A Statement by Bigelow Aerospace in 2018 “multiple eyewitnesses co-located in the same vicinity frequently reported seeing widely different events.”
Joseph Burkes MD 2022
Introduction
During the 1990s, I was a contact team coordinator for the CE-5 Initiative. In the course of that volunteer work, my team had numerous sightings of what are now called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). As part of these investigations, I was able to witness a series of staged encounters that demonstrated the role of illusory mechanisms during human-non-human interactions. This led to the development of what I call the “Virtual Experience Model.” This hypothesis describes how illusory mechanisms play a role during Close Encounters. The Virtual Experience Model is explored in a paper that has been published by the newly formed Contact and Consciousness Research Institute (CCRI). My article appears in the book “A Greater Reality” edited by Rey Hernandez and is titled, “REPORT FROM THE CONTACT UNDERGROUND:HUMAN INITIATED CONTACT, THE CONSCIOUSNESS CONNECTION AND THE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE MODEL.
Virtual Sightings
A Virtual Experience of the First Kind (VE-1) is an illusory visual display that is holographic like in nature. It is projected in a manner that all present can witness the event, (VE-1, Type A). In a second subtype, I propose that an illusory visual display is created by energetically targeting the visual-neurosensory apparatus of a UAP percipient. The neural pathways involved extend from the retina to the occipital cortex in the back of the brain. In this manner, by energetically simulating neuronal tissues, only the targeted individual(s) report seeing the UAP. This mechanism is designated as a Virtual Experience of the First Kind Type B.
Markedly differing descriptions of UFOs by witnesses simultaneously observing what are perceived of as “craft” can also fall into the VE-1 Type B category. By altering witnesses’ states of consciousness during sightings, radically different descriptions of the events emerge.
The Virtual Experience Model does not suggest that all Close Encounters are illusory in nature. Physical encounters happen in which material objects are observed (Close Encounter of the First Kind) as well as ones in which witnesses are physically removed from prosaic environments (Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind). These physical encounters occur alongside virtual ones. It is not a question of encounters being exclusively physical or solely illusory. Both mechanisms accordingly are taking place. The challenge for researchers and experiencers is to distinguish between the two, i.e., physical vs. virtual ones.
AATIP
Since that fall of 2017, dramatic revelations have occurred concerning the US Executive Branch’s secret flying saucer investigations. It is now established that secret Pentagon project initially known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program existed from 2007 to 2012. AATIP was a declassified “public designation” for the project whose classified name was AAWSAP ADVANCED AEROSPACE WEAPON SYSTEM APPLICATIONS PROGRAM. AAWSAP contracted with Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) to conduct research on UAP. This resulted in a 494-page report covering sightings that have been recorded over decades. In addition, there were 38 other reports, some of which covered exotic theoretical topics possibly associated with UAPs. These included warp drive, manipulation of other dimensions, and hypersonic velocities.
A Sophisticated Approach to the Challenge
In May of 2018, “A Senior Manager” of BAASS issued a statement that was covered by CBS affiliate KLAS in Las Vegas. The link to this article is posted below. Some of the observations made in the press release are quite remarkable. They are supportive of the position that the flying saucer situation is far more complex than just the appearance of physical craft in the sky because it involves a host of other anomalous so-called “paranormal” phenomena.
“The investigations by BAASS provided new lines of evidence showing that the UFO phenomenon was a lot more than nuts and bolts machines that interacted with military aircraft. The phenomenon also involved a whole panoply of diverse activity that included bizarre creatures, poltergeist activity, invisible entities, orbs of light, animal and human injuries and much more. The exclusive focus on nuts-and-bolts machines could be considered myopic and unproductive in solving the larger mystery of UFOs.”
The Consciousness Connection Not Hardware Should be the Focus
The perspective of the above quote is consistent with the one I put forward in July of 2019 when I addressed the Mutual UFO Network’s International Symposium in Southern California. In a talk titled “THE VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE MODEL, ILLUSORY MECHANISMS IN THE CONTACT EXPERIENCE”, I suggested that analyzing sighting reports was too narrow a focus to grasp the complexity of the contact experience. Instead of approaching UAPs as if they were some kind of engineering problem emphasizing what are thought of as “hardware”, the impact of the phenomenon on human consciousness should become the centerpiece for our investigations.
The BAASS statement recognized the illusory mechanisms of contact by the following statement that in my opinion is a perfect description of a Virtual Experience of the First Kind (VE-1).
“multiple eyewitnesses co-located in the same vicinity frequently reported seeing widely different events.”
Although the BAASS statement doesn’t mention how UAP intelligences might be energetically stimulating witnesses’ neurosensory apparatus, as I have done in the Virtual Experience Model, they did observe that,
“UFO phenomenon was capable of manipulating and distorting human perception and therefore eyewitness testimony of UFO activity was becoming increasingly untrustworthy.”
In frank terms, the capability of UAP intelligences to employ illusionary mechanisms of contact undermines the entire data base of “ufology.” It is sobering to consider that a well-established group like MUFON may have been chasing shadows for over a half century.
Thanks to Mr. Joe Murgia for alerting me to this 2018 BAASS statement.
- For additional information about the Virtual Experience Model (VEM) the following links are provided:
- Reinerio Hernandez, co-author and publisher of “A Greater Reality” has made available to the public as free pdf files Volumes 1 & 2 of this anthology. My chapter titled “Report from the Contact Underground: Human Initiated Contact, the Consciousness Connection, and the Virtual Experience Model.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019. INTRODUCTION As the result of carefully studying numerous interactions with the intelligence responsible for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena UAP, I have developed a new paradigm for understanding the important role of illusion as a mechanism of contact. In proposing this model, I must emphasize that both physical and illusory contact experiences likely … Continue reading The Virtual Experience Model, an Overview
J. Burkes MD 2021 Important Proviso: The Virtual Experience Model doesn’t propose that all encounters are holographic or psychic. In my judgment, interactions are occurring via both virtual and physical means. The Virtual Experience Model describes what I believe are the illusory mechanisms of contact employed by flying saucer intelligences. The model is as follows: … Continue reading The Reasons why Flying Saucer Intelligences might stage “Virtual” Instead of Physical Encounters
Staging Psi-mediated Close Encounters might have practical advantages for UFO intelligences. Staging exclusively physical interactions could pose enormous risks including the transmission of deadly pathogens.
Two Cases Supporting the VE-2 Category “Matrix Reality”
https://underground.contact/2023/05/06/2031
The work that Andrija Puharich did with Uri Geller revealed a dramatic case of “Virtual Memory”, aka a Virtual Experience of the Third Kind.
In the blog linked below I discuss advances in memory science and their implications for both the Virtual Experience Model and the use of hypnosis on contact experiencers.
A blog analyzing an event at Skinwalker Ranch that supports the Virtual Experience Model. Dr. Kelleher was present when 6 observers using night vision equipment described seeing “completely different things.”
Tibetan Buddhist traditions describe the creation of physical entities from pure thought called “tulpas.” Could something similar be going on in worldwide UFO contact drama?
Contact Underground 
Look into JJ hurtak’s the keys of Enoch book and look up the idea of a biotransducer subsystem. A human utilized by higher light being for translating reality and changing it via connection with ultra human being. Humans can change physical reality with their minds eye. Others that know of these Powers manipulate humans so as to enjoy these rare gifts unused. Everything is light and if you know how to bend light in the right way you can travel anywhere / any when and communicate with others not human. It takes a lot of bravery to not be afraid to find out that we are more than we’ve been told.
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