CONTACT NETWORK HISTORY PROJECT Copyright 2022 Joseph Burkes, MD  Synopsis: This report is about a Human Initiated Contact Event that occurred in the high desert January 24-25, 1996.  For a week prior to fieldwork, my wife and repeatedly received strange telephone calls. When the phone was picked up, there was silence on the line. At the … Continue reading And then the sky exploded: Incident at Joshua Tree, January 1996