Welcome to this site, envisioned as an online class engaged in what I am calling Cosmic Pluralism Studies but what is more commonly known as “ufology”.
Contact:
michaeldj1950@gmail.com
This post will serve as the menu of site content and is in continuous development, until death or invalidism or some point when complete in crafting a beginning course of study.
Any and all material here is free to use without restriction or conditions (including attribution). The purposes here are to provide an online course of study and also provide a model for academic institutions who have finally recognized that this subject (as of 2019) just got “real”.
SHORT ESSAYS and TOOLS
The Dawning of Clarity (Realizing Our Contextual Reality)
LECTURES
In Lecture number 1, an outline of this course of study is introduced:
In Lecture number 2, we jump to the subject angle that is now bringing significant public attention onto this field of study:
Lecture Two: Military/UFO Encounters, part one
Lecture Three: NY Times, May 26 2019, gives 5 US Navy pilots a voice
Lecture Four: Military/UFO Encounters, part 3
Lecture Five: American Government’s Very Beginning Examination of UFOs
Lecture Six: Project Grudge, February 1949 to March 1952
Lecture Seven: The Shifting to the Debunking Mode and the Robertson Panel Agenda
Lecture Eight: 1953-1969, US Government Tries to Put UFOs Out of Sight
Lecture Nine: Surveying the Databases for Close Encounters of 3rd and 4th Kind Cases
Lecture Ten: The Work of Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke
Lecture Eleven: Overview of Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Lecture Twelve: Overview of Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (with new sub-category added)
Lecture Thirteen: The Issue of Hidden Government Programs
U.S. Government and UFOs lecture series, part 1
U.S. Government and UFOs, lecture series part 2 (conclusion)
SUBJECTS
—The Hypotheses: lectures #1;
—Military/UFO Encounters: lectures #2; #3; #4;
—Civilian UFO Investigation Groups and Efforts: Historical overview article ; List with links of active researchers and analysts; Field of UFOLOGY flow chart by J. Randall Murphy;
—Notable Cases of Close Encounters of the First and Second Kind:
—Close Encounters of the Third and Fourth Kind: lectures: #9; #10; #11; South American cases from Lorenzen 1976 files; NY Times 2011 article/obituary on Budd Hopkins, artist and abduction research pioneer; A blogger’s review of Ardy Sixkiller Clarke’s 4th book;
2013 interview with Ardy Clarke ;
—The US Government and UFOs: lectures #5; 6; #7 ; #8 ; #13; KB article on NRO references in UFO lit; PJD on AF 2017 reporting guidelines ; Bryan Bender/Politico–9/11/19–Congressman Frustrated by Navy Response ; Michio Kaku, Sept 20 2019, excerpt quote Fox TV news interview:
—Schools and UFO events: Fox News repost summary of Aussie news article on 1966 Westall event ;
—The Ancient Alien Question:
RESOURCES
~~From this site:
History of Civilian UFO Investigations and Studies
Currently Active UFO Research/Analysis Network
Briefing with key news & resource links for developments from Dec 2017 to May 2019
Notes: South American Close Encounters, 3rd Type, from Lorenzen files
A (non-ufo) Field Investigation (personal history)
Resources for studies in this arena of focus necessarily must come from many other disciplines and fields of study (nearly an endless list!).
~~Background and context from off-site:
Compilation of UFO organizations worldwide (very up to date)
Keith Basterfield article on available info on NRO-related role with UFOs
Expanding Our Perceptual Reach Into the Cosmos and Exoplanets with Webb Space Telescope
JOURNAL
Disclosure Journal #1, May 2019
Disclosure Journal #2, June 2019
Random Notes and Quotes: July 2019 thru December 2019
YOUTUBE CLASSES
The songs played at our Operation Right To Know White House demonstration, July 5 1993:
UFOLOGY NEWS LINKS
—Billy Cox, reporter for Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Florida) who has active UFO blog with fresh reporting:
http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com
—The VAULT, “Virtual Analytical UAP Learning Tool” hosted by To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences:
—National UFO Reporting Center, managed by Peter Davenport:
Tracking UFO reports in my region using above database:
https://cosmic-pluralism-studies.academy/northern-california-ufo-reports-july-2019-thru/
—Alejandro Rojas
Den of Geek articles:
https://www.denofgeek.com/us/authors/alejandro-rojas
Opem Minds TV:
—Kevin Randle
http://kevinrandle.blogspot.com
—UFO news from Politico (byline mostly Bryan Bender):
https://www.politico.com/tag/ufos
—Joe Murgia of Las Vegas ufo news with many interview transcriptions by him:
UFO LORE DATABASES
—J Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies
This largely inactive org now does have an extensive archived online database of cases and more, available via the sidebar links here:
—Manuel Lamiroy’s Exopaedia:
http://www.exopaedia.org/alpha.php
(Here is his article re: the organization I co founded with Ed Komarek: http://www.exopaedia.org/Operation+Right+To+Know )
—Albert Rosales: Humanoid Contact Database
Note: the compiler informs us that he took an unfiltered approach and therefore he says readers need to take care to discern cases known to be hoaxes.
—Archives for the Unexplained
https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/blog/archives-for-the-unexplained
Book: “Files of the Unexplained”
—Washington Post
ACADEMICS & INSTITUTIONS OF INTEREST
New Paradigm College, Lucerne CA
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Jeffrey Kripal of Rice University
Course reading:
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Thomas Bullard, PhD Folklorist
Course reading:
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Chris Mattmann, PhD of University of Southern California 2018 UFO data analysis project by students
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Princeton University Press book by Jeffrey Bennett (astrophysicist, educator)
Course Reading:
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Online UFO courses, $75 for Continuing Ed certificate, $50 without:
https://www.universalclass.com/i/course/study-of-ufos.htm
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Richard Dolan’s 9 online UFO courses, each $197, hosted by International Metaphysical University (link to 1st intro course):
https://www.intermetu.com/ufo-501-introduction-to-ufology
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Five psychology academics’ Extraterrestrial Enthusiasts Research Project:
https://sites.google.com/view/eerp-psychology/home
“The Extraterrestrial Enthusiast Research Project (E.E.R.P) is a team of psychological researchers interested in how belief in life beyond our planet influences individuals in a number of unique ways and viewing that influence from several different perspectives. Asking psychological, anthropological, and sociological questions, and as we interact with members of the community, our team is examining UFO and extraterrestrial believers to help both believers and non-believers to better understand the community as a whole.”
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David Pares, modern-day model for Emmett Brown (Back to Future fictional mad scientist) or Zephraim Cochrane (Star Trek fictional mad scientist)? Article good description of localized warp drive potential:
Vice Magazine: Scientist still working on warp drive in garage
MESSAGE TO EDUCATORS
Hello,
I am writing to educators, academics, and academic institutions to encourage the adoption of a course of study related to the issue of “ufos” (the most commonly used term though the United Stated government and many others today prefer the term “unidentified aerial phenomenon” or “uap”).
Despite the “breaking news” on this subject since the NY Times report of December 2017 (when they identified a Pentagon UFO study program and released Navy pilot film), signs of a continued avoidance to addressing this subject remain.
Nevertheless, there are beginning signs of a growing recognition of the need to address this, no matter where this leads. In September 2019, Politico’s Bryan Bender noted an interesting statement by the Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Matk Walker (R-NC). Walker had been making inquiries in a partially frustrated attempt to determine whether the Chinese or Russians have made an extraordinary and dramatic leap in technology. It appears he may be realizing something else may be happening:
“In a recent interview, Walker, a former pastor, also acknowledged that he is open to the possibility that there are no easy explanations—or the answers could change how humanity perceives the known universe.”
Since preparing a course of study for a long-ignored subject may be a difficult and confusing process at the start, I want to identify a resource that can serve as a good starting point for that:
THE UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA, 3rd Edition, Two Volumes, edited by Jerome Clark. (Make sure you get the 2018 released 3rd edition; published by OMNIGRAPHICS.)
There are very limited UFO courses in a very small number of academic institutions; these may serve as helpful models.
There are also a few expensive online UFO courses of study.
Since I have had 50 plus years of intermittently engaging in a concentrated study of the subject, I began in late May 2019 to write educational content for different aspects of this subject:
http://cosmic-pluralism-studies.academy
As stated there, the material can be freely adopted, or utilized in any way, without attribution.
Finally, it would be great to see academic institutions as a safe refuge for encounter experiencers to relate their experiences in a setting that adheres to strict standards in research, something often lacking in the uncredentialed arena of ufology.
Thankyou for considering this.
MJ
