John B. Alexander (born 1937) is a retired United States Army colonel. An infantry officer for much of his career, he is best known as a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons and of military applications of the paranormal. He has written and lectured on UFOs. He characterizes his career as having "evolved from hard-core mercenary to thanatologist". Alexander figures prominently in journalist Jon Ronson's book The Men Who Stare At Goats (2004), which was later made into a Hollywood film starring George Clooney (2009). Ronson continued to draw on Alexander's former status and knowledge in several related Channel 4 documentaries, where Ronson examined the subject of New Age ideas influencing the U.S. military.

Education:

• BGS in Sociology, University of Nebraska, 1971
• MA in Education, Pepperdine University, 1975
• PhD in Education, Walden University, 1980

Postgraduate work at:

• UCLA (1990)
• MIT (1991)
• Harvard (1993)

Manager, non-lethal weapons defense technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1988-1995 (ret).

Manager, anti-material technology, Defense Initiatives Office, 1988-91.

Program manager, contingency mission technology, Conventional Defense Technology.

Director for science liaison, National Institute for Discovery Sciences, 1995 to present.

Visiting scientist, Los Alamos, 1995 to present.

Panelist, National Institute of Justice, 1994.

Adj. professor, Graduate School, Union Institute, 1992 to present.

US delegate to NATO, advanced group aerospace R & D, 1994 to present.

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• The UFO Trail: Influence of the Intelligence Community in Ufology
• The UFO Trail: Recording of Controversial Phone Message for Martin Cannon Publicly Available

"After retiring from the Army in 1988, Alexander joined the Los Alamos National Laboratories and began working with Janet Morris, the Research Director of the U.S. Global Strategy Council (USGSC), chaired by Dr Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA."

"Born in New York in 1937, he spent part of his career as a Commander of Green Berets Special Forces in Vietnam, led Cambodian mercenaries behind enemy lines, and took part in a number of clandestine programs, including Phoenix.

He currently holds the post of Director of Non-lethal Programs in the Los Alamos National Laboratories."

"In 1971, while a Captain in the infantry at Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, he was diving in the Bemini Islands looking for the lost continent of Atlantis.

He was an official representative for the Silva mind control organization and a lecturer on Precataclysmic Civilizations.

Alexander is also a past President and a Board member of the International Association for Near Death Studies; and, with his former wife, Jan Northup, he helped Dr C.B. Scott Jones perform ESP experiments with dolphins."

"Alexander is a friend of Vice President Al Gore Jnr, their relationship dating back to 1983 when Gore was in Alexander's Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)."

"Alexander and his team have recently been working with Dr Igor Smirnov."

"The mysterious 'Col. Harold E. Phillips' who appears in Blum's OUT THERE is none other than John B. Alexander."

"As late as the summer of 1991, [C.B. Scott] Jones and [Rima] Laibow were planning a yachting excursion together with Col. John Alexander ... to investigate anomalies in the Bahamas."

"I have served as chief of Advanced Human Technology for the Army Intelligence and Security Command (1982-84) and, during the preparation of the EHP [Enhancing Human Performance] Report, was director of the Advanced Systems Concepts Office at the U.S. Army Laboratory Command."

Alexander stated:

"Psychotronic weapons lack traditional scientific documentation, and I do not suggest that research projects be carried out in that field." (Alexander, Col. John, "A Challenge to the Report", New Realities, March/April 1989)

Author of:

The Warrior's Edge

Remote Viewing, Science, and You

Abstract:

There is a paradox.

Science (in general) does not believe in remote viewing.

Many people do believe in remote viewing.

People who study remote viewing want to talk with scientists.

They often do not want to talk with the general public.

Scientists do not want to talk with those who study remote viewing.

The general public does want to hear about remote viewing.

What's wrong with this picture???

And then there is the Fourth Estate.

Where does the media get their information?

Are there really two sides to every story?

Who are the Scientists?

The Nuts?

The Skeptics?

And how did they get to be proclaimed as such?

Ergofusion explains a lot of these problems.

Col. Alexander is the author of recently published Future War: Non-lethal Weapons in Twenty-first-century Warfare, and of The Warrior’s Edge.

Future war: non-lethal weapons in twenty-first-century warfare - Anna’s Archive

In 1980 his seminal article The New Mental Battlefield, describing how psychic warfare might be employed on the battlefield, was published in Military Review.

As a staff officer in the early 1980s working directly under Gen. Burt Stubblebine, Commanding General for the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, Col. Alexander was prominent in INSCOM’s programs for exploring human potentials.

After his military retirement, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he developed the concept of Non-Lethal Defense, which he briefed to senior:

• defense
• industry
• academic