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J. Burkes MD 2022 Introduction: It is my custom to repost many of my blogs on a six-month basis. In response to my post “Mission Rama: One of the most important contactee networks of the 20th Century”, a scientifically oriented respondent raised a series of challenging questions. These included the following: I could have respondedContinue reading “Can We “Handle the Truth” about a Paranormal Force that is in the “Belief Business”?”

J Burkes MD 2021 On another UAP disclosure/contact Facebook page a discussion occurred concerning subconscious fears as an impediment to achieving higher levels of contact with UAP intelligences. I was discussing with a fellow contact activist the amazing example of Dorothy Izatt who for over forty years interacted with multiple flying saucer intelligences. In theContinue reading “Pushing the Envelope: the role of spiritual development and the “masterplan” for Earth”

Joseph Burkes MD 2022, edited 2024             A past comment on a social media page opined that if weren’t for the work of people like Mr. Grant Cameron and Reinerio Hernandez Esq., even more people in the larger society would think that the UFO community is “bat shit crazy.”  It is certainly true that the UFO subcultureContinue reading “Some of the Reasons Why the UFO Subculture is Perceived of as “Crazy””

Joseph Burkes MD 2018 It is curious that Drs. Carl Sagan and Michio Kaku were champions in the anti-nuclear weapons struggle during the Cold War and were also outspoken on the topic of UFOs. As an activist during the 1980s in Nobel Prize winning “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War”, I very muchContinue reading “Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Investigations!”

J. Burkes MD 2019, updated 2024. John Alva Keel, (March 25, 1930 – July 3, 2009) was an influential American journalist and popular ufologist. He is the author of “Operation Trojan Horse” (1970) and “The Mothman Prophecies” (1975). This later book was the basis for a paranormal thriller of the same name released in 2002 staring Richard GereContinue reading “The Interdimensional vs ET Hypothesis: Virtual Experiences and UFO Sightings as “thought forms””

NOTES FROM THE CONTACT UNDERGROUND Contact Network History Project Saturday October 17, 1992: Did a fateful phone call trigger the appearance of Blackhawk helicopters at a UFO research site in the high desert? Joseph Burkes MD 2021 Willie Sutton the famous bank robber of the 1920s and 30s was asked by a reporter, “Why doContinue reading “Did a Fateful Phone Call Trigger the Appearance of Blackhawk Helicopters during contact work?”

Joseph Burkes MD 2019, edited 2024 UFO sighting reports number in the thousands every year. Many of these “objects” appear suddenly without warning and the sightings often last only a few seconds. Such conditions make obtaining photographic documentation challenging. But what about contact experiencers that have frequent sightings? This group reportedly can actually request sightings,Continue reading “Why Do UFO Intelligences Deny Experiencers Quality Videos of Close Encounters?”

Apologia is defined as a form of practiced rhetoric used in self-defense and as the vindication of a person, course of action, etc…” Joseph Burkes MD 2014 edited 2023 In response to my posting on NASA’s plans for possible Mars missions, critical comments were made that the official space program was a waste of money and that there has been aContinue reading “A Contact Activist that Doubts the ET Hypothesis.”

Joseph Burkes MD 2020 In our ongoing social media discussion of the US Executive Branch’s series of leaks that has been called “Disclosure Light”, the above question was raised by one commenter. Here is my edited reply: Thank you for your comment NAME DELETED because the notion that aliens and the US government are inContinue reading “Is there an “ET”-US Government Secret Liaison or Pact?”

Unlike in Show Biz where it is “better to be noticed than unnoticed”, in Ufology, there is such a thing as bad publicity. Joseph Burkes MD 2022 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/did-steven-greer-fake-a-ufo-with-flares Political journalist Tom Rogan has been seen on the Tucker Carlson TV show acknowledging the reality and importance of the UFO phenomenon. In the article linked aboveContinue reading ““Did Steven Greer Fake a UFO with flares?”