Contact Network History Project: TWO WEIRD HELICOPTERS IN THE SEPULVEDA PASS. WAS A CONSCIOUSNESS CONNECTION EVIDENT? WERE THEY ILLUSORY VISUAL DISPLAYS?
J. Burkes MD 2022
During Easter week 1994, I got a phone call from my contactee friend Misha. I was preparing to go to work. I wanted to catch our internal medicine conference at the hospital before I started my shift in the ER. Misha sounded excited. He quickly described his having another UFO sighting. It had taken place the previous evening while driving home on the Ventura Freeway. Misha reported seeing a disc shaped object that apparently was being pursued by several helicopters. They flew heading north over the freeway. The saucer appeared to be at an altitude of less than a thousand feet.
A SECRET US MILITARY DEVICE SEEMS UNLIKELY
The story was definitely bizarre. I told Misha that there were a number of possibilities. The object in my opinion was probably not a top-secret US military device. The densely populated San Fernando Valley was the least likely place to test such a flying machine. Just imagine the uproar with thousands of witnesses, if the craft had to stage an emergency landing in a community of nearly a million people. Prized government assets were better kept secure, way out in the desert.
Misha’s notion that the helicopters were chasing an alien craft (flying saucer) didn’t make much sense either. The flight characteristics of some UFOs include their ability to fly circles around top performance military aircraft. Slow moving helicopters in pursuit mode would never be able to keep up with a real flying saucer.
COULD THE SIGHTING HAVE BEEN STAGED?
Using this logic, I concluded that Misha’s sighting might very well be staged event by non-human intelligence. In order to create yet another contact experience, Misha had been treated to the thrill of seeing a flying saucer. Whether it was some kind of holographic projection, a technologically induced illusion, or an actual sighting of alien craft could not be determined. Nevertheless, the frequent sightings being reported by my contactee friends were following a stereotypic pattern. They appeared not to be random encounters but rather staged events.
But what about the presence of the companion helicopters? If this were another staged event, why include the choppers? I told Misha that perhaps the intelligence behind such displays chose to associate a conventional type of aircraft, the helicopters, with something quite anomalous, a flying saucer. Perhaps, by matching the two, a kind of control mechanism could be forged. So as not to “disturb the natives”, the really weird was combined with the conventional.
I thought that most likely the entire experience might have been an illusion. The “term” illusion is preferable to “hallucination” in my judgment as a physician because hallucination describes altered perception based on illness or drug ingestion. I speculated instead that Misha’s encounter could very well be the product of some advanced alien “mind control” technology. Such negative designations (at least when applied to ET) are not terribly popular in some contactee circles. After making this sweeping speculative analysis of Misha’s encounter on the phone, and feeling rather clever at that, I said good-bye to buddy Misha. I set off on the 405 Freeway.
TWO BIZARRE HELICOPTERS IN THE SEPULVEDA PASS
So, there I was, driving through a sea of cars, on what seemed like a normal Tuesday afternoon. Or was it? As I reached the middle portion of the Sepulveda pass, I noticed something a bit strange. Above the eastern rim of the canyon, I saw two military helicopters. This in and of itself was unusual. There are no major military bases located near the City of Los Angeles. What was even more bizarre was that both choppers were vintage aircraft. One was an old Sikorsky, the kind first used in the Korean War. I recognized its typical large-rounded nose with the cockpit located high up above the cabin. The other was a Huey, a Bell UH 205, and the standard workhorse helicopter of the Vietnam War.
I was immediately struck by the wild colors on both craft. The Sikorsky, instead of the standard dark green, was a wild brilliant candy color green. It looked like something out of a circus. The Huey appeared a bit more respectable, it was painted a darker olive color, but on the side of the craft was a candy green circle that surrounded the US star insignia that just didn’t look right.
Both helicopters were slowly moving back and forth above the highest point of the canyon. They appeared to be no more than 200 feet above the rim. This I believe was several hundred feet below the altitude safety regulations for the city.
COINCIDENCE OR A FORM OF COMMUNICATION?
I thought to myself, “This is weird. I have a conversation with Misha about his sighting possibly being a simulated display and I am witness to craft fit for the circus.” I had specifically mentioned to Misha the notion that a helicopter might be used as a kind of a prop in his sighting. Now I was witness to not one, but two bizarre “identified flying objects. “
Was this just an amazing coincidence, or was I being given a rather theatrical visual display that was similar to Misha’s the previous night? Was this perhaps another mind control exercise by a non-human intelligence? Or was it some kind of a test, perhaps to see how well I could put the pieces of the puzzle together?
On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon surrounded by traffic, I was still so Gung Ho for contact, that I didn’t really care about the more prosaic explanations. I was determined try to try to communicate, perhaps even interact. I took a deep breath and tried to relax. I ever so slightly released my grip on the steering wheel. While doing this fanciful exercise, I made doubly sure that I was a safe distance from the car in front of me.
As my vehicle approached the top of the Sepulveda Pass, I was doing about 55 miles per hour. I watched the helicopters located now above me and to the right. They were still moving back and forth perpendicular to the freeway. I sent out a mental message of welcome.
My 1983 Toyota Camry reached the crest of the canyon. The San Fernando Valley stretched out before me. It was a spectacular panoramic view. I accelerated as I headed down the hill into the Valley. To my surprise, I noticed that the Huey had broken away from the old Sikorsky. It was headed my way! I sent out another mental message of welcome.
The Huey was now above my vehicle and I noticed that it was descending rapidly. It kept pace with me, flying just a few dozen yards out front. I had a perfect view of its underbelly through my windshield. The chopper leveled out at less than 100 feet above the roadway. I could hear the chopper’s engines, but they seemed quite muffled. The roar should have been deafening, but it wasn’t.
I experienced a wave of joyful excitement. The helicopter slightly turned its fuselage sideways, pointing a bit to the right. With the body of the craft turned, the chopper continued in the same direction. It was following the northbound traffic on the freeway perfectly and paced my car at a steady 60 miles per hour. This Huey chopper with the weird paint job was now about 150 feet in front of my vehicle and I could see into the glass cockpit. The downward grade of the hill put me about 15 feet higher than the roadway directly below chopper. From that vantage point, I imagined that I might be able to see the pilot at the controls or perhaps a passenger in the right seat. However, I saw no one!
After work, I called Misha and told him about the helicopters in the Sepulveda Pass. Did I really have a contact experience or not? Coincidence might explain all. Prior to this experience, I had never been buzzed by a helicopter while driving on a freeway, never before and never since for that matter. It all might have occurred by chance. But I don’t think so!
DISCUSSION
These events played a role in my developing what I eventually called the “Virtual Experience Model” of UFO contact. This theory describes the role of technologically meditated illusions as mechanisms of contact with the intelligences responsible for what are now called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs). Understandably it is hard for people to acknowledge that what has been thought to be physical objects, as in “Unidentified Flying Objects”, might be visual displays created by technology akin to our laser generated holograms.
My attempts to present this model has received pushback from across a spectrum of individuals and groups excited about the possibility that we are being “visited” by “ETs.” As a activist I have worked with many contactees. Some become crestfallen when I suggest that our recurrent sightings are not of “ET spacecraft, but instead mere visual displays. The pushback softens however when I point out that physical craft flying over “hostile territory”, where shootdowns might occur, cannot happen if holograms rather than physical objects are being seen.
Although I was given an opportunity to discuss the Virtual Experience Model in a lecture at the 2019 International MUFON Symposium held in Southern California, my presentation did not stir much interest. Afterall, the Mutual UFO Network for over 50 years has focused on sightings reports in which the “flight characteristics” and physical appearances of UFOs are categorized. One implication of the Virtual Experience Model is that for over a half century in many cases MUFON has been studying phantom like “visual displays” rather than the “nuts and bolts” of ET spacecraft.
It is my hope that overtime UFO witnesses will become familiar with the Virtual Experience Model. These proposed mechanisms can explain some of the high strangeness aspects of contact events. These include the repeated observations that UFOs suddenly disappear described as “winking out.” The hundreds of different sizes and shapes of UFOs as well as non-human beings that are reported by witnesses can be explained by illusory mechanisms of contact. This model doesn’t presume that all contact events employ “virtual” mechanisms. Most likely what humanity is experiencing is a combination of physical and illusory contact events. And our job is to learn to distinguish between them.
For additional information on the Virtual Experience Model, the following links are provided below:
Submitted October 24, 2022 at 12:29AM by Contactunderground https://ift.tt/cyM8q1N
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