Deep Dive 27 High Strangeness: Orbs, Portals & The Oz Factor 

Dan Elvey, an Australian CE-5 activist has been posting educational materials for his Perth contact team that are derived from effective prompts to AI. Here is one from December 29th, 2025  Deep Dive 27 High Strangeness: Orbs, Portals & The Oz Factor  G’day everyone. We are closing out the year by addressing the “woo.” For decades,Continue reading “Deep Dive 27 High Strangeness: Orbs, Portals & The Oz Factor “

Fear Barrier: Why Contact Stops 

Fear Barrier: Why Contact Stops  Volunteer contact workers all over the globe are facilitating Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE). Dan Elvey an Australian contact activist has been posting on the CE5 Perth Facebook page an online course using prompts to AI. The remarkable results are Deep Dive explanatory materials plus practice exercises for his contact team. Deep DiveContinue reading “Fear Barrier: Why Contact Stops “

Deep Dive 28 The Timeline Wars: Understanding Future Humans 

Dan Elvey an Australian contact activist has been posting on the CE5 Perth FB page an online course using effective prompts for AI. The remarkable results are Deep Dive explanatory materials plus practice exercises for his contact team. Deep Dive 28 The Timeline Wars: Understanding Future Humans  G’day everyone. In Week 23, we introduced theContinue reading “Deep Dive 28 The Timeline Wars: Understanding Future Humans “

Virtual Photography: Can UAP Intelligences Insert Images into Photography Equipment?

The consciousness-based “illusory” mechanisms of contact might be more important than the images perceived during encounters. Joseph Burkes MD 2023, edited 2025 Taking photographs of UFOs has always been a challenge. Many sightings last only seconds and the “objects”, or better stated, the “visual displays” that are observed often move rapidly. If some sightings areContinue reading “Virtual Photography: Can UAP Intelligences Insert Images into Photography Equipment?”

HUMAN INITIATED CONTACT PROTOCOLS EXPLAINED

Joseph Burkes MD. 2015. (updated 2025) HUMAN INITIATED CONTACT PROTOCOLS EXPLAINED  Introduction: The document that follows was written in 2015 for a German contact activist who translated it for publication.  The mysterious nature of a UFO sighting can cause a tremendous curiosity about UFOs. It can be so intense that some UFO witnesses take actionContinue reading “HUMAN INITIATED CONTACT PROTOCOLS EXPLAINED”

The Phoenix and LA CE-5 teams meet in Joshua Tree, and the things “you should never do when aboard ET spacecraft.” 

Contact Network History Project: Joseph Burkes MD 2022, updated 2025 Introduction          From the summer of 1992 through 1997, I volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for a citizens’ UFO research project called the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative (CE5-I). Following contact protocols prescribed by the Center for the Study of ET Intelligence (CSETI),Continue reading “The Phoenix and LA CE-5 teams meet in Joshua Tree, and the things “you should never do when aboard ET spacecraft.” “

Multiple Red Orbs Appeared at Our Research Site in the Santa Susana Pass. 

Joseph Burkes MD. 2014, edited 2025 
The Santa Susana Mountains, September 1992 It was my first month of volunteering as a Working Group Coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative and the enthusiasm of my team was very high. Starting with the first night we had many sightings, not only anomalous nocturnal lights, but also a goldenContinue reading “Multiple Red Orbs Appeared at Our Research Site in the Santa Susana Pass. “

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”

The Phoenix and LA CE-5 teams meet in Joshua Tree, & the things “you should never do when aboard ET spacecraft.” 

Contact Network History Project: Introduction          From the summer of 1992 through 1997, I volunteered as a Working Group Coordinator for a citizens’ UFO research project called the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative. Following contact protocols prescribed by the Center for the Study of ET Intelligence, we did fieldwork, mostly in high desert localesContinue reading “The Phoenix and LA CE-5 teams meet in Joshua Tree, & the things “you should never do when aboard ET spacecraft.” “