July 2, 2017 — Mark O’Connell with Curtis Collins

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🗓️ 2 July 2017

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

Gene and guest co-host Curt Collins present Mark O'Connell, author of "The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs," a biography of Dr. J. Allen Hynek. You'll learn about the amazing personal history of a scientist who, at first, tried hard to dismiss the possibility that UFOs were real, but eventually discovered, by the weight of the evidence, that there was something real behind this phenomenon. During this episode, Gene will discuss the time he introduced Dr. Hynek to best-seeing author Charles Berlitz. And just how much money did Dr. Hynek receive for the work he did on Steven Spielberg's sci-fi classic, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind?"

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0:10.7	The first minute. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:38.6	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:43.1	So as we do this episode of the Paracast, Chris O'Brien is moving. It's moving day. And so we know
0:51.3	when it comes to exiting the old home and finding a new one, you're not given very much time.
0:59.1	So anyway, he's going to be busy.
1:01.3	I did a move last year, and I'm still recovering, and I won't ask our guests about that.
1:06.7	In the meantime, we've asked Kurt Collins once again to be our guest co-host.
1:11.3	Kurt, welcome aboard. Thank you very much for doing this at the last minute.
1:15.8	Well, thank you. You know, I quit Uphology again yesterday. And then you asked me back.
1:19.4	So it's just, I guess we're just going to say I'm on pause now and then.
1:24.1	Yeah, well, you know, I know about quitting Uphology.
1:29.7	Mark O'Connell. Have you ever quit ufology, or have you been involved in the UFO field other than this book? I've taken a leave
1:35.2	of absence, which I guess counts as the same thing. I worked for about five years as a certified
1:43.4	UFO field investigator for Mufon, the Mutual UFO Network.
1:47.4	And about a year and a half ago, I took about a one-year leave of absence just so I could finish
1:51.4	my book.
1:53.0	Unfortunately, when I came back to Mufon after a year, a lot had changed, and I quit after only about a month.
2:03.7	We've talked about that a little bit about Mufon, that there are a lot of things there going on that a lot of us do not like.
2:11.6	Yeah, that seems to be the case.
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