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John Foster here...

Steve Snodgrass has asked me what I think of the papers he has written that represent his thoughts and formulations concerning the techniques and points of view used in investigating/researching UFO encounters.

 I can unequivocally state that Steve totally surprised me when I first met him last year. Up to that time I had not met anyone so eager to learn with an open mind, one who’s perception seemed to be well qualified in the realms of both the scientific and practical approaches. Beyond that, he was kind and considerate...which is very much appreciated by people like me.

After reviewing the books that I have written, Steve seemed to spontaneously understand what I was trying to say about my encounters and UFOs in general, from many fronts. As a result of his intense interest in UFO investigation and research, he has written two papers that I imagine can be obtrusively useful when the likes of MUFON investigators analyze people like me, people who have experienced extensive encounters over a long period.

 I feel I have possibly encountered more so-called UFOs from very early childhood than anyone of whom I’ve heard, with the possible exception of Billy Myers from Switzerland and a handful of others who reside in the United States. Yet, this feeling (or observation) is based only on modern day encounters that occurred from the 1940s through the year 2000. I suspect others throughout the World also have experienced more extensive encounters that were not reported. And I’m nearly certain that at least a number of individuals likewise were peppered with encounters throughout their lives from the very beginning of legendry...whenever that might have occurred.

From this, my personal point of view, I feel the influence of Steve’s papers can help investigators take a broader scientific approach, as well as a more practical approach in their questioning, thereby putting the UFO contactees more at ease and give them confidence that the investigator is equally interested in their well being as they are in an in-depth understanding of the bizarre nature of what happened to them as it affects humankind as a whole.

The papers, or the approach the papers represent, can lift us beyond the mere, endless question of whether or not UFOs are real. They put us on the path of total understanding...understanding beyond the question, “What does it really mean?”

The best of everything to everyone....John

I apologize for the delay in posting this. I had asked John to boil down the essential reasons why he believes some of his encounters to be true occurrences. That is, wow are we to know the events he described occurred in physical spacetime (classical Newtonian/Cartesian) and how he is able to rule out that they were not merely hallucinations, recounts of dreams or one of many other unusual phenomena rooted in the human psyche.

Here is John's response:

5-24-11

John Foster again...

Why do I believe these encounters actually occurred?

The answer to this question is multifaceted and very extensive, including 1) unusual interrelated happenings of my 1986/1987 intense period of recollection, 2) some eye witnesses, 3) some witnesses of circumstantial evidence and facts, and 4) coincidental happenings that occurred with other people who I actually met after my 1986/1987 recollections, people with whom I allegedly had traveled in UFO craft into the future some 30 odd years prior to my recollections, etc. (when we were shown and told what we were to do in the future). To my astonishment the future happenings began to occur in the late 1980s and early 1990s (after my recollections) and I began to identify landmarks that I had only seen during the future time travels.

Furthermore, I strongly felt my first 1986 recollection of the 1950s Bethany Grade School Playground encounter was a valid memory just like any other memory I had experienced, only it was more startling than most. As my memories of that encounter somewhat spontaneously increased over a period of a few months, 1) the complex and intense emotions I felt, 2) the length of the overall encounter and 3) the complexity of the occurrences the night of that encounter convinced me that I simply could not have imagined it. I found later there were interrelated links within the Bethany Playground encounter and I found that there were solid links to other encounters and future happenings which I experienced after my 1986 initial memories, such as suffering the heart attacks, the one unsuccessful coronary bypass surgery and the second successful coronary bypass surgery, etc. Many other things that occurred the night of the Bethany Playground encounter were fundamentally linked to an enormous number of other encounters, some of which have been at least partially substantiated by witnesses. (The complexity and interrelated nature of all of my encounters are mind boggling.)

The first person I contacted to see if an encounter actually occurred some 36 years earlier recalled the first and last sequences of that encounter which I estimate lasted approximately two hours. When talking with him later, he spontaneously began recalling UFO encounters and other strange happenings that had occurred in his past when I had not been with him. Subsequently, after my initial questioning of the first witness, a few others have recalled small parts of other lengthy encounters. This includes my children who recall parts of the 1975 Dillon Lake encounter. (A significant piece of evidence is that my daughter recalls me talking with the voice, whose source was unseen, or rather it seemed to originate from a brilliant light hovering above the trees at Dillon Lake. We previously had seen craft come floating through the air, in distorted atmosphere, above and near our campsite.)

A battery of approximately 13 different types of strange craft repeatedly manifested at various times over a period of at least 46 years, about 4 of them being the most common. And the human-like men and the lizard-like beings also appeared to be the same or very similar over that same period. I discovered after my 1986 recollections some of the craft had historic and modern significance, some represented in historic religious paintings and some appearing to have connections with modern scientific or military development projects...yet, I had not encountered them previously in situations apart from my so-called UFO encounters. The men and beings, likewise had historic significance as related to the information they gave me. This included connections to ancient and modern brotherhoods, religion, scientific inventors and inventions, ancient gods, Native Americans, modern orphans, The Masonic Order, the Mormon story, the changing of humankind and much more.

In order that I might convince you that my encounters actually occurred, I could go on and on from here...but I would have to write another book. In the end, you have to believe that I am being truthful and representing my encounters accurately in order that you might place a positive value on my story. As you contemplate this, if you have not been to Europe, consider that there might or might not be a Europe; you have seen pictures and videos, but you have not been there. Your conviction that Europe actually exists, then, is based on the veracity of the evidence others have provided. Most likely you believe them. However, when it comes to believing UFO stories, humans seem to have a very difficult time.

Believe it or not, I believe my story, as represented in the two books I’ve written, is very close to being totally accurate.
Ref: 1) Eminent Discovery, A Lifetime Of UFO Experiences by John Foster
2) To Earth From Heaven by John Foster

New scientific theories explaining how the unusual phenomenon connected to UFO encounters can actually occur can be found in the following books (among many others):
1) The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
2) The Science Of Extraterrestrials by Eric Julien
Historic explanations: The Earth Chronicles by Zechariah Sitchin

John

July 6, 2011

John Foster weighs in on questions posed to him in regard to the Alcubierre Space Warp vs Ellis Traversable Wormhole debate, as discussed on the Space Warp Portal page. I posed two questions to John, in regard to the electronic fog Bruce Gernon believed "attached" itself to his Beachcomber aircraft, and in regard to time dilation. A rough overview suggests attachment of electronic fog and lack of time dilation supports the Space Warp hypothesis. No attachment of electronic fog and presence of time dilation might support the Traversable Wormhole hypothesis.

Here is John's response:

Hi again Steve,
Here are a couple of direct answers followed by a brief discussion.

1. … both attached and not attached. I don’t know if the fog was “electronic” or not. However, when walking into it, I and others felt somewhat ill and sometimes a little disoriented. Ater we had been in it for a while, we felt somewhat normal. It was not always connected to a craft or multiple craft but also to a singular man only walking and talking toward us. Others also have experienced this and it has been called a bubble. (Contact Dale Bacon of Lincoln who experienced a large bubble and a man or men. He is a MUFON investigator, etc.) Many times we just turned around and the craft was there sitting on the ground or hovering above it. During these episodes and at other times we saw the weird manifestations: a clear distorted atmosphere, light blue or gray fog, or a dense swirling gray smoke or fog.
2. Off hand, I can only recall one encounter that was in the past…at the site of our first stop on the tour, where many of the familiar strangers and I saw a man and his son bringing horses into a barn from the field to our east, up toward what is now the high school. We heard a lecture from the invisible voice about the pioneers and how they survived. There were also demonstrations during lectures from the men that showed buildings in a fog, for instance, as they were trying to enlist us in “the brotherhood.”

Will do a brief summary a little later.

Until then....John