I would like to acknowledge the team from To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science: some very busy individuals who generously gave of their time and attention to look over the manuscript and suggest changes or additions. This list must include Jim Semivan, Hal Puthoff, Garry Nolan, and Chris Mellon. I would also like to thank Christopher Kit Green and Eric Davis for their kind comments and support. And, of course, this project would never have gotten off the ground at all had it not been for Tom DeLonges vision and drive. From SekretMachines to The Stars, it has beenand remainsa wild ride!
Thanks also to Kari DeLonge for keeping us all in check and on schedule and for her many helpful suggestions as well.
I would also like to thank Whitley Strieber for his friendship and guidance on all things Visitor. I have had many long conversations with Whitley about the Phenomenon, and they always give me much to think about and provide a valuable perspective on something that defies easy explanation.
Also many thanks to friends and family: people I have had to avoid in order to do the research and the writing (and the thinking) on this most difficult subject. Writers are antisocial beings anyway, but Tom had me pondering the philosophy and psychology of machines in a manner I had never considered before and set off a trail of thought that has been proceeding unbroken and uninterrupted for more than three years now, making me seem like an absent-minded troll most of the time. My apologies!
And it should go without saying: any errors of fact or interpretation here are solely my own.
Prologue
If anyone says they have the answers, theyre fooling themselves.
We dont know the answers but we have plenty of evidence to support asking the questions. This is about science and national security. If America doesnt take the lead in answering these questions, others will.
12:59 P.M. 16 Dec. 2017
Senator Harry Reid (emphasis added)
I n a tweet published on December 16, 2017the day the news broke nationwide that Tom DeLonges To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSAAS) had served as the vehicle for the release of two official Department of Defense videos showing the existence of UFOsformer Nevada Senator Harry Reid admitted there was a secret program at DOD to investigate UFOs, and that This is about science and national security.
In the first book of this trilogySekret Machines: Godswe explored the ancient cultural evidence for Contact. This ancient evidence took the form of religious and spiritual texts concerned with beings from the heavens and the relationship between these beings and the impetus all across the globe to create civilizations around architectural devices that were believed connected to the gods and to the heavens. These were also associated with divine-human contact and the possibility of immortality and altered states of consciousness. In ancient Sumer and Egyptamong other culturesthis meant a kind of spiritual technology (at least, that is how it would be understood today).
In this book we will pick up where we left off, but by taking a page from Harry Reid and his UFO project. We will look at the implications of the UFO where science is concerned. In our third and last bookSekret Machines: Warwe will examine the national security implications.
While we feel that it is problematic to separate the spiritual, scientific, and security fields from each other when discussing the UFO Phenomenon, we also realize that we as human beings have been trained to think this way, at least in the past two hundred years or so since Newton. We have compartmentalized knowledge to such an extent that the chance of a real Renaissance Man or Woman rising from among us has been drastically diminished. While we cant hope to rectify that situation, we do intend to show how a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of the UFO Phenomenon will yield the best results and will advance the cause of global knowledge and security, if not a Renaissance of the human spirit.
Further, you will notice that we will spend a great deal of time in this volume referring to the contactee and abductee aspect of the Phenomenon. To many in the UFO/UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) community, this aspect is the least credible or unworthy of being lumped in with the purely physical component of the Phenomenon. However, as recent research by Dr. Garry Nolan and his colleagues suggests, there are physical effects in contactees that can be observed and traced on a biological level; and as Dr. John Mack observed in 1994, abductees are suffering from a form of PTSD, indicating that they had experienced some kind of psychological trauma. This combination of physiological and psychological evidence makes it incumbent upon us to integrate the contactee/abductee experience with the UFO/UAP experience to some extent, and we have attempted to do so here.
One of the characteristics of UFOs that is common in the popular literature is that these sekret machines represent a technology that is far in advance of our own. There is a flaw buried deep within that argument, however. Our technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, and has been since World War II. Our achievements in genetics, physics, computer technology, and artificial intelligence have now reached what once were science-fiction levels of sophistication and complexity, and there is no sign that this trend will slow down in the foreseeable future. So the question has to be reformulated to take these advances into consideration. If the UFO Phenomenon represents a technology more advanced than our own, advanced by how much?
In ancient times, the technology was seen as magical and otherworldly. There was no Journal of the American Medical Association in those days; no Scientific American. The scientific journals of the time are interpreted today as religious or magical or spiritual texts. The ancient peoples were trying to come to terms with phenomena that seemed incredible, even impossible for humans to achieve. Today that same technology is seen as simply a few levels higher than our own. We could not fly in ancient times. We could not communicate over long distances. We could not see the trans-Saturnian planets. Today, however, we are gradually reaching the same level of technological expertise as the purported ancient aliens. What does that say about the alien culture that already has that technology?
More important, what does that say about us?
To The Stars Academy identified several research areas for their focus in the coming years. We have selected a few of them for investigation here, in order to explain the reasons they were chosen and their implications for the study of the Phenomenon. These are consciousness, the brain-computer interface, and telepathy, along with genetics.
Genetics is chosen because of proposals by Francis Crick and others that the RNA and/or DNA molecules were designed and seeded onto this planet deliberately. We find that there is anecdotal evidence to support this idea in several divinatory systems from Africa, China, and elsewhere, as well as in ancient religious systems of Egypt and India, among others. We will examine the theories put forward by scientists concerning the genetic code and amplify them with reference to these systems.
Consciousness studies is the hot new field combining neurobiology, genetics, and quantum mechanics. There are several important theories of consciousness that deserve our study, but most important are their implications for understanding both the UFO/UAP Phenomenon as well as human-alien contact.