June 23, 2024 — UFO Investigator Charles Lear

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🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Gene and cohost Tim Swartz present a return appearance from Charles Lear, author of “Crashed Saucers and Malevolent Aliens: The Emergence of the Popular Modern UFO Mythos in the Late 20th Century.” The book focuses on those responsible for — or guilty of — creating and perpetuating key events involving flying saucer lore, such as the Aztec, NM and Roswell, NM crashes, the MJ-12 documents, disinformation agents, and so on and so forth. Lear also identifies one person, actually an old friend of Gene's, who is, in part, responsible for three of those legends or myths. Lear has been writing about UFOs for several years and still finds the subject, and the stories of the people involved, fascinating. Besides his interest in all things Fortean, his pursuits include paleontology, geology, hiking, bad movies, and music. He has been a theatre person for most of his life. As a performer, he sticks to Shakespeare, and he makes his living as an I.A.T.S.E. Local One welder/carpenter in the construction shop of the Metropolitan Opera. His first saucer book was “The Flying Saucer Investigators."

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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.
0:32.8	So, this has been an eventful day, and I won't explain why.
0:36.7	With Gene and Tim on the Paracast, we welcome back Charles Lear
0:40.3	for another portion of abuse from the host of the Paracast.
0:45.3	But with a difference here, he's got a new book out.
0:49.3	The book has a fascinating title,
0:53.3	Cashed Saucers and Malephlethalant Aliens.
0:57.4	Must be my middle name.
0:59.0	The emergence of the popular modern UFO mythos in the late 20th century from Charles Lear.
1:06.7	And very interesting thing here, we've got this great cover that you got Charles from Miguel
1:14.4	Romeo, whom we all know on the Paracast's Red Pill Junkie.
1:19.4	Yeah, he was, oh, we've got a Beagle in the background. Hopefully he won't go on.
1:25.5	Anyway, yeah, me, Miguel Romero, and I'm a fan of Daily Grail.
1:32.8	And I was hoping to get this book published by a company that uses him as a publisher.
1:41.1	It was the same company that published Adam Gore-Rightly's Saucer Spooks and Cooks, and I really like the same company that published Adam go rightly saucers, spooks, and cooks.
1:46.9	And I really liked the look of that book.
1:48.7	It looked really sexy.
1:50.7	And I thought, you know, it'd be great to have Miguel Romero do my cover.
1:55.3	Then I'm looking at Daily Grail, and I saw Miguel posted that anybody looking for a graphic designer, I could use some work.
2:04.4	So I contacted him and we made arrangements and he did the cover.
2:08.2	Well, he's done some cartoon or caricature work for us.
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