Interdimensional Universe: The New Science of UFOs, Paranormal Phenomena and Otherdimensional Beings [Paperback]

The subtitle of this work is slightly misleading, since it's not really a science book, although it deals with matters that are a challenge to our scientific understanding of ourselves and the world we live in. It's a fairly wide-ranging book about UFO events and other anomalous phenomena. Imbrogno has had a long involvement in UFO research. He believes that beings from 'other dimensions' can interact with us, and that there are also physical UFO entities of extraterrestrial origin.

For me, the most intriguing part of the book is Imbrogno's account of a sequence of bizarre events that began in February 1978 (pp. 198-216). At the time, Imbrogno was a member of a six-man UFO investigation team. He received a call from a single mother who reported that she, her daughter, and her mother had had numerous UFO and alien entity experiences. During a visit to the caller's home, the investigators witnessed an unusual aerial event involving a globe of light that was about six inches in diameter.

The following month, Imbrogno returned to the home, accompanied by a psychologist (a Dr Merger) with a background in hypnotic regression. The single mother underwent hypnosis and apparently recalled experiences of a UFO/entity encounter type. Her daughter was ill with the flu at the time and was sleeping in her bedroom. However, just after her mother came out of hypnosis, the daughter started screaming and jumped out of bed. She claimed that the "man from the hole" had come and had said that he was going to take her. (Regarding the initial call from the mother, Imbrogno writes, on p. 200: "She told me...that alien-like beings had walked though the walls into their home through a black rotating hole on numerous occasions and had taken them away to a place they [couldn't] remember...") Asked what else the entity had said, the daughter pointed at Imbrogno and explained: "The man said that he would get him and his friends if they don't leave us alone" (p. 205).

Imbrogno had tape-recorded the hypnosis session. When he and the other team members listened to the recording, they heard strange noises throughout much of it. But at one point, a very audible voice said: "Stop playing with my head, they pointed you out to us and we know where and how to get you all" (p. 206). Imbrogno took the tape to a friend who did audio-recordings for a university. When the tape was played backwards, a voice could be heard. It claimed to be that of an entity "from a place that is parallel with [our] world"; and among other things, it said: "If you continue to interfere with our work, we will have no choice but to take action against you" (p. 208).

Shortly after that, a fellow team member told Imbrogno that he was hearing voices, and the next day he reported that entities had appeared in his bedroom. Not long after, Imbrogno heard that this colleague had been killed by jumping in front of a train! Another team member, Frank, left the group after being visited by someone who claimed to be from the National Security Agency. The visitor reportedly told Frank that he would lose his commercial pilot's licence if he continued with UFO investigations. A third team member, Carl, told Imbrogno about a 'dream' in which he'd awoken at night to see a tall, hooded figure that stretched out a hand on which there was a beating heart. The entity reportedly said, "This could be your heart," and then squeezed the organ, bursting it (p. 214). Carl subsequently died from heart failure after an operation to correct a recently discovered valve defect! Apart from Imbrogno, that left just two team members. One of them, a police officer, dropped out of UFO research after he and his wife had a number of sightings that terrified them both. The other, an engineer, continued for a year or so, keeping mainly to himself. In 1979 or 1980, he informed Imbrogno that he was giving up UFO research. Imbrogno notes that "so many bizarre things [had seemingly happened] to him that [the colleague] was beginning to live his life in fear" (p. 215).

Although the book mentions the occupations of Imbrogno's fellow team members, their surnames aren't given. Therefore, they're essentially anonymous. (For all I know, the first names of the team members - 'Carl', 'Frank', etc. - and the psychologist's surname -'Merger' - could be pseudonyms.) I've no grounds for questioning the accuracy of Imbrogno's reporting, but without independent corroboration, I think many will find it hard to believe such a dramatic story, which sounds like something from a science-fiction horror film. But if the events occurred as described, their significance, in terms of our understanding of the nature of reality, is profound.

Early in the book (pp. 14-21), there's some interesting testimony relating to the Roswell case. Once again, though, witness anonymity and lack of corroboration severely limit the evidential value of what's presented. Imbrogno refers to the informant as 'John', but doesn't say whether he knew the man's surname. John was apparently suffering from cancer when he gave his account to Imbrogno (in 1992), and he died the following year. He'd allegedly been an electronics expert with top secret security clearance, and had often been called upon to examine captured German electronic guidance system technology during Word War II. He explained that during the first week of July 1947, he was flown to a landing field several miles from Roswell air force base in New Mexico and then taken by bus to another location. He was directed to a tent and asked to examine its contents, which included pieces of metal with unusual properties, and electronic items of a type that he was unfamiliar with. He told Imbrogno that he thought they must have been from a crashed spacecraft. Imbrogno notes that he doesn't doubt John's story, but "there is no evidence to fully accept that what took place is a true recollection of his experience" (p. 15). This wording is somewhat odd. Imbrogno presumably means that there's no evidence to confirm what John reported. But couldn't enquiries have been made to establish whether he'd been an electronics expert and whether there was any record of his having worked for the US government at the time in question?

Chapter 4, entitled 'Extraterrestrial UFOs', contains some interesting material on missing space probes, UFO sightings by astronauts, strange lunar lights, the disappearance of satellites, and images of UFOs picked up by satellites.

In another chapter, Imbrogno refers to the 'Bermuda Triangle', an area in the Atlantic that's been associated with missing ships and aircraft. He contends that the "dimensional portal [there] might be used by the intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon to enter our world" (p. 136). However, his discussion of the matter is rather one-sided. Other commentators have suggested that there's nothing exceptional about the area, and that the disappearances can be attributed to normal causes (see, for example: [...]). Imbrogno also refers to the 'Devil Sea', near Japan, which he thinks may be another 'interdimensional window'. However, it's been claimed that the Japanese don't regard this area as being more mysterious or dangerous than other coastal waters of their country (see, for example: [...]).

A demerit of the book is that it contains surprisingly few references to other people's work. Despite this and the other problems mentioned above, I would say that the book is sufficiently interesting to be worth reading.

Imbrogno's new book is a very welcome contribution to the never-ending dialogue about UFO's and the paranormal. It surprised me in several ways. First, Imbrogno is by reflex a scientist. Unlike the many "researchers" who never met a theory they didn't like, he has a skeptical tone, a need whenever possible to confirm. He is not dismissive of reports just because they are not easily verified or of ideas that are at first sight counter-intuitive. (After all, can we expect the paranormal to behave normally?)Instead, Imbrogno understands that a key feature of the good scientist is his openness to the new.
Interdimensional Universe is also surprising on another level - it's fun to read. Imbrogno is a graceful writer; he is able to be clear without condescending and personal without becoming self-absorbed. All in all, highly recommended.

I have read most of Mr Imbrogno's published works. In my library of paranormal esoterica this book: Interdimensional Universe will take it's place next to such classic volumes as Richard Dolan's 'UFOs and the National Security State' and Jim Marrs' 'Alien Agenda'. Imbrogno is not merely trying to engage and entertain the reader, he brings clarity to a theory that has always escaped my sense of comprehension: parallel dimensions, parallel realities, or as the title implies: an 'Interdimensional Universe'.

While we, the people are kept in the dark regarding this topic, I am certain that the 'Military Industrial Complex' that Eisenhower warned us about (the 'shadow government', call it what you will) has developed the science behind the reality of the Interdimensional Universe. Thankfully there are intelligent and open minded researchers like Phil Imbrogno to educate us, the plebian multitudes. He does it in such a way that I, a less than brilliant but inquisitive layperson, can understand. He uses analogies that are easily understood and does not burdon the reader with overly technical graphs, charts, or diagrams that are way over my head. Thank you for that Mr Imbrogno!

Some of the material in this book was redundant. He used the same examples and personal stories in his book 'Contact of the 5th kind' and 'Night Seige' but it was all pertinent to the subject matter. If there is one book by this author that any interested reader should read, I would say this is the book to get. I enjoyed the books mentioned above as well, but 'Interdimensional Universe' wraps it all up in this one volume. I live on the west coast and I am now planning to take a trip to New York to experience the mysterious magnetic anomalies that exist in Putnam County.

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