Scientists Should Learn From Contact Experiencers

                                               Scientists Should Learn From Contact Experiencers

Giorgio Piacenza

 

Introduction

As the Peruvian representative for the International Coalition for Extraterrestrial Research (ICER)[1] I affirm that the UFO (or UAP) Phenomenon includes an extraterrestrial/non-human intelligent presence contacting and interacting with humans on a global scale. If this assertion represents a fact (as always increasing evidence gathered for over 75 years indicates), humanity needs to know who we are dealing with. ICER is also interested in contributing to raising the general level of education and conversation about this subject and its implications in order to assist humanity to adapt to the growing acknowledgment of this situation. For this reason, we cannot ignore those thousands (or perhaps millions) of individuals worldwide that suspect, know, or claim to have interacted with UFO-related, ET/non-human intelligent entities. And it is time for the academic community, in general, to see what is taking place and to rise up to meet the challenge.

According to military and civilian witnesses and observed behavior and assessments, it seems fairly safe to say that the UFO (or UAP) phenomenon not only is physically real[2] but that it also transcends or manipulates “reality” as we know it. Any physicalist interpretation remains wanting but this is no reason to ignore the subject. The Phenomenon not only overcomes gravity and inertia, and appears to materialize-dematerialize operating quite elusively but also (according to close encounter experiencers or witnesses) seems to meaningfully and provocatively interface with the human mind and awareness.

The contact experience related to the UFO phenomenon is also culturally important because it recurs and challenges our sense of reality since according to testimonies it cancels our subjectively perceived experience of a continuous or stable objective reality, not in the dream state but while consciously aware in the ‘real’ physical world (whose temporal and spatial parameters, besides other parameters like solidity and inertia) are altered, almost as  partially acquiring the characteristics of an imaginary world. Moreover, the phenomenon seems to behave partly elusively but also provocatively and interactively, much as Dr. Jacques Vallee contended with his “Control Hypothesis.”[3] It clearly violates or transcends the stability needed for a classical sense of reality and seems to obey a different kind of logic which, in my view, originates in a trans-ontological phenomenon.[4]

Just by observing changes in acceleration (the third derivative after position) in the objects associated to “The Phenomenon” we can deduce that it demonstrates a measure of indeterminacy via intelligent control. If so, the multitude and variety of contact experiencer accounts related to “UFO intelligences” and UFOs cannot – in good faith - be simply dismissed as all related to the imagination, lies, misperceptions or natural phenomena. Besides, it would be scientifically unsound to reject the sheer number of reports and recurring sui generis characteristics all over the world, and the fact that such events have been experienced since before the 1940s often involving credible civilian and military witnesses who occasionally take pictures, record videos and sometimes provide other forms of physical evidence.

Besides UFOs being detected with extraordinary transmedium capacities by radar arrays, satellites, FLIR cameras and other energy signature detection devices as recognized by the U.S. congressmen that recently ordered a UFO-UAP research in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act[5], other even more unique, non-classical patterns can also be discerned from the extensive human testimony available in UFO literature. And these patterns relate to telepathy, presentiment, psychokinesis, temporal anomalies, apparitions, and other “fringe” events that seem geared to “re-enchant” the world far beyond any classical materialist physics. This ever-present distinctiveness connected to UFO phenomena should serve as a basis to seriously study and catalogue cases and to generate new suitable hypotheses that we may eventually find ways of testing. All we need to do is to creatively organize ourselves around the data and where it may lead us, consciously striving to overcome our closed-minded biases and social taboos.

Studying Close Encounter Reports

Between 2013 and 2018, a group of scientists, academicians, and lay researchers from the Edgard Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE) conducted a large scale, scientific, anonymous, international survey of individuals that claimed to have experienced non-ordinary contact modalities with non-human, intelligent beings after witnessing a UAP.[6] Hundreds of questions were posed using quantitative and qualitative questionnaires and (after tabulating the responses of more than 4000 individuals from several countries) there were unique findings. For instance, against popular expectations, overall, 84% of individuals did not want their contact experiences with non-human intelligent beings to end. The number of these entities stubbornly considered “negative” was less than 10%.  66% of respondents considered their experiences “positive” and 29% “negative”. 80% of contact experiencers also reported having had an Out-of-Body Experience. 37% reported having had a Near-Death-Experience. 50% reported healings from physical ailments and more than 70% became more altruistic, caring, ethical, ecologically concerned, and less avaricious and selfish. Some of these findings basically coincided with those from another important survey conducted (with a smaller population) by The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).[7]  

For most encounter cases, the complexity of the findings does not suggest either all-out malevolence or complete airy-fairy, benevolence. They suggest forms of encounters more associated with serious scientific procedures, but also with social conditioning, teachings, or training, besides the sharing of information that can sometimes be more specific and include different degrees of culturally and scientifically meaningful details. It is important to recognize that during the period in which the FREE Experiencer Survey took place, so many individuals were motivated enough to respond to hundreds of questions anonymously. The book Beyond UFOs details some of what they experienced and what was transmitted to them during their close encounters.[8]

Scientists must first come to terms with the non-classical uniqueness of the UAP and contact experiencer phenomenon. Observations and reports include all sorts of physical effects but also consciousness-based experiences. These effects consistently experienced by millions of citizens worldwide require a unique theoretical response. In order not to miss the qualitative connection with the UAP phenomenon, I think that we vitally need to listen to what experiencers can tell us and not just limit our focus on what can be measured and detected in, for example, in terms of energy signatures. This uniqueness requires an integral or integrative approach across categorical boundaries.

As Dr. June O. Parnell and Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle showed in their 1990 paper “Personality Characteristics of Persons Who Claim UFO Experiences,”[9] the overall mental health of contact experiencers doesn’t show overt psychopathologies. Dr. John Mack,[10] and Dr. Leo R. Sprinkle[11] also found this to be the case. Dr. Kenneth Ring[12] in particular not only wrote about the basic psychological normalcy of contact experiencers but also quite extensively about the mind-expanding, transformational effects of contact experiences while the latter pioneer also considered that they mainly represented an educational program: “A gradual, but persistent, conditioning of human awareness for a new age of science and spirituality (advanced technology and advanced morality).”

But, can we apply a scientific procedure to try to determine if a contact case is genuine? In Brazil, the Latin American Academy of Scientific Ufology (led by Dr. Julio Acosta-Navarro, PhD., a university Professor from the School of medicine at San Paolo University) has studied multiple alleged contact cases and developed an initial method to try to scientifically ascertain if they are genuine. The “Epimetheus Project”[13] is based on twelve qualitative and quantitative criteria applied to each alleged contact case in order to assign high or low probabilities of being authentic.

But the complexity and number of contact cases available to study is astounding. Thus far, I’ve just touched on a small number of reported studies. But I would also like to recommend the pioneering research work by Lt. Col. Wendelle C. Stevens immortalized in his books about the Eduard “Billy” Meier case[14] but also via his “UFO Contact From” book series.[15]  And, of course, there are so many other contactee books referring to cases of friendly, physically conversant (often human-looking aliens), such as the Daniel Fry and Paul Villa cases in the U.S. in 1950s and similar cases (for instance, from the 1950s to the 1970s) in Mexico with the Enrique Mercado Orue[16] case and the Enrique Castillo-Rincon[17] and Sixto Paz Wells[18] cases from Central and South America.

Interestingly, the mentally-expansive, transformative nature of these encounters is similar to the also mentally expansive and transformative nature of Near-Death Experiences and Out-of-Body Experiences as studied by Dr. Kenneth Ring[19] and is still now being studied by members of the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute[20], “an academic research institute committed to an integrative approach to the entire spectrum of psychophysical anomalies. Members include professionals in the fields of Astrophysics, Theoretical Physics, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Neuroscience, Sociology, Quantum Biology, Information Sciences, Parapsychology and Medical Doctors.”

Also, a vast compilation of more than 17,000 cases involving “humanoid encounters” since the beginning of the XX Century is available online in a series of books by Albert S. Rosales.[21] Moreover, contact experiencer interviews like those of my friend Mr. Grey[22] and the research by Preston Dennett[23] and Miguel Mendonca[24] provide in-depth information on specific cases under different circumstances. From these cases, we can also try to ascertain the motivations and types of daily realities of the UFO-related non-human intelligent beings that also seem to establish in-depth communication and interest with humans. Finally, the complexity of cases described by serious, dedicated researchers like Kathleen Marden[25], Barbara Lamb[26], and Mary Rodwell[27] (for instance, describing educational programs led by non-human entities but enjoyed by some children) are all excellent sources adding to a vast corpus useful to start some serious comparative analysis.

This enormous amount of contact literature shows that the UFO Phenomenon can be very interpersonal. However, we must never forget that contact experiencers can also provide physical evidence. For example, contact experiencers have sometimes reported anomalous objects located in their bodies after a UFO sighting or after a period of missing time which they cannot account for or what seems to them as a vivid dream with an alien. In this respect, podiatric surgeon Dr. Roger K. Leir[28] had several of these unique objects surgically extracted and analyzed in reputable labs. Sometimes unusual isotopic ratios not naturally occurring on Earth and other anomalies were found. This work is scientifically crucial and should continue!

“The alleged implants removed from the first set of surgeries were studied by two different pathologists, and then sent to various independent laboratories for extensive scientific analysis. The tests performed on these alleged alien implants were: a pathology/tissue evaluation, laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), extensive metallurgical testing involving a density immersion test, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction pattern analysis and electron/magnetic and fluorescence property analysis. Isotopic range tests are also in progress. Tests were conducted by the National Institute of Discovery of Science (NIDS), New Mexico Tech, and other independent sources.”

“The findings of these implant surgeries are highly unusual,” reported Dr. Leir. “In all these cases, there was virtually no inflammatory response.” This is not the usual finding in foreign tissue reactions. Normally, foreign bodies embedded in tissues result in some type of acute or chronic inflammatory response and may include fibrosis and cyst formation. Such was not the case here. The pathology reports of the first two surgeries revealed that the metallic objects were encased in a very dense, tough, grey membrane consisting of proteinaceous coagulum, hemoseridin, and pure keratin. More simply, blood protein and skin cells that are usually found in the superficial layer of the skin. The tough, biological “cocoons” encasing the implants were also found to contain nerve proprioceptors – nerve and pressure cells of the wrong tissue type for that part of the body. These implant cocoons also fluoresced a bright green color in the presence of an ultraviolet light source.”

“The implants from the two women from the second set of surgeries did not exhibit metallic properties like the implants from the first set of surgeries. In fact, the spheroid, whitish objects did not contain the tough, biological outer jackets, or fluoresce from a UV light source. These types of implants (possibly biological) also lacked the expected inflammatory response, according to the pathology reports. The crystalline-like object excised from the foot in the most recent surgery also lacked the tough, grey, outer membrane and had virtually no inflammatory response, as in the other implant surgeries. Test results from the first set of implants revealed that the lamellar, needle-shaped metallic objects in question are basically meteoric in origin, containing at least eleven different elements.”[29]

Towards Improved Theories and Methodologies

A halfway approach between the hard sciences and the idea that the cosmos derives at its core from meaning and relationships that can be experienced by self-aware beings could be Jimmy Blanchette’s radio communication experiments which, apparently, include successful and verifiable interactive relationship with a variety of UAP intelligences using specific radio frequencies through which more numerical clues and ratios related to the physical constants are being received both visually and by means of sounds.[30]  Serious scientists like Bob McGwire[31] (an expert in radio frequency communication and digital signals processing, former CIA scientist, founder of Sky 360, and a member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies), are becoming interested in this work.

These mathematical values and their ratios could represent some of the fundamental principles of the intelligent mathematical design that extends in a fractal manner throughout the – experience-facilitating universe. I suspect that they could also relate to why the nondimensional number 137 (or its reciprocal 1/137) has the value it does while seemingly all the other atomic constants have to adapt to it (as per what Jose Alvarez Lopez, Ph.D. found)[32].

I think that we soon need to overcome a Ufology divided into researchers and enthusiasts that excessively include or exclude contacts with UFO intelligences. Even former “nuts & bolts” organizations like MUFON are now including more abduction and contact experiences.   

Attorney Manuel Lamiroy, creator of the Exopaedia and Exopolitics South Africa, based upon a long-term accumulation of experiencer testimonies and multiple sources, surmises about 120 extraterrestrial different “races” or civilizations operating on Earth and/or interacting with humans in different degrees.[33] Their exophenotypology would also be quite varied.[34]   

All of this leads us to ask ourselves how are we going to learn to relate politically in a constructive manner with a varied, intelligent, non-human presence related to UFOs. And this takes me to briefly mention the emerging field of Exopolitics defined as “…an interdisciplinary scientific field, with its roots in the political sciences, that focuses on research, education and public policy with regard to the actors, institutions and processes, associated with extraterrestrial life, as well as the wide range of implications this entails through public advocacy and newly emerging paradigms.”[35]

However, in terms of extending the foundations of the natural sciences to better explain contact experiences, we need new theoretical and methodological approaches that fit the data rather than trying to fit the data into accepted theories. One of the most interesting recent attempts to explore this need is the book Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non-Human Intelligence[36] published by the Consciousness and Contact Research Institute (CCRI). In it, multiple authors (mostly PhDs) explore the premise that consciousness is a fundamental feature of reality. Keeping a foothold on physics they also strive to understand how consciousness may act as a common factor among different “contact modalities” and the manipulation of spacetime itself.   

Moreover, the emerging metadisciplinary academic field of “Exo Studies” recognizes the ontological reality of physical and non-physical (subtle, imaginal) intelligent entities associated with the UFO phenomenon should be mentioned and praised as threading together a necessarily comprehensive variety of ontologies and methodologies suitable to the complex experiential and objective data of the phenomenon.  According to Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, PhD[37]. “Exo Studies is the metadisciplinary study of all anomalous phenomena that lie outside our current models of explanation and views of reality. The existence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) (also known as unidentified aerial phenomena [UAPs]) and their extraterrestrial (ET) or extradimensional (ED) occupants is arguably one of, if not the most, heavily researched and well documented of all anomalous phenomena.”

We would also need new methodologies that deliver objective verification but include possible interactions with UAP intelligences. In this respect, I always think about the possibility of using personal relationships developed by certain contact experiencers with non-human entities that may sometimes allow them to provide objective evidence. Such evidence has, for instance, been provided by some contact experiencers like Ricardo Gonzalez[38] as witnessed by myself, Paola Harris[39][40] and Rob Freeman (who was also able to record it)[41].

Thus, I recommend scientists be willing to change their minds. To befriend the qualitative, subjective, interpersonal that probably holds unrecognized keys to understand “The Phenomenon”, to explore more interactive methods with “The Phenomenon.” The roots of classic materialism are being underpinned even by some of the most prominent physicists (for instance by questioning whether spacetime is as fundamental as entanglement).[42] So, what are we to make of this?[43]  Shouldn’t we give more credence to the relational approach of contact experiencers as a way to complement and supplement what a purely objective approach to “The Phenomenon” cannot achieve?

Conclusion

As an ICER member, I consider that there are plenty of good reasons to take the issue of human contact experiences much more seriously into the academic and political arena. The Phenomenon is meaningfully experienced and itself comes across as intelligently controlled. This non-orthodox information beckons us to open up to radically new scientific vistas and begin international exopolitical and cultural conversations in earnest. As mentioned, more comprehensive theoretical frameworks and more flexible and creative research methods are required and being created.

As suggested, in order to begin understanding who the intelligences behind the UFO (UAP) phenomenon are, it would befit scientists to listen to experiencers, acquire data by working with them, and even attempt to interact with “The Phenomenon” as “participants observers” even as they remain capable of conducting objective research using scientific instruments. Scientists remain crucial players to help ordinary citizens assimilate the revelation of a much vaster reality.

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[1] "International Coalition for Extraterrestrial research," 2021, 2023, https://icer.network/.

[2] Nathan Twinning, Gen, "AMC Opinion Concerning Flying Discs (The Twinning Memo)," (Document Cloud: Air Materiel Command, 1947). https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20797978-twining-memo.

[3] Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered about UFO Influence on the Human Race (Anomalist Books, 2014); Jacques Vallee and Eric W. Davis, "Incommensurability, Orthodoxy and the Physics of High Strangeness: a 6-layer Model for Anomalous Phenomena," (Repositório Institucional da Universidade Fernando Pessoa 2004). https://bdigital.ufp.pt/handle/10284/781.

[4] Giorgio Piacenza, "An Integral Theory of Consciousness and the Contact Modalities," in A Greater Reality: The New Paradigm of Nonlocal Consciousness, the Paranormal & the Contact Modalities. ( Independently published, 2022).

[5] "H.R. 7900 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 117th Congress (2021-2022). ," https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114816?s=1&r=7

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[7] Kathleen Marden, "The MUFON Experiencer Survey: What it Tells Us About Contact and the Implications for Humanity’s Future," MUFON 2018 International Symposium Proceedings  (2018).

[8] Reinerio Hernandez, Rudy Schild, and Jon Klimo, Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence vol. 1 (Experiencer. org via PublishDrive, 2018).

[9] June Parnell, "Measured Personality Characteristics of Persons Who Claim UFO Experiences," Psychotherapy in Private Practice 6, no. 3 (1988), https://doi.org/ 10.1300/J294v06n03_25, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J294v06n03_25.

[10] John Mack, Abduction: Human encounters with aliens (Ballantine Books, 1995).

[11] R. Leo Sprinkle, "Psychotherapeutic services for persons who claim UFO experiences," Psychotherapy in Private Practice 6, no. 3 (1988).

[12] Kenneth Ring, The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, UFO Encounters, and Mind at Large (Quill, 1993).

[13] Julio C. Acosta-Navarro et al., "The Epimetheus Project: Searching for new authentic ‘contactees’ and the scientific information received from Extraterrestrial Intelligences.," GSC Advanced Research and Reviews  (2023), https://gsconlinepress.com/journals/gscarr/content/epimetheus-project-searching-new-authentic-%E2%80%98contactees%E2%80%99-and-scientific-information-received

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[17] Enrique Castillo-Rincon, Ufos: A Great New Dawn for Humanity : Being the True Story of a Contactee and His Encounter With Intelligent Beings Who Have Visited the Planet Earth (Blue Dolphin, 1997).

[18] Sixto Paz Wells, The Invitation (Reategui Services, 2021).

[19] Kenneth Ring, Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from the NearDeath Experience (Moment Point Press, 2006).

[20] "The Consciousness and Contact Research Institute," 2021, https://agreaterreality.com/ 

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[23] Preston Dennett, Not from Here: Selected UFO Articles (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018).

[24] Miguel Mendonça, We are the Disclosure: A Peoples History of the Extraterrestrial Field (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016); Miguel Mendonça, Being with the Beings: The How and Why of ET Contact (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017); Miguel Mendonça, "The Levels of UFO Disclosure," Watkins Body, Mind, and Spirit (September 3, 2021 2021).

[25] Kathleen Marden, Extraterrestrial Contact: What to do When You Are Abducted (Redwheel/Weiser, LLC, 2019).

[26] Barbara Lamb, Alien Experiences: 25 Cases of Close Encounter Experiences Never Before Revealed (Trafford Publishing, 2008).

[27] Mary Rodwell, The New Human: Awakening to Our Cosmic Heritage (New Mind Publishers, 2016).

[28] Roger Leir, Casebook: Alien Implants (Dell 2000); Roger Leir, The Aliens and the Scalpel (Book Tree, 2005).

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