Eric Habich-Traut is the founder of The Contact Project, established in 2021, a group that challenges the boundaries of science and human perception. He claims to share a unique intrauterine experience with luminaries such as Ray Bradbury, Salvador Dalí, and Michael Murphy, founder of the Human Potential Movement. Eric’s entry into the world was marked by a surge of atmospheric nuclear radiation, Earth’s highest recorded—a moment now known as the “bomb spike,” highest just on the day of his birth.

Even as a young child in 1967, Eric’s innate curiosity was unmistakable. At three years old, he discovered an old telephone in his grandparents’ backyard and ingeniously powered it with a discarded battery. He managed to make the handset’s microphone and speaker work, though his inventive effort to convert an old umbrella into a satellite dish to contact his missing mother ultimately failed. This early adventure, driven by a determination to connect with the world around him, hinted at the pioneering spirit that would define his future explorations.

In 1986, while working as a freelance electrician in Galway, Ireland, Eric experienced an enigmatic UFO sighting on his way to Salthill Beach. His life took an even more mysterious turn when shortly afterward he foresaw the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster by two weeks, witnessing the event through the perspective of astronaut Ronald McNair. 

The same year he anticipated a disastrous incident aboard the nuclear submarine K-219, in which a fire in the galley led to a catastrophe where nuclear warheads inexplicably vanished from a depth of 18,000 feet—a feat unexplained by the technology of the time. Careful analysis shows that although the event that led to the sinking of K219 occurred outside the Bermuda Triangle, the submarine subsequently sank in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, in the Hatteras Abyssal Plain.

In 1995 in England, Eric captured two negatives of a fast-moving object in the night sky—which was either the world’s fastest blimp at 155 mph or a UFO. He discovered this speed through triangulation. A transformative encounter came for Eric in 1999, when Professor Günter Nimtz demonstrated a quantum tunneling experiment to him, suggesting superluminal signaling. The insights gleaned from that experiment later informed Eric’s theories on superluminal brainwaves and the possibility of interstellar communication via telepathy.

Eric’s latest work on The Wow! Signal argues that its approach toward Earth mirrored the speed of an Apollo capsule during atmospheric reentry, and the signal itself may have been a musical tune. With his wide range of interests, Eric is laying the groundwork for a forthcoming book on a paradigm shift in our understanding of the cosmos.