STARstream Research 2022

Gary S Bekkum Futurist, independent rogue Jedi Journalist, author and researcher of real-life material that blurs the distinction between fiction and reality. (SSR2020) -- Imagine this: your neighbor in the apartment next door is an extraterrestrial alien being from another star. Ever since the late Sir Arthur C. Clarke admonished that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic  ... The futurists among us have fantasized about the possibility of visitors from “somewhere, out there” covertly interacting with the human race. And there are tales -- told by seemingly credible individuals -- of experiences with an unknown intelligence manifesting apparent superpowers. Among the strangest of those tales are stories of odd humans acting and interacting in strange ways. Before he died, defense consultant Ingo Swann told the story of an encounter with a human-like being in a Los Angeles supermarket. It seems insane that the woman in Swann’s tale was really an extrate