Philip J. Imbrogno - Ultraterrestrial Contact: A Paranormal Investigators Explorations into the Hidden Abduction Epidemic

About the Author

Philip J. Imbrogno has researched UFOs and other paranormal phenomena for more than thirty years and is recognized as an authority in the field. A science educator at the secondary and collegiate levels for twenty-eight years, he has been interviewed by the New York Times and Coast to Coast AM , has appeared on NBCs Today Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show , and has been featured in documentaries on the History Channel, A&E, Lifetime, and HBO. Imbrogno worked closely with many top UFO investigators, including Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Budd Hopkins. He can be contacted by email at Bel1313@
yahoo.com.

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Ultraterrestrial Contact: A Paranormal Investigators Explorations into the Hidden Abduction Epidemic 2010 by Philip J. Imbrogno.

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Portions of this book previously appeared in Contact of the 5th Kind (Llewellyn, 1997).

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Contents

Saucers vs. Triangles

The Hidden Epidemic

The Contact Phenomenon

Encounters of the Fourth Kind

Night Visitors

When Legends Come Alive

Portals to Another Dimension

Extraterrestrials and Ultraterrestrials

Sailing Off the Edge of Reality

Alien Symbols and Language

Is There a Government Cover-up?

An Analysis of the Contact Experience

: A List of UFOParanormal Researchers, Groups, and Publications

Preface

It has been more than thirty years since Ive began my investigation of the paranormal. What Ive found to be the most interesting has been the UFO phenomenon; of all the strange occurrences on our tiny planet, it is the most complex. One of the most bizarre aspects of the UFO experience is people who claim theyve had contact with beings from another world. There are all levels of contact, ranging from the sighting of an alien being or creature near an object thats on the ground, to people who claim to have psychic communication with entities not only from other worlds, but from a parallel reality. When my research began (sometime in the mid-1970s), I shied away from the majority of these contact cases because they appeared to be more psychological than physical representations of the UFO experience. Like many other pioneers in the field, I spent these early years looking for signs of nuts-and-bolts spaceshipsI firmly believed UFOs represented technology from alien civilizations visiting planet Earth. As time went on, I began to realize that the contact phenomenon is also part of the total UFO experience and the cases should not be ignored; it should be taken seriously and investigated no matter how bizarre cases may seem. In 1986, I began a study to explore the contact experience in greater detail. At first, only those cases in which the witness claimed UFO-alien contact were considered. Time went on, more data came in my direction, and it became apparent to me that like the UFO experience, the contact phenomenon is extremely complex and not restricted to encounters with physical, extraterrestrial aliens. I decided at that point to expand the parameters of my research and investigate claims of all types involving contact that had taken place with any form of nonhuman intelligence. This category includes extraterrestrial aliens, strange creatures, angels, demons, djinn, and messages from spirits and ghosts. Given the complexity of the phenomenon, it became obvious that the study of UFOs and related paranormal events cannot be restricted to the physical scientist alone. In response to this, I put together a number of research teams over the years that included specialists from many different fields: astronomy, physics, biology, psychology, medicine, engineering, law enforcement, and journalism.

During my many years of investigation, I would often receive calls and letters from psychics claiming to have received a message from extraterrestrials or saying they have tuned in to them and could help me predict their next move. At the time, I was very skeptical of these claims and stayed away from working with anyone who said they had psychic abilities. However, one psychic did join my team in the mid-eighties because she proved to possess what I believe to be insight that transcended our normal awareness. This person has been an integral part of the team ever since. An authentic psychic can play a very important role in investigations of paranormal phenomena, especially when dealing with those who claim alien contact or abduction.

My indoctrination to big time UFO research began on March 25, 1983, after an outbreak of hundreds of sightings less than thirty miles from my home. There had been hundreds of reports over the past few days of a giant triangular craft that flew silently over the major highways of New York causing traffic to come to a halt. These sightings are documented in my book Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1995). I will never forget the call I received during that time from Dr. J. Allen Hynek, then the director of the Center for UFO Studies, which at the time was based in Evanston, Illinois. Picking up the phone, I heard a voice I recognized as Dr. Hyneks saying, What the hell is going on up there? I updated him about the UFO sightings and shortly after, he came to the area to investigate. Over the next several months, we would spend hundreds of hours in the field investigating UFO reports from credible people who had incredible encounters. Dr. Hynek was so impressed with the quality of the witness accounts that he called the UFO sightings in the Hudson Valley the most important UFO case in history.