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Calm as a built-in countermeasure
Sober, high-ranking people with a decade and a half in government have reported a feeling coming over them during retrievals. Sometimes it is something like consciousness communication, call it telepathy. Sometimes it is a positive feeling of comfort, and it can arrive when no occupant is present.
The countermeasure idea draws on aircraft: Air Force jets carry flares, chaff, and electronic jammers to protect themselves. A craft could carry a psychotronic equivalent, an anesthetization technique that lowers aggression. Someone who feels at peace is less likely to roll up and shoot the occupants.
Another reading is plain communication. The grays are reported to communicate telepathically, and public accounts credit the tall whites and Nordics with it too.
How do flares and chaff protect aircraft?
Flares burn hotter than a jet engine, so heat-seeking missiles chase them instead of the aircraft. Chaff is a cloud of thin metallic strips that reflects radar and creates false targets. Electronic jammers broadcast noise to blind enemy radar. Together these systems are called countermeasures, and they were widely used by aircraft in the Vietnam War.
Can danger produce a sudden sense of calm?
Researchers who study trauma describe peritraumatic dissociation, in which people in extreme danger report calm, detachment, or a feeling of watching events from outside. Survivors of accidents, combat, and attacks have described it. It may be tied to the body's shift between its fight-or-flight and its freeze responses. A 2003 meta-analysis by Ozer and colleagues found it to be among the stronger predictors of later post-traumatic stress.
Did governments study psychic abilities?
The CIA and Army funded research into remote viewing from the 1970s under programs later grouped as Stargate. The work moved through Stanford Research Institute and then the Defense Intelligence Agency. In 1995 the American Institutes for Research reviewed the program, and its evaluators concluded that it had never produced information of use to intelligence. The CIA ended funding the same year.
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