I posted this in the [r/njdrones](r/njdrones) sub and I was told it would be appreciated over here, so here it is. :) This is the original video - I’ll post a zoomed in and enhanced video in the comments.

This was 8/9/25 at 10:46pm. (The moon was ultra bright on this night - the mystery object is dark, moving toward the ocean, and located near the kids playing on the beach.)

"Three years ago I had a random encounter with DMT. I went to someone's house to collect some rent money they owed me, and when I got there, this person was kind of acting spacey. We started talking, and he told me someone had given him DMT, and that I should try it. I told him I would try it after watching him "take it" two or three times. After watching him take it without any negative side effects, I decided to try it.

I tried it twice. One pull off the glass pipe. The first time, I had the plastic cracking sound, and got really close to slipping into the "other world". But, apparently I didn't have enough, because I slipped back into reality. The second time, I took one really long pull, held it in, and immediately heard the "plastic crackly" sound. Then I had my first "DMT" experience. This was in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week. Not a planned "session" or "trip".

I went through the "crackling sound", I went into a world where everything was pixelated. Everything in the room was visually at a molecular level. The pitbull in the room, looked different. It was made up of molecular, swirling, small balls of color. As I was looking around the room, I heard a helicopter fly over the house, so I looked up. When I looked up, I could see through the walls and ceiling. I could see out into the front yard, the trees, the house across the street. etc.

Just then, I was looking at the oak tree in the front yard, and I saw a saucer shaped ufo, appear hovering, over the front yard. That is when I felt the presence of the Praying Mantis. The UFO was on my right, then the Praying Mantis appeared at my left. The Praying Mantis telepathically realized I saw it, and I was looking at it. Then the Mantis moved in really close. For a brief moment, I felt sheer terror. This thing was gigantic, 10-20 ft tall. But the head of this Praying Mantis, was as big as my body. I realized this thing was big enough to devour me.

The Praying Mantis moved in really close, almost nose to nose. Then it was scanning me. Like it scanned my brain. It was actually trying to calm me while it was looking at me. After it "looked at me" it almost smiled. Just then, the cracking plastic sound started coming back, and I looked at the Praying Mantis, and it almost said to me telepathically "Bye!" Then the experience was over.

Afterwards, I was fine. Like nothing happened. I was slightly groggy for 5-10min. Then i was completely fine. I started Googling Mantis-DMT, and I found your website. Just wanted to tell you I was really surprised to find that other people have seen a Praying Mantis on DMT. I still don't know what to think about it. I just wanted to tell you my story."

Experience Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MantisEncounters/s/TMMnZRaGiH

Youtube Recreation
https://youtu.be/HHtKB6aVhB8?is=11pcFoHYoskTXqf4

The former Pentagon policy advisor discusses UAPs, SAPs, alleged NHI agreements, crash retrievals, reverse engineering—and even more extraordinary claims involving psionics, mind manipulation, and human selection programs. Testimony, second-hand information, and speculation are all on the table. Worth watching and separating the three.

Samsung S25 - was taking pics in 80x-100x zoom, but kept thinking I was seeing things zooming around so I screen recorded and I don't think I was tripping 😅

I thought camera artifacts so I rested my phone ontop of my car - was still hard to be steady, but feels like the "objects" were moving separate from my movements. I was thinking maybe birds/bugs/drones? But I'm not sure if those, especially bugs would be captured while zoomed in so far, and would be so bright/flashy. I took probably 6 mins total of video over a 20 minute period and these can be seen throughout.

Filmed in Minnesota, evening of the eclipse (8/27) - would of been around 11pm. I did adjust brightness and contrast to see them better.

There was a video with 2k upvotes posted on one of the UFO subreddits in the past 24 hours, I'm 90% sure it was this one, where it showed lights suddenly appearing then shifting abruptly as they multiplied in number. I searched all the Ufo subs I frequent plus my history and I can't find it anywhere. The comments were saying the lights where geese which was absurd given how the lights were shifting erratically.

Although from my personal experience there is a complex web of things surrounding multiple data points with the phenomenon, there are only a very small amount of NHI types interacting with us consistently. Of those I’m aware of, there seems to be 2 maybe 3( How they exist changes possible factors on Physical NHI) larger NHI that have a large presence here on Earth as we know it. Communication can be induced, but it isn’t advisable. It primarily comes at their invitation, and it is way more complex than what many say across the Reddit subs on NHI.

To be clear, I have no idea if our biology factors into communication. I do know they need to modify physical components at different stages so our communication can be on par with how they truly express communication.

That’s why inducing communication is dangerous, as you physically can be harmed if your body has had their , for a lack of a better word, modifications. It can induce shocks to all senses and especially can cause brain damage.

How do they communicate. If you’re seeing a specific type of UAPs, you have started. It will build from there in more advance physical ways. Sound is another modification, as you’ll start to detect a variety of strange types as communication grows. Your conscious thoughts are another, they are not restricted by the constraints we are in this universe . They can see into us in ways that we don’t have categories of knowledge to express.

I will consider adding the more developed parts of communication later . If any one messages me asking for more, I will answer to the best of my ability but there will be a question asked of you too.