Over the course of his thirty years of investigation into UFOs, including his own field research, photographic evidence, and meticulously compiled case studies, Philip Imbrogno has provided fascinating new insight into paranormal phenomena. In this book, he reveals for the first time the detailed findings of prominent paranormal experts as well as his own firsthand experiences.
Using the latest quantum theories, Imbrogno sheds new light on classic UFO cases, government cover-ups, and the hidden connections between UFOs and other unexplained phenomena-from crop circles and animal mutilations to angels and jinn (or genies).
Imbrogno's insider knowledge spans the very early UFO reports to present-day sightings. He personally investigated four of the best-known UFO flaps of the modern era—Hudson Valley, Phoenix lights, the Belgium sightings, and the Gulf Breeze Florida sightings—and shares information never released before, including photographic evidence that something very unusual is taking place on planet Earth.
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ROSWELL:
THE STORY THAT
WILL NOT FADE AWAY
It has been more than six decades since the beginning of what has been called the “modern” UFO era, and although the phenomenon seems to come and go in cycles, there is no indication that sightings and close encounters have vanished to become part of our mythology. It all began on June 25, 1947, when Kenneth Arnold (fig. 1), a private pilot, witnessed a number of unknown objects flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State at great speed. When he was asked by the media to describe what the strange aerial objects looked like, he replied, “They looked like saucers skipping across water.” Thus the term “flying saucer” was born to describe the unknown aircraft that Arnold saw that day. The truth of the matter is, Arnold never said that they were saucer-or disk-shaped—he was trying to describe to the press how the objects moved across the sky. When he drew the unknown aircraft he witnessed for federal investigators, his artistic representation showed the mystery object as looking like a boomerang or chevron and not a saucer. However, they were still called flying saucers by the media, and from that time until today, the citizens of planet Earth have reported seeing thousands of them each year to the government leaders of the world, who have just turned their backs on the reports as if they did not exist.
Because of the great magnitude of sightings, the matter was turned over to the Air Force, where several project studies were carried out from 1951 to 1969 to determine if the mysterious objects were a threat to national security. Many UFO researchers whom I have talked with over the years now think that these projects, which had the names Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book, were nothing more than a public-relations front by the government to make people think that the reports of UFOs were being taken seriously, when in fact many were not. During that time, the Air Force was indeed interested in UFO reports, but only those that were sighted over or near military bases or other secured areas. The Air Force and other government agencies treated many of the people who had witnessed something truly incredible as crazy or claimed they were pathological liars looking for publicity. The negative effect of this attitude was that those people who had UFO encounters were afraid to report them because they were afraid that they might be labeled as nuts. Recently, due to the efforts of a civilian group called Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), who obtained official government documents using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), it became clear that many of the civilian reports were taken seriously by the intelligence organizations of this country. The documents proved that the governments of the major powers of planet Earth were very concerned about the sightings of flying saucers and what they might possibly represent.
ALIENS BECOME PART OF OUR CULTURE
Today there is a renewed interest in UFOs, aliens, life on other planets, and extraterrestrial contact. The twenty-first century has marked a new era of discovery for the human race with the exploration of the surface of planet Mars and the launch of the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto. According to the International Astronomical Union, during the past thirteen years over two hundred planets outside our solar system have been discovered circling stars within our sun’s galactic neighborhood. This is an indication that the galaxy might be teeming with life, and perhaps contains many technological civilizations. The movies in our local theaters and on television are filled with stories of alien contact and, through this same media, images of extraterrestrials and UFOs are being used by many businesses to help sell their products. Most people today now embrace the idea that we are not alone in the universe and many expect first contact within their lifetime. The idea for the movie Men in Black (MIB) did not come from an imaginative Hollywood screenwriter—it was taken from actual reports of witnesses who were visited by mysterious men after a close encounter. Although the elusive MIBs claim to be government agents, no agency will acknowledge that they exist. Their message to the witnesses of a UFO is always the same: be silent or face the consequence.
So why is there still such a great interest in UFOs after all these years? The answer may lie in the fact that the governments of the world may have had actual contact with a race of aliens for several decades and are slowly trying to introduce the idea into our culture. Although no one, including myself, has proof that this has actually taken place, it could explain why images of the “gray” alien beings with the large heads and eyes can be found on pencils, lunch boxes, television, and in video games and the movies. They are becoming quite familiar figures to the next generation of the twenty-first century, a generation that may be undergoing programming to accept them without fear. Also, millions of people around the world continue to report encounters with an alien intelligence, and many claim to have made contact with the pilots of the UFOs. These incidents are too numerous to ignore, and they can no longer be denied. Is there any hard evidence that we have been visited by an extraterrestrial intelligence in modern times? UFO researchers feel the strongest evidence for this comes from an alleged crash and recovery of an extraterrestrial spacecraft just outside Roswell, New Mexico, by the United States government in 1947.
During the first week of July 1997, I received a call from a TV producer who told me that she was planning to do a program on UFOs that was to be aired in the fall. As the conversation continued, she said that she was very surprised to reach me since she thought I would surely be at Roswell for the fiftieth anniversary of the “UFO crash.” I told her that I really didn’t see the point in going, because what took place there happened fifty years ago and there would be nothing new to discover since the trail is now cold. The Roswell incident has always been somewhat of an enigma to me. Did a spaceship from another world really crash in the desert of New Mexico? Most people who have read about the Roswell crash do not know that the object that was allegedly recovered was not a disk, but delta in shape. Because it did happen so long ago (by human standards), and because most of the people who were around at that time have passed away or were too young to remember, it’s difficult to find out what really took place. Also, when a story is told over and over again for many years, it has a tendency to become more fantastic and detailed than the original version.
Since it is not the purpose of this book to rehash the Roswell case, I will not get into the finer details of the alleged Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash. I do feel it is important to cover the basic information for those who know little or nothing of one of the most famous (or infamous) UFO incidents of modern times. You must be very careful about what you read about the Roswell incident, because over the years it has developed almost a cult following all over the world, and much of the information contained in many publications both printed and electronic has very little to do with the real facts. During the mid-1980s, I was fortunate enough to obtain the original news stories from a number of papers including the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. After reading these first accounts of what took place at Roswell, it was quite clear how greatly recent television presentations and books on the Roswell incident deviated from the original 1947 stories. The following is a synopsis of the Roswell incident, based on information from the 1947 news stories and my own investigation, and from the files of the late Dr. J. Allen Hynek, files that were given to me several months after his death in 1986.
THE ROSWELL INCIDENT
On July 7, 1947, Mr. Mac
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For me, the most intriguing part of the book is Imbrogno's account of a sequence of bizarre events that began in February 1978 (pp. 198-216). At the time, Imbrogno was a member of a six-man UFO investigation team. He received a call from a single mother who reported that she, her daughter, and her mother had had numerous UFO and alien entity experiences. During a visit to the caller's home, the investigators witnessed an unusual aerial event involving a globe of light that was about six inches in diameter.
The following month, Imbrogno returned to the home, accompanied by a psychologist (a Dr Merger) with a background in hypnotic regression. The single mother underwent hypnosis and apparently recalled experiences of a UFO/entity encounter type. Her daughter was ill with the flu at the time and was sleeping in her bedroom. However, just after her mother came out of hypnosis, the daughter started screaming and jumped out of bed. She claimed that the "man from the hole" had come and had said that he was going to take her. (Regarding the initial call from the mother, Imbrogno writes, on p. 200: "She told me...that alien-like beings had walked though the walls into their home through a black rotating hole on numerous occasions and had taken them away to a place they [couldn't] remember...") Asked what else the entity had said, the daughter pointed at Imbrogno and explained: "The man said that he would get him and his friends if they don't leave us alone" (p. 205).
Imbrogno had tape-recorded the hypnosis session. When he and the other team members listened to the recording, they heard strange noises throughout much of it. But at one point, a very audible voice said: "Stop playing with my head, they pointed you out to us and we know where and how to get you all" (p. 206). Imbrogno took the tape to a friend who did audio-recordings for a university. When the tape was played backwards, a voice could be heard. It claimed to be that of an entity "from a place that is parallel with [our] world"; and among other things, it said: "If you continue to interfere with our work, we will have no choice but to take action against you" (p. 208).
Shortly after that, a fellow team member told Imbrogno that he was hearing voices, and the next day he reported that entities had appeared in his bedroom. Not long after, Imbrogno heard that this colleague had been killed by jumping in front of a train! Another team member, Frank, left the group after being visited by someone who claimed to be from the National Security Agency. The visitor reportedly told Frank that he would lose his commercial pilot's licence if he continued with UFO investigations. A third team member, Carl, told Imbrogno about a 'dream' in which he'd awoken at night to see a tall, hooded figure that stretched out a hand on which there was a beating heart. The entity reportedly said, "This could be your heart," and then squeezed the organ, bursting it (p. 214). Carl subsequently died from heart failure after an operation to correct a recently discovered valve defect! Apart from Imbrogno, that left just two team members. One of them, a police officer, dropped out of UFO research after he and his wife had a number of sightings that terrified them both. The other, an engineer, continued for a year or so, keeping mainly to himself. In 1979 or 1980, he informed Imbrogno that he was giving up UFO research. Imbrogno notes that "so many bizarre things [had seemingly happened] to him that [the colleague] was beginning to live his life in fear" (p. 215).
Although the book mentions the occupations of Imbrogno's fellow team members, their surnames aren't given. Therefore, they're essentially anonymous. (For all I know, the first names of the team members - 'Carl', 'Frank', etc. - and the psychologist's surname -'Merger' - could be pseudonyms.) I've no grounds for questioning the accuracy of Imbrogno's reporting, but without independent corroboration, I think many will find it hard to believe such a dramatic story, which sounds like something from a science-fiction horror film. But if the events occurred as described, their significance, in terms of our understanding of the nature of reality, is profound.
Early in the book (pp. 14-21), there's some interesting testimony relating to the Roswell case. Once again, though, witness anonymity and lack of corroboration severely limit the evidential value of what's presented. Imbrogno refers to the informant as 'John', but doesn't say whether he knew the man's surname. John was apparently suffering from cancer when he gave his account to Imbrogno (in 1992), and he died the following year. He'd allegedly been an electronics expert with top secret security clearance, and had often been called upon to examine captured German electronic guidance system technology during Word War II. He explained that during the first week of July 1947, he was flown to a landing field several miles from Roswell air force base in New Mexico and then taken by bus to another location. He was directed to a tent and asked to examine its contents, which included pieces of metal with unusual properties, and electronic items of a type that he was unfamiliar with. He told Imbrogno that he thought they must have been from a crashed spacecraft. Imbrogno notes that he doesn't doubt John's story, but "there is no evidence to fully accept that what took place is a true recollection of his experience" (p. 15). This wording is somewhat odd. Imbrogno presumably means that there's no evidence to confirm what John reported. But couldn't enquiries have been made to establish whether he'd been an electronics expert and whether there was any record of his having worked for the US government at the time in question?
Chapter 4, entitled 'Extraterrestrial UFOs', contains some interesting material on missing space probes, UFO sightings by astronauts, strange lunar lights, the disappearance of satellites, and images of UFOs picked up by satellites.
In another chapter, Imbrogno refers to the 'Bermuda Triangle', an area in the Atlantic that's been associated with missing ships and aircraft. He contends that the "dimensional portal [there] might be used by the intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon to enter our world" (p. 136). However, his discussion of the matter is rather one-sided. Other commentators have suggested that there's nothing exceptional about the area, and that the disappearances can be attributed to normal causes (see, for example: [...]). Imbrogno also refers to the 'Devil Sea', near Japan, which he thinks may be another 'interdimensional window'. However, it's been claimed that the Japanese don't regard this area as being more mysterious or dangerous than other coastal waters of their country (see, for example: [...]).
A demerit of the book is that it contains surprisingly few references to other people's work. Despite this and the other problems mentioned above, I would say that the book is sufficiently interesting to be worth reading.
Interdimensional Universe is also surprising on another level - it's fun to read. Imbrogno is a graceful writer; he is able to be clear without condescending and personal without becoming self-absorbed. All in all, highly recommended.
While we, the people are kept in the dark regarding this topic, I am certain that the 'Military Industrial Complex' that Eisenhower warned us about (the 'shadow government', call it what you will) has developed the science behind the reality of the Interdimensional Universe. Thankfully there are intelligent and open minded researchers like Phil Imbrogno to educate us, the plebian multitudes. He does it in such a way that I, a less than brilliant but inquisitive layperson, can understand. He uses analogies that are easily understood and does not burdon the reader with overly technical graphs, charts, or diagrams that are way over my head. Thank you for that Mr Imbrogno!
Some of the material in this book was redundant. He used the same examples and personal stories in his book 'Contact of the 5th kind' and 'Night Seige' but it was all pertinent to the subject matter. If there is one book by this author that any interested reader should read, I would say this is the book to get. I enjoyed the books mentioned above as well, but 'Interdimensional Universe' wraps it all up in this one volume. I live on the west coast and I am now planning to take a trip to New York to experience the mysterious magnetic anomalies that exist in Putnam County.
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