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Bearden UFOsandUAPs ADA068988

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This Defense Documentation Center report (ADA068988) reproduces a paper Thomas E. Bearden prepared for the 1979 MUFON Annual Symposium. It carries a public-release distribution statement. Bearden is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and nuclear engineer. The paper proposes a speculative mind and matter model built on a claimed fourth law of logic and hyperspatial frames. It argues that the collective unconscious can materialize thought forms under Cold War stress, and it fits major UFO waves and U.S. cattle mutilations since 1973 into that model.

  • p. 22 …A. Wheeler, B.S. DeWitt, L.N. Cooper and D. Van Vechten, and N. Graham: eds…
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A Final Numbing Possibility
If the next great war is truly upon us, then the horror and devastation that will occur
make every other war in history pale by comparison. For today even our nuclear armaments
are sufficient to insure that hundreds of millions of people die within the first hour or two
of full-scale initiation. The surviva.l of mankind itself literally is at stake.
Accordingly, the stress factor b13aring upon the collective human unconscious is
higher than at any time in our previous history. For that reason, just prior to the actual
Soviet attack against NATO, the tulpoidal symbology should be raised to the absolute
highest possible degree. And there would seem to be only one additional "female symbol''
higher than the cow; that is the human female. So in horror one realizes the possibility
of raising the cattle mutHations to the last final step, the paranormal mutilation of the
human female. Indeed, several candidates for such incidents may already have occurred,
but this researcher has been unable --·and indeed unwilling -- to obtain sufficient data
on any of them to validate the possibility.
And one other feature of the mutilc1tion incidents needs to be ~ainfully brought out.
Other animals have been mutilated, besides cattle. In one mcident a young male horse
was mutilated --and of course emasculated. Here the symbology is direct: the youth
(tho young soldiers) will be emasculatt:ld, helpless before the onslaught at first of the
Warsaw Pact hordes and immediately thereafter of the Soviet psychotronic superweapons.
Also, we point out that in the old human experience, the women and the children
stayed behind in the protected fortress. So in addition to the cattle (female) mutilations,
we shou.ld have been ~~xperiencing 11 Small animal" mutilations, symbolic of the children.
Indeed, so we have, though it has lar9ely not been connected to th~ UFO phenomena by
most analysts. But many dogs, cats, squirrels, rabbits, etc. have a: '30 been paranormally
mutilated. The escalation of t:-tls symbolic chain, of course, poses the horrible possibility
of incidents of paranormal mutilation of actual human children.
In science, a researcher strives to remuin unemotionally involved, unattached, and
unbiased. But in any research directly involving human beings, there is always a point
at which scientifir; detachment must yield to human consideration, and this metapsychiatric
analysis is such a point, beyond all question, for this researcher. Today, as it was
when I first wrote these words in early 1977, the pen, the heart, and the hand that writes
the words are deeply shaken. Indeed, I continue to fervently ho~e that the model and
analyses may be totally in error. Yet my military tackground assures me we have already
entered the period of "no return" tor the next World War, and it could literally be initiated
almost at any moment. And the entire result of over 14 years of unrelenting effort and
analysis in the paranormal field convinces me that the model and the analysis ring true,
regardless of the human terror, suffering, and misery revealed by these modern-day tulpoidal
11 signs and portents" of that which 1s to come.
Conclusion
There is much more that can be taken from the model and principles presented, but
the remainder is beyond the scope of this presentation. Strangely enough, the end result
of the analysis turns out tc be a "happy ending" for humankind, for the model predicts
the mind linkage of all humanity into a great, superdimensional, unlimited being totally
transcending our present ideas of space and time limitation. That eventuality has been
presented elsewhere by the author. 30
The basic facts we Wlsh to leave with the reader are these: (1) It is possible to
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