I love Marin, but for such a rich, prosperous county, 101 is like a 3rd world freeway. So many of the exits would be comical if they weren’t so dangerous.
My early morning thoughts on the top 4 worst exit/ramp designs.
[aside: I know, I know … Marin is crowded, 101 has evolved over many decades, freeway design in tight spaces is hard, but many of these are incredibly dangerous. Plus venting is fun].
4 - the merge where all the exits onto westbound Sir Francis Drake merge into 2 lanes. Drivers are given barely any space to merge, markings are minimal, the angles are extreme, made worse by all the people going lethally fast.
3 - northbound exit 451 at Francisco/Bellam and the alternative route onto the San Raf bridge. In rush hour, drivers are faced by a long line of backed up exiting traffic as they crest the pass from Larkspur. The reason … a freeway to freeway interchange with traffic lights 🤷‍♂️.
2 - ☠️ I think possibly the most dangerous exit I’ve ever seen. Exit 455 northbound onto the Manuel T Freitas parkway at Terra Linda where fast traffic from the exit hurtles across the bafflingly complex interchange across to Civic Center drive and the access up to MarinHealth and a bunch of offices.
1 - it has to be, doesn’t it? The 2 merges onto 101 northbound at Tamalpais in Corte Madera (exit 449). Every eve, 15 mins of backup, $millions of lost productivity, simply because the merges are too close together. Highway design 101. Pun intended.
Okay, deep breath, sorry for the vent. Did I miss any more favorites? 😅

Succesfully navigated the gauntlet that is CA admissions! Happy to answer any questions especially for other FGLI + URM students (:

Killua Senju é filha adotiva de Tsunade, possui vinte e dois anos, uma força inigualável e dominação de lobos.
Assim que sua mãe, a Quinta Hokage, a coloca na missão responsável por cuidar dos problemas que os membros da Akatsuki estão causando, Killua Senju descobre um novo lado de si ao reencontrar Itachi Uchiha.
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• Uma fanfic curta de um devaneio que passou por minha cabecinha.
Os eventos canônicos do anime mudaram drasticamente, Itachi não lançou o genjutsu em Sasuke e muito menos foi ele quem matou os pais ou o próprio clã. Nessa história, ele está na Akatsuki apenas para controlar a situação, como o Terceiro Hokage pediu.
É uma história super curta, se durar 10 capítulos é muito.
Capítulo 1 - Fontes Termais + Apresentação
Hanaki ergueu sua margarita.
ㅡ A outra missão completa, férias, bebidas e sexo.
Yansin e eu levantamos nossas taças e nós três brindamos. Eu suspirei.
ㅡ Duas de três não é tão ruim, né?
Hanaki sorriu.
ㅡ Da próxima vez, finge uma hipotermia terapêutica e pula fora dessas missões surpresas da Hokage.
Eu suspirei de novo.
ㅡ Ela é uma ninja médica, sua burra.
É claro que ela sabe, só estamos praticando nossos sarcasmos e brincadeiras sem graça, não podemos perder o costume. Nunca.
ㅡ Mas de qualquer forma, vamos aproveitar essa noite. ㅡ Yansin segurou minha mão livre, apertou e sorriu. ㅡ Killua, a desinibida, trabalhando sozinha! Que avanço.
Hanaki soltou uma gargalhada em cima.
ㅡ Verdade! Como alguém confia em você?
Revirei os olhos.
ㅡ Não é para tanto.
E elas riram novamente.
ㅡ Conhecida por matar todos os alvos, eu não deixaria uma missão desse nível na mão de quem só pensa em matar.
ㅡ As vezes a situação sai do controle, é isso ㅡ disse eu, tentando uma autodefesa.
ㅡ Sua cara nem treme, Lua. ㅡ Yansin fez carinho em minha mão, de um forma bem sutil e carinhosa. ㅡ Mas... Não subestime a Akatsuki, você sabe que são os ninjas mais procurados do mundo e ainda não foram encontrados, não é desmerecendo você, mas... Eu tenho medo de perder você.
ㅡ Eu também tenho medo. Queria ir com você, mas... ㅡ Hanaki desviou o olhar e eu me senti desamparada. ㅡ A Hokage tem seus motivos por não permitir que vamos com você.
Isso acelerou meu coração, se elas soubessem o medo que tenho de perdê-las, já teriam casado comigo. Minhas esposas.
ㅡ Eu estou na missão só para manter o restante dos Jinchuurikis a salvo, sabem disso, né?
ㅡ Sim, só que ainda é difícil de compreender essa missão ㅡ Yansin desfez o nosso toque, enquanto continuava a beber de sua margarita.
Hanaki bebeu um pouco mais.
ㅡ A missão dela é encontrar os Jinchuurikis e deixar clones de seus lobos com eles, é isso, não é, Killua? Igual o filhote do Quarto Hokage que está com o Trevor.
Yansin suspirou.
ㅡ Que calamidade o que aconteceu com o Naruto Namizake, né.
Eu bebi um pouco demais agora, senti minha cabeça girar e a água me fazer flutuar. Aquela frase mecheu comigo.
ㅡ Ele não tem o nome do pai, é Naruto Uzumaki ㅡ ouvi Hanaki falar. ㅡ Que brisa, né? Pouquíssimos na vila sabem disso, me pergunto porquê o Hiruzen-sama fez isso com ele.
Yansin tornou a beber e por um instante a vi chamar o garoto que está nos trazendo as bebidas.
ㅡ Mais três margaritas, por favor, Myamura-kun!
ㅡ Hai! ㅡ Myamura concordou ao longe.
Estávamos peladas, cobertas por água, espuma e um ambiente confortável da água morna, porém nem ligamos para ele ali. Melhor ainda, ele não nos tratava com maldade e respeitava nosso espaço totalmente.
ㅡ Depois daqui, vamos para o bar, fechado? ㅡ propôs Hanaki.
ㅡ Não posso beber tanto, essas margaritas já mexeram comigo.
Minhas amigas ficaram me encarando.
ㅡ Que foi?
Hanaki sorriu.
ㅡ Foi a primeira, até agora.
ㅡ Ela deve estar nervosa, o que houve? Você só costuma sentir a bebida na terceira garrafa. ㅡ Yansin disse de forma compreensiva.
Isso me surpreendeu. Meus olhos arregalados eram a prova disso.
ㅡ Tá' de brincadeira.
Yansin bebeu o restante de sua margarita.
ㅡ É sério. Só você não lembra.
ㅡ Como que lembra depois de três garrafas? ㅡ Minha indignação rompendo fronteiras.
Yansin me encarou.
ㅡ Você nunca extrapolou os limites, nunca vomitou, ou fez alguma vergonha. Realmente não há o que lembrar, você só não percebe o tanto que bebe, mas continua normal.
Um vislumbre passou por minha memória. Ela tem razão, sempre bebemos e nos divertimos por horas, logicamente isso iria custar mais de duas garrafas.
ㅡ Ah.
Hanaki riu.
ㅡ Você está nervosa por que vai para a missão sozinha? É isso?
Desviei o olhar. Elas me conhecem até demais.
ㅡ Pode ser, mas eu não estou sozinha, vocês sabem.
Yansin voltou a segurar minha mão.
ㅡ Fica tranquila, meu bem, minha Loba Branca. Você não vai falhar, nunca aconteceu e não vai acontecer.
Hanaki terminou sua margarita também e disse, risonha:
ㅡ Personificação da morte, é fato.
Yansin riu e senti dentro de mim que ela queria me abraçar, mas isso seria tão estranho nessa situação, porém não vou conseguir me afastar.
ㅡ Vocês brincam com a brincadeira, palhaças.
Então, Myamura voltou com a bandeja de margaritas. Molhou-se quase até às coxas para nos entregar as bebidas, pegamos as novas taças e o garoto recolheu as vazias. Assim que ele saiu, ouvi Yansin perguntar:
ㅡ Quantos anos será que ele tem?
Hanaki bebeu um pouco de sua margarita.
ㅡ Se estiver com más intenções, esqueço nossa amizade e te afogo aqui mesmo.
Yansin gargalhou.
ㅡ Sai fora, só quero saber, porque trabalhar aqui não deve ser seguro para ele.
ㅡ Ele tem entre 14 e 17, a voz é fina ainda, porém ele é altinho ㅡ respondi enquanto voltava a degustar de minha bebida.
ㅡ Sei lá, me parece errado também ㅡ disse Hanaki ㅡ Mas ele deve receber bem por isso.
ㅡ Tem razão. ㅡ Yansin e eu falamos juntas.
Passamos horas ali. Bebemos mais de quatro margaritas e, assim que notamos nossas peles enrugadas, decidimos ir para o bar. Eu sabia que não passaria muito tempo ali, mãe me deu até às nove horas da noite para sair para a missão, e eu vou ouvi-la.
Sai do meu apartamento e avistei a fachada do bar. Não vou descer três lances de escada, logo me teletransportei para lá a espera de Yansin, que ainda mora no Distrito Hyuuga, e Hanaki, que provavelmente está fazendo comida para Sasuke. Ao entrar no bar, me deparei com vários gennins e alguns amigos de época. Sasuke também está aqui, Naruto também e... Trevor!
ㅡ Aí! Cuidado, garotão! ㅡ gritei rindo ao notar que Trevor, meu lobo mais brincalhão, pulou em mim e me derrubou. ㅡ Ah! Trevor! Meu kimono!
Ele lambeu meu rosto, eu ri quando fez cara feia por ter tirado um terço de minha maquiagem.
ㅡ Você nem precisa disso, por que usa? ㅡ sua voz era tão gostosa de se ouvir, que saudade.
Eu me levantei, ficando de joelhos e voltando a abraçar o meu neném.
ㅡ Que saudade de você.
Sua pelagem é tão macia, tão linda. Lembrei-me de que sempre ficávamos abraçados e eu dormia muito em cima dele. Passou-se uns minutos e eu resolvi me levantar, Trevor caminhava ao meu lado em direção ao grupo de pessoas, assim que chegamos perto, ele foi para Naruto e me deixou. Aquilo doeu um pouco, não posso negar.
Ali estava Kakashi, o Sasuke, o Naruto e uma garota de cabelos rosa. Kakashi me cumprimentou e chamou-me para sentar ao seu lado com um aceno. Eu fui.
ㅡ Quanto tempo, Killua-san.
ㅡ Estávamos em missão, voltamos hoje.
Trevor, meu lobo, se intrometeu:
ㅡ Você não ia me visitar antes de sair? Sayaka me contou que vocês irão hoje de novo. ㅡ Sua voz estava mais intensa, que susto.
ㅡ Desde quando você deixa o Naruto para me ver?
ㅡ Desde quando você deixa a bebida para me ver? ㅡ rebateu e eu ri, na verdade, nós dois rimos muito.
Kakashi já conhecia, por isso não estranhou, mas quando eu olhei para a frente, os dois coloridos me olhavam com indiferença. Sasuke não é colorido.
ㅡ Então, como andam as coisas? ㅡ perguntei.
ㅡ Tudo indo bem ㅡ respondeu Kakashi.
ㅡ Tudo indo bem merdinha, Hanaki vai entrar de férias, né? ㅡ Sasuke perguntou.
ㅡ Vai, Yansin também, menos eu.
ㅡ Vovó Tsunade está de brincadeira. ㅡ Naruto suspirou.
O garçom veio até a mesa e percebi que eles também tinham acabado de chegar. Esperei fazerem os pedidos e quando o garçom se inclinou para mim, respondi:
ㅡ Saquê. O mais picante, por favor.
Sasuke sorriu anasalado.
ㅡ Vocês amam uma bebida, Hanaki tem pelo menos duas garrafas de saquê na nossa geladeira.
Eu o encarei.
ㅡ Nunca invente de beber aquilo, você ainda é muito jovem. ㅡ Ele desviou o olhar e eu pude perceber que: se não já fez, vai fazer logo logo. ㅡ Hanaki não é muito tolerável com essas questões, você sabe, né?
ㅡ Sim... ㅡ Sasuke parecia envergonhado agora.
ㅡ Mesma coisa para os dois. ㅡ Apontei para a garota e para Naruto. ㅡ Aliás, como é seu nome, linda?
ㅡ Sakura Haruno.
ㅡ Ah, que linda, assim como as cerejeiras.
Eu ia continuar a falar, mas a chegada de Yansin junto com Hanaki me chamou a atenção. Aquela mesa cabia as duas, mas nossos assuntos as vezes fogem do normal, pensei.
As duas se aproximaram, Hanaki fez carinho na cabeça de Sasuke enquanto cumprimentava as pessoas presentes no estabelecimento, coisa que eu não fiz... Estou com vergonha.
Yansin fez igual a mim, não falou com muitos, exceto por Kurenai, Neji e Hinata.
ㅡ Vamos ficar junto com o Hatake? ㅡ Hanaki o encarou.
ㅡ Vocês não são obrigadas a ficarem aqui, só chamei a Killua ㅡ Kakashi respondeu seco.
Eu ri, enquanto colocava a mão na boca e notei o desespero se formando no rosto de Sakura, Naruto e Sasuke.
ㅡ Sem sarcasmos, "Kakashi-sensei" ㅡ Hanaki falou séria, mas logo deixou escapar um sorriso. ㅡ Você sempre trás as crianças para passear? Senti falta do meu filhote em casa.
Eu vi as bochechas de Sasuke ficarem rubras. É tão bom vê-lo bem. Hanaki não tem vergonha alguma de chamá-lo de filhote, isso não parece fazer mal a ele.
Ficamos ali mesmo, bebemos um pouco, não muito como pensei, conversamos bastante com Kakashi, ele e Hanaki ficaram trocando flertes disfarçados de implicações. Sasuke parecia um pouco mais fechado, mas também conversou. Naruto, como sempre, meio barulhento. Haruno era a única que estava mais calada.
Às oito, eu me despedi deles, Sasuke me abraçou, Naruto também. Foi uma sensação muito diferente. Hanaki e muito menos Yansin me abraçaram, isso que foi engraçado.
Logo após, voltei ao meu apartamento e comecei a me arrumar para a missão.
Coloquei meu uniforme escuro, consistia em uma calça larga que ficava firme ao meu tornozelo com dois bolsos largos com zíper, um body preto, suspensório ajustável de couro preto e protetores de cotovelo pretos também. Fiz duas tranças no cabelo e coloquei meu protetor de testa, na testa.
Coloquei nos bolsos o que acho mais útil: um pacote com flores de cannabis, meu dichavador, sedas e piteiras de papel. Minhas duas foices iam nas costas, presas no suspensório. Minha kunai é invocável, não preciso levá-la comigo.
Agora já são nove horas da noite, eu estou caminhando ao lado de Sayaka, minha única loba, enquanto aguardo Red e Kill, meus outros dois lobos.
Assim que Kill chegar, iremos para Iwagakure. Existe um grande cabeça dura lá que possui uma besta dentro de si. Como não sabemos o real plano da Akatsuki com os Jinchuurikis, só preciso oferecer suporte.
Não demorou até que meu lobo mais escuro aparecesse junto com o outro que também é escuro, porém ele é cinza e há mais partes nele brancas, seu teletransporte é mais avançado que o meu, por isso precisávamos esperá-lo.
ㅡ Onde vamos, comandante? ㅡ Kill perguntou ao meu lado, o mais escuro.
Eu sorri e me abaixei, acariciando seu pêlo.
ㅡ Iwagakure.
Ele concordou com a cabeça e em segundos estávamos todos os quatro na vila. A noite aqui é bem mais escura que o normal, o clima parece estranho. Acho que pode chover.
Sentei-me no chão, perto de uma árvore e eles já entenderam que poderiam ir conhecer o ambiente. Sumiram rapidamente.
Alguns segundos se passaram, sozinha aqui e vendo a vila de longe, posso me soltar. Procurei por meu bolso de prazeres, um bolso no qual ficam todos os meus utensílios mais úteis. Tirei dele o pacote com flores de cannabis, peguei também meu dichavador de caveira, Hanaki que me deu.
Peguei as piteiras, dobrei a ponta no formato de um W e enrolei. Coloquei a flor no dichavador e girei até que ela ficasse soltinha. Abri a seda com a goma virada para mim e coloquei a piteira na ponta. Com a erva dichavada, reparti por toda a seda em partes iguais. Enrolei a parte de baixo da seda para dentro, deixando a parte da goma para cima, lambi a goma, fechei o beck e... fogo na bomba!
O primeiro trago foi tão bom, já esquentou meu coração e me deixou suave. Aproveitei aquele baseado até sentir minhas pálpebras mais pesadas. Deixei o restante de lado e voltei a curtir a paisagem.
Não demorou para que Sayaka voltasse logo sendo acompanhada de Red e Kill.
ㅡ Encontramos o Jinchuuriki e... ㅡ Kill começou a falar, mas Red se sobressaiu em cima dele.
ㅡ Tem um Uchiha aqui.
Meus olhos não se abriram tanto, mas eu estou surpreendida, com certeza.
ㅡ Uchiha? Onde?
Kill não deu chances para mais perguntas, em segundos eu estava a metros do Uchiha com um manto com nuvens vermelhas.
ㅡ Itachi...
Ele parece ter me ouvido, porque assim que disse seu nome ele se virou em minha direção, mas Sayaka me manteve longe de sua visão. Observei Itachi procurar com desespero qualquer coisa que parecia estranho para ele, mas ele nunca me acharia atrás de um Jutsu tão forte.
Continuei o vendo de longe, eu preciso me aproximar. É Itachi.
ㅡ Sayaka, eu vou me aproximar.
A loba branquíssima me encarou rapidamente.
ㅡ Não, ele é da Akatsuki.
Red se sobressaiu novamente.
ㅡ Isso pode ferrar com a missão.
Eu olhei para eles, depois olhei para o moreno que continuava a olhar na nossa direção com uma inquietude exalante.
ㅡ É o Itachi, o irmão que sumiu.
Kill que costuma ser igual a mim nos pensamentos, fez como sempre:
ㅡ Eu iria, saber o que ele tá' fazendo com os ninjas nunkenins deve ser importante para a Hokage.
ㅡ Cala boca ㅡ disseram Sayaka e Red juntos.
Pensei comigo mesma, ele não pode contra mim, se ele quiser estar contra mim. Não vai custar a missão se eu não aparentar estar nela.
ㅡ Não pense, já está decidido, você não vai, Killua-chan ㅡ Sayaka falou alto.
Ficamos em silêncio, minha mente está lutando contra mim.
ㅡ Red, cuida do Jinchuuriki, se precisar, tira ele da vila. Itachi está sozinho? Quem está com ele? Vejam isso para mim.
Minhas ordens sempre são a base do que irá acontecer. Independente de qualquer coisa.
Assim que eles me deixaram, me teletransportei para um pouco mais longe e, caminhando calmamente, estou indo até Itachi Uchiha, que já olha em minha direção. Ele não parece preocupado como antes. A poucos metros dele, observo ele vir em minha direção.
Agora, em sua frente, não sei nem por onde começar. O que falo? O que falo?
Ele, mais interessado que eu, fala primeiro:
ㅡ Killua Senju está na minha frente?
Não, é uma assombração.
ㅡ Por que você sumiu? Sumiu no dia mais importante?
Ele desviou o olhar, logo voltando com seu Sharingan ativado. Notei sua bandana riscada ao meio, o que isso significa?
ㅡ Uchiha, você não tem noção do que aconteceu? Seus pais-
ㅡ Cala a boca. ㅡ Sua voz me assustou um pouco.
ㅡ Você não é criança, muleque, responde o que eu estou perguntando.
Vi seu semblante mudar. Para fazer mais efeito, ou piorar a situação, retirei minhas foices das costas e me aproximei mais.
ㅡ Seu irmão-
ㅡ Agradeço por tudo que fez por ele ㅡ respondeu ele, antes de me ouvir terminar de falar. ㅡ Sai daqui agora, só isso que te peço.
Sua carranca continua sobressalente, mas eu não me movo. Porém, um chakra muito peculiar tirou minha atenção, não está perto, mas está vindo.
ㅡ Eu vou te encontrar de novo, e você vai me responder.
ㅡ Faça isso ㅡ respondeu ele e eu me teletransportei para Sayaka.
Meu coração está acelerado, deve ser a maconha. Meus lobos estão todos enfileirados e o homem, o Jinchuuriki, está em posição de ataque.
ㅡ Que porra é essa!? ㅡ O Jinchuuriki gritou em minha direção.
Fizeram como eu disse, tiraram o Jinchuuriki da vila. Não sei nem onde estamos. Só posso sorrir de contemplação.
ㅡ Salvamos a sua vida, agora escute bem, há pessoas perigosas atrás de você e precisamos que sua besta fique segura. Um clone dos meus estará com você de agora em diante, mantenha isso em segredo, caso contrário a missão vai cair por terra.
Vi seu rosto mudar. Minhas palavras estão mais brandas do que eu imaginei, isso assustou ele.
Red se aproximou de mim.
ㅡ Hoshigake Kisame já tinha o encontrado, ele sabe do risco que estava correndo.
APRESENTAÇÃO DE, algumas, PERSONAGENS
• Yansin Tetsuno
Yansin Tetsuno é também pertencente a família Hyuuga, porém recebeu o nome do pai que não era do clã. É uma ninja médica, excepcional e muito inteligente. Costuma ser calorosa, uma boa recepção e adora contato físico. Está sempre prestando atenção aos arredores e costuma ser meio avoada.
" É a primeira Hyuuga que não vê o que acontece do lado dela " ㅡ Hanaki, Exame Chunnin, Kohonagakure.
21 anos. Jounnin da Vila Oculta da Folha. Time Matsuno, ou, Time 8: ao lado de Killua, Hanaki e o Sensei Matsuno.
• Hanaki Uchiha
Hanaki Uchiha foi a única sobrevivente do clã, exceto por Sasuke, quem ela cria e cuida. O fato foi um tanto estranho no começo, mas todos entenderam quando souberam que as três amigas inseparáveis estavam juntas quando o massacre aconteceu, justamente com o pequeno Sasuke também. Killua impediu, com a ajuda de seus lobos, os malfeitores de se aproximarem, mas ainda é uma grande dúvida os pais do garoto terem sido mortos e o irmão mais velho ter sumido.
22 anos. Jounnin da Vila Oculta da Folha. Time Matsuno, ou, Time 8 : ao lado de Yansin, Killua e Sensei Matsuno.
• Killua Senju
Killua foi encontrada na Vila Oculta da Névoa, Kirigakure, por Tsunade que a adorou e resolveu levá-la consigo para onde ia. Foi treinada por todos os três Sannins, era como a filha deles, porém só a Senju realmente a adotou.
Com o tempo, após aprender o Jutsu de invocação com Jiraiya, Killua começou a apresentar uma forte ligação com lobos albinos filhotes que estranhamente apareciam ao lado da garota. Um dia, eles notaram que ela era quem os invocava. Ela foi para Konoha para se formar na Academia com 12 anos e ficou no time Matsuno desde então.
22 anos. Jounnin da Vila Oculta da Folha. Time Matsuno, ou, Time 8: ao lado de Yansin, Hanaki e o Sensei Matsuno.
Lobos Albinos Devoradores de Chakra.
• Trevor
É o mais brincalhão, possui o dom da fala através de um Jutsu desenvolvido por Killua com a ajuda de Orochimaru. Ele está responsável por Naruto Uzumaki desde que Killua teve consciência de que o garoto estava sozinho. Ainda pode ser invocado por Killua, mas ele não sai de perto do pequeno Namikaze e é o melhor amigo do garoto.
• Ele tem um sentido inigualável, sabe reconhecer a maldade a quilômetros.
• Consegue proteger qualquer um de qualquer coisa.
• Tem a habilidade de comer Chakra.
• Tem uma boa relação com a Raposa de Nove Caudas.
• Pode ficar invisível. É outro Jutsu desenvolvido por Orochimaru.
• Red
Red é albino, mesmo que sua pelagem não transmita isso. É sem dúvidas o mais rápido e impiedoso dos lobos. Se auto nomeia o melhor amigo de Killua. Também possui a fala e costuma ser meio ranzinza ao usá-la.
• Sua caça é imbatível. Se ele está caçando algo ninguém, exceto por Killua, consegue pará-lo.
• Possui a habilidade de comer Chakra, porém ele transforma em velocidade.
" Red é tudo que os outros querem ser, menos feliz. " ㅡ Sayaka, Konohagakure.
• Sayaka
Sayaka é a representação perfeita de Killua. É chamada de desinibida por isso. Sua voz é suave, tem um bom papo e passaria horas conversando se tivesse algo para degustar no processo. Não leva desaforo para casa e dificilmente fica nervosa, mas quando fica... É melhor preparar a terapia.
• Magestosa e a imperatriz da alcatéia.
• Resistência, velocidade e força.
• Possui a habilidade de comer Chakra.
• Kill
Kill é o famoso "morde e assopra", ele é conhecido no bando por ser desesperado demais. Ele bate primeiro e depois pergunta o nome. Ninguém aceita, mas é o mais próximo de Killua.
• Rapidez e desespero.
• Possui a habilidade de comer Chakra.
• Sua locomoção é teletransporte quântico.
Obs: todos os lobos tem suas variações, seus clones não podem ser derrotados pela quantidade de Chakra que eles têm. O único lobo que não tem um clone é o Trevor, pois ele fica verdadeiramente apenas com Naruto.

I made a massive spreadsheet of programs with some criteria to help me identify programs I wanted to apply to. A few programs are missing from this list, but I figured it would be a good jumping off point for anyone else wanting to get started with their search.

School	Link	State	City
AdventHealth	https://www.ahu.edu/academics/doctor-of-nurse-anesthesia-practice	FL	Orlando
Albany Medical	https://www.amc.edu/admissions/nurse-anesthesiology-admissions/	NY	Albany
ASU Jonesboro	https://www.astate.edu/info/academics/degrees/degree-details.dot?mid=a852b138-3585-4f37-a1c1-963de7c7c194	AR	Jonesboro
Augusta	https://www.augusta.edu/nursing/dnp/nap.php	GA	Augusta
Barry	https://www.barry.edu/en/academics/health-sciences/post-baccalaureate-dnp-with-specialization-in-anesthesiology/	FL	Miami Shores
Baylor	https://www.bcm.edu/education/schools/school-of-health-professions/programs/doctor-of-nursing-practice-nurse-anesthesia	TX	Houston
Bellarmine	https://www.bellarmine.edu/lansing/nursing/graduate/dnp-na/	KY	Louisville
Boston College	https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/cson/academics/dnp-in-nurse-anesthesia.html	MA	Chestnut Hill
Bryan College	http://www.bryanlgh.com/NurseAnesthesia	NE	Lincoln
California State Kaiser	http://www.kpsan.org/index.php	CA	Pasadena
CAMC SOA	http://www.camcinstitute.org/anesthesia/default.htm	WV	Charleston
Cedar Crest College	https://www.cedarcrest.edu/sage/dnp/index.shtm	PA	Allentown
Central Connecticut State	https://www.ynhh.org/medical-professionals/sna.aspx	CT	New Haven
Clarkson College	https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/anesthesiology/medical-professionals/school-of-nurse-anesthesia#overview-tab	NE	Omaha
Cleveland Clinic Foundation	https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/anesthesiology/medical-professionals/school-of-nurse-anesthesia#overview-tab	OH	Cleveland
Columbia	https://www.nursing.columbia.edu/programs/masters-nurse-anesthesia	NY	New York
Drexel	https://drexel.edu/cnhp/academics/doctoral/DNP-NA/	PA	Philadelphia
Duke	https://nursing.duke.edu/academic-programs/dnp-program-nursing/nurse-anesthesia-dnp	NC	Durham
East Carolina	https://nursing.ecu.edu/dnp/crna/	NC	Greenville
Emory	http://nursing.emory.edu/admission-and-aid/doctoral-programs/anesthesia-dnp.html	GA	Atlanta
Saint Vincent College	https://www.excelahealth.org/careers/anesthesia-school/	PA	Latrobe
Fairfield Bridgeport	https://www.fairfield.edu/graduate-and-professional-studies/egan-school-of-nursing-and-health-studies/programs/doctor-of-nursing-practice-anesthesia/	CT	Bridgeport
FL Gulf Coast	https://www.fgcu.edu/mariebcollege/nursing/nurseanesthesiology-bsndnp	FL	Fort Myers
FL Gulf Coast 2	https://www.fgcu.edu/mariebcollege/nursing/nurseanesthesiology-bsndnp	FL	Miami
Florida State	https://pc.fsu.edu/nap/program	FL	Panama City
Frances Payne Bolton Case Western Reserve	https://case.edu/nursing/admissions/how-apply/dnp	OH	Cleveland
Franciscan Healthcare	http://mayoclinichealthsystem.org/locations/la-crosse/education/school-of-anesthesia	WI	La Crosse
Franciscan Missionaries	https://www.franu.edu/academics/academic-programs/nurse-anesthesia	LA	Baton Rouge
Geisinger	https://www.bloomu.edu/academics/programs/nurse-anesthesia-bsn-dnp	PA	Danville
Georgetown	https://nurseanesthesia.georgetown.edu/	DC	Washington, DC
Goldfarb Barnes	https://www.barnesjewishcollege.edu/doctoral-degree/nurse-anesthesia/	MO	St. Louis
Gonzaga	https://www.gonzaga.edu/school-of-nursing-human-physiology/departments/doctor-of-nurse-anesthesia	WA	Spokane
Hofstra	https://www.hofstra.edu/academics/colleges/nursing-physician-assistant/dnp-agacnp-crna.html	NY	Hempstead
Integrated Anesthesia Associates	https://iaapartners.com/education/nurse-anesthesia-program-of-hartford/	CT	Hartford
Johns Hopkins	https://nursing.jhu.edu/academics/programs/doctoral/dnp/dnp-anesthesiology/index.html	MD	Baltimore
Keiser University	https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/nurse-anesthesia-practice-dnap-entry-into-practice/	FL	Naples
La Roche College	https://laroche.edu/Admissions/Graduate/Requirements_and_Application/Doctor_of_Nurse_Anesthesia_Practice/	PA	Pittsburgh
Lincoln Memorial	https://www.lmunet.edu/caylor-school-of-nursing/doctor-of-nursing-practice/dnp-nurse-anesthesia/dnp-nursing-anesthesia	TN	Harrogate
Loma Linda	https://llu.edu/academics/programs/nursing-nurse-anesthesia-dnp	CA	Loma Linda
Louisiana	https://nursing.lsuhsc.edu/nap/	LA	New Orleans
Lourdes	http://www.lourdes.edu/admissions/graduate-admissions/nap/	OH	Sylvania
Loyola	https://www.loyno.edu/academics/colleges/loyola-online/doctor-nursing-practice-online-hybrid-options	LA	New Orleans
Marian	https://www.marian.edu/school-of-nursing/programs/doctor-of-nursing-practice/nurse-anesthesia-track	IN	Indianapolis
Marquette	https://www.marquette.edu/grad/nurse-anesthetist-dnp.php	WI	Milwaukee
Mary Baldwin	https://learn.marybaldwin.edu/programs/dnp-nurse-anesthesiology/	VA	Staunton
Mayo Clinic	https://college.mayo.edu/academics/health-sciences-education/doctor-of-nurse-anesthesia-practice-program-minnesota/	MN	Rochester
Univ of SC	https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/medicine/education/graduate_programs/nurse_anesthesia/index.php	SC	Charleston
Metropolitan State	https://www.nurseanesthesia.org/admissions	MN	Shoreview
Michigan State	http://www.nursing.msu.edu/DNP/Nurse%20Anesthesia/default.htm	MI	East Lansing
Middle Tennessee	https://mtsa.edu/academics/practicedoctorate/	TN	Madison
Midwestern	https://www.midwestern.edu/academics/degrees-programs/college-health-sciences/doctor-nurse-anesthesia-entry-practice-program	AZ	Glendale
Millikin	https://millikin.edu/academics/graduate/dnp/areas-study/nurse-anesthesia-program	IL	Decatur
Missouri State	http://www.missouristate.edu/bms/dnap/	MO	Springfield
Mount Marty	https://www.mountmarty.edu/academics/majors-and-programs/doctor-of-nurse-anesthesia-practice/doctor-of-nurse-anesthesia-practice/	SD	Sioux Falls
Murray State	https://www.murraystate.edu/academics/CollegesDepartments/nursing-and-health-professions/nursing/bsn-to-dnp/na.aspx	KY	Madisonville
National	https://www.nu.edu/degrees/nursing/programs/doctor-of-nurse-anesthesia-practice-dnap/	CA	Fresno
Newman	https://newmanu.edu/academics/graduate-programs/nurse-anesthesia-wichita/doctor-nurse-anesthesia	KS	Wichita
Northeastern	https://bouve.northeastern.edu/nursing/programs/doctor-of-nursing-practice-dnp-nurse-anesthesia/	MA	Boston
Northern Kentucky	https://www.nku.edu/academics/chhs/programs/graduate/nap.html	KY	Highland Heights
NorthShore	https://www.northshore.org/academics/academic-programs/other-programs/school-of-nurse-anesthesia/	IL	Evanston
Northwestern State	https://www.nsula.edu/nursing/nursing-programs/	LA	Natchitoches
Oakland	https://www.beaumont.edu/nursing-education/nurse-anesthesia	MI	Royal Oak
Old Dominion	https://www.odu.edu/academics/programs/doctoral/nurse-anesthesia	VA	Norfolk
Oregon	https://www.ohsu.edu/school-of-nursing/nurse-anesthesia	OR	Portland
Raleigh UNCG	https://nursing.uncg.edu/academics/graduate/dnp/post-bsn-dnp-na/	NC	Greensboro
Rhode Island College	https://www.sjhsna.com/	RI	North Providence
Rosalind Franklin	https://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/academics/college-of-health-professions/degree-programs/doctor-of-nursing-practice-entry-dnp/	IL	North Chicago
Rush	https://www.rushu.rush.edu/college-nursing/programs-admissions/nurse-anesthesia-dnp-crna-program?c=RushUnivLevel4Page&cid=1222091409137&pagename=Rush/RushUnivLevel4Page/Level_4_College_GME_CME_Page	IL	Chicago
Rutgers	https://nursing.rutgers.edu/academics-admissions/graduate/dnp/anesthesia/	NJ	Newark
Southern Illinois	https://www.siue.edu/academics/graduate/degrees-and-programs/doctor-of-nursing-practice/nurse-anesthesia/	IL	Edwardsville
Saint Mary	https://www.smumn.edu/doctor-of-nursing-practice-in-nurse-anesthesiology-dnp/	MN	Minneapolis
Samford	https://www.samford.edu/nursing/nurse-anesthesia	AL	Birmingham
Samuel Merritt	https://www.samuelmerritt.edu/college-nursing/anesthesia-doctor-nursing-practice	CA	Oakland
South College	https://www.south.edu/programs/doctor-of-nursing-practice-with-a-concentration-in-nurse-anesthesia/	TN	Knoxville
SUNY Buffalo	http://nursing.buffalo.edu/academic-programs/graduate-programs/dnp/post-bs-dnp.html	NY	Buffalo
Texas Christian	https://harriscollege.tcu.edu/nurse-anesthesia/dnap/admission.php	TX	Fort Worth
Texas Wesleyan	https://txwes.edu/academics/health-professions/graduate-programs/nurse-anesthesia/	TX	Fort Worth
Thomas Jefferson	https://www.jefferson.edu/academics/colleges-schools-institutes/nursing/degrees-programs/doctor-nursing-practice/post-bachelor-science-dnp-anesthesia.html	PA	Philadelphia
Truman	https://www.universityhealthkc.org/education/nursing/school-of-nurse-anesthesia/	MO	Kansas City
Univ of Al Birmingham	https://www.uab.edu/nursing/home/academics/doctoral/dnp/bsn-to-dnp-nurse-anesthesia	AL	Birmingham
Akron	https://www.uakron.edu/nursing/academic-programs/graduate-programs/msn/anesthesia.dot	OH	Akron
Arizona	https://www.nursing.arizona.edu/academics/doctor-nursing-practice-dnp/specialties/nurse-anesthesia	AZ	Tucson
Arkansas	https://nursing.uams.edu/future-students/academics-and-admissions/dnp/	AR	Little Rock
Cincinnati	https://nursing.uc.edu/academic-programs/dnp/nurse-anesthesia-bsn-to-dnp.html%22,%22University%20of%20Cincinnati.html	OH	Cincinnati
Detroit Mercy	http://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/programs/crna/	MI	Detroit
Evansville	https://www.evansville.edu/majors/nurse-anesthesia-program/	IN	Evansville
Iowa	https://nursing.uiowa.edu/anesthesia	IA	Iowa City
Kansas	http://www.kumc.edu/school-of-health-professions/nurse-anesthesia-education.html	KS	Kansas City
Louisville	https://louisville.edu/nursing/academics/dnp/nap/admission-requirements	KY	Louisville
Univ of Michigan Flint	https://www.umflint.edu/graduateprograms/anesthesia-entry-level-dnap	MI	Flint
Maryland	https://www.nursing.umaryland.edu/academics/doctoral/dnp/dnp-nurse-anesthesia/	MD	Baltimore
Miami	http://anesthesia.sonhs.miami.edu/index.html	FL	Miami
Twin Cities	https://nursing.umn.edu/academics/doctor-nursing-practice/specialty-areas/nurse-anesthesia	MN	Minneapolis
Mobile	https://umobile.edu/school-of-nurse-anesthesia/	AL	Mobile
Florida	http://www.unf.edu/brooks/nurse-anesthesia/	FL	Jacksonville
New England	https://www.une.edu/wchp/sna	ME	Portland
North Dakota	https://cnpd.und.edu/nursing/nurse-anesthesia-dnp.html	ND	Grand Forks
Pennsylvania	http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/crna/Pages/CRNA-Welcome.aspx	PA	Philadelphia
Pittsburgh	http://www.nursing.pitt.edu/degree-programs/doctor-nursing-practice-dnp/bsn-dnp-nurse-anesthesia-onsite	PA	Pittsburgh
South Florida	https://health.usf.edu/nursing/graduate/programs/crna-dnp	FL	Tampa
Scranton	https://www.scranton.edu/academics/graduate-education/programs/pcps/nursing/dnp-nurse-anesthesia.shtml	PA	Scranton
South Carolina	http://anesthesia.med.sc.edu/index.asp	SC	Columbia
South Dakota	https://www.usd.edu/Academics/Graduate-Programs/Nurse-Anesthesia-Practice	SD	Vermillion
Southern California	http://keck.usc.edu/anesthesiology/training-education/nurse-anesthesia-program/	CA	Los Angeles
Southern Mississippi	https://www.usm.edu/graduate-programs/nursing-nurse-anesthesia.php	MS	Hattiesburg
UTN Chattanooga	https://www.utc.edu/health-education-and-professional-studies/school-of-nursing/nurse-anesthesia/admissions	TN	Chattanooga
UTN Knoxville	http://gsm.utmck.edu/anesthesiology/nurseanes.cfm	TN	Knoxville
UTN Memphis	http://www.uthsc.edu/nursing/academic-programs/DNP/nurse_anesthesia/	TN	Memphis
Tulsa	https://healthsciences.utulsa.edu/nursing/nurse-anesthesia/	OK	Tulsa
Wisconsin Oshkosh	https://uwosh.edu/con/graduate/doctoral/anesthesia/	WI	Oshkosh
UC Davis	https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/academics/programs/dnp-nurse-anesthesia.html	CA	Sacramento
UNC Charlotte	https://atriumhealth.org/education/graduate-medical-education/school-of-nurse-anesthesia	NC	Charlotte
Union	http://www.uu.edu/programs/nursing/dnp/bsndnp/anesthesia/	TN	Jackson
UPMC Hamot	http://www.hamotschoolofanesthesia.org/	PA	Erie
UT Houston	https://nursing.uth.edu/programs/dnp/nurse-anesthesia/admission-requirements	TX	Houston
UT San Antonio	https://uthscsa.edu/nursing/programs/graduate/post-bsn-to-dnp-nurse-anesthesia	TX	San Antonio
Villanova	https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/nursing/programs/graduate/doctor_nursing_practice_program/dnpanesthesia_track.html	PA	Villanova
Virginia Commonwealth	https://nrsa.chp.vcu.edu/	VA	Richmond
Wake Forest	https://school.wakehealth.edu/education-and-training/nursing-programs/nurse-anesthesia-crna-program	NC	Winston-Salem
Wayne State	https://cphs.wayne.edu/nurse-anesthesia/	MI	Detroit
Webster	https://www.webster.edu/science-health/nurse-anesthesia/nurse-anesthesia.php?utm_source=find_your_program&utm_campaign=gmc_navigation	MO	St. Louis
West Virginia	https://nursing.wvu.edu/students/graduate-programs/dnp-nurse-anesthetist/	WV	Morgantown
Western Carolina	http://www.wcu.edu/learn/departments-schools-colleges/HHS/nursing/grad-programs/msnanes/index.aspx	NC	Asheville
Westminster College	https://catalog.westminsteru.edu/current/graduate/admission/program-admission-reqs/admission-doctor-of-nursing-practice-nurse-anesthesia-dnpna.html	UT	Salt Lake City
York College	http://yorkcrnaprogram.com/	PA	York
Youngstown	https://ytowncrnaschool.com/	OH	Youngstown

High Strangeness Galore: Amazing Synchronicities, Sightings and other Bizarre Events facilitated LA CE-5 Working Group Operations During the early 1990s

J. Burkes MD 2020, edited 2023
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Meditation facilitates psi-mediated communication & is employed while staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE).
Throughout my volunteer work as a part-time organizer of networks of contactees that I call the “Contact Underground”, I have taken careful note of the synchronicities and high strangeness events that have assisted our contact efforts. It seems to me it is as if the intelligence behind the flying saucer phenomena operates from within a different reality compared to our plane of existence. For them, the rules of time, space and even causality that appear so fixed in our reality, can be bent, and reshaped by their technology when they enter our dimension to interact with us. This involves astounding coincidences that apparently are not linked by causation, but rather by their meaning. Such synchronicities are, in my judgment, consistent with the apparent ability of UAP intelligences to manipulate space-time.
In my judgment, what might be explained away as strange random coincidences and inexplicable events, are in fact, the results of deliberate actions carried out by powerful non-human intelligences. Whatever is their origin, extraterrestrial, interdimensional, or someplace or some other time, they appear to be following a plan that involves many interventions propelling the unfolding contact drama.
This mechanism became apparent to me from the very beginning of my organizing work in the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative during the 1990s. As a CSETI Working Group Coordinator, I had a unique opportunity to observe how our team was helped time after time by the unseen hand of non-human intelligence (NHI). As reported by numerous volunteer contact workers in the cases described below, inexplicable events, synchronicities and bizarre encounters facilitated activists’ participation in our Los Angeles based CE-5 working group. What follows is a description of contact team members’ experiences during the years 1992 and 1993 that exemplify this process.
A Hollywood Screen Writer Became Involved
Doctor Greer’s workshop at the May 1992 UFO Expo West brought together several of the founding researchers of our Los Angeles team. The workshop was held at the LAX Hilton. One individual destined to join us was Alex Ayres, a screenwriter for Hollywood. He attended the Expo. Alex Ayres was a remarkable man. He received a B.A. with honors from Harvard College, an M.A. from George Mason University and an M.F.A. from UCLAs Graduate School of Theater, Film and Television. His studies of literature, philosophy and parapsychology made him an excellent resource. His vast knowledge allowed him to envision how our fledgling outreach efforts fit into a broad historical context of human development. His counsel was very helpful as I learned to coordinate the activities of our contact team.
Alex said that he had never heard of Steven Greer before attending UFO Expo West. He told me that he had promised to record a lecture at the meeting for a friend. That lecture was not Dr. Greer’s workshop. Wandering through the corridors of the LAX Hilton, Alex looked for the room of his assigned chore. Reportedly by chance, he stepped into Dr. Greer’s workshop just before it got started. By Alex’s own account, despite his obligation to be elsewhere, he was gripped by a feeling that he should stay for the contactee physician’s presentation. Alex took a seat in the small auditorium, but soon realized that he didn’t have a ticket. One would cost him twenty dollars and the purchasing desk was quite a distance away at the entrance to the Expo. As Alex sat in his chair, the Expo monitor worked her way through the hall collecting tickets one by one. He became increasingly uneasy as she moved down his aisle. To his surprise when she got to him, she just passed right by and did not ask him for the ticket that he didn’t have. In his words, “it was if as if she didn’t even see me.”
A Sudden Change in Scheduling Allowed me to Attend the Workshop
I was there at Expo the same day as Alex. In the morning, I had attended the CSETI Director’s address in the main auditorium. I was fascinated by his plan to create a “citizen’s diplomatic mission” with “extraterrestrial visitors.” I simply had to learn more about the CSETI project. From the conference schedule, I knew that Dr. Greer’s workshop was supposed to be held the next day, on Sunday. It was during a time that I was scheduled to be on-duty in the emergency room. That late in the game, with less than 24 hours before starting a shift, I knew that it was practically impossible for me to find a replacement to cover my work assignment, especially on a weekend. It was all very disappointing to contemplate missing a chance to attend the workshop. Crestfallen I walked across the Expo exhibit floor to the CSETI booth. There a hastily hand-written message announced that there was an unexpected last-minute change in Dr. Greer’s plans. His workshop was going to take place not Sunday but rather on very same day that I was attending the Expo. Thus, I was able to attend an event that would change my life in a multitude of ways.
Shirley Jones from our Medical Center also Attended and later brought “Ellen” into the team.
Another member of my LA contact team was Shirley Jones. She was a respiratory therapist at our Kaiser Panorama City hospital. We had been working together for thirteen years when we both attended Dr. Greer’s CE-5 Initiative workshop at UFO Expo West. Neither of us knew of the other’s interest in UFOs, despite workplace interactions on a regular basis. Not unexpectedly, we were surprised to see one another in the audience. Having Shirley on my team was extremely helpful. She was an advanced meditator and quite knowledgeable in esoteric literature. She provided me with much encouragement and support during working group operations.
Individual sightings of UFOs by prospective contact team members served as a strong personal motivator for participation in the project. Shirley had a co-worker at the hospital. I shall call her “Ellen” for confidentiality purposes. She worked as a pharmacy technician. In November of 1992, Shirley and Ellen attended a local MUFON meeting in the San Fernando Valley. Ellen told me that they had to leave a bit early. As they walked to the car, they had a sighting of a large silent triangular shaped craft slowing flying across the San Fernando Valley. What was quite remarkable about the sighting was that base of the triangle rather than its apex was the leading edge as it silently flew across the sky. Shirley laughed at the irony of their sighting. She told me that as MUFON members focused on sighting reports at their meetings, she and a potential contact activist were having a real time sighting of a UFO while the others were stuck inside. Shirley was convinced that the “ETs” indeed had a sense of humor.
This was quite an exciting sighting for Ellen, and she very much wanted to join our contact team. During the first year, however, I strongly discouraged new members from joining to build a strong sense of unity and maintain focus in the existing group. In the Fall of 1993, we added several new members and Ellen was one of them. Prior to going out into the field, she had a daytime sighting of a large sphere-shaped craft maneuvering in the Santa Clarita Valley. The sighting occurred from her verandah as she was checking out a new pair of binoculars in preparation for her first contact fieldwork outing.
A Russian Contactee Surfaces in my ER
In the fall of 1993, a twenty-three-year-old Russian contactee asked to join our CE-5 team. I shall call hm “Misha.” He worked as an EKG technician at our medical center. He alleged to have had many sightings of UFOs while growing up in Belarus. There, with no adult encouragement or supervision, he reportedly started doing “yoga.” Misha stated that his meditation practice facilitated contact and communication with his “ET friends.” He even made the outrageous claim that before emigrating to the USA, he had a vivid dream in which he saw himself working in US hospital with a tall bearded Jewish doctor. It was his understanding from the dream that he would do contact work with that individual. Misha told me that when he started working in the ER, he recognized me as the Jewish doctor from the dream.
One of the strangest sightings of all occurred for my then new Russian friend. He joined the Los Angeles Working Group in the fall of 1993. Misha’s mother, cousin and nephew lived near the Van Nuys Airport. The three of them had a flying saucer sighting after Misha had started volunteer contact work with our group. Prior to their sighting, Misha had instructed his ten-year-old nephew how to interact mentally with any “craft” that might show up.
I interviewed all three witnesses. Each described the object as a disk, approximately thirty feet in diameter. They saw it in broad daylight near the runway approach to the Van Nuys Airport. It was dark metallic in color and moved silently at a height of several hundred meters. A few non-military helicopters then reportedly approached the saucer. I was told by a local professional pilot that the Van Nuys Airport had several civilian helicopters based there. According to Misha’s relatives, the choppers flew around the disk several times before it moved out of sight. I interviewed all three after the event. Misha’s cousin, a man in his forties confirmed this account, as did the grandmother and nephew. They gave their descriptions in simple straightforward terms with no apparent embellishments.
A Lad of Ten Years Reportedly Interacts with a “Craft”
During the encounter, Misha’s nephew reportedly told his grandmother and Misha’s cousin, that they should observe the object as he interacted with it. The lad then gave a voiced command for the disc to move in one direction and then another. To their amazement, the “craft” reportedly moved in the directions that he had requested. Misha’s mother (the boy’s grandmother) became very excited. She reportedly requested for the craft to land so that she could serve the crew some freshly made Russian food. This of course did not take place, but this dramatic sighting served an important purpose. It was the basis for the strong family support that Misha received during his contact work. Our all-night vigils in isolated locations took him away from home for many nights during the next few years.
Three Kaiser Physicians Were Team Members
Dr. David Gordon, a family medicine physician, was also one of the original members of the Los Angeles CE-5 Initiative Working Group. We were both partners in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. During the 1980s, we had been active in the doctors’ nuclear disarmament organization called Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). One of my volunteer activities was to train PSR public speakers. In 1986, David and I met for the first time when he attended one of my speaker’s panel workshops. We worked at Kaiser but at different San Fernando Valley facilities about ten miles apart. When I cut back my participation in PSR, we quickly lost track of one another.
Later, in 1992 we met again, but this time as new members of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence. David told me that as a youngster he became interested in UFOs after experiencing an apparent missing time incident. He added that he had not really thought about the subject much for decades. David’s adolescent interest in flying saucers was suddenly reactivated in 1992 when he saw a TV documentary on the subject.
In another fortuitous coincidence, we joined MUFON within a few weeks of one another. In June of 1992, I noticed his name being listed as a new consultant in medicine on the back cover of the MUFON Journal. My name had appeared on the new consultant listing in the previous issue. I contacted him and he played a pivotal role in getting our CE-5 research team into the field.
Dr. Gordon is truly an amazing individual and I was very proud to have him on my contact team. He is an avid reader with a nearly photographic memory. His knowledge of the UFO literature was a tremendous resource for our contact work. He was a well-respected Family Physician and is double boarded in both internal medicine and in pediatrics. His wife Eve is also a double boarded physician, medicine, and immunology. We worked at the Panorama City Kaiser facility where she eventually served as chief of the Allergy Department. Eve told me that her husband consistently got in the 99th percentile on the national medical exams. She admitted to teasing him for making it harder for the other doctors to pass their board exams because his scores were so high that he shifted the distribution curve to the right, thus making a passing grade higher. Dr. Gordon’s intellectual prowess and love of adventure was evident in his other activities. While working full time as a physician, he earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering and subsequently made plans to get a PhD in physics. He was also a private pilot and he and Eve regularly attended airshows.
David’s leadership role in the UFO field extended beyond his being a field investigator. With his department chairman’s permission, he carried out an extensive survey of UFO sightings at his medical center. He also gave UFO lectures to local physician groups. During the years of fieldwork that we did together in the 1990s, I relied heavily on his expertise, energy, and enthusiasm. Was it a coincidence that he and I became very active in flying saucer investigations at the same time? Or was it perhaps the result of some behind-the-scenes psi connections made by an unseen non-human intelligence?
David’s Physician Wife Had a Dramatic Sighting
Dr. Eve Gordon also suddenly became very interested in the UFO research after she had a broad daylight sighting of a flying saucer in the fall of 1992. This was during her husband’s first month of volunteering for our contact team. Her sighting is described in detail in a previous FB posting titled “Contactees, Sightings and Synchronicity.” Dr. Dave Gordon said that prior to her sighting, Eve had become quite proficient in identifying conventional craft because she attended airshows with him, Eve’s daylight sighting was of a metallic disc that hovered several miles away over the Santa Monica Mountains. Dave said that not surprisingly her interest in the flying saucer subject dramatically increased after her sighting. Eve was so enthusiastic that she started interviewing people at our Kaiser Panorama City Medical Center about any UFO sightings they might have had.
How My Involvement Began
My interest in flying saucers dates to December of 1990. I innocently thought that I needed a harmless distraction to keep my mind off a renovation project of our home that had gone awry. The architect had left town, her plans were unreadable, and the contractor repeatedly said what at the time I imagined were the worst seven words in the English language, “There’s a problem; it’s gonna cost more.”
At the local public library, seemingly by chance, I asked the question, “Do you have any books on UFOs? For some unexplained reason I found the subject fascinating. As a child I had gone through a science fiction reading phase, but as an adult I considered the prospect of ETs visiting the Earth as only a fanciful story line. As 1990 rolled into 1991 to my surprise, I discovered that I wanted to read only UFO books. Soon dozens of UFO titles lined my bookcase and by May of 1992, I got up the courage to attend my first flying saucer meeting. At UFO Expo-West I attended a CSETI lecture and workshop and as the saying goes, “the rest is history.”
Were these sightings and amazing coincidences that brought our contact team together in 1992 merely unrelated events? Shirley, Dr. Dave Gordon, and I worked for the same Kaiser organization in the San Fernando Valley. Dave and I have lost track of one another. When we separately developed an overriding interest in flying saucers. Was it just a coincidence? Where all the sightings that facilitated our team coming together random events? And what about Alex Ayres wandering into the CE-5 workshop and not being asked for a ticket by the Expo monitor? Were these all just random events?
My assessment is that they were not. I believe, but certainly can’t prove that the unseen hand of a NHI was active in facilitating our fledgling team coming together. We had, in addition to three physicians, two PhD psychologists, a jet pilot working for United in our core group. In addition, a young burgeoning writer by the name of Preston Dennett also was with us from the beginning. He went on to write over two dozen books on the UFO subject. Could all these talented and highly knowledgeable people come together by chance? Perhaps, but I don’t think so!
In my judgment, a diverse contact network of volunteer activists has been co-created by UAP NHIs and thousands of volunteer contact workers across the globe. In my opinion, the phenomenon threatens all terrestrial elites, military, economic and political, and as the result a de facto program of ridicule and denial has been carried out for seven decades. Although the possibility of “ET or interdimensional visitors” may be perceived as threat by the rich and powerful, in my opinion this non-human presence is not dangerous for the people of our planet. Humanity needs to explore our relationship with the “others” that experiencers are calling “ET.” And we should do so in the spirit of creating a peaceful, cooperative, and hopefully more open and equal relationship with UAP associated non-human intelligences. I am grateful for the opportunity to share these stories of contact. Although I am no longer a “contact worker” (all night vigils are a challenge when one reaches the eighth decade of life) I still consider myself a “contact activist” as I promote the work of staging Human Initiated Contact Events that go by the acronym HICE.
For More Reports from the Contact Underground the following links are provided:
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
During the first month of staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) members our LA based CE-5 team not only had sightings during fieldwork, but also while driving home alone.
https://underground.contact/2022/06/20/human-initiated-contact-eventshice-and-the-consciousness-connection/
In our ER I met a patient who worked at a DOE high security facility. He described an UFO act of sabotage at the base. It happened a few thousand yards from our contact team research site.
https://underground.contact/2022/08/31/an-act-of-flying-saucer-sabotage-at-the-does-santa-susana-laboratory/
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
This report was first published in 1993 on my return from a CE5 investigation in the “Volcanic Zone” near the Mexico City. There our team witnessed multiple UFOs including a large triangular “craft” that signaled at us.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/ufo-investigation-in-the-volcanic-zone/
Crop Circles are thought of as communications from UAP associated intelligences. Might “cloud formations” be next?
https://underground.contact/2022/06/13/if-flying-saucer-intelligences-communicate-with-crop-circles-could-cloud-formations-be-next/
​

High Strangeness Galore: Amazing Synchronicities, Sightings and other Bizarre Events facilitated LA CE-5 Working Group Operations During the early 1990s

J. Burkes MD 2020, edited 2023
​
Meditation facilitates psi-mediated communication & is employed while staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE)
Throughout my volunteer work as a part-time organizer of networks of contactees that I call the “Contact Underground”, I have taken careful note of the synchronicities and high strangeness events that have assisted our contact efforts. It seems to me it is as if the intelligence behind the flying saucer phenomena operates from within a different reality compared to our plane of existence. For them, the rules of time, space and even causality that appear so fixed in our reality, can be bent, and reshaped by their technology when they enter our dimension to interact with us. This involves astounding coincidences that apparently are not linked by causation, but rather by their meaning. Such synchronicities are, in my judgment, consistent with the apparent ability of UAP intelligences to manipulate space-time.
In my judgment, what might be explained away as strange random coincidences and inexplicable events, are in fact, the results of deliberate actions carried out by powerful non-human intelligences. Whatever is their origin, extraterrestrial, interdimensional, or someplace or some other time, they appear to be following a plan that involves many interventions propelling the unfolding contact drama.
This mechanism became apparent to me from the very beginning of my organizing work in the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative during the 1990s. As a CSETI Working Group Coordinator, I had a unique opportunity to observe how our team was helped time after time by the unseen hand of non-human intelligence (NHI). As reported by numerous volunteer contact workers in the cases described below, inexplicable events, synchronicities and bizarre encounters facilitated activists’ participation in our Los Angeles based CE-5 working group. What follows is a description of contact team members’ experiences during the years 1992 and 1993 that exemplify this process.
A Hollywood Screen Writer Became Involved
Doctor Greer’s workshop at the May 1992 UFO Expo West brought together several of the founding researchers of our Los Angeles team. The workshop was held at the LAX Hilton. One individual destined to join us was Alex Ayres, a screenwriter for Hollywood. He attended the Expo. Alex Ayres was a remarkable man. He received a B.A. with honors from Harvard College, an M.A. from George Mason University and an M.F.A. from UCLAs Graduate School of Theater, Film and Television. His studies of literature, philosophy and parapsychology made him an excellent resource. His vast knowledge allowed him to envision how our fledgling outreach efforts fit into a broad historical context of human development. His counsel was very helpful as I learned to coordinate the activities of our contact team.
Alex said that he had never heard of Steven Greer before attending UFO Expo West. He told me that he had promised to record a lecture at the meeting for a friend. That lecture was not Dr. Greer’s workshop. Wandering through the corridors of the LAX Hilton, Alex looked for the room of his assigned chore. Reportedly by chance, he stepped into Dr. Greer’s workshop just before it got started. By Alex’s own account, despite his obligation to be elsewhere, he was gripped by a feeling that he should stay for the contactee physician’s presentation. Alex took a seat in the small auditorium, but soon realized that he didn’t have a ticket. One would cost him twenty dollars and the purchasing desk was quite a distance away at the entrance to the Expo. As Alex sat in his chair, the Expo monitor worked her way through the hall collecting tickets one by one. He became increasingly uneasy as she moved down his aisle. To his surprise when she got to him, she just passed right by and did not ask him for the ticket that he didn’t have. In his words, “it was if as if she didn’t even see me.”
A Sudden Change in Scheduling Allowed me to Attend the Workshop
I was there at Expo the same day as Alex. In the morning, I had attended the CSETI Director’s address in the main auditorium. I was fascinated by his plan to create a “citizen’s diplomatic mission” with “extraterrestrial visitors.” I simply had to learn more about the CSETI project. From the conference schedule, I knew that Dr. Greer’s workshop was supposed to be held the next day, on Sunday. It was during a time that I was scheduled to be on-duty in the emergency room. That late in the game, with less than 24 hours before starting a shift, I knew that it was practically impossible for me to find a replacement to cover my work assignment, especially on a weekend. It was all very disappointing to contemplate missing a chance to attend the workshop. Crestfallen I walked across the Expo exhibit floor to the CSETI booth. There a hastily hand-written message announced that there was an unexpected last-minute change in Dr. Greer’s plans. His workshop was going to take place not Sunday but rather on very same day that I was attending the Expo. Thus, I was able to attend an event that would change my life in a multitude of ways.
Shirley Jones from our Medical Center also Attended and later brought “Ellen” into the team.
Another member of my LA contact team was Shirley Jones. She was a respiratory therapist at our Kaiser Panorama City hospital. We had been working together for thirteen years when we both attended Dr. Greer’s CE-5 Initiative workshop at UFO Expo West. Neither of us knew of the other’s interest in UFOs, despite workplace interactions on a regular basis. Not unexpectedly, we were surprised to see one another in the audience. Having Shirley on my team was extremely helpful. She was an advanced meditator and quite knowledgeable in esoteric literature. She provided me with much encouragement and support during working group operations.
Individual sightings of UFOs by prospective contact team members served as a strong personal motivator for participation in the project. Shirley had a co-worker at the hospital. I shall call her “Ellen” for confidentiality purposes. She worked as a pharmacy technician. In November of 1992, Shirley and Ellen attended a local MUFON meeting in the San Fernando Valley. Ellen told me that they had to leave a bit early. As they walked to the car, they had a sighting of a large silent triangular shaped craft slowing flying across the San Fernando Valley. What was quite remarkable about the sighting was that base of the triangle rather than its apex was the leading edge as it silently flew across the sky. Shirley laughed at the irony of their sighting. She told me that as MUFON members focused on sighting reports at their meetings, she and a potential contact activist were having a real time sighting of a UFO while the others were stuck inside. Shirley was convinced that the “ETs” indeed had a sense of humor.
This was quite an exciting sighting for Ellen, and she very much wanted to join our contact team. During the first year, however, I strongly discouraged new members from joining to build a strong sense of unity and maintain focus in the existing group. In the Fall of 1993, we added several new members and Ellen was one of them. Prior to going out into the field, she had a daytime sighting of a large sphere-shaped craft maneuvering in the Santa Clarita Valley. The sighting occurred from her verandah as she was checking out a new pair of binoculars in preparation for her first contact fieldwork outing.
A Russian Contactee Surfaces in my ER
In the fall of 1993, a twenty-three-year-old Russian contactee asked to join our CE-5 team. I shall call hm “Misha.” He worked as an EKG technician at our medical center. He alleged to have had many sightings of UFOs while growing up in Belarus. There, with no adult encouragement or supervision, he reportedly started doing “yoga.” Misha stated that his meditation practice facilitated contact and communication with his “ET friends.” He even made the outrageous claim that before emigrating to the USA, he had a vivid dream in which he saw himself working in US hospital with a tall bearded Jewish doctor. It was his understanding from the dream that he would do contact work with that individual. Misha told me that when he started working in the ER, he recognized me as the Jewish doctor from the dream.
One of the strangest sightings of all occurred for my then new Russian friend. He joined the Los Angeles Working Group in the fall of 1993. Misha’s mother, cousin and nephew lived near the Van Nuys Airport. The three of them had a flying saucer sighting after Misha had started volunteer contact work with our group. Prior to their sighting, Misha had instructed his ten-year-old nephew how to interact mentally with any “craft” that might show up.
I interviewed all three witnesses. Each described the object as a disk, approximately thirty feet in diameter. They saw it in broad daylight near the runway approach to the Van Nuys Airport. It was dark metallic in color and moved silently at a height of several hundred meters. A few non-military helicopters then reportedly approached the saucer. I was told by a local professional pilot that the Van Nuys Airport had several civilian helicopters based there. According to Misha’s relatives, the choppers flew around the disk several times before it moved out of sight. I interviewed all three after the event. Misha’s cousin, a man in his forties confirmed this account, as did the grandmother and nephew. They gave their descriptions in simple straightforward terms with no apparent embellishments.
A Lad of Ten Years Reportedly Interacts with a “Craft”
During the encounter, Misha’s nephew reportedly told his grandmother and Misha’s cousin, that they should observe the object as he interacted with it. The lad then gave a voiced command for the disc to move in one direction and then another. To their amazement, the “craft” reportedly moved in the directions that he had requested. Misha’s mother (the boy’s grandmother) became very excited. She reportedly requested for the craft to land so that she could serve the crew some freshly made Russian food. This of course did not take place, but this dramatic sighting served an important purpose. It was the basis for the strong family support that Misha received during his contact work. Our all-night vigils in isolated locations took him away from home for many nights during the next few years.
Three Kaiser Physicians Were Team Members
Dr. David Gordon, a family medicine physician, was also one of the original members of the Los Angeles CE-5 Initiative Working Group. We were both partners in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. During the 1980s, we had been active in the doctors’ nuclear disarmament organization called Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). One of my volunteer activities was to train PSR public speakers. In 1986, David and I met for the first time when he attended one of my speaker’s panel workshops. We worked at Kaiser but at different San Fernando Valley facilities about ten miles apart. When I cut back my participation in PSR, we quickly lost track of one another.
Later, in 1992 we met again, but this time as new members of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence. David told me that as a youngster he became interested in UFOs after experiencing an apparent missing time incident. He added that he had not really thought about the subject much for decades. David’s adolescent interest in flying saucers was suddenly reactivated in 1992 when he saw a TV documentary on the subject.
In another fortuitous coincidence, we joined MUFON within a few weeks of one another. In June of 1992, I noticed his name being listed as a new consultant in medicine on the back cover of the MUFON Journal. My name had appeared on the new consultant listing in the previous issue. I contacted him and he played a pivotal role in getting our CE-5 research team into the field.
Dr. Gordon is truly an amazing individual and I was very proud to have him on my contact team. He is an avid reader with a nearly photographic memory. His knowledge of the UFO literature was a tremendous resource for our contact work. He was a well-respected Family Physician and is double boarded in both internal medicine and in pediatrics. His wife Eve is also a double boarded physician, medicine, and immunology. We worked at the Panorama City Kaiser facility where she eventually served as chief of the Allergy Department. Eve told me that her husband consistently got in the 99th percentile on the national medical exams. She admitted to teasing him for making it harder for the other doctors to pass their board exams because his scores were so high that he shifted the distribution curve to the right, thus making a passing grade higher. Dr. Gordon’s intellectual prowess and love of adventure was evident in his other activities. While working full time as a physician, he earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering and subsequently made plans to get a PhD in physics. He was also a private pilot and he and Eve regularly attended airshows.
David’s leadership role in the UFO field extended beyond his being a field investigator. With his department chairman’s permission, he carried out an extensive survey of UFO sightings at his medical center. He also gave UFO lectures to local physician groups. During the years of fieldwork that we did together in the 1990s, I relied heavily on his expertise, energy, and enthusiasm. Was it a coincidence that he and I became very active in flying saucer investigations at the same time? Or was it perhaps the result of some behind-the-scenes psi connections made by an unseen non-human intelligence?
David’s Physician Wife Had a Dramatic Sighting
Dr. Eve Gordon also suddenly became very interested in the UFO research after she had a broad daylight sighting of a flying saucer in the fall of 1992. This was during her husband’s first month of volunteering for our contact team. Her sighting is described in detail in a previous FB posting titled “Contactees, Sightings and Synchronicity.” Dr. Dave Gordon said that prior to her sighting, Eve had become quite proficient in identifying conventional craft because she attended airshows with him, Eve’s daylight sighting was of a metallic disc that hovered several miles away over the Santa Monica Mountains. Dave said that not surprisingly her interest in the flying saucer subject dramatically increased after her sighting. Eve was so enthusiastic that she started interviewing people at our Kaiser Panorama City Medical Center about any UFO sightings they might have had.
How My Involvement Began
My interest in flying saucers dates to December of 1990. I innocently thought that I needed a harmless distraction to keep my mind off a renovation project of our home that had gone awry. The architect had left town, her plans were unreadable, and the contractor repeatedly said what at the time I imagined were the worst seven words in the English language, “There’s a problem; it’s gonna cost more.”
At the local public library, seemingly by chance, I asked the question, “Do you have any books on UFOs? For some unexplained reason I found the subject fascinating. As a child I had gone through a science fiction reading phase, but as an adult I considered the prospect of ETs visiting the Earth as only a fanciful story line. As 1990 rolled into 1991 to my surprise, I discovered that I wanted to read only UFO books. Soon dozens of UFO titles lined my bookcase and by May of 1992, I got up the courage to attend my first flying saucer meeting. At UFO Expo-West I attended a CSETI lecture and workshop and as the saying goes, “the rest is history.”
Were these sightings and amazing coincidences that brought our contact team together in 1992 merely unrelated events? Shirley, Dr. Dave Gordon, and I worked for the same Kaiser organization in the San Fernando Valley. Dave and I have lost track of one another. When we separately developed an overriding interest in flying saucers. Was it just a coincidence? Where all the sightings that facilitated our team coming together random events? And what about Alex Ayres wandering into the CE-5 workshop and not being asked for a ticket by the Expo monitor? Were these all just random events?
My assessment is that they were not. I believe, but certainly can’t prove that the unseen hand of a NHI was active in facilitating our fledgling team coming together. We had, in addition to three physicians, two PhD psychologists, a jet pilot working for United in our core group. In addition, a young burgeoning writer by the name of Preston Dennett also was with us from the beginning. He went on to write over two dozen books on the UFO subject. Could all these talented and highly knowledgeable people come together by chance? Perhaps, but I don’t think so!
In my judgment, a diverse contact network of volunteer activists has been co-created by UAP NHIs and thousands of volunteer contact workers across the globe. In my opinion, the phenomenon threatens all terrestrial elites, military, economic and political, and as the result a de facto program of ridicule and denial has been carried out for seven decades. Although the possibility of “ET or interdimensional visitors” may be perceived as threat by the rich and powerful, in my opinion this non-human presence is not dangerous for the people of our planet. Humanity needs to explore our relationship with the “others” that experiencers are calling “ET.” And we should do so in the spirit of creating a peaceful, cooperative, and hopefully more open and equal relationship with UAP associated non-human intelligences. I am grateful for the opportunity to share these stories of contact. Although I am no longer a “contact worker” (all night vigils are a challenge when one reaches the eighth decade of life) I still consider myself a “contact activist” as I promote the work of staging Human Initiated Contact Events that go by the acronym HICE.
For More Reports from the Contact Underground the following links are provided:
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
During the first month of staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) members our LA based CE-5 team not only had sightings during fieldwork, but also while driving home alone.
https://underground.contact/2022/06/20/human-initiated-contact-eventshice-and-the-consciousness-connection/
In our ER I met a patient who worked at a DOE high security facility. He described an UFO act of sabotage at the base. It happened a few thousand yards from our contact team research site.
https://underground.contact/2022/08/31/an-act-of-flying-saucer-sabotage-at-the-does-santa-susana-laboratory/
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
This report was first published in 1993 on my return from a CE5 investigation in the “Volcanic Zone” near the Mexico City. There our team witnessed multiple UFOs including a large triangular “craft” that signaled at us.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/ufo-investigation-in-the-volcanic-zone/
Crop Circles are thought of as communications from UAP associated intelligences. Might “cloud formations” be next?
https://underground.contact/2022/06/13/if-flying-saucer-intelligences-communicate-with-crop-circles-could-cloud-formations-be-next/

High Strangeness Galore: Amazing Synchronicities, Sightings and other Bizarre Events facilitated LA CE-5 Working Group Operations During the early 1990s

J. Burkes MD 2020, edited 2023
​
Meditation facilitares psi-mediated communication & is employed to stage Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE)
Throughout my volunteer work as a part-time organizer of networks of contactees that I call the “Contact Underground”, I have taken careful note of the synchronicities and high strangeness events that have assisted our contact efforts. It seems to me it is as if the intelligence behind the flying saucer phenomena operates from within a different reality compared to our plane of existence. For them, the rules of time, space and even causality that appear so fixed in our reality, can be bent, and reshaped by their technology when they enter our dimension to interact with us. This involves astounding coincidences that apparently are not linked by causation, but rather by their meaning. Such synchronicities are, in my judgment, consistent with the apparent ability of UAP intelligences to manipulate space-time.
In my judgment, what might be explained away as strange random coincidences and inexplicable events, are in fact, the results of deliberate actions carried out by powerful non-human intelligences. Whatever is their origin, extraterrestrial, interdimensional, or someplace or some other time, they appear to be following a plan that involves many interventions propelling the unfolding contact drama.
This mechanism became apparent to me from the very beginning of my organizing work in the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative during the 1990s. As a CSETI Working Group Coordinator, I had a unique opportunity to observe how our team was helped time after time by the unseen hand of non-human intelligence (NHI). As reported by numerous volunteer contact workers in the cases described below, inexplicable events, synchronicities and bizarre encounters facilitated activists’ participation in our Los Angeles based CE-5 working group. What follows is a description of contact team members’ experiences during the years 1992 and 1993 that exemplify this process.
A Hollywood Screen Writer Became Involved
Doctor Greer’s workshop at the May 1992 UFO Expo West brought together several of the founding researchers of our Los Angeles team. The workshop was held at the LAX Hilton. One individual destined to join us was Alex Ayres, a screenwriter for Hollywood. He attended the Expo. Alex Ayres was a remarkable man. He received a B.A. with honors from Harvard College, an M.A. from George Mason University and an M.F.A. from UCLAs Graduate School of Theater, Film and Television. His studies of literature, philosophy and parapsychology made him an excellent resource. His vast knowledge allowed him to envision how our fledgling outreach efforts fit into a broad historical context of human development. His counsel was very helpful as I learned to coordinate the activities of our contact team.
Alex said that he had never heard of Steven Greer before attending UFO Expo West. He told me that he had promised to record a lecture at the meeting for a friend. That lecture was not Dr. Greer’s workshop. Wandering through the corridors of the LAX Hilton, Alex looked for the room of his assigned chore. Reportedly by chance, he stepped into Dr. Greer’s workshop just before it got started. By Alex’s own account, despite his obligation to be elsewhere, he was gripped by a feeling that he should stay for the contactee physician’s presentation. Alex took a seat in the small auditorium, but soon realized that he didn’t have a ticket. One would cost him twenty dollars and the purchasing desk was quite a distance away at the entrance to the Expo. As Alex sat in his chair, the Expo monitor worked her way through the hall collecting tickets one by one. He became increasingly uneasy as she moved down his aisle. To his surprise when she got to him, she just passed right by and did not ask him for the ticket that he didn’t have. In his words, “it was if as if she didn’t even see me.”
A Sudden Change in Scheduling Allowed me to Attend the Workshop
I was there at Expo the same day as Alex. In the morning, I had attended the CSETI Director’s address in the main auditorium. I was fascinated by his plan to create a “citizen’s diplomatic mission” with “extraterrestrial visitors.” I simply had to learn more about the CSETI project. From the conference schedule, I knew that Dr. Greer’s workshop was supposed to be held the next day, on Sunday. It was during a time that I was scheduled to be on-duty in the emergency room. That late in the game, with less than 24 hours before starting a shift, I knew that it was practically impossible for me to find a replacement to cover my work assignment, especially on a weekend. It was all very disappointing to contemplate missing a chance to attend the workshop. Crestfallen I walked across the Expo exhibit floor to the CSETI booth. There a hastily hand-written message announced that there was an unexpected last-minute change in Dr. Greer’s plans. His workshop was going to take place not Sunday but rather on very same day that I was attending the Expo. Thus, I was able to attend an event that would change my life in a multitude of ways.
Shirley Jones from our Medical Center also Attended and later brought “Ellen” into the team.
Another member of my LA contact team was Shirley Jones. She was a respiratory therapist at our Kaiser Panorama City hospital. We had been working together for thirteen years when we both attended Dr. Greer’s CE-5 Initiative workshop at UFO Expo West. Neither of us knew of the other’s interest in UFOs, despite workplace interactions on a regular basis. Not unexpectedly, we were surprised to see one another in the audience. Having Shirley on my team was extremely helpful. She was an advanced meditator and quite knowledgeable in esoteric literature. She provided me with much encouragement and support during working group operations.
Individual sightings of UFOs by prospective contact team members served as a strong personal motivator for participation in the project. Shirley had a co-worker at the hospital. I shall call her “Ellen” for confidentiality purposes. She worked as a pharmacy technician. In November of 1992, Shirley and Ellen attended a local MUFON meeting in the San Fernando Valley. Ellen told me that they had to leave a bit early. As they walked to the car, they had a sighting of a large silent triangular shaped craft slowing flying across the San Fernando Valley. What was quite remarkable about the sighting was that base of the triangle rather than its apex was the leading edge as it silently flew across the sky. Shirley laughed at the irony of their sighting. She told me that as MUFON members focused on sighting reports at their meetings, she and a potential contact activist were having a real time sighting of a UFO while the others were stuck inside. Shirley was convinced that the “ETs” indeed had a sense of humor.
This was quite an exciting sighting for Ellen, and she very much wanted to join our contact team. During the first year, however, I strongly discouraged new members from joining to build a strong sense of unity and maintain focus in the existing group. In the Fall of 1993, we added several new members and Ellen was one of them. Prior to going out into the field, she had a daytime sighting of a large sphere-shaped craft maneuvering in the Santa Clarita Valley. The sighting occurred from her verandah as she was checking out a new pair of binoculars in preparation for her first contact fieldwork outing.
A Russian Contactee Surfaces in my ER
In the fall of 1993, a twenty-three-year-old Russian contactee asked to join our CE-5 team. I shall call hm “Misha.” He worked as an EKG technician at our medical center. He alleged to have had many sightings of UFOs while growing up in Belarus. There, with no adult encouragement or supervision, he reportedly started doing “yoga.” Misha stated that his meditation practice facilitated contact and communication with his “ET friends.” He even made the outrageous claim that before emigrating to the USA, he had a vivid dream in which he saw himself working in US hospital with a tall bearded Jewish doctor. It was his understanding from the dream that he would do contact work with that individual. Misha told me that when he started working in the ER, he recognized me as the Jewish doctor from the dream.
One of the strangest sightings of all occurred for my then new Russian friend. He joined the Los Angeles Working Group in the fall of 1993. Misha’s mother, cousin and nephew lived near the Van Nuys Airport. The three of them had a flying saucer sighting after Misha had started volunteer contact work with our group. Prior to their sighting, Misha had instructed his ten-year-old nephew how to interact mentally with any “craft” that might show up.
I interviewed all three witnesses. Each described the object as a disk, approximately thirty feet in diameter. They saw it in broad daylight near the runway approach to the Van Nuys Airport. It was dark metallic in color and moved silently at a height of several hundred meters. A few non-military helicopters then reportedly approached the saucer. I was told by a local professional pilot that the Van Nuys Airport had several civilian helicopters based there. According to Misha’s relatives, the choppers flew around the disk several times before it moved out of sight. I interviewed all three after the event. Misha’s cousin, a man in his forties confirmed this account, as did the grandmother and nephew. They gave their descriptions in simple straightforward terms with no apparent embellishments.
A Lad of Ten Years Reportedly Interacts with a “Craft”
During the encounter, Misha’s nephew reportedly told his grandmother and Misha’s cousin, that they should observe the object as he interacted with it. The lad then gave a voiced command for the disc to move in one direction and then another. To their amazement, the “craft” reportedly moved in the directions that he had requested. Misha’s mother (the boy’s grandmother) became very excited. She reportedly requested for the craft to land so that she could serve the crew some freshly made Russian food. This of course did not take place, but this dramatic sighting served an important purpose. It was the basis for the strong family support that Misha received during his contact work. Our all-night vigils in isolated locations took him away from home for many nights during the next few years.
Three Kaiser Physicians Were Team Members
Dr. David Gordon, a family medicine physician, was also one of the original members of the Los Angeles CE-5 Initiative Working Group. We were both partners in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. During the 1980s, we had been active in the doctors’ nuclear disarmament organization called Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). One of my volunteer activities was to train PSR public speakers. In 1986, David and I met for the first time when he attended one of my speaker’s panel workshops. We worked at Kaiser but at different San Fernando Valley facilities about ten miles apart. When I cut back my participation in PSR, we quickly lost track of one another.
Later, in 1992 we met again, but this time as new members of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence. David told me that as a youngster he became interested in UFOs after experiencing an apparent missing time incident. He added that he had not really thought about the subject much for decades. David’s adolescent interest in flying saucers was suddenly reactivated in 1992 when he saw a TV documentary on the subject.
In another fortuitous coincidence, we joined MUFON within a few weeks of one another. In June of 1992, I noticed his name being listed as a new consultant in medicine on the back cover of the MUFON Journal. My name had appeared on the new consultant listing in the previous issue. I contacted him and he played a pivotal role in getting our CE-5 research team into the field.
Dr. Gordon is truly an amazing individual and I was very proud to have him on my contact team. He is an avid reader with a nearly photographic memory. His knowledge of the UFO literature was a tremendous resource for our contact work. He was a well-respected Family Physician and is double boarded in both internal medicine and in pediatrics. His wife Eve is also a double boarded physician, medicine, and immunology. We worked at the Panorama City Kaiser facility where she eventually served as chief of the Allergy Department. Eve told me that her husband consistently got in the 99th percentile on the national medical exams. She admitted to teasing him for making it harder for the other doctors to pass their board exams because his scores were so high that he shifted the distribution curve to the right, thus making a passing grade higher. Dr. Gordon’s intellectual prowess and love of adventure was evident in his other activities. While working full time as a physician, he earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering and subsequently made plans to get a PhD in physics. He was also a private pilot and he and Eve regularly attended airshows.
David’s leadership role in the UFO field extended beyond his being a field investigator. With his department chairman’s permission, he carried out an extensive survey of UFO sightings at his medical center. He also gave UFO lectures to local physician groups. During the years of fieldwork that we did together in the 1990s, I relied heavily on his expertise, energy, and enthusiasm. Was it a coincidence that he and I became very active in flying saucer investigations at the same time? Or was it perhaps the result of some behind-the-scenes psi connections made by an unseen non-human intelligence?
David’s Physician Wife Had a Dramatic Sighting
Dr. Eve Gordon also suddenly became very interested in the UFO research after she had a broad daylight sighting of a flying saucer in the fall of 1992. This was during her husband’s first month of volunteering for our contact team. Her sighting is described in detail in a previous FB posting titled “Contactees, Sightings and Synchronicity.” Dr. Dave Gordon said that prior to her sighting, Eve had become quite proficient in identifying conventional craft because she attended airshows with him, Eve’s daylight sighting was of a metallic disc that hovered several miles away over the Santa Monica Mountains. Dave said that not surprisingly her interest in the flying saucer subject dramatically increased after her sighting. Eve was so enthusiastic that she started interviewing people at our Kaiser Panorama City Medical Center about any UFO sightings they might have had.
How My Involvement Began
My interest in flying saucers dates to December of 1990. I innocently thought that I needed a harmless distraction to keep my mind off a renovation project of our home that had gone awry. The architect had left town, her plans were unreadable, and the contractor repeatedly said what at the time I imagined were the worst seven words in the English language, “There’s a problem; it’s gonna cost more.”
At the local public library, seemingly by chance, I asked the question, “Do you have any books on UFOs? For some unexplained reason I found the subject fascinating. As a child I had gone through a science fiction reading phase, but as an adult I considered the prospect of ETs visiting the Earth as only a fanciful story line. As 1990 rolled into 1991 to my surprise, I discovered that I wanted to read only UFO books. Soon dozens of UFO titles lined my bookcase and by May of 1992, I got up the courage to attend my first flying saucer meeting. At UFO Expo-West I attended a CSETI lecture and workshop and as the saying goes, “the rest is history.”
Were these sightings and amazing coincidences that brought our contact team together in 1992 merely unrelated events? Shirley, Dr. Dave Gordon, and I worked for the same Kaiser organization in the San Fernando Valley. Dave and I have lost track of one another. When we separately developed an overriding interest in flying saucers. Was it just a coincidence? Where all the sightings that facilitated our team coming together random events? And what about Alex Ayres wandering into the CE-5 workshop and not being asked for a ticket by the Expo monitor? Were these all just random events?
My assessment is that they were not. I believe, but certainly can’t prove that the unseen hand of a NHI was active in facilitating our fledgling team coming together. We had, in addition to three physicians, two PhD psychologists, a jet pilot working for United in our core group. In addition, a young burgeoning writer by the name of Preston Dennett also was with us from the beginning. He went on to write over two dozen books on the UFO subject. Could all these talented and highly knowledgeable people come together by chance? Perhaps, but I don’t think so!
In my judgment, a diverse contact network of volunteer activists has been co-created by UAP NHIs and thousands of volunteer contact workers across the globe. In my opinion, the phenomenon threatens all terrestrial elites, military, economic and political, and as the result a de facto program of ridicule and denial has been carried out for seven decades. Although the possibility of “ET or interdimensional visitors” may be perceived as threat by the rich and powerful, in my opinion this non-human presence is not dangerous for the people of our planet. Humanity needs to explore our relationship with the “others” that experiencers are calling “ET.” And we should do so in the spirit of creating a peaceful, cooperative, and hopefully more open and equal relationship with UAP associated non-human intelligences. I am grateful for the opportunity to share these stories of contact. Although I am no longer a “contact worker” (all night vigils are a challenge when one reaches the eighth decade of life) I still consider myself a “contact activist” as I promote the work of staging Human Initiated Contact Events that go by the acronym HICE.
For More Reports from the Contact Underground the following links are provided:
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
During the first month of staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) members our LA based CE-5 team not only had sightings during fieldwork, but also while driving home alone.
https://underground.contact/2022/06/20/human-initiated-contact-eventshice-and-the-consciousness-connection/
In our ER I met a patient who worked at a DOE high security facility. He described an UFO act of sabotage at the base. It happened a few thousand yards from our contact team research site.
https://underground.contact/2022/08/31/an-act-of-flying-saucer-sabotage-at-the-does-santa-susana-laboratory/
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High Strangeness Galore: Amazing Synchronicities, Sightings and other Bizarre Events facilitated LA CE-5 Working Group Operations During the early 1990s

J. Burkes MD 2020, edited 2023
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Meditation facilitates consciousness based communication & is a tool for staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE)
Throughout my volunteer work as a part-time organizer of networks of contactees that I call the “Contact Underground”, I have taken careful note of the synchronicities and high strangeness events that have assisted our contact efforts. It seems to me it is as if the intelligence behind the flying saucer phenomena operates from within a different reality compared to our plane of existence. For them, the rules of time, space and even causality that appear so fixed in our reality, can be bent, and reshaped by their technology when they enter our dimension to interact with us. This involves astounding coincidences that apparently are not linked by causation, but rather by their meaning. Such synchronicities are, in my judgment, consistent with the apparent ability of UAP intelligences to manipulate space-time.
In my judgment, what might be explained away as strange random coincidences and inexplicable events, are in fact, the results of deliberate actions carried out by powerful non-human intelligences. Whatever is their origin, extraterrestrial, interdimensional, or someplace or some other time, they appear to be following a plan that involves many interventions propelling the unfolding contact drama.
This mechanism became apparent to me from the very beginning of my organizing work in the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative during the 1990s. As a CSETI Working Group Coordinator, I had a unique opportunity to observe how our team was helped time after time by the unseen hand of non-human intelligence (NHI). As reported by numerous volunteer contact workers in the cases described below, inexplicable events, synchronicities and bizarre encounters facilitated activists’ participation in our Los Angeles based CE-5 working group. What follows is a description of contact team members’ experiences during the years 1992 and 1993 that exemplify this process.
A Hollywood Screen Writer Became Involved
Doctor Greer’s workshop at the May 1992 UFO Expo West brought together several of the founding researchers of our Los Angeles team. The workshop was held at the LAX Hilton. One individual destined to join us was Alex Ayres, a screenwriter for Hollywood. He attended the Expo. Alex Ayres was a remarkable man. He received a B.A. with honors from Harvard College, an M.A. from George Mason University and an M.F.A. from UCLAs Graduate School of Theater, Film and Television. His studies of literature, philosophy and parapsychology made him an excellent resource. His vast knowledge allowed him to envision how our fledgling outreach efforts fit into a broad historical context of human development. His counsel was very helpful as I learned to coordinate the activities of our contact team.
Alex said that he had never heard of Steven Greer before attending UFO Expo West. He told me that he had promised to record a lecture at the meeting for a friend. That lecture was not Dr. Greer’s workshop. Wandering through the corridors of the LAX Hilton, Alex looked for the room of his assigned chore. Reportedly by chance, he stepped into Dr. Greer’s workshop just before it got started. By Alex’s own account, despite his obligation to be elsewhere, he was gripped by a feeling that he should stay for the contactee physician’s presentation. Alex took a seat in the small auditorium, but soon realized that he didn’t have a ticket. One would cost him twenty dollars and the purchasing desk was quite a distance away at the entrance to the Expo. As Alex sat in his chair, the Expo monitor worked her way through the hall collecting tickets one by one. He became increasingly uneasy as she moved down his aisle. To his surprise when she got to him, she just passed right by and did not ask him for the ticket that he didn’t have. In his words, “it was if as if she didn’t even see me.”
A Sudden Change in Scheduling Allowed me to Attend the Workshop
I was there at Expo the same day as Alex. In the morning, I had attended the CSETI Director’s address in the main auditorium. I was fascinated by his plan to create a “citizen’s diplomatic mission” with “extraterrestrial visitors.” I simply had to learn more about the CSETI project. From the conference schedule, I knew that Dr. Greer’s workshop was supposed to be held the next day, on Sunday. It was during a time that I was scheduled to be on-duty in the emergency room. That late in the game, with less than 24 hours before starting a shift, I knew that it was practically impossible for me to find a replacement to cover my work assignment, especially on a weekend. It was all very disappointing to contemplate missing a chance to attend the workshop. Crestfallen I walked across the Expo exhibit floor to the CSETI booth. There a hastily hand-written message announced that there was an unexpected last-minute change in Dr. Greer’s plans. His workshop was going to take place not Sunday but rather on very same day that I was attending the Expo. Thus, I was able to attend an event that would change my life in a multitude of ways.
Shirley Jones from our Medical Center also Attended and later brought “Ellen” into the team.
Another member of my LA contact team was Shirley Jones. She was a respiratory therapist at our Kaiser Panorama City hospital. We had been working together for thirteen years when we both attended Dr. Greer’s CE-5 Initiative workshop at UFO Expo West. Neither of us knew of the other’s interest in UFOs, despite workplace interactions on a regular basis. Not unexpectedly, we were surprised to see one another in the audience. Having Shirley on my team was extremely helpful. She was an advanced meditator and quite knowledgeable in esoteric literature. She provided me with much encouragement and support during working group operations.
Individual sightings of UFOs by prospective contact team members served as a strong personal motivator for participation in the project. Shirley had a co-worker at the hospital. I shall call her “Ellen” for confidentiality purposes. She worked as a pharmacy technician. In November of 1992, Shirley and Ellen attended a local MUFON meeting in the San Fernando Valley. Ellen told me that they had to leave a bit early. As they walked to the car, they had a sighting of a large silent triangular shaped craft slowing flying across the San Fernando Valley. What was quite remarkable about the sighting was that base of the triangle rather than its apex was the leading edge as it silently flew across the sky. Shirley laughed at the irony of their sighting. She told me that as MUFON members focused on sighting reports at their meetings, she and a potential contact activist were having a real time sighting of a UFO while the others were stuck inside. Shirley was convinced that the “ETs” indeed had a sense of humor.
This was quite an exciting sighting for Ellen, and she very much wanted to join our contact team. During the first year, however, I strongly discouraged new members from joining to build a strong sense of unity and maintain focus in the existing group. In the Fall of 1993, we added several new members and Ellen was one of them. Prior to going out into the field, she had a daytime sighting of a large sphere-shaped craft maneuvering in the Santa Clarita Valley. The sighting occurred from her verandah as she was checking out a new pair of binoculars in preparation for her first contact fieldwork outing.
A Russian Contactee Surfaces in my ER
In the fall of 1993, a twenty-three-year-old Russian contactee asked to join our CE-5 team. I shall call hm “Misha.” He worked as an EKG technician at our medical center. He alleged to have had many sightings of UFOs while growing up in Belarus. There, with no adult encouragement or supervision, he reportedly started doing “yoga.” Misha stated that his meditation practice facilitated contact and communication with his “ET friends.” He even made the outrageous claim that before emigrating to the USA, he had a vivid dream in which he saw himself working in US hospital with a tall bearded Jewish doctor. It was his understanding from the dream that he would do contact work with that individual. Misha told me that when he started working in the ER, he recognized me as the Jewish doctor from the dream.
One of the strangest sightings of all occurred for my then new Russian friend. He joined the Los Angeles Working Group in the fall of 1993. Misha’s mother, cousin and nephew lived near the Van Nuys Airport. The three of them had a flying saucer sighting after Misha had started volunteer contact work with our group. Prior to their sighting, Misha had instructed his ten-year-old nephew how to interact mentally with any “craft” that might show up.
I interviewed all three witnesses. Each described the object as a disk, approximately thirty feet in diameter. They saw it in broad daylight near the runway approach to the Van Nuys Airport. It was dark metallic in color and moved silently at a height of several hundred meters. A few non-military helicopters then reportedly approached the saucer. I was told by a local professional pilot that the Van Nuys Airport had several civilian helicopters based there. According to Misha’s relatives, the choppers flew around the disk several times before it moved out of sight. I interviewed all three after the event. Misha’s cousin, a man in his forties confirmed this account, as did the grandmother and nephew. They gave their descriptions in simple straightforward terms with no apparent embellishments.
A Lad of Ten Years Reportedly Interacts with a “Craft”
During the encounter, Misha’s nephew reportedly told his grandmother and Misha’s cousin, that they should observe the object as he interacted with it. The lad then gave a voiced command for the disc to move in one direction and then another. To their amazement, the “craft” reportedly moved in the directions that he had requested. Misha’s mother (the boy’s grandmother) became very excited. She reportedly requested for the craft to land so that she could serve the crew some freshly made Russian food. This of course did not take place, but this dramatic sighting served an important purpose. It was the basis for the strong family support that Misha received during his contact work. Our all-night vigils in isolated locations took him away from home for many nights during the next few years.
Three Kaiser Physicians Were Team Members
Dr. David Gordon, a family medicine physician, was also one of the original members of the Los Angeles CE-5 Initiative Working Group. We were both partners in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. During the 1980s, we had been active in the doctors’ nuclear disarmament organization called Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). One of my volunteer activities was to train PSR public speakers. In 1986, David and I met for the first time when he attended one of my speaker’s panel workshops. We worked at Kaiser but at different San Fernando Valley facilities about ten miles apart. When I cut back my participation in PSR, we quickly lost track of one another.
Later, in 1992 we met again, but this time as new members of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence. David told me that as a youngster he became interested in UFOs after experiencing an apparent missing time incident. He added that he had not really thought about the subject much for decades. David’s adolescent interest in flying saucers was suddenly reactivated in 1992 when he saw a TV documentary on the subject.
In another fortuitous coincidence, we joined MUFON within a few weeks of one another. In June of 1992, I noticed his name being listed as a new consultant in medicine on the back cover of the MUFON Journal. My name had appeared on the new consultant listing in the previous issue. I contacted him and he played a pivotal role in getting our CE-5 research team into the field.
Dr. Gordon is truly an amazing individual and I was very proud to have him on my contact team. He is an avid reader with a nearly photographic memory. His knowledge of the UFO literature was a tremendous resource for our contact work. He was a well-respected Family Physician and is double boarded in both internal medicine and in pediatrics. His wife Eve is also a double boarded physician, medicine, and immunology. We worked at the Panorama City Kaiser facility where she eventually served as chief of the Allergy Department. Eve told me that her husband consistently got in the 99th percentile on the national medical exams. She admitted to teasing him for making it harder for the other doctors to pass their board exams because his scores were so high that he shifted the distribution curve to the right, thus making a passing grade higher. Dr. Gordon’s intellectual prowess and love of adventure was evident in his other activities. While working full time as a physician, he earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering and subsequently made plans to get a PhD in physics. He was also a private pilot and he and Eve regularly attended airshows.
David’s leadership role in the UFO field extended beyond his being a field investigator. With his department chairman’s permission, he carried out an extensive survey of UFO sightings at his medical center. He also gave UFO lectures to local physician groups. During the years of fieldwork that we did together in the 1990s, I relied heavily on his expertise, energy, and enthusiasm. Was it a coincidence that he and I became very active in flying saucer investigations at the same time? Or was it perhaps the result of some behind-the-scenes psi connections made by an unseen non-human intelligence?
David’s Physician Wife Had a Dramatic Sighting
Dr. Eve Gordon also suddenly became very interested in the UFO research after she had a broad daylight sighting of a flying saucer in the fall of 1992. This was during her husband’s first month of volunteering for our contact team. Her sighting is described in detail in a previous FB posting titled “Contactees, Sightings and Synchronicity.” Dr. Dave Gordon said that prior to her sighting, Eve had become quite proficient in identifying conventional craft because she attended airshows with him, Eve’s daylight sighting was of a metallic disc that hovered several miles away over the Santa Monica Mountains. Dave said that not surprisingly her interest in the flying saucer subject dramatically increased after her sighting. Eve was so enthusiastic that she started interviewing people at our Kaiser Panorama City Medical Center about any UFO sightings they might have had.
How My Involvement Began
My interest in flying saucers dates to December of 1990. I innocently thought that I needed a harmless distraction to keep my mind off a renovation project of our home that had gone awry. The architect had left town, her plans were unreadable, and the contractor repeatedly said what at the time I imagined were the worst seven words in the English language, “There’s a problem; it’s gonna cost more.”
At the local public library, seemingly by chance, I asked the question, “Do you have any books on UFOs? For some unexplained reason I found the subject fascinating. As a child I had gone through a science fiction reading phase, but as an adult I considered the prospect of ETs visiting the Earth as only a fanciful story line. As 1990 rolled into 1991 to my surprise, I discovered that I wanted to read only UFO books. Soon dozens of UFO titles lined my bookcase and by May of 1992, I got up the courage to attend my first flying saucer meeting. At UFO Expo-West I attended a CSETI lecture and workshop and as the saying goes, “the rest is history.”
Were these sightings and amazing coincidences that brought our contact team together in 1992 merely unrelated events? Shirley, Dr. Dave Gordon, and I worked for the same Kaiser organization in the San Fernando Valley. Dave and I have lost track of one another. When we separately developed an overriding interest in flying saucers. Was it just a coincidence? Where all the sightings that facilitated our team coming together random events? And what about Alex Ayres wandering into the CE-5 workshop and not being asked for a ticket by the Expo monitor? Were these all just random events?
My assessment is that they were not. I believe, but certainly can’t prove that the unseen hand of a NHI was active in facilitating our fledgling team coming together. We had, in addition to three physicians, two PhD psychologists, a jet pilot working for United in our core group. In addition, a young burgeoning writer by the name of Preston Dennett also was with us from the beginning. He went on to write over two dozen books on the UFO subject. Could all these talented and highly knowledgeable people come together by chance? Perhaps, but I don’t think so!
In my judgment, a diverse contact network of volunteer activists has been co-created by UAP NHIs and thousands of volunteer contact workers across the globe. In my opinion, the phenomenon threatens all terrestrial elites, military, economic and political, and as the result a de facto program of ridicule and denial has been carried out for seven decades. Although the possibility of “ET or interdimensional visitors” may be perceived as threat by the rich and powerful, in my opinion this non-human presence is not dangerous for the people of our planet. Humanity needs to explore our relationship with the “others” that experiencers are calling “ET.” And we should do so in the spirit of creating a peaceful, cooperative, and hopefully more open and equal relationship with UAP associated non-human intelligences. I am grateful for the opportunity to share these stories of contact. Although I am no longer a “contact worker” (all night vigils are a challenge when one reaches the eighth decade of life) I still consider myself a “contact activist” as I promote the work of staging Human Initiated Contact Events that go by the acronym HICE.
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