Joseph Burkes MD 2024
Synopsis: When contact experiencer was 51 years old, he had a rapidly growing tumor, almost certainly malignant. It was reportedly healed after a blue orb entered his abdomen. Jim Schaefer, a lifelong experiencer, resides in Winnipeg Canada. At age three his family observed a UFO through binoculars. At six Jim had recurrent nosebleeds that required cauterization He also experienced nightmares with strange “monsters.”
Later he awoke finding himself temporarily blind with a gritty sensation in both eyes. A doctor diagnosed photokeratitis, a corneal burn caused by exposure to very bright light. As a teenager he had frequent sightings of UFOs and white orbs. Later bizarre scars began to appear on his body and he reported episodes of missing time. At the request of a UFO investigator, an unknown object was surgical removed from his wrist. It was subsequently reportedly lost under mysterious circumstances.
In January of 2015 he sought medical for a swollen lymph nodes in his neck. This rapidly grew to the size of a golf ball according to the surgeon who examined him. Jim was informed that it was cancer. From the medical record it is apparent that the doctor deemed the neck mass was metastatic, with a primary cancer in the gastrointestinal tract.
Jim said the tumor rapidly grew while waiting for an excisional biopsy of the neck mass. He stated, “It started wrapping around the base of my neck and up and around my left ear, projecting out the side of my neck.” Two weeks before surgery to remove the mass he stated that he filmed a blue orb that “dove down into my stomach.” My co-author Preston Dennett viewed the video and it showed a blue orb rapidly descending into a person’s midsection. Here is a link:
Eighteen hours later he looked in the mirror and experienced shock. He stated “I look in the mirror, and my tumor–that was wrapped around the base of my neck, and protruding from my neck, and bone-hard–was completely gone. There was nothing there. The whole thing was dissolved and gone.”
From Preston Dennett’s interview of James Schaefer,
“He had no idea what the doctors would say, and not knowing them well, he was afraid to tell them. However, he did show up for the scheduled surgery. His doctors were shocked. Says Jim, “My doctors at CancerCare Manitoba said it was extraordinary…they couldn’t believe this had happened.”
Confused and curious, they went ahead with the surgery to remove the necrotic tissues. They later told Jim that no sign of any cancer was found. The biopsy pathology records revealed only necrotic tissue was found.”
Brief Discussion
The records of this case that I was able to review, were partial. Although a needle biopsy was reportedly done, and the Jim stated that he was told he had cancer, the only pathology described was from after the healing had occurred. To diagnosis cancer with certainty, a tissue diagnosis is required. In this case, however, cancer almost certainly was he diagnosis, because of the following:
1. the tumor was a rapidly growing rock-hard neck mass that encased Jim’s face
2. the surgeon’s planned to do endoscopic (using a fiberoptic scope) evaluation of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. This was because the clinical diagnosis was abdominal cancer metastatic to the neck.
It should be pointed out that what is called “high strangeness” is not a topic that the medical establishment is prepared to address in any form whatsoever. Thus, when the medical staff express their astonishment and confusion to patients about the amazing outcomes associated with these cases, in my judgment they would not dare to put such observations into a patient’s chart notes. Such expressions of surprise therefore can only be documented by the statements from contact experiencers themselves.
FULL REPORT
With the permission of our editor, Reinerio Hernandez and my co-author Preston Dennett, I will be posting case histories drawn from Chapter 6 of “Beyond UFOs.” Chapter 6 is titled “Medical Healings Reported by UAP Contact Experiencers: An Analysis of the FREE Data.”
The Free Experiencer Survey was a large multinational study of over 4000 self-described UAP Contact witnesses. To date, it is the only large comprehensive academically designed investigation of individuals claiming that they have had contact with UAP associated non-human intelligences. The findings of this investigation can be found in “Beyond UFOs” published by the Doctor Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Encounters (FREE)
“One of the most interesting findings that emerged from this work was the many medical healings and attempts to heal on the part of the visitors… In about one half of the cases I’ve been involved, there have been healings due to operations and/or treatments. Sometimes the cures are permanent. At other times the conditions recur.”
Edith Fiore from her book Encounters: A Psychologist Reveals Case Studies of Abductions by Extraterrestrials.
“… many abductees have experienced or witnessed healing conditions ranging from minor wounds to pneumonia, childhood leukemia, and even in one case reported to me first-hand, the overcoming of muscular atrophy in a leg related to poliomyelitis.”
Dr. John Mack, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard School of Medicine
Introduction
A medical UAP healing can be defined as a physiological improvement as the result of an encounter with non-human intelligence (NHI.) These types of cases have appeared regularly since the modern age of UAP and continue to be reported today. While most major researchers have uncovered cases of healings, due to their fantastic nature, such events have not received much attention.
Leading contact experience researcher Budd Hopkins says, “The question is whether we hear about healing cases. We do sometimes, very rarely, but they do turn up.”1 David Jacobs author of Secret Life and other books about contact with NHI writes, “In extremely rare cases, the aliens will undertake a cure of some ailment troubling the abductee.”2 While Hopkins and Jacobs both asserted that such account are “rare,” not all researchers agree. John Mack MD, whose book, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, was a watershed event for the UFO community writes “…many abductees have experienced or witnessed healing conditions…”3 Edith Fiore Ph.D. concurs with Mack and writes, “One of the most interesting findings that emerged from this work was the many healings and attempts to heal on the part of the visitors…In about one-half of the cases I’ve been involved there have been healings due to operations and/or treatments.”4
In 1996, researcher Preston Dennett released his book, UFO Healings, which presented more than 100 cases, showing beyond any reasonable doubt the veracity of healings cases. While researchers now agree that these cases exist, little is known about how common they are. The data from the FREE Experiencer Research Study surveys, however, reveal some surprising answers and settles the controversy once and for all. Fully 50% of the respondents of the FREE surveys report UAP related medical healings.
The purpose of this article is to use the data from the FREE survey to shine a spotlight on CE (contact experience) healing cases, to show how these healings take place, and to answer the many questions these cases raise. Who is being healed and why? What conditions are being healed? Is there any proof?
The authors of this chapter reviewed hundreds of the reported healing cases from the FREE surveys and chose ten promising cases to study in more depth. These cases are presented below and represent only the tip of the iceberg of the actual number of healings uncovered by the FREE survey.
“FREE SURVEY PHASE 2 Question 137: Do you believe that any of these ETs have performed a medical healing on either you or another member of your family.
Answer: Out of 1534 respondents, 767 (50%) said yes.
FREE SURVEY PHASE 2 Question 242: Have you ever had a sudden or rapid healing that you believe was a result of ET intervention?
Answer: Out of 1379 respondents, 487 (35%) said yes.
The FREE survey shows conclusively that medical healings in conjunction with a UAP experience are not only a consistent feature but are common.”
Case Study # 9: Jim Schaefer. Blue-white orb cures malignant tumor in lymph nodes. (Interview by Preston Dennett)
Jim Schaefer was born in 1964 in Winnipeg, Canada, near Falcon Lake, the location of the well-known encounter of Stephan Michalek. Throughout his life, Jim has been plagued by unusual incidents. In 1967, when he was three years-old, his parents watched a UAP close-up, while using binoculars. As a six-year-old, he had a series of nosebleeds that were so severe, he had to have cauterization treatment on his nose. During this time, he suffered from nightmares about strange monsters. Around that same age, an incident occurred where he was outside his home and observed a strange shadowy figure that seemed to change and shift in appearance.
As he grew, the unexplained experiences began to pile up. He began having strange, vivid flying dreams. One morning he woke up, blind in both eyes. “It was like I had sand in my eyes,” said Jim. “I went to see the doctor, and he said it was as if I had seen something really bright, like an arc welder flash. I got burned in my eyes.”
Also during his teen years, Jim began to see UAP. When he woke up a second time with his eyes burned, he knew that something strange was happening to him. When he began to see more white, orb-like objects, he decided to carry a camera around with him wherever he went. Strange incidents occurred regularly, but it wasn’t until 2012, at age 48, that events escalated to an alarming level. In July 2012, Jim was sitting in his home when he felt a painful pinch in his right leg. He reached down and saw that his leg was bleeding from what appeared to be a puncture wound. On January 29, 2013, he woke up to find a two-inch-long, Y-shaped incision on the top of his head. He immediately went to his doctor. “I saw him about three hours later, when he could fit me in…And he was just white like a sheet…He knows my history…and he’s well aware of what’s going on.”
Jim had no conscious memory of being taken onboard. But he continued to wake up to find strange cuts and bruises on his body. On June 21, 2013, it happened again. “I found a six-inch cauterized scar on the inside of my upper right leg that leads straight to my groin, where they have removed a scoop of flesh underneath about the size of a marble.”
Visitations occurred every couple of months. One time he woke in the middle of the night sitting in bed to find his shirt on inside out and backwards. His entire body shook uncontrollably for fifteen minutes. Later, he found his cell-phone–which had been on top of his covers, set on voice or touch activation–had an unexplained 62 seconds of recording. He listened to it in shock. “During that minute, you can hear them chattering to each other in this clicking noise….in the last two seconds, you see a blue light that rises up the ceiling and the video shuts off.”
Shortly after this incident, he felt an unknown object in his wrist. By this time, he had contacted a well-known UAP researcher who was handling and overseeing his case. Together, they organized the removal of the object and prepared to have it sent off for analysis. Unfortunately, it disappeared under mysterious circumstances while being sent for scientific analysis.
Throughout 2014 Jim would often wake up to find unexplained bruises on his body. Sometimes the bruising appeared to show finger marks. On one occasion Jim woke up to severe foot pain and discovered that his ankle had been fractured. During 2014 he repeatedly found strange photographs on his camera that he did not remember taking. Some of these photos appeared to show strange entities.
In January 2015, Jim began to suffer from a sore throat. “I thought it was a cold,” he says. “My glands started swelling up a bit, and my white blood-cell count was just skyrocketing.” When his condition failed to improve, his doctor performed more tests. Says Jim, “I found out that I had a tumor in my lymph nodes in my neck. They sent me to CancerCare in Manitoba. They did a biopsy on it.”
The news was bad. The tumor was malignant, and pressure from the growth was crushing Jim’s lymph nodes, causing necrosis, pain, and a growing number of symptoms. On February 15, after receiving the news from the specialists, Jim’s surgery was scheduled for March 13, 2015.
Says Jim, “During the last two weeks of February, the tumor had started growing at an alarming rate. It started wrapping around the base of my neck and up and around my left ear, projecting out the side of my neck.”
On the evening of February 28, 2015, Jim lay down to go to bed. As he often did, he picked up his camera to see if he might be able to capture any images of orbs. “I just pushed record on my camera,” says Jim, “and as soon as I did, I saw this bright orb drop down…as it hit the floor, it turned blue and started coming up towards me. It turned down on itself and then it dove down into my stomach. And I was really shocked. I couldn’t believe that I saw that happen. And it didn’t start until I hit record, which was really strange, like I didn’t have to edit it or anything. It was as if they wanted me to witness it or record it.”
Shocked and amazed, Jim assumed the experience was over. Because he often used to work the nightshift at the Safeway Store, he was something of a night owl. He stayed up for some time after the incident, and then went to bed. About eighteen hours after he filmed the blue orb entering his stomach, Jim woke up, entered the bathroom and received a fantastic shock. “I immediately notice something is different,” he says. “I look in the mirror, and my tumor–that was wrapped around the base of my neck, and protruding from my neck, and bone-hard–was completely gone. There was nothing there. The whole thing was dissolved and gone. It was absolutely shocking.”
Jim was scheduled for surgery in less than two weeks. He had no idea what the doctors would say, and not knowing them well, he was afraid to tell them. However, he did show up for the scheduled surgery. His doctors were shocked. Says Jim, “My doctors at CancerCare Manitoba said it was extraordinary…they couldn’t believe this had happened.”
Confused and curious, they went ahead with the surgery to remove the necrotic tissues. They later told Jim that no sign of any cancer was found.
Jim, was of course, very happy. “It worked out really good,” he said. He is confident that the ETs somehow healed him with the orb. “They definitely did,” he says. “There’s no doubt about it for me.”
Meanwhile, his experiences continued, including sightings of orbs with strange alien faces in them and more. Unfortunately, he was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. He is hoping that the ETs will again intervene.
Jim isn’t sure why he has contact with ETs or why they healed him. But he does have some theories. His mom had strange anxieties which made him wonder if she had encounters too, and that such things ran in his family. His blood type is RH negative, which he heard might be a factor. And he does have a few medical abnormalities which he wonders if the aliens might find of interest. Instead of two kidneys, he has what’s known as a horseshoe kidney, which is found in about one in 600 people, usually men. While undergoing MRI tests for a thyroid issue, his endocrinologist was baffled by the shape and size of his pituitary gland. “It’s flattened and pushed to very bottom of this U-shaped thing in my brain, and he said he’d never seen that before.”
Jim is very eager to find out what’s happening to him. He once tried regressive hypnosis to recover memories from various missing time incidents but was unsuccessful. However, the documentation of his encounter is impressive. Jim provided video of the blue orb, and medical documentation of his condition. He feels not only physically improved by his encounters, but spiritually transformed. As he says, “[I am] more caring and very empathetic towards animals and the Earth in general…about the state of this world, the corruption in government and every other area, as well as the pollution, raping and pillaging of the planet’s resources for personal gain. I do not fear death in any way.”
Commentary
Joseph Burkes MD: I received a two-page report dated 2-23-15 from CancerCare Manitoba written by a surgical resident “Dr. T” and cosigned by attending physician “Dr. A” in the Department of Surgical Oncology. The record indicated that there was a month-long history of a left sided neck mass that was increasing in size. The CT scan of the neck showed “a few small nodes.” There is no indication when the CT scan was done. A short time later despite this unimpressive X-ray report, on physical examination Mr. Schaefer had a 3-4 cm (2 inch) mass in his left neck that was only “slightly tender.” This supports the patient’s history that the mass was rapidly growing. From just “a few small nodes” it had enlarged to a golf ball size mass. In Dr. T’s note there is no mention of how hard the mass was, but the patient described it to Preston Dennett as being “bone-hard.” (It is significant to note that swollen lymph nodes that are caused by infections are usually softer and more tender than those caused by malignancy. This goes along with the strong clinical suspicion that Mr. Schaefer had cancer rather than merely some inflamed lymph nodes from an infection.)
After reviewing the CT scan with another physician, it was the surgical resident’s impression that the X-rays showed the presence of a cancer that had originated in another part of the body and had metastasized to lymph nodes in the patient’s neck. According to her note the plan for Jim Schaefer was to do a fine needle aspiration of the tumor. She also scheduled endoscopy of both the upper and lower gastrointestinal tracts to look for a primary carcinoma that had spread to the neck. According to the witness five days later a blue orb entered his abdomen and eighteen hours after that the left neck mass disappeared. When surgery was done the following month only necrotic (dead) tissue was found with no cancer cells present. Although there was no tissue diagnosis of cancer, it is highly probable in my judgement that an underlying gastrointestinal malignancy had been present. Curiously the orb entered the abdomen, the presumed site of a primary malignancy according to the medical plan outlined in the surgeon’s note.
Preston Dennett: Schaefer’s case is perhaps the only UAP healing to be captured on film. The evidence in his case is persuasive. He is able to provide medical documentation of his condition, not to mention photographs, audio-recordings and an actual moving film showing the orb which healed him entering his body. Schaefer provided photographs of cuts and marks on his body that resulted following missing time incidents. Like the other people in this study, he reports a lifelong history of strange encounters.
What’s unusual about Schaefer’s case (in addition to the quality of evidence) is that he has very little conscious contact, with a large number of missing time incidents and very few memories of what is being done to him. Schaefer’s experiences with ETs have been sometimes unpleasant, resulting serious injuries following missing-time episodes. The healing he received was the unique outlier. Most of his reported physiological effects have not been beneficial. The cuts, bruises and other injuries are apparently the results of procedures and operations aboard UAPs whose purposes we can only guess at. Schaefer, unfortunately, has yet to receive communication from them regarding their interest in him. If these symptoms he suffers are for some benefit, I’m sure he’d like to know.
For additional UAP healing cases from “Beyond UFOs, the following links are provided:
Introduction to Healing Cases Chapter 6 of “Beyond UFOs” & Case 1 Hemorrhagic Shock in an ER Physician Following Dental Surgery
Case Study 2, Alina del Castillo, Orb Reportedly Heals Probable Acute Bacterial Cellulitis
Two Dramatic UAP Healing Cases in a Retired DEA Special Agent
Case 7, Reverend Michael Carter Reports that a Nordic Type Being Cured a Blood Clot in his leg.
Case 10, a 15-year-old Jack Russell with Heart Failure, Arthritis, and a Massive Stroke
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