know, I wanted you on because you have this amazing historical perspective
1:11.5	because you're the author of one of the most expensive UFO books ever to be published.
1:17.9	The UFO Encyclopedia, which costs, I understand, about $12 million right now.
1:24.4	Yeah, on sale.
1:26.7	That's right, you know, from 15 million.
1:29.6	You know, it's like when they gave Bob Bigelow $22 million to do a UFO investigation under this Pentagon program,
1:40.5	that was enough to buy 10 toilet seats.
1:46.0	Yeah. I apologize. I had nothing to do with it.
1:50.8	Well, we didn't blame you for it.
1:52.6	We blame you for something else as we progress, but we didn't blame you for that.
1:56.9	But I was thinking here, and I get an offhanded comment before we get into the main focus of this episode of the Paracast, something, where, okay, so the Pentagon approves this $22 million.
2:10.8	It goes to Bob Bigelow, who rings up Mufon and asks them to help him in his investigation.
2:18.0	So indirectly, for the time it worked, Mufon was getting funds from the Pentagon by way of
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