What's Up with UFOs?

What's Up with UFOs?
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  • Flying Objects
    • Do we really need to take UFOs seriously?
    • Since encounters have been going on since at least the 1940s, they can’t all be “ours.”
    • For many, the UFO topic broke into the mainstream in 2017 with disclosures by the US Navy and Department of Defense.
    • Three mass sightings in the 1980s and 1990s add credibility to UFO claims.
    • Strong evidence points to a connection between UFOs and nuclear weapons since the 1940s.
    • Evidence shows that some UFOs can also operate underwater.
    • No wonder it’s confusing. Hoaxes intermingle with scientifically verified pictures and videos.
  • Hard Science
    • Every year scientists get closer to discovering simple life in our solar system and beyond.
    • The US government actively funds research in esoteric science traditionally associated with science fiction.
    • There is special interest in “anti-gravity” to help explain the extraordinary performance of UFOs.
    • The analysis of “metamaterials” is currently a hot topic.
    • Bob Lazar claims he worked near Area 51 in the 1980s to reverse engineer an alien craft. Is he telling the truth?
    • There is an extensive history of alleged UFO craft retrievals around the world.
  • Direct Experience
    • Don’t make the mistake of dismissing “abductions” without weighing the evidence with objective criteria
    • Here are 15 “abduction” cases from 1964 to 2007 that meet our criteria.
    • John Mack’s work at Harvard provided early credibility to the abduction phenomenon.
    • Contemporary abduction stories continue to include the seemingly absurd idea of hybrid children involving Gray aliens.
    • Close interactions with humanoid figures have been reported in conjunction with alien craft, going back to the 1950s.
    • Healings are common to many UFO encounters.
    • Abduction-like experiences are not isolated phenomena.
    • ET encounters have many similarities with near-death experiences.
    • The military has long been associated with remote viewing. More recently, it has funded paranormal research at Skinwalker Ranch.
    • Numerous studies and reports suggest there are dozens of ET types.
    • Participants using the CE-5 protocol claim to have telepathically contacted extraterrestrials.
    • Most important: What is the nature of non-human intelligences? What do they want?
  • Institutional Dynamics
    • Are the world’s religions ready for E.T.?
    • Hollywood strongly shapes our images of UFOs and aliens, sometimes under government influence.
    • These four alien movies represent the spectrum from military confrontation, to scientific curiosity, subtle dream-like engagement, and deep friendship.
    • Despite notable academic conferences, publications, and academics who specialize in UFO phenomena, the social taboo against UFOs remains firmly in place.
    • Astronomers do, in fact, see UFOs, and a growing minority thinks that they ought to be seriously studied.
    • Silicon Valley is beginning to show interest in UFOs.
    • The US government has had long-standing concerns about UFOs.
    • Should we be concerned with the size of the black budgets and the military-industrial complex?
    • There are different views of the national security apparatus: “Nothing to see here” versus a “breakaway group.”
    • There have been periodic attempts to persuade the government (and mainstream media) to be more transparent and formally acknowledge UFO phenomena, with little effect.
    • Media coverage and transparency began to change in 2017.
    • Stepping back: What’s happened in the last three years? Where is this all heading?
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    • The Schumer Amendment (Institutional Dynamics)
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  • Flying Objects
    • Do we really need to take UFOs seriously?
    • Since encounters have been going on since at least the 1940s, they can’t all be “ours.”
    • For many, the UFO topic broke into the mainstream in 2017 with disclosures by the US Navy and Department of Defense.
    • Three mass sightings in the 1980s and 1990s add credibility to UFO claims.
    • Strong evidence points to a connection between UFOs and nuclear weapons since the 1940s.
    • Evidence shows that some UFOs can also operate underwater.
    • No wonder it’s confusing. Hoaxes intermingle with scientifically verified pictures and videos.
  • Hard Science
    • Every year scientists get closer to discovering simple life in our solar system and beyond.
    • The US government actively funds research in esoteric science traditionally associated with science fiction.
    • There is special interest in “anti-gravity” to help explain the extraordinary performance of UFOs.
    • The analysis of “metamaterials” is currently a hot topic.
    • Bob Lazar claims he worked near Area 51 in the 1980s to reverse engineer an alien craft. Is he telling the truth?
    • There is an extensive history of alleged UFO craft retrievals around the world.
  • Direct Experience
    • Don’t make the mistake of dismissing “abductions” without weighing the evidence with objective criteria
    • Here are 15 “abduction” cases from 1964 to 2007 that meet our criteria.
    • John Mack’s work at Harvard provided early credibility to the abduction phenomenon.
    • Contemporary abduction stories continue to include the seemingly absurd idea of hybrid children involving Gray aliens.
    • Close interactions with humanoid figures have been reported in conjunction with alien craft, going back to the 1950s.
    • Healings are common to many UFO encounters.
    • Abduction-like experiences are not isolated phenomena.
    • ET encounters have many similarities with near-death experiences.
    • The military has long been associated with remote viewing. More recently, it has funded paranormal research at Skinwalker Ranch.
    • Numerous studies and reports suggest there are dozens of ET types.
    • Participants using the CE-5 protocol claim to have telepathically contacted extraterrestrials.
    • Most important: What is the nature of non-human intelligences? What do they want?
  • Institutional Dynamics
    • Are the world’s religions ready for E.T.?
    • Hollywood strongly shapes our images of UFOs and aliens, sometimes under government influence.
    • These four alien movies represent the spectrum from military confrontation, to scientific curiosity, subtle dream-like engagement, and deep friendship.
    • Despite notable academic conferences, publications, and academics who specialize in UFO phenomena, the social taboo against UFOs remains firmly in place.
    • Astronomers do, in fact, see UFOs, and a growing minority thinks that they ought to be seriously studied.
    • Silicon Valley is beginning to show interest in UFOs.
    • The US government has had long-standing concerns about UFOs.
    • Should we be concerned with the size of the black budgets and the military-industrial complex?
    • There are different views of the national security apparatus: “Nothing to see here” versus a “breakaway group.”
    • There have been periodic attempts to persuade the government (and mainstream media) to be more transparent and formally acknowledge UFO phenomena, with little effect.
    • Media coverage and transparency began to change in 2017.
    • Stepping back: What’s happened in the last three years? Where is this all heading?
  • Crash Course
    • Nimitz (Flying Objects)
    • Beaver Utah (Flying Objects)
    • Physics of UAPs (Hard Science)
    • Meta Materials (Hard Science)
    • The Great Divide (Direct Experience)
    • Ariel School Encounter (Direct Experience)
    • David Grusch Testimony (Institutional Dynamics)
    • The Schumer Amendment (Institutional Dynamics)
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Direct Experience > Here are 15 abduction cases from 1964 to 2007 that meet objective criteria.

DIRECT EXPERIENCE
Here are 15 abduction cases from 1964 to 2007 that meet objective criteria.

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Betty and Barney Hill’s encounter became the first widely reported UFO abduction story in the United States

4-minute reading time
Speigel, HuffPost, 2017

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Betty Andreasson experienced her abduction in 1967 as an ecstatic religious-like encounter

3-minute reading time
Fowler, The Andreasson Affair, 1979

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Two men in Mississippi claimed they were abducted by aliens while fishing

Police believed them, and other witnesses corroborated their tale.

4-minute reading time
Brockwell, The Washington Post, 2019

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Six friends watched Travis Walton walk under a UFO and disappear

Five days later he returned with stories of encounters with alien beings.

6-minute video
Weir & Lustig, Beyond the Spectrum – Being Taken, 2018

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Three Kentucky women claimed to have been abducted while driving at night

Their stories were corroborated by witnesses and lie-detector tests.

15-minute reading time
Booth, UFO Casebook, n.d.

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Four artists, independently regressed to access their suppressed memories, tell the same details of their 1976 abduction along the Allagash waterway

4-minute reading time
Booth, UFO Casebook, n.d.

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Years after a UFO camping encounter, Terry Lovelace discovered a possible alien implant in a routine x-ray

9-minute reading time
Lovelace, terrylovelace.com, n.d.

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Are aliens and interdimensional entities the same?

Debbie Jordan-Kauble experienced two incidents of missing time on the same night in 1983.

8-minute reading time
Lowth, UFO Insight, 2018

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Whitley Strieber received 250,000 letters after he published accounts of his abduction experiences, beginning in 1985

2-minute reading time
Booth, UFO Casebook, n.d.

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VICE: “When he was 17, David Huggins says he lost his virginity to an extraterrestrial.” He has produced over 150 paintings detailing his life-long affair

6-minute reading time
Weisenstein, VICE, 2018

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A positive encounter with UFOs resulted in remarkable physical changes and wellness for John Salter and his son

12-minute reading time
Salter, blog, 1989

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Three small beings floated Linda Cortile on a beam of light out of her 20th-floor apartment window

She was seen by multiple witnesses being floated into a hovering craft near the Brooklyn Bridge. One of the witnesses was Javier Perez de Cuellar, the then United Nations Secretary General.

5-minute reading time
Booth, UFO Casebook, n.d.

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Kelly Cahill lost an hour of time and was hospitalized with stomach pain after discovering a triangle-shaped mark near her navel

4-minute reading time
Booth, UFO Casebook, n.d.

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Is this the “perfect” case to refute skeptics? Six abductees had MRIs, X-rays, doctor reports, and photographs of UFO-related medical injuries

12-minute reading time
Evans & Dennett, The Coronado Island UFO Incident, 2007

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In 2007, Chris Bledsoe and his son encountered glowing orbs and strange beings in the woods. Four witnesses supported their claims

11-minute reading time
Booth, UFO Casebook , 2008

  • Flying Objects
    • Do we really need to take UFOs seriously?
    • Since encounters have been going on since at least the 1940s, they can’t all be “ours.”
    • For many, the UFO topic broke into the mainstream in 2017 with disclosures by the US Navy and Department of Defense.
    • Three mass sightings in the 1980s and 1990s add credibility to UFO claims.
    • Strong evidence points to a connection between UFOs and nuclear weapons since the 1940s.
    • Evidence shows that some UFOs can also operate underwater.
    • No wonder it’s confusing. Hoaxes intermingle with scientifically verified pictures and videos.
  • Hard Science
    • Every year scientists get closer to discovering simple life in our solar system and beyond.
    • The US government actively funds research in esoteric science traditionally associated with science fiction.
    • There is special interest in “anti-gravity” to help explain the extraordinary performance of UFOs.
    • The analysis of “metamaterials” is currently a hot topic.
    • Bob Lazar claims he worked near Area 51 in the 1980s to reverse engineer an alien craft. Is he telling the truth?
    • There is an extensive history of alleged UFO craft retrievals around the world.
  • Direct Experience
    • Some UFO sightings include direct encounters with ETs that are not abduction experiences.
    • Don’t make the mistake of dismissing abductions without weighing the evidence with objective criteria.
    • Here are 15 abduction cases from 1964 to 2007 that meet objective criteria.
    • John Mack’s work at Harvard provided early credibility to the abduction phenomenon.
    • Contemporary abduction stories continue to include the seemingly absurd idea of hybrid children involving Gray aliens.
    • Healings are common to many UFO encounters.
    • Close interactions with humanoid figures have been reported in conjunction with alien craft, going back to the 1950s.
    • Abduction-like experiences are not isolated phenomena.
    • ET encounters have many similarities with near-death experiences.
    • The military has long been associated with remote viewing. More recently, it has funded paranormal research at Skinwalker Ranch.
    • Numerous studies and reports suggest there are dozens of ET types.
    • Participants using the CE-5 protocol claim to have telepathically contacted extraterrestrials.
    • Most important: What is the nature of non-human intelligences? What do they want?
  • Institutional Dynamics
    • Are the world’s religions ready for E.T.?
    • Hollywood strongly shapes our images of UFOs and aliens, sometimes under government influence.
    • These four alien movies represent the spectrum from military confrontation, to scientific curiosity, subtle dream-like engagement, and deep friendship.
    • Despite notable academic conferences, publications, and academics who specialize in UFO phenomena, the social taboo against UFOs remains firmly in place.
    • Astronomers do, in fact, see UFOs, and a growing minority thinks that they ought to be seriously studied.
    • Silicon Valley is beginning to show interest in UFOs.
    • The US government has had long-standing concerns about UFOs.
    • Should we be concerned with the size of the black budgets and the military-industrial complex?
    • There are different views of the national security apparatus: “Nothing to see here” versus a “breakaway group.”
    • There have been periodic attempts to persuade the government (and mainstream media) to be more transparent and formally acknowledge UFO phenomena, with little effect.
    • Media coverage and transparency began to change in 2017.
    • Stepping back: What’s happened in the last three years? Where is this all heading?

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