Looking Behind the Military/Alien Abduction Scenario - Part 1

 by Helmut Lammer Ph.D.

 
Since I published my preliminary findings of alleged alien abductees who experienced possible kidnappings by special military/intelligence units, I received new information, especially from North American abductees and abduction researchers. Most of this information has not been previously published. The responses I received after the first article was published, show that there are more alleged alien abductees who have experienced unwanted human/military contacts (MILABs) during their lives. In August 1997, I published an overview of this study, coauthored by my wife, in a comprehensive book titled ''Covert Operations.'' 

By summarizing our findings we found that [1,2]: 1.) MILAB victims are harassed by dark, unmarked helicopters near their houses. The mysterious helicopter activity goes back to the late sixties, early seventies, when they showed an interest in animal mutilations, but not in alleged alien abductees. 2.) MILAB victims have not only alien abduction experiences, they also report that they were kidnapped by a certain branch of human/military personnel. They describe being drugged, taken to hospital-like rooms as well as underground military facilities where they describe seeing men in white lab coats. Here they are examined, interrogated and sometimes implanted with unknown devices. 

Readers who are interested in more details should read my first MILAB article [1]. We are also hoping to have an English edition of our book ''Covert Operations,'' published and available in the United States. Until this project reaches fruition, I believe the results I publish here in the second article will lead the open-minded researcher to three important questions. 1.) Is it possible that secret human experiments or covert operations are occurring in western democracies? 2.) What is the human agenda which seems to be involved in the alien abduction phenomenon and what is the purpose of MILABs: military abductions of abductees? 3.) Is there a military interest in developing brain implants, virtual reality bio-chips, holographic image projection, cloaking devices, mind altering weapons. 

The existence of these technologies would support the hypothesis that such secret experiments could occur on humans and these experiments are being hidden from Congress and the public by placing the funding inside secret or ''black'' projects. II. Documented History of Secret Mind and Behavior Control Experiments Everyone who refuses to believe that secret experiments and covert operations have been performed on people, including children, should look at the documented history of military/intelligence radiation experiments as well as mind and behavior control projects which are now known to the public. In addition to the United States and Canada, the British press reported that even the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has carried out secret radiation experiments on humans during the last forty years. In 1994, the United States government lifted the lid on secret experiments with scant regard for the subjects -- many of whom were disadvantaged people.[3] For about 30 years after World War II the Department of Defense (DoD), the CIA and various non-government research organisations, conducted medical research on thousands of citizens, often without their knowledge. 

This research was largely concerned with radiation exposure, nerve gas, LSD and various biological agents. Recently it was disclosed that radiation experiments were performed on more than 23,000 Americans in about 1,400 different projects during the thirty years following the war.[4] The people on whom these experiments were conducted were soldiers, prisoners, people considered to be mentally defective (both children and adults), hospital patients with terminal illnesses and pregnant poor women. Many of the scientists who conducted these Nazi-like experiments were respectable academics. Dr. Ewen Cameron was such a scientist on the surface. However, he led a CIA-funded laboratory at McGill University during the 1950's where patients were used as guinea pigs in brainwashing experiments. Some subjects were given ECT ''therapy'' twice daily, while others were drugged and kept unconcisious for weeks or months. They were injected with huge amounts of hallucinogens, and subjected to long- term sensory deprivation.[5] A panel, appointed by the Clinton administration in 1994 to look into these matters, has so far documented 400 government backed biomedical experiments involving humans between 1944 and 1975. 

The purpose of these experiments may never be fully known. It is not certain when these experiments stopped, if they stopped at all, but they were still going on in mid-1970's.[4] The Canadian psychiatrist and specialist on trauma and dissociation, Dr. Colin Ross, presented a paper at the 9th Annual Western Clinical Conference on Trauma and Dissociation in Orange County, California. Dr. Ross described evidence from released CIA-FOIA documents showing that the agency has conducted research on the creation of Manchurian candidates since World War II.[6] Dr. Ross and research organisations like the New York-based Advocacy Committee for Human Experimentation Survivors - Mind Control (ACHES-MC) also came across survivors of horrific experiments involving electroshock, drugs, brain implants, sensory deprivation, psychic driving; people having been locked in cages, forced sleep and sexual and ritual abuse.[7,8] 

Once selected, victims have been used repeatedly as human lab animals throughout their lifetimes in one externally controlled and monitored experiment after another. In 1997 ACHES-MC delivered a video-document to President Clinton and Canadian Prime Minister Chretien. ACHES-MC requested a presidential hearing and the declassification of government records relating to alleged mind control experiments. Experiments that were conducted on unwitting children and adults and which were funded by the United States government from the 1940s onwards. This videotape contains testimony from both children and adults - alleged survivors of federally funded mind control experimentation. It also contains testimony from therapists, psychiatrists and psychologists.[8] 

Their victims, however, do not report alleged alien/UFO contacts like MILAB victims report, but some of the MILAB experiences also fit in the pattern of abuse described by alleged mind control victims. This short excursion in the past of secret experimentation on humans supports the MILAB hypothesis of covert operations against civilians, although solid underlining evidence is not easy to present. III. A Possible Purpose of MILABs Since I now have more MILAB information, I believe the whole alien/human abduction scenario is more complex than I first thought at first. It seems to me that there are indications that more than one human agenda, possibly three, may be involved in the unexplained alien abdcution phenomenon. Each of these agendas probably has its own focal point involving alleged alien abductees. It seems to me that the first group is interested in mind and behavior control experiments. I found indications of sensory deprivation experiments, liquid breathing experiments, experiments on electromagnetic stimulation of the temporal lobes, brain research and implant research. 

A second group seems to be interested in biological or genetic research. Some MILAB victims recall seeing humans in tubes filled with liquid, and genetically altered animals in cages during their alleged kidnappings inside military underground facilities. It should be noted that alien abductees ''without'' military contacts also remember similar scenarios inside UFOs or alleged alien crafts. The third group seems to be a military task force, which has been operating since the eighties. This group appears to be interested in the UFO/alien abduction phenomenon for information gathering purposes. This would be a logical consequence if someone or a group of people with the "need to know" considers alien abductions to be real. It seems to me that the leaders of this military task force believe that some alien abductions are real and that they have national security implications. It could be that the second and third group working together, because they could share their interest in genetic studies and their findings from alleged alien abductees. 

I will now concentrate on tank and tube experiences of alleged alien and MILAB abductees who represent victims of the before mentioned groups. It should be noted that they are not alone and that their cases are only examples from a much larger pool of victims. IV. Tank and Tube Experiences Michelle (pseudonym) had her first conscious memory of a typical alien abduction experience with non-human beings at the age of eight. She remembers classic alien abduction experiences with three to four foot-tall beings with large heads. But her following experiences, however, have nothing to do with alien abductions. Michelle then had traumatic flashbacks; reality-like dreams and some consciously remembered MILAB events. The memory gaps were investigated by a Ph.D. hypnotherpist and MUFON consultant, with the use of regressive hypnosis. 

Michelle and a boyfriend had a missing time - kidnapping experience during 1970 near a campsite at Ditch Plains in Montauk, New York. She remembers that both were taken by armed military personnel to the now closed Montauk base. After they were separated, Michelle was escorted inside an underground facility where she had several frightening experiences.[9,10] She remembers being in an examination room with machines, stainless steel equipment and a table covered in white. Michelle was placed on the table and strapped down. After a few minutes a group of five to six people, including one female, came into the room. All of them wore medical clothes consisting of white gowns. Surgical masks covered their faces. They turned her head sideways and shaved a small portion of her head behind her right ear. She was completely conscious, but was immobilized and she could not speak.[9] Michelle remembers that someone was writing something on the skin behind her ear. After this she got an intravenous (IV) injection, she felt a prick in her arm and lost consciousness and awoke with her boyfriend, who was also kidnapped, later on the beach. The next hypnosis session revealed more traumatic flashbacks of being in an isolation tank. The following experience was investigated during an emotional hypnosis regression session. Michelle had never had this experience while under hypnosis before. She recalled being in a dark place, while she floated in something that felt slightly heavier than warm water.[9] Before this experience Michelle recalled being naked on a table. She had wires attached all over her body and she saw a doctor in a white lab coat standing next to her. The next experience was uncovered via a deep trance regression which probed again into the isolation tank experience. Michelle remembered once again that she was in a black enclosed area where she struggled and was afraid of drowning. The experience scared her a lot and she wanted out of the tank. She felt that the liquid was heavier than water, was warm and smelled of a minty odor. She was able to move her arms and legs slightly as well as her head. She felt the smooth surface of the isolation tank on her right when she streched out her arm. She was completely isolated in the dark tank when a kind of artificially induced ''out-of-body'' experience began, or she began to hallucinate. 

I researched the literature of sensory deprivation experiments came across such isolation tanks which were invented by Dr. John Lilly.[11] Dr. Lilly tried to find out how he could isolate the brain and mind. He considered the effects of light and its stimulation of the eyes, touch and pressure and their stimulation of the skin and even deep-lying organs within the body. Dr. Lilly looked at temperature differences, the effects of clothing, the effects of gravitation, and the effects of heat and cold. Dr. Lilly visualized a soundproof tank in which the body could be supported in water that would be maintained at the proper temperature in such a way as to maintain the generation of head within the body. He found such a tank inside a soundproof chamber in an isolated building near the campus of the National Institute of Health. This tank was constructed during World War II for experiments by the Office of Naval Research on metabolism of underwater swimmers. This was the beginning for research on isolation which later included the use of drugs.[11] It should be noted that during the late fifties and early sixties Dr. Lilly experimented also with brain implants. During this period, Dr. Lilly was contacted by covert intelligence services and researchers for the Department of Defense (DoD). 

Dr. Lilly wrote in his book ''The Scientist,'' that while he was at the National Institute of Health, the isolation tank experiments, like the brain-electrode experiments, became subject to the politics of the time.[11] As the isolation tank research became known throughout government agencies, various individuals called him to find out about it. Dr. Lilly claims that among them were researchers working under the auspices of the Army. Their interest was in the area of brainwashing captured prisoners of war. Dr. Lilly was asked if the isolation tank could be used to change belief systems of persons under coercion. They wanted to use the isolation tanks and sensory deprivation experiments for brain washing and other mind control experiments. Dr. Lilly visualized situations in which this method would be used under coercion. By careful control of the stimulation of isolated individuals, their belief systems could be changed in directions desired by the controlling persons. Dr. Lilly was convinced that the military/intelligence community would use his isolation technique for covert experiments.[11] I think, that Michelle's experiences show us that this was true and that there is enough evidence that she is one victim of such deprivation tank experiments. 

One should note, however, that this specific experience had nothing to do with aliens, although I do not know how her alien abduction experiences fit in this scenario. As I noted in my first MILAB paper, the presence of human military personnel inhabiting the same physical reality as alien beings are unbelievable for skeptics as well as serious open-minded abduction researchers. Although Michelle's before mentioned experiences were definitely terrestrial, she experienced a high strangeness close-encounter during the same MILAB. She experienced traumatic flashbacks of a reptiloid creature, so this was also investigated. She described being escorted by military personnel into a dark office-like room where she was raped by a reptiloid creature. I don't know what this traumatic experience means. I don't think, however, that the military worked with this reptoid creature. It could be possible that Michelle was drugged with an hallucinogen and projected the reptoid as a kind of screen memory, although she described the skin and other features of the creature quite realistically. Was this particular experience the product of a mind control procedure? We should take this under consideration because her other experiences in the underground facility were completely terrestrial. In addition, recent hypnosis sessions performed on Michelle in July 1997, revealed that she may have been used in various mind control experiments during her lifetime.[12] 

During a two hour session Michelle remembered to be in a room with two to three men who were in charge of other men who were wearing lab coats. Before this she was in some kind of examination room, where someone mounted something on her head. She described silver colored tongs, pinching at her temples and inducing intense pain in her head. This experience is reminiscent of an experiment involving the stimulation of the temporal lobe region by the use of magnetic fields. Dr. Michael Persinger, a neuroscientist at Laurentian University of Sudbury, Ontario, demonstrated that one can artificially produce mystical experiences, out-of-body excursions and other psychic experiences by stimulating the temporal lobes with the application of magnetic fields across the brain. He discovered that such experiences are linked with excessive bursts of electrical activity in the temporal lobes.[13] A research target would have a helmet or a similar device placed on their head. An artificially generated magnetic field would mimic the firing patterns of neurons in the temporal lobes of the brain. Dan Wright, head of the MUFON Abduction Transcription Project, reviewed his records for tube or tank experiences of alleged alien abductees.

He found several cases in his files during which the abductee saw a tube during their experience, but did not identify anything or anyone inside it.[14] In four cases, however, abductees described large clear tubes and recalled either being placed inside it or seeing someone else inside. Two of these four abductees saw an alien creature in the tube. Dan Wright's files reveal three cases in which the abductee was in a tank filled with liquid and in two cases the victim was forced to breathe the liquid! None of the abductees who was placed in a tube or tank reported any unusual mind set such as out-of-body experience or remote viewing during their time in these containers. "Two" of seven tank cases reported military involvement, but not on the same night as the tube or tank episode. MILAB victim Lisa (pseudonym) had tank experiences similar to the abductees in Dan Wright's study, but Lisa's memories are from conscious recollections. Lisa was kidnapped and brought to a military underground facility, where she saw naked humans floating in tubes. Lisa for instance claims that she was forced by humans into some type of pool filled with a golden yellow bubbly fluid, while other humans looked at her. Lisa has traumatic recollections that her kidnappers tried to force her and other victims to breathe in the liquid.[15] In two of the before mentioned cases the abductee was forced to breathe the liquid like Lisa. 

The hypnosis trancripts reveal that the liquid breathing experiences were traumatic for the abductees. Both abductees where totally immersed in the liquid and both reported that they could breathe the fluid.[14] If one review the scientific literature which is available about fluid breathing, one finds that physically taking fluid into the lungs and breathing liquid instead of air would revolutionize diving. The concept of fluid breathing began in the mid 1960s when Dr. J. Kylstra, a physiologist at the State University of New York at Buffalo realized that salt solutions could be saturated with oxygen at high pressures. Dr. Kylstra worked in a US Navy compression chamber and performed experiments on mice. He was able to keep animals alive for up to 18 hours. However, because carbon dioxide was not removed fast enough from the system, it quickly build up to near toxic levels. This problem was obviously a stumbling block when it came to using his procedure on humans.[16] The next step in fluid breathing came in 1966, with Dr. Leland Clark's liquid-breathing mouse experiment.[17] 

Dr. Clark developed a technique where a mouse survived over twenty hours breathing fluid at 18 degrees centigrade. All animals in the early studies suffered pulmonary damage, but that was due to toxic impurities of the fluorocarbon, chemical interaction of the fluorocarbon with the lung, or some unknown effect was undetermined. This pulmonary damage mystery as well as the problem of the elimination of carbon dioxide and the fact that the fluorocarbon tended to be retained by body tissues would have to be solved before the process could be attempted on human subjects. During the following years, the technique of fluid breathing was refined and improved. Liquid ventilation tests of the early 1990s proved to be successful. Scientists kept dogs alive in a perfluorocarbon medium for about two hours. After removal the dogs were slightly hypoxic, but returned to normal live after a few days.[16] 

After these tests on animals the procedure was ready for human subjects. The medical community now has a treatment for respiratory distress syntrome, the leading cause of death in premature infants. In addition, I suspect that liquid breathing experiments on humans, would be extremely useful for military/Navy/intelligence purposes such as submarine escape and undersea oxygen support facilities. Alien abductees, such as Betty Andreason reported being placed inside a tube filled with liquid for the compensation of large gravity forces during a high UFO acceleration period. One abductee of Dan Wright's files describes such an experience inside such a tube: ''...it's like water in there, it's like being in a swimming pool, only I can see through the sides...it feels like we are moving. Where are we going? Whoo, that's fast. Feels like we are moving fast. Oh! And one's standing outside. He's telling me, That's why we had to put you in here, because we are moving too fast....Acceleration. Something about gravity forces too much.''[14]

It is interesting to note that under hypnosis this abductee reported how the abductors put something in her nose before they put her in the tube. This means that this abductee was not forced to breathe the liquid. Recent scientific studies of visual and photographic sightings of UFOs carrying out ''impossible'' high speed maneuvers by Dr. Bruce Maccabee would support such gravity force compensation tube experiences if the abductee was indeed in a real UFO.[18] Dr. Bruce Maccabee stated in his article ''Acceleration,'' that an UFOnaut or abductee inside a UFO accelerating at 500 g's would be pushed by the walls of the craft with a force that would make him seem weight almost 500 times his weight on Earth. The body of an abductee might be crushed at that acceleration, and the skin might be pulled off the bones, unless the human was suspended in a liquid and the lungs and other body cavities were filled with liquid! Other alleged alien abductees report that they have seen small alien-like beings as well as adult humans in a state of suspended animation inside tube-like incubators. Some of these abductees claim that the humans looked altered like hybrids.[14,19] These would fit the hypothesis of genetic research done by the ''greys.'' But there are also cases where abductees report human doctors escorting them through underground laboratories where they have seen humans in clear tanks.[19] MILAB victim Christa Tilton described such an experience as: ''I did see what I thought were humans in clear tanks underground. The tanks were leaning about 25 degrees backward until they touched the wall. The room was a regular room...like a laboratory. This was never viewed on a spacecraft. They seemed to be, like I said, in a state of suspended animation. 

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