Coast to Coast - May 28 2017 - Pierre Hotel Robbery - Rethinking UFOs.nfo
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Coast to Coast - May 28 2017 - Pierre Hotel Robbery - Rethinking UFOs
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More Info............: http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2017/05/28
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Program Notes
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DATE: Sunday - May 28, 2017
HOST: George Knapp
GUESTS: Daniel Simone, Robbie Graham, Greg Bishop
Bobby Comfort and Sammy "the Arab" Nalo were highly skilled jewel thieves who
specialized in robbing luxury Manhattan hotels. One of their plots targeted the
posh Pierre Hotel ? host to kings and queens, presidents and aldermen, and the
wealthiest of the wealthy. Mob researcher Daniel Simone joined George Knapp in
the first half to share a suspenseful narrative of Mafia intrigue, police
corruption, and personal betrayal detailing the most famous hotel robbery in
American history. The hotel, located across from Central Park, was targeted the
night after New Years 1972, because it was thought that the swanky guests had
brought a lot of their jewelry for the previous night's festivities-- indeed the
haul was worth some $28 million, Simone recounted.
Comfort was a man of many disguises, he continued, and had registered for one of
the hotel rooms using a stolen credit card, which enabled his crew to enter
through a side entrance around 4am, for their meticulously planned robbery.
Their team, was civil to the hotel staff and guests they took hostage and
handcuffed-- they even called for an ambulance for a person who suffered a heart
attack. Then one of the robbery crew, posed as a concierge to greet the
emergency personnel at the door. The team focused on drilling into the hotel's
safety deposit boxes which contained prized jewels and valuables-- including a
diamond necklace worth $750,000, and then carted off the loot in Louis Vuitton
bags, Simone detailed. Though they successfully escaped, they squabbled over
dividing up the score-- many of the jewels were eventually fenced through the
Mafia.
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What can we claim to know conclusively today about the underlying nature of UFO
Robbie Graham and Greg Bishop looked at how the study of UFOs has suffered from
major organizational and methodological problems and is in need of a fresh
approach. Graham, who edited the new collection of 14 essays, UFOs: Reframing
the Debate, said the extraterrestrial hypothesis, while containing some natural
logic, is "incredibly simplistic when applied to the grassroots UFO reports that
have been gathering over 70 years...We may be dealing with something far more
bizarre than extraterrestrial visitation."
Bishop, one of the book's contributors, stressed the primacy of the witness, and
how their perceptions shape or filter their experience. While he suspects there
is an external source to UFO encounters, he wondered how much is left after we
strip away the witnesses' assumptions and subjectivity. "Are we dealing with
something that holds up a mirror to us when we get too close-- how much are we
looking at ourselves when something very strange happens to us?," he pondered. A
lot of current ufology presents more of a mythos than a scientific methodology,
Graham noted, and in the new book of essays, he deliberately contrasted these
perspectives, in order to encourage the reader to question the very notion of
belief.
WEBSITE(S):
danielsimone.net
robbiegraham.uk
radiomisterioso.com
BOOK(S):
The Pierre Hotel Affair
UFOs: Reframing the Debate
Silver Screen Saucers
It Defies Language!
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