Richard Dolan - UFOs for the 21st Century Mind: A Fresh Guide to an Ancient Mystery

UFOs

for the 21 st Century Mind

A Fresh Guide to an Ancient Mystery

Richard M. Dolan

Richard Dolan Press

Richard Dolan Press

Rochester, New York 14619

USA

Copyright 2014 by Richard M. Dolan

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Dolan, Richard Michael

UFOs for the 21 st Century Mind: A Fresh Guide to an Ancient Mystery / by Richard M. Dolan

486 p. cm. Includes bibliography and index. ISBN 978-1495291609 1. Unidentified Flying Objects 2. History. I. Dolan, Richard M. II. Title

First published in the United States by Richard Dolan Press

First Printing: January 2014

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To the countless UFO researchers of the past who made this research possible, and to the truth seekers of today and tomorrow.

Contents

What are UFOs? Getting Technical And Yet ... What Can UFOs Be? UFOs and the Problem of Science Who Decides What is Proof? Implications: What if They are Real? Political Implications Economic Implications Religious Implications Scientific Implications Cultural Implications Global Implications Our Journey to Understand the Past Ancient Images A Lost Civilization? Pyramids Other Structures, Inexplicable and Explicable Flying Trinkets Ancient Writings: Vimanas Ancient Writings: Egypt Ancient Writings: The Bible Ancient Astronauts The Annunaki More Ancient Stories Charles Fort Summary The Airships After the Airships World War Two Ghost Rockets 1947 Belgian Congo Mines 1952 and Washington, DC Aerial Encounters and Air Space Violations Encounters with Beings Abductions Operation Dominic: UFO Crash in the Pacific The Crescendo of the 1960s Minot AFB Malmstrom AFB Shag Harbor Mutilations and More The Early Cover-Up 1947: The Dam Breaks 1948: Estimating the Situation The Case of James Forrestal Unknown Objects Over Sensitive Airspace The Crisis of 1952 Challenging the Air Force More Sightings and A New Crisis The Condon Committee The End of an Era UFO Crash: Roswell UFO Crash: Aztec UFO Crash: Kingman UFO Crash: Brazil UFO Crash: Las Vegas UFO Crash: Kecksburg UFO Crash: Bolivia Other Crashes Stringfields Leaks Going Deeper Still: The Sarbacher-Walker Saga Bodies, Technology, and Area 51 German Technology The Requirements of Secrecy The Breakaway Civilization Paying For It All The Delphos UFO of 1971 The Wave of 1973: Two Interesting Cases High Strangeness in Spain The Strange Year of 1975 Intruder Alert A Sphere over the Canaries Incident over Tehran Around the World During the Late 1970s Enter the 1980s The Hudson Valley Sightings Around the World and in Space Gulf Breeze Area 51 Soviet UFOs Triangles over Belgium Summary The Beginning of the Video Era UFOs that Werent The Tether Incident Terror in the Air Encounters with Them The Khoury Incident The Kelly Cahill Case Schoolchildren in Zimbabwe An Entity in Varginha, Brazil The Washington Elk Case Who Are These Beings? The Spectacular Yukon Sighting The Phoenix Lights Triangles UFOs in the 21st Century UFO Over OHare Airport And Over Stephenville, Texas Northern Canadian Military Encounter The Turkish UFO Videos How Deep Does This Go? Where the Rubber Meets the Road Contact vs. Abduction Alien Abductions: Birth of an Idea The Hill Abduction Case The Herb Schirmer Abduction The Charles Moody Abduction Fire In the Sky: Travis Walton The Andreasson Affair Enter Budd Hopkins Into the Darkness Alien Implants John Mack The Other Side of Contact Adamski and the 1950s Telepathic Contact: The Affa Case Towards Assessing the Claims From the Ashes of the Condon Committee American Ufology: The Big Four Scientific Ufology Intelligence Community Penetration Entering the Weird Psychosocial Explanations FOIA and the Crash Retrieval Syndrome The Intelligence Empire Strikes Back: The Early 1980s The Eve of the Internet and the State of Ufology The First Bulletin Boards Out Come the Leaks Bob Lazar and Area 51 Rumors of Disclosure Around 1990 The Web and the First Wave of Research 21st Century: Explosion YouTube and Facebook The Decline of Professional Journalism Whistleblowers, Real and Alleged Increase of Sightings The Need for Proper Investigations The Modern Armchair Researcher The Philosophical Divide Ufologys Future Ufology: Getting Personal The Problem of Human Perception So. Who. Are. They? The Grays Human-Looking Aliens Other Types of Beings Channeled Beings New Age Aliens A Word on Crop Circles Getting to the Bottom Line The Radical Science of UFOs Propulsion Electrogravitics Energy Spacetime Miguel Alcubierre Dimensions and Strings Time Entanglement, Consciousness, and the Others Living with Uncertainty Consciousness Entanglement Connecting to Ufology Humanity's Trajectory What Can Cause Disclosure? What Happens After Disclosure? Energy A Cultural Revolution Science and the Scientists Computing and Technology Geopolitics The Future The Long View Humanitys Destiny

Acknowledgments

Writing this book has been an adventure for me, and there have been a number of people who have helped me with their encouragement, insights, research support, and manuscript review.

I would like to thank my friend Kelly Weary, who in 2011 invited me to prepare an Introduction to Ufology course for the online International Metaphysical University. The twelve lectures I created for that program formed the foundation for this book, and Kelly was there throughout the creation of that lecture series, providing encouragement and much helpful conversation throughout.

Mike Clelland, Race Hobbes, Chase Kloetzke, Sam Maranto, Peter Robbins, and Jennifer Stein. They are all my trusted friends, confidants, and professional colleagues. In addition to the many stimulating conversations I have had with each of them about all matters ufological, they were careful readers of this manuscript, whether in full or part, often providing helpful ideas for inclusion in this book.

The late James Allen. During the summer of 2013, James and I had several long conversations about the science of UFO propulsion and related matters. During that time, in addition to the valuable research tips he provided, we developed a genuine friendship. His unexpected death later that year was heartbreaking to me, and I shall miss him.

My Rochester friends, Jason Mombert and Chuck Harrison, who listened to me so often discussing the progress of this book, and who provided much needed companionship during a tumultuous year.

Dr. Hal Puthoff, of the Institute for Advanced Study at Austin, who read this manuscript carefully and, as always, provided me with invaluable commentary.

Catherine Austin Fitts, who carefully read over key passages concerning black budget and financial corruption issues, and offered several important suggestions which I incorporated into the text.

George Noory, host of Coast to Coast AM , who graciously offered to write the Foreword to this book, and for which I will always be thankful. I also appreciate the support of Georges producer, my good friend Tom Danheiser.

I was very fortunate to have a number of careful editors and proofreaders of this book. Foremost among these were Holly Kennedy, Anne Meisingset, Dr. Joe Buchman, and Debra Dalock. It is impossible to overstate how much I owe these people. Each of them looked over my manuscript carefully, each of them provided unique insights, commentary, suggestions, and corrections. In particular, I owe a special thanks to Joe and Debbie, who during the final stages of the manuscript attended their task with a near fanatical attention to detail and an unerring eye for the interests of the reader. Their impeccable proofreading, fact-checking, and consultation made this a measurably better book.

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