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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.

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extend our present logic along the lines indicated, and add a fourth law which r.ompletes
and closes Aristotlean logic. (2) With the four law logic, a thing can be modeled in terms
of its mutually exclusive opposite; by this means, the mind can be modeled in terms r I
physics. (3) A physics -- Everett's many-universes interpretation of quantum mechanics --
is readily available for this approach, but the physic.:s is so eery and strange that it has
been almost totally ignored. Nonetheless, it is totally consistent with the entire present
experimental basis of physics. (4) The model presented, then, is generally consistent
with the principles of quantum mechanics, and extends them to allow for multiple simultaneous
perception. (S) The model of mind and mind levels that results encompasses the collective
human unconscious as a living being, and addresses its unusual characteristics, which
transcend ordinary space and time limitations. (6) The model presents mechanisms for
almost every sort of paranormal phenomenon and parapsychological phenomenon presently
investigated. Included are theoretical mechanisms --physics . --for UFO's as tulpoidal
materializations projected from the collective human unconsciot.s, initiated by stress
conditic ts in large masses of people. (7) As tulpoids, the UFO phenomena are capab. e of
being psychoanalyzed in terms of the cold war, or at least a large percentage of the
phenomena fit that prescription. One additional factor --the Sov1.et development of
secret, psychotronic superweapons --is necessary to fully complete the analysis.
Again, we do not wish to present this work as "finished." Instead, it is only just
begun. However, we do point out that the theory is directly applicable to practical devices,
and that one or more devices operating along these lines has actually been built.
Finally, we wish to stress the importance of recognition of "virtual state" as a ..:omplete
kind of reality already used in physics, and the necessity for earnest study and experiment
toward the ability to directly engineer the virtual state itself. If one can control the
virtual state, one can control all electric charge and electromagnetics, hence all chemistry
and all physical effects and interactions.
We also urge an end to the resistance to the study of "mind" in physics. Quantum
mechanics itself has long since reduced physics to the study of the relations between
perceptions; 31 indeed it has nothing at all to say about a possible concrete w('\r': lying
behind its equationsJ .32 as Margenau and Lindsay pointed out.
To our colleagues in the study of UFO phenomena, we point out that -- U.terally --
the present model includes all others. The model predicts the existence of every kind of
"reality" format imaginable, and various of these formats are continually being stimulated.
Thus we can actually get "visitors from the stars" (from a particular alternate reality format),
hardnosed spaceships with steel hulls, space-st.~ ted astronauts, little humanoids, robotic
figures, sasquatch-like figures, angelic beings, impish beings, etc. And yet we also
can get simply nocturnal lights, which still comprise the bulk of the phenomena. Finally,
we point out that mechanisms for almost all aspects of the UFO phenomena --including
disabling of vehicles and communications, activation of geiger counters, para lysis of
c::ontactees, the unreal and dreamy feeling that accompanies contact, etc. are derivable
and have been presented. 33
Finally we urge our colleagues, many of whom are more qualified than this author, to
pursue this line of endeavor 1n our continuing effol't Lu ~,;umfnt:hend the worldwide UFO
phenomenon that so far has resisted our best analytical efforts along conventional lines.
The phenomenon definitely involves both mind and matter, and unless we can present a
scientific model of mind and matter and their interaction, consistent with the present
experimental basis of physics and extending it, we cannot hope to have a science that
can be applied to the UFO phenomenon and explain it.
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