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Joseph Burkes MD 2013, updated 2024 Back in the 1990s when I first became a UFO investigator, I lived in Los Angeles just east of the Santa Monica Airport. There, it was rumored that movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger piloted his very own Lear Jet. National Boulevard is a broad tree lined street that dead endsContinue reading ““INVISIBLE UFOs”: How do you spot one? “

I recommend this brilliant four-part BBC series, now available as a YouTube presentation. It explains how social control is maintained in consumerist Western countries by turning its citizens into “endless happiness machines.” Although many aspects of Freud’s theories have correctly been criticized, in my opinion the core concepts of Freud have been successfully used toContinue reading “THE CENTURY OF THE SELF”

It was a privilege to be interviewed by the one and only Grant Cameron on his White House UFO YouTube Channel in September of 2018. We discussed highlights of my three decade history of contact activism. I described my participation in Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) with the CE-5 network and the Peruvian based groupContinue reading “JOSEPH BURKES MD BLAST FROM THE PAST INTERVIEW BY GRANT CAMERON”

This is a fascinating conversation from earlier this year. Leslie Kean discusses her article about David Grusch. This program is arguably the best release of UFO material that the New York Times has done in years. There was however no mention of the de facto government and corporate policy of ridicule and denial based onContinue reading “The New York Times Ezra Klein covers the explosive revelations of David Grusch.”

Joseph Burkes MD 2023 INTRODUCTION: This article was prepared for translation by a fellow volunteer contact worker in Germany in 2016. It was based on a document written in the 1990s that I lightheartedly titled. “So You Want to Vector in ET Spacecraft?” This brief training narrative was composed when I was a contact team coordinatorContinue reading “Techniques for Contacting non-human intelligences responsible for flying saucers: CE-5 Protocols.”

Screenwriter/Producer Bryce Zabel is the co-host of the popular “Need to Know” YouTube Channel. He wrote the screenplay for the movie “Official Denial”, SyFy’s 1993 full-length dramatic film which is available on YouTube.  This movie made for TV is kind of like the film “ET’ except this one has an adult rather than a boyContinue reading “Bryce Zabel’s “Official Denial”, SyFy’s 1993 full-length dramatic film is on YouTube. “

Christmas is coming up in a few days.  By posting a link to this sentimental song, I am concerned that Christian people might take offense. This is not my intent.  In my opinion, the music and lyrics are beautiful. The iconoclastic proposition, that there might be an ET connection to establishment of religion, has been described byContinue reading ““A Spaceman Came Travelling” “

Joseph Burkes MD 2023 INTRODUCTION This article is part of a series based on my chapter in Volume 2 of the 2022 book “A Greater Reality” co-authored and edited by Reinerio Hernandez. His compendium can now be viewed without charge on the CCRI, Consciousness and Contact Research Institute’s web site. Links provided at the endContinue reading “John Keel’s Classic Investigations Validate the Virtual Experience Model.”

CONTACT NETWORK HISTORY PROJECT: EVIDENCE OF SURVEILLANCE Joseph Burkes MD 2014, updated 2024 October 1992. I was the first to arrive at the small parking area nestled against the rock face of the Santa Susana Pass. This was barely enough room for a half dozen vehicles to park.  “PHOTON TALK” DURING A PREVIOUS OUTING JustContinue reading “Scouting out a Contact Site in the High Desert: “Mr. Big,” Two Military Types and a One-man Chopper” “

, The Virtual Experience Model Challenges Scientific Materialism J. Burkes MD 2020, edited 2023 Phoenix MUFON Sponsored CE-5 Training: November 2008 Within the human initiated contact (CE-5) network during the mid 2000s, multiple observers during field investigations started reporting the appearance of a particular type of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. These were small circular strobe likeContinue reading “I Was Allowed to See Just One “flashbulb” on Request”