January 26, 2025 — Charles Lear on UFO Conspiracies

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🗓️ 26 January 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present UFO author and researcher Charles Lear, who makes a return visit to The Paracast to talk about the recent UFO development reported on the NewsNation cable TV network. During an interview, alleged UFO whistleblower Jake Barber says that he was involved in the recovery of alien technology while working for a long-rumored secret UFO retrieval program. NewsNation released a video, supposedly of the recovery of an "egg-shaped UFO" being carried by a helicopter. What did it really show? There will also be a focus on various conspiracy theories. Lear is the author of the books "The Flying Saucer Investigators," and "Crashed Saucers and Malevolent Aliens." His main interests in the UFO subject are in the documented history the phenomenon has spawned and the people who investigate it. His other interests are geology and paleontology and his familiarity with science and its disciplines informs his approach to the UFO subject. In addition to his research, he also writes a blog for PodcastUFO. Lear has lived most of his life in New York City, where he made his living as a union stagehand and was involved in other aspects of theater as a playwright, producer, director and Shakespearean actor.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:28.3	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.5	Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear as Charles Lear joins us on the
0:38.3	Paracast. The reason I said that is because before the show began he and I were talking about
0:44.3	the shadow, no, it's not the shadow, the pulp character that started back in the 30s, I believe.
0:52.3	And you mentioned that one of the regular authors of The Shadow,
0:55.8	a magician and writer named Walter B. Gibson,
0:59.6	had something weird occur to him,
1:02.2	at least according to John Keel.
1:03.8	What was that?
1:05.1	Oh, no, it was people in his neighborhood,
1:07.5	and I think it was Greenwich Village,
1:09.3	reported seeing a character just like the shadow
1:13.2	so Keel kind of in and death it might be a Tulpa. Well they mentioned Tulpa in the 1994
1:21.6	shadow movie so let me give the background here. The shadow was a character you know it was in
1:27.3	the pulp magazines by Street
1:28.8	and Smith. It went to the radio and one of the people to play The Shadow was Orson Welles.
1:34.1	It then went to the movies while still on the radio was a really forgettable, forgettable
1:41.4	movies that didn't depict the mysticism of being able to hypnotize people so they can't see him
1:48.9	on the other hand when they made the 1994 film the shadow with alec Baldwin that one they took the mysticism
1:59.3	and kind of exaggerated it had fabulous settings for the 1930s,
2:05.1	great supporting performance from Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen played Margot Lane's father.
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