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And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

This week on the Paracast, we welcome back a friend of the show, and he's no stranger to you if you already are regulars in the forums at forum.

Theparacast.com.

That's because he is one of our moderators, but he also hosts his own radio show called Dark Matters.

He's the one, the only Don Eckerd. Don, welcome back to the powercast.

Oh, thank you so much, Gene, for the invitation. I appreciate it.

This week, we're going to focus on, first of all, the fakers, the frauds, and in UFO research these are the people who drag the

entire field down the people who make you think that UFO research is toxic don't do it

don't get involved because you have all the crazies and the confused ones how did you get

involved in exposing people of this nature?

Well, of course, when I first became involved in the field, this was certainly not in the area

that I wanted to go, but going all the way back practically to the beginning after I was on board UFO magazine.

My wife, Vicky, and I had gone down to San Diego for some conference or something that was

going on down there.

And I'm talking about back in the very early days around 1990 or thereabouts.

And while we were down there, somebody that we knew introduced me to a fellow that I was told

had been a former Air Force pilot.

And not only a pilot, but had been in a squadron back in the early 50s based out of Utah and had been

tasked in this quote, unquote, secret squadron with being tasked to chase and photograph

UFOs when they popped up. I found the story interesting, but what was even more

interesting about the story was that this guy was featured in Timothy Good's massive book

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