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.” “

High Strangeness at Robson’s Mining World.

Joseph Burkes MD 2004 INTRODUCTION In the spring of 1993 CSETI initiated an in-depth training that was a landmark for the organization. Over 60 UFO enthusiasts were to attend. The training was held in the middle of the Sonoran Desert 29 miles west of the town of Wickenburg at the site of an abandoned mine.Continue reading “High Strangeness at Robson’s Mining World.”

Group Contact Protocols Explained 

INTRODUCTION: General Remarks about the CE-5 Initiative and the current situation of human initiated contact. I wrote this article ten years ago to be translated into German by an engineer contact activist friend of mine. It is based on a chapter I wrote for a Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative’s handbook published inContinue reading “Group Contact Protocols Explained “

“Why me?”

Joseph Burkes MD 2011 “Why me?” is a question that many UFO experiencers ask. The non-human intelligences behind flying saucer phenomena have extraordinary mental capacities. It has been said that we are dealing with entities that can access our consciousness, as readily as we access light, by turning on a wall switch. They have probably interactedContinue reading ““Why me?””

 “What Planet Are You From?”

is the title a cute 2000 sci-fi comedy film about a lovesick alien that has a change of heart about wanting to take over the Earth. It is also the question that many “Earthlings” might ask if they were to meet a live ET. 
According to the highly speculative popular UFO literature, many assertions have beenContinue reading ” “What Planet Are You From?””

On Remembering Pain and Love

Contact Experiencers often only remember a very small portion of their mental and physical interactions with UFO intelligences. Might they be rendered amnesic to block memories of both pain and love? From time to time when reading the works of luminaries like Dr. Mack, I am reminded of the possibility that contact experiencers are only allowedContinue reading “On Remembering Pain and Love”

An Alternative to the “Night of Lights” Might be a “Night of Remembering” 

Joseph Burkes MD 2023 Contactees report having recurrent dreams sometimes called the “night of lights” in which the nighttime sky is full of flying saucers. A variant of this dream is one in which the daytime sky is full of structured craft. These are wish dreams that I must admit I have fancied as well.Continue reading “An Alternative to the “Night of Lights” Might be a “Night of Remembering” “

Sagan’s Views on “ETs”, Abductee/Contactee vs “Contact Worker” & the Big Picture

Carl Sagan in “Cosmos” 1980 Chapter 12- “Encyclopaedia Galactica” “It is pointless to worry about the possible malevolent intentions of an advanced civilization with whom we might make contact. It is more likely that the mere fact they have survived so long means they have learned to live with themselves and others. Perhaps our fears aboutContinue reading “Sagan’s Views on “ETs”, Abductee/Contactee vs “Contact Worker” & the Big Picture”

Four Decades Ago, A Whistleblower Outlined the Rationale and Methods of the Executive Branch’s UFO Coverup. 

VICTOR MARCHETTI, (1929-2018) AUTHOR OF THE CIA AND THE CULT OF INTELLIGENCE Joseph Burkes MD 2024 Ten years after Victor Marchetti resigned from CIA and five years after publishing a scathing critique of his former employer “The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence”, the once assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA published his 1979 article,” HowContinue reading “Four Decades Ago, A Whistleblower Outlined the Rationale and Methods of the Executive Branch’s UFO Coverup. “

Science, Counterintelligence And UFOs

Researcher Val Germann wrote this important multi-part in-depth article in 1997. He presents a comprehensive critique of ufology’s attempt to use the scientific method as the paradigm for UFO investigations. Instead he proposes an intelligence-counterintelligence model as one that matches the extraordinary challenges posed by UFO intelligences to elite terrestrial forces responsible for the UFOContinue reading “Science, Counterintelligence And UFOs”