Projects

Past Projects
Click on the following links to view documents and projects submitted by members of the UNO UFO Study Group

Examining Retroactive Facilitation of Recall:
An Adapted Replication of Bem (2011, Study 9) and Galak & Nelson (2010): by Steve Snodgrass

A Report on Ancient Aliens, Psychic Phenomena and a Suggested (Phenomenological) Approach to UFOlogy by Steve Snodgrass

Phoning Home: UFOlogy and the Evolution of Consciousness, by Steve Snodgrass

Integral UFOlogy: A Rubric for Evaluating Extraterrestrial Contact, by Steve Snodgrass

The Case of John Foster: A Preliminary Evaluation using the Principles of Integral UFOlogy, Part I by Steve Snodgrass

The Case of John Foster: A Preliminary Evaluation using the Principles of Integral UFOlogy, Part II by Steve Snodgrass

Bigfoot: A Living Attach on Pseudoscience, by John Powers. Powerpoint presented at 1st Annual UNO UFO Symposium, 2010

Space Bugs by Lena Walker

Current Projects

Project Alpha

Among many other topics discussed at meetings and on the UNO UFO Radio "Spooky Action at a Distance" radio show is a merging of the social and physical sciences to explain the UFO phenomenon. Examples are Dave Pares' investigation into the forecast parameters to reproduce high speed travel known as linear displacement, John Powers' notion of psychic entangled particle theory to explain faster than light communication via binary signals, and Steve Snodgrass' method of validating UFO/ET claims using integral theory/philosophy.

Project Beta

Are human mental capacities in altered states of consciousness, as metanalysis studies have shown regarding psychic phenomena, possibly a means to begin to comprehend how and why communication with advanced civilizations has already been occurring? Such theorizing cannot be proven nor disproven (as yet), but the Omaha UFO Study Group is busy (and lightheartedly) taking time and imagination to explore how this might not only be possible, but provable using the tool of the scientific method.

The phrase "The unexamined life is not worth living", spoken by Socrates, which inspired Albert Einstein, is a good guide for the group. Einstein's use of the phrase "spukhafte Fernwirkun" or "Spooky action at a distance" refers to the notion of quantum entanglement, one of the bases off which the group examines terrestrial and extraterrestrial life as we know it (or suspect it). We are taking the notions of entangled particles in physics and rudimentary forms of mental telepathy (the feeling of being stared at for example) as exampled that may be based on the same fundamental principles.

Project Theta (the story of John Foster)

As long as we're at it, we do not limit our application of "spooky action at a distance" to all the typical subject matter in UFOlogy: saucer and triangular craft, lights in the sky, crop circles, craft emerging from electronic fog, psychokinesis, memory erasure and telepathy, and little grey abduction stories. We welcome the atypical as well as long as it is "within reason" as we choose to define it using the principles of science.

Omaha UFO Study Group member Steve Snodgrass has been given authority as prime researcher and investigator regarding the case of John Foster. Foster has chronicled his unusual story of a lifetime of UFO/ET experiences in two books: Eminent Discovery: A Lifetime of UFO Encounters and To Earth from Heaven available by inquiry using the 'contact us' form on this website. Foster deems Mr. Snodgrass a "reliable source to convey the meaning [of Foster's] story and related work according to his interpretations." Interested readers may choose to download Snodgrass' papers below which begin to lay the foundation of his approach, or watch a YouTube video outlining the story of John Foster.

Visit our John Foster UFO Portal

Project Delta (veracity of Out of Body Experiences)

One current project the UNO UFO Study Group is working is intended to explore the veracity of claims made about Out of Body Experiences, also known as Astral Travel. People claim to have been able to lift and separate from the physical body, travel great distances or even into space and make observations from this point of view. OBEs claim to occur in the physical realm of 3D space, just as we observe it in our normal waking lives.

Two members of the UNO UFO Study Group have indicated they occasionally have had experiences akin to an OBE. One claims it is a periodic and often unpredictable state within a state of lucid dreaming and does not claim to have experienced an OBE as an observation of physical reality. Rather, it is described as occurring within a dream state.

Not to be fooled or to dismiss such claims, the UNO UFO Study Group wants answers. So they have designed a simple experiment not unlike the ones in hospital emergency rooms where a written note or picture is posted in a trauma room only visible from the vantage point of being on the ceiling. Experiment 1 involves a simple handwritten note and drawing on yellow legal pad which is posted in the UNO UFO Study Group meeting room. The race is on to see if either member claiming to have had an OBE can find the note!

The honor system is in place, so please, no posers.

Project Delta Phase 1 - Completed August 14, 2010

This was the first simple note attached to the steel reinforced glass cabinet in room 285 of the Durham Science Center (Spring, 2010)

Member Steve Snodgrass indicated he may have caught a glimpse of the note accidentally during a Summer meeting and requested an additional note be placed on the cabinet to help ensure validity of the project. This was the second simple note attached to the cabinet (Summer, 2010)

The following image is a simple drawing Snodgrass made following his reported "lengthy and vivid" lucid dream and quasi-out of body experience. Click Here for his text description of the lucid dream written minutes after its occurrence. The drawing on the left (separated by a dotted line) is his depiction of the second note placed Summer, 2010. The drawing on the right is his depiction of the first note placed Spring, 2010. Click on the image to enlarge.

Project Delta Phase 2 - Completed August 28, 2010

This was the third note attached to the steel reinforced glass cabinet in room 285 of the Durham Science Center (Summer, 2010)

The following image shows contestant member Seth drawing an image of the note as he observed it during an astral travel experience.

Member and psychonaut Fred Zewe, Project Delta contestant #2. (No astral travel observations submitted as yet)