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Contact Network History Project, Joseph Burkes MD, 2022 Introduction: Staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) involves much physical and mental work. This report covers two field investigations that my Los Angeles based CE-5 team conducted during the 1990s. As this narrative describes, volunteers often deal with adverse weather conditions and participants that are not adequately preparedContinue reading “Encounters at Sandstone Peak, March and April 1995 “

CONTACT NETWORK HISTORY PROJECT Joseph Burkes MD 2019  Telepathy: transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction.  Telepathy: transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction.  A KIND OF “KNOWINGNESS” During the earlyContinue reading “A Telepathic Override that Probably Saved My Life”

The honest skeptics are being dragged into accepting a more accurate view of reality. It is one in which UFOs are real and as Sam Harris suggested in 2021 are also really important.  So many of us having been waiting a long time for the self-described “scientific skeptics” to acknowledge the possibility that they haveContinue reading “Honest skeptics are acknowledging the reality and importance of flying saucers.”

Joseph Burkes MD 2019, edited 2023 By joining the CE-5 Initiative in 1992, I experienced a radical ideological transformation. I was raised in a secular Jewish home and both of my parents were agnostic. Religion was deemed to be hopelessly superstitious. Science was considered to be the principal arbiter of truth. On some level, IContinue reading “Notes from the Contact Underground: How I began to Pray”

J Burkes MD 2024 Some time ago on a UAP disclosure/contact social media page, a discussion occurred concerning subconscious fears as an impediment to achieving higher levels of contact with UAP intelligences. The digital thread involved mention of the amazing example of Dorothy Izatt. For over forty years, she interacted with multiple flying saucer intelligences. In theContinue reading “Pushing the Envelope: the role of Spiritual Development and a “Masterplan” for Earth Civilization”

“Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection and the Virtual Experience Model” is the title of my chapter in the book “A Greater Reality.” It is to be published later this year by Rey Hernandez’ Consciousness and Contact Research Institute.  Rey Hernandez’ interviewed me on his “Consciousness and Contact” internet show. I discussed the initial work myContinue reading “Rey Hernandez interviews Joseph Burkes MD on the “Consciousness and Contact” internet radio show.”

CONTACT NETWORK HISTORY PROJECT Copyright 2022 Joseph Burkes, MD  Synopsis: This report is about a Human Initiated Contact Event that occurred in the high desert January 24-25, 1996.  For a week prior to fieldwork, my wife and repeatedly received strange telephone calls. When the phone was picked up, there was silence on the line. At theContinue reading “And then the sky exploded: Incident at Joshua Tree, January 1996”

Joseph Burkes MD 2017, edited 2024 We have “nothing in common” with “extraterrestrials” was a response made to a past social media post of mine.  MY REPLY: If the so-called aliens are physical beings rather than shape shifting forms of intelligent energy, then the atoms in “ET” bodies are derived from exploding first and second-generation stars.Continue reading “WHAT DO WE HAVE IN COMMON WITH THE “ETs” RESPONSIBLE FOR FLYING SAUCERS?”

Joseph Burkes MD 1997 edited 2021 The following is a position paper first posted over two decades ago and has been updated. It explains the rationale behind what is popularly known as “the UFO truth embargo.” In 1997, I called for “the creation of a citizen network to challenge the existing regimen of secrecy andContinue reading “An ET Presence Threatens Terrestrial Elites, But Not Our Planet’s People.”

Joseph Burkes MD 1993, edited 2022 Introduction: “Desert Site I” was our UFO fieldwork station in Joshua Tree National Monument. It was of one of two high desert research sites that my Los Angeles based contact team used from the spring of 1993 till the end of summer 1997. Site 1 was situated in whatContinue reading “A “Heads up” Contact Download 10/3/93, Joshua Tree National Monument”