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The Future of Alien Abduction Research
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- Written by: Manuel Lamiroy
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The glory days of alien abduction research are in the past, in the 1990s, more specifically. Some of the researchers of those days have passed away, and many others by now have retired. And there doesn't seem to be a new generation to step into their shoes.
With that in mind, we asked our panel members what they thought about the future of alien abduction research.
Thomas Minderlé sees several opportunities that new technologies bring that can assist in alien abduction research, and take it to a new level: The Future of Alien Abduction Research (Thomas Minderlé)
Bill Konkolesky rightfully reminds us that any future alien abduction research should be more experiencer-centric: Meet Them Where They Are At
Rebecca Hardcastle-Wright discusses the role of artificial intelligence in future abduction research: The Future of Alien Abduction Research is Artificial Intelligence
Manuel Lamiroy talks about what is needed for a successful future of alien abduction research, and what the priorities are: The Future of Alien Abduction Research (Manuel Lamiroy)
The Future of Alien Abduction Research (Manuel Lamiroy)
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- Written by: Manuel Lamiroy
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The mystery of alien abduction has persisted for decades. Some of the most compelling cases remain unexplained, even after rigorous investigation. The phenomenon is neither rare nor easily dismissed. But after all these years, we are still circling the same unanswered questions.
Today, the field of alien abduction research is a patchwork of disciplines and perspectives. Psychologists study the mental and emotional dimensions of the experience. Anthropologists place it in the context of global myth and cultural patterns. Neuroscientists look for physical neural correlates in the brain, while exopoliticians consider the political, societal and governmental implications. Yet these groups rarely share data or coordinate their efforts. The result is a fragmented landscape, rich in insights but poor in integration. A map of the field would look less like a unified body of work and more like scattered islands separated by deep waters.
The cracks in our current models are increasingly hard to ignore. A purely "nuts and bolts" extraterrestrial explanation cannot account for cases in which witnesses describe shifting realities, altered time perception, or beings that behave more like consciousness projections than physical visitors. Conversely, a purely psychological explanation fails when multiple witnesses share highly specific, consistent accounts of the same event, or when physical anomalies accompany the experience. These shortcomings have opened the door to hybrid models that blend elements of material reality, altered states of consciousness, and perhaps dimensions we have yet to define.
What is changing – and what gives hope for progress – is the arrival of new tools. We can now apply big data analytics to decades of abduction reports, looking for patterns across languages, cultures, and continents. Artificial intelligence can highlight correlations no human researcher would notice. Neuroimaging can scan for unusual brain activity that may accompany the experience, while portable biometric devices can record physiological data in real time. Digital reporting platforms now allow experiencers to upload accounts, photographs, or sketches into secure, standardized databases, preserving details that might otherwise be lost to memory.
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The Future of Alien Abduction Research is Artificial Intelligence
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- Written by: Rebecca Hardcastle-Wright
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From Independent Research -to- Military/Intel Programs -to- AI Control
With AI, independent researchers in Ufology and Alien Abduction will be replaced by chatbots as artificial information is curated to communicate the corporate, government, military/intel narrative to a world eager to attach to a machine for their information and knowledge.
In the AI Disclosure era, Exoconscious Experiencers will be the only ones left standing as sovereign moral humans who trust themselves and their contact.
Disclosure: Ufology Independence Era
As a childhood and lifelong contactee, in 2005, my public work in Exoconsciousness began during the independent Ufology era, emphasizing the innate human ability to connect, communicate, and co-create with extraterrestrials, multidimensionals, and spiritual beings.
Human cosmic contact opens us to a more penetrating and powerful access to the field of consciousness with enhanced psychic abilities, innovation, human sovereignty, and peer-to-peer relationships between mature, integrated experiencers and the extraterrestrial presence.
Primary Factors in Abduction research during the Independence era, which remain essential today are
1) discerning authentic extraterrestrial contact from MILAB, Mind Control and artificial threat-based contact
2) providing a reliable, publicly accessible database of research information free of censorship and control
3) creating stable structures and communities for integration and maturing through contact
The Institute for Exoconsciousness represents a public post-disclosure community of responsible experiencers who value the preservation and advancement of natural human consciousness.
Today, Abduction Research is complicated by 2 primary control factors:
1) The Military/Intel Occupation of Ufology Research—replacing independent researchers
2) Artificial Intelligence centralization, control and censorship of Abduction Research.
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Meet Them Where They Are At
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- Written by: William Konkolesky
- Category: Ask the panel
Meet Them Where They Are At:
A Sensible and Compassionate Model for Abduction Investigation
Bill Konkolesky
Note: the terms abductee (abduction) and experiencer here are synonymous to indicate individuals who have been in contact with and/or taken by anomalous entities.
Research into the phenomenon of ‘alien abduction’ has seen a broad spectrum of approaches since its inception in the modern era when the Antonio Villas Boas and Betty and Barney Hill events first drew the attention of UFO investigators more than 60 years ago. Jumping into this arena were serious psychologists, scientific ufologists, grassroots investigators, curious dabblers, spiritualists, debunkers, media exploiters, and fellowship-seeking abductees/experiencers. To no one’s surprise, this has led to a wide and uneven variety of results with the multitude of processes employed. While the collective investigations have yielded a tremendous bounty of information, because of the variations in what aspects are being explored and how, it leaves almost no consistency when assembled into a single body. To put it plainly, there is no apples to apples here (in fact, it’s more like apples to bicycles in some cases). If there is value to consistency in results, there should be consistency in approach.
The Future of Alien Abduction Research (Thomas Minderlé)
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- Written by: Thomas Minderlé
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Like the solar cycle, ufology has gone through many waves over the decades. The current wave arguably began in 2017 when Leslie Kean co-authored a New York Times article on the USS Nimitz incident. The wave swelled with David Grusch, Ryan Graves, Lue Elizondo, and others taking part in the Congressional UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) hearings. The most recent milestone was the release of the documentary Age of Disclosure (2025).
But one thing curiously missing from the current wave is any discussion of alien abductions, implants, mind programming, the contactee phenomenon, or infiltration of societal institutions (including government) by non-human entities or human-alien hybrids. Maybe for a soft disclosure effort, these topics are simply too controversial and lacking in hard evidence compared to raw video and sensor data from military sources. Or perhaps the current wave is a controlled narrative to steer the public away from inconvenient truths and toward sanitized areas of ufology that benefit a certain political or alien agenda. Time will tell what the case may be.
A converging problem is social media siloing people into echo chambers, with algorithms feeding them only what they—and the programmers—want them to see. This insulation of the population from uncomfortable truths or even just differing viewpoints is creating an epidemic of ignorance, division, non-thinking, and intellectual captivity. Anyone trying to spread awareness about the shadier side of the alien presence is now fighting an uphill battle against jadedness, reduced attention spans, and algorithms limiting the virality of counter-narrative material.
The abduction research field probably peaked in the 1990s with John Mack, David Jacobs, Budd Hopkins, Karla Turner, and other icons publishing monumental books and lecturing widely. But today, except for the most hardcore truth-seekers, this newest wave of UFO enthusiasts is generally ignorant of the last wave that peaked in the ’90s. They’re back to a 1950s “nuts-and-bolts” mentality, campaigning for disclosure and arguing over the authenticity of the latest viral footage.
This is the environment that abduction research now finds itself in. The path forward involves mining for more abduction data, refining discernment criteria to help extract signal from noise, leveraging tools like AI and new sensor technologies to track and zoom in more sharply on alien activities, and working more smartly within the new social media environment to better penetrate mass consciousness. Let’s discuss these one by one.
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Course on alien abductions
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- Written by: Manuel Lamiroy
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Alien abductions are one the greatest mysteries of our time. Researchers disagree on many aspects. So, what do we really know? This course looks at the available evidence. It separates fact from fiction. It analyzes the different narratives and perspectives and verifies whether the evidence supports them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxAW60MNh0Y
For more information: https://learn.exopoliticssouthafrica.org/Alien-Abductions.html
Disclosure and contact experiences
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Introduction
With UAP hearings in the US Congress and reports by the Pentagon and NASA, it seems we are closer to disclosure than ever before. Yet, as Bill Konkolesky puts it in his article below, this is a very lop-sided type of disclosure. It is a narrative that is promoted by the Pentagon that focuses on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena only and interprets their presence as a potential threat. In other words, it deals with only one aspect of an extraterrestrial presence. Contact experiences are ignored. And it also interprets the phenomenon through a heavily biased lens.
So, what we are witnessing is a limited and biased disclosure that serves the needs of the Pentagon. The picture that this narrative paints is incomplete and inaccurate. A more complete approach is needed, where one also considers the contact phenomenon in all its complexities.
We asked our panel members about their views on this matter.
- Mike Jamieson focuses on "Breaking Through Barriers of Ridicule and Denial".
- Bill Konkolesky discusses how UFO Disclosure is making some lop-sided strides.
- Thomas Minderlé (Montalk) examines the problems posed by including contact cases in the disclosure process.
- Giorgio Piacenza performs a more in-depth analysis on sharing contactee information in the disclosure process, where he explores the possibilities and attempts to come up with an answer and recommendation.
Enjoy the articles!
Sharing Contactee Information in the Disclosure Process
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- Written by: Giorgio Piacenza
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Giorgio Piacenza
This will not be an essay with a clear-cut opinion from the beginning but an exploration of possibilities attempting to come up with an answer and a recommendation.
Introduction
I asked (to two reasonable, well-informed persons close to me) the question if contact experiences and its information should be included in the government-related disclosure narratives. Both told me that it would NOT be a good idea. And I understood their reasons why but - somehow - rebelled against them. One of them said that these contact experiences could add fear, confusion, and even insult, for instance, to billions of religious conservative people living outside the West. Since the news come from the West, many opportunist leaders would take advantage to radicalize their polities as a new evil trying to subvert their own cultures. The other person said that, there would not be a way to prove with solid evidence the claims of contactees speaking about far-our multidimensional realities and (sentiment and faith-based) spiritual messages and that this would make Disclosure less credible.
But don’t we live in the “age of the impossible” as Caroline Myss (best-selling author and well-known teacher in the fields of consciousness, spirituality, mysticism, energy medicine) explains in this YouTube video? Aren’t we being forced to face what was consider “impossible” and isn’t this be necessary to leave our complacency behind? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vySLw8aimrk&t=3s
And, aren’t we in an urgent, dire need to change how we relate with each other and with life by expanding how much of reality we are willing to embrace? Can the latter only be done under the umbrella of an existential “threat”? Doesn’t the UFO or UAP phenomenon itself point towards having to accept the “impossible”? The question is whether we can do it on a global scale, turning it into a life-enhancing experience.
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We have moved to a new host
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- Written by: Manuel Lamiroy
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We recently moved to a new host and updated the CMS.
One disadvantage is that the old layout is no longer usable.
A new layout will be implemented soon.
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