IOWA CITY UFOLOGIST EXPLORES

     VISITOR-CONTACT SCIENCE

submitted by Jarod C. Warner

Linn: Iowa City resident Jeffrey Sietsema has been an avid UFOlogist for years. He has produced several essays and other works that explore UFOs and alien contact through Iowa City's Three Acre Press (PO Box 2956, Iowa City, Iowa). In one of his recent works, Key Words and Primary Encounter Numbers: The UFO-Experience (Three Acre Press, October 1997), he explores the intricacies of alien encounters. He contends that contact between aliens and humans is not random, but pattern-oriented and purposeful. In this work, he merely begins to expound on this premise, but what is given is tantalizing indeed.

     Sietsema contends that aliens speak not with words, but through signs, symbols and feelings, and that by understanding these symbols, the human researcher can eventually conduct an investigation of alien workings in the world. He stresses that the patterns he has seen evolve in his years as a UFOlogist sometimes come to him through feelings and intuition, and that the patterns are later verified through careful observation. By utilizing the patterns and symbols he has discovered, he was able to predict the appearance of the fifty-five foot crop circle that manifested near Arlington, Iowa in 1995.

     A portion of these symbols appear as words and numbers. Some of the words that Sietsema feels are important in visitor-contact science include: center, down, south, corner, triangle and white. Then there are the "primary encounter numbers": 1, 3, 15 through 20 and 100. There are also secondary and tertiary encounter numbers, and all are especially important when encountered in pairs or in three's. Sietsema used these words and numbers in an experiment designed to observe UFO phenomena on January 15, 1997.

     Sietsema has discovered what he calls the "Iowa triangle," a man-made structure that seems to be a hot-spot for UFO encounters. The triangle is area area bounded by Interstate 35 from Worth County south to Des Moines, Interstate 80 east from there to Iowa City, and the hypotenuse is completed either by Shell Rock River or the Iowa Northern Rail Line. Sietsema claims to have had alien encounters all throughout the triangle.

     Curiously, many towns which lie along the hypotenuse have names that relate to his key words and encounter numbers. In addition, the word son appears a number of times, as well (Lone Tree, Manly and Sharon Center are some of the names he lists). Sietsema then bisects the hypotenuse and examines the towns which appear along this line. These include Iowa Center, State Center, Ferguson, Hudson and Bell Center and Richland Center in Wisconsin. In addition, the line runs through Arlington, Iowa, site of the 1995 crop circle formation.

     Using this information along with other data, Sietsema predicted UFO activity would occur on January 15, 1997 in Tripoli, Iowa (his essay does not fully explain this process). Circling a twenty mile-wide area around Tripoli, he decided that this is the area he would search for an alien encounter.

     But his looking for the aliens is not as simple. Participation in alien phenomena is one thing, but he also believes that "precipitation" is important. Precipitation involves a sort of "drawing the aliens in." This is the belief that by using signs and symbols, one can make contact with visitors and bring them to oneself. Also useful is Bailter Space, a form of space wherein alien encounters are more easily precipitated. According to Sietsema, Bailter Space mostly occurs on a still, cloudless night. But one does not need to wait for Bailter Space to appear; one can also attempt to create Bailter Space through the use of structure and method, which Sietsema prepared to do in his 1997 experiment.

     It is impossible to say whether Sietsema's experiment worked. But on the night of January 15th, 1997, he drove to Tripoi and Grundy Center and there attempted to use poetry to create Bailter Space (again, the exact method Sietsema used is unrecorded). Unfortunately, atmospheric conditions were not optimal. In fact, he was running his experiment in the midst of a great snow storm. Still, he felt positive that he had reached out to the aliens, and had opened some sort of a window that would be a gateway for increased alien encounters in the next five years.

     Key words, encounter numbers, and Bailter Space are only part of Sietsema's extensive theories and research into visitor-contact science. As he makes more of his work available to this magazine, perhaps the great web that is his research will eventually be untangled.





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