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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?”

J. Burkes MD 2018 I have come to accept that UAP associated intelligences using their extraordinary psi capabilities might have complete access to our entire treasure chest of memories. Here is an account from the 1990s that supports this proposition. Wayne Peterson was the CE-5 Working Group Coordinator for Phoenix during the 1990s. During one fieldContinue reading “Do UAP Intelligences Have Full Telepathic Access to Every Witness’ Storehouse of Memories?”

To understand the so-called ET visitors, we must first better understand ourselves. To venture into outer space as a sane and free people, we must first explore inner space. Dr. Carl Jung has pointed the way for that inner journey. Joseph Burkes MD 2022

1.What about the “ET master plan” that you have mentioned, and about the assumption that there are many different motivations for different ET groups? ‪Joseph Burkes MD:‪ I assume no such thing. After resigning from CSETI in 1998, I took a critical look at the UFO subculture that I had been so active in. I read theContinue reading “Q&A for Joseph Burkes MD from 2015, edited 2022”

The following is a thoughtful opinion piece posted on a number of CE-5 FB pages by Mark Koprowski. He is a contact activist that I believe has resided in Japan. Although the focus of Mark’s analysis is on James Gilliland of the ECETI ranch in the state of Washington, it may serve as an introductionContinue reading “Politics & UAP: QAnon Supporters Inside the Human Initiated Contact Network”

A Welcomed Show of Support or Just Coincidence? July 23, 2009, 2AM I had just arrived at my mother’s house in LA after driving from Northern California near the Oregon border. It was usually a grueling 13-hour drive, but this time it took even longer because I made several detours to do contact network-organizing work.Continue reading “A Welcomed Show of Support or Just Coincidence?”