Mission Rama

Mission Rama was a contact network that began in Lima, Peru, in 1974 and spread through Latin America, Europe and North America. It later became known as Rahma. It is a counterpart to Steven Greer's CSETI: both built their fieldwork on meditation and telepathic contact, and Rama's scheduled field encounters came first.

The founding story

All of this is the group's own account, as relayed by Joseph Burkes, a former CSETI volunteer who worked with Rama activists. He says most of it traces to a single unsigned 1990–92 International UFO Library Magazine article that he could no longer locate, plus oral tellings.

• Sixto Paz Wells, then a first-year university student, and his father Carlos Paz Garcia founded it. On 22 January 1974, Sixto received automatic writing from an entity calling itself "Oxalc", said to be based on "Morlen" (Ganymede).
• In February 1974 a group reported a disc-shaped craft at Chilca, south of Lima. A second gathering a week later went badly when friends drank and attempted trance contact.
• In July 1974 Sixto said he passed through an inter-dimensional portal, a "Xendra", to Morlen. About two weeks later seven young people reportedly entered a portal to an assembly of "Twenty-four Elders", who gave them the mission and the name Rama.
• Members followed strict vegetarianism and long meditation before fieldwork, and used "antennas" with psi ability to receive the times and places of encounters by automatic writing.

Later claims

• In 1990 Sixto and a retired oral surgeon, Fernando Limaco, are said to have trekked into the Paititi jungle east of the Andes and been taken aboard a craft. Burkes heard this in 1994 from Limaco and has no documentation; a commenter notes the "Great White Brotherhood" label long predates Rama, in Theosophy.
• A portal is reported to have opened at a Northern California site called "Shasta" in August 1994, according to United Airlines captain Joe Vallejo, who acted as liaison to Burkes's CE-5 team.
• Activists claim more than 25,000 encounters by 1993. By the 1990s Sixto's prominence had reportedly declined and the network took the name Rahma.

Nothing here is independently documented. It matters for the graph because it shows a parallel, older tradition of deliberate contact events that CSETI's CE-5 protocols are sometimes compared with.