Joseph Burkes MD 2023, updated 2026 Introduction: What if UFO Intelligences are as advanced in the psi arena as they apparently are in “spacecraft” design? UFOs have been here for a long time. Whatever their origins are, flying saucer technologies (both physical and mental) are thousands, perhaps even millions of years more advanced than terrestrial engineering.Continue reading “Virtual Experience of the Second Kind: Cases in the literature that support the Virtual Experience Model”
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Psi-Mediated Memory Implants by UFO Intelligences.
Joseph Burkes MD 2026. What would it mean if many of our memories of Contact, were psychic constructs and not recollections of physical events? For five years in the 1990s I volunteered as an official “CE-5 Working Group Coordinator” for the Center for the Study of ET Intelligence (CSETI). I resigned from that group inContinue reading “Psi-Mediated Memory Implants by UFO Intelligences.”
High Strangeness in the Arizona Desert.
J. Burkes MD 2015, updated 2026 Pet animals have a calming effect on humans. On one occasion involving High Strangeness, contact work apparently had a calming effect on wild desert animals. Introduction: The religious literature from around the world has depicted holy figures attracting wild animals. These narratives convey the concept that spiritual enlightenment can reestablish mankind’sContinue reading “High Strangeness in the Arizona Desert.”
After Resigning from CSETI, I Received a call from Someone Claiming to be from The New York Times.
Joseph Burkes MD 2025, updated 2026 The journalist Alex Heard wrote what was considered to be a rather mean spirited 1994 Outside magazine article about the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). When it was published, I had been CSETI contact team coordinator for two years and was on the CSETI Board of Directors. InContinue reading “After Resigning from CSETI, I Received a call from Someone Claiming to be from The New York Times. “
Several Years Ago, I Was Asked, “Do you still support Dr. Steven Greer?”
Here is my reply:Introduction: I was recruited by Dr. Steven Greer to join the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative to volunteer as Working Group Coordinator for Los Angeles in 1992. I served on the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of ET Intelligence (CSETI) focusing on the public education program ofContinue reading “Several Years Ago, I Was Asked, “Do you still support Dr. Steven Greer?””
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
The Role of Spiritual Development & Overcoming Egoic Mind Structures in organizing around the UFO issue. Overcoming ego in its most pernicious forms will be essential for creating a social movement around UAP Contact and Disclosure. Joseph Burkes MD 2015, updated 2026. From my point of view, in the long run humanity needs a disclosureContinue reading “WHAT IS TO BE DONE?”
Multiple Red Orbs Appeared at Our Research Site in the Santa Susana Pass.
Joseph Burkes MD. 2014, edited 2026 The Santa Susana Mountains, September 1992 It was my first month of volunteering as a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative and the enthusiasm of my team was very high. Starting with the first night we had many sightings, not only anomalous nocturnal lights, but also a goldenContinue reading “Multiple Red Orbs Appeared at Our Research Site in the Santa Susana Pass. “
How a Counterintelligence Operation Involving Bob Lazar Became Part of the US Executive Branch’s Gradual Acclimatization Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2026 In April of 2026 a new documentary about Bob Lazar was released. It describes his short-lived employment at a high security US military facility called S4 located adjacent to the famous Area 51 in Nevada. What most people interested in UFOs fail to understand is how Bob Lazar’s brief employment atContinue reading “How a Counterintelligence Operation Involving Bob Lazar Became Part of the US Executive Branch’s Gradual Acclimatization Project.”
Joseph Burkes MD responds to “Preliminary Assessment by Avi Loeb of the Second Release of UFO Files by the U.S. Department of War”
Summary: Harvard’s Dr. Avi Loeb has published an important statement on the U.S. Department of War’s second release of UFO information. In response I point out that although modern science and engineering have been transformative for Earth civilization, the scientific model might not be a good fit for UFO research. I suggest that an intelligence-counterContinue reading “Joseph Burkes MD responds to “Preliminary Assessment by Avi Loeb of the Second Release of UFO Files by the U.S. Department of War””
What Are the Benefits of UAP Disclosure?
In a recent text exchange with a fellow contact experiencer, I was asked, “The looming question is: what’s the benefit of Disclosure? Thoughts on that?” Joseph Burkes MD 2026 Benefits of Disclosure? Here are my thoughts. On an individual level, an end to the worldwide de facto policy of ridicule and denial will be aContinue reading “What Are the Benefits of UAP Disclosure?”