Paul Kimball

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by valiens

He's not leaving he's just leaving the blogosphere.

Jeremy,

That's sort of correct. I've definitely left the UFO blogosphere behind, because I had said what I wanted to say. I've also pretty much left the UFO thing behind, at least as a personal interest... although I'm working on three new UFO-related docs this fall, so it remains something that I do professionally, when I'm not working on non-UFO related projects, like the feature film I start directing in two weeks, or the ghost hunting series I have lined up for later in the year... etc.

Thanks to those with the kind words!

Best regards,
Paul

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by Hoffmeister

I've just listened to the Paul Kimball episode of rhte first time (i'm still catching up) and I have to say it was possibly my favourite one, alongside the James Fox one.
The guy has many of the same opinions as me, and contradicts himself a lot like me also simply because he doesnt know all the answers

I was wondering though, he says he has made 7 or 10 films (i forget how many it was) yet I can't find them anywhere. Even when I go to his website i cant seem to find any mention of them. Am I being blind?

While I've made lots of films, only five have been about the UFO subject in any way - Stanton T. Friedman is Real (2002), Do You Believe in Majic (2004), Aztec: 1948 (2004), Fields of Fear (2006) and Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings (2007). Majic and Aztec are available on DVD from UFO TV - the other three may be out on DVD by the end of the year... we have distributors, so it's up to them. There are clips from them all on YouTube.

Paul

[Gareth]

Originally Posted by paulkimball

While I've made lots of films, only five have been about the UFO subject in any way - Stanton T. Friedman is Real (2002), Do You Believe in Majic (2004), Aztec: 1948 (2004), Fields of Fear (2006) and Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings (2007). Majic and Aztec are available on DVD from UFO TV - the other three may be out on DVD by the end of the year... we have distributors, so it's up to them. There are clips from them all on YouTube.

Paul

So you sound kinda not bothered either way about possible DVD distribution. Is this because you make the films with the aim of selling to the television networks? Is this model more profitable than going the DVD route?

[Hoffmeister]

Originally Posted by paulkimball

While I've made lots of films, only five have been about the UFO subject in any way - Stanton T. Friedman is Real (2002), Do You Believe in Majic (2004), Aztec: 1948 (2004), Fields of Fear (2006) and Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Sightings (2007). Majic and Aztec are available on DVD from UFO TV - the other three may be out on DVD by the end of the year... we have distributors, so it's up to them. There are clips from them all on YouTube.

Paul

Awesome, i'll get myself a copy of them.

Also i'd like to mention i hold you personally responsible for me making a fool of myself in front of a large number of people.

I was listening to the podcast of the show you did as I was walking through a large shopping centre in the town where I work... when you were having that big long rant about disclosure and mentioned the "hearty band of Robin-hood like adventurers" trying to bring down 60 years of government secrecy by "waving freedom of information papers" and I literally burst out with laughter almost crumpling to the floor in the middle of the shopping centre. Safe to say I got some very strange looks from people
It think it was my favourite moment of any paracast show alongside James Fox's hypothesised Presidential UFO speech in his episode.

[tyder001]

I enjoyed the blog and really hate to see him go. I liked the honest agnostic approach. The so called skeptic (athiest)is at least as irrititating as the so called true believer. Mr. Kimball approached it as a true skeptic. I have had some experiences that lead me to believe the wall between so called reality and so called supernatural is really a matter of understanding or not understanding the nature of reality. But, I don't know anything for sure and I enjoy intelligent civil discussion. I'm certainly not in the atheist camp and don't want to be. But the true believers irritate me to. I hope Paul considers another blog and if he does I would enjoy reading it.

[Gene Steinberg]

Originally Posted by tyder001

I enjoyed the blog and really hate to see him go. I liked the honest agnostic approach. The so called skeptic (athiest)is at least as irrititating as the so called true believer. Mr. Kimball approached it as a true skeptic. I have had some experiences that lead me to believe the wall between so called reality and so called supernatural is really a matter of understanding or not understanding the nature of reality. But, I don't know anything for sure and I enjoy intelligent civil discussion. I'm certainly not in the atheist camp and don't want to be. But the true believers irritate me to. I hope Paul considers another blog and if he does I would enjoy reading it.

I don't pretend to read anyone's mind. But there's something about the UFO field that sort of sucks you back in, even if you leave in disgust from time to time.

It happened to me. I know. Here I am again, after all these years.

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by Gene Steinberg

I don't pretend to read anyone's mind. But there's something about the UFO field that sort of sucks you back in, even if you leave in disgust from time to time.

It happened to me. I know. Here I am again, after all these years.

Gene,

Well, I had a nice long chat with Jim Moseley the other night, and some of my best pals, like Mac Tonnies, Nick Redfern and Greg Bishop, continue to maintain a public presence, so one never knows. On the other hand, as I told Jim, there are so many other things that are just as, if not more interesting, that I doubt I'll be back anytime soon, at least on the Net. I still write for the UK mag Alien Worlds (a bi-monthly), but columns from now on will focus more on our drive to space, which is where the real excitement is, at least for me.

I still tune in to the Paracast however!

Paul

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by GSB

So you sound kinda not bothered either way about possible DVD distribution. Is this because you make the films with the aim of selling to the television networks? Is this model more profitable than going the DVD route?

All of my films are made for Canadian television (with the exception of Aztec 1948, which was made with private money from the US), otherwise they wouldn't get made. The method of distribution that earns one the most money is international television distribution, not DVD sales... but I haven't been very proactive in pursuing that avenue either. Usually, I just move on to the next film. Only now, after a decade, are we starting to pay more attention to distribution.

Paul

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by Hoffmeister

Awesome, i'll get myself a copy of them.

Also i'd like to mention i hold you personally responsible for me making a fool of myself in front of a large number of people.

I was listening to the podcast of the show you did as I was walking through a large shopping centre in the town where I work... when you were having that big long rant about disclosure and mentioned the "hearty band of Robin-hood like adventurers" trying to bring down 60 years of government secrecy by "waving freedom of information papers" and I literally burst out with laughter almost crumpling to the floor in the middle of the shopping centre. Safe to say I got some very strange looks from people

Guilty as charged!

Glad you enjoyed the show - I always aim to entertain and inform!

[paulkimball]

Originally Posted by tyder001

I enjoyed the blog and really hate to see him go. I liked the honest agnostic approach. The so called skeptic (athiest)is at least as irrititating as the so called true believer. Mr. Kimball approached it as a true skeptic. I have had some experiences that lead me to believe the wall between so called reality and so called supernatural is really a matter of understanding or not understanding the nature of reality. But, I don't know anything for sure and I enjoy intelligent civil discussion. I'm certainly not in the atheist camp and don't want to be. But the true believers irritate me to. I hope Paul considers another blog and if he does I would enjoy reading it.

Thanks. Maybe someday, far in the future, I will return to paranormal blogging, but it's not on the agenda for the forseeable future. However, I do agree that there is much that we may not know about our world, or reality, and it's well worth looking into in a serious way.

Paul