Deciphering the Uncharted Terrain: Breakthrough Research into Non-Human Intelligence
Hello, and welcome. My name is Reed Summers, and I work each day to bring clarity, logic, and a nuanced approach to understanding the event of Contact and the implications of UAP disclosure. I believe Contact represents a major evolutionary hurdle for the human species. For too long, the conversation surrounding unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and the potential existence of non-human intelligence (NHI) has been shaped by speculation, secrecy, and often, chaos.
We are sitting on top of what could be the biggest event in human history, yet it remains almost completely unacknowledged in the mainstream world. The danger inherent in this non-acknowledgement is profound. We must move beyond the prevailing confusion and chaos to establish a grounded, evidence-based response to what is clearly a species-to-species interaction.
This exigency is precisely why the Human Institute, in partnership with UAP Med, recently launched a breakthrough investigatory series titled, “Investigating Non-Human Intelligence”. This initiative leverages the best minds and methods of science, research, and investigation, directly targeted at the dilemma and enigma of NHI’s potential existence, presence, and activity.
The Stalled Discourse and the Search for Foundation

Today, the discourse on UAP and NHI is largely stalled. It is fractured into distinct pieces of the pie: the “experiencer” side focused on consciousness and direct encounters; the “nuts and bolts” side preoccupied with hard forensic data; and the “policy side” operating behind closed doors, often managed by classification regimes and non-disclosure agreements.
This division prevents us from gaining solid insight into what we are encountering. As my friend and colleague, Ted Roe, the Executive Director of the UAP Medical Coalition, noted during our discussion on the initiative, there has been a critical gap:
“It seems to me that that there’s been a um a gap between the evidence-based research the forensic research… and science’s ability to digest it. It is it’s li we have a limit to what we can understand with science in its current form and when it comes to engaging a non-human intelligence we just don’t have that framework yet to to even be able to approach the conversation”.
We lack a common knowledge base and foundational information. We have done a lot of research in terms of individual cases, but we have not found a way to coalesce this into a comprehensive understanding—a science—of how to approach non-human intelligence.
Widening the Scope: Beyond Forensic Analysis

The new investigatory series aims to move beyond ideology and secrecy toward a science of contact grounded in evidence, rigorous methods, and shared human values. For decades, traditional Ufology has primarily been a forensic exercise—rearward looking, dealing with cold cases where data is limited and often open to interpretation.
We must recognize that encountering a non-human reality is not only a scientific mystery but a civilizational challenge. This requires a significant transition from solely forensic analysis to a more relational analysis. This relational lens demands that we look closely at behavior and the complex dynamics at play in the interaction.
This effort is foundational work at the philosophical level, articulating the frame of reference required to approach, analyze, and collect data regarding a potential NHI. It involves examining the complex epistemology (how we establish knowledge) and ontology (what entities are involved) of the potential entities and the interactions taking place.
Ted Roe emphasized the necessity of this foundational shift and its structure:
“The problem was that nobody had a common knowledge base there was no foundational information and that that’s why I was so excited uh when you approached me with your idea about this investigating non-human intelligence series was that we it’s it’s set up in a um a manner so that each each series builds on the next”.
Engaging the Mainstream: The Human Component

A core tenet of our work is that we cannot abandon the mainstream of human life—that part of society completely ignorant that this event is even happening. We must engage the professional cadres and academics in our society, presenting information to them in a language they understand to stimulate deeper inquiry.
This is where the human side of the phenomenon becomes crucial. We must focus on the psychosocial impacts of UAP exposures and the unfiltered information surrounding them. Law enforcement, psychology, mental health, and medical professionals must be prepared to serve people claiming UAP exposures.
Ted Roe, speaking from his own deep personal experience, articulated the urgency of focusing on the human impact:
“Normalize that information that it happens and that that people suffer because of it and try to do something about that and and if you focus on the human side of all this that starts to normalize some of the rest of it”.
He further explains that the drive of UAP Med is to protect society—individuals, families, and the social fabric—by normalizing the information and addressing the fractured social stance on these events.
Mapping the Uncharted Terrain
The “Investigating Non-Human Intelligence” series lays out a methodical road map into this uncharted terrain. We are convening leading scientists, philosophers, and field investigators dedicated to exploring new approaches, methods, and emerging findings. The full scope of this journey covers eight critical dimensions:
- Scientific and Research Foundations: Establishing the methodology needed to proceed logically.
- Signs and Signals of Intelligence: Looking for intelligent and intentful behavior within existing data.
- Consciousness and Cognitive Frontiers: Exploring non-physical levels of phenomena, including telepathy and Psi functions often reported in exposures.
- Communication and Contact: Examining linguistic and computational models for interpreting communication that may not be overt or word-based.
- Societal, Psychological, and Cultural Impacts: Addressing the profound effects Contact will have on our societies, religions, and personal lives.
- Close Encounters and Direct Exposures: Gaining a truer picture of the experience, its characteristics, and its distribution.
- Public Safety and Responsible Engagement: Equipping first responders and institutions to support experiencers and manage the reality responsibly.
- Ethics, Law, and International Preparedness: Establishing guidelines and securing humanity’s sovereign domain as a species.
We must recognize that we are encountering not just an intelligence, but a non-human reality. We must use all our human capabilities on our own behalf, including reason and logic, to secure a collective response, rather than a fractured and divided one based on competing belief systems.
We cannot afford to waste time. The phenomenon itself is dynamic; it is an actor on the stage, exhibiting signs of intelligence and responsiveness to human actions, such as the deployment of nuclear weapons. The urgency is driven by the reality that we must understand this and trust the information we’ve developed so that we can make good decisions.
We invite scholars, experiencers, and all who seek clarity to join us in this groundbreaking journey. The individual is the key actor in this species-to-species interaction, and Contact belongs out in the open, in the citizen space. It is time to rise above speculation and take a deliberate, collective step forward.
We are engaged in a critical, species-wide effort to decode the emergent reality of Contact, which represents a major evolutionary hurdle for humanity. If you seek clarity, logic, and a nuanced framework for understanding the profound questions surrounding Non-Human Intelligence, I invite you to engage with this vital work. Your thoughtful, conscientious involvement is the key action in this species-to-species interaction.
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– Reed Summers
