Joseph Burkes MD 2025 On another social media page, an important question was asked, “What would they (“ETs”) have to gain by associating with us?” A possible answer was supplied during a contact download I received in 1994. During that psychic experience akin to channeling, I saw in my mind’s eye a female ET. SheContinue reading “On “Mitzvahs” and Demanding the Impossible”
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June 2007, Farewell “Misha”: A decade after doing contact work together, a key member of my team was facing jail time; our goodbye was marked by a High Strangeness Event.
Joseph Burkes MD 2009, updated in 2025 “Misha Goldman” greeted me at the front door of a small, rented tract home. It was located in the San Fernando Valley just a few miles from the medical center where we had first met some 15 years before when he was hired as an EKG technician. MishaContinue reading “June 2007, Farewell “Misha”: A decade after doing contact work together, a key member of my team was facing jail time; our goodbye was marked by a High Strangeness Event. “
August 1997, A Threatening Phone Call Contributed to my Resigning from CSETI
Joseph Burkes MD 2015 When I got back home to Los Angeles Yael told me that she had received a strange phone call while I was away in England doing contact work for CSETI. I told him that you were out of the country,” my wife explained. She then imitated his short blunt phrasing that sounded veryContinue reading “August 1997, A Threatening Phone Call Contributed to my Resigning from CSETI”
Do aliens believe in God? An Exchange with Author Yossi Ronen.
J. Burkes MD 2020 On the CE-5 Israel Facebook page Yossi Ronen, author of the book “One: ET and Human Consciousness” asked the question, “Do aliens believe in God?” Here is my answer: By discussing “God” in the context of “belief” we trivialize the subject because a belief in God can be seen as justContinue reading “Do aliens believe in God? An Exchange with Author Yossi Ronen.”
The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show discusses UFOs.
Over a year after Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal’s Debrief article on David Grusch was published and Ross Coulthart’s News Nation interview was broadcasted, this interview on the Ezra Klein show is still the best of the extremely limited coverage that the New York Times has provided on Grusch’s explosive allegations. I believe the refusalContinue reading “The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show discusses UFOs.”
What is an “alien abduction”?: Psi mediated mechanisms of contact, Consciousness and the pitfalls of hypnosis
Joseph Burkes MD. 2025 Is it a purely physical act in which alien beings presumably fly their “craft” into our neighborhoods and paralyze us, while rendering our companions’ unconscious? Next, we’re supposedly whisked away to a faraway place, only to be returned hours later. Or is it a theater of the mind production in which non-humans,Continue reading “What is an “alien abduction”?: Psi mediated mechanisms of contact, Consciousness and the pitfalls of hypnosis”
A Family Medicine Physician conducted an Informal UFO Survey with Remarkable Results: The UFO “Code of Silence” & Why Breaking this Taboo is Important for the Future of Terrestrial Civilization.
Joseph Burkes MD 2018, updated 2025 OMERTÁ: a code of silence practiced by the Mafia; a refusal to give evidence to the police about illegal activities. Introduction: I grew up in the lower Westside of Manhattan in the 1950s. Little Italy was a neighborhood near Washington Square Park. I played there as a child. Long before FrancisContinue reading “A Family Medicine Physician conducted an Informal UFO Survey with Remarkable Results: The UFO “Code of Silence” & Why Breaking this Taboo is Important for the Future of Terrestrial Civilization. “
Were “psychotronic” attacks against contact activists in the 1990s a precursor of the “Havana Syndrome”? Consciousness based technology might also be targeting what is called the “astral body.”
Joseph Burkes MD 2025 Introduction In my judgment, flying saucers threaten all terrestrial elites, but not necessarily the planet’s people. Given what is a perceived threat to the status quo,both corporate and Executive Branch Intelligence operatives have historically been compelled to deal with UFOs as a non-human intelligence counterintelligence challenge. As a Working Group CoordinatorContinue reading “Were “psychotronic” attacks against contact activists in the 1990s a precursor of the “Havana Syndrome”? Consciousness based technology might also be targeting what is called the “astral body.” “
To Police the Crazies in our Midst, UAP Truth Activists Will Need to Understand the Role of Illusion as a Mechanism of Contact.
Joseph Burkes MD 2017, updated 2025. How is the UAP truth movement going to make a responsible case to the people of the world, unless we systematically critique, instead of celebrating the extreme unsubstantiated misinformation put out from within our midst? This is of particular importance because too often the mainstream media has portrayed usContinue reading “To Police the Crazies in our Midst, UAP Truth Activists Will Need to Understand the Role of Illusion as a Mechanism of Contact. “
The Somewhat Awkward Acronym “TOTENCET” Encapsulates the Current UFO Contact Arena: The Imperative of Cosmic Peace.
Introduction: The term “TOTENCET stands for The Others That Experiencers Now Call ET. I introduce this somewhat awkward acronym because it encapsulates important truths about UFO intelligences. I discuss how these concepts can contribute to the process of building a “Cosmic Peace Movement” Flying Saucers Did Not Just Arrive in 1947 In my view, itContinue reading “The Somewhat Awkward Acronym “TOTENCET” Encapsulates the Current UFO Contact Arena: The Imperative of Cosmic Peace.”
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