CONTACT NETWORK HISTORY PROJECT.
Joseph Burkes MD 2020
One sunny afternoon in August of 2009, I was driving south through the spectacular Sonoma County wine country on Highway 101. The four-lane roadway was practically empty. There was not a cloud in the sky. I was moving in the kind of hypnotic state that long car trips can bring on.
IONS WAS MY DESTINATION
Not surprising given what was about to ensue, I was driving to what I imagined was an important UFO meeting. It was to be held at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) located near Petaluma California. IONS was co-founded in 1973 by the world-famous astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell. I had the opportunity to meet this moon walking pioneer thanks to my participation in a 1997 CSETI event in Washington DC. Back then, Dr. Mitchell was still working with the CSETI Director to facilitate disclosure of the reality and importance of what are now called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. Following the Washington meeting, in which a number of government and corporate witnesses gave testimony in private to a few Congress members, Dr Mitchell, Dr. Greer and his “advisor” Navy Commander Will Miller went to the Pentagon. There, the group met with Admiral Wilson and discussed corporate based programs back engineering ET technology. The information which that meeting produced has now become one of the most explosive topics in ufology. It is known as the leak of the Dr. Eric Davis-Admiral Wilson meeting notes.
Dr. Mitchell chose the name of his institute because noetics is the branch of philosophy that explores human consciousness. Thus, my destination seemed to be part of a “message” that I was about to receive from an unseen non-human intelligence during my drive through the wine country of Northern California.
DRIVING CAN BRING ON AN ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The temperature outside my car was over ninety. With the windows rolled up and the AC on, I was in a kind of bubble zooming down the highway. The radio was turned off. The monotonous drone of the engine and the bright sunlight reflecting off the glistening grape vines brought me to a timeless moment, one without thought. It is an altered state of consciousness that I understand can serve as a kind of “meditation equivalent” and facilitates contact with UFO intelligences. It therefore follows that many sightings and missing time experiences occur while driving.
TWO RECTANGULAR SHAPED CLOUDS WITH SHARP EDGES
As the car rolled around a hillside, I saw two small rectangular shaped clouds in the sky. They were directly in front of me. Besides their unusual shape, they were peculiar in that they were the only clouds visible as far as the eye could see. This strange visual display was located at about thirty degrees up from a horizon that was formed by rolling hills covered with lush purple fruit.
The two rectangular clouds were lying lengthwise floating motionlessly. They were so close to one another that the sharp right-angle corner of one cloud was touching the other. This weird configuration of two cloud rectangles covered only a tiny section of the sky. Their size was about a palm’s width when the arm is fully extended. The clouds appeared like a pair of children’s toy blocks painted white. The road, now straight as an arrow, was heading directly under the weird configuration.
AN OPPORTUNITY TO INTERACT WITH AN UNSEEN INTELLIGENCE
I am aware of the unusual ways in which UFO intelligences can mentally interact with the consciousness of recurrent contact experiencers. Not taking myself very seriously, I “sent out to the universe” the following thought message,
“OK, whoever you are, you’ve got my attention now. Yeah, I can see the funny looking clouds right in front of me.”
And then I added, “But if you really want to get my attention show me a flying disc.”
My car picked up speed as I went downhill. I gazed at the beautiful scenery moving by. For a few moments I lost sight of the white rectangular clouds that were the only ones visible in the broad expense of blue sky.
When I looked up again, to my chagrin those strange clouds had merged to create an image of a flying disc. It was pointing upwards to the right as if it were taking off. The left side of the “disc” looked as if a small piece of white cloud had been broken off and had formed tiny tufts of white in a straight line that trailed out from the back of the “saucer.” It was as if a child had drawn a saucer in take-off mode with puffs of small white clouds representing an exhaust trail.
MERE COINCIDENCE VERSUS COMMUNICATION
Could it be merely a coincidence that the clouds formed a disc shape just after my unusual mental request? Perhaps, and my interpretation that this represented genuine communication was just another case of contactee “wishful thinking.” There is of course no way I can prove this is an example of the consciousness connection that in my judgment is central to the UFO contact experience.
My assessment was then and still is now that this strange cloud formation truly represented a kind of mental communication with UFO intelligence. This notion filled me with both excitement and disappointment. Excitement, in that I hungered for another close encounter and that the anomalous clouds seemed to confirm a mental link with what I suspected might be the intelligence responsible flying saucers.
NOT MUCH TO SHOW FOR MY EFFORTS
I was disappointed, however, because after nearly twenty years of contact work, in what I imagined was a grand campaign promoting “interspecies’ communication”, I was left with such equivocal results. Was this experience evidence of a consciousness link or simply a silly mind game?
After all my efforts, writing scores of articles, conducting dozens of field investigations, and giving many public lectures about the network of contact activists that I call the “Contact Underground,” all that I had earned was the “privilege” of viewing a fleeting image in the sky that looked like a child’s drawing of a flying saucer.
THE BIG PICTURE
UFO intelligence in my judgment has extraordinary physical and psi capabilities that allow it to communicate with humans in a multitude of unconventional ways. They offer experiencers opportunities to test the mental connection by staging interactions that are often highly ambiguous and are sometimes quite playful. In my opinion, flying saucer intelligences repeatedly challenge us to distinguish wishful thinking from genuine interactions.
This high strangeness event reinforced the notion that perhaps UFO intelligence isn’t here just “to visit” our planet. But instead manifests its presence by primarily engaging us mentally. Perhaps in the process, they are transforming human consciousness itself.
DRAMATIC CHANGES MAY AWAIT US
Sightings of “clouds” that appear to show hearts or ET faces have been reported to me sporadically over the years. For the time being, cloud formations that seem to communicate a message are restricted to a select group of UFO aficionados that have repeated sightings. I sometimes wonder what the reaction of the Earth’s peoples might be if this phenomenon became increasingly common. What a creative and relatively non-threatening way of alerting us to their presence!
However, what might be the reaction of the establishment to such a radical occurrence of meaningful cloud formations appearing in the skies all over the planet? What would the so-called “control groups,” (those that imagine it’s their job to keep a lid on the situation), do in response? Perhaps they might hire ultra-light pilots or deploy drones to hoax copycat “cloud formations.”
Something similar was rumored to have occurred in the crop circle region of England back in the 1990s. It was when crop circle hoaxers (some of whom were rumored to be linked to counterintelligence organizations) held contests to decide who could make the best crop circle. Operating clandestinely at night, some of the hoaxers reportedly hoped to fool and then later ridicule prominent researchers like Colin Andrews and other experts that recognized the truly anomalous nature of the “ciphers in the fields.”
A DELICATE BALANCING ACT BETWEEN DENYING AND ACKNOWLEDGING THAT UFO INTELLIGENCES ARE REAL
As part of a complex control mechanism, perhaps “UFO Central Intelligence” is waiting for human capabilities to arise that would allow the control groups to fake cloud formations. This could then allow those who serve elite interests to employ another fig leaf to hide truly anomalous events. Thus, establishment forces will be able to continue the cover up and prevent a potentially destabilizing realization that “we are not alone in the universe.” In this way, the so-called “ETs” might consider it safe to employ clouds to communicate an “alien” presence in a gradual fashion. By creating more cloud formations slowly, they might be able to prevent a precipitous disclosure that could conceivably severely disrupt the mass consciousness and lead to panic.
My guess is that hoaxing cloud formations today might be technologically challenging and be an expensive way of preventing “the natives from becoming restless” if an “ET” intelligence chose to interact with us in this way. Perhaps soon drones will be easily fitted with the necessary equipment to produce cloud formations. This just might be the technological development that UFO intelligences are waiting for to allow them to safely increase the number of meaningful cloud formations.
Thus, our “masters” wouldn’t be excessively alarmed, and the contact drama could continue to unfold in its usual fashion of high strangeness mixed with heavy doses of vexing ambiguity. That ambiguity allows terrestrial elites to deny the importance of UFOs, while at the same time the Earth’s peoples are gradually becoming accustomed to what is a possibly an extraterrestrial or interdimensional presence.
Till then, I suppose we will simply have to keep watching the skies and take note of any highly anomalous cloud displays that might appear in the future.
About the author:I am a board-certified internal medicine physician. I retired from the Southern California Permanente Medical Group after thirty years of service in 2008.
I volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative from 1992 till 1998. I have continued to study the flying saucer phenomenon working with the Peruvian based contact network now called Rahma and more recently as a medical consultant for the Foundation for Research into ET Experiences, (FREE). With researcher Preston, I am co-author of a chapter on UAP associated medical healings in the FREE compendium “Beyond UFOs.” I also co-author of the book “Paths to Contact” edited by Jeff Becker.
I wrote a chapter on the central role of consciousness in UAP contact for the book “A Greater Reality.” With Rey Hernandez as editor, this compendium was published in the fall of 2022. My chapter titled “Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection and the Virtual Experience Model” can be downloaded free at:
https://agreaterreality.com/downloads/articles/Burkes%20-%20Report%20from%20the%20Contact%20Underground.pdf
Comments:
A.H. I had a very strange CE5 moment years ago where the clouds in the sky(broad daylight) moved rapidly and coalesced into an exact replica of the “Chilbolton face”. It then started “winking” ie a light flashing on and off in one eye socket. It was a jaw drop moment for me!
Brent Raynes: Dan Drasin, a documentary producer and friend of the late UFO author John Keel, accompanied Keel on some of his West Virginia investigations back in 1967. I did an interview with him for my book John A. Keel: The Man, The Myths, and the Ongoing Mysteries, and there was one part that seems to resonate with your article here. It’s this:
“I think John wrote in The Mothman Prophecies about the incident where he and I and Mary Hyre were up on a hill south of town one afternoon. The sky was cloudless, except for one very oddly perfect, puffy little cloud that looked as if it had escaped from a children’s storybook. In the distance, we all saw something that looked like an ill-defined UFO, which proceeded to head straight for the cloud and entered it. Then, out the other side came a small, twin-engine plane, headed in the same direction. We could even hear its engine. That was quite a head scratcher.” ….BTW, Keel did write this up himself in chapter 10 of Prophecies. Keel was also interested in “mystery airplanes” that he felt were part of the UFO phenomena too.
R.D.: (Initials only from the UK)During an HICE session where i was teaching, a cloud formation in the shape of an ET from the “waist” up ( they don’t actually have waists), floated overhead, complete with noticeable eyes and a sharply defined face, with one long arm down and the other waving. I am in no doubt that ETs sometimes do utilise clouds as a communication.
K.G. (Initials only) Me and my husband see a white circle appear in in the black night sky whilst looking at stars, it shot across the sky leaving a huge white trail and changed shape to resemble an angel. Never seen nor heard anything like that before, was a sight to be seen to say the least
Norman Michael Murburg Jr We have witnessed clouds that became cloud that undeniably became a cloud looking like a classic tall gray prior to visual contact with a craft. We also had a thick cloud that descended 15’ over us and lit up for 12-13 minutes during an Ayahuaska ceremony in which the shaman had agreed to let me and 3 other HICE-5 members to meditate and “bring ET in”. All pretty amazing things. Once you step out of the box you realize that there is no box. The only box you get is the one that you let your mind create.
Zen Benefiel These kinds of instances happen more than we might think. We were sitting on the side of a hill overlooking Enchantment Resort (just outside Sedona), in the midst of a escorting a client on a journey of awareness, we had stopped to sit a moment and enjoy the beauty of the area. I had been able to share some interesting engagements with energy that had him sensitized to a deeper experience. We shifted our conversation to ET and asked for a sign that they were paying attention.
Within moments we looked up and witnessed a medium-sized cloud formation that looked exactly like the head of a grey with slightly pursed and extended lips and a small heart-shaped cloud immediately in front of them, like it had blown a heart-kiss. It was one of those Kodak moments that would make for a great example, though we’d left all devices behind to have a more pure walkabout.
For additional articles from the Contact Network History Project the following links are provided:
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/ufo-investigation-in-the-volcanic-zone/
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/02/14/missing-time-on-highway-62/
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/07/29/high-strangeness-in-the-arizona-desert/
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/07/a-welcomed-show-of-support-or-just-coincidence/
For additional reports about the CE-5/HICE teams the following links are provided:
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/02/14/missing-time-on-highway-62/
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