US magazines like LIFE and The New Yorker reported on this, though inevitably with tongue-in-cheek commentary.
4-minute reading time
Hall, The UFO Evidence, 2001; Dolan, UFOs for the 21st Century Mind, 2014
John Mack interviewed 60 Zimbabwean school children two months after their collective encounter with a UFO and three beings in 1994
This is one of many “mass encounters.”
9-minute video
7loiol4, YouTube, 2009
As incredible as it seems, conservatively there may be more than 500,000 people that have had abduction-like experiences with non-human intelligence (e.g. “aliens”)
Nearly 300,000 letters, multiple Roper Polls, and recent research paint a compelling picture that something extraordinary is going on.
5-minute reading time
Curren & Esbjörn-Hargens, 2020
Near-death experiences and alien encounters share some interesting characteristics, raising important questions
These types of extraordinary experiences suggest that what we experience in our everyday lives may be but a tiny sliver of reality.
20-minute reading time
Red Pill Junkie, Paracast Newsletter, 2015
Joe McMoneagle described his experience with remote viewing, UFO encounters, near-death experiences, and his ET hypothesis
“I think ETs are a teaching tool for expanding the sophistication of how we view sentient beings and the universe at large.” Richard Thieme interviewed Joe McMoneagle.
18-minute reading time
Thieme, ThiemeWorks, 2001
Department of Defense funded the multi-year study of extreme paranormal phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah
The wide range of phenomena documented suggests that there might be important links between UFOs and the realm of high strangeness.
33-minute reading time
Knapp, Hunt the Skinwalker, 2017
ETs are not all Grays with big black eyes. Nor are they all the monsters in battle with Sigourney Weaver. Contact reports indicate dozens of types of non-human intelligence
The contactee and experiencer literature indicates that there are at least three dozen major types of non-human intelligences with 100s of varieties occurring across these categories.
5-minute reading time
Esbjörn-Hargens, 2020
Medium: “Five Common Types of ETs and What They Look Like”
Experiencers consistently report encounters with a wide variety of non-human intelligences (NHIs). These five are some of the most commonly reported.
6-minute reading time
Galarneau, Medium, 2016
What is non-human intelligence? What do they want? They are not simply ETs
NHI likely consists of a mix between extraterrestrials, extradimensionals, and perhaps time-traveling humans — all with a psychosocial and cultural overlay.
3-minute reading time
Esbjörn-Hargens, 2020
John Mack suggests that UFOs challenge the great divide between the physical world and the “unseen world”
Mack was Chairman of the Psychiatry Department at Harvard Medical School.
15-minute video
Curren, Baskervillain Studios, 2019b
Jacques Vallée considers abduction reports to be a kind of modern folklore, consistent with legends by cultures around the world
This view is worth considering because, based upon modern physics, “We don’t know what reality is anymore.”
6-minute video
Humano Films, YouTube, 2019
Jacques Vallée rejects the explanation of UFOs as interstellar spaceships. He views the phenomenon as something that is much stranger
He points out that these encounters have been happening throughout human history, explained in past ages as fairies, demons, and signs from God.
11-minute reading time
Taylor, DailyGrail.com, 2006