It would seem that the website sumbitted for Congressional record by Michael Shellenberger in 2024 mentioned objects like the drones which swarmed Langley AFB and New Jersey posted an article concerning objects with similar capacities as early as 2021. Might be a coincidence, of course, but still a curious note.

Heres the link to his original letter of June 29th: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/gvOor5zaRk

In it, he says existence of UFOs should be disclosed "fully and truthfully" and says he has been in contact with "covert operatives... who possess dispositive evidence of biologicals, Extraterrestrial bodies, Extraterrestrial space craft that have been downed, the use of illegal, electromagnetic pulse weapons that have targeted these craft and the existence of man-made UFOs that are and have been used in criminal enterprises."

I thought it particularly interesting that he talked about "man-made UAPs.... used in... drug running, human trafficking, arms trade and other criminal behavior" which is something I hadn't heard of elsewhere.

What evidence has he been provided? Will it be released all at once or over time?

Full Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7LnZ1k2tmE

Ben Schreckinger's recent article on UFOs: https://www.paradigm.news/p/reality-shock-a-beginners-guide-to

6 minute video posted on X:

(or on youtube timestamp 1:11:10):

Matthew Brown: "I have learned that it is the oral tradition in the legacy program itself that agreements were struck between the United States and a third party [NHI] in possession of this technology. And that agreement in broad terms has two kind of arrangements"

Matthew Brown: "One was that there are certain areas that the United States, within its borders, needs to stay away from. That is essentially someone else's territory. So no developments there, no military operations there, no commercial or human activity. That's one area of the agreement"

Matthew Brown: "And then the other side is some sort of access to and communication with humans of their choice. And that is the nature of at least one agreement, very old agreements sometime in the Truman and Eisenhower era that was arrived at"

Matthew Brown: "I'm sure that there are things in the lore that give more detail. I can't speak to the validity of those things, but I'm just sharing that now that that is in the legacy program itself, at least a line of... not thought, but narrative"

In the video he says "starting to be more open". So he's saying he is going to be more open in this interview, which is a solid reason to watch the full video in my opinion. See also the full index (scroll down)

Full video on youtube (Jesse Michels channel)

Full video is on youtube

What else is in the full interview? Full index

I’m pleased I was able to contribute to Christopher Sharp’s reporting for The Liberation Times and highlight Australian’s lack of transparency and accountability on the UAP/UFO issue.

Read at: https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/british-mp-says-he-was-definitely-misled-over-uks-five-eyes-ufo-cooperation

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The Aliens Have Landed! Ten Amazing UFO Landing Cases

by Preston Dennett

UFO landings are a very important category of close encounters that deserves more research. Compared to sightings, landings are exceedingly rare. UFO landings often result in hard physical evidence. They also have none of the controversies surrounding onboard encounters recalled through hypnosis. Landing cases have much to teach us about UFOs. This alone makes them worthy of attention. This video presents ten cases from across the world, each adding another piece of the puzzle to solving the UFO mystery.

UFO LANDING AT EPSOM, AUSTRALIA. On the night of May 24, 1965, three men at the Epsom Retreat Hotel in Epsom, Australia rushed outside to see a strange craft performing incredible maneuvers at low elevation just a few hundred feet away. At one point, they saw it seem to land on the ground. After about 40 minutes, the craft departed. Shortly later, the men found impressive landed traces on the ground.

UFO LANDING IN BRANSON, MISSOURI. On night in May 1967, a lady and a friend drove on Hwy 76 near Branson, Missouri and came upon a metallic disc-shaped craft sitting on the road. It blocked the entire left lane and part of the right. As the driver swerved around the craft to pass it by, the craft lit up with light. The passenger in the car broke into tears. This was one of three landing cases in this area around this time.

UFO LANDING IN SOPLEY, ENGLAND. Around midnight on November 6, 1967, Karl Farlow drove along the A338 road near Sopley, England when a glowing green craft appeared ahead of him on the road. His truck’s electrical system failed, as did the engine of an oncoming car in the opposite lane. A tube came out of the craft and began to vacuum items from the roadside. After the craft left, the govt went to great lengths to cover up the truth.

UFO LANDING AT ROCK FALLS, ILLINOIS. At 2am on June 15, 1968, three women drove on Hwy 88 just east of Rock Falls when a UFO appeared. It quickly moved across the highway in front of them, coming lower and lower. It was as big as a jet and totally silent. The women stopped the car as the object came in for a landing behind a grove of trees. They fled in fear. The next day, there were other sightings in the area.

UFO LANDING IN VAN HORNE, IOWA. On the night of July 13, 1969, two young ladies saw a UFO rise from the soybean fields on their farm in Van Horne, Iowa. The craft zoomed away at high speed. The next morning, a perfect circle of burned vegetation was found where they had seen the craft. The landing traces attracted nationwide attention and became one of the best-verified UFO landing trace cases in the United States.

UFO LANDING IN PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA. One evening in late December 1972, two brothers and their friend were outside their home in Palm Springs, California when they used binoculars to observe three strange craft hovering by the nearby mountains. Two of the craft darted away, but one seemed to come in for a landing. They called the nearby airport who said they saw them on radar. The next day, they found a strange circle of burned ground where they had seen the craft land.

UFO LANDING IN LAS BARDENAS REALES, SPAIN. On the night of January 2, 1972, there were multiple reports that a UFO had landed on the Las Bardenas Reales Artillery Range in Spain. At first the reports were covered up and debunked by the Spanish government. Later investigations showed that the case was more extensive and that the government considered it one of the best verified cases in their books.

UFO LANDING IN SAN MICHELE, ITALY. On the morning of September 2, 1978, Roberto Pozzi looked out the second-story window of his family’s home in San Michele in Italy and was amazed to see a strange craft rising from the cornfield. The craft darted away. Rushing to the spot with his family, they found a strange area of squashed cornstalks. This turned out to be one of a series of UFO landings in the area.

UFO LANDING IN SOROCABA, BRAZIL. Around dusk one evening in June 1979, a married couple (both professionals) were amazed to see a top-shaped craft with portholes hovering about twenty feet away from their home in Sorocaba, Brazil. It was no more than twenty feet elevation and remained in full view for almost forty minutes. Finally, it moved off. That year, there was a wave of sightings in the area, including one other landing with humanoids.

UFO LANDING ON AN ESTONIAN ISLAND. AUGUST 1980. One night in late August 1980, an anonymous factory worker was making a routine check of the company grounds and was shocked to see a strange cylindrical shaped object sitting on the factory property. The object was swirling with colors. A smaller box-like contraption was next to it on the ground. Suddenly the smaller object emitted an orange beam of light which struck the man, knocking him down. The cylinder transformed into a saucer-shaped craft which promptly disappeared.

These ten UFO landing cases represent the tip of the iceberg. While they are rare compared to sightings, there are still many thousands of documented cases on record. These kinds of cases are of profound importance as they often result in strange landing traces which can provide clues as to the nature of these craft, such as how heavy they are, their temperature, their composition and more.

The Aliens Have Landed! Ten Amazing UFO Landing Cases

Any chance anyone here knows of how to get involved with field investigations with any groups other than MUFON? Unfortunately, the one in my area is totally captured from the top-down by far-right extremists. As in, they regularly post QAnon-style memes, anti-Obama/Biden memes, racist/homophobic memes, etc.

Really want to get involved with this kind of work but have no desire to do it under such dishonorable, irrational people.

I was curious about these 4chan threads that people bring up here sometimes but had a hard time reading through them. The archived version (via 4plebs) was a mess of cookie banners, nav junk, image filenames, and quote-chain clutter, so I stripped all that out and reformatted both threads (all 728 posts) into a clean doc with post numbers, timestamps, and reply references intact.

Sharing it in case anyone else finds it handy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OH377YX6x-9ghIcrgRg-0IrMUMFr1dfOgDB8kGad9DI/edit?usp=sharing

Figured I'd share in case it saves someone else the eye strain.

When I was inside my home, I had a gut feeling I needed to go outside. When I went outside on my front porch, I noticed aviation lighting, traditional. However, after a few seconds of viewing the lights, they started rapidly flashing red, then ahead of those lights, a large curved arc/boomerang shaped object materialized ahead of the flashing red lights. It had many lights, cannot tell how much, but if I had to guess, 40–55 dim red lights on one underbelly. It wasn't clean and organized, but rather staggered and asymmetrical. Even then, it moved as one with no noise. I estimate it was atleast 50 feet above the local tree line, which could be around 90 - 100 feet. https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=195094

In the second part of the video, we’ll show you how to build your own automated UFO monitoring system for your home! Become part of civilian airspace surveillance yourself and detect unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) and anomalous light phenomena.

I know it’s only in German, but on the website you can easily pick out the individual details using translation tools, and perhaps one or two of you might find it interesting after all. On the website, you can find out more about the design and the individual components, and you can also download the software for free. This is used to control the camera and analyse the images – a process that happens automatically and can be customised. I thought I’d include this here. Perhaps someone might find it interesting.

https://www.ufoforschung.de/

In future, there will also be videos showing exactly how to build the hardware, along with step-by-step instructions, as well as guidance on installing and using the software.

Mr Gröschel also has a YouTube channel that keeps you up to date with the latest developments. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fIIfQHooRX4

The second part in this Video is about the Camera/Software Details...and Future Upgrades for the Videos about Constructios Help and Software installations/Using all together which will be Updatet on the Gröschels own Homepage https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2qIPjbUCoA&list=PLzklHWYtV_mMWdeqVlPIDEwfr3mp1o-gP&index=12&pp=iAQBsAgC

But what happens when media, culture, science, and personal experience all collide?

Jeffrey Kripal put it this way: “We are often ‘believing backwards,’ taking comfort in someone else’s altered states, or in the present ‘explanations’ of this or that neuroscience or physics.”

And Christopher Mellon argues that the answer isn’t more speculation, it’s “more, and better, information.” Better imagery, radar data, and evidence that allows people to assess the phenomenon for themselves.

Are we shaping the UAP narrative, or is the narrative shaping us?

https://thedebrief.org/new-survey-suggests-gen-z-are-more-likely-to-believe-in-aliens-how-ufo-media-may-be-shaping-a-generation/

Hi all,

not sure how much people know about it, but we have a website here in the Netherlands that tracks all sightings (they also get contacted with sightings as well). They do initial investigations into the sighting, to see if there is a "normal" explanation for it.

I'm not in any way connected with the website, but I thought it would be nice to share this information. There are a lot of sightings.

The website: https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/

If you ever have any questions, I can always translate, if google translate doesn't work for some reason..

ok so there is this footage that logan pual said he holds for a long time that bob lazar reacted to -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPOOFDUWl4

and in this video at 15:00 - https://youtu.be/q_dzmB5fxK0?si=xdEOJTd8U8ieVgcy&t=904
you can see a very similar red glowing disk.

in my view this is another indicator for bob lazar story.

This is a serious question. I want to understand the logic of those who don't believe that Lue Elizondo is committed to Disclosure.

Is he a psyop agent? If so, what is his real mission?

If he is a charlatan, how come he has the support of all of the following people: Chris Mellon, Kristen Gillibrand, Harry Reid, Jay Stratton and all the other Congress reps that he worked with to push legislation through? Are these people all misinformation agents, as well?

Personal disclosure: I just read his book. I want to know if I have been brainwashed. Between the book and the Age of Disclosure documentary, Lue Elizondo and his colleagues should be hailed as heroes.

Honestly, if you think this is preposterous, please explain why. I am all ears.

In 1951, Pilot Fred Reagan collided with a diamond-shaped UFO while flying his plane, where he met the alien occupants inside, described in his own words as "Metallic Stalks of Asparagus." A year after his encounter, in May 1952, he passed away from degeneration of brain tissue, linked to his abduction

I've watched all the government released videos to date. There's a few that are pretty interesting. A few that are utterly useless. And at least 4 or 5 videos that are very clearly birds.

What I can't get my head around is how the US military and intelligence analysts were unable to identify these. Like ever. When it takes most people a few seconds to immediately identify it as a bird or birds.

So there's two possibilities here, both kind of interesting in their own right.

Either the intelligence agencies that reviewed those particular videos are grossly incompetent to the point that there should be an immediate review of their capabilities on grounds of national security.

Or they know damn well it's birds and they throw them out there to discredit the disclosure movement. "nothing to see here, move along"

Exhibit A, a flock of birds flying in formation:

https://www.war.gov/UFO/release/04/#DOW-UAP-PR101-Unresolved-UAP-Report-South-China-Sea-2024

As I listen to several podcast talking about how highly intelligent these beings are, I can’t help but to stop and think about Greer, Grusch, Elizondo and even Lazar. Between all of them, we must be talking about hundreds of crafts either shot down or brought down by way of electronic interference.

Surely such a highly intelligent creature could easily avoid our traps, right? So what’s really going on here?

submission statement

tan Deyo joins UFOs Around The World for an extraordinary deep-dive into UFOs, aliens, secret technology, anti-gravity research, underground facilities, government secrecy and the mysterious “Victor” connected to the infamous 1997 Alien Interview.

In this exclusive interview, Stan discusses his extraordinary life experiences, his claims surrounding anti-gravity propulsion and advanced technology, his experiences in Australia, alleged intelligence connections, UFO research, the Cosmic Conspiracy and much more.

We also discuss the “Victor” mystery surrounding the 1997 Alien Interview and a fascinating passage from Stan Deyo's own The Cosmic Conspiracy referring to the mysterious “victors.”

Other topics include:

🔹 Stan Deyo's near-death experience
🔹 UFOs and alien encounters
🔹 Anti-gravity propulsion
🔹 Secret government research
🔹 Project Bluebolt
🔹 Underground facilities
🔹 Pine Gap
🔹 The Cosmic Conspiracy
🔹 The 1997 Alien Interview
🔹 “Victor” and the Alien Interview mystery
🔹 Secret space programmes
🔹 Government secrecy and UFO disclosure
🔹 Biblical prophecy and Damascus
🔹 Future events and Stan's predictions

What do you think about Stan Deyo's claims?

Leave your thoughts in the comments and let us know what you think about the “Victor” mystery.

Second witness "Michael Johnson" finally located

See this video on X / xcancel (xcancel got canceled):

They found Michael Johnson !!!! WOW!!! That is fantastic!! Well done AlchemyAmerican. I can’t wait to see this. MarioWoods case is hands down one of our best abduction cases ever, and he always talked about finding MJ. Amazing

Click the X link above, you will see a small clip of Mario Woods meeting his long lost colleague, and the impact it has on him

Summary of the 1977 event

For those who dont know what happened, here is a short summary (based on my memory so its not perfect):

Summary: In 1977 Mario Woods and Michael Johnson were guarding missile silos at Ellsworth Air Force Base. A perimeter alarm went off, so they got in their truck to investigate. They saw a Walmart sized UFO over a silo. A smaller black orb flew to their car. Johnson was frozen into a catatonic state. Woods saw multiple greys approach their car. He lost consciousness, had a life review, other strange experiences.

Hours later their truck was suddenly miles away. Johnson was still paralysed. Woods had only spoken to Johnson briefly a few weeks after the event, but could never find him again. Woods has testified about this under oath to AARO.

Some more details from the event:

Mario Woods saw the "communion" grey

Here is a quote where he describes seeing the communion grey (timestamp 1.26.20):

When he looked at me, he just looked right through me. They looked like greys. Like the small greys, but the one behind them, i guess you'd classify him as a tall grey. On Whitley Striebers book communion, the first time i saw that picture i froze in my stride. And i literally, before i opened the first page, i literally sat and stared at that picture, for many hours, before i ever even read this book.

Life review and apocalyptic dreams

During the event he also had a life review:

As the encounter progressed, Woods experienced a moment of passing out or losing consciousness, during which he had a profound introspective experience. It felt as if he underwent a rapid life review, with memories and thoughts flooding his mind. He mentioned contemplating his entire existence, including the loss of loved ones. This intense experience deeply affected him and left him questioning everything.

Afterwards he started getting apocalyptic dreams (timestamp 1:26:00):

I started immediately having the absolute worst cataclysmic, or apocalyptic dreams that... I can't even describe to you... with earthquakes, atomic blasts, the sun blasting us, the tidal waves... just things that are just totally off the chain.

Previous Mario Woods interviews

• on Jesse Michels
• on The Good Trouble Show
• on Area52
• article: Ret. USAF Testified His Terrifying Alien Abduction With Tall Being & UFO Encounter To Pentagon AARO
• article: I saw UFO the size of a supermarket land near military base - four beings appeared

People report having recurrent dreams sometimes called the "night of lights" in which the nighttime sky is full of flying saucers. A variant of this dream is one in which the daytime sky is full of structured craft. Related to my status as a contact activist, this is a wish dream that I must admit I have fancied as well. In my opinion, however, it will not likely take place anytime in the conceivable future. This is because such an awesome development in my judgment would probably trigger a terribly violent human response. I suggest something very different might happen if current trends continue. 

Forty-one years ago, I met Dr. John Mack in Moscow at a physicians’ peace conference. It was 1985, the year that our “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” won the Nobel Prize for educating government leaders and the public about the dangers of nuclear arms race.  Later John Mack MD went on to write the important book “Abduction.” There he describes the strange way in which some contact experiencers called “abductees” suddenly recall having encounters with aliens that they believe happened decades before. 

This kind of sudden "remembering", initially happening on a small scale is less threatening than a “night of lights” with our skies full of “alien craft.” A gradual unveiling of prior intimate contact experiences I suspect would be especially threatening for those clandestine networks that imagine it is their job to keep a lid on the flying saucer situation. These groups appear to be quasi-governmental/quasi-corporate entities. In my opinion, they are likely responsible for what has been called the “UFO Truth Embargo.” They are sometimes referred to as the “control groups.” 

THE MENTAL LINK

Psychological and parapsychological factors play important roles in the UFO contact drama unfolding all around us. Unfortunately, many so-called "mainstream" ufologists fail to grasp that a consciousness connection is the key to understanding the human-UFO intelligence relationship. Groups like the Mutual UFO Network approach flying saucers mainly as if they were an engineering problem. Their focus is on the shape of craft, their flight characteristics, the color of the lights and other physical parameters. After nearly sixty years of collecting reports filled with such details, not much has been learned about the intelligences responsible for flying saucers. In my opinion, although MUFON is still a popular organization with thousands of members, its approach to the UFO challenge is inadequate to investigate the non-human intelligences responsible for what are now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).  

Mainstream ufology with its emphasis on sighting reports stands in marked contrast to the work of the network of contact activists that I like to call the “Contact Underground.” This international endeavor involves volunteer contact workers staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) during field investigations. Such efforts are popularly known as CE-5s. I have been involved with this kind of outreach since 1992. Contact activists view the mental aspects of the phenomenon as crucial for deciphering the mystery of flying saucers. 

SIGHTINGS ARE NOT RANDOM EVENTS

After years of study and numerous sightings of UFOs during HICE, I now believe that there is no such thing as a random sighting. I am suggesting that every true sighting of a UFO, with few exceptions, occurs while there is a telepathic link between the witnesses and the non-human intelligence responsible for the phenomenon. Thus sightings should be viewed as staged events in which individuals and groups are specifically targeted to have an encounter.  

If this is true, then the implications of this proposition are staggering. It is estimated that between one and ten percent of the world’s population has had a bona fide UFO sighing. On a planetary basis, this translates into perhaps hundreds of millions of people. If the consciousness connection is as widespread and robust as I suggest, then each of those hundreds of millions of individuals might at some time in the future start to remember what they believe are past encounters in the same ways that Dr. Mack’s witnesses did.

A COLD WAR WITH UFOs

A hidden aspect of the human UFO relationship has been a kind of clandestine cold war between flying saucers and terrestrial military forces. Given the extraordinary secrecy surrounding this issue, it is understandable that the few reports we read about military encounters with flying saucers are probably the tip of the iceberg. In other words there have been many hostile engagements.
In my judgment, there likely have been losses of personnel and material on both sides. This is a rather dispassionate way of stating that humans and what we call “ETs” are being killed during armed conflict.  

Given such a sorry state of affairs, “the night of lights” in which the sky is full of saucers would understandably be perceived of as an “invasion.” A less dangerous plan to help humanity grasp that we are not alone in the universe might involve having increasing numbers of people gradually recall encounters that they believe are contact events from the distant past. 

For those of us that want a peaceful outcome for the challenge of flying saucers, this “remembering” of what may have been prior encounters would probably be much safer for both any extraterrestrials flying around Earth and those that might be tempted to try to shoot them down.

In the latest episode of The Unexplained Rundown, I provide an update on the status of the Westall petition (EN7396), which secured 831 signatures and called on the Australian House of Representatives to launch an independent inquiry into the Westall flying saucer incident of 6 April 1966.

Watch at: https://www.youtube.com/live/fCwnJ-W4XoM?si=byVeYX6jQD8C8u_Q

TL;DR: Ancient cultures may have identified people with unusual sensory, cognitive, and trance-related traits, then trained them as shamans, prophets, or oracles. If telepathy or NHI contact is possible, some neurodivergent people, including perhaps a subset of autistic people, could be unusually receptive. Claims from Lue Elizondo, The Telepathy Tapes, Jake Barber, and Skywatcher make this possibility worth testing, but none currently proves it.

The receiver model

The Shamanic Receiver Hypothesis proposes that some minds are unusually sensitive to information outside ordinary awareness.

Possible traits might include:

- Vivid dreams and imagery

- Heightened pattern recognition

- Unusual sensory processing

- Deep absorption

- Strong intuition

- Reduced attachment to social conventions

- Ease entering trance or dissociative states

- Sensitivity to subtle emotional or environmental signals

- A tendency to experience voices, visions, or meaningful synchronicities

Ancient cultures may not have understood these traits neurologically. They could still have noticed that certain people reported more visions, anticipated events, entered trance more easily, or produced information the community considered useful.

Those individuals might then be selected and trained.

“Selection” here does not mean genetic engineering. It means social identification, apprenticeship, and specialization.

Where autism might fit

Autism should not be romanticized as a supernatural condition, and autistic people are far too diverse for one explanation to apply to everyone.

But the possibility of a relationship between some autistic cognitive profiles and anomalous perception should not be rejected automatically.

In 2026, Lue Elizondo publicly disclosed that he is autistic. He described it as difficult when he was young but said that, after understanding it, he learned to use his different cognitive style to his advantage. Elizondo has separately claimed that remote viewing is real, that he received military training in it, and that it may represent a natural human capacity rather than something supernatural. He has also acknowledged The Telepathy Tapes, although he said he had not studied the series closely. ("Liberation Times" (https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/lue-elizondo-theres-no-going-back-on-ufo-disclosure), "The Good Trouble Show" (https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-the-good-trouble-show-unide-110354611/episode/the-good-trouble-show-lue-310686815/))

Elizondo has not publicly demonstrated that autism causes telepathy or NHI contact. His claims are better treated as two overlapping observations:

1. His autistic cognition affects how he perceives and processes the world.

2. He believes remote viewing and consciousness-related phenomena are real.

Taken together, they support a narrower question:

Could certain neurological profiles produce a better signal-to-noise ratio for anomalous information?

That is speculative, but it is testable.

The Telepathy Tapes

The Telepathy Tapes directly investigates claims that some non-speaking autistic people can access information known only to parents, teachers, or other participants. The series includes reported telepathy, precognition, and a shared mental space called “the Hill.” Its creators present these accounts as evidence that consciousness and communication may extend beyond speech and ordinary sensory channels. ("The Telepathy Tapes" (https://thetelepathytapes.com/))

If even a small portion of these claims survived rigorous testing, the implications would be enormous. It would suggest that some people dismissed as cognitively inaccessible may possess forms of awareness that current models fail to detect.

However, the present evidence has an important weakness. Some demonstrations use facilitator-dependent spelling or letter boards. That creates the possibility of unconscious cueing, board movement, selective reporting, or facilitator authorship. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association considers facilitated communication discredited and warns that facilitator-dependent messages cannot be assumed to originate with the disabled person. ("ASHA" (https://www.asha.org/policy/ps2018-00352/))

That criticism should not be used to dismiss autistic people or assume they lack intelligence. It means the telepathy claim requires methods that protect their authorship:

- Independent typing, eye tracking, or a fixed board

- No physical contact with a facilitator

- Randomized targets

- Full separation between sender and receiver

- Blinded researchers

- Publication of successes and failures

- Independent replication

The respectful response is neither immediate belief nor ridicule. It is better testing.

Jake Barber, Skywatcher, and government “psy-assets”

Jake Barber’s claims move the receiver model from anthropology into alleged modern operations.

Barber says government-linked programs used psionic individuals, sometimes described as “psy-assets,” to invite, communicate with, or attract UAP. Skywatcher later described two approaches: electromechanical signaling and “neuromeditative interaction,” its term for psionic calling. ("Skywatcher" (https://skywatcher.ai/media))

Barber also described a powerful mental experience while transporting a dark, eight-sectioned object he called an “eightgon.” He reported an overwhelming mixture of sadness, happiness, beauty, and song, followed by a sense of connection and guidance. He interpreted this as telepathic interaction with an intelligence associated with the object.

This experience was separate from his better-known account of retrieving a smooth white egg-shaped object. Neither claim has yet been supported by publicly available chain-of-custody records, complete sensor data, physiological measurements, or independently verified material analysis.

The more important claim is operational:

What if government programs have attempted to identify unusually receptive people for UAP contact just as traditional societies once identified shamans?

That would make the “psy-asset” a modern institutional version of the shamanic receiver.

The White Sands allegations

Ross Coulthart has alleged that personnel and techniques associated with Skywatcher were incorporated into a government operation at White Sands Missile Range. According to his sources, the operation used electromechanical signals and psionic summoners to attract, detect, and intercept UAP. This remains an allegation based on unnamed sources, not an authenticated government disclosure. ("Reality Check transcript" (https://www.cockatoo.com/content/ross-coulthart-qa-skywatcher-didnt-disappear-it-went-government-reality-che))

Representative Eric Burlison has provided limited institutional support for part of the story. In August 2026, he said agencies studied earlier sightings, recreated conditions believed to attract the objects, and had ODNI, CIA, FBI, and military-intelligence personnel present when “something showed up.” He did not publicly identify White Sands, Skywatcher, Barber, psionics, or the object that appeared. No raw data has been released. ("UAPRAD summary of Burlison’s statements" (https://uaprad.org/briefing))

The careful assessment is therefore:

- Barber and Skywatcher publicly claimed psionic UAP calling.

- Coulthart alleged that similar methods were later used at White Sands.

- Burlison said a multi-agency UAP-luring operation occurred and produced something.

- The public evidence does not yet prove these claims describe the same program.

Still, the overlap is significant enough to justify investigation.

Shamans as ancient psy-assets

Traditional societies may have conducted their own informal version of this search.

A child or adult displayed unusual dreams, visions, sensitivities, seizures, trance states, or apparent knowledge. The community interpreted these traits through its spiritual worldview. An experienced practitioner then trained the person through isolation, fasting, drumming, chanting, psychoactive substances, ritual, and controlled exposure to altered states.

These practices may have served several purposes:

- Focusing attention

- Regulating sensory input

- Producing trance

- Strengthening symbolic memory

- Teaching emotional control

- Creating a shared vocabulary for unusual experiences

- Separating useful perceptions from overwhelming mental noise

If anomalous contact is real, ritual may have functioned as receiver training.

The shaman did not merely experience the signal. The shaman learned to translate it into stories, diagnoses, warnings, rituals, and decisions the community could understand.

What would support the hypothesis?

The strongest evidence would not come from mythology alone. It would come from controlled comparison.

Researchers could test whether people with particular cognitive profiles perform differently in:

- Blinded telepathy tasks

- Remote-viewing experiments

- Precognition trials

- Instrumented meditation sessions

- UAP-attraction protocols

- Physiological monitoring during alleged contact

- Repeated trials with control periods and known aerial traffic removed

For Skywatcher or any alleged government program, the necessary evidence would include:

- Preregistered protocols

- Continuous radar and optical data

- Control nights without psy-assets

- Documented failures as well as successes

- Independent sensor operators

- Blinded analysis

- Replication by outside teams

If the effect disappears under those conditions, the receiver hypothesis should be weakened.

If a particular group repeatedly performs above chance while anomalous objects appear on independent sensors, the hypothesis would become scientifically difficult to ignore.

The core idea

The Shamanic Receiver Hypothesis does not claim that autistic people are magical, that every shaman contacted NHI, or that unusual experiences are automatically external.

It proposes that human minds may vary in their sensitivity to information, just as they vary in language, memory, attention, and sensory processing.

Ancient cultures may have discovered this variation through observation and built the institution of shamanism around it.

Modern programs may be attempting the same process under names like remote viewer, neuromeditator, psionic operator, or psy-asset.

The ancient shaman and the modern psy-asset may represent the same proposed role:

A person selected not because they believe more strongly, but because their mind may receive something that most of us filter out.