Given the proliferation in recent years of ufo/paranormal/dreamtime imagery in the media (VW's "Reverse Engineered From UFO's" ad comes glaringly to mind), do you feel that this is actually changing or affecting the phenomenon itself? Is the mass-media consciousness causing the UFO phenomenon to change the way it interfaces with us?
 
 

 The basic question is whether the "ufo phenomenon" has assimilated and is utilizing images of itself generated by Earthside communications media. One would expect that regardless of the ineptitude of these Earthside images, an advanced intelligence would use whatever scraps of recognition might be available if direct communication was attempted. Actually, "ufo" is an interruption of expected events by a shift of timespace circumstances which cannot immediately be explained by limited human intelligence.One example of this image insertion is given at the end of this article. Fragmentary words and phrases will at first be uttered to name this timespace shift. But these names, such as "ufo" or "ovni"or "psi photo" are not the actual complete names known to Advanced Intelligence more familiar with timespace manipulation.

An example of the same type of image assimilation can be found in the adaptation by fond parents of whatever name the baby happens to use for them when first speaking words. However, misunderstandings can arise if the parent always uses the baby's ID image without correction.

As one instance of this type of situation, I recall that for several years of my young life I thought my Grandmother Macer was named "Me". For when I was visiting her as an infant, she would say:"Come to me" or "Smile for me". Other adults had apparantly said:"Come to Auntie" or "Smile for Daddy", indicating who they were by using that basic syntax. So the child assumed the adult saying:"Come to Me" WAS named "Me". My Grandmother, like all fond Granparents, thought this babytalk was "cute" and began calling herself "Me", a name close enough to "Ma" not to be a total embarrassment. Yet there came a day when the child realized that other Grandmothers were not named "Me". This was a profoundly distressing realization.

So it is very important when dealing with Advanced Intelligence--to whom we may be like children--to remember that this Intelligence has the option of using (and thus reinforcing) our limited idea of identity OR of using a more complete and accurate identity. The problem is simply--from the point of view of Advanced Intelligence: will the Cosmic Child really understand why the correction is being made ? Or will the correction made too prematurely or abruptly destroy the rapport between Advanced Intelligence and the less advanced, childlike being? How important is rapport? Is simple "togetherness" as important as a more complete, mutual understanding?

Is there,then, any correction of popular "ufo" imagery which the phenomenon itself is in the process of attempting to communicate? Early 1950's  disk vehicles with hardware store levers and gears, as shown in black & white sf films and early tv, used chrome and show window stage design which is still seen in Mall displays of clothes and appliances. Subsequent to this initial craze, there developed animated ET and space probe dolls.

Yet the "ufo phenomenon" itself does NOT use kiddie-ET prototypes when manifesting subsequent to 1980. There are few, if any, sightings of animated purple bean bags stamped "ET for ages 3-7". Yet the "disk" and "light" sightings continue. What should this indicate to the ufo-anthropologist? Obviously: the Advanced Intelligence is refraining from joining the cartoon party being held Earthside in ET's honor. At a recent SPACE group meeting in New York City, a fascinating plan was uttered by the co-ordinator, Harold Eggelin. This is simply to pay attention to the FIRST ufo contactees of the Twentieth Century--before they had been grabbed and influenced by the media and intelligence organizations.

The intention of honestly studying the early accounts of Adamski and Howard Menger, who claimed that beings from another planet looked and spoke like adult human beings but were manifesting powers of mind control and teleportation, is simply to cut through the accumulation of dimestore goo to the very first accounts of "ufo contact" with Advanced Intelligence which were not altered by filmmakers for presentation to children.

The Advanced Intelligences making "ufo contact" have a sophistocated agenda. George Adamski, who had studied Tibetan mysticism, assumed at first they were linked to his Tibetan studies. There is no reason to suppose this Advanced Intelligence did not "engineer" the fact that Adamski's photo of their space vehicle looks like a light fixture. Over and over, the "ufos" stop, bolex and alter car engines, home computers, electrical power lines, photographic film and so on. The "message" is simple. These electrical, chemical and mechanical gadgets are not the last word in communications. Advanced Intelligence is "out there" somewhere playing molecular configuration games which demonstrate that Earthside technicians cannot control the shape of events simply by the use of electro-mechanical arrangement--even if these are highly sophistocated computer installations.

As narrated in my recent book DARK FRONTIER, my research has taken me toward a study of the materialization and/or "tulpa" phenomenon known to Tibetan adepts and sorcerers of all worlds. I have photographed--unexpectedly--solid, technicolor objects and people which are NOT wraiths and were not in 3-d frame when the photo was taken.

While living in Hoboken, N.J. during the early 1980's I was investigating "ufo contactees" and sightings in Tobyhanna, PA and Wanaque, NJ and at the same time experiencing unusual phenomena in my apartment. Some of these experiences are detailed in my book DR. FU MAN CHU MEETS THE LONESOME COWBOY: SORCERY AND THE UFO EXPERIENCE. One of the enigmatic photos which appeared on my film at that time was of two, clear slanted windows showing blue sky with a few clouds. I called them "space windows" because they seemed set in the sides of an elevated cockpit.

Years passed. A few months ago at my house in Woodstock, while sitting at my desk on a loft platform and idly looking out the side window at a lovely, clear blue sky, I had a startling realization. The "space windows" in my 1982 photo were of the loft windows in my 1999 Woodstock house! But the loft addition to this small cottage was built in 1997. So I was not registering "space" windows on my film but windows from my own future, a place not yet built in 1982. It is by these sometimes funny image manipulations that the actual ufo phenomenon is communicating in zen koan style--using our own images to present dilemmas and riddles which break the limitations of pre-programmed expectation.