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Closer Encounters

Closer Encounters

by Jason Reza Jorjani 2021 1531 pages
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Key Takeaways

Every competing UFO hypothesis is partly true time travel unifies them

The truth of the matter is also far more terrifying than conclusions that could be framed within the limits of any one or another of these alternatives.

Hub-and-spoke diagram with time travel at center connected to six surrounding UFO hypotheses it unifies.

Seven hypotheses, one key. Jorjani argues that the UFO phenomenon can't be explained by any single theory extraterrestrial visitors, breakaway civilization, interdimensional travelers, time travelers, crypto-terrestrials, psychic projections, or simulation artifacts. Instead, he contends that aspects of all seven are simultaneously true, and the skeleton key that unifies them is time travel via Zero Point Energy. When a civilization invents time machines, it can also warp space (making interplanetary travel trivial), create alternate timelines (appearing "interdimensional"), insert itself into deep antiquity (becoming "crypto-terrestrial"), and operate from a hyperdimensional reference frame that interacts with consciousness itself.

The book's central thesis is that history bends around the Technological Singularity the moment time travel is achieved the way light bends around a black hole. The timeline from roughly 1850 to 2050 forms an event horizon, and everything inside it is subject to manipulation by those who operate from outside linear time.

Pentagon UAP disclosure conceals more than it reveals by design

This putative 'disclosure' is actually a colossal cover-up, a confession to the lesser crime that conceals those dimensions of the UFO phenomenon that are most threatening to state sovereignty.

Iceberg diagram showing a thin sliver of disclosed UAP information above a dividing line and a massive concealed body of classified data below it.

Nine pages of misdirection. The June 2021 Pentagon UAP report delivered only 9 unclassified pages from an 81-page document, restricted itself to the narrow 2004 2021 AATIP window, and ignored 70+ years of high-grade military data. Of 144 incidents examined, 143 went unexplained yet the report called anomalous performance a "handful" of cases. The rebranding from "UFO" to "UAP" was designed not for scientific precision but to sever these sightings from abductions, mutilations, and encounters with entities that would be far more destabilizing to disclose.

Jorjani argues that serious classified study has been ongoing for decades citing FAA Division Chief John Callahan's testimony that in 1987 the CIA was scientifically analyzing 30+ minutes of continuous radar data on UFOs, and Canadian scientist Wilbert Smith's 1958 claim that UFO knowledge was classified "higher than the Manhattan Project."

UFOs target nuclear weapons to demonstrate dominance, not benevolence

UFO pilots are not interested in our nuclear weapons because they are afraid that we might come to harm in a nuclear war, or that we might destroy Earth's biosphere.

Split panel contrasting two interpretations of UFOs disabling nuclear weapons — a crossed-out benevolent shield on the left versus a strategic chess move on the right.

Nuclear chess, not nuclear disarmament. At Malmstrom AFB in 1967, a glowing red oval disabled 20 nuclear missiles in seconds, taking roughly 10 seconds per warhead penetrating 60 feet underground. At Minot AFB in 1966, UFOs activated a missile launch countdown without authorization codes, nearly triggering a strike on the Soviet Union. At Rendlesham Forest in 1980, a UFO sent beams into America's largest European nuclear depot. Soviet facilities experienced identical incursions, including a 15-second unauthorized launch countdown in Ukraine.

Contactees uniformly deliver a message of nuclear disarmament. But Jorjani argues this serves a different purpose: nuclear weapons are humanity's only credible deterrent against these beings. Disarming us ensures permanent subjugation. The nuclear demonstrations are less a warning than a reminder that resistance is being monitored.

Rethink 'aliens' as human time travelers who engineered our species

History began to bend around the Technological Singularity, the way that light bends around the event horizon of a black sun.

Circular loop showing a present human evolving into a future Gray-like figure who travels back in time, revealing the alien encounter as a closed loop of human identity.

Not extraterrestrials Ancestors. The book argues that most UFO pilots are Nordic-looking humans from a Breakaway Civilization that achieved time travel through Zero Point Energy technology. Anthropologist Michael Masters notes that the "Gray" morphology enlarged cranium, flattened face, large eyes is consistent with future human evolutionary trends like basicranial flexing and increasing neoteny, not alien biology. The hybridization program reported by abductees only works if the beings are genetically compatible with humans which extraterrestrials could not be.

This Breakaway Civilization traces to a 19th-century Anglo-Germanic elite that funded both American eugenics and Nazi Germany. The SS's "Project Chronos" in Prague produced a bell-shaped ZPE device that warped space-time. When fused with the boundary-layer-solving saucer airframe, it became what we call a "flying saucer" and functionally, a flying time machine.

Read the Bible as a chronicle of Close Encounters, not revelation

Not only did the intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon create us, and not only does it consequently claim ownership over us… all of our dominant religious belief systems were also shaped by these manipulative and warlike beings.

Split panel showing four biblical events reinterpreted from traditional religious readings on the left to technological contact reports on the right, connected by arrows.

Scripture decoded as contact reports. The "pillar of cloud" guiding the Israelites through Sinai was a cylindrical UFO gray by day, luminous at night. The parting of the Red Sea matches an anti-gravitational beam compressing the seabed dry while walling water on both sides. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah reads as nuclear bombardment sulfurous fire from the sky, Lot's wife transformed by fallout, Abraham watching a mushroom cloud "like the smoke of a kiln." Ezekiel describes wheeled craft, robotic beings, and a lord who travels in a glowing conveyance.

The Hebrew word Elohim typically translated as "God" is plural, meaning "the shining ones." The Sanskrit word Deva means the same thing. Jorjani argues the Devas of Hindu scripture and the Elohim of the Bible are the same class of beings, described alongside flying vehicles (vimanas) and nuclear weapons in the Mahabharata.

Our genome bears engineering signatures that evolution alone can't explain

Stop and consider that for a moment. This means that we are dealing with a technology capable of overcoming the law-like behavior of the physical world entirely.

Three genetic anomalies converge inward on a central brain silhouette, with a proportion bar showing 18 actual mutations versus 1 expected, illustrating statistically impossible coordination.

18 letters that shouldn't exist. The HAR1 gene sequence normally mutates at one letter per 150 million years. Yet 18 letters changed in just 6 million years to differentiate humans from chimpanzees a statistical near-impossibility. The gene ARHGAP11B appears to have been spliced from a longer sequence, duplicated, and reinserted a signature recognizable only since the invention of CRISPR. And chromosome 2's fusion, normally a fatal mutation, somehow enhanced brain development while a concurrent mutation prevented miscarriage.

More than half of these anomalous changes involve genes coding for brain development, and geneticists estimate they converged around 750,000 780,000 years before the present. Jorjani connects this to the Sumerian account of the Anunaki creating a slave race, and to the Hindu varna system, arguing that multiple races were deliberately engineered into a hierarchical caste structure.

The Moon's impossible mathematics suggest artificial construction

Clearly, there will never be a 'full Disclosure' of this information to the public by any government on Earth.

Cross-section diagram of the Moon revealing three layers — thin surface dust, a thick armored shell, and a vast hollow interior — with labeled evidence callouts for eclipse ratios, seismic ringing, and shallow craters.

A bell in space. The Moon is exactly 400 times smaller than the Sun and 1/400th the distance from Earth to the Sun producing perfect solar eclipses that no random capture could explain. When Apollo 12's lander crashed into it, the Moon reverberated for nearly an hour; Apollo 13's Saturn V stage made it ring for three hours. MIT geophysicist Sean Solomon called this "the frightening possibility that the Moon may be hollow." Carl Sagan noted that "a natural satellite cannot be a hollow object."

Lunar craters are impossibly shallow spanning 186 miles across but never deeper than 4 miles as if meteorites hit an impenetrable shell beneath the surface dust. The crater floors are convex, following the curvature of a smooth structure beneath. Soviet scientists Vasin and Shcherbakov first proposed the Moon is an artificial satellite with a 20-mile-thick armored shell.

Mars isotopic signatures match thermonuclear weapons test sites

Man had cities on Mars 250 million years ago.

Split comparison showing Mars and Earth nuclear test sites connected by a matching Xenon 129 isotopic signature bar chart in the center.

Nuclear forensics on another planet. Plasma physicist John Brandenburg, working with NASA, discovered that Mars's atmospheric Xenon 129 ratio deviates from every other rocky body in the solar system matching, point for point, the signature found exclusively at thermonuclear test sites on Earth. Corroborating thorium and potassium isotopic anomalies pointed to two ground-zero sites: Cydonia and Utopia, precisely where Viking Orbiter photographs showed what appear to be blasted megalithic ruins.

The detonations appear to have been airbursts a nuclear warfare tactic designed to maximize casualties dated approximately 250 million years before the present. CIA remote viewer Joe McMoneagle, tasked blind to view "Mars, One Million BC," described ruined pyramids, paved avenues, and tall European-looking people in skintight clothing who were "philosophical" about their civilization ending.

Distinguish the Trickster from the Nordics it's a separate force

The jigsaw precision of the perfectly interlocking polygonal blocks is an outward expression of the totalitarian and collectivist character of the Traditionalist society that they forged as a defense against a putatively inhuman Evil.

Split panel divided by a polygonal stone wall, with rigid geometric shapes on the left and fluid amorphous tendrils seeping through cracks from the right.

Two adversaries, not one. Jorjani distinguishes the Nordic Breakaway Civilization which builds totalitarian megaliths, runs the abduction program through Gray androids, and manufactures religions from a separate cosmic Trickster intelligence. Scientists at Skinwalker Ranch labeled it a Precognitive Sentient Phenomenon: an entity that anticipates researchers' moves and adjusts parameters before they act. Blue orbs on the ranch incinerated three dogs; an invisible "Predator" chased cattle; cameras were disabled between video frames with no perpetrator visible.

This same intelligence produces stunningly beautiful crop circles using atmospheric plasmas, manifests as oversized owls connected to abduction experiences, and appears as "praying mantis" beings during DMT and near-death encounters. The Nordics built their cyclopean, crack-free architecture specifically to keep this shape-shifting force out its ectoplasm seeps through any gap in their totalitarian order.

Belief systems don't just describe reality they construct it

This world is not like The Wizard of Oz, where you can just force your way behind the curtain and into the control room where the levers of 'reality' are there for you to mess with as you please.

Split panel showing two different belief-system frames, each containing a different version of reality where different phenomena are possible or impossible.

Fort's "Dominants" reshape the cosmos. Decades before Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shifts, Charles Fort argued that what he called Dominants entrenched scientific and religious belief systems don't merely filter our perception of an objective reality. They actively constitute what counts as real. When a Dominant changes, the world itself transforms and previously "impossible" phenomena become possible. Fort anticipated Paul Feyerabend's radical position that there is no reality independent of the frameworks we use to know it.

Jorjani extends this into his concept of Destructive Departure in Worldview Warfare the Breakaway Civilization's strategy of consciously manipulating paradigms to control populations. By deliberately deconstructing Western societies' value systems, they create a psycho-social vacuum that will be filled by a new Dominant of their design: a neo-agrarian world order under their direct "ancestral" authority.

Analysis

Closer Encounters is arguably the most philosophically ambitious work in the UFO literature an attempt to subsume seventy years of ufological data under a unified theory grounded in Heideggerian ontology, Schmittian political philosophy, and Nietzschean perspectivism. Its central innovation is treating time travel not as one hypothesis among many but as the master key that makes all competing frameworks simultaneously coherent. This is a genuinely novel contribution.

The book's greatest strength is synthetic: Jorjani connects disparate data points from Paul Hill's engineering analysis to Brandenburg's nuclear isotopes to David Paulides' missing persons cases into a narrative architecture that, whatever one thinks of its conclusions, is internally more consistent than most works in this genre. His application of Carl Schmitt's sovereignty theory to the UFO problem is genuinely illuminating and has not been done with this rigor before.

Methodologically, however, the book exhibits a pattern common to grand conspiracy narratives: it treats chains of speculative inference as if each link were as strong as the strongest. The leap from 'the SS had a classified project called Chronos' to 'Nazi scientists successfully warped space-time in 1944' is enormous, yet it is treated as established before being used as a foundation for subsequent claims. The racial theories, drawn from discredited eugenics frameworks and presented with troubling enthusiasm, undermine the book's credibility with exactly the audience that would be most capable of evaluating its philosophical arguments.

The distinction between the Nordic Breakaway Civilization and the cosmic Trickster is the book's most original philosophical contribution. By separating the controlling intelligence (archonic time travelers) from the destabilizing force (the Precognitive Sentient Phenomenon ), Jorjani creates a dialectical framework that accounts for both the oppressive and the liberating dimensions of Close Encounters something that neither the 'benevolent space brothers' school nor the 'pure demonic deception' school can accomplish alone. The invocation of Heraclitus's Aion as a cosmic game player, and the proposal of 'Prometheaion 'as a new relationship with the Trickster, represents speculative philosophy at its most daring though whether it constitutes wisdom or hubris remains an open question.

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Glossary

Close Encounters of the First through Fourth Kind

UFO contact classification scale

A scale devised by astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek in 1972 during his work on Project Blue Book. First Kind: UFO sightings. Second Kind: physical effects from a UFO (electrical interference, landing traces, touching the craft). Third Kind: observation of entities in association with UFOs. Fourth Kind: direct contact or abduction by these entities, added later by other researchers.

Breakaway Civilization

Hidden advanced human society

A technologically superior human civilization that diverged from publicly known societies and operates in secrecy. In Jorjani's framework, this refers specifically to a Nordic elite that developed Zero Point Energy technology beginning in the 19th century, established the Third Reich as a front, and after 1945 formed an extraterritorial Fourth Reich capable of time travel and interplanetary operations.

Zero Point Energy (ZPE)

Limitless background aether energy

The energy of the aether or quantum vacuum — the seething background energy of supposedly 'empty' space. In the book's framework, ZPE is accessed through electro-magnetic devices that tap this background energy to produce anti-gravitational propulsion and, at higher levels, space-time warping capable of enabling time travel. ZPE is presented as the core technology behind UFO propulsion.

Project Chronos

Nazi SS time-distortion project

A classified SS research program based outside Prague in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, run by Hans Kammler. Named after the Greek Lord of Time, it involved a bell-shaped device approximately 9–12 feet tall containing counter-rotating drums filled with a Mercury-Thorium isotope. When subjected to electromagnetic stress, the device reportedly warped local space-time, causing temporal distortion and cellular degeneration in nearby organic matter.

Destructive Departure in Worldview Warfare

Conscious paradigm manipulation for conquest

Jorjani's reconstructed German concept (Abbauender Aufbruch im Weltanschauungskrieg): a deconstructive breakthrough that enables a breakaway from customary human worldviews. It represents the conscious recognition that all societies unconsciously wage war over the construction of reality, and the deliberate exploitation of this insight to dismantle opposing civilizations' belief systems while positioning oneself to fill the resulting psycho-social vacuum.

Dominants

Reality-defining belief paradigms

Charles Fort's term for the prevailing scientific and religious belief systems of any era that determine what counts as 'real' and what is 'damned' or excluded as impossible. Unlike Kuhn's paradigms, Dominants don't just filter perception of an objective reality — Fort argues they actively construct what reality is, so that when Dominants change, the world itself transforms and previously impossible phenomena become possible.

Precognitive Sentient Phenomenon (PSP)

Anticipatory trickster intelligence behind encounters

A concept developed by Colonel John B. Alexander from NIDS research at Skinwalker Ranch. It describes an external controlling agent behind paranormal incidents that not only initiates observed events but is precognitively aware of how observers and researchers will respond to any given stimulus. The PSP constantly adjusts parameters to stay ahead of investigation, functioning as a cosmic Trickster that is always in control of observations.

Psychotronic

Technology manipulating souls as energy

A term coined in the Soviet Eastern Bloc as a materialist alternative to 'parapsychology,' combining 'psyche' (mind/soul) with 'tron' (space/domain) to evoke comparison with 'electronics.' Jorjani adopts it to describe a spectral technology of 'psychic machines' capable of manipulating human souls as energetic and informational structures — including during Near Death Experiences and in the transition between death and reincarnation.

Prometheaion

Trickster in Promethean liberator form

Jorjani's proposed new Aion — a divine archetype defining a coming epoch. It represents the cosmic Trickster manifesting in its most constructively Promethean form: a precognitive, shape-shifting intelligence that catalyzes human evolution through creative destruction rather than oppressive control. The name fuses Prometheus (the fire-stealing liberator) with Aion (Heraclitus's child-sovereign playing the cosmic game), designating the force humanity must ally with to resist the Nordic Breakaway Civilization's totalitarian order.

NJMZa

19th-century secret airship corporation

Nationalistisches Jagdflugzeug Maschinen Zahlungsamt — 'Nationalist Airship Pursuit/Exploration Project Office.' A private corporate entity that set up the Sonora Aero Club in 1860s California to develop electro-gravitic aircraft. Funded by Prussian colonialists and New York financiers including Edward Harriman and likely J.P. Morgan, NJMZa produced the mystery airships witnessed across America in 1896–97, using aetheric energy technology.

Collins Elite

Secret US government UFO group

A real group of approximately fifteen US government officials formed in 1947 to study Close Encounters, with representatives from Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, the Air Force, and CIA-funneled Pentagon funding. After decades of study, they concluded that UFOs represent demonic rather than extraterrestrial phenomena, that Roswell bodies were ectoplasmic simulacra, and that any public disclosure would lead to the advent of the Antichrist through a new world religion.

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