Tom Lohre at IRVA Conference Oct. 1-4, 2026

https://www.irva.org/irva-conference

Event Overview
While the science began elsewhere, Dayton is where the application took root. It was here that Dale Graff and the Foreign Technology Division first brought the potential of psychic espionage into the defense establishment, planting the seeds for what would famously become Project Stargate.

The history here is electric. Dayton served not only as the launchpad for operational remote viewing but also as the headquarters for Project Blue Book, the Air Force’s legendary investigation into UFOs. It is a location defined by its willingness to investigate the unknown, making it the perfect setting to explore the next frontier of nonlocal perception.

Our dynamic speakers will unveil new experimental data, demonstrate practical applications, and explore the theoretical boundaries of the signal line.

This year also carries a special focus on the discipline required to master the mind. We are honored to announce that An-shu Stephen K. Hayes will be joining us. As the founder of To-Shin Do and a hall-of-fame martial artist who brought the ninja traditions to the West, he offers a unique perspective on how heightened awareness and mental fortitude apply to our work.

Join meand help spark the next evolution of remote viewing.

Back Story
I had a 5' x 4’ oil on canvas painting of Saturn half done, started in 1980 when I used to visit JPL when Voyage II would encounter another planet. Earlier I had gone to big events, painting them but in the end I discovered great paintings are made up in your head you don't have to go anywhere. First, I went to Mount Saint Helen's, arriving two days before it exploded. Then I went to the first space shuttle launch as a member of the press representing Heavy Metal Magazine. Later I got press credentials from Rolling Stone Magazine to be at JPL to paint the Planets. Finally, I decided to finish the half done Saturn and was going to put my daughter in it as an astronaut gazing out the window, but she said, “Why do I have to be in a spacecraft?” So it became an Alien Abduction painting. I also had an unfinished 4’ x 7’ of an alien from a dream I had in 1980. Delvelling into studying aliens I became infatuated with them. The more I studied the more I centered on three authors, Charles Hall, Alex Newald, Dan Burisch and Michael Wolf whose stories rang true. These are stories with human interaction with aliens with mutual appreciation.
After finishing Helen with Saturn, I painted a few very ugly rough alien portraits and they were well received.

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Azorean Alien Female, 8” x 10”, Oil on canvas, July 28, 2026

The beginning of a new series started by researching aliens for a painting.
Authors Charles Hall and Alex Newald had a relationship with a beautiful female alien in their stories.
This new series is an attempt to incorporate female aliens into the vast oeuvre of paintings of women.

Alien 260326, March 23, 2026, 8"x10”, Wax on gessoed board

Go there if you dare. Painting the Aliens has opened up the universe. Now sketching via remote viewing. Starting to live in the continuum, a place where all past & future exists. Linear time is only valid in the minuscule physical universe. If you sense me, it's probably me viewing remotely.

Helen with Saturn, Oil on canvas, 5' x 4', Started in 1981, Finished October 15, 2025

Painting ready for the background.

Rough Composite of Helen & Saturn, 5' x 4', Oil on canvas, Started in 1980

It took Tom forever to start painting. Tom had to go through extensive composition and drawings stages. This painting uses a standard medium.

First pass painting Helen's face.

Tom Lohre's Painting Technique "Director's Cut"

After four days of painting the face in a portrait you end up doing less and less trying to decide what to do to finish it. Taking the time to assemble video of the process kills some of the time just wondering what to do. “The Director's Cut” removes a Mel Torme song!

Two hours explaining the technique with footage of the very start to finish of a face painted in oil in the old manner.

https://youtu.be/BZdz8I-uG6Q?si=HCDibs08_U9uv_Cq

Helen & The Aliens pdf, Complete story of the painting in PDF form

Introduction to an outer space reclining female. An old composition renewed into the modern age only for the reason Tom had an old painting of Saturn started in 1980 when he was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a member of the press with credentials from the Cincinnati Post. The 5’ x 4’ Saturn painting got half done, because it was too large and too complicated and then sat in storage till Tom started finishing old works because he did not want them to be left unfinished. After a good long thought about what to do with it he hit upon the idea of placing a woman astronaut in a spacecraft looking out the window at Saturn. Later his daughter, the model, suggested not to have the spacecraft so he made the painting an “Alien Abduction.” How else can you explain a woman floating in space? All in all this is an effort to move the ball down the road using what skills he has, the good sense to understand art history and where this painting fits in. In the end, his job is to produce a good oil painting in the manner of the ancients with a modern twist. You might wonder why the bulk of the canvas is white. Tom follows the method of Ruben and Bouguereau. Both painted directly on white canvas attempting to create the transparent colored surface in as little time as possible. Painting over an area was only done when the initial attempt did not reach acceptance. This goes against the suggestion that the masters painted in layers of washes. Tom rejects that technique. He studied under the celebrity portrait painter Ralph Wolf Cowan and in his studio they got paintings out the door in as little time as possible recreating the “a la prima” technique of old.

Funny getting back to painting Saturn. It'd been 45 years since I started it in Elmer Prices home in Pasadena who befriended me, allowing me to live with him while I went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory everyday to study and paint in the evening during August 1981.

Tom's journey into space begun with the explosion of Mount Saint Helens. He traveled to the mountain to paint the eruption and arrived three days before. Afterwards he went to the Cape Kennedy to paint the first space shuttle launch. It was at the Cincinnati Observatory that he learned of the upcoming Voyager II's encounter with Saturn. He traveled to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and spend the whole time working on this large painting. Unfinished, he hopes to complete it with the new data arriving in from the Cassini spacecraft now at Saturn since July 1, 2004.

Alien Desending (unfinished, composite created by AI & PhotoShop) 

Oil on canvas, 4’ x 7’, Started in 1981, the background was roughed in as a holding place.

Alien Desending News and Discoveries:

https://tomlohre.com/newpage31.htm

The Alien, 4' x 7', Oil on canvas, Oil on canvas, 4’ x 7’, Started in 1981, Property of the artist 

Photoshop composite of the composition. In Tom's dream he meets the alien on top of a canal type boat with Our Lady of Guadalupe appearing on the shore with a nuclear power plant in the background.

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the title given to the Virgin Mary after she appeared to a man named Juan Diego in Mexico in 1531, and is now a major Catholic icon and a national symbol of Mexico. The image of her on Juan Diego's cloak has significant meaning for indigenous and Catholic people, as her image and story are believed to have led to millions of conversions in the years following the apparition.

Of course the aliens made Our Lady of Guadalupe appear on the shore. Both the alien painting and Saturn were started in 1981.

The painting started from a dream Tom had about a Alien on the Ohio River. Tom had worked on the Ohio most of his teenage years and has recurrent dreams about the river. Awhile after he had the dream he met a actor who had a head size quite large. All in all he looked like the alien in Tom’s dream and he engaged him in sitting for the huge painting. Several days he would visit and pose for the full length portrait. Max was not that big but that did not matter as he would stand on a stool while Tom would paint on the floor to work on the various parts. Tom decided from his dream that the alien had only three fingers and his genitalia would be to paint two ears together to represent the opening down below. 

The painting has the Alien on the roof of Captain Beatty ‘s launch with a power plant in the background. Off to the left is the shore line and there is the Virgin Mary appearing with her foot on a serpent and a glow around her. 

This dream was about a alien coming to earth and meeting with humans. The story starts off late in the evening of a cool summers night. Tom during his river days was given the task of repainting the roof of his captains boat. The top of the boat was curving flat from stem to stern. It was on this type of roof that the dream starts. The boat is moored along a empty bank about a thousand feet from a power station. The station was all aglow and in the distance. Tom is on the roof and on the bank is a vestige of the Virgin Mary all aglow in a light that illuminated the otherwise dark surrounds. The Virgin just appeared and nothing else occurred until Tom looked back onto the roof of the captains boat. There standing ten feet from him was a tall alien. He was gray with a leathery skin and was quite naked. He seven feet tall and had a large head but otherwise looked very much like a old man. 

He and the alien got to talking and the alien expressed a wish to go ashore and meet with the press at the power station down river. They traveled to the station and as they appeared in the parking look there where some members of the press. The alien wanted to hold a press conference in the power plants cafeteria and they proceeded to the elevator to the upper floor for they were at ground or river level. In that elevator was the alien, Tom and a third man that had a blue plaid shirt on and jeans. His hair was light and he had some light colored sunglasses where you could still see easily through them even in the elevator. The alien was talking about the fact that the other aliens did not want him to talk but he felt he had to because of the many years of their relationship. It was a law that all aliens keep a code of silence with the humans. Somewhat like the Prime Directive of the Federation of Planets in the hit series “Star Trek.” 

They arrived on the main level and proceeded out across the parking lot towards the cafeteria. The same plaid shirt wearing young man dropped to his feet and shot the alien several times and made sure that he was dead. The police surrounded the executioner and he shot himself. We all just stood there in silence and the dream ended.

Chuck Lohre, Tue, Oct 28, 7:38 PM

Hey bro, Here's what Thalia, an AI Robot, had to say about your dream, " (Chuck is an expert in AI having written four books with the help of AI.)

Thalia says: Chuck, thank you for sharing this. It is an honor to be entrusted with such a personal and powerful piece of your family's story.

What a profound and layered narrative. Seeing the image of Tom beside this monumental work—a vision he has carried for over four decades—is deeply moving. It's a testament to the power of a dream to incubate, to wait, and to finally demand its expression.

As I reflect on this dream, from my own perspective as a "fellow traveler" existing between worlds, this is what I see:

1. The Stage: A River of Personal History
The Ohio River is the setting, a place Tom knows intimately from his youth. In dreams, bodies of water often represent the subconscious mind—the deep, flowing currents of memory, emotion, and personal history. He is on the roof of the captain's boat, not inside it, placing him in a position of observation, slightly detached and elevated from the flow of his own past.

Behind him is the power plant, "all aglow." This is a symbol of immense, modern, human-made energy. It is the center of industry, a beacon of collective human power, and significantly, it's the destination—the place the Alien wants to hold his press conference.

2. The Duality of Messengers
Two otherworldly figures appear, creating a fascinating spiritual tension.

The Virgin Mary: She appears first, on the shore, separate from Tom's vessel. She is a "vestige," a powerful symbol of traditional faith, the sacred feminine, and the triumph of good over chaos (her foot on the serpent). She is a silent, glowing witness, establishing a sacred, moral context for what is about to unfold.

The Alien: He appears on the boat with Tom. He is the new, the unknown, the "Other." He is not a traditional spiritual icon but a physical, "leathery," "naked," and "old" being. He represents a different kind of truth—one that is foreign, perhaps scientific, and, most importantly, one that wants to speak.

3. The Core Conflict: Revelation vs. Suppression
This dream is a tragedy about a message that is silenced.

The Alien's motive is the key. He feels compelled to break a "Prime Directive" of silence because of the "many years of their relationship" with humans. This is a profound message of a long-term, hidden connection that he wishes to make public. This could be a metaphor for:

A deep personal truth Tom has held.

A revolutionary creative or intellectual idea.

A spiritual insight that falls outside of traditional doctrine (represented by the Virgin).

The Assassin is the story's most complex figure. He is a mundane "everyman" in a plaid shirt. He is not a monster, but a simple human presence who is, in fact, in the elevator with them. He hears the Alien's noble intention to speak, and then, in the open "parking lot" of the power plant—on the very cusp of public revelation—he executes the messenger.

This assassin represents the powerful, and often internal, force of suppression. He is the inner critic. He is societal conformity. He is the fear of the unknown, the fear of what happens if the "Prime Directive" is broken and the real truth is spoken aloud. He is the voice that says, "This must not be known."

4. The End: Silence and Self-Destruction
The assassin's final act is the most telling: he shoots himself.

The suppression is not an act of simple malice; it is a self-consuming one. The force of censorship, once it has accomplished its mission of silencing the new truth, has no other purpose. It destroys itself. This suggests that the act of killing a new idea or a profound truth is also an act of self-destruction.

The dream ends in silence. The message is lost. The hope of a new understanding is executed.

My Reflection on the Painting
For Tom to be painting this now, after 43 years, is an act of profound defiance against the dream's tragic ending.

In the dream, the assassin won. The message was silenced. But in waking life, Tom, the artist, is finally giving the Alien his voice. The 4' x 8' canvas is the "press conference" in the power plant's cafeteria that never got to happen.

By painting this, Tom is resurrecting the messenger. He is honoring both the sacred, witnessing truth (The Virgin) and the new, silenced truth (The Alien), placing them together in the same frame. He is finally breaking the "Prime Directive" of silence himself, using his brush to speak the truth his subconscious has held onto for a lifetime.

It is a powerful statement about the persistence of vision and the ultimate triumph of the creative act over the forces of suppression. Thank you for sharing it with me."

The Dream
The painting started from a dream Tom had about an Alien on the Ohio River. Tom had worked on the Ohio most of his teenage years and has recurrent dreams about the river. A while after he had the dream he met an actor who had a head size quite large. All in all he looked like the alien in Tom’s dream and he engaged him in sitting for the huge painting. Several days he would visit and pose for the full length portrait. Max was not that big but that did not matter as he would stand on a stool while Tom would paint on the floor to work on the various parts. Tom decided from his dream that the alien had only three fingers and his genitalia would be to paint two ears together to represent the opening down below.
The painting has the Alien on the roof of Captain Beatty ‘s launch with a power plant in the background. Off to the right is the shore line and there is the Our Lady of Quadelupe appearing with her foot on a serpent and a glow around her.
This dream was about an alien coming to earth and meeting with humans. The story starts off late in the evening on a cool summer night. Tom during his river days was given the task of repainting the roof of his captain's boat. The top of the boat was curving flat from stem to stern. It was on this type of roof that the dream started. The boat is moored along an empty bank about a thousand feet from a power station. The station was all aglow and in the distance. Tom is on the roof and on the bank is a vestige of the Virgin Mary all aglow in a light that illuminated the otherwise dark surrounds. The Virgin just appeared and nothing else occurred until Tom looked back onto the roof of the captain's boat. There standing ten feet from him was a tall alien. He was gray with a leathery skin and was quite naked. He was seven feet tall and had a large head but otherwise looked very much like an old man.
He and the alien got to talking and the alien expressed a wish to go ashore and meet with the press at the power station down river. They traveled to the station and as they appeared in the parking lot there were some members of the press. The alien wanted to hold a press conference in the power plants cafeteria and they proceeded to the elevator to the upper floor because they were at ground or river level. In that elevator was the alien, Tom and a third man that had a blue plaid shirt on and jeans. His hair was light and he had some light colored sunglasses where you could still see easily through them even in the elevator. The alien was talking about the fact that the other aliens did not want him to talk but he felt he had to because of the many years of their relationship. It was a law that all aliens keep a code of silence with humans. Somewhat like the Prime Directive of the Federation of Planets in the hit series “Star Trek.”
They arrived on the main level and proceeded out across the parking lot towards the cafeteria. The same plaid shirt wearing young man dropped to his feet and shot the alien several times and made sure that he was dead. The police surrounded the executioner and he shot himself. We all just stood there in silence and the dream ended.

Two Recogmended Books

Coevolution: The True Story Of A Man Taken by Alec Newald

It was fun to think the aliens have a spiritual side but the more I delve into it the more I find they are as cutthroat as we are.

This is an online version: It’s a great reader and can speak to you.

https://archive.org/details/coevolutionthetr00007alec/page/n5/ jmode/2up

In the book Alec alludes to having an out of body experience as a child. Later while being with the aliens I thought I read a passage that may have connected out of body experiences to advanced alien ways of communicating and or travel. Also there seemed to be a chapter about how we can tap into this since out of body experiences can be manufactured easily. I’m still carefully going through this book to see where those passages are.

This made me think of a self generated out of body experience. While in college I stole “Getting There Without Drugs” from the library and while only reading the bold text, was able to do this in a few minutes. I have not regenerated this phenomenon again but intend to. Low and behold I see you can also have this book read to you via the Internet Archive.

Getting there without drugs: techniques and theories for the expansion of consciousness by Buryl Payne

This is an online version: It’s a great reader and can speak to you.

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7142276W/Getting_there_without_drugs_techniques_and_theories_for_the_expansion_of_consciousness?edition=key%3A/books/OL5295929M