The UFO phenomenon is real, but no one can prove who or what is causing it. This blog explores the research done over many decades, showing that the UFO phenomenon is of profound existential and scientific significance.
Beginning with this blog post, I will focus more on the consciousness aspect of the UFO phenomenon. Why? There are several important reasons, but I think to suffice to mention in this initial post are these two reasons:
Many people who report contact with UFOs say it has significantly altered their perspective on life.
Individuals, or experiencers, also talk about telepathic communication and manipulation of the experiencers´ perception of space and time during an encounter with the UFO phenomenon.
So the first (1.) point should indicate that these experiencers genuinely believe that something extraordinary happened to them. Something that had a profound and lifelong effect on them as human beings. It would be dishonest of me to claim that I know for a fact what happened to these experiencers or who or what caused the profound changes. I do not know that.
But I know that profound changes in one's worldview and values, as seen and documented in some experiencers, are not typical and rarely occur quickly. These kinds of profound changes are generally related to traumatic events (war, violence, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse), or some sort of sudden insight, or expanded awareness, often in connection to mystical and spiritual experiences, meditation, euphoric states, etc.
Therefore, I believe contact cases exist between humans and the unknown, defying conventional explanation (e.g., profound psychological and emotional changes). More importantly, I think there are some cases of contact where the human genuinely believes his or her experience and candidly tells his or her story. For me, that is reason enough to take their stories seriously and respect the people telling them.
"The DNA of the Strange | with special guest Dr Garry Nolan." Played live on MJ Banias' YouTube channel, April 26, 2019. Duration: 1:21:59.
Some early research has speculated that certain humans are more predisposed to ’The Strange.’ Join MJ and Dr. Garry Nolan of Stanford University as they discuss Nolan's genetic research, his interest in anomalous phenomena, and how science, Forteana, UFOs, and the paranormal may coexist in one complex (meta)physical system. Pull up a chair. Grab a drink. Tip your server. Welcome to Cafe Obscura.
Dr. Garry Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 220 research articles and is the holder of 20 US patents, and has been honored as one of the top 25 inventors at Stanford University.
This interview is from April this year (2019), but the content in the interview is timeless. Some parts of the content are also thought-provoking and raise some complex ethical questions. Therefore, I highly recommend you to listen to the whole interview when you have ample time and feel sharp in your mind. I can even recommend you to pause the video and reflect for some minutes when you feel that Dr Gary P. Nolan is saying something important or raises a question.
I will not say more about the content. What I will do is give you a rough map of what is being covered and when in the interview. Do not take my map as an exhaustive summarisation of all the interesting and useful information that Dr Nolan shares during the interview.
"Richard Dolan interviews Kathleen Marden -Part One." Published on Richard Dolan's YouTube channel on July 1, 2018. Duration: 52:07 minutes.
This is part one of two. Below is part two of the interview with Marden ("Richard Dolan interviews Kathleen Marden (Part 2)").
In this part one of the interview, Kathleen Marden is mostly describing and talking about her own and other researchers' studies on the experiencer phenomenon (what I call the "contact aspect" of the UFO-phenomena). Marden defines "experiencers" as "those people who had contact with nonhuman entities." Both positive and negative contacts and experiences. These nonhuman entities are not always necessarily what we would think of as extraterrestrial beings or "aliens", according to Marden's and other researchers' data.
An interesting result of Marden's research is that 88 % of experiencers say that after an UFO-encounter/experience and/or abduction they also start to experience paranormal activity in their homes and lives.
In the first 25 minutes of part one, Marden talks about her recent commonality study were most of the experiencers in the study say that they have become more intuitive and empathic (not the same as "empathetic"), and they ascribe these heighten abilities with their experiences with the nonhuman entities.
Marden also asked the experiencers in her study if they would like their extraordinary experiences to stop. 71 % answered that they did not want their experiences to stop, while a significant minority, 29 %, answered that they wanted their experiences to stop.
Dolan and Marden explore possible answers and interpretations of the statistical data I have mentioned above.
As always; listen with both an open and a skeptical mind. Form your own opinions.
"Richard Dolan interviews Kathleen Marden (Part 2)." Published on Richard Dolan's YouTube channel on July 7, 2018. Duration; 1:01:53.
Richard Dolan speaks with Kathleen Marden Leading UFO researcher, author and lecturer, and expert on the Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.
This is Part Two of a Two-Part video.
You can skip ahead in the show to 6:30 minutes to avoid the annoying commercial break. In this part two of the interview, Kathleen Marden starts by describing an abduction case with multiple and credible witnesses. This case also shows how paranormal activity can follow - or somehow seems to be triggered by - UFO encounters and/or abduction experiences.
22:30 minutes into the show, Marden shares her own extraordinary experiences that occurred in her childhood and included other members of her family. In relation to her personal story, Marden also talks about the modus operandi of the debunkers of the UFO-phenomenon.
In the second half of this part two, Dolan asks Marden where she thinks the abduction research is today, what the current hypotheses are, and so on. That conversation starts around the 34 minutes mark, but I am not sure if Dolan and Marden really discusses Dolan's above questions. Instead, they go on a tangent - a fascinating tangent - about a woman named Francess Swann (I am unsure of my spelling) who in the 1950´s was in contact with some high-level individuals in the government and the military about the abduction/experiencer phenomena.