In Ingo Swann’s book, Penetration, he describes a couple of meetings in 1975 with a mysterious Mr. Axelrod and two males who appear to be genetic twins but are actually slightly different yet eerily similar in their clothing, physical appearances and mannerisms. They are part of a covert group connected to the United States government. Swann is informed of their desire to meet with him by way of a mainstream trusted Washington D.C. functionary friend he has known from his remote viewing work at the Stanford Research Institute. In the first encounter with Mr. Axelrod and the twins, Swann is instructed to perform a remote viewing session of the Earth’s moon, though of course per the normal protocols he is not actually told it is the moon he will be viewing. Instead he is given a set of coordinates that represent the dark side of the moon. It is in this session that Swann encounters an advanced industrialized operation engaging in what appears to be mining construction projects on a massive scale including facilities under the moon surface being performed by beings of semi-human appearance, but not wearing clothing. Once they detect his psychic presence he is instructed by Axelrod to depart from the viewing session immediately. 

In his second go around with Axelrod and the twins he is taken by way of jet and truck to what appears to be a mountainous area somewhere in Alaska. Accomodations are made to keep Swann’s transit and destinations anonymous. The plan is to view a UFO arrive in an area Mr. Axlerod knows to have periodic visitations by said phenomena by way of intel he has received. Once deep into the woods and after a period of waiting, indeed the phenomena appears. Here is a decomposition of what Ingo Swann saw:

1. Grey fog forms in the direction of a lake.
2. The fog turns to a luminous neon blue, then an “angry” purple
3. Then a network of purple, red, and yellow lightning bolts shoot out from the cloud in several directions.
4. A transparent triangular form with an inverted top appears. Overall it is diamond shaped. The top pulses. 
5. The sound of an oncoming wind, the the actual wind blows the trees with enough force to bring down pine cones and branches. 
6. Ruby red laser beams shoot out of the “thing” (italics Swann’s) as it grows in size while it is still stationary over the lake.
7. Some of the beams are now blasting at pine trees. 
8. The “thing” appears to have reached a ninety feet width.
9. Everything at this point except the wind has occurred in complete silence. However the blasting of the trees is now audible. 
10. Low-frequency pulsations are now heard.
11. Axel whispers to Swann that the beams sense biological body heat and are probably blasting rodents and fawns. 
12. Ingo is forcibly yanked from his observation spot by one of the twins just as a beam strikes the area. 
13. From his new vantage point he cannot see the form any longer but does witness a huge surge of water shooting upward from the lake. He presumes it being sucked into the “machine.” 

That was the last Swann saw of what he referred to as the “thing.” The small team hid for a number of minutes while the “thing” conducted this procedure then disappeared. Axelrod then asks Swann what his psi sense impressions were. Let’s also break this down:

1. “It was a ‘drone’ of some kind – unmanned, controlled from somewhere else.”
2. “It was THIRSTY!” 
3. “Taking on water, obviously. Someone, somewhere needs water… so I supposed they just come and get it.” 
4. Axlerod asks Swann what the object is. Swann laughed and thought he had to be kidding. He doesn’t think of it as an “object.” 
5. “Well it must be some kind of ‘space displacer,’ but really Axel I haven’t a clue. But I CAN understand why people who see something like this don’t believe it – and why people who haven’t seen it CAN’T believe it.” 
6. “…the thing did not ‘transport’ itself. It GREW in place right where it appeared. It was a pyramidal thing, not a saucer. We think of a saucer flying about, and in fact when we think of things in the air we think of flying in the air. We do not think of things growing in place in the air.” 

Correlations

Based on Swann’s descriptions, two correlative cases come to mind. Cash-Landrum and Travis Walton aka Fire in the Sky. Italics in the following descriptions are mine. 

Cash-Landrum:

In 1980 the witnesses in this event saw a diamond shape craft, in the range of the 90 feet circumference Swann detailed. It featured a brilliant radiant glow which made them squint. This brilliant light was accompanied by wind and intense heat – so hot it hurt one of the witnesses to grab the handle of the car they were traveling in when they spotted the craft in the middle of a road in a rural area outside of Houston, Texas. The craft was described as “pulsing” this radiance of heat and light with a significantly loud periodic beeping noise. 

Travis Walton/Fire in the Sky:

In a remote viewing session conducted by another elite viewer, Joseph McMoneagle, targeted on the Walton abduction he sensed the craft that Travis encountered in November of 1975 wasn’t actually a singular object. Rather that it occupied one area of space, then projected itself as a corporeal copy into the area in which Walton and his coworkers were traveling. As such, the object achieved a duality of itself from one quadrant of space to another localized quadrant on Earth.  A “space displacer?” 

In McMoneagle’s own words from the book, “Remote Viewing UFOS And The Visitors” by Tunde Atunrase: “My sense is that this is a probe. It is not manned, or it appears be manned, it is manned by clones specifically bred and then released after some internalized training to do a certain kind of job.”

“The way it got here is by opening a singularity within time/space. It does this by generating a massive amount of power at a very small point in space/time. Once the tiny hole has been opened, it uses the material which bleeds out of the hole to produce more energy. Since, the material is passing out of the very crucible that is capable of building reality itself, this amount of power is enormous – almost beyond our capacity to understand. There is a massive reaction to this effort, which creates a backlash within space/time reality that has the appearance of a wave. The probe sits at the leading edge of this wave, enabling the wave itself to envelope it. The wave doesn’t move however. What it does is pull the backside of space/time to the front/side of space time, kind of like folding a sheet of paper end to end. As this occurs, the probe appears to leave here and appear elsewhere; that elsewhere being the Sirius (star) system itself. They do not travel through space/time; they bend it to suit themselves. The probe doesn’t travel from there to here space itself twists and turns, traveling around the probe eventually bringing there, here.”

McMoneagle felt the craft was a sort of drone or probe which was here looking for something, perhaps a resource. Its intent was not to engage with humans. Thus, when Walton approached it McMoneagle said the object shot a defensive beam hitting Walton and knocking him backward. He fell and hit his head on the ground knocking him unconscious. 

It is not relevant to my discussion here, but McMoneagle said he didn’t think Walton was actually abducted by aliens. He concocted that story to account for the 5 days he went missing, lost in the woods, due to his embarrassment of being left behind by his coworker friends and not being able to find his way back to the road they were traveling on. Understandably, in this scenario, Mr. Walton would have been very shaken when he came to, injured and very likely confused and possibly in minor shock. In Walton’s further defense, McMoneagle also said that it was very hard to get a read on Walton’s mind, it was a confusing jumble and he mentioned some of the memories were possibly shielded. Keep in mind, RV protocols demand McMoneagle didn’t even know he was specifically asked to view the Walton incident, he was only given a set of coordinates that represented the event. 

Did Ingo Swann and his mysterious companions witness a “thing” similar to and of the same origin as those in the other two cases described here? There is of course no way now to definitively prove that. But I proffer these examples as a very small subset of the power of correlation when studying this phenomena. There are certainly more cases and observations of diamond shaped craft of radiant brilliance with beams and bolts and sounds that present witnesses with a surely jarring level of cognitive and mental dissonance that can be spread out further as an extension of any correlative analysis of this story. Swann readily admits in this book he has no way of proving any of this occurred due to the clandestine and somewhat bizarre nature of his handlers – who in themselves are an enigma worthy of study. I chose the subject matter cases based on my vetting of the research surrounding them and found them worthy of inclusion as important exhibits in the overall study of the puzzle the phenomena presents. In other words, I believe these events occurred and rise to the level of extranormal experiences that were thrust upon their witnesses. The same goes for Mr. Swann, whose personal and professional history are well documented in addition to the well written, logical and thought provoking books he has written on psi phenomena, remote viewing and their reactionary impact in the realm of personal and societal governance. Further, remote viewing has been conclusively proven to be an effective technique and phenomenon by the intelligence agencies of the United States government to all but the most die-hard pseudo-skeptics. There is ample documentation and research supporting this fact. Researchers know of at least 3 decades worth of funding by the US in this area and there are likely ongoing projects covered in black budgets. 

Association of certain cases that represent acceptable factors of authenticity in order to conduct a decomposition process, then gap analysis of the attributes of each case is an effective and useful form of research and analysis. In terms of viewing the whole of selected cases we can then derive a gap analysis. This would consist of those attributes that differ from one case to another. This is also useful for providing the researcher with new lines of questioning that can be applied to the phenomena in general in order to add clarity to the overall nature of the mystery that presents itself.