“So, You Want to ‘Vector in’ Spacecraft”
1995, edited 2026 Joseph Burkes, MD
Preface
This is an edited post from a 1995 document that was included in the Center for the Study of ET Intelligence’s (CSETI) training materials for over a decade. I should point out that it was written during the early days of the English language-based contact network established by CSETI. Conditions I suspect have changed dramatically since then. Much of what I shared back then may not apply to current conditions.
I am in my 8th decade of life. I no longer facilitate Human Initiated Contact Events in a group setting. With the passage of time and with new conditions, the lessons that I thought were so important back in the 1990s may not be so. Much of the emphasis on a highly structured approach had to do with the special circumstances we encountered during the early days of Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative.
Believe it or not we had to deal with constant surveillance. We needed to be tight in terms of regulations because military types were not infrequently in the field with us. Sometimes they were openly photographing us. In addition, team leaders reported receiving threatening phone calls and having our email addresses stolen. This allowed hackers to masquerade as us on the Internet.
Dr. Greer and his assistant Ms. Shari Adamiak were reportedly hit with psychotronic weapons and there were very frightening rumors that their metastatic cancers might have been the results of attempted “hits” on them. I offer this perspective not to frighten people, but rather as an explanation of why we believed very structured approach was necessary to counteract the attempts at disrupting us.
Now the situation has changed tremendously. There are fewer reports of harassment. My guess is that for any person who joins a team, some protection by UFO intelligences is available. This makes sense from the organizational point of view if we are in a collaborative program with flying saucer intelligences and we are forming groups in response to their outreach program to us.
Terms used in this narrative:
Contact underground: The network of contact activists and their supporters working under confidential conditions who are reaching out to the non-human intelligences associated with flying saucer phenomena. This involves both consciousness-based techniques such as meditation, remote viewing and telepathy as well as what can be interpreted as physical interactions with the UFOs and the beings associated with them.
CSETI: Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial intelligence.
SAM: Subjectively Acquired Material.
ETI: extraterrestrial intelligence
WG: working group
CE-5: Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind can also be called
HICE:Human Initiated Contact Event
And now ladies and gentlemen it’s time to discuss the big bug a boo of volunteer contact work and perhaps the entire flying saucer field and that is “dealing with fear.”
As my once teenage son and daughter long ago might have expressed the HICE approach to dealing with fear of extraterrestrial intelligences, “Hay Dude, chill out, it’s cool.” My translation and elaboration on that general advice are as follows: It’s OK to be somewhat apprehensive when you go out into the field for the first time. What has been called “vectoring in spacecraft” is going to be a novel activity for the overwhelming majority of you who are reading this article.
BUSINESS/SOCIAL MEETINGS ARE IMPORTANT FOR WG OPERATIONS
During the initial organizing phase, at the first business/social meetings, you will get an idea of where each of your fellow contact workers/UFO researchers are at on the fear front. We should all be aware of the fact that people’s social face often does not reflect their true feelings. In other words, you might have to be more concerned about those prospective researchers who appear to be minimizing their fears. Those who are more open to the discussion but not inordinately fearful may do better than those that deny any concerns.
The “macho man” who beats his chest and loudly declares, “No problemo man! It’s a piece of cake.” just might be covering up a lot of anxiety. The Hollywood socialite type might declare,” It’s a done deal baby. We’ll simply call down ETI, do late dinner and then party,” might also truly be quite fearful of the visitors.
ASSUMPTION OF NON-HOSTILITY
On the opposite side of the same coin there will be those who just can’t seem to stop fretting about what might be ETI’s “true intentions.” For such individuals, they might consider deferring fieldwork till they can in good conscience base their efforts on the contact network’s assumption of the ETs’ non-hostility. If a field worker really can’t accept the “extraterrestrials” as being approachable, then they are not going to be able to contribute to our efforts in a positive way.
We should try to keep in mind that there is no absolute standard as to what defines too high a level of fear for a CE-5 team in formation. Most of it will depend on where the group stands as a whole. Some individuals in the group may need to address this issue more than others. The responsibility of the team coordinator is to be sensitive to each individual’s need to address the fear issue in their own way, so that each prospective contact worker will approach the group’s norm on the fear front and be able to successfully integrate into the fieldwork activities.
FEAR MAY PREVENT SOME VOLUNTEERS FROM REMAINING IN THE TEAM
Group discussion should emphasize the principle that unless clearly proven otherwise, beyond a shadow of a doubt, we assume no hostility from the ETs. Clearly some groups will need to address this issue more than others, but if prospective researchers cannot accept this assumption of non-hostility, then they will likely choose to drop out of the working group on their own. If they stick around the contact team, but are not able to fully participate in all activities because of fear, then they should be encouraged to resign. An individual’s excessive fear of ETI may manifest itself at the business meetings in a number of ways. As mentioned above it might present as the need to repeatedly question, “what are ET’s true intentions?”
On the opposite side of the same coin, a fearful individual might remain strangely silent while looking extremely uncomfortable during any such discussions of extraterrestrial motives in visiting our planet. It’s helpful to point out that from the ETs’ point of view, looking down on this violent planet, they might have good reason to question what our true intentions might be towards them. After all, the UFO literature has described numerous occasions when humans have attacked what are believed to be extraterrestrials.
Much of what is reported as the sinister actions of the ETs may be nothing more than manifestations of individual human’s hostility projected on to the non-human beings. Obviously, this trusting attitude toward the ET visitors has earned the contact network antipathy from the alien abductionist wing of the UFO subculture.
HIDDEN AGENDA, “GOOD VS BAD ETs”
The contact group and team leader should be aware that occasionally prospective contact workers might have a hidden agenda. They might want to participate in fieldwork but only to attract the ET group of their particular choice. The mythology of the “evil gray aliens who abduct humans” is so well entrenched among the saucer enthusiasts that any working group (WG) may find such prejudicial notions cropping up and interfering with field operations.
If the extraterrestrials through their technology of assisted consciousness can interact with our psyches at a distance as contact workers assert, then it is likely that they may be able to assess our motivations for doing fieldwork quite well. It is conceivable that may even be able to assess our motivations better that we can do so ourselves. Obviously for skeptics this would be a big “if”. Nevertheless, it has been the contact network’s on-going experience that when fear-based researchers are not present during fieldwork, the intensity and frequency of ET interactive experiences can increase dramatically.
DEALING WITH CHANNELING AND FEAR BASED WG MEMBERS
On the opposite side of the same coin, there might appear in the WG prospective researchers who are enthralled by channeled messages from what have been called in the distant past “space brothers,” or any one of a number of alleged ET groups supposedly visiting Earth. Those channeling enthusiasts may want to focus exclusively on what has been called Subjectively Acquired Material, or SAM for short. Although Contact Underground openly promotes the use of parapsychological techniques for investigating UFO phenomena, we employ psi as a tool rather than an end in itself. Information obtained through remote viewing, lucid dreams with clairvoyant aspects, or other psi experiences, have significance if they can be verified or correlated with actual field results.
Under no circumstances should WG business meetings focus on channeled material that celebrates or denigrates one presumed ET group versus another. It is judgment of senior activists that inviting one presumed ET group and passing over others is folly when so little is known with any certainty about any of them. For these reasons we extend a message of welcome to any and all possible ET civilizations visiting Earth. We take this bold move on the expectation that through direct contact, in full psychomotor control of our bodies, detailed and credible information about the ET presence will be obtained.
Those prospective field investigators who are either excessively fearful or channeling enthralled should be counseled about their approach, both of which are inconsistent with our Contact objectives. If such attitudes persist, then those individuals should be encouraged to leave the working group. The persistence of fear based and prejudicial views will jeopardize the entire team’s efforts.
Similarly, focusing exclusively on channeled information, or on other subjectively acquired material from by individuals in the Contact team, undermines the rigor of field investigations and can wreak havoc with our efforts. It distracts from the important goal of acquiring objective information during fieldwork that can be viewed as “experiments” and instead focuses on subjective considerations, the validity of which is difficult if not impossible to evaluate.
Returning to the problem of excessive fear of ET contact among some potential Contact workers. This problem may also manifest itself in a more subtle way. A troubled WG member might attend the business meetings but will somehow miss most of the fieldwork sessions. In situations like this, emphasizing the necessity of everyone participating fully should reinforce group unity and discipline.
The importance of establishing both psychic and physical links to possible ET or interdimensional cultures is not a job for the lighthearted. For those that are willing to meet the challenge, the opportunities for success are great, but for those who do not fully participate, whether out of fear or lack of dedication, they can interfere with or even ruin the efforts of the more dedicated team members.
It’s really all a question of building trust. If the team members can’t earn each other’s trust by their collective actions working together by following any one of a variety of HICE protocols, it’s unlikely that they will be able to earn the trust and continued cooperation from our non-human collaborators. It is my assessment that UFO intelligences are undoubtedly observing our outreach efforts. The struggle to establish and maintain the unity within a team is in some very practical ways a reflection of the ways we will build our relationship with the ETs. This struggle, to achieve unity, is perhaps also a microcosm of the way in which humanity will have to learn to more fully cooperate as a planet of conscious and intelligent beings. Such cooperation, if part of a rapidly evolving mass consciousness, might allow humanity to join a larger and more enlightened interplanetary or interdimensional community.
SECURITY ISSUES
Our overriding operational goal is to carry out these protocols in a peaceful, cooperative and non-hostile manner. Security for both the ETs and our contact team should be one of our most important concerns, if not the most important concern in site selection. Obviously to a great extent the extraterrestrials have the necessary technological prowess to take care of most of their security problems. Nevertheless, the presence of large numbers of guns among ordinary civilians, and the existence of high-tech weaponry within the military that are probably capable of shooting down ET craft, compels us to seek research sites of considerable isolation.
The ET visitors can and should be thought of as our guests. Some WGs in this spirit of cooperation (and at risk of sounding corny I might add in the spirit of love), have suggested that we change the title of our teams from working groups to “welcoming groups” As good hosts we might not want to attempt interactions with the extraterrestrials near military bases, although these sites may be areas of high ET activity. For low-level CE-5s, like fly-bys or signaling at a distance, such locations near military installations are quite acceptable. For high-level CE-5s with the possibility of a landing of an “ET craft” and a chance for a Contact team to go aboard, site security takes on the most critical importance.
GUNS ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN
Even low-level Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind can pose significant security problems, if not for the ETs, then certainly for the Contact team member. (Please refer to my article on “The Sightings in Mexico City” which describes how our CSETI team was threatened by gunfire.) That particular case as well as others point out the real security hazards from armed human neighbors and hunters. For obvious safety reasons, it is absolutely necessary to ban all guns and other weapons from the research team. Any member that violates this rule should be removed immediately and permanently from the team.
NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES OR STREET DRUGS
Contact work, although exciting and pleasurable at times, should be seen as part of a serious citizens’ outreach effort. For this reason, alcoholic beverages and street drugs should be banned from the field investigation site. In addition, no volunteer contact worker should attempt to carry out the protocols under the influence of such drugs. Those who must smoke might want to do so during breaks in the meditation and light work. Smoking should be done at a considerable distance from the team.
ENDING FIELDWORK
Although you may be tired, cold and hungry at the end of a research session. At that moment, vigilance is the order. Often when we are closing up shop, significant sightings do occur. Sometimes the most important events of the night transpire as the team is preparing to leave the site. These experiences have happened so often that they are reasonably interpreted as possible fond farewells from the ETs.
Sightings of structured craft have been described in parking areas as the WG breaks up for the journey home. For example, at the end of our first outing, my Los Angeles team experienced being signaled at by powerful searchlights emanating from deserted mountainside as we hiked down the trail to our vehicles. In addition, we also use radar detectors as inexpensive UFO sensors because of the reported microwave output of ET craft. On more than one occasion teams have reported radar detectors going off as they have prepared to leave research sites, and they were triggered by no apparent source.
Members of the working groups have experienced even more bizarre interactions that could definitely be classified under the title of “High Strangeness” as they leave the research site. These anomalous experiences will be described in more detailed narratives reports that are being prepared by me for publication.
About the author: Dr. Burkes volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative from 1992 till 1998. He continued to study the flying saucer phenomenon working with Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Foundation for Research into Extraordinary and ET Experiences (FREE), the Consciousness and Contact Research(CCRI) and the Peruvian contact network now called Rahma.
Joseph Burkes MD is co-author of the book “Paths to Contact” edited by Jeff Becker. He also has co-authored a chapter on UFO associated medical healings with researcher Preston Dennett in the FREE compendium “Beyond UFOs. He has a chapter in the compendium “A Greater Reality” co-authored and published by Rey Hernandez. All Rey’s books can be downloaded gratis at the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute’s website: https://agreaterreality.com
Dr. Burkes retired from the Southern California Pemanente Group after thirty-years-service in 2008 and is a Board-Certified internal medicine physician licensed to practice in California.