Joseph Burkes MD 2024
Carl Sagan in “Cosmos” 1980 Chapter 12- “Encyclopaedia Galactica”
“It is pointless to worry about the possible malevolent intentions of an advanced civilization with whom we might make contact. It is more likely that the mere fact they have survived so long means they have learned to live with themselves and others. Perhaps our fears about extraterrestrial contact are merely a projection of our own backwardness, an expression of our guilty conscience about our past history: the ravages that have been visited on civilizations only slightly more backward than we.”
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer and science educator who played a somewhat contradictory role when it came to the possibilities of encountering extraterrestrial life. His dramatic documentaries served to increase enthusiasm about space exploration that someday might lead to contact with “an advanced civilization”. On the other hand, he regularly ridiculed the idea that UFOs were evidence of likely “alien” visitations. Nevertheless, he did think that future contact was a distinct possibility. Carl Sagan posited the following: if we were to encounter ETs, their civilization would likely be far older that ours, indicating that they would “have learned to live with themselves and others.” Thus, contact with peaceful aliens would be more probable than encountering “malevolent” ones. It is somewhat ironic that contactee networks seeking peaceful cooperative interactions with UFO intelligences share this same upbeat expectation of benevolence proposed by a Dr. Sagan, a vigorous debunker of flying saucers.
Dr. Carl Sagan was active during the 1980s in the anti-nuclear weapons movement that I too participated in. I was a leader in US affiliate group of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Carl Sagan was an ally of our “Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) organization. I was present during a peaceful demonstration at the Nevada test site when Carl Sagan along with our PSR leadership were arrested in an act of civil disobedience protesting the nuclear arms race. Despite Dr. Sagan’s debunking activities, I will always remember him as a great humanitarian and fellow peace activist.
The Sagan quote above from “Cosmos” well describes the positive approach that our human initiated contact teams embraced during the 1990s when I was a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative. We also reasoned back then that if UFOs truly were an ancient phenomenon, then they had passed a “test of time” and were non-harmful. Indeed, during one “telepathic download” that I experienced while I was a contact team leader, I was informed in considerable detail about the history of the alleged “ETs” helping mission on Earth. (I describe this “contact download “experience in a report linked below)
Our efforts to proactively engage UFO intelligences using prescribed contact protocols met considerable resistance from other UFO investigators. Although our teams were successful in attracting UFOs to our research sites, we were dismissed as “wild eyed contactees” This seemed particularly unfair since my LA team had on it three highly trained physicians working for a large HMO, a Ph.D. clinical psychologist, a Harvard graduate with two master’s degrees and a 747 United Airlines pilot.
In my judgment, the term “contactee” in many ways is outdated and inappropriate when it comes to those co-creating with non-human intelligences what I call Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) aka CE-5s. “Contactee” is somewhat pejorative because so much attention in the past has been focused on networks of experiencers called “contactee cults.”
For over 50 years, contactees have been forcefully criticized by the self-declared “scientific” ufologists who have strived to appear more respectable. MUFON, with thousands of members, has been called the “nuts and bolts” wing of ufology. This is because they have focused on what is perceived as the “hardware” that they describe in sighting reports. I question, however, the amount of “respectability” they have achieved when for decades flying saucer studies have been deliberately marginalized by the mass media and the scientific establishment. Thankfully, this unfortunate situation has started to change since 2017 when the New York Times and other news outlets published articles contain videos taken by Navy pilots.
Although contactee new religions have been a consistent part of the flying saucer landscape, clearly not all contactees and their supporters are part of cults. Prominent contactees until the 1970s promoted their positive personal contact experiences as the focus of their educational programs. With the advent of the Peruvian contact group Rama in 1974 and the CE-5 Initiative in the 1990s, contactees have engaged UAP intelligences during fieldwork with multiple witnesses present. In effect, those that believe they are in contact with UFO intelligences have gone from being “contactees” to become volunteer “contact workers.”
It is important to note that words with “ee” endings suggest a passive role in English, as in “employee” or “payee.” The “er” or “or” endings suggest a more active role as in “worker”, “soldier”, “mentor.” For those that have ever joined a contact team, or have carried out contact protocols on their own, reaching out to the intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon can involve much mental, physical, and most importantly spiritual work. Thus, in my judgment, the designation “contact worker” is superior to the label “contactee.”
My choice of the term “worker” for contact activists is deliberately political. Work is the collective human activity that allows our civilization to exist. In our consumerist culture for many people however, this essential activity has been turned into a means to be able to “buy more stuff.” The daily activities of millions of working people are not celebrated in a mass media that focuses, in my judgment, too often on “the lifestyles of the rich and famous.”
Those that experience close contact with the phenomenon have often been divided into one of two camps. “Abductees” generally report negative experiences, while “contactees” report favorable ones. The term “experiencer” is a more neutral term that has been introduced and includes both groups. “Experiencer”, despite its “er” ending, nonetheless, has a passive connotation. An experiencer is one that has an experience; it sort of just happens. The term says nothing about any attempt to influence or control the conditions of being contacted. It focuses on an individual’s experience and thus is highly subjective.
Collective contact work on the other hand involves multiple witnesses. This type of group setting potentially allows volunteer activists to corroborate each other’s experiences. Human Initiated Contact Events may also allow anomalous phenomena to be studied with the use of video cameras and other equipment such as tri-field meters that are deployed in the field prior to facilitating encounters with the non-human intelligences responsible for what are now called “UAP.”
As a former peace and social justice activist during the 1960s into the mid 1980s, I sense that “contact workers” might have the potential to become the nucleus for a new kind of social movement. It would have to be one based on the assumption that UAP intelligences are not only approachable, but also benevolent. Granted, these propositions are highly controversial. If UAP intelligences do have a helping mission, then it just might be possible for a radical social movement “to connect the dots.” I suggest this would involve linking the issue of contact with non-human intelligences, to possible solutions for many of the crises that confront humanity. I refer here to the challenges of global warming, war, racism, and the obscene disparities of wealth and power that exist on our planet. If a potential for creating such a social movement demanding radical reforms truly exists, then it would logically follow that this would be a reason why the UAP phenomenon might threaten terrestrial elites, but in my opinion not the Earth’s people.
Contact experiencers often report a sense of mission concerning their encounters with non-human intelligences. Work in our highly divided class society is too often a thankless, boring, and poorly compensated chore. In contrast, when volunteer activists do “contact work”, they often experience it as an emotionally satisfying fulfillment of an important life mission. In the past, when I was actively doing fieldwork and was facilitating Human Initiated Contact Events, I experienced such volunteer activities as exhilarating. That sense of fulfillment is quite different from shouldering the “9 to 5” burden that is work for so many of us.
A report describing the telepathic download mentioned above is linked below. It was one of a series of communications that on two occasions alerted me telepathically to the precise time, location in the sky, and the number of “craft” that were to be observed during fieldwork. The subsequent appearances of UFOs were congruent with the information I had received. In this report I reveal the depth of emotion that can be associated with such “contact downloads.”
For Additional blogs about the societal impact of a possible ET presence click on the links below.
You can’t control a person who wants “no thing.” I suspect that Flying Saucer Intelligences are feared by our planet’s elites because they can’t be controlled by the usual methods applied to the general population. If we start to identify, not with things and thought forms, but rather with universal consciousness, then ultimately, we cannot be controlled either.
Confirmation rather than the big “D” Disclosure is likely the next step in the authority’s gradual acclimatization program. The possibilities of linking flying saucers to solutions for major terrestrial problems is discussed.
If flying saucer intelligences threaten all terrestrial elites, but not necessarily the Earth’s people, then it is understandable that governmental response to UFOs is a counterintelligence one.
The Leadership Crisis in ufology. In the UFO subculture there are few leaders, mostly celebrities.
What will it take to convince people that UFOs are important?
“Science, Counterintelligence & UFOs”
Researcher Val Germann wrote this important multi-part in-depth article in 1997. He presents a comprehensive critique of ufology’s attempt to use the scientific method as the paradigm for UFO investigations. Instead, he proposes an intelligence-counterintelligence model as one that matches the extraordinary challenges posed by UFO intelligences to elite terrestrial forces responsible for the UFO coverup.
“Science, Counterintelligence and UFOs” is a thorough analytical exploration of the UFO research field with over one hundred annotated references that are conveniently posted at the end of each section. The links to the original posting of Val Germann’s article are no longer operational. He has given me permission to republish them on the contactunderground.org site. I have reformatted my original posting from years past for better readability.
Contact Underground 