Proceedings of the
                       UFO RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
                       Denver, Colorado, USA
                          May 22-25, 1992


              CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT RESPONSE:
            SELF INTEREST IN A NATION STATE SYSTEM

                           By

                C.B. Scott Jones, Ph.D.



Abstract

Governments respond to opportunities and crises according to their
perception of self interest in a nation state system. To expect
otherwise introduces an unnecessary element of confusion when
attempting to understand why a particular policy of government has
developed and is being followed. For an outside observer this can be
vexing and frustrating if the government policy is being implemented
under a cloak of deliberate disinformation. The objective may be to
keep other nations in the dark about specific knowledge and plans but
the American public may be an important tool to be manipulated to
accomplish these objectives. An interested sub-public, the UFO
community, is not helpless in such a situation. There are things that
it can do to help itself and to assist the government to make needful
changes. An important step is to obtain independent knowledge. There
are underused human technologies that can play an important role in
this effort. Remote sensing is one of these.

Introduction

A government may not respond to a provocation or intrusion because of
ignorance, lack of capability or fear. When this happens, jackal and
hyena nations who observe the fact begin to calculate and plan to
profit at the next opportune moment. Such is the natural state of the
nation state system. While the United Nations and its associated
international and regional political, economic and judicial entities
provide a model for an alternative global system in which cooperation
largely supplants conflict, the dawn of that day is not yet on the
horizon.

I do not have any direct evidence of a larger organized political
system than that represented on Earth. If one does exist, Earth either
has not qualified for inclusion, is being quarantined for some reason,
or simply has not been asked to join. Rules of conduct in such a
postulated Universal Federation may or may not be enforced by the
Federation. As in the nation state system, there may be a codified
body of law calculated to protect personal and property rights, but
its enforcement may depend upon the separate political entities of the
system.

Whatever the situation - individual nation, global or universal
enforcement of rules of conduct, response to provocation can only be
understood in terms of what totally is going on in the life of the
responding political entity. I make this point because it may be
helpful to look in the broadest way at conditions in the United States
(or any other country) when trying to understand the imputed policy of
cover up and disinformation regarding the field of extraterrestrials
and UFOs.

First contact with extraterrestrials undoubtedly would receive the
very highest attention in any nation's capitol. If it was an
accidental contact, e.g. the Roswell crash, one would expect in the
United States at that time about the same type of bureaucratic
response that has been reported by competent investigators of that
incident. We had a naive, almost boastful claim of having "solved" the
UFO mystery. Higher levels in the Air Force and other parts of the
government were not willing or ready for such a mystery to be
discussed in the press, and adequate measures were taken to retrieve
it from the public domain. If it can be contained, a specific issue
even one as extraordinary and exciting as discovery of a crashed disc
with dead and dying crew members, will not be allowed immediately to
preempt the attention and energy being given to preexisting problems.
The question to ask is what were the commanding long term issues being
faced by civilian and military leaders the day before the Roswell
crash came to their attention?  Roswell and what it was perceived to
mean would be compared with long term crisis management issues. If it
was determined to be part of the larger issues it would be merged for
handling or resolution. Otherwise, it would join a cue of other issues
to be investigated and later assigned a priority for problem
management.

In as much as every country can be expected to follow this same
general approach in determining how to prioritize and attend to
potentially new threats, a general statement can be made about how
different countries will respond to the same specific potential threat
stimuli - the responses will all be different. This is so because the
base line of existing top priority crisis management is different for
each country. For many years regional security arrangements such as
NATO and the Warsaw Pact linked in significant ways a consensus of
base line security priority for a group of nations. In the case o
NATO, the consensus was formed and maintained because of a perceived
common threat. It was more complicated for the Warsaw Pact because of
the obvious domination of the Soviet Union over countries of Eastern
Europe. When a threat diminishes, the consensus concerning it
naturally will change. Depending upon the mind set of the leadership
of affected countries, several different options can be exercised.
Most obvious would be to focus on the next perceived priority threat.
If none existed, one might well be created to fulfill a psychological
need for an enemy. If there is a highly significant change in the
global political/military situation such as the collapse of the Soviet
Union, many new options are available for all previously directly
affects countries.

With the above general background introduction, I want now to shift to
some specifics. The first example will be historical. This has been
selected because it remains an interesting unsolved scientific mystery
that took place in a country that recently has been reborn because of
a significant change in its threat environment  That country is
Russia. Analysis of this historical event has been extensive. A
bibliography printed in the Soviet journal Priroda (Nature) in 1969
listed 180 scientific papers, 940 articles, 60 novels and scores of
stories, poems, films and TV programs about the event. (Baxter and
Atkins, 1976, page 135). Scientists in Russia are still seized with
this mystery. One operative explanation of the event is that it was
extraterrestrial in nature. The issue remains open and unsolved. It
appears that little additional information can be expected from the
conventional analytical approaches used to this point. To assist in
the preparation of this paper the services of Psi Tech, a private
research organization were employed. This was done in an attempt to
gain new information about the event, and to suggest an approach that
the UFO community might consider in its interaction with governments
on the ET/UFO issue. Knowledge is power and special knowledge can be
used to finesse entree into areas of special knowledge. No government
has a monopoly on human technologies that may be employed to gain
special knowledge.

The Tunguska Event

It was clear to ground observers that Russian air space had been
penetrated. The cylindrical object glowed with the heat of 5,000
degrees Fahrenheit as it entered strata of the earth's atmosphere. It
is approaching 7:17 on a June morning. The flight path is later
calculated from eye witness reports and ballistic wave evidence to
have been from the south over the Trans-Siberian Railway, to the
Angara River and then on an east tack to the Lower Tunguska River
where it maneuvered to a westward direction over the Stony Tunguska
River. Its approach speed was calculated at 0.7 kilometers per second.
A strong ballistic wave preceded its passage causing a deafening roar
heard by witnesses throughout central Siberia. Then there was an
explosion unlike that ever previously reported. The seismographic
center at Irkutsk, 550 miles to the south, registered tremors of
earthquake proportions. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, 3,000 miles away
the vibrations are recorded. A gigantic pillar of fire towers into the
clear blue sky. Its height is such that it is visible to started
Siberians in town several hundred miles away. A series of thunderous
claps are heard for more than 500 miles from the point of detonation.
From ground zero a searing thermal wave sweeps across the hilly taiga.
Tall conifer are scorched and fires are ignited that will burn for
days. At a distance of 375 miles in the station town of Kansk on the
Trans-Siberian Railway, hurricane-like gusts rattle doors and windows.
Within minutes two additional shockwaves arrive. People working on
rafts are hurled into the river. Farther south, horses stumble and
fall to the ground. (Baxter 1976, pages 21-23, 128-131 ).

Even with these pronounced effects, including the ominous black rain
that showered the downwind area with dirt particles and debris sucked
up into the swirling vortex of the explosion, there was no response
from Moscow. Who had launched this attack on Russia? Where did the
warhead come from? Why wasn't Moscow responding, if not militarily at
least with diplomatic outrage.

I am now going to remove linear time as a barrier to story
development. Geo-political issues will be conventional and accurately
depicted. However, time will be transformed to other dimensional
realms, moving forward and backwards as needed.

It seems highly improbable that a warhead could detonate over this
part of Siberia without it having been detected by one or more parts
of the Soviet strategic ballistic missile defense system. Given the
south inbound track of the cylindrical object that from all reports
was the source of explosion, it very likely overflew Irkutsk with its
HEN HOUSE ballistic missile early warning radar, and the new large
phased-array radar that can track more ballistic missiles with greater
accuracy than the HEN HOUSE. If the intent was to fly down the extreme
western reach of the new phased-array radar at Irkutsk to avoid it,
and hope that the older HEN HOUSE would not detect, it still would
have been full in the fans of a similar dual ballistic missile early
warning setup based at Balhas, just north of Lake Balkhash. Moreover,
it also flew directly into the center section of the latest Soviet
ballistic missile detection and tracking radar positioned at
Krasnoyarsk, and at a range where target resolution would be at its
best. (U.S. Department of Defense, pages, 9-11). These radars would
have been able to back-track the trajectory and determined the
probably launch area. Given its approach from the south, the Russians
would suspect that it was a launch from a United States TRIDENT
submarine on a special station either in the Bay of Bengal or perhaps
in the Southern China Sea.

When the contemporary nuclear age began, it became dangerously
commonplace for democratic nuclear powers to announce event after
event of open air nuclear tests. The United States conducted these
tests at the Nevada Proving Grounds, in the South Pacific and one
secret high altitude test in the South Atlantic. Between 1945 and
1962, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission conducted 235 atmospheric
nuclear weapon tests. Almost always without comment, the Soviet Union
used several areas of its vast land mass for its open air test program
with the largest thermonuclear devices and weapons being tested on the
remote island of Novaya Zemlya, far north of the Arctic Circle. The
total number of atmospheric nuclear weapon tests done by the U.S.S.R.,
China, the United Kingdom, France, India, South Africa and Israel is
not in the public record.

These atmospheric tests were conducted to prove and improve weapon
design, and to measure explosive over-pressure, thermal and radiation
effects for military applications of the weapons. Additionally large
numbers of underground tests have been conducted by the U.S. and the
U.S.S.R. after there was agreement between these countries to stop
open air testing.

Weapon's effects phenomena are well understood around the world by
scientists and interested laypersons. Thousands of photos have been
taken and published showing in frightening detail the primary and
secondary effects of nuclear and thermonuclear explosions. These are
well documented. The very first photos published and republished for
years were from the U.S. weapon drop on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
These have been imprinted into the consciousness of hundreds of
millions of the world's citizens, perhaps even to a larger universal
population.

Photos from the Tunguska explosion impact area show a striking
similarity in some respects to those taken at Hiroshima. Specifically,
the Russian writer Aleksander Kazantsev was the first to comment on
the extraordinary similarity between the patterns of destruction at
Hiroshima and the charred, flattened Tunguska forest. The trees around
the Japanese Agricultural Exposition Hall, directly below ground zero,
were stripped but still standing. These bare a strong resemblance to
the scorched but upright trees directly below the center of the
Tunguska explosion. (Baxter and Atkins, page 104). Other comparisons
of nuclear effects also have been made.

One witness S.B. Semenov, sitting on his porch in Vanavara, forty
miles from the explosion reported a huge fireball. Indeed if the yield
has been correctly estimated at 30 megatons, the fireball would have
been 2.8 miles in radius. Other witnesses reported a fire "brighter
than the sun," and others reported an enormous "tongue of flame" or
"pillar of fire" that flared over the taiga, followed by a tall,
billowing column of "Black smoke." (Baxter and Atkins, pages 104-5).
These observations are more than suggestive of a nuclear fireball and
a mushroom cloud. However some of the eyewitness reports do not match
effects that were observed during the atmospheric test program of the
1950's.

Following the explosion in Siberia on the morning of June 30th, night
displays persisted from June 30 to July 3 throughout Russia and
Europe. Enormous "silvery clouds" were observed at great heights
against the bright twilights. (Baxter and Atkins, page 109). In 1960.
G. Pleskhanov of the Tomsk Medical Institute compared these midnight
lights with those following U.S. high altitude tests over the Pacific
Ocean. He noted that smaller, almost identical atmospheric effects
were observed. (Baxter and Atkins, page 109). The facts are these. In
1958, the United States conducted Operation HARDTACK I, an atmospheric
nuclear test series held at Johnston island and in the Marshal Islands
at Enewetak and Bikini atolls. It was a series of 35 test shots. Three
of these were high altitude detonations, at least two of these in the
megaton range. The shot that Pleskhanov most likely referred to was
event TEAK. TEAK was launched on a Redstone rocket from Johnston
Island at thirteen minutes before midnight on July 31, 1958. After a
three-minute flight the warhead was detonated at a 252,000 foot
altitude, producing a spectacular display that was visible from
Honolulu 700 nautical miles away. The yield was in the megaton range.
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin carried a resident's description of the
burst:

"I stepped out on the lanai and saw what must have been the reflection
of the fireball. It turned from light yellow to dark yellow and from
orange to red. The red spread in a semi-circular manner until it
seemed to engulf a large part of the horizon. A cloud rose in the
center of the circle. It was quite large and clearly visible. It
remained visible for about a half hour. It looked much closer than
Johnson Island. The elevation of the circle was perhaps 20 degrees
above the horizon."

From Mt Haleakela on Maui, observers reported that this red shell
appeared to pass overhead about 40 minutes after the detonation.

The detonation spread a layer of fission debris in the upper
atmosphere, and destroyed the ability of the normally ionized layers
of the upper atmosphere to bend radio waves back to the Earth, thus
cutting many trans-Pacific high-frequency communication circuits. This
blackout lasted nine hours in Australia and at least two hours in
Hawaii.

On August 11, 1958, shot ORANGE, a second high altitude test was
conducted. The detonation, also in the megaton range, took place
thirty minutes before midnight at 141,000 feet south of Johnston
Island. This time the show in Honolulu was somewhat of a
disappointment after the TEAK display. There was a brilliant flash for
about a second which dimmed to a rose glow and faded away. From the
heights of Mt. Haleakela on Maui, the view was described as a dark
brownish red mushroom that rose in the sky then died down turning to
white with a dark red rainbow. This was visible for about ten minutes.
There was no reported disruption of radio frequency communications.
(Jones, pages 251, 266, 269, 271).

The other primary effect of a nuclear explosion, radiation, also
appears to have been present at the Tunguska event. The Russian
ethnographer, I.M. Suslov questioned sixty Tungus herdsmen at Strelka.
They reported that the blast brought with it a disease for the
reindeer, specifically scabs that had never appeared before the fire
came. This is suggestive of the reports from New Mexico following the
first test explosion at Alamogordo in 1945, when gray patches and
blisters appeared on the hides of cattle exposed to radiation.
Fifty-one years after the Tunguska explosion radiation levels were
reported under ground zero to be one and a half to two times higher
than 30 to 40 kilometers away from the center. (Baxter and Atkins,
pages, 110 - 112).

Out of Siberia and into the rest of the world

Of course there was no response from Moscow when the Tunguska
explosion took place. It was the year 1908, and the political center
of the country was in St Petersburg where Nicholas II was tsar of
Russia. While there was the mystery of the glowing night sky for four
days over St. Petersburg, Moscow and cities throughout Europe, there
was no reason to equate it with an event in Siberian or any other part
of the world.

What had taken place in Siberia on the morning of June 30, 1908, was
and still is a mystery. And the event took place in a region of
mystery. The Trans-Siberian railway was conceived as the essential
link to opening the vastness of Russia's great land mass for internal
colonization and to fulfill the dream of Russia's Asiatic mission, a
nebulous spiritual kinship with Asia. (Florinsky, page 1262). Started
in 1891, and completed on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904,
it facilitated the movement of some 3.5 million land-hungry colonists
from European Russia to the boundless expanses of Siberia. Before the
building of Trans-Siberian railway, travelers on foot took as long as
a year to make the journey from St. Petersburg to Irkutsk, and for
most Russians at the turn of the century Siberia was an area as
foreign and distant as the moon. While the dream of land ownership
attracted millions of peasant farmers, many of Siberia's inhabitants
were political prisoners or their descendants. Generations of
dissidents to the tsars had been shipped to centers like Irkutsk and
Krasnoyarsk, forced to slave in the mines and the forests and then
abandoned there with little choice but to settle and farm. Notables of
the Bolshevik Party, Lenin and Trotsky served sentences in Siberia.
Josef Stalin most- probably was there in 1908, as he served six
different sentences there between 1903 and 1913. A major figure in
Russian royal politics, Gregory Rasputin was a half-literate
peasant from the wilderness of Siberia's Western plain. Trained by a
professional medium, erotic and mystical elements were inextricably
bound up in a shapeless doctrine that captured the attention and
devotion of the empress Alexandra. It appeared that Rasputin alone
could control the bleeding of the young hemophiliac, Alexis, heir to
the throne. (Florinsky pages 1145-46).

At the turn of the century, imperial Russia was heading into a
revolutionary phase that would result in a totalitarian regime that
would last until 1991. It collapsed in economic exhaustion brought on
by corruption of a rigid party system, gross bureaucratic
inefficiency, and a dispirited population weary of sacrifices in the
name of external threats that seemed either increasingly unlikely or
no worse that the travails of day to day living.

The period around 1908 in the world was vibrant, full of changes. In
the United States, Teddy Roosevelt was serving the final year of his
second term as resident. The first mass-produced automobile, the Model
T Ford had just been released. A revolution in transportation,
communication and warfare was being spawned. The United States War
Department decided to give two brothers who had invented and
demonstrated a heavier than air aircraft a contract to build the first
military airplane. Two years later the first experiments in aerial
bombing would take place, and a faithful march began to August 1945
when the B-29 Enola Gay dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima.

At the turn of the century, the United States had what Assistant
Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, called a "Splendid little
war" with Spain. The results were that Spain ceded the Philippines,
Puerto Rico and Guam outright to the United States. President McKinley
pressured by a jingoistic press and an expansionist Congress, had
resisted the war, but to forestall a possible loss of the White House
to the Democrats, reluctantly went along. His innocence was affirmed
when he confessed, "When we received the cable from Admiral Dewey
telling of taking the Philippines I looked up their location on the
globe. I could not have told where those darned islands were within
2000 miles!" (Bailey page 471).

The president's ignorance aside, the United States had taken a
faithful step of becoming a truly global power. We now had in the Far
East the potential logistic support capability to make our will known.
This changed condition was seriously noted by the rest of the world,
particularly by Japan who was trying to compete with European powers
in carving up China, and to assert itself as the natural dominate
power in Asia.

The fever of Russian imperialism grew with the completion of every
kilometer of the Trans-Siberian railway. Russia was confident that
along with its navy's Far Eastern squadron, it could either pressure
Japan to yield to its desires in Manchuria and Korea or successfully
win a war if it came. In 1900, following the Boxer rebellion in China,
Russia had thrown troops into Manchuria, presumably to protect Russian
lives and railroad interests. Despite repeated promises to withdraw,
the Russians were still there in 1904. However, the single-track
Trans-Siberian railroad was inadequate to meet the requirements of a
huge modern army. Moreover, the line in the mountainous country around
Lake Baikal was not complete. Troop reinforcements and supplies had to
be transferred across the lake by steamers or in winter, on sleds and
over a light railway built on the ice. (Florinsky, page 1270-71 ).

The Japanese decided to take action before the Russian logistical
situation improved. On February 6, 1904, Japan broke diplomatic
relations with Russia and two days later without a declaration of war
launched a successful sneak attack on the Russian fleet at Port
Arthur, Manchuria. This surprise attack was widely applauded by the
American press. President Roosevelt wrote admiringly, "Was not the way
the Japs began the fight bully?" (Bailey, pages 516 - 17). His cousin,
Franklin D. Roosevelt would have other words to describe a similar
sneak attack thirty-seven years later at Pearl Harbor.

This short historical review of the period around the turn of the
century, the time of the Tunguska event, provides a number of typical
examples of domestic and international political and military actions
taken by nations to protect their self interests as they were
perceived. In hindsight it is not too difficult to see distinct
patterns of behavior, and one is occasionally tempted to believe that
specific responses to a threat stimuli could have been predicted. That
is only generally true. The determining factor is which category of
national interest is being challenged: secondary or vital?  Nations
such as the United States and Russia with vast resources have a large
repertoire of responses from which to choose when responding to a
challenge to a secondary national interest. Generally speaking,
secondary interests are the stuff of diplomatic compromise. One
interest can be obtained by giving up another in negotiation. On the
other hand, a vital national interest is one for which a state is
normally willing to fight immediately or ultimately. For all states,
vital interests include, as a minimum, the protection of their
existing territory and the preservation of their prestige from a
massive loss of face. (Hartmann, pages 7 - 8). Prognosticators and
handicappers tend to look foolish because a vital interest is what a
state says it is, not logically what it should be.

The above is part of a tidy closed nation state system based largely
on rules and understandings formulated in Europe from the 15th century
onward. To a large degree all states have bought into it whether or
not their Asia or tribal cultures support it with comfort. Give or
take a world war twice a century, and countless smaller civil and
regional wars, the consensus fiction is that the system works. In fact
this system has been dysfunctional at least from the turn of the
century, and certainly from 1945 when the United States demonstrated
over Japan the Age of Extermination. Has anyone noticed this? Is
anything going on to redefine the system to a less dangerous, let
alone harmonious state? I don't see any proof that this is the primary
message of ET contact. I don't expect someone else to care any more
about us than we care about ourselves. The unknown is that somehow we
may be affecting a Universal vital interest as we stagger around in
our habitual war festivals.


Controlling government response


The first half of this double-entendre was covered above when the
issue of secondary and vital national interests was discussed. I
attempted to describe a basis for government action. The second half
is very straight forward. What can the UFO community do to influence
and control government policy and action vis-a-vis the ET/UFO enigma?

There are several separate steps to be considered.

At least some in the UFO community must do responsible, science based
research.

At least some in the UFO community must assume a broader Western
scientific paradigm and a different controlling metaphysics for their
research.

These two groups and their work should be well known to each other,
and may not be different organizations or individuals.

Evaluate whether or not a nation's knowledge, however thorough or
skimpy, about ETs/UFOs is perceived by them as related to a vital or
secondary national interest.

Independent of government seek special knowledge about ET/UFO
activity.

Establish a system whereby such independent knowledge can be
aggregated and shared within a group that agrees to standards of use
and security.

Take security steps to assure that the information gleaned is
safeguarded against all potential hazards of its destruction or
disappearance.

Open and maintain a dialog on research activities with various parts
of governments of different countries.

In the United States, establish a dialog with the President's Science
Advisor, President of the National Academy of Science Secretary of
Defense, Secretary of State, Director of Central Intelligence,
Director of Defense Intelligence, Director of the National Security
Agency, heads of Army, Navy Air Force and Coast Guard Intelligence,
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Chairman of the Senate
Committee on Appropriations, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed
Services Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and
Transportation, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Affairs, Chairman of
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman of the House
Committee on Appropriations, Chairman of the House Committee on Armed
Services, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Chairman
of the House Committee on Government Operations, Chairman of the House
Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Chairman of the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

It is considered critical to be clear about motives when launching
this effort. I suggest that if there is an intent to embarrass
governments for acts of commission and omission on this subject, we
can expect a domestic response equivalent to the international one
when a massive loss of face potentially is involved, i.e., war - a
readiness to destroy property and take lives.

If we are serious about making a positive contribution it is essential
that we be smart, diligent, absolutely honest about motives,
non-judgemental, and imbued with an ethic of service to life
throughout the Universe.

In the United States I assume that up to this point all detailed
knowledge in government about contacts with ETs has been held to a
small number of individuals exclusively in the Executive branch. A
much larger number in all branches of government and outside of
government probably have been given some information over the years,
but this has been part of a program basically to limit the spread of
precise information and to spread disinformation. There is at least
circumstantial evidence that for a few years this policy has been
under review. One of suspected options under consideration is to make
broader dissimilation of the information, i.e., to selected members of
Congress, and perhaps even anticipating a general public statement.

This cannot be substantiated, but there is some likelihood that the
government's policy in this area is now viewed by some keepers of the
keys as a failed policy, and there may be an impulse to change it.
However some elements of the prior policy, especially keeping Congress
in the dark and the massive and successful disinformation program make
changes appear to be very dangerous.

A responsible private effort to gather and share information at this
time may be helpful to the government. If this is so some government
assistance may come forth and organized government resistance to the
independent effort would not materialize.

An example of an attempt to generate new information in this field
illustrates several points. The first is that there are viable human
technologies available for use that are not controlled by government
and are well known around the world. The second point is that by
selecting an incident that took place in Russia and known to be of
continuing interest within that country's scientific and political
community, the project is internationalized. This is considered to be
an obvious basic requirement. Essential pieces to this puzzle are
expected to be found around the globe. Different governments will have
different attitudes toward this information depending how vital they
consider it to their interest. They all will expect something in
return for sharing what they know. The common currency will be
information that they don't have and an assessment to be assembled and
shared based upon the best information from all countries.

Tunguska revisited

The Tunguska event took place on June 30, 1908. As you may now
understand from the earlier section on Russian history and geography,
there were compelling reasons why there was no immediate scientific
response. The basic reason was a lack of recognition of what had
happened. Seismic signals, barometric pressure fluctuations and unique
light phenomena at night were all observed, but there was no extant
theory at the time that allowed these to be integrated. It didn't get
the attention of Nicholas II, and it certainly didn't compete with
other geo-political and military agenda items. The signal was all but
completely buried in the noise of other more important activity. Then
there was the revolution, and World War I. Finally there was some
attention paid to the event and a commercial motive may have been an
important component. The assumption was that Tunguska had been a
meteorite strike, and that there may be a metal mass worth a fortune
to be found at the impact site. A thirty-eight-year-old scientist,
Leonid A. Kulik who was doing research at the Mineralogical Museum at
Petrograd, was selected by the Soviet Academy of Sciences to head the
first special meteorite expedition. Kulik finally arrived at the
impact area on April 13, 1927, nineteen years after the explosion. He
would return several additional times and by his hard work and
courage, the world slowly was informed about the mystery that is still
with us. (Baxter and Atkins, pages 46 - 7). Kulik also gets credit for
the current and erroneous world view that Tunguska was a meteorite
strike. The physical evidence does not support that theory, but in
science, old ideas are long lived and new ideas are hard to be born.
This is especially true when the most compelling alternative theory is
that of a nuclear explosion in 1908!

Retrospective imaging of Tunguska

The services of Psi Tech, a commercial company that has developed and
uses a sophisticated remote sensing model were employed to view the
1908 Tunguska event. The question asked was to view and report what
was taking place at Tunguska on the morning of June 30, 1908, moments
before the documented explosion. A first level cut of information was
requested. The normal protocol is that following this first cut, the
information obtained would be used to focus subsequent questions for a
second round of viewing. Only the first phase of this process was
funded. At that point Psi Tech was pulled off this project and
assigned another task related to the current ozone layer depletion
problem. There are no current plans to retask Psi Tech on the Tunguska
project for the next level of inquiry. Contact has been made with
Russian scientists on this subject, and an attempt will be made to
engage one or more teams of Russian remote viewers to continue the
investigation.

The Psi Tech input, text and sketches, is presented exactly as
received.


Slide 1. Viewer One's sketch of entry object.

Viewer One:

This target is associated with an object that is somewhere else,
transiting another dimension. It normally moves and exists in a void
or vacuum.

This object popped into Earth's atmosphere unintentionally, and did
not stay long, perhaps only several minutes.

It was perceived, initially, as being partially fish-shaped, and
bilaterally symmetric, with flat, thin surfaces resembling bouncing
wings. However its appearance changed into a near oblate
spheriod-shaped, dull/dark green colored object. Its shell is a non-
conductive material with a consistency something like a combination of
(the explosive) C4 and titanium - a greasy, slick feel combined with a
metallic polished texture. When the outer surface is struck, it
returns a hollow "thunk" sound. Although unmanned, the object appears
to be self conscious, aware and autonomous. It was dispatched on a
mission by others (see below). After appearing it began to undergo an
erratic, bouncing motion and violent wobble. It seemed to manifest
feelings of surprise and some panic at its sudden predicament and
immediately attempted to get back into the hole through which it came.

This act was accompanied by a large volume/mass of some substance
oozing out, exuded, jettisoned, leaked, ablated, or produced, which
visually resembles the bright, activated fluid in a chemical
lightstick. Other ideas connected with this substance are: plasma,
protoplasm and, possibly, magnetite.

This was followed by an explosion, (like the spontaneous reaction or
phosphorous when exposed to air), which produced great amounts of
intense, white light. In connection with this are the concepts : light
pressure, photon dissolution, and annihilation.

The object's situation is monitored from a very distant watch center
"manned" by (humanoid) controllers. There is a resultant overall
feeling of embarrassingly unprofessional, like the battlefield
commander who makes a tactically stupid mistake. It does not appear
that the object was destroyed, but that its frantic efforts led to a
successful escape.

Slide 2. Viewer Two's sketch of controllers

Viewer Two:

The target is associated with six people who can be considered as
controllers. They are situated in front of some sort of viewing
screen. These individuals are greatly concerned over the situation
that they are involved in/monitoring and are manifesting a great deal
of confusion, anger, and indecision.

Slide 3. Viewer Two's sketch of craft at dimensional opening.

What appears to be their vehicle, is out of control and undergoes a
surprise impact, which could have been avoided but for incorrect
coordinates, combined with excessive speed.

Slide 4. Viewer Two's sketch of craft leaving dimensional portal.

This vehicle extrudes itself through a dimensional opening, appearing
to change shape during the process.

Slide 5. Viewer Three's sketch of entering object.

Viewer Three:

Associated with the site/target is a confusion, colliding, and
scattering of particles everywhere - like a chain reaction: Connected
with this is a smooth, oviod-shaped, dull silvery-grey colored,
metallic object. The object is unmanned, but it is conscious. It is
moving erratically wobbling out of control, flying too low. This is an
unplanned act which appears to result in the object's destruction.

The object/vehicle is from a future dimension and does not belong
here. It was attempting to _exit_ when all control was lost. Its entry
was smooth, effortless, frictionless -- very graceful.

Additional descriptions of the object are:  egg-like, in that it has a
hard shell, like corundum or a ruby/sapphire coating, surrounding a
soft, inner core of some organic substance. It is propelled/pulled by
magnetic/antimagnetic, positive/negative forces.

Slide 6: Viewer Four's sketch of object's entry.

Viewer Four:

The target is connected with something plummeting dramatically from a
location of darkness and great biting cold toward a surface
tremendously distant. Whatever it is, it associates feelings of "dark,
crystalline, safe" with the environment from which it is traveling.
Suddenly it is plunging as if down a long, deep chasm towards the
surface. It is trailing something, vapor or some other substance. This
is followed, at some point afterwards, by an equally sudden,
brilliant, bright, abrupt expansion, accompanied by searing heat and a
powerful impact.

The thing that is plummeting appears to be an object. It is not hard;
it is leaving itself bit by bit behind, stringing itself out like an
egg white being separated from its yoke cascading its outer portion
until only its internal hard kernel or core arrives and disappears in
heat.

The entire object seems to be conscious. It doesn't/didn't belong
here.

Slide 7: Viewer Five's sketch of object.

Viewer Five:

The target is associated with a silvery object, shaped like a fish's
head on one end.

The other end is not visible. It feels extremely slippery. Its
movement, in the sky at an altitude where the ambient temperature is
painfully cold is accompanied by a loud, raspy, high-pitched
fluttering sound which grows increasingly louder. There is something
streaming from the object, in the fashion of a smoke trail.

The object is in distress. This is connected not so much with the idea
of a malfunction as it is with the impression of moving too fast and
not being able to brake. Violent, bumping motions soon follow.

Ideas associated with the object's motion are: static electricity and
repelling.

Slide 8 and Slide 9: Viewer Six's sketches of object.

Viewer Six:

The target is associated with something huge that telescopes or is
projected downwards at an angle through a crescent-shape fissure
between here and a deep blue, sterile, crisp, soundless, weightless
environment.

Additional immediate perceptions are of an object rocking up and down,
in conjunction with the ideas -- breakdown and spontaneous energetics,
as well as ill-fated venture and ill-conceived.

What emerges/takes form is a large, circular, green-black colored
object, moving at great speed. It is expelling an undulating mass of
material, like plasma, which is undergoing some type of rapid,
irreversible, molecular change.

In connection with this are the concepts: matter-altering,
nuclear/subatomic decay and spontaneous energetics.

This is accompanied by a burning smell and the impression of a mass of
something like metal fillings with razor sharp edges, followed by an
implosion/explosion. The effect is that the object, tumbling, and
flapping a portion of itself, disappears in a yellow orange, bubbling,
brewing mass of searing heat (like napalm), blinding light, and
popping/crackling sounds. There are associated powerful pressure waves
and what appears to be static electrical discharges.

This event was unintentional, misconceived, miscarried and
misdirected. A tirade by upper level officials is perceived as a
consequence of this.

How people respond

When Kulik and other investigators first arrived in the area of the
great explosion a number of years after it took place, they found that
some Tungus did not want to discuss the event. A few were reported to
be openly hostile. Gradually it was learned that a new religion had
sprung up among some of the inhabitants of the taiga since the
explosion. This made these Tungus unwilling to help anyone approach
the fall site. They claimed that the fiery body was a visitation from
the fire god Ogdy, who had cursed the area by smashing tress and
killing all the animals. No man dared approach the fall site for fear
of being cursed by Ogdy's fire. (Baxter and Atkins, page 64).

These Tungus, working with the facts as they perceived them, came to a
conclusion that not only satisfied the question of what had happened,
but was proscriptive of what to do and what not to do from that point
onward. When other Tungus did cooperate with visiting scientists by
safely leading them to the fall site, the new religionists had to
reassess their earlier conclusions about the curse of Ogdy.

It is past time for scientists to show as much courage and flexibility
and tempt the curse of their peers. There is a sad little example of
lack of courage and graveyard whistling that appeared in the Quarterly
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society with the title "On Egregious
Theories - the Tunguska Event." Two scientists of the Air Force
Geophysical Laboratory surveyed the Tunguska event and the
explanations associated with it. In their summary they noted:

 Existing explanations of the 1908 explosion at Tunguska in Siberia
 are used as illustrative examples of sensationalism in science. These
 previous hypotheses and data pertaining to the event are reviewed. To
 demonstrate the ease with which data-consistent, highly-implausible
 hypotheses may be created, the authors generate one.

With tongue in test-tube, they briefly list existing hypotheses of the
devastation under headings of "Unimaginative hypotheses," "More
interesting theories," and "Crackpot hypotheses." In the later
category they list the nuclear propulsion system of a UFO either
blowing up or being jettisoned, and  belief of Tungus tribesmen that
it was a visitation of the fire god Ogdy to punish the wicked.

Having found no satisfactory hypotheses, they created a 38kg. lithium
meteorite in order to have the stuff needed for the hydrogen fusion
event they postulate explains the explosion. (Wilkerson and Worden,
pages 286 - 87). They must be using a exceedingly dull Ockham's razor.
Without claiming any expertise about meteorites, I suspect that there
is far more evidence for the existence of UFOs than there is about a
pure lithium rock striking the Siberian taiga.

How will people respond? Expect a full spectrum of responses from
helpful interest to denial and ridicule. Some countries are past
public admission of the reality of UFOs, e.g. Brazil and Belgium. For
others, the subject is so far down on their priority list of secondary
interests that no dialog is possible. The larger powers, the United
States, Russia and China are probably talking to each other but in a
limited way and at a rarefied level. There is room for dialog if it is
serious, quite, responsible and balanced in that we have something to
give in addition to expectation of receiving.