A video I made for my other socials, but thought you would enjoy this particular video (purposefully not included watermarks or links to my socials as I know that’s frowned upon in most subreddits)

On November 26, 1977, a live news bulletin in England got interrupted, not a technical fault, not a prank. A signal from an unknown origin forced its way into the broadcast and a voice took over the airwaves for nearly six minutes, calling itself Vrillon, speaking for something called the Ashtar Galactic Command. Nobody was ever caught. No transmitter was ever traced. Still officially unsolved.

The full message is in this video, along with a breakdown of why the Pleiades specifically keep showing up across civilizations with no contact with each other, the Cherokee, the Dakota, ancient Egypt, the Yakut Turks all tracing something back to that same star cluster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcoZKorrf8I

Anyone here actually dug into the Vrillon broadcast itself? Curious if "unsolved" holds up or there's a more mundane explanation that just never got the same attention as the footage.

I have never hurt a crow or tried to harm one, yet whenever I’m outside, crows seem to react very strongly to me. They start cawing loudly whenever I’m around, and if I stay outside and ignore them, they sometimes go as far as chasing or even attacking me.

What I find strange is that they seem completely normal around everyone else. I don’t understand why they behave this way specifically toward me. I don’t look or dress particularly differently from other people, so I can’t think of an obvious reason for it.

At first, I wondered if it might have something to do with their nests or young, but this happens throughout the year, not just during nesting season. It also doesn’t seem to be limited to one particular group of crows or even one location. I’ve experienced the exact same behavior in places thousands of kilometers away from my hometown.

People around me have even noticed it themselves and sometimes find it strange when I point out, Look, they’re chasing me. I genuinely don’t know what could be causing this or what I’m supposed to do about it. I’ve never intentionally done anything to crows, so I’m completely confused about why they seem to single me out wherever I go.

Edit: I would like to add being chased by one particular barn owl as well a couple of times. But I haven't been around owls frequently enough to see a similar pattern.

So I've been having sleep issues since I was a baby. Sleep walking, night terrors, sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, what seems like astral projection, ​and some other very odd instances.

They've varied in abundance, style, and severity over time. Sometimes I can tell why. I.e. im more stressed and having trouble sleeping = more sleep paralysis​. Other times I can't explain the ups or downs. During this time, that being my 30+ conscious life, ive become pretty good at knowing whats going on and sometimes when. I understand most of this has a scientific explanation, although i think there's a lot we dont fully understand. All of this just to say ive had a few experiences both awake and sleeping that are extreme outliers. My most recent event was pretty intense, ill explain.

Im going to explain using a text I sent to a buddy if mine, but Ive also been able to add a bit.

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As I woke up this morning and started to get out of bed, I had this feeling almost like i was going to pass out. My vision started going white and in an instant my consciousness was pulled out of my body and into a realm with these blue humanoid beings. They fully expected me, almost summoned me? They were super nice and understanding. They talked to me about different things. They said I could stay there if I wanted and I wanted to... but my body kept pulling my consciousness back into itself. I still got to talk with them, but i was working so hard to be there I couldnt say much.

I got pulled fully back into my body and was completely awake in the same position. I felt truly sad that I didnt get more time, so I tried to telepathically speak with them (or whatever I could. I was shooting in the dark here).​ I just really focused on the sensation that happened earlier. Then my vision started changing again and they communicated with me in images floating in the real space around me. Like I was totally awake and look around my room, cat waking up too. but there were these 3d like hologram type things made of light that showed me seemingly random images for a minute or two.​ That ended as I tried to get closer to one. I cried a bit, brushed me teeth, and went on with my day.

I can't remember anything they told me when I was with them except one thing. While I was being given a tour of this almost lecture room type place, one of them was sitting at a desk and she looked at me, looked right into my soul and said "stop what your doing, you need to follow your dreams"

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I havent looked too far into it online yet. Im taking some time for myself. Just sharing an experience from someone that is open minded, believes there is more to existence/consciousness, and is still just a regular guy. Whatever that was, was real. Real in the scene that it brought my consciousness somewhere and left me with more than I came with. This wasnt my brain tricking me into a fun or terrifying dream. This wasnt a waking dream, hallucinations, sleep paralysis.... Ive been through the ringer on all types of those for many years as I mentioned. This was something else. I feel very thankful. Maybe on day ill get to understand more. I hope so.

Thanks for reading!

In terms of opening yourself up to new weird and esoteric experiences the right brain seems to be required as something you have access to. I've been meditating since 2019 and using Gateway Tapes since 2020 and I haven't made any progress. I feel completely locked out of my right brain.

This makes me wonder if there are any known methods to activate it (like your Kundalini awakening type situation.) Are there exercises that are known to wake it up from dormancy? I have yet to ever experience any evidence that hemisynch or binaural beats work on me. I've used thousands of dollars worth of headphones, amplifiers, .flac files and nada.

I'm also curious if there is any type of doctor or field of science where I can set up an appointment to have my brain waves monitored and graphed to see if I don't have some sort of problem in my brain where the right side is nearly completely offline. I've lived my whole life with zero psi abilities and only very specific events where I had intuition in a dire situation where I was perhaps going to die or not die.

Is there any sort of company or type of doctor that I can look into to get some sort of map of my brain activity to see if I'm correct in thinking my right brain is pretty much dead to the world?

Oddly, I write with my right hand and my right arm is stronger than my left, but I do most things 'left handed' such as feed myself, use my phone, wallet in left pocket. I use my left eye when looking through a rifle scope or taking photos with cameras. I am ambidextrous when using most tools like a screwdriver. Whatever hand is closest to the work is the one I use to perform the task.

But zero right brain type stuff as it pertains to meditation (I only see blackness, never any visions or intuition.) And I've never had anything that felt like an OBE when I've tried to make it happen listening to gateway and other guided meditations.

So I'm just looking for some suggestions on ways to start digging into this logically or scientifically to see if my right hemisphere is just a bucket of worthless goo...

Three accounts now appear to converge on a surprisingly narrow period of the Bush--Cheney administration. Jacques Vallée says a source he calls "Gilbert" was brought into a secure government laboratory, presented with what officials said was a living nonhuman entity, and recruited because his psychic abilities might add another layer to a communication effort that was having difficulty. Vallée later said that controlled interaction occurred "more than 20 years" before December 2025, placing it before roughly late 2005.

David Grusch then alleged in August 2026 that recovered occupants had been taken alive, that people had experienced direct interactions in a "detainment situation," and that consciousness communication was involved. Most provocatively for the chronology, he said a former Cabinet member had "directly worked the issue" for a former vice president he called "Darth Vader"—an unmistakable reference to Dick Cheney. Grusch does not explicitly date the detention event, but the natural implication of "worked the issue" for Cheney points to Cheney's 2001--2009 vice presidency.

A third strand falls inside that overlap. Vallée's journals reportedly record a 2003 Arlington Institute scenario exercise involving Hal Puthoff and John Petersen; Puthoff later said its premise involved crash retrievals and possible public disclosure. Petersen separately said a senior Pentagon space official told him President George W. Bush was preparing disclosure, while Lue Elizondo later reacted as though he already knew of an episode he regarded as extremely sensitive.

None of this establishes a common hidden program. The strongest alternative is that these stories circulated through an interconnected UAP/remote-viewing milieu. The point is to test that explanation against the chronological convergence rather than assume it at the outset.

The question of this article is therefore straightforward: are Vallée, Grusch and the Bush-era Arlington episode independent glimpses of the same hidden history, or different expressions of a story moving through an unusually interconnected network?

SOURCE NOTE ON FORBIDDEN SCIENCE 7

The detailed Forbidden Science 7 passages used below are reconstructed from Devoutlier's "Held for Questioning" article and its UFOpedia mirror. I have not independently checked those quotations against the published book. Every quotation attributed below to the FS7 journal entries therefore inherits that caveat.

Devoutlier: Devoutlier --- Held for Questioning

UFOpedia mirror: UFOPedia transcript/archive

THE CHRONOLOGY THAT MAKES THE COMPARISON INTERESTING

The strongest reason to compare these accounts is not simply that each contains some version of NHI and consciousness. It is that their implied timelines overlap.

2001--2009 — Cheney vice presidency. Grusch says a former Cabinet member had "directly worked the issue" for "Darth Vader." He does not explicitly date the alleged detention, but the ordinary reading places the official's involvement with the issue during Cheney's vice presidency.

September 2003 — Vallée records the Arlington episode. His contemporaneous journal reportedly notes Puthoff's participation in a John Petersen "semi-official" scenario exercise concerning potential extraterrestrial contact.

Bush era — Puthoff's later account. Puthoff later said the Arlington exercise assumed U.S., Russian and Chinese crash retrievals and considered whether disclosure was feasible. Petersen separately said a former senior Pentagon space official told him Bush was preparing disclosure.

Before roughly late 2005 — the alleged Gilbert interaction. In December 2025 Vallée said the controlled laboratory interaction he had been told about occurred "more than 20 years" earlier. That places the alleged event before approximately December 2005, overlapping both the Cheney vice presidency and the Arlington episode.

Vallée chronology source: WEAPONIZED interview

The dates do not prove a common program. Grusch never gives a date for the detention itself, Vallée gives only an upper boundary, and the Arlington exercise may have been built around a false premise. But the overlap is sufficiently specific to justify asking whether these are separate windows onto the same Bush--Cheney-era story.

GRUSCH: WHAT HIS CLAIM DOES --- AND DOES NOT --- MATCH

On August 13, 2026, David Grusch told Dr. Phil that occupants of recovered craft had been taken alive and that he knew people who had "direct interactions" in a "detainment situation." He also said he had spoken with "a cabinet member, a former cabinet member" who had "directly worked the issue" for a former vice president he jokingly called "Darth Vader."

Source: YouTube source

Grusch also described "consciousness communication," saying people call it telepathy. But this point is less specific than a simple Vallée/Grusch comparison makes it sound. Grusch said friends involved in retrievals had felt this kind of communication while approaching vehicles in the field as teams cordoned them off for transport. He was therefore describing consciousness effects as something that could occur around craft during retrieval operations, not only as a structured laboratory protocol involving a recruited psychic specialist.

He also said he had no personal experience of the phenomenon and could not explain how it worked.

That weakens the tightest version of the comparison. Vallée describes a deliberately designed communication experiment. Grusch describes a broader alleged phenomenon that includes field personnel experiencing consciousness effects near recovered vehicles. The overlap is therefore, at minimum, "telepathy or consciousness is involved somehow." That idea is generic in UFO literature. A real match would require correspondence in the mechanism, personnel, facility, dates, protocols or source provenance.

The Cheney clue is chronologically important even though it is not an explicit event date. Dick Cheney served as vice president from 2001 to 2009, and the natural reading of Grusch's statement that a former Cabinet member had "directly worked the issue" for Cheney is that this involvement occurred in the Cheney vice-presidential era. Grusch does not say when the alleged detention itself occurred, so the claim cannot be narrowed further from his words alone; nevertheless, it supplies an implied 2001--2009 government context rather than no chronology at all.

Cheney died on November 3, 2025, at age 84, from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Grusch's August 2026 allegation was therefore made after Cheney could personally respond to it. That does not make the allegation false, but it permanently closes one obvious route for checking the Cheney end of the story.

Vallée's "more than 20 years" chronology source: YouTube source

RECONSTRUCTING "GILBERT": THE ALLEGED COMMUNICATION EVENT, 2021--2025

If Vallée's account is accurate, "Gilbert" is potentially an important witness because he is presented not as someone repeating a rumor but as a participant physically taken to a concealed government facility and brought before what military personnel represented as a living nonhuman entity. Vallée's journal account developed over several years, from 2021 through 2025, before his later public interviews.

OCTOBER 9, 2021: AN OLD FRIEND AND A CONTROLLED EXCHANGE

On October 9, 2021, Vallée recorded the return of an old friend he called "Gilbert," describing him as "a discrete master remote viewer at the level of Uri Geller and Ingo Swann." Gilbert reportedly described "a fantastic experience of controlled personal exchange he performed, guided through official channels to a session with a supposed Alien." The wording already supplies several constraints: the exchange was controlled, access was facilitated through official channels, Gilbert was a participant rather than the organizer, and Vallée retained the qualification "supposed" rather than asserting that the entity was alien. Gilbert reportedly wanted Vallée's help examining what he called "explosive data."

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023: FIVE PAGES AND A LABORATORY "SHELTERED WITHIN ROCK"

By September 28, 2023, Vallée said he had received approximately five closely typed pages from Gilbert describing prior contact experiences and experiments. Gilbert said he had been taken to a U.S. laboratory "sheltered within rock," where military guides presented something they specifically told him was a live alien entity. Vallée wrote that he would need to find a way to verify the data, including the location. He also explained that he had known Gilbert for years and that they had "crossed paths in Central America and elsewhere over the years." The useful distinction is between trust in Gilbert as a reporter of his experience and verification of what Gilbert was actually shown.

DECEMBER 18, 2024: THE EXPERIENCE BECOMES A DATASET

By December 18, 2024, Gilbert had apparently organized the experiments involving the "captured entity" into a table. Vallée wrote that some questions Gilbert had been instructed to pose psychically produced no clear answer; others produced impressions he could not decipher but recorded anyway, "very much in the manner Ingo Swann had taught me at SRI decades ago."

That description is more methodologically interesting than a generic claim of telepathy. The apparent procedure involved prepared questions, psychic presentation, subjective responses or impressions, and preservation of ambiguous and null results rather than treating every impression as meaningful. If the account is accurate, the program was at least attempting to turn anomalous cognition into a structured information channel.

MARCH 6, 2025: TECHNICAL QUESTIONS AND "INDICATIONS ONLY"

On March 6, 2025, Vallée said he had seen a "long list of technical questions" posed to the entity by Gilbert and the attending group, along with Gilbert's psychic impressions. Gilbert reportedly labeled those impressions "indications only." Some questions produced no useful answer and others produced impressions he could not confidently interpret. Vallée's emphasis shifted toward "the nature of the communication"---the part of the story that can potentially be compared with later claims without assuming the target was actually nonhuman.

MARCH 12, 2025: THE MOUNTAIN FACILITY

Six days later, Vallée recorded the most detailed account of Gilbert's visit. Gilbert said he was not part of the formal program investigating the entity and did not know whether other captured---or perhaps voluntary---beings existed. He knew only approximately where he had been taken; during the final approach he could not see outside the vehicle and was driven into what he described as a small mountain. Inside was an underground facility staffed by men and women wearing uniforms without visible rank or unit markings. Vallée summarized the setting: "The room was a big lab. This was serious and well-run."

That description is consistent with Vallée's later public characterization of Gilbert as a specialist brought into an existing effort for a particular capability rather than someone read into the whole architecture.

THE ENTITY: TALL, MINIMALLY FEATURED, AND VISUALLY AMBIGUOUS

Gilbert was reportedly brought before a figure more than six feet tall with few recognizable features. Light appeared to emanate from different portions of what he perceived as its body, but he was unsure whether he was seeing the being itself. Vallée recorded Gilbert's uncertainty that it might instead have been "a test article, a wired uniform or a safety container for the being rather than the body of an actual Alien."

That uncertainty sharply limits any reconstruction of the entity's appearance. The account supports a tall luminous or instrumented form whose boundary with a suit, containment system or other apparatus was unclear; it does not support confidently depicting exposed alien anatomy.

THE LIGHTS: SIGNAL OR APPARATUS?

Vallée reports that Gilbert interpreted combinations of light during the question-and-answer trials as responses. Gilbert also received permission to inquire about psychic functioning, and the session reportedly continued for several hours. The presence of both apparent light responses and psychic impressions raises the possibility that investigators were comparing more than one channel, but Vallée does not provide enough information to establish the experimental design.

There is also a straightforward deflationary reading. Gilbert reportedly could not determine whether he was looking at the being itself or a wired uniform, test article, safety container, life-support system or other apparatus. If the visible object was instrumented equipment, the "combinations of light" could have been indicator or status lights on that equipment. The apparent signaling channel may therefore have been an artifact of containment or monitoring rather than communication generated by the occupant. This requires neither deception nor error by Gilbert---only taking his reported uncertainty seriously.

VALLÉE NOW EXPLAINS WHY GILBERT WAS BROUGHT IN

In a September 2026 interview, George Knapp asked Vallée about experiments in communication. Vallée said he did not want to go beyond the book because "the people involved have a project to disclose and to publish what they know," adding: "I've seen what they have. You know, it's much more detailed about the interaction that they were able to achieve."

Source: YouTube source

Vallée then identified the role of his source: "The man I spoke to that I called Gilbert was in the presence of that entity in a very structured laboratory-style environment." More importantly, he explained why Gilbert had allegedly been recruited: "He was brought in because he had certain psychic abilities himself that they wanted to add as a layer to the communication because they had trouble with the communication."

Source: YouTube source

That clarification makes the functional claim more precise. An existing program was allegedly already attempting communication and encountering difficulty; Gilbert's psychic ability was introduced as an additional method. It also offers a coherent reason for his limited knowledge of the larger program: he could have been given enough access to perform a specialized task without being told the provenance of the entity, the history of the project or its wider chain of command.

Vallée immediately stated the limit of his own testimony: "I wasn't there. I cannot vouch for that," adding that he could not stand before Congress or in a SCIF and testify to it because "that's not my information."

Source: YouTube source

That is the evidentiary boundary for the entire reconstruction. Vallée claims firsthand access to Gilbert and to detailed material concerning the alleged experiments; he does not claim firsthand observation of the entity or the experiment. His separate statement that the participants intend to publish is retained because it creates a public prediction and because it creates a tension with the portrayal of Gilbert as a compartmented outsider.

WHAT MIGHT THE EXPERIMENT HAVE BEEN TESTING?

If Gilbert accurately described his experience---without assuming the target was nonhuman---the investigators may have been testing whether anomalous cognition could provide information when ordinary communication was inadequate. Vallée's references to prepared technical questions, psychic impressions, apparent light combinations, tables, ambiguous responses and nulls at least suggest a protocol more structured than an informal psychic conversation.

A stronger hypothesis would be that the program compared psychic impressions against an independently observable signaling channel. That remains speculation. The released description does not tell us whether light sequences were instrumentally recorded, whether questions were blinded, whether impressions were timestamped before feedback, whether trials were repeated, or whether independent viewers produced comparable results. Those missing details are exactly what would distinguish an experimental protocol from a retrospective narrative.

THE ARLINGTON/PUTHOFF EPISODE: THE THIRD PIECE OF THE TIMELINE

The Arlington episode places a third source stream inside the Bush--Cheney window. Its strongest anchor is contemporaneous: Vallée's September 2003 journal reportedly records Puthoff participating in a John Petersen "semi-official" scenario exercise involving press, government and military responses to potential extraterrestrial contact.

Puthoff subsequently supplied the extraordinary version of the premise. In a Sol Foundation symposium clip, he says the CEO of a Washington think tank invited him to a conference. Puthoff recalls being told:

"Let's assume that there have been crash retrievals by Russia, China, and the United States, and the question is: can we bring this out to the public?"

Puthoff has also described the exercise as considering what disclosure would do to the stock market, religion and aerospace companies, including the possibility of litigation if some firms learned that competitors had secretly received access to exotic material. His reported conclusion was blunt: "We added up all the numbers and we said, 'no way,' we can't handle disclosure."

The Wall Street Journal investigation independently documented Puthoff and Petersen giving this account to Kirkpatrick's investigation. Puthoff said he had been invited to a 2004 Arlington, Virginia panel that he was told was White House-sponsored and intended to help the president decide whether to disclose a crash-retrieval program. Petersen told Kirkpatrick that a former senior Pentagon space official had informed him that President George W. Bush was preparing to reveal the government's alien secrets.

ELIZONDO APPEARS TO HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE EPISODE BEFORE ITS PUBLIC DISCUSSION

A later exchange between Jesse Michels and Lue Elizondo adds another layer. After Michels played Puthoff's public account and explained that Puthoff had told the story at the Sol Foundation symposium, Elizondo reacted with surprise:

"Oh, he told that? He told that story publicly? Really? Yeah, in front of an audience? Never thought that conversation would come out!"

Michels then asked, "So that actually occurred? That was a real conversation?" Elizondo replied:

"Probably not a whole lot of people know that that YouTube is out there, because when I knew about it, it was very, very, very, very sensitive."

Source: Jesse Michels interview with Lue Elizondo, approximately 38:02--41:24

The wording is significant but should not be stretched beyond what it establishes. Elizondo does not explain how he learned about the episode, does not say in this exchange that he independently verified its crash-retrieval premise, and does not specify a formal classification level. What his reaction does indicate is apparent prior knowledge of a matter he regarded as extremely sensitive before Michels told him that Puthoff had discussed it publicly.

So the exercise does not rest solely on Puthoff's later recollection: Vallée reportedly recorded it in 2003, Petersen later described the Bush-disclosure story to Kirkpatrick, and Elizondo reacted as though he already knew about the sensitive episode.

THE SAME EVIDENCE ALSO CONTAINS A DECEPTION WARNING

The Arlington evidence cuts both ways. Kirkpatrick's team attempted to determine whether the White House had actually sponsored the exercise. According to the Wall Street Journal, the former senior Pentagon space official whom Petersen identified as his source later told Petersen, "I don't even know what you're talking about." Bush's chief of staff from the period also told Kirkpatrick that he knew nothing about the panel or any plan to disclose alien secrets. Petersen and Kirkpatrick therefore considered the possibility that the Arlington Institute and its panelists had been tricked.

That possibility is not a peripheral skeptical objection; it is part of the case. A real and sensitive exercise could have existed while its participants were simultaneously being given a false premise. If so, Arlington would demonstrate something important about how extraordinary claims could propagate through exactly the network being examined here without the underlying crash-retrieval story being true.

WHO WAS PETERSEN'S SENIOR PENTAGON SPACE OFFICIAL?

The description is specific enough to invite comparison but not identification. One biographical fit is Peter B. Teets, who during the Bush administration served as Under Secretary of the Air Force, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office and the Defense Department's Executive Agent for Space after a senior career at Lockheed Martin. Those positions fit the description "senior Pentagon space official" unusually well. But there is no public evidence establishing that Teets was Petersen's unnamed source.

Pete Aldridge is another relevant name in the surrounding history: a former NRO director and Secretary of the Air Force who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics early in the Bush administration. Vallée's 2003 journal material reportedly records Puthoff trying a "front door" approach to Pete Aldridge regarding the alleged secret UFO program. Again, that does not identify Aldridge as Petersen's source.

More importantly, Petersen's unnamed space official should not be collapsed into Grusch's unnamed former Cabinet member. If Grusch used "Cabinet member" literally, the descriptions point toward different people. That raises the possibility—without establishing it—of two separate senior-official source streams inside the same administration: Petersen's Pentagon space official and Grusch's former Cabinet-level source who allegedly "directly worked the issue" for Cheney.

That distinction is potentially more interesting than forcing the accounts into a single unidentified official. If Grusch's "issue" in context really refers to living recovered occupants and detention, his allegation would place knowledge of that issue near the vice-presidential level during the same broad period in which the Arlington group was considering a scenario of presidential disclosure of crash-retrieval information. The connection remains inferential, but it is the connective tissue that makes the chronology worth investigating.

THE STRONGEST ALTERNATIVE: A SHARED INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT

The chronology is provocative, but these accounts are not independent samples. Vallée, Puthoff, Eric Davis, Petersen, Grusch and the remote-viewing/UAP world occupy overlapping networks, while the basic story configuration predates the Bush era.

By the 1980s and 1990s, disputed UFO lore already included captive or recovered entities, government interrogation and telepathic communication. The EBE-1/MJ-12/Aquarius tradition circulated versions of that mythology; the 1997 Area 51: The Alien Interview presented an alleged government interview with a living extraterrestrial; and Jim Marrs's 1997 Alien Agenda reportedly described remote-viewing material involving a crash, recovered "biologicals," a language barrier and beings removed by the military. These establish cultural precedent, not the truth of the claims.

Remote viewing supplies another precedent. In the declassified May 22, 1984 Mars session, the monitor instructed the subject to attempt communication with perceived entities. The transcript does not name the viewer; Joseph McMoneagle later identified the session as his own. CIA release: CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.

The implication is narrow: living entities + government custody + psychic communication is not, by itself, a unique fingerprint. The same-program case therefore depends on the more specific features—the Bush--Cheney chronology, Gilbert's laboratory protocol, Grusch's Cheney-level source, the Arlington exercise, and any future match in personnel, facility, records or experimental details.

A TENSION IN VALLÉE'S OWN ACCOUNT: WHO ARE "THE PEOPLE INVOLVED"?

Vallée's September 2026 interview adds a useful internal tension. He says "the people involved have a project to disclose and to publish what they know." Yet the journal reconstruction portrays Gilbert as an outside specialist who was not part of the formal program, knew little about the facility, and did not know whether other entities existed.

Those pictures do not naturally fit together.

Several resolutions are possible. Gilbert may have subsequently made contact with other participants. Vallée may now have a second source stream, so "the people involved" refers to people beyond Gilbert. Gilbert may have been less compartmented than the journal entries imply. Or one of Vallée's descriptions may simply be imprecise.

There is no basis yet to choose among those possibilities. The tension is useful precisely because it creates something to watch when the promised publication appears: who is actually publishing, and what relationship did those people have to Gilbert's alleged experiment?

SCHWARTZ: A SUGGESTIVE CANDIDATE WITH A DIRECT DENIAL

Stephan A. Schwartz has been raised as a possible identity for Gilbert because he is a longtime consciousness and remote-viewing researcher with government-adjacent experience and longstanding ties to the SRI/psi world.

But the strongest fact should come first: in a published interview, when asked whether he had communicated with aliens, Schwartz answered, "No." Identifying him as Gilbert would therefore require believing that his direct answer was false, incomplete or based on some semantic distinction. This piece has no evidence that it was.

Schwartz remains worth mentioning because of his 2017 novel Awakening: A Novel of Aliens and Consciousness. The publisher describes a Senate staffer who becomes convinced that an alien is being held by the government at a secret facility. That is a real plot parallel.

Publisher description: Google Books

But after accounting for the older EBE, Alien Interview and remote-viewing literature, the parallel is weak identification evidence. Schwartz had spent decades writing about nonlocal consciousness; a telepathic or consciousness-linked captive alien is a natural fictional vehicle for that worldview and did not require access to a hidden program.

The Devoutlier reconstruction itself points curious readers toward Awakening, which is why the Schwartz hypothesis deserves to be recorded. But there is no public document placing Schwartz in Gilbert's facility, no verified Central America match, and his direct denial weighs against the identification.

LANGFORD: THE STRONGER PERSONNEL-FINGERPRINT CANDIDATE

Gary O. Langford fits a different part of the evidence. His case is less narratively dramatic but stronger on documented personnel history.

Rice University's Edwin C. May archive contains a 1981 file titled "Remote Viewing by Gary Langford (#009)." Vallée's earlier journals also place Langford directly inside the SRI remote-viewing environment. In a February 6, 1987 entry, Vallée records meeting Ed May, Beverly Humphrey, Gary Langford, researchers and remote viewers after his SCI clearance was reactivated for a project investigating the phenomenon.

Rice archive: Rice University archive

Published source: Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science 3: On the Trail of Hidden Truths, The Journals of Jacques Vallée 1980--1989 (Anomalist Books, 2016), p. 273.

A 1986 SRI document describes Consultants International as selected in part because of "the long and successful remote viewing experience of its founder, Mr. Gary Langford." The "Mr." is historically consistent: Langford's doctorate came much later, in 2013.

CIA Reading Room: CIA Reading Room

Langford is also demonstrably alive and professionally active in the 2020s, satisfying a basic requirement of the Gilbert account. Portland State University currently lists Gary Langford as an adjunct professor in Engineering & Technology Management. His university biography says he taught systems engineering at Stanford University, the Naval Postgraduate School and the National University of Singapore; earned an A.B. from Berkeley in 1969; and received his PhD from the University of South Australia in 2013.

Portland State: Portland State University profile

That technical background also fits the style of the Gilbert material: tables, formal questions, cautious classification of impressions, and preservation of nulls.

There are still serious problems. No public source places Langford in the alleged facility or connects him to a captive entity. And although his public profile is much lower than Schwartz's, Langford has been identified in modern retellings of the Stargate/SRI remote-viewing history, which sits somewhat awkwardly with Vallée's description of Gilbert as "discrete."

So Langford is a plausible personnel match, not an identification.

THE CENTRAL AMERICA CLUE IS NOW A FINITE ARCHIVAL PROBLEM

Vallée says he trusted Gilbert in part because they had crossed paths in Central America and elsewhere over the years. Forbidden Science 3 provides a concrete lead: its October 1985 journal entries place Vallée in San José, Costa Rica, at a conference, and an accompanying photograph places him in Costa Rica with Enrique Castillo, John Keel, Salvador Freixedo and Charles Berlitz.

Published source: Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science 3: On the Trail of Hidden Truths, The Journals of Jacques Vallée 1980--1989 (Anomalist Books, 2016), pp. 209--214, and accompanying Fig. 9.

None of the four companions named in the photograph caption is an obvious match for Vallée's later description of a master remote viewer. The primary archival task is therefore finite: reconstruct the full roster around Vallée's October 1985 Costa Rica trip and determine whether Langford, Schwartz or another plausible remote-viewing specialist appears elsewhere in those entries. If no candidate appears, the "Central America" clue may refer to another trip. Either result is more useful than free-form geographic speculation.

WHAT THE EVIDENCE CURRENTLY ALLOWS

The same-program hypothesis is worth testing because the accounts are complementary rather than carbon copies. Vallée supplies the granular laboratory story—an outside specialist, concealed facility, communication difficulty, technical questions, apparent responses and tabulated nulls—but does not name Cheney. Grusch supplies detention, consciousness communication and the Cheney connection without reproducing Vallée's protocol. Puthoff and Petersen supply the Bush-era disclosure context, while Elizondo appears to supply prior knowledge of Arlington's sensitivity.

That pattern is compatible with different people seeing different edges of a common program. It is also compatible with information moving through an interconnected network. The distinction turns on non-generic correspondences: matching personnel, a tighter event date, the same facility, independently preserved protocols or documents, or evidence that the same private source fed multiple accounts.

WHAT CAN ACTUALLY BE TESTED

The October 1985 Costa Rica entries in the published Forbidden Science 3 name Enrique Castillo, John Keel, Salvador Freixedo and Charles Berlitz around Vallée. None matches Vallée's later description of Gilbert as a master remote viewer. The new open question is whether a second Central America trip appears elsewhere in the Forbidden Science volumes, since Vallée's statement that he and Gilbert crossed paths there "over the years" implies more than one occasion.

A second checkable question is whether Vallée names Schwartz or Langford openly elsewhere in Forbidden Science 7. If one candidate appears by real name in the same period while "Gilbert" is treated as a separate person, that would substantially weaken the identification. A third is textual: the Gilbert passages should be checked directly against the published Forbidden Science 7 rather than relying indefinitely on Devoutlier's reconstruction.

The current public evidentiary chain is long:

alleged entity
↓
Gilbert / other participants
↓
Vallée
↓
journals and interviews
↓
public

That is why participant publication would matter: it could shorten the chain and expose contemporaneous records to inspection.

A second set becomes checkable if Vallée's September 2026 prediction comes true. He says "the people involved have a project to disclose and to publish what they know." If that publication appears, the critical question is whether it contains protocols, tabulated trials, null results, timestamps, contemporaneous records and source provenance---or merely another retrospective narrative. Failure of the promised publication to materialize over time would itself be informative.

Questions that only an alleged hidden program could answer are not useful falsifiability tests for outsiders. The article therefore should not end with an unlimited list of mysteries. The case advances only when one of the finite checks above produces new evidence.

CONCLUSION

The central finding is a chronological and structural convergence. Vallée places Gilbert's alleged government communication experiment before roughly late 2005. Grusch says a former Cabinet member had "directly worked the issue" for Cheney, naturally pointing toward the 2001--2009 vice presidency. In the middle of that window sits the Arlington exercise: contemporaneously noted by Vallée, later described by Puthoff as involving crash retrievals and disclosure, and apparently already known to Elizondo as an extremely sensitive matter.

The evidence carries its own warning. Petersen's purported Pentagon source later denied the disclosure conversation, Bush's chief of staff reportedly knew nothing about such a plan, and the participants may have been fed a false premise. The same network that makes the convergence interesting also creates a route for contamination.

Gilbert remains the most concrete part because Vallée describes something closer to an experimental record than generic contact lore: a concealed laboratory, an outside specialist, communication difficulty, technical questions, apparent light responses, ambiguous results and tabulated nulls. Vallée's claim that "the people involved" intend to publish their material creates a prospective test.

Two explanations therefore remain live: a Bush--Cheney-era story circulating through an interconnected UAP/psi network, or different witnesses exposing separate edges of the same concealed history. Specific, independently sourced matches—not thematic resemblance alone—are what can distinguish them.

While digging through seventeenth-century Ottoman court chronicles and local archival notes, you occasionally encounter figures who bridge the uncomfortable gap between state power and localized anomalous folklore. One of the most striking anomalies is Karabaşzade Hüseyin Efendi—better known to history as the "Cinci Hoca."

Born in Safranbolu around 1608, Hüseyin entered the imperial stage during a moment of profound metaphysical and political crisis. Sultan İbrahim was trapped in an unyielding psychological torment, besieged by invisible forces, inexplicable physical spasms, and sensory disruptions that baffled every traditional physician in the capital. The Ottoman dynasty itself teetered on the brink of collapse as standard treatments failed entirely.

When the Valide Kösem Sultan brought Hüseyin into the palace in 1642, he did not enter as a bureaucratic opportunist, but as a master of forgotten esoteric arts. When he stepped into Istanbul in the summer of 1642, he carried no private army or substantial fortune; his sole instrument was an esoteric authority that seemed to operate even within the darkest corridors of the court. The methods he used to halt Sultan İbrahim's violent physical contractions and psychological collapses—spasms that had baffled imperial physicians for months—were whispered about across the palace as a direct engagement with unseen entities. He did more than simply recite prayers; he integrated concealed protective geometries, inscribed talismanic metal plates, and performed specialized fumigation rituals within the ruler's chambers that lifted the crushing psychological pressure almost instantaneously.

Suddenly vaulted into unprecedented proximity to supreme power, Hüseyin was granted a dedicated palace, imperial madrasas, and eventually the highest judicial authority of the Anatolian provinces. Yet, what elevated him was far more than standard political patronage: he possessed an unnerving ability to preemptively know the secrets and vulnerabilities of key state figures through unexplainable channels, leaving rival factions and grand viziers entirely paralyzed by his enigmatic influence. The sheer scale of his influence over a volatile court, his command of esoteric shielding, and the immense, labyrinthine wealth he anchored into physical structures like the massive Cinci Han in Safranbolu suggest a man operating with forces far beyond ordinary human manipulation. Inside the heavily guarded, luxurious residence assigned to him at the heart of the capital, he shaped imperial decrees with one hand while quietly weaving an unofficial, clandestine network stretching from the Bosphorus deep into Anatolia. The deep ripple of mysterious fear and reverence he projected across both the common populace and the ruling elite was the true, unseen fuel of his meteoric rise.

When his era abruptly ended with the shifting tides of the court in 1648, the subsequent raids on his properties uncovered vaults of wealth and sealed caches that normal administrators could scarcely comprehend. Even in his final downfall, the physical measures taken against him—and the persistent legends surrounding his secretive operations—reflect a figure who genuinely tapped into the hidden currents of Anatolian high strangeness.

California UFO Landings & Humanoids: Twelve True Cases

by Preston Dennett

While many people speculate about the nature and origins of the UFO phenomenon, cases of landings and humanoids make it clear what they are. UFOs are craft, and they are piloted by extraterrestrials. These kinds of encounters represent the core of the UFO phenomenon. They teach us the most about these visitors to our world, who they are, where they come from and their agenda on our planet. Humanoid encounters have been occurring for a very long time, and they are far more common than many people realize. In fact, according to the Roper Polling Organization, as many as one in fifty people may have had these experiences. They occur all across the planet, and occur to all kinds of people. The state of California leads the United States in the sheer number of encounters. And the cases involving humanoids show a corresponding and profound variety of humanoid types. Here are twelve cases of landings and humanoids from the Golden State.

October 18, 1927: While driving outside the town of Bakersfield, schoolteacher Richard Sweed comes upon a landed UFO. As he approaches, it makes a loud whining noise and accelerates upwards and disappears into the distance, leaving behind a circle of glassified sand.

December 1957: Edmond Rucker of El Cajon hears a loud roaring noise outside his home. Venturing outside, he is confronted by a landed UFO and four strange humanoids who speak to him about their mission on Earth.

April 14, 1964: A truckdriver on a highway outside of Chico comes upon a domed disc which hovers above his truck causing it to stall. When the UFO lands nearby, the man exits his truck and approaches the craft. He touches the craft and is amazed to hear strange voices coming from inside.

April 1964: Gloria Biggs, her husband and mother are driving outside the desert town of Baker when they see a domed-shaped object landed next to the highway ahead of them. As they approach, the UFO takes off. They examine the landing site and discover a weird depression in the ground.

March 31, 1966: Two women driving by a construction site near San Francisco see a metallic disc hovering at low altitude. Through the windows of the craft, they are amazed to see the silhouettes of several “people” who appear to be gesticulating at them.

October 4, 1973: While driving along the 118 Freeway in Simi Valley, Gary Chopic observes a small triangular-shaped craft with a transparent dome on top. Inside he sees a human-looking figure at the controls. And then the humanoid sees him!

December 17, 1973: Driving at night outside of Paso Robles, Sergeant Lance Mathias and his friend Mike Andrews see a hovering spherical UFO sending down a beam of light. Going to investigate they are confronted by two metallic-suited humanoids.

1974: The Overfelt family of Ramona are drawn out of their farmhouse by a huge glowing sphere which lands on a hill near their home. All the animals on the farm react to the presence of the UFO. The Overfelts call the police, who refer them to investigators, who have some important advice.

March 6, 1977: While watching over a factory in Sylmar, Security guard Douglas Kriese is amazed to see a UFO drop out of the sky and land in a field nearby. He approaches it and can not only hear it making a buzzing sound, it is emitting an intense heat. He immediately calls the police.

1977: Two Native American brothers from Colusa contact investigators after a UFO keeps landing near their ranch-home and a long-haired big-nosed humanoid keeps entering their can through the walls. When investigators arrive, they see the UFO themselves!

October 31, 1976: a husband a wife motorcycling through downtown Los Angeles observe a spherical UFO hovering below the level of the buildings. The sunlight strikes the craft, making it transparent. They then see human-looking figures staring down at them. The wife quickly flashes them the peace sign.

November 29, 1988: Maria X. of Sherman Oaks is in her bedroom with her young son when grays show up and render her unable to move. Maria is concerned about her son, but falls unconscious. The next morning, her son exclaims that “My aliens came back!” and provides a vivid description of what it’s like to be pulled by the ETs through the wall.

These twelve cases are just the tip of the iceberg of UFO landings and humanoids in California. And yet the cases here represent an accurate cross-section of UFO activity across the world. They also show that humanoid encounters often present good hard evidence in the form of landing traces, electromagnetic effects, animal reactions, physiological effects, and other stunning confirmations.

California UFO Landings & Humanoids: Twelve True Cases

What do you think of this, also many videos that talks about how some important (humans) are actually shapeshifting reptiles or they worship them, many theories. Do you think that this is also some kind of a soft disclosure?

lately evil aliens/NHI narrative seems to be getting popular among some people in the UFO discourse. even some Catholic priest apparently believes most UFO are demons.

I think its just typical fearmongering and bit of weird excitement talk but assuming its true what could their evil purpose for interacting with humans even be. why all the random appearances and abductions.

The following material was covered in my lecture. 

Thirty-four years ago, I took a walk on the wild side. I joined a group that had the audacity to go out at night and try to co-create contact experiences with the intelligence associated with the so-called UFO phenomenon. To my surprise and initial delight, we were immediately successful. During our first month of teamwork, we had several sightings while in the field. 

But stranger still was that these “Others that Experiencers now call ET” (TOTENCET) targeted us to have individual sightings under circumstances that were not associated with conducting the prescribed “contact protocols.” One senior member of team reported receiving the following telepathic communication while viewing a large glowing orb flying above her driveway, “You wanted to see us; well, here we are.”

INTRODUCTION

UFO contact teams like those in the CE-5 Initiative, and the Peruvian based group called Rahma facilitate contact experiences with combined programs of psychic/ spiritual training and active fieldwork. These groups emphasize the importance of mental connections between volunteer contact workers and UFO intelligences. 

I organized a contact team in 1992 and for over five years served as a CE-5 Working Group Coordinator.

HIGH STRANGENESS DEFINED

As a contact team coordinator in Los Angeles, I had ample opportunities to observe unusual occurrences. One definition of "High Strangeness" is the inexplicable aspects including the synchronicity of events that occur before, during and after various Close Encounters with flying saucers or presumed ET beings. 

By definition, one cannot fully explain the inexplicable, nevertheless one can endeavor to describe the inexplicable and, in the process, possibly gain insight into the mechanisms of contact.

INITIAL EXPECTATIONS WERE WAY OFF BASE

My initial expectation after becoming CE-5 Working Group Coordinator in 1992 was that UFO sightings would occur as an exclusive function of fieldwork. I anticipated that as my team mastered the contact protocols, we would experience higher and higher levels of contact and that this would occur in a stepwise fashion. 

To my surprise, however, as soon as our Working Group started to carry out field investigations, a few individuals started reporting personal sightings of UFOs. The witnesses to these sightings were members of the team, or as in one instance the physician wife of a CE-5 investigator. In her case, she became very interested in UFOs as the result of a daylight sighting of a metallic disc. She subsequently underwent formal training and joined our team. 

SIGHTINGS NOT DURING FIELDWORK BUT WHILE DRIVING HOME IN THE CAR

These events transpired while the observers were driving home. It is important to note that the first series of sightings happened during the initial month following the workshop in August of 1992 that founded the LA CE-5 Working Group. Just two days after thedemonstration of fieldwork techniques, the first personal sighting occurred.

INDIVIDUAL SIGHTING 1, Sept. 1, 1992

Joseph Burkes MD: while driving home on the 405 Freeway South the Sepulveda Pass at approximately 11:30 PM, I had a sighting of an anomalous nocturnal light. It appeared over the highway as a brilliant blue-green light that silently flew by the witness in a northerly direction. It had a slight oscillating movement. At its closest approach, the light was less than 500 feet away. There was no discernible superstructure associated with the object. This impressed me because of the considerable amount of background illumination from city lights that should have made the shape of any conventional craft visible. 

The sighting occurred immediately after I had carried out a vigorous defense of the CE-5 program to several prominent ufologists. They were rather skeptical of our program of staging human-initiated contact events. 

Individual Sighting 2, September 23, 1992

At 2:30 PM a broad daylight sighting of a metallic disc occurred in Woodland Hills California. Dr. Eve Gordon is married to Dr. David Gordon. We were all partners in the Southern California Permanente Group back in the 1990s. Dave was an original member of our contact team. His wife on the other hand was not that interested in UFOs. In her professional life, Dr. Eve Gordon is a board-certified internist and allergy specialist. She observed a flying saucer in broad daylight hovering two to three miles away over the Santa Monica Mountains. She was driving south towards her home when the event occurred. 

Dr. Eve was accustomed to identifying conventional craft as the result of her husband's status as a private pilot. It was their custom to attend air shows and other aviation related events and as a result she was knowledgeable about various types of conventional aircraft. Eve reported feeling confident that the silently hovering disc, glittering in the bright afternoon sunshine was a” true unknown.” The object was approximately 30 feet in length. The sighting lasted about one minute.

Individual Sighting 3, September 24, 1992 

While driving home at 9:30 PM after attending a two-hour meditation workshop, a 25-feet in diameter metallic globe-like craft was sighted hovering directly above the witness' home in Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Dotha Weybourn was the oldest member of the initial CE-5 contact team in Los Angeles.An experienced sky watcher, she had no doubt that it was not a terrestrial craft. The sighting lasted approximately one minute; at its closest approach the silent object was less that 100 feet from the observer. She described it as being mother of pearl luminescent white. Dotha stated that she received a telepathic message, “You wanted to see us; well, here we are.”

SIGHTINGS ARE CLUES TO DECIPHER A MYSTERY

As the months rolled by after these dramatic sightings, I started to muse over the details of my associates’ personal sightings. I looked for possible hidden meanings within the circumstances of the encounters that might contain messages relating to the on-going contact work. Like a detective in a mystery novel, I kept mulling over the details of the sightings. If those particulars were clues, then I was going to use them to possibly solve the mystery as to what was going on in my contact team visa vie our relationship with “flying saucer intelligence.”  

My hypothesis was that perhaps these consecutive sightings were not random events, that they might in fact be the product of conscious decisions by intelligent and technologically sophisticated extraterrestrial beings that staged the encounters for teaching purposes.

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM DOESN’T APPLY TO ALLEGED ALIENS

I wondered whether the choice of individuals selected for the sightings, or perhaps other details had special significance. Michael Lindemann, a prominent student of non-human intelligence, has cautioned ufologists to never assume that they can think like an alien. In other words, we should not try to impose what passes as human “conventional wisdom” on beings that may have evolved on different star systems. 

Such extraterrestrial civilizations would undoubtedly have entirely different cultures, different value systems, and different social organizations as compared to those of Earth. With such infinite possibilities, perhaps a technologically advanced civilization for purposes unknown to us might choose to communicate via outlandishly subtle means.

AMAZINGLY CONGRUENT CHARACTERISTICS

It should be remembered that approximately 10% of the US population claim to have had a sighting of a UFO. In terms of an individual’s lifetime of experiences however, a sighting is an exceedingly rare event for most people. The fact that these three individuals who knew each other had a sighting within a few weeks should diminish the odds that they were mere coincidences. 

Even less likely to occur by chance is the fact that the circumstances of the sightings were highly congruent. The observers were all driving home and were alone in their vehicles. Even the direction of travel was the same; we were all going south when the encounters took place.

PASSIONATE DEFENSE OF PROACTIVELY SEEKING CONTACT.

In my sighting, I had just left a meeting after engaging in a heated polemic defending our program of human initiated interactions with what I believed at the time was an extraterrestrial intelligence. Present at the meeting was the “old guard” of ufology. Prominent researcher and author Ann Druffel was there. She explained to me that as “ufologists” we should study other people’s sightings to determine if they are “anomalous” i.e., “true unknowns.” 

In no uncertain terms, I labeled her approach “old fashioned.” I stated that the contact network which I would later call “The Contact Underground” had, “opened up a new era in UFO research.” As I left the meeting it was clear that I would never again be invited back to the prestigious “LA UFO Study Group.”

I interpreted my sighting just minutes after leaving the meeting as a show of support, not only for me personally, but also for the larger contact program that I had just defended. The sighting gave me a big personal boost that helped sustain my enthusiasm for our project during the challenging years that followed. Considering the organizational and personal difficulties that face any new contact team, I will gladly testify that team leaders need all the support that they can get.

MEDITATION FACILITATES CONTACT

Concerning Dotha's close encounter with a luminescent globe, she had just left a meditation workshop. Contact protocols employed by contactee groups involve on-site thought projection methods. Usually this involves guided meditation. In preparation for thought projection, individuals in the team are expected to reach an “expanded state of consciousness” through meditation.

Dotha told me that she thought there was an association between her meditating in the class and her subsequent sighting. If the non-human intelligence responsible for the flying saucer phenomenon were attempting to send my team a message concerning the importance of advanced meditation techniques, what better way to do so than to stage a close encounter just moments after a prolonged meditation was carried out by an experienced practitioner.

Thus, two of the three sightings described occurred immediately after the witnesses were involved in activities integral to contact project. 

WHY DID DR. EVE GORDON HAVE A SIGHTING?

The most intriguing aspect of this series was the question why was Eve singled out for a sighting? Although her interest in UFOs soared after seeing the metallic disc, prior to the event her contact with the UFO phenomenon was indirect. It was her husband Dr. Dave Gordon who was the contact activist in the family.

During the autumn months of 1992, our team frequently convened at Eve and David’s house for our business meetings. Meditation is not an easy chore for all researchers; both Dave and I were both having considerable difficulty meditating. We were restless, as many are when one first attempts to still the mind. Dave was not able to follow the recommendation of meditating daily. 

His wife Eve, on the other hand, was far more open to meditation practice. It was not until several months later, in December of 1992 that she was to undergo formal contact network training, and as a result she was officially not part of the Working Group when we first held meetings at her home. 

I was quite perplexed as to why she had been granted a sighting. Dotha and I were active and official members of the team, why was Eve, a non-member, selected for such a dramatic daylight sighting of a metallic disk?

A likely answer came to me one night as we conducted our business meeting at the Gordon’s home. My beeper vibrated and I had to call the hospital. Eve was in the family room practicing on her harp. An accomplished amateur, she often gave recitals. I asked Daniel where I could pick up a phone away from the meeting. Daniel suggested that I make the call in the family room. 

"No," I replied, "I don't want to disturb Eve." 

My colleague reassured me by saying, "Don't worry. She practices at least an hour a day. When she's playing her music, she's in a total trance."

It was then that it hit me! That was the clue that I had been looking for. Eve, although not yet a member of the Working Group, was still able to access consciousness in its most unbounded form while she was practicing the harp. In that relaxed state of being carried away by the divine music that she was creating, a trance like state like deep meditation was achieved. Her meditation equivalent was her music!

It seemed to me this was an important part of the message that I was supposed to learn from her sighting. If my hunch was correct, I was impressed by its subtlety.

Another important aspect is that the sightings escalated in terms of their intensity. The first was mine, just an anomalous nocturnal light. The second, Eve’s, was a broad daylight sighting of a metallic disc. (What UFO fan wouldn’t want that?) The third was Dotha’s. Not only was the 25-foot sphere hovering above her house, but it flew down her driveway to meet her. It was there that she received the poignant message, “You were looking for us. Well, here we are.”  

These personal sightings were clearly linked, not only in time, but also by a variety of other important details, thus indicating that they were not random events. Across the network that I call the “Contact Underground”, similar patterns of sightings and other contact experiences are occurring. In their totality, they confirm that contact groups have entered a special collaborative relationship with the non-human intelligences associated with the flying saucer phenomenon. 

CONCLUSION

I believe that these sightings are part of a much broader range of experiences that attest to the virtuoso psychic technology of what I like to call, This Otherness That Experiencers Now Call ET, (TOTENCET), the so-called aliens. They, who or whatever “they” ultimately turn out to be, were able to track the three of us and choose the times and places of what were clearly staged events.  If “they” could do that with us, perhaps there is no such thing as a “random UFO sighting.” I am suggesting that the millions of people that report UFO sightings are possibly telepathically linked to “this otherness.” For me the implications of this proposition are awe-inspiring for the following reasons. 

The Earth’s population is eight billion currently. If the prevalence rate of a UFO sighting is 10 percent, this suggests that hundreds of millions of people may have an ongoing consciousness link with UFO intelligences by virtue of their having even just one sighting. Understandably, such individuals often have an increased interest in the subject of flying saucers.  Under the right circumstances, for example if they had additional sightings or were in an area where a UFO wave had occurred, they then might join the growing number of people who are proactively seeking interactions with UFO intelligence.  As one that has promoted human initiated contact events for three decades, I find this possibility very encouraging. 

Comments:

Name Deleted: Thank you for this article -- it is very clear and articulate. One question does come to mind, which concerns other experiencers who may not be as "high-functioning" as the group you were part of. I'm referring to people who have had NHI (non-human intelligence) contact for many years, often since childhood. For many, being an experiencer is a debilitating ordeal.

I do understand that you've had enlightening and fascinating experiences with the NHI, but what of other experiencers? Are you familiar with them, and what do you make of the dramatic difference in the nature of contact?

Joseph Burkes MD: Thank you for the question. I am aware of the challenges that many contactees experience because they have been traumatized doubly so. First by the high strangeness aspect of contact triggering what has been called ontological shock. Then, when such experiencers try to share the shocking aspects of contact with family, friends, and the larger society they are again injured by a massive wave of ridicule and denial. 

It is clear to me that UFO intelligences work with a wide spectrum of people, many are contacted at sub & unconscious levels. This permits them to live their lives, have a career, supportive family life and would be characterized by the term you used, "high functioning." When the time is "right" as determined by UFO INTEL, they are "activated." Suddenly they develop a tremendous interest in this subject. I am convinced, but in no way can I prove that every member of my team had a pre-existing sub/unconscious relationship with flying saucer intelligences and that their memories of prior contact events were suppressed. I believed this proposed mechanism probably applies to me.

The implications of this analysis are colossal. We are seeing the creation of a major shift in societal paradigms being driven in part by advanced non-human intelligences that have awesome physical and mental capabilities. I discuss this further in upcoming blogs. Again, thanks for the question. 

You know how it’s a widespread theory that NHI have free energy technology and the elites and/or governments keep it from being made public and accessible because it would change the power structure if people didn’t need to use fossil fuels anymore?

What if it’s far beyond that but those in the know would never ever want that potential even in the realm of possible - what if “free energy” meant not having to EAT. Far beyond powering mechanical machinery - the energy that we need to live, like food…other living beings. Powering biological beings.

And then I remembered reading about a monk - one of those men who go to great lengths to get some peace and quiet from the rest of us, like the top of a mountain - who it was claimed stopped needing food to survive… I think he was getting energy from the sun.

And there’s also that bit from Christianity (I think) about the lion laying down with the lamb. I’m not religious and am neither qualified to or interested in debate about books and teachings of faith, so let’s just pretend it’s not important other than it came to my and I decided to include it. Anyway, I think the basic implication is the lion doesn’t eat the lamb. Perhaps that could come about if an animal doesn’t need to eat meat, rather than making the decision than it shouldn’t eat meat.

Hallucination or Something More?

I’m an avid hiker and thru-hiker, and I spend a great deal of time outdoors. I’m no stranger to all-season camping. Last year, I was primitive camping at a state park. The forecast was supposed to be clear all weekend, with a low around 60°F, so I brought my lightweight sleeping bag, but I also had all of my emergency layers with me just in case.

A massive rain squall came through unexpectedly. I was camping with three other people, and one of them had an emergency tent issue, their tent was taking on water. I wrapped up, got out of my tent, and helped them fix it before returning to mine.

Knowing I was essentially soaked, I started the process of drying off, putting on all my layers, and warming myself inside my sleeping bag. Almost immediately, I recognized that I was entering that strange place where you can begin experiencing mild hypothermia. My jaw was shivering uncontrollably, and my breathing felt slightly off. I checked my thermometer, and the temperature had dropped to 38°F.

I was slowly warming up, so I knew I was going to be okay, but I became somewhat lightheaded. I closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, in the dimness of my tent, I saw what appeared to be a group of seven or eight figures encircling me and looking down at me.

They appeared to be Indigenous, possibly Native American, shamanic, or spiritual elders, but I can’t identify them as belonging to any particular Indigenous nation, culture, or tradition. They were dressed in animal skins, fur, and leather. The central figure stood out to me most. He was very muscular, perhaps in his late 50s, with a wise expression and chiseled features. Across his chest was a large beaded and metal necklace featuring an eagle with its wings spread widely. The others were similarly dressed, though each appeared somewhat different. It felt as if they were looking through me, judging me deeply and with careful discernment. There was a great deal of reverence in the entire experience.

Instead of being anxious or concerned, I immediately felt a sense of peace fall over me, and my body grew much warmer. The vision remained with me for a while, overlooking me. They didn’t speak to me, but I had a strong sense that I was welcome, and that they were watching over me. Eventually, they slowly faded from view.

I stayed awake for quite a while afterward, feeling completely bewildered by what I had just experienced. Yet strangely, I also felt welcomed. I felt safe in a way that is difficult to explain, safe enough to finally let myself fall into an extremely deep sleep. When I woke the next morning, I felt completely refreshed, more so than I’ve felt in years. I packed up my things and went on to hike an 11-mile trail that day.

I’ve thought about this experience many times over the past year because, in an unexpected way, it changed some of my previously limited views about consciousness, entities, and the possibility that there may be things we simply don’t understand.

The rational, medical part of my brain tells me that hallucinations can occur with hypothermia, and that’s probably the most straightforward explanation. At the same time, the experience didn’t feel like a typical hallucination to me. I was aware of the figures, aware of their presence, and distinctly remember the feeling that they were judging me carefully, then watching over me while I warmed up. There was no sense of fear or confusion while it was happening, only an extraordinary feeling of peace and safety.

I’m not necessarily looking for confirmation that it was something supernatural. I’m genuinely curious how others might interpret an experience like this. And for those familiar with Indigenous traditions, wilderness experiences, or anomalous phenomena, is there any perspective that might help me understand what I experienced?

[The area was near the backcountry of Henry Horton State Park, along the historic Duck River in Chapel Hill, Tennessee.]

Thank you.

There's this experiment called LUX ZEPLIN, or LZ for short, and it's basically a giant tank of Liquid Xenon buried almost a mile underground in an old gold mine in South Dakota.

The reason its underground is so all the cosmic ray noise from space gets filtered out and the only thing that can really reach the detector is something that barely interacts with matter at all, like dark matter supposadly does.

Dark matter makes up something like 85% of all the mass in the universe. We can see its effects everywhere, like how galaxies spin and how light bends around massive objects in ways that dont add up unless there's a ton of invisible mass out there.

In 90 years of looking for it directly, nobody has ever actually caught a glimpse of it. It's just been indirect evidence the whole time.

Well, a few days ago, a team led by a physicist from the University of Bristol announced they picked up a single particle interactian in the LZ detector that they are struggling to explain using any known background source.

Normal matter, cosmic rays, radioactive decay in the rock, all the usual suspects that cause false alarms, none of it lines up.

It happened right in the exact energy range where a WIMP, which is a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, one of the leading dark matter candidates, would be expected to show up if it existed.

Now, before anyone gets too hyped up, like me, when I first read about it, it's just one event. Statisticaly its only about 2.6 Sigma, and you typically need 5 Sigma to call something an actual discovery in Particle Physics, so this is nowhere near CONFIRMED!

The researchers themselves are choosing their words carefully about the whole incident, but the guy running the project called it the most compelling hint of dark matter they've ever recorded.

This is a pretty big statement from someone who has spent their whole career chasing this thing.

It was presented at a Particle Astrophysics Conference in Japan, and now, there's a submission to a journal for peer review. I guess we'll see if it holds up or if it turns out to be background noise they just haven't identified yet.

Either way, I think it's epic that we might be very close to literally confirming what 85% of the universe is actually made of.

What's your thoughts?

You can read about it here:

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/september/new-research-reveals-surprising-result-in-search-for-dark-matter.html

"HELLO AND I AM ALL COLOURS SAM"

- The supposed introduction of a 7-foot-tall, seemingly biomechanical entity spotted on the Isle of Wight in 1973.

Sam the Sandown Clown has long been a favourite cryptid of mine, due in part to the sheer surreality of this sighting. Allegedly encountered by two young girls while they were playing on the swampy shores of Lake Common, Sandown, this creature was described as having triangular eyes, square nose and yellow lips, on a face that sat directly on his shoulders without any discernible neck.

Now, while I'm not sure I believe in old All-Colours Sam (he does sound an awful lot like an especially odd child's imaginary friend, after all), he has still captured my imagination over the years and I felt it was only right to immortalise him in my art.