Joseph - Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials

MILITARY
ENCOUNTERS
WITH
Extraterrestrials

Frank Joseph is a thorough researcher and a great writer. He is offering a new chapter for ufologists to learn more about military confrontations between humans and extraterrestrials. I support his quality of research and the verifiable evidence that he has discovered.

BRUCE WIDAMAN, FORMER STATE DIRECTOR OF THE MISSOURI MUTUAL UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS NETWORK (MUFON)

By equal measures, intriguing and terrifying. If just one of these incidents occurred as described in Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials, our history books will need to be rewritten.

NICK POPE, U.K. MINISTRY OF DEFENSE (RETIRED), INVESTIGATOR OF UFO SIGHTINGS FOR SECRETARIAT (AIR STAFF) DIVISION, 1991 TO 1994

FOREWORD

Entering the Cosmic Arena

John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Unidentified flying objects have been fixtures of public discourse since the Second World War. They must be viewed, however, as part of a larger, more perilous drama concerning our journey of discovery through the universe. If we accept the extraterrestrial hypothesisnamely, that our species has been and still is in a relationship of some kind with intelligent beings from beyond our worldthen a major part of this discussion includes involvement and confrontations between its armed forces and ours.

As author Frank Joseph shows, public sightings of UFOs represent the proverbial tip of the iceberg in a multifaceted collision between human and nonhuman cultures. His Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials focuses on just such a fundamental issue, which, as it turns out, is the most secret and perhaps most significant part of this covert, ongoing, if unacknowledged conflict. The harsh truth is, despite our best intentions and hopes, a major feature of the UFO phenomenon continues to be destructive and sometimes deadly clashes with off-world intruders penetrating our airspace at will.

This realization was already foreshadowed by my 2015 book, Death on Mars. In it, I present evidence of isotopic traces from an annihilating atomic attack launched against the Red Planet in the very distant past. In a universe we already know to possess many threats to intelligent lifesupernovas, gamma ray bursts, comet and asteroid impactsMars tells us we must now add the threat of other intelligent life. Like our own war-torn world, the rest of the universe may be a cosmic arena for the execution of terrible evil on occasion, as the fate of Mars illustrates. Accordingly, encounters between the armed forces and UFOs are key to understanding how government authorities approach and handle UFO phenomena, not just in the United States, but internationally.

It is, therefore, fundamentally important for us to grasp that, as we make our way through the universe, it is neither simple nor always friendly. Indeed, Frank Joseph explores a wealth of relevant reports with the goal of educating readers about this vital aspect of the UFO situation. His Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials describes the most concealed, challenging aspect of humankinds continuing cosmic journey. Such awareness promises to become ever more necessary the further we venture from Earth, with all the limitless possibilities of space travel, because it replaces our vulnerable navet with realistic awareness. Given the often-harrowing accounts presented in this book, that perception alone may someday be more decisive than we presently dare to imagine.

JOHN E. BRANDENBURG, PH.D., is a theoretical plasma physicist and science worker in defense, energy, space, and astrophysics. In addition to his acclaimed Death on Mars: The Discovery of a Planetary Nuclear Massacre (Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2015), he published The GEM Unification Theory: Extending the Standard Model to Include Gravitation (Frankfurt, Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016), which predicts gravity modification by electromagnetism for human space flight.

INTRODUCTION

Close Encounters of the Eighth Kind

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

KRISHNA IN THE BHAGAVAD-GITA, FIFTH CENTURY BCE

The publication of this book nearly coincides with the one hundredth anniversary of the most important conflict in the entire history of mankindthe first shots fired against otherworld opponents. From its opening salvo, fired by early military aviations preeminent warrior, to present-day peacekeeping operations in the Middle East, the undeclared, unreported, ongoing struggle is unknown to most, suspected by few, and familiar almost exclusively to those individuals engaged in it. It is, in effect, the Silent War. Although both sides have suffered undetermined numbers of casualties, and combatants are involved from almost all armed forces on Earth, the objectives of their commanding officers are classified and virtually nothing is disclosed about the enemy, whose own agendas are even more enigmatic.

This most important conflict is not an armed confrontation among nations or peoples, but between earthly humans and unearthly nonhumansa true War of the Worlds. That concept originated in the visionary brain of H. G. Wells, whose 1897 novel of that title is the earliest published story about a global struggle pitting humankind against beings from another planet. Wells depicted the aliens as more technologically advanced than the defenders of Western civilization, which was nearly lost in a seemingly inexorable conquest of our planet by outside forces, until a natural virus, harmless to humans, but to which the invaders lacked immunity, fortuitously wiped them out. While the tales denouement is both satisfying and credible, Wellss characterization of alien military superiority has been borne out by the last hundred years of extraterrestrial confrontations.

Exactly fifty years after the prescient books first publication, unidentified flying objects (UFOs) became an international sensation when the American aviator Kenneth Arnold made the first widely reported observation of them. He reported seeing nine large vehicles shaped like a pie plate flying in tandem near Mount Rainier, Washington, on June 24, 1947. Since then, a burgeoning number of UFO sightings and experiences from around the world have led to their classification into seven major categories:

Close Encounters of the First Kind: visual sightings of an unidentified flying object

Close Encounters of the Second Kind: interference by a UFO in the functioning of an earthly vehicle or electronic device, or leaving behind other kinds of physical evidence

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: a human in the presence of an extraterrestrial

Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: a human abducted by extraterrestrials

Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: direct communication between extraterrestrials and humans

Close Encounters of the Sixth Kind: death of a human or animal associated with a UFO or extraterrestrial sighting

Close Encounters of the Seventh Kind: Creation of a human/alien hybrid being, either by direct sexual reproduction or by artificial scientific methods

This book embraces most of these categories, while adding another oneClose Encounters of the Eighth Kind: military confrontations between human combatants and extraterrestrials.