June 15, 2025 — Award-winning UFO Historian Jerome Clark

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a very special episode featuring UFO historian Jerome Clark. Among the topics to be discussed, the recent controversial article from the Wall Street Journal claiming many UFO events are really based on government disinformation. Also on the agenda: his career as a music lyricist. Jerome is the prize-winning author of more than a dozen books, including Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds; Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs; the multi-volume UFO Encyclopedia; and Unnatural Phenomena. He serves on the board of the J. Allen Center for UFO Studies and is the co-editor of its magazine, International UFO Reporter. In 2008, Jerome received the Dinsdale Award given by the Society of Scientific Exploration for significant contributions to the expansion of human understanding through the study of unexplained phenomena. He has been featured in such television programs as the 1997 A&E Network documentary "Where Are All the UFOs?," which examined the history of the UFO phenomenon. In 2005, he discussed the early history of the U.S. Military's UFO investigations on the prime-time special, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing." In addition to the Peter Jennings special, Clark has also appeared on episodes of NBC's Unsolved Mysteries television series and on the syndicated television series Sightings. And Gene and Jerome have been friends for nearly 60 years.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast. You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:28.2	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.6	We welcome back on the Paracast, an old and dear friend, Jerry Clark, who's been at the UFO game since time and memorial, maybe several thousand years.
0:43.3	We're going to have to figure that out in the last Jerry.
0:45.3	But before we do that first, Jerry, welcome back to the show.
0:49.3	Well, thank you, Gene. Good to be here.
0:53.3	Now, as someone who has been involved in writing songs,
0:58.0	did you hear much about the passing of the creative genius behind the Beach Boys Brian Wilson?
1:06.0	Well, I saw the headline and I was shocked.
1:09.0	He was a unique genius. He was up there with anybody in pop music.
1:13.6	No, I don't know what to say except that created some astounding art out of pop music.
1:20.6	Now for those who remember some of his early songs, one of the things he did do, which people criticize the monkeys for, he used in doing
1:31.2	those songs, the wrecking crew, a famous set of L.A. Session musicians, and they would come up with
1:38.1	a lot of the original backing tracks under his control, and then his band would learn how to play it, which I know
1:46.3	caused resentment for some people, but we forget when we think about that, the Beach Boys,
1:51.5	the association did it, the Mamas and Pappas did it. The monkeys did it, of course, and got
1:56.7	criticized for not playing their instruments on their on their songs until later and
2:01.1	also the birds did it anyone who wanted to go into a studio and have master
2:07.6	session musicians do something in two or three hours they'd use the wrecking crew
2:12.2	because the band itself may be just as creative but take four weeks and studio
2:16.7	time wasn't cheap.
2:18.1	So rest and peace, Ryan Wilson at the age of 82.
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