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ParaNet Information Service

Besides building and establishing a network, ParaNet also investigated cases and then reported their findings to the network. Below is a list of accomplishments that ParaNet has realized over its 13-year existence:

ParaNet UFO File Archives

ParaNet's roots are with a bulletin board system (BBS) called "The Other Side" created by former Director of ParaNet Jim Speiser, Director of ParaNet from 1986-88. In 1988, Jim turned over the directorship of ParaNet to Michael Corbin, who further developed the ParaNet-MICAP Bulletin Board Service (BBS). The ParaNet-MICAP BBS ran from 1989-1995.Ahead of its time, the BBS was unique in terms of its ability to link researchers (and skeptics) in the field to those investigators whose research spanned the paranormal, anomalous and unexplained. There is much historically valuable information buried within the files listed below that may possibly lend insight into the same questions that plague researchers today: UFOs, cattle mutilations, crop circles, conspiracy theory, and other phenomena. This historical information also serves to situate researchers and their research problems during a very interesting time in UFO history-the operation of the ParaNet-MICAP BBS.