Amazing Synchronicities

Notes from the Contact Underground

Amazing Synchronicities and Sightings that Facilitated Los Angeles Working Group Operations.

Throughout my career as a volunteer coordinator of networks of contactees that I call the “contact underground,” I have taken careful note of the amazing synchronicities and high strangeness events that have assisted our organizing efforts. It seems to me as if the intelligence behind the UFO phenomena operates from within a different kind of reality, one in which the rules of time and space and even causality that appear so fixed in our reality, can be bent and reshaped by them when they enter into our plane of existence and interact with us. Conventional wisdom I suspect would likely dismiss the strange coincidences and inexplicable events that I describe in this report as random occurrences without any particular rhythm or reason. Nevertheless it is my judgment that the cases outlined below likely represent deliberate actions by a powerful non-human intelligence that are being played out from behind the scene.

From the perspective of the worldwide community of contactees and their supporters that I call “the contact movement,” this intelligence is presumed to be extra-terrestrial in nature. As both a UFO researcher and organizer in the contact movement, I have assumed that the ET hypothesis is valid . For operational purposes I accept the idea that we are involved with biological entities and physical craft from other star systems. Despite my years of involvement in this field however, I must confess that I still withhold final judgment concerning what or who we are dealing with. Whoever they are, it is my firm opinion that this intelligence is following a well thought out plan and it involves psi-mediated interventions that facilitate an unfolding contact drama.

This process of repeated amazing coincidences or synchronicities that helped our contact efforts appeared to have been present from the very beginning of my CSETI apprenticeship under Dr. Steven Greer. Sightings of anomalous structured craft at close range also played a role in boosting working group members’ enthusiasm for the project. The sightings sometimes involved family members or close friends who quickly became convinced of the importance of our mission. As reported by numerous contact workers in the cases described below, inexplicable events, synchronicities and bizarre encounters facilitated their participation Los Angeles CSETI working group during the years 1992 and 93.

Doctor Greer’s talk at the May 1992 UFO Expo West brought together several of our founding researchers of the LA team. One member, Alex A…., an up-and-coming screenwriter for the motion picture industry, attended the Expo. After he joined our team he told me that he had no idea that Dr. Greer was speaking at the Expo. He had no plans to attend the CSETI Director’s workshop. Instead he had promised a friend that he would tape record a different lecture at the meeting.

Wandering through the corridors of the Hotel, Alex looked for the room of his assigned chore. Apparently by chance he stepped into Dr. Greer’s workshop just before it got started. Alex told me that despite his obligation to be elsewhere, he was strangely gripped by the feeling that he should stay for the doctor’s lecture. As Alex waited in the small auditorium he soon realized that he didn’t have a ticket. They cost twenty dollars and were only available some distance away at the entrance to the Expo. Alex felt increasingly uneasy as the Expo monitor, moving through the audience approached him collecting tickets one by one. To his surprise when she got to him she strangely passed right by and did not ask for the ticket that he didn’t have. In his words, “it was as if she didn’t see me.”

I was there at Expo as well. I attended Dr. Greer’s short morning address in the main auditorium and found myself fascinated by his plan to create a citizen’s diplomatic mission with what he called “Extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth.” I wanted to learn as much as I could about his project. From the conference schedule however I learned that his workshop was supposed to be held the next day, on Sunday.

Unfortunately I was scheduled to be on-duty in the Emergency Room when the in-depth workshop was to occur. This late in the game I knew that it was practically impossible for me to find a replacement to cover my shift. It was very disappointing. It looked like I was not going to be able attend the CSETI workshop. I walked across the Expo exhibit floor to Dr. Greer’s booth. There besides the table piled high with copies of his monograph, was an ink-board message announcing a last minute change in the schedule. Dr. Greer had to return to North Carolina on Sunday and so his workshop was rescheduled for the very same day that I was attending the Expo. Thus another coincidence made it possible for a future CSETI Working Group Coordinator, yours truly, to attend Dr. Greer’s workshop on his Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind Initiative. That night after the workshop I was one of small group of fascinated participants who met with the CSETI Director. In a candid off the record chat, he revealed how he had entered into what he described as a cooperative contact endeavor with spiritually advanced ET life forms. I was extremely moved by his presentation and decided to do what I could to help him in his cause.

Another future member of the LA CSETI team was also present at the workshop that day in the spring of 1992. Shirley Jones 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 others interest in UFOs despite being on duty together several times a week for years. Not unexpectedly we were quite surprised to see the other in the audience. Shirley later became a founding member of our LACSETI team. Having her by my side was extremely helpful. She was an advanced meditator and quite knowledgeable in the esoteric literature. She gave me much encouragement and support during the rapid learning phase of my first year as team coordinator.

What were the odds that two people from the same workplace in Southern California, would independently decide to attend a small workshop on an obscure topic that most people would likely consider at best frivolous? There were over twenty five million people in the region, nevertheless both Shirley and I, with no knowledge of the others interest in UFOs, sat down next to one another to hear Dr. Greer’s lecture. I imagine that the probabilities of such an encounter occurring by chance might be several millions to one. Nevertheless Shirley and I, just like Alex, were drawn there by a strange set of coincidences that had the end result of putting a team of UFO researchers into the field under Dr. Greer’s leadership.

Dr. Daniel, (a pseudonym) a family medicine physician was also one of the original members of our Los Angeles CE-5 Initiative team. We were both partners in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. During the 1980s we were active in the doctors’ nuclear disarmament organization called Physicians for Social Responsibility, (PSR). One of my volunteer activities for PSR was to train physician speakers to educate the public about our anti-nuclear weapons campaign. In 1985 Daniel and I met for the first time when he attended one of my speaker’s training workshops. We both worked for Kaiser in the San Fernando Valley but at different facilities. His wife Maria,however was a staff physician at the Panorama City facility where Shirley and I worked.

In 1986 when I cut back my participation in PSR, Daniel and I lost track of one another. But we were destined to meet again in 1992 under circumstances that involved synchronicities that resulted in our joining CSETI and doing contact work together for the next three years.

Daniel told me that as a twelve-year old he became interested in UFOs after having a missing time experience. He also revealed to me that he had not really thought much about the UFOs for decades. This changed in when he saw a TV documentary on the subject. Suddenly he found himself fascinated in flying saucer phenomenon. He began to read extensively on the subject. Was this merely another chance occurrence?

In 1992 Daniel and I both independently joined Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) within a few weeks of one another. In June of that year I noticed his name posted as a new consultant in medicine on the back cover of the MUFON Journal. It listed his address as Sherman Oaks. My name had appeared on the back page as a new member in the previous issue of the MUFON Journal. I was curious to find out who was this other San Fernando Valley physician that was interested in UFOs and had joined MUFON a month after I did. I contacted him by phone and discovered that we were both partners in the same large medical group and that we had met at a PSR speakers’ training years before.

The way in which Daniel and I found each other in my opinion was again an unlikely coincidence. We reestablished contact not as members of the doctors’ anti-nuclear weapons movement, nor as partners in the same med group. Instead a sudden passionate interest in the flying saucer phenomenon brought us together under the CSETI banner.

In the context of so many synchronicities that were facilitating the creation of my LA CSETI team, eventually I began to suspect that Daniel’s sudden involvement in contact work might conceivably be the result of a kind of a psi-mediated suggestion that was operating at a subconscious level. After all he had a history of a missing time experience at age twelve. And now after merely seeing a TV documentary he reported feeling a sudden powerful urge to get involved with UFO investigations.

Dr. Greer in his workshop had suggested that advanced civilizations of star faring peoples might be as advanced in the science of consciousness as they were in the science of building craft capable of crossing the sea of stars. If an extraterrestrial intelligence were capable of maintaining a consciousness link between experiencers and itself over long periods of time, then perhaps someone like Daniel with a previous contact involving missing time, might have received a subtle, but nonetheless powerful subconscious encouragement to get involved some twenty five years after having what may have been a CE-4.

Whatever the reason that caused Dr Daniel to join CSETI, he was a very welcome addition to the team. I was extremely proud to have such a remarkable man at my side. Both of us were partners in a successful medical practice. He was an avid reader with a nearly photographic memory. His knowledge of the UFO literature was a tremendous resource for our contact work. As a well-respected member of the Department of Family Medicine and being double boarded in both internal medicine and in pediatrics, he added a great deal of credibility to our contact efforts. His wife Maria (a pseudonym) was also a double boarded physician, internal medicine and immunology. At the Panorama City Kaiser facility she served as chief of the Allergy Department for quite a few years.

To give you an idea of how brilliant her husband was, I share with you a story about Daniel that Maria told me. She proudly said that Daniel consistently got into the 99th percentile on his all his medical board examinations. She added that she used to tease him about his making it harder for the other doctors to pass their qualifying exams because his scores were so high that they shifted the distribution curve to the right. Dr. Daniel’s remarkable intellectual prowess was also evident by his extra-curricular activities. While working full time as a physician he has earned a master’s degree in physics and is well on the way to get a PhD in that field.

On the personal level Daniel and I had much in common. Both of us were then, and now still are married in stable relationships that have lasted decades. Both of us are of European Jewish decent, each have two children apiece, an older son and a younger daughter. These strong similarities made it very comfortable for us to work closely together. We faced a myriad of challenges in putting our fledgling contact team into the field. Daniel’s extensive knowledge of the San Fernando Valley was invaluable in the critical area of selecting a research site for field investigations. Indeed he was the one that found our first location. It was situated in the Santa Susana Pass and had a spectacular view of the Western San Fernando Valley. It was a place where we would eventually have multiple sightings of UFOs that appeared from our very first night out in the field.

Dr. Daniel's. leadership role in the UFO field extended beyond his volunteer work for CSETI. With his department chairman’s permission he carried out an extensive survey of UFO sightings and other encounters experienced by patients and staff at his medical center. He also gave UFO lectures to professional organizations including doctors in our medical group. His extensive medical experience and the resultant respect that he had in the community, brought to our UFO investigations enormous credibility. During the years of field investigations that we did together in the 1990s, I relied heavily on his expertise, energy and enthusiasm. My job as a CSETI Working Group Coordinator would have been far more difficult without him.

Was it coincidence that he and I became very active in CSETI at the same time? Or was it again the result of behind the scenes psi interactions by an unseen non-human intelligence? It is my judgment such a consciousness link was apparent in the rash of UFO sightings that working group members had during 1992 and 1993.

For example, Daniel’s wife Dr. Maria…. suddenly became very interested in the UFO s after having a broad daylight sighting of a metallic disc in the fall of 1992. Her sighting is described in the document titled "Contactees Sightings and Synchronicity." Daniel told me that prior to the UFO encounter she had expressed little interest if any in flying saucers. Initially he was the big UFO aficionado in the family. After her September 1992 broad daylight sighting of a UFO however, it was a different story. She too became enthusiastic about making contact by following the CSETI protocols. Maria signed up right away for next workshop to be given by Dr.Greer. By December 1992, alongside her husband she was part of our LA team.

As we see with Maria, individual sightings of UFOs by prospective contact team members served as a strong personal motivator for participation in the project. Another example of this involved Shirley ‘s friend who was a co-worker at the Kaiser Panorama City hospital. I shall call here Ellen for confidentiality purposes. She worked as a pharmacy technician. In November of 1992 Ellen and Shirley 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. This was quite an exciting experience for Ellen and she wanted to join our CSETI team right away. During the first year however I strongly discouraged the addition of too many new members, fearing that this might undermine the cohesion of our fledgling team. By the second year of Working Group operations however, I decided the time was right to open up for new members. Ellen joined us in the fall of 1993.

Prior to going out into the field with us she reported having a daytime sighting of a large sphere shaped craft hovering in the sky across Santa Clarita Valley. The sighting took place while she was standing on her verandah in the late afternoon. It just so happened that she was checking out a new pair of binoculars in preparation for her first CSETI fieldwork session. She estimated that unknown object was between fifty and one hundred feet in diameter and had one flashing light on its edge. She observed the sphere for several minutes through her binoculars. It hovered low in the sky several miles away from her across the valley.

Was this just another random coincidence? Or was it something far more significant. Imagine this, as Ellen prepared to go out into the high desert and make contact, the alleged ETs were already staging an encounter with her while she stood on her verandah. A consciousness link is strongly suggested by this sequence of events. Her prior sighting at the MUFON meeting with Shirley, a known member of the CSETI team, identified Ellen as one who was ready and willing for more contact. Her personal sighting and the resultant enthusiasm for doing fieldwork, reassured me that “friends in high places” were giving us a helping hand.”

One of the strangest sightings of all involved the family of my friend Misha. He was an EKG technician at the hospital. He also joined the Los Angeles Working Group in the fall of 1993. He was a long-term contactee and figured prominently in my CSETI work for the next four years. Details of our extensive work together can be found in many other reports. Misha’s mother, cousin and nephew lived near the end of the runway for the Van Nuys Airport. They reported having a broad daylight sighting of a metallic disk that hovered near their house. Misha had already advised them of the work he was doing with CSETI. He had even instructed his ten-year-old nephew how to interact mentally with any craft that might show up. I interviewed all three witnesses. Their sighting occurred shortly after Misha joined the LACSETI team.

All three of Misha’s relatives described the object as being a solitary UFO, a disc approximately thirty feet in diameter. In broad daylight it reportedly hovered above the runway approach to the Van Nuys Airport. It was dark, metallic in color and moved silently at a height of several hundred feet. Misha’s nephew told his grandmother and Misha’s cousin that they should observe the object as he interacted with it. He gave a voiced command requesting that the UFO move in one direction and then another. To their amazement the craft actually reacted each time by flying a short distance in the direction that the boy had requested.

Misha’s mother (the boy’s grandmother) reportedly became very excited and even invited the craft to land so she could serve the crew some freshly made Russian food. Of course the saucer crew did not come down for some borsht and piroshkis. Nevertheless after this amazing sighting, Misha’s family readily understood how important his work was in Dr. Greer’s campaign.

According to all three-eye witness accounts, several non-military helicopters approached the UFO that was hovering near the Van Nuys airport. A local pilot told me that private helicopters were based there. The choppers reportedly flew around the disc several times before UFO moved out of sight.

I interviewed the witnesses soon after this event reportedly took place. Misha’s cousin, a man in his forties, confirmed all the details of their sighting, as did the grandmother and nephew. They impressed me as honest and gave their description in very simple straightforward terms with no apparent embellishments. As in Maria’s sighting, an indisputable encounter served to build family support for contact work while indicating the existence of a consciousness link between members of my team and a non-human intelligence of presumed ET origin.

In 1993 I relied heavily on Misha to serve as a kind of magnet for phenomenon. It was through my close association with him that I became aware of the existence of what I later called the “prime contactee” phenomenon. Dr. Greer in my opinion was “first among primes.”

Over the next fifteen years I identified a small group of individuals who had a similar strong personal relationship with ET intelligence, one that involved repeated Close Encounters of the First through Fifth kinds. My awareness of this network of contactees linked by consciousness to an intelligence responsible for aspects of the flying saucer phenomenon, helped me understand the ways in which our planet is being prepared for what I believe will be more open forms of human-ET contact sometime in the future.

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