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J. Burkes MD 2019, updated 2024 Contact Experiencers please note the following: The Virtual Experience Model doesn’t assert that all Close Encounters are “virtual” i.e., non-physical. Encounters are likely caused by both virtual (consciousness based) and physical mechanisms that may be very difficult to tell apart given the awesome psi capability of UFO Intelligences. INTRODUCTION AsContinue reading “Andrija Puharich MD’s Work with Uri Geller in the Sinai Desert Supports the Virtual Experience Model*”

J. Burkes MD 2015, updated 2023 “If this is true then all bets are off when it comes to human free will and all human history.” Statement concerning “Virtual Memory” made by a former US government scientist and prominent UFO researcher. Contact Experiencers please note the following: The Virtual Experience Model doesn’t assert that allContinue reading ““Virtual Memory”: A Virtual Experience of the Third Kind, VE-3″

CONTACT NETWORK HISTORY PROJECT   Joseph Burkes MD 1993       In 1993 Dr. Steven Greer, Director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), led a Rapid Mobilization Investigative Team (RMIT) to study the ongoing wave of UFO sightings around the 18,000 feet tall Popocatepetl Volcano in central Mexico. I was selected to join theContinue reading “UFO Investigation in the Volcanic Zone”

The YouTube video linked above is truly a blast from my past. It is 23-minute vintage 1993 video of Miranda Cunha interviewing “young Dr. Burkes” on her live radio show. It was during my second year of volunteer contact work. In February of that year, I participated in what was called an RMIT (Rapid MobilizationContinue reading ““Young Dr. Burkes” describes the early days of the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative.”

 J. Burkes MD 2022 Summary: “If psychologists can create false memories, we should consider what might be the capabilities of technologically advanced beings that are the supposed perpetrators of “alien abductions.” From the literature, they are described as being skilled not only in telepathic communication, but allegedly can also induce states of amnesia in contact experiencers.Continue reading “Memory Wars II :Remembering Falsely, Hypnosis and the Virtual Experience Model”

 Joseph Burkes MD  This Fox Network documentary showcased our Los Angeles CE-5 contact team. It was filmed in Topanga Canyon State Park in July of 1994 with an elaborate production. This included a 40-foot-high elevated camera to give an “ET” perspective from overhead. In the video report, we can see some of the talented teamContinue reading “Fox TV’s July 1994 “Encounters” Report on the CE-5 Initiative”

A while ago on another social media page comments were made that some alien races shared with us what I now consider a curious notion. It’s called “free will.” The proposition is that the so-called extraterrestrials believe in free will and this effects how they interact with mankind.  THE CONCEPT MIGHT ONLY BE A TERRESTRIALContinue reading “Aliens And “Free Will””

Joseph Burkes MD 2018, edited 2024 INTRODUCTION In 2016 I became a consultant in medicine for the research group called FREE*, The Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial and Extraordinary Experiences. In FREE’s mission statement it is hypothesized “that there are many different ways, or mechanisms, where humans are having “contact” with non-human intelligentContinue reading “The Contact Modalities: a case suggestive of stigmata in a Russian-Jewish contact activist”

Joseph Burkes, MD 2018, edited 2024 A virtuoso display of ET intelligence’s psi capability was demonstrated in December of 1993.  CE-5 Initiative activists in Denver, then Los Angeles and finally Phoenix had missing time experiences over a several week period. These strange events remarkably followed Dr. Greer’s path across the Western US as he established CE-5Continue reading “Missing Time on Highway 62”

Joseph Burkes MD 2014, reedited 2023 UFO historian Richard Dolan has described the initial reaction of many people to his passionate involvement with the subject. They express interest, might even describe something they saw on TV concerning the phenomenon, and then after a few minutes of his well-informed explanations, their eyes gloss over and theyContinue reading “What Will it Take to Convince People that UFOs are Important?”