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Often the inspiration for these panel questions comes from conversations I have had with experiencers. This time is no exception. I was talking to someone recently who said she felt blessed by her contact experiences because she felt they were always around. It made her feel safe. She never needed to feel lonely because there was always someone to watch over her.

It reminded me of other experiencers who shared a similar sentiment that they were never alone. But they didn’t like it, and felt their privacy was being violated.

The phenomenon of "often or constantly feeling the presence of the visitors contactees interact with" is fairly common. What seems to greatly differ is how people experience it, as the two examples above demonstrate.

We asked our panel members for their thoughts and/or experiences.

Someone to watch over me
Artwork by Scott Browne

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Category: Interviews

Interview with Julia Sellers

There is so much research going on across the world about general existential questions such as who we are, what our purpose is, our ultimate destiny unfolding through the ongoing process of evolution, where we are at the moment in terms of our consciousness, potential and our current human condition, the awareness of which is crucial for a self-perception that would enable us to position ourselves appropriately into the broader universe and get a proper perspective of our purpose and related life trajectory.

While I came across Julia’s book I Have Seen It Tomorrow, I was attracted by its title alone, because I have a feeling, shared with many people in today’s world, that things must somehow be turned upside down, looked at from a different perspective, examined from an opposite to normal direction – like reading, writing, looking at a picture – allowed to exist in a different order to that we traditionally conceive, because something is not right about the established concept of our world, something is missing and something is wrong and this must change, be complemented or corrected or eliminated altogether.

Julia Sellers, writing under a pseudonym Iris Krst, is a researcher of anomalous phenomena, primarily of out-of-body experiences.

She is interested in quantum physics, free energy, anomalous cognition, in merging the topics of science and religion, in shattering limiting beliefs.

She is also a lecturer, author, and coach. She had her first out-of-body experience in 1995, and since then she has dedicated her time to studying them.

Once engaged in journalism, translation-interpretation, consulting for international relations, and teaching about the behavioural problems of children, she now devotes her time to issues related to STEs and NOTEs, she is a member of the Society for Scientific Research and the Society for Afterlife Research, a member of (I)SEN – International Spiritual Emergence Network, and a contributor to the Journal of Exceptional Experiences and Psychology. [Editor's note: STE = Spiritually Transformative Experience; NOTE = Non-Ordinary Transcendent Experience].

The topic of our conversation was paranormal phenomena including Julia’s main field of research – out-of-body experiences, with an emphasis, however, on extraterrestrial contact as one among the many paranormal experiences humans are increasingly exposed to, and the psi-factor as its crucial component, discussed also in one of the recent series of articles in the magazine JAR. 

Book Cover 'I have seen it tomorrow'
Book Cover 'I have seen it tomorrow'

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Julia:  Maybe we will start the interview with the topic of out-of-body experiences. They are also an essential part of what we call non-human intelligent contact, formerly known as extraterrestrial contact. Now we are talking more about non-human intelligences, or NHIs, because when the contact happens it does not necessarily have to be extraterrestrial. We call this intelligence an entity, or entities, because we don’t really know what it is and thus what to call it. It could be anything, it could be pure energy, pure plasma, it could be discarnate spirits of this world. But it could also be the Grays, other extraterrestrials, ghosts that live in nature, etc. 

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Introduction

In an interview, not too long ago, David Jacobs insisted that the amount of alien abductions has been increasing over the years. His explanation is simple: with each new generation, there are additional abductees. Then, a short while ago, I was having a conversation with another researcher who claimed abductions had virtually come to an end. Which I thought was a bold statement to make. And I remembered Whitley Strieber once mentioning that they happen in flaps: there are periods of heightened as well as periods of lower activity.

That poses an interesting question: have alien abductions been increasing or decreasing over time? I posed the question to some other researchers, and their views largely diverged. Most seemed to think that they had either decreased or remained the same over time.

I also presented the question to the members of our panel, and they came with some revealing insights. A first is that we have to make a distinction between the number of abductees and the number of incidents. It is perfectly possible that with each generation the overall number of all abductees increases, while the number of incidents remains stable: instead of the parents being abducted, it is now their offspring.

A second insight is that we can only know what is happening if people keep on reporting their experiences. And things can easily go wrong there: the lack of the availability of a local platform to report to may be an obstacle. Even rephrasing the questions or asking for additional, more private information, can scare people away.
At present, we don’t really have enough reliable data to make any clear assessments. But with the information we have, it seems that the overall number of abductees has grown while the overall number of incidents has remained stable.

 

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Are abductions increasing or decreasing?

Here are the replies of our panel members, in the sequence we received them:

Manuel Lamiroy.

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John Carpenter - Are Abductions Happening as Often?

When asking whether UFO abductions are happening as frequently as in the past decades, the real question should be, “Are UFO abductions being reported as often?”  This is a reporting phenomenon first and foremost.  Let me explain.  To have any reasonable assessment of the frequency of UFO abductions, one must have a reliable and easily accessible reporting system – everywhere – which is unlikely.  Because alien abductions are a very private, often disturbing, and disbelieved phenomenon, very few people are comfortable with sharing their events.  They fear they will be labeled crazy and shunned or get unwanted publicity with a potential for even greater ridicule.  They may doubt their own sanity and suppress the unusual events.  Even with a greater awareness and better acceptance these days, it is still very personal and not easy to report.  Besides, who can you be certain that you can trust?

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With tremendous sadness, we have just learned that Rosemary Ellen Guiley passed away on Thursday 18 July 2019.

Rosemary was on JAR's board of editors during its first few years.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Our condolences to her family and husband Joe.

She will be missed.

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Category: Encounters

By Sean Casteel

Undersea Base AlienThere is now ample evidence that existing alongside the UFO phenomenon is an equally complex but less well known phenomenon with the acronym USO, which stands for Unidentified Submerged Object, or alternately, Unidentified Submarine Object. While they are seen much less frequently than the aboveground UFOs, they are nevertheless observed often enough to warrant extensive study as a related phenomenon.

In an interview I conducted with world-renowned UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, he told me, “There have been a number of reports over the years of objects that do several things. Navy submarines have apparently seen things moving along much faster than they can underwater, without going in or coming out. Others have seen UFOs come down in the water and move around and then take off from the water. And there have been reports of things that just come bursting forth out of the water.”

WHAT A USO IS CAPABLE OF

Another story was told to me by Don Ledger, the coauthor of a book on the famous Shag Harbor incident. Ledger received training in the fields of marine navigational aids and radar. In the course of that training, he spoke to a man at a sonar shop at a naval base in Halifax, Canada.

“He was working as a repairman for the navy on sonar,” Ledger recalled. “I asked him, ‘Did you ever see anything unusual down there, like whales or something besides submarines?’ And he said, ‘Oh, yeah, every once in a while we’ll run across something that seems to be moving way too fast for a submarine.’ I said, ‘What do you mean by fast?’ And he said, ‘Well, one time we recorded one going about 150 miles an hour underwater. That’s impossible.’ So I said, was there something wrong with the equipment? And he said, no, the equipment all checked out.”

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We asked our panel members about alien implants. First, Gwen Farrell gives a general introduction. In the following two articles, Suzy Hansen and Thomas Minderlé share the experiences of three experiencers.

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Gwen Farrell: what about implants?

From Forbidden Questions: A Guide to Human-ET Contact by Gwen Farrell, CHt, RT

Some individuals believe they have been implanted with un-earthly objects during contact with alien beings. Implants are not souvenirs of all contact events, but they are reported commonly enough to be considered standard items in some ET toolboxes. The FREE Study(1) found that out of 1,222 individuals who responded to the question “Do you believe that the ETs placed a permanent foreign object (an implant) in your body?” 630 said Yes.

Alien implants reportedly come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and may remain in an individual’s body until they either disappear on their own or until they are removed by the individual or by the ETs who placed them there. Although many people don’t suffer ill effects from an implant, some do report pain and discomfort in the area, state that they can feel the object emitting heat or other types of energy, or report health problems that clear up after the implant has been removed.

Some individuals have reported that after an implant was removed, they initially felt very sick, but within a few weeks, they felt better and, in some cases, even better than during any period in their life. But whether an alien implant proves to be problematic or not, it is understandable that most people who have one would want to be rid of it as soon as possible. That doesn’t apply to every person or every type of implant, however.

What are they?

Not surprisingly, upon close examination, most suspected alien implants turn out to have Earthly origins and usually prove to be run-of-the-mill things such as insect bites, skin lesions, or natural or manmade objects that became imbedded in the body during the course of daily life. Generally, the deciding factors about whether an object is an alien implant are if it can’t be explained naturally and if it appeared in connection with a UFO sighting or ET close encounter. Even if an experiencer doesn’t remember having an implant placed in their body by an alien being, if there is no natural explanation and there was a contact event around the time the object was discovered, the odds of it being an alien implant rise significantly.

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THE CLAIMS OF AN EARLY UFO CONTACTEE:
ORFEO ANGELUCCI'S SECRET OF THE SAUCERS

By Sean Casteel

After covering UFOs, alien abduction and many other paranormal subjects for over 25 years, I thought I’d seen it all. But once again, publisher, editor, writer and talk show host Timothy Green Beckley has shown me just how wrong that assumption can be. Tim recently sent me a book that contains two full-length tomes by the late contactee Orfeo Angelucci combined in one volume. Though the books were originally published in the 1950s, they contain so much that is relevant and precious about UFO contact and the mortals who come under their purview for reasons they themselves do not comprehend.

In the case of Orfeo Angelucci, I would hazard a guess that he was chosen because of his sincere, guileless innocence. Orfeo was 39 years old when he had his first consciously-recalled alien encounter, but there is an undeniable childlike quality that comes across in his writing that makes it difficult to imagine he was seeking fame or attention or money. He honestly believed that the Space Brothers – who had walked into his life from out of the blue – had charged him with the mission of making their presence and good intentions for mankind known.

Orfeo Angelucci
Orfeo Angelucci

Orfeo’s first book was called “The Secret of the Saucers” and came out in 1955. He begins by telling the story of his childhood, which he spent a great deal of in bed due to a poorly diagnosed aliment the doctors called “constitutional inadequacy.” The symptoms included great physical weakness, lassitude, lack of appetite and malnutrition. He tired easily and the slightest physical effort left him weak and exhausted. He also suffered from migraine headaches and it seemed at times that his every nerve and muscle ached with excruciating pain.

When Orfeo was in the ninth grade, his doctors advised that he leave school and continue his studies at home. Orfeo liked the arrangement because it allowed him to do all the reading in the various sciences that he wished. After a year of plenty of rest and a weight-building diet, the doctors said he could return to school. But since his family had suffered some financial reverses in the meantime, it was decided that he should instead go to work for his uncle’s flooring and stucco company. Which again left him with the freedom to voraciously read books on science.

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Dutch author Gerard Aartsen has receovered a copy of George Adamski's debut The Invisible Ocean.

An integral copy of the book will be included in Gerard's new book, the Sea of Consciousness, which will be published in April 2019.

In it, Aartsen focuses on the many striking parallels between Adamski’s earliest teaching and the insights of 21st-century systems science as articulated by “modern-day genius” professor Ervin Laszlo.

A copy of the Press Release can be read here.

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Photographing Entities, Aliens and Spirits from the Netherworld

By Sean Casteel

Tim Beckley has often said that he feels that what takes place inside a séance room or a haunted house is pretty much parallel to that which you can find manifesting at a UFO landing site.

“In both places,” Beckley said, “you can find the levitation of objects as well as the percipient   witnesses suddenly finding themselves lifting up and floating off the ground. There have also been numerous cases of people and objects passing through walls and other seemingly ‘solid structures,’ such as the outer hull of a UFO. When photographs are taken, eerie forms often appear on the film from ‘out of nowhere,’ forms that could be Ultra-terrestrials or spirit messengers.”

To Beckley’s way of thinking, the Scole Experiments may offer the best proof that “space beings” and spirit beings are closely aligned and have been able to show themselves under tight, rigidly controlled circumstances. 

The famous Scole Experiments were a series of séances that took place in England and ran from   1993 to 1998. The experiments were conducted in the village of Scole, in the region of Norfolk, in the basement of a farmhouse that came to be called the “Scole Hole.” The experiments received so much excited buzz that the prestigious Society for Psychical Research asked to observe, test and record what took place.