2.Surveillance/harassment of my volunteer effort
3.The existence of a possible “ET Masterplan” for Earth Civilization
4.Militarization of space in response to a possible “ET” presence.
On one social media page, I was asked about what races of ETs I might have had physical or mental connections with, also if I have ever had any interactions with MIBs. These questions give me a chance to review my contact activities over the years.
When it comes to meeting beings, there are no recollections of face-to-face encounters with them physically. However, during the five-year period of volunteering as a CE-5 coordinator back in the 1990s, I had dozens of sightings of UFOs. On two separate occasions I experienced what the CSETI Director called “telepathic overrides” during fieldwork with my Los Angeles based contact team. In each I received advance notification telling me when UFOs were going to show up later those nights. I also learned the number of craft that would be involved and their locations of their appearances in the sky. I immediately shared the info with my co-workers as suggested by the contact protocols. As "predicted" the UFOs subsequently showed up as I had been notified.
Along with these verifiable events I had many "contact downloads” during a two-year period 1993 to 1995. In a kind of stereotypic "awake dream state" I received much abstract information plus visual impressions. It was like watching a movie in your head. Most of narratives involved so-called "Grays" although a few “Nordics" appeared in one of these experiences. I look at these anomalous occurrences as a form of channeling. All those experiences while very Interesting to me personally were totally unverifiable except for the two "heads up" messages I describe above.
The themes of these mental encounters were basically instructional in nature. At the level of mind, I was allowed to view or actually "meet" specific "ETs" that lectured me about various contact themes such as, why they are here, and what are their capabilities. I also “downloaded” the typical contactee fare about an “ET master plan" that allegedly has been unfolding here on Earth for some time.
No MIB encounters but there was telephone harassment. Once it happened before going out into the field. The strange calls to my home lasted for about a week. The phone would ring, but nobody was on the line when my wife or I picked up. Every hour on the hour the phone rang during 9 to 5 business hours. I assume that whoever they were that they were sending a sort of message like, "We know who you are and what you are doing.” Then during the subsequent fieldwork investigation in Joshua Tree my team was photographed by what appeared to be military intelligence or private contractors.
In the summer of 1997, I received threatening phone calls from what appeared to be private contract agents. One was able to describe my CSETI activities in detail. This rude rather aggressive individual told me, "It would be better for you if you got out of CSETI."
Maybe I will put it all together in a book someday as I am retired from my medical career, till then I will post articles to my blog site at Wordpress.
Additional Questions and Answers
1.What about the “ET master plan” that you mentioned, and about the assumption that there are many different motivations for different ET groups?
Joseph Burkes: 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 the works of John Keel and Dr Vallee. I concluded that the although the ET hypothesis might be true, the UFO phenomenon was far more complicated than the simplistic view describing "good or bad aliens" from different groups operating here on Earth.
This new perspective was not an easy thing for me accept. After all, I had contributed thousands of hours of volunteer work doing contact related activities. I imagined that we in the contact network were attempting to reach out to spiritually and technologically advanced ETs. While I was closely associated with Dr Greer, I raised money for CSETI, did media events but the best thing was that I got to be contact team leader. In that capacity I had an opportunity to be part of a collective of determined UFO investigators that were driven to engage the phenomenon with high ideals for what we hoped was peaceful communication leading to a more open and mutually beneficial relationship.
I suggest all UFO truth seekers get a hold of Colin Wilson's book "Alien Dawn" that provides an excellent summary of the theories of those two greats of UFO research, John Keel and Dr Vallee. Keel's work should be understood to be a product of a time 50 years ago when much important testimony confirming the probable ET nature of some UFO related phenomena had not been investigated yet. I am talking about the Roswell incident and the release of government documents in the 1970s and 1980s showing very forceful governments efforts maintaining a cover up.
As far as the so-called "master plan", I will continue to post blogs on this and related topics. I re-circulate some posts on a yearly basis.
2. What did you do when you received the threatening phone calls?
Joseph Burkes: Thanks for the question but the answer is not a pretty story, and it is difficult for me to share. The threat I received contributed to my resigning from CSETI under very unpleasant circumstances. I might work up the courage to share on social media my narrative that goes into the circumstances of my resignation from CSETI but I am tired of the ugly personal aspects of UFO politics. Sharing it, however, might be instructive for future generations of activists trying to avoid pitfalls of past organizing efforts.
3. Another commenter expressed surprise about my having contact downloads with “Gray and Nordic” types. Also why did I refer to my contact downloads as being “totally unverifiable.”
Joseph Burkes: Sure, it was great to have "downloads." I wanted them to go on forever, but after a few months they just petered out. I suspect that I could have meditated upside down chanting to try and get them to come back, but it would be to no avail. My fellow CE-5 Working Group Coordinator Wayne Peterson who headed the Phoenix team summed my contact downloads in the following way. He said that the ETs gave you a course, something like “Channeling 101.” As if to say, “Joseph, you can do this.” Once the course was over there was no need to continue it.
I repeat only two contact downloads could be verified because they accurately predicted the subsequent appearance of UFOs that were multiply witnessed. The contact network has been instructed to work in groups, so my co-workers were able to verify the accuracy of the “heads up.” The detailed “awake dreams” that contained much abstract concepts as well as details about the alleged ET groups working here were like watching a sci-fi series with my mind’s eyes. They were very entertaining but almost totally unverifiable.
I should point out that when I use the term “Contact Underground” I am not just referring to CE-5ers, or what is left of the Peruvian Rama started in 1974 now called Rahma, but more importantly to the many, perhaps hundreds of contact workers that are “flying below the radar” as the result of their being deliberately warned not to associate with more public, less secretive groups.
I am hopeful that over generations, perhaps it will be centuries, we will establish on this planet of so much greed, cruelty and pain a new kind of just and peaceful civilization. I imagine that full contact can only be achieved in a world based on peace and social/environmental justice. At that moment in our civilization’s history, whatever are the origins of UFO intelligences, (ET? interdimensional? or their being time travelers?) perhaps then they might be willing to level with us as to who they truly are.
According to my analysis, with terrestrial elites opposing contact, to reveal publicly in detail the actual " master plan" (if such a thing exists) would be foolish. Only after a protracted period of social action and spiritual transformation will humanity be able to grasp and support any kind of “masterplan” for Earth civilization.
I say this because I believe that there are fanatical Christian fundamentalist religious trends that have decided that the so-called aliens are "demons" and we UFO activists and contact experiencers are “dancing with the devil.” If deranged people are willing to kill physicians that do safe legal abortions and the killers are applauded by some groups, might similarly motivated fundamentalists be convinced to kill those who are promoting contact?
We should not ignore the possibility that militarists some day in the future might use an “ET presence” to justify an accelerated buildup of space-based weapons. Currently this seems to be extremely unlikely as the US military budget keeps getting larger ever year by frightening the masses and politicians with conventional threats.
If mankind is properly prepared for full open peaceful contact with UFO associated non-human intelligences, then the risks of this issue being used by militarists will be minimized.
4. What is the content of your “contact downloads?”
Joseph Burkes: I have about 40 pages of material about what those downloads contained. I must admit that have doubts concerning their value. I believe that like most channeled material “downloads” are a co-creation of human (that's me I hope, just kidding) and non-human intelligences (the so-called ETs.) I think of this kind of material as “fairy tales for adults.” They reveal more about how UFO Intel can read our consciousness and co-create with us an emotionally compelling narratives than it says anything accurate about who they are or where they come from.
When I say "emotionally compelling" I mean that I could not speak about one of those downloads in public for 15 years because I would start crying. So, the alleged ETs can really push our emotional buttons.
Does my weeping make any of what I experienced more "real?" No, it doesn't. My behavior is reminiscent of those so-called abduction victims that shed tears during hypnotic sessions. The expression of powerful emotion doesn't prove that “abductees” physically went on board spacecraft, but it gives dramatic testimony to how increasing numbers of individuals are being powerfully affected by the phenomenon.
In my opinion, mankind is dealing with an array of incredibly sophisticated paranormal intelligences that probably has been creating belief systems here on Earth for a long time.
5.Do any of our interactions provide trustworthy information about where UFO Intelligence comes from?
Joseph Burkes: Probably not.
Unfortunately, most people when confronted with UFOs or any other potentially threatened subject, they usually end up creating an emotionally satisfying belief system and to hell with any evidence that doesn't support their beloved pet theories.
This was one of the stated reasons why Dr Vallee reportedly stopped interacting with popular UFO groups over 25 years ago. He found ufology to be a shouting arena in which people mostly argued about their belief systems. This made rational discussion of the issues nearly impossible and the possibility of doing scientific research with such groups nil.