RE-ABS-PG1

Twenty years ago I came to learn of my own experiences with extraterrestrial (ET) abduction. After only two years into my discovery process, I suddenly had a new form of encounter – one that included the involvement of military personnel in my experience. This new discovery led me to research the military or covert-ops involvement in other cases besides my own, and learning that I was not alone. In fact, many abductees share a covert human involvement in their lives. I have now conducted over fifty formal interviews with abductees who have these covert-ops experiences and I’m familiar with at least another fifty more. Over the years, these experiences became the focus of my research, but my definition of them changed as the research grew and changed. I have since come to call these experiences the reverse engineering of ET abductees.

While attending UFO conferences and lectures, I find myself in conversations attempting to explain my research to people, during which they often ask, “What do you mean they’re reverse engineering abductees?!” as they listen to me describe why there is a military and/or intelligence community (mil/intel) interest in abductees. In my attempt to briefly summarize for them, I soon realize a more detailed explanation is required to really grasp the greater implications of reverse engineering as it relates to the abduction subject, especially since what I actually mean is the bigger picture of where ET abduction meets technology meets UFO cover-up. But, before I begin, some background is needed.

MILABS

An Acronym is Born

In the UFO abduction and general ufology community the acronym “MILABS” (or MILAB) which is short for military (MIL) abductions (ABS) has become synonymous with a military presence, or government agency involvement, in ET abduction experiences. This abbreviation was originally coined by Dr. Helmut Lammer in a paper he wrote titled Preliminary Findings of Project MILAB: Evidence for Military Kidnappings of Alleged UFO Abductees, 1996, and later became the title of his and wife Marion Lammer’s book MILABS: Military Mind Control and ET Abduction, 1999. While credit is due to Dr. Lammer for coining the acronym, he was not the first to introduce the notion of a possible mil/intel involvement in the abduction phenomenon. For many years, the subject was widely spoken and written about by abductees such as Katharina Wilson (1993), Leah Haley (1993), Karla Turner (1994), Debbie Jordan (1994), Kim Carlsberg (1994), Mia Adams (1995) and even Whitley Strieber (1995) to name but a few. There was also research mentioning a military involvement in ET abductions in works such as the MUFON Transcription Project in 1995 and The Andreasson Affair Phase Two by Ray Fowler as far back as 1980, where he writes about Betty Andreasson’s and Bob Lucca’s accounts of black helicopter involvement, all of this long before the use of the acronym that has come to define it.

In the time since its inception, “MILABS” has become a catch-all phrase used by researchers and abductees to reference many different types of possible experiences. From the presence of military uniformed personnel in an otherwise ET abduction scenario, to a litany of government mind control related activities, to an officially sanctioned government involvement in monitoring the lives of ET abductees, to an outright military cause for abductions in-lieu-of or excluding extraterrestrials altogether. Needless to say, the acronym, while generally accepted in the greater ufology community, gets loosely tossed about causing confusion. This problem has resulted in the person saying it means one thing, and the person hearing it often thinking something else altogether.

Due to the confusion, I started to redefine my research, not with an acronym, but with a statement boiled down to a sentence, that of: “Covert intelligence and paramilitary re-abduction, harassment, and surveillance in extraterrestrial abduction experiences,” adding to it further from time to time with extra statements like, “as evidence for the reality of UFO abduction.” My creation of this sentence was to attempt to describe my overall research in an encapsulated form so I didn’t always have to go on and on at length. That being said, I do feel it necessary to briefly explain to the reader who may not be familiar with my research more precisely what it is about.

My research suggests that a covert mil/intel pursuit of developing extraterrestrial technologies, in combination with the military, economic, and political gains that would be derived from such a pursuit, has resulted in making ET abductions a matter of national security. And I feel strongly that it also provides immense insight into why an official disclosure of the UFO reality has not been forthcoming.

I contend it would be a complete “dereliction of duty” if the national security apparatus were not monitoring the abduction phenomenon, given the sheer number of people claiming to have experiences worldwide, the totality of evidence for ET abductions, the technology to be gained and learned, and the implications of the covert nature of abduction experiences. And I suggest this targeting, monitoring, and re-abduction of abductees by covert mil/intel agencies may provide the strongest evidence for the reality of UFO abduction experiences. There is an abundance of evidence for covert involvement, such as extensive corroborating experience testimony, multiple forms of physical evidence, eyewitness testimony, accounts of military and intelligence insiders, and many forms of documented surveillance.

The variety of experiences reported by the abductees may include any one of, or combination of, the following types of activities:

•Being watched or being followed

•Black helicopter harassment

•Threats made to the abductee

•Phone interruptions and phone calls

•Email and/or snail mail tampering

•In person face-to-face confrontations

•Illegal break-ins to property

•Underground bases seen

•Abductions by ETs with human military personnel present

•Abductions by human military with ETs present

•Abductions by human military only without ETs present

•Mind control procedures

•In-depth interrogations

•Medical and genetic procedures

•Implants removed or inserted by humans

•Testing and development of psi abilities

•Involvement by military or intelligence insiders in the personal life of the abductee

Included in my research is evidence that such agencies are involved predominately out of a quest for ET technology. A quest to back-engineer technologies that operate on paranormal functioning (psi) and because of the development and control of those technologies, it is also one of the reasons behind the government’s suppression of the UFO subject (policy of non-disclosure) and along with it, the suppression of our dormant human potential – a potential where advanced psi abilities are an everyday part of human experience. For more in-depth information on the connection between psi and ET technology development please read the article Abductees and Beyond: The Human Re-Abduction Scenario and the Quest For Psi-Tech by my research collaborator Randy Koppang, available on www.paranoiamagazine.com/abducteesandbeyond.html

Why a Name Change?

Again, I started to notice a great amount of confusion about the term “MILAB” and the scenarios it has come to represent, much of it appearing divergent from my research. The confusion seems to stem from both misidentification problems and incorrect assumptions. Over time I’ve come to learn of possible reasons and sources for this. I’ll attempt to shed some light on why these may be.

You may be familiar with one or more of the following three assumptions regarding MILABS and their meaning: #1 is the idea that all abductions are actually perpetrated by the military and that there aren’t any actual ET experiences. #2 is that all ET abductions are mind control experiments. And #3, is that all MILABS are false, perpetrated by ET screen memories or hybrids in uniforms and don’t involve any actual human personnel. I find it interesting these three ideas are from such opposite ends of the spectrum; from there not being any ET abductions, to abductions being only the ETs with no military involvement. Never mind that each of these extremes excludes large amounts of information easily and abundantly found in the research of actual MILAB cases. I’ll address each of these three assumptions and where they most likely originated.

The idea that all abductions are caused by the military and that there aren’t any ET ones has been proposed by multiple individuals over the years. The most notable are the researchers Helmut and Marion Lammer, authors of MILABS: Military Mind Control and ET Abduction, 1999, and Dr. Steven Greer, Director of the Disclosure Project and author of Disclosure, 2001.

In the case of the Lammers, they entertained the idea of mind control procedures having played such a large part in the MILAB scenario as to suggest that many experiences could be wholly due to mind control. Of course I can’t rule out that mind control may be the causal factor for some experiences, but it does not appear to be the sole reason for any of the cases in my research database. To the degree the Lammers demonstrated that mind control procedures are heavily involved in some experiences, I agree they are. For many years, I fought with the idea that mind control played an important part in experiences, but have since realized it is part-and-parcel part of the MILAB experience.

Mind control methods show up in the procedures used to control the abductee during an experience, but even more so in the procedures to suppress the abductees’ memory of the experience. At this point, I can definitively say that MILAB perpetrators have the combined use of intimidation, fear, drugs, and hypnosis down to a science. But, at the same time, mind control falls far short of explaining all the forms of evidence abundant in these experiences and it does nothing towards addressing all the reasons why there is a covert mil/intel interest in abductees. Later I’ll get into why it’s happening.

After a closer read of the Lammers’ book it becomes clear that they are only offering mind control as a possible explanation for the experiences along with that of ET causality. They never attempt to explain all abduction reports as solely mind control and were only noting MILAB experiences may be in some cases. In the Lammers’ defense, in Helmut’s paper written previous to the book, titled Preliminary Findings of Project MILAB: Evidence for Military Kidnappings of Alleged UFO Abductees, 1996, he wrote:

“I think that abduction cases involving abductee reports of being abducted by the military as well as ET beings are very important for two reasons: 1.) If the UFO community has evidence that a covert military intelligence task force is involved in the abduction phenomenon, we would know that this phenomenon represents a matter of national security. 2.) The alleged military involvement in the abduction phenomenon could be evidence that the military uses abductees for mind control experiments as test-targets for microwave weapons. Moreover, the military could be monitoring and even kidnapping abductees for information gathering purposes during, before and after a UFO abduction.”

My thoughts exactly! His statement here concurs with the main points of my research thesis and clearly demonstrates that he does not believe that all abductions are done only by the military.

In the case of Dr. Greer, he has implied on several occasions that because all abductions are “negative” (in his interpretation anyway) they are caused only by the military and that there are no real ET abduction experiences. I think his views on this need to be taken with a giant grain of salt. In the past, I’ve generally been a supporter of Dr. Greer’s disclosure efforts and feel he should be commended for those efforts, but in this case, I strongly disagree with his conclusions.

I feel Dr. Greer’s views should be taken with a grain of salt for a couple of reasons. I once spoke with him briefly about MILABS and he contends his information that abduction is only being performed by the military comes from the accounts of some yet to be disclosed “insiders” who spoke with him regarding personal experiences of being involved in perpetrating false ET abduction scenarios.

In an interview by Randy Peyser in 1999, Greer said that these individuals claimed to be on “abduction squads” creating scenarios using human-built “UFOs and biological matter” used “to make it look like there are extraterrestrial events going on which are, in fact, 100 percent human in origin.” He also said, “People who have had real ET encounters have subsequently been targeted for this kind of faux experience to confuse the database and put a spin of fear on the subject.” I cannot help but wonder if what was actually being disclosed to him by these individuals were true accounts of MILAB re-abductions, happening because the abductees were having very real ET experiences, and that his retelling of these accounts is greatly influenced by Dr. Greer’s very public personal views regarding his own ET contact experiences.

He has always related his personal contact experiences as having been only “positive” benign events. And has insisted that all “real” contact experiences are only “positive” and therefore any “negative” ones, or those perceived as being “scary”, are not real. Thus, upon hearing these insiders’ accounts of involvement, he may have heard what he wanted to hear – experiences that did not conflict with his anti-abduction position. I believe he chooses to have a very one-sided view due to his own contact experiences and is conveniently able to explain away any he perceives as “negative” as being military in origin now that these insider folks have seemingly confirmed it for him.

After my first draft of this article was already written, I came across a paper by Dr. Michael Salla, one of the lead researchers in the Exopolitcs movement of ufology, on his website www.exopolitcs.org, titled Exopolitcs Vs. Exospin: A Response to Dr. Steven Greer, where he critiques Dr. Greer’s views and wrote, “…Greer regularly refers to the (MILABs) phenomenon offered by Dr. Helmut Lammer to support his thesis that all alleged abuses attributed to extraterrestrials can be ascribed to MILABs imitating extraterrestrials or to individuals projecting psychological traumas onto benign extraterrestrial visitors. This is a distortion of the evidence provided by Dr. Lammer who does not exclude the possibility that extraterrestrials are violating human rights during the abduction phenomenon, only that the military is attempting to replicate extraterrestrial methods and violating human rights in the process.”

“…While his effort to spin data concerning extraterrestrial activities in a positive light may be perceived by some to be well intentioned, it is in reality both naive and dangerous to distort public perceptions in this manner given the extensive data suggesting that extraterrestrials have been involved in systematic human rights violations and that some government agencies have been complicit in these.” Dr. Salla goes on to say Greer’s view is “…a highly selective approach that supports a preconceived conclusion of only advanced benign extraterrestrial visitors to our planet.” And Dr. Salla points out that Greer’s view is at odds with many of his own Disclosure Project witness testimonies. Thank you Dr. Salla, apparently I’m not alone.

When I spoke to Dr. Greer, I told him I would like to talk with his insider contacts and he vehemently refused. I wonder if given the chance to interview these individuals, I might discover their experiences are actually more consistent with what one might expect from a MILAB perpetrator. I suspect the information might be more in line with the case evidence and not so supportive of Dr. Greer's limited view that there are "no bad ETs”. Fellow MILAB researcher Joe Montaldo and I have both spoken with such insider types, who have claimed to be involved as perpetrators, but so far those accounts have only supported the abductees' experiences and not one of these individuals has ever said they perpetrated a completely false ET abduction scenario.

The idea that all abductions are mind control experiments can originally be attributed to a publication written by researcher Martin Cannon titled The Controllers: A New Hypothesis of Alien Abduction, 1989, in which Mr. Cannon makes the argument that a covert mind control program may account for some alien abductions. In a conversation I had with Mr. Cannon, he expressed anger and frustration that so many people in ufology had taken his paper to mean that he was claiming that all ET abductions were mind control experiments, when in fact he only meant to suggest a possible explanation for “some” ET experiences. He actually thought many abductions probably were carried out by ETs and said his theory was only that, a theory. After our discussion, I asked him to provide me with a statement in writing clarifying this for the record, and he did. This document states clearly that he offered The Controllers only as a possible theory and that he has always supported an alien hypothesis as well.