Name: Tim Binnall
Occupation: Researcher, Media
Relevance (Aurora): Paramania
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Contribution:

Airships and Aurora:

“I find the airships to be pretty fascinating, almost more fascinating than what came to follow, if you will. The flying saucers were the most normal of UFOs, you can imagine the airships were a very strange phenomenon. When people see UFOs, they think they’re from out of this world, but with the airships, I don’t think anyone thought they were from off-planet. It was like, “where are these mystery airships coming from?”. It was a very unique phenomenon that was unique to its time. A lot of people seem to think the UFO phenomenon is a few steps ahead of where we are technology-wise, so maybe that’s how it manifested itself. I think the very human nature of the airships makes them very compelling, perhaps more compelling than flying saucers or orbs. They were pretty sure they saw airships. It was like a very weirdly-human UFO phenomenon at the time.”

“It’s interesting, Aurora is the anomaly in the group of the airships in a sense, right? Aurora is one that purportedly the pilot was – going by the classic definition – an alien. It wasn’t like, “Oh, this is a person”. There didn’t seem to be much confusion whether or not the pilot was a person or a strange interstellar traveler, which I seem to think it was the latter.”

“You have to always be cognizant of the fact that the story could have just been made up by the newspapers at the time to sell newspapers. It’s very hard to delineate fact from fiction in this time period. If the story is as it was told, it does make you wonder if perhaps these airships, and then, by extension, perhaps the UFO phenomenon itself, maybe is an indication that they’re actually originating from Earth. Maybe just because they didn’t think the person was from Earth doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t from some ultraterrestrial type race of people that had airships, because I don’t think these airships were well equipped to be flying out into space. They were kind of constrained to our planet. So, an interstellar pilot on a earthly based craft, you kind of have to make the conclusion then, that there’s some kind of other race of people living here on earth that are operating under our noses. Who knows? Maybe they’re keeping a pace with us technology-wise. If you look at what it takes to fly off into space to be able to withstand the journey through the atmosphere, you’ve seen the shuttle and the rockets, they are super reinforced and everything, but these airships were kind of like blimps. You can’t really fly a blimp up into space, it would probably burst into flames or something. It’s a pretty intense journey. It does make you think, if it was a nonhuman on this ship, then it had to be a nonhuman that lived here on Earth, I would assume. From what I understand the airships were described like blimps, so I have a hard time imagining them flying through the vast reaches of space.”

Paramania

“Paramania (April 2016) – That weekend, and especially that day, was certainly one of the highlights of my career in the paranormal. That was a really serendipitous turn of events, we never planned to hang out with Jim Marrs at Aurora, I think we just kind of kicked around the idea of going out to Aurora, and then we met Daniel on Saturday when we did the Paramania presentations, and Daniel mentioned having Jim come out. Jim was a personal hero of mine, if not for Jim I never would have gotten involved with the paranormal. My origin story is I got out of college in 2001 and later stumbled across Rule by Secrecy, picked that up and read it cover to cover. Then, I read Alien Agenda, and in a sense it kind of dates me in a way because, back then, Jim only had Rule by Secrecy, Alien Agenda, and Crossfire. This was back when Alien Agenda was his most recent book. So, I read all three books and Jim was my gateway to all of this stuff. I always held him in the highest regard. It’s kind of a bummer, these young kids who are just getting into this now, especially because of the “UAP” stuff and the New York Times stuff. They didn’t know Jim like we did, certainly not like Daniel did, Daniel knew him really well. I knew his work really well and a world of respect for the guy. These kids need to find out about Jim Marrs, he was the man, really down to Earth, really nice, super fun, funny as hell, and really insightful. I interviewed him a month before he passed away, that was our last interview with him*. Boy, the world has changed so much since then (August 2017), and right in the wheelhouse of where his ship was, his research was. We live in a conspiratorial world now, we’re really missing Jim Marrs, because he always had an even hand on the steering wheel in that regard. I was just a young kid when I got mixed up in this, so I gravitated towards these legends. Stanton Friedman, Jim Marrs, Loren Coleman, they’re kind of like my three wise men, and Brad Steiger too. Their impact was enormous. It’s a whole different world now, the paranormal is a whole different scene without these guys, it’s been a whole generational change.

To circle back, meeting Jim in Aurora was a personal highlight of my career in this field, and I’ve been in this for almost twenty years. He essentially did his presentation on Aurora* at the grave site, it was such a priceless experience.”

Tim Binnall