Brainsturbator UFO Library Version 2.0

When I started Brainsturbator, I still had a lot to learn about good web content.  Most of the early material in the archives is pretty weak, and I’m gradually fixing that.  The UFO Library probably needed an update the most, because there’s not enough good information online. What I mean is, it’s very difficult to find data about UFOs, but it’s very easy to find theories about what they are.  I’m much more interested in getting people to ask their own questions, than in summarizing my opinion about what the important questions are. 

Just the same, this libary is shaped by my own biases. I see the UFO phenomenon as fundamentally unexplained, and probably involving multiple causes that human science in 2007 cannot explain or predict.  This phenomenon is real, global, weird and important.  This library is my humble effort at making it a little easier to answer your own questions.  Enjoy.

Pure Data for Curious Primates

Public Opinion Surveys and UFOs—MUFON collection Worth looking into, no matter how you feel about UFOs, this is a very revealing document.

Odors from UFOs Sounds like a pretty damned absurd topic to write about, but if you’re actually studying UFOlogy, this is a key document.  The electromagnetic spectrum is a mighty big river.

Magnetic Levitation How-to Included for obvious reasons.

Blue Book Unknowns—1500 of them, compiled by Brad Sparks. 

Also worth digging through: the National Security Agency keeps a rather interesting archive of UFO documents, the UFO Casebook site keeps a collection of data in PDF format.  One of the more fascinating online collections is UFORTH dot com, which is a running encyclopedia of UFO shapes and forms.  As Greg Bishop recently noted, there don’t appear to be any intergalactic Honda Civics—everyone has a custom machine, and that’s pretty weird.  If they all looked the same, things would make a lot more sense...so it’s probably signifigant that they don’t.

I also recommend the simple and exhaustive UFO Review News page—they pretty much track down everything, and I always catch something interesting whenever I visit.

The Best Online Resources

Overall, UFO Evidence is the best-designed collection of quality information you can find.  I also want to give a tip of the hat to the humble and magnificent UFO Info, who deliver exactly what they claim to with a clean, simple layout.  They keep an online copy of Jacques Vallee’s chronological list of sightings from Passport to Magonia: you can get that here, it’s worth reading over to get a sense of just how weird it gets here on Earth.

A roundup of further databases: NUFORC’s searchable index of UFO reports, the UFO Research Center’s sighting index, an excellent archive of UFOs reported by police, MUFON provides a detailed search interface for their sighting database, and clocking in at 1,563 sightings, check out Daniel Guenther’s personal collection at “JTC: Just the Cases.”

The Archives for UFO Research in Sweden keeps...a listing of their book collection. START SCANNING, FELLAHS. (On that note, you will find a great deal of interest material here: Grey Lodge Occult Review. Start with Frater Achad and the Little Grey Space Aliens.)

History of the Phenomenon

Science in Default: Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations, by James McDonald.  A barn-burner, one of the best white papers on UFOlogy of all time, sadly, almost all of it still holds true today.

Flying Saucers Are Real—Donald Keyhoe 1940s classic...definitely out of date, but definitely interesting. 

The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers—John Keel A very, very important historical read.  “UFOlogy” is mostly repeating the same old bullshit to a new generation of “seekers”, don’t fall for the same tricks.  Please.

Historical UFO Paintings Not an exhaustive survey, but it makes for very odd reading. 

Andijra Puharich, “Hearing Aids” and UFOs A chapter from a dubious biography of Puharich centering around his more dubious work. 

“Rendezvous With the Damned” a chapter from John Keel’s “Our Haunted Planet” very out there stuff, but highly potent food for thought.  Mormons, Ultraterrestrials, and UFOs.

Rand Report: “UFOs - What To Do”.  A copy of a 1968 report that’s got a couple interesting gems, but mostly a summary of the situtation at the time.  Also check out Skilluminati copy of “UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions.”

The Jacques Vallee Memorial Wing

It’s true, I bring up Jacques too much.  First a “We Salute You,” then another article, and then I transcribed “The Case of Kirk Allen” from his book Revelations.  This month I brought his work up again in a meditation on the “Associative Universe” concept. So obviously, I wind up with enough essays from Vallee to put them in a separate section:

The image above is taken from Vallee’s proposed Encounter Classification System, which is the best—or at least, the most useful matrix I’ve found.

The Physics of High Strangeness—Jacques Vallee Without question the best document in this collection, it’s from a recent talk Vallee gave in Las Vegas with Erik Davis.

Vallee on Crop Circles A short, essential read.

OMNI Interview with Vallee from 1980.

Articles and Papers

Altruism and ET Civilizations—Brin An excellent examination of why ET civilizations would be “enlightened space brothers”.  Odds are fairly good they’d just as soon eat us.

The Great Silence—David Brin This is a great contribution to the study of the ET hypothesis, being a thorough discussion about the classic, and flawed, Drake Equation.

Xenopsychology—Robert A. Freitas Jr makes a very solid contribution to a very speculative field.  A very accessable exploration of areas where humans knowledge ends.

Prime Numbers and ET Communication A discussion of why SETI is big on prime numbers.  Anthropocentrism at it’s most hilarious.

Inscribed Matter vs. Electromagnetic Transmission 7 page white paper re-examining the logic behind SETI—the authors argue (quite persuasively) that over the vast instellar distances, it’s more energy efficient to disperse “inscribed matter” or written artifacts than to broadcast an EM signal.

Highly Recommended Books

In my meaningless opinion, the best single book on the UFO situation is UFOs and the National Security State, by Richard Dolan. I also recommend Revelations and Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee, Terence McKenna’s Archaic Revival, the essentially strange Cipher of the UFOnats by Allen Greenfield, and William Bramley’s criminally neglected The Gods of Eden.

For further suggestions, take a look at Greg Bishop’s excellent UFOlogy reading list from his site, UFO Mystic. 

Thirtyseven’s Personal Tips for Power Weirdos

“Electricity will replace God.  The peasants should pray to it.”

--Vladimir Lenin

I put this stuff at the end because most of it will appear to be unrelated tangents or lunatic theories.  I’m not proposing anything specific here, I just want to recommend some stuff.  I’ve been fascinated by UFOs since I was in fifth grade.  UFO phenomena is constantly having “solutions” propsed which offer a single explanation—yet the data seems to support multiple causes and multiple phenomena, all of which cannot be explained by our current scientific models.  (Unless you’re Jack Sarfatti.)

The Dogon Egg and the Distribution of Intensities—Also known as “The Body Without Organs,” generously hosted by the Grey Lodge Occult Review. Along those obscure lines, also check out Philip Coppens disturbing essay The Stargate Connundrum, which investigates Andijra Puharich, who is very much worth investigating.

I eagerly await a threatening email from the publisher for this one: The Invisible Landscape by Dennis and Terence McKenna.  This book is truly dense, it took me three tries to be able to read a chapter straight through.  It’s also proven to be one of the most fruitful books I’ve ever read, in terms of triggering new ideas, valuable questions, and catalysts for change.  As long as I’m posting books I will probably have to remove, here’s Stephen Heller’s incredible book “Monsters and Magical Sticks: There’s No Such Thing as Hypnosis?”

US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights, by Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton—some of the folks who do “Project Censored.” This is pure facts on the state-of-the-art, in terms of what the public knows.  Even though it draws only from declassified, public-doman verifiable information, it’s still a very sobering wake-up call.  I’ve also gotten ahold of Nick Cook’s research notes, which he generously gave away—a PDF that’s well over 1000 pages of anti-gravity research he compiled working on The Hunt for Zero Point.

Anyone who reads Brainsturbator will enjoy Hacking Matter—this is a freebie “Multimedia Edition,” similar to Kevin Kelly’s free copy of “Out of Control,” and Ben Mack giving away his book “Poker Without Cards.” (For any publishers reading this: that works.) Wil McCarthy provides the most realistic, fully fleshed-out and headfuck vision for the future of technology I’ve ever seen.  He could easily be wrong, but it’s a very readable book.  It’s also got very obvious implications in terms of UFOlogy:

...the concept itself is deceptively simple: a lattice of crystalline silicon, superfine threads much thinner than a human hair, cris-crossing to form a translucent structure with roughly the density of polyethlyene.  It behaves fundamentally as a semiconductor, except that with the application of electrical currents, it’s structure can be filled with “atoms” of any desired species, producing a virtual substance with the mass of diffuse silicon, but the chemical, physical and electrical of some new, hybrid material.

The Cognitive Dimensions of Digitization by Derrick de Kerckhove and Ana Viseu.  Amazingly good tour of the radical changes human cultures have undergone, with a view towards future effects we can expect to see as electronic capitalism continues to spread globally.  One of the best authors to explore where global power structures and occult weirdness overlap is Jeff Wells, who runs the Rigorous Intuition website.  The best place to start is with the articles indexed here.

Finally, Skilluminati has a number of documents and collections relevant to this line of study: Jose Delgado’s “Physical Control of the Mind,” the Stanford Research Institute report “Changing Images of Man,” and the DIY Invisibility Suits collection of Optical Camouflage articles and papers.