PARANOID POLITICS, UFOS, AND THE CONTACTEE MOVEMENT

02/09/21 • -1 min

Does Ashtar and the other Space Brothers have a secret agenda? “Exploring the Bizarre” (KCORradio.com) hosts Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz welcomes teacher, writer and historian, Aaron Gulyas to discuss the wild, often wacky world, of the UFO contactees. Since 2017, our guest has hosted “The Saucer Life,” a podcast which explores the history, lore, and culture of flying saucer belief. Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. Aaron explores how the "contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paranormal psychic communications, or whether they actually happened at all, contactees have provided a consistently relevant source of commentary on this world and beyond. In addition to his podcast, Aaron is the author of several books, including “Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950s.”

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AMAZING SECRETS OF MISSISSIPPI’S ALIEN KIDNAPPERS

In a show where many hush,hush secrets are revealed, “Exploring the Bizarre,” (KCORradio,com) hosts Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz welcomes CALVIN PARKER who is one of the world’s most famous abductees. On October, 11th, 1973, Calvin and Charles Hickson set off to do some fishing at an abandoned shipyard called Shaw Peters on the west bank of the Pascagoula River. As the two men fished, a "football" shaped UFO with blinding lights swooped down out of the night sky and landed nearby. What happened next turned the two men into media sensations, and their case went on to become one of the most high-profile UFO stories in American history. Parker says that he is still grappling with an encounter that turned his life upside down. "This is something I really didn't want to happen," he said. Parker married later in 1973 and eventually took oil industry and out-of-state construction jobs to escape the attention. Parker attended some UFO conventions, and was once hypnotized by Budd Hopkins. He briefly tried to capitalize on his story in 1993 by starting a Louisiana company called "UFO Investigations" where he and partners would produce television segments on the subject. Parker said he's had conflicting thoughts over the years about that night in 1973. That is why he decided to write his books, Pascagoula - "The Closets Encounter," and "Pascagoula - The Story Continues: New Evidence & New Witnesses." For friends, family and others interested in his side of the story, these books should be enlightening. However, Parker said there are some questions that may never be answered. His two “tell all” books are, “Pascagoula-The Closest Encounter.” and “Pascagoula – The Story Continues.”

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EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT ROSWELL-- BUT ARE PETRIFIED TO ASK THE ALIENS

Still confused about Roswell? Did a space ship crash in the desert in July, 1947, or was the crash part of some super secret space program – perhaps developed by Nazi engineers bought over from Germany under the auspicious of Project Paper Clip? "Exploring the Bizarre" (KCORradio.com) hosts Tim Beckley and Tim Swartz welcomes THOMAS J. CAREY a native Philadelphian and Air Force veteran who held a TOP SECRET/CRYPTO clearance. He has been a Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) State Section Director, as well as a Special Investigator for the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). Carey's 2007 book, co-authored with Don Schmitt, "Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up," was the #1 best-selling UFO book in the world in 2007-2008. “Roswell Chronological Pictorial” is his latest on the topic, while “UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson” is a thoroughly researched work that includes: •--New eyewitness accounts from the late Leonard Stringfield's files about the crash retrieval evidence stored at Wright-Patterson •--New eyewitness accounts from the late Leonard Stringfield's files about the crash retrieval evidence stored at Wright-Patterson •New testimonies from the late Emmy-award-winning TV reporter Carl Day concerning physical evidence of crashed UFOs stored in underground facilities at Wright-Patterson •--Newly discovered Project Blue Book files from Wright-Patterson including photos and Air Force investigations of UFOs. •--New testimonies from the late Emmy-award-winning TV reporter Carl Day concerning physical evidence of crashed UFOs stored in underground facilities at Wright-Patterson A forthcoming book will be published by Flying Disc Press. Wright-Patterson including photos and Air Force investigations of UFOs.