#2428 - Michael P. Masters

27:18Whatever it is, it's just not a human being. And it seems to be technologically at least superior to us. It seems to be one thing they all seem to share is they seem to be able to communicate telekinetically or telepathically. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, they aren't human, but they are very human, too. So, for instance, that's one of the main reasons I started exploring this. I was actually kind of put into this when I was eight or nine years old, sort of activated in a way and put on this path by a weird thing that happened to me when I was a kid. What happened to you? Well, so I talk about it in my first two books, Identified Flying Objects and the Extra Tempestrial Model, where I learned about a close encounter that my dad had.

28:01He was a veterinarian in Northeast Ohio where I grew up. and he was out one night on a call with another guy. So there's two people as far as Jalen Hynek's reliability scale has more reliability because there's multiple witnesses. It's also strange on his scale because they crested the hill. There's a bright light. This is an Amish country. There's no lights in Amish country. And all of a sudden this bright light darts toward them, hovers just above their truck, darts back to where it was, and straight up into space like at incredible speed. So this happened before I was born, but I overheard him telling the story to some friends one night.

28:37He got Whitley Strieber's book, Communion, as most people did in the 1980s and as they should because it's a great book. And I walked into the living room. The book is sitting on the shelf facing out. And I remember like it was yesterday. I sort of stopped and there was like this light, like a white light. and then I saw this image in my mind of like an early hominin chimpanzee like creature a modern human and then that archetypal gray alien from the cover with this information what if they're related what if they are us from the future and obviously I mean that's why I became a biological anthropologist people are always like so you saw this yeah it was like a flash like a light and I you know it's weird looking back on it because I know a lot more about these experiences I've talked to people that have had these types of experiences.

29:26What was the setting? It was our living room. So it was like you come in the front door and just to the left there's this living room. Built-in bookshelf. Willie's book's right there. I just turned the corner, saw it, and then like just kind of it just came. Like I didn't know shit about evolutionary biology. I didn't know about UFOs. When you say you saw it, you saw it how? In my mind. Just this white light. Just an image. And there was that image of the three faces. and then the question, could they be us from the future? And a lot of people are like, how did you get into UFOs? Like you're a biological anthropologist.

29:58It's the opposite. I got into biological anthropology to research this question of whether they could be us from the future. Huh. So you felt like at that moment it wasn't just like a weird thought or a dream. It felt like a message. Like what did it feel like? Yeah. Yeah. It was a tasking. You know, I think Rupert Sheldrake said it, that people don't have ideas. Ideas have people. I think that was like the, hey, go do this thing. And I did. That's why we're here now, talking about it. And obviously, you know, you've got to be careful about, like, selection bias and confirmation bias. Like, I didn't go into this.

30:41I didn't go into grad school. I also didn't tell anybody in grad school I was there because they would have kicked me out. um but i went into it with an open mind but i was there to study these things because of that event when i was eight years old wow yeah it's it is a problem the confirmation bias it is a problem with wanting it to be real and i struggle with that because i desperately want it to be real and so every time i talk to someone you know i've talked to a bunch of people that are you know air quote whistle blowers and some of them i think for sure have been sent in here to distribute this information yeah no doubt for sure because it's a great place to do it yeah i'll listen to you yeah i'll entertain almost anything which is great we need that yeah you know but yeah i mean obviously there's people that are going to take advantage of it but i think it's also important for me to say i'm not convinced i you know i don't know how much of this is horseshit but it's not zero.

31:39No. And that was your question is how, how do I differentiate among these different cases? I do draw from Hynek's in his book, the UFO experience. He lists out how we all should approach this based on the reliability scale and the strangeness scale. Jacques Vallée also drew from that, helped him develop it as part of the invisible college and all of his work. but regardless of like my own personal discernment my second book the extra tempestual model is about 30 case studies 15 main case studies but then i pull in other ones and it explores the different theories obviously the main one being this extra tempestual idea this future which by the way i saw the word of the day today was anachronistic and i was like man that would have been a way better word than extra tempestual which everybody struggles with i could have called them anachronauts doesn't that sound cool that does anacronauts oh that sounds really cool i know what the hell was i thinking man anyway but so one of the most commonly reported things across all cases regardless of whether you think it's bullshit or you think this definitely happened is they really want our sperm they really need or want our reproductive material our gametes and it's funny because when I wrote my first book in 20, I started in 2012, published it in 2019.

33:01Right at the end, I did an interview and someone was like, have you heard of Jim Penniston? I'm like, no, which is kind of a failing on my behalf. I'll admit that one. It turns out, so it was the Rendlesham Forest incident. He touched this craft, he got this binary code and he, when deciphering the binary code, they legitimately specifically said, we are you from the future. We're having problems with reproduction. He underwent hypnotic regression. We're having problems with reproduction and we need this genetic material to help ourselves. You know, a lot of people are like, well, why are they coming back and doing stuff to us?

33:37I think they're coming back and getting stuff from us because of problems they're having, largely related to what you were talking about earlier with the reduced sperm counts, the problem with female infertility. What if we do try to create the perfect human specimen or we try to cure these genetic diseases through genetic manipulation CRISPR and we screw something up. We might have to come back. We can't go to another planet. There aren't people on these planets. We can't go and sample gametes from these other places. We might have to go into our past to get those wild type unmanipulated gametes in order to fix these problems.

34:13God, that's a crazy level of technological sophistication, the ability to venture back in time and somehow or another not fuck up the timeline that's leading to, I mean, this is the problem that's always been theorized about time travel. Anything that you do, if you went back in time, any interactions, you would completely change how the future would play out. In the many worlds interpretation. So that idea is unfortunately very pervasive and mostly because of Back to the Future, which I think ruined the brains of most people. Mine do. Certainly in my generation. but what most physicists don't agree on many things but most agree that we live in what's called a block universe landscape time, block time where if you imagine all moments from the very beginning of the Big Bang to the end of the universe where all matter disappears into like a black hole or contracts or whatever it does all moments are already there they exist as this massive four dimensional block of all moments all world lines, everything.

35:23So you go back into the past as you perceive it, you can do whatever you want. You can walk around, step on butterflies, you know, slap people on the face, kick over, you know, dinosaurs or whatever. I don't think we can go back that far, but you could do anything you want and it doesn't change anything because you're going back in the black universe and doing those things you were always already going to do. And when you get home, everything's the same because that was already their past to everybody that stayed behind. That was already their past. It was only the future for you to go back and do those things that you were already going to do.

35:56And then you just went and did them, get home. Everything's the same because you were always going to do those things in the first place. That's bizarre. That's hard to swallow. And if that is the actual model of the universe, and again, I can only work in writing these books, I can only work from what we know now. Clearly, there's a lot of things we don't know. I'm not claiming to know anything beyond what we can know right now. But physicists, despite not knowing what time is, they know it's an emergent phenomenon. There's something more fundamental that time comes from. But they do agree on this block universe model.

36:28And in that case, there is no paradox. How do they all agree on that? Like wouldn't you have to test that and come up with some sort of a hypothesis and then try to prove it or disprove it? You're right. I shouldn't say they all agree because there is the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics where if you went back in that situation, it would be change. you would be changing the timeline. Would it be changing your timeline or would it be changing a different timeline is the question. And how would you know? There's more paradoxes with changing things than not changing things. Why do you confidently state that you don't?

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39:52So basically, again, working from all I can work from in this time with the limited primitive primate knowledge that I have in the year 2012 to 2025, I basically just started with Einstein's theory of relativity, which he published in 1905 on the electrodynamics of moving bodies. And then in 1915, he published his paper on general relativity. From that point on, almost instantly, there were solutions to his field equations that showed with the right parameters of a massively highly energetic rotating ring or sphere or disk that you could create closed time light curves. That you could actually orient light cones back toward the past so you can physically go into the past.

40:37We saw this with Lenz and Thuring in like 1917 and 18. Kurt Godel. The Godel universe was not long after, and I think the 20s maybe. And then importantly in 1970s, you had Frank Tipler who showed mathematically that you can shrink that down to a disk. He actually called it a disk. And that's one of the reasons I think that these are time machines is because it has all of the parameters described by Frank Tipler. He wasn't talking about UFOs, but they seemingly have the ability to jump in and out of time. They appear and disappear. And I'm talking too much, so I'll wrap this up in a second. You're definitely not talking too much.

41:13Well, I mean, we're here to talk, but I have an internal trigger where I'm like, shut up, masters. You're talking too much. Don't listen to that trigger. Let it roll. So anyway, if you look at the history of how we understand backward time travel, what I think they're doing is that I think they're combining general relativity and special relativity. So I think they're orienting the light cones toward the past by rotating these things really, really fast. You hear that all the time. They power up, they're spinning, or at least there's some sort of flywheel on the outside that's spinning. I think that's what's allowing them to move toward the past, and then they take off.

41:49So it's that high speed that I think allows them to go further into the past. You're aware of the twins paradox, I'm sure. Time dilation, where you have two twins, they're the same age, and then one goes into a spaceship, they move at tremendously high speed. They come back, and they're much younger than their twin because time moved faster back on Earth. I think they're using that high-speed motion while light cones are oriented toward the past in order to travel deeper into the past through that process of time dilation. There are limits to how fast we can go. Einstein was very adamant about this because there's an increase in inertial forces the faster you go relative to the speed of light.

42:30That's why he thought we could never go. That's why he thought that anything with mass could never go faster than the speed of light. light can do it because it's a wave or a particle or both. So I think there's a limit to how fast we can go. The other reason is because Jim Penniston in this hypnotic regression said that. He's like, we can only go 40 to 60 ,000 years into the past or we might not get back. You also have, and this is a more speculative one, so take it for what it's worth. You also have the Dan Burrish testimony of this J-Rod, this allegedly captured alien, who said, we're from the future.

43:09We are you from the future. And we're from about 55 to 60 ,000 years in your future. So those three things together are why I don't think we could go back 65 million years to hunt dinosaurs, which actually would be kind of fun. When you've been talking about going the speed of light, you're talking about not traditional propulsion, but some form of propulsion that allows you to go at insane speeds. Yeah. Electromagnetic is what it seems to be. And importantly, the electromagnetic force is 10 to the 40 times more powerful than gravity. So not only do I think that's what they use to fly, I think that's what they use to manipulate space time.

43:48Actually, and Dan Burrish is, not Dan Burrish, Dan Farah, I think you just had him on too, the Age of Disclosure. Yes. There's this really cool thing at the end where Hal Puthoff and I think Eric Davis as well, we're talking about this space-time bubble, right? A really weird thing happened. We can get to that in a second. But I don't want to jump around too much because I'll lose people and myself probably. But this space-time bubble that they form around the craft, I think, is also indicative of the fact that they're manipulating space-time, that they're traveling in and out of time. They use it to hide in plain sight.

44:24They manipulate the rate at which they move relative to us in their frame of reference. And they're moving fast all around us. And they've slowed time down outside of that bubble. So everything is really, really slow to them. And they can easily evade our bullets and our missiles. but we don't see them because we don't have that frame rate of perception. And if you slow videos down, I'm sure you've seen these all the time, where there's like a, and then you slow it down and you can see this saucer-shaped craft moving slowly across the sky once you slow down the frame rate. But a really funny thing happened because, I've never actually talked about this with anyone before, I owe a lot of the fact that anybody even knows who I am to Hal Potoff.

45:10he uh when i first started talking about this publicly in 2018 and then i published my book in 2019 identified flying objects he um i guess reached out to the head of MUFON at the time who was putting together the 50th anniversary MUFON event and was like hey you should have this Mike Masters guy come talk and i found that out from the head of MUFON he's like hey just so you know Hal Puthoff, of all people, recommended I contact you. I had no idea who that is. So I'd get on the internet, I'd Google Hal Puthoff. He also put Jesse Michaels, mutual friend, in touch with me after, I think he did an interview with him and Weinstein, I forget his name.

45:50Eric? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So he did an interview with those two. I guess Hal was like, hey, you should reach out to McMasters, and he did, and we talked, and we've done stuff together. But what was cool is that at the end of that Age of Disclosure film, when he's talking about the space-time bubble, I thought back to after my first book came out, and I was contacted by someone who claimed to be an ex-intelligence person who explained that exact same thing to me back in 2019, that these things aren't doing 10 ,000 G maneuvers that would crush anything inside. To them, in their frame of reference, what they feel is completely different than what we see.

46:30Because in that space-time bubble, they can be moving it 50 ,000 miles an hour to a right-hand turn, and it would splatter anything inside because of the g-forces. That's what we see on the outside. But in that space-time bubble, they probably feel one, two g's at the most. So I started thinking, man, was that Hal? Did Hal reach out to me with a different email address and say, hey, just so you know, this is how these things are happening. This is how they're able to do it. And I was a dumbass. I still am a dumbass, But I was an extra big dumbass back then. And I was like, oh, cool. Thanks, man.

47:05You know, like a story went viral about my books and Fox News picked it up and space.com. And so I was going through a bunch of emails. They recognized I wasn't getting what they were saying. I was not picking up what they were putting down. And they were like, no, this is important. Said it again. And then it clicked. I was like, oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense. They're manipulating the rate at which time passes in this bubble around the craft. and we see something completely different. So when we're seeing this, we are imagining what we can do. And we're sort of saying, well, what would be an advanced version of what we can do?

47:42And what this technology is, is something that's levels of magnitude beyond even our theoretical, like any sort of idea that we have currently about potential future timelines of technology. Yeah. There's no one talking about gravity bubbles that allow you to instantaneously traverse immense gaps in the universe. Well, they might be talking about it behind closed doors at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Right. And have been for 70 years, give or take. That's the real problem with disclosure. How much progress could we have made if they had opened up all this stuff? And you've got to imagine if you were an intelligent life form from another planet.

48:27You know, Diana Pasolka talked about, her and Gary Nolan talked about how they refer to some of these things as donations. They don't think of them as crashed vehicles because some of them are not crashed. They're completely intact. I think David Grush said that too, didn't he? Yeah, I believe he did. And even, you know, Lazar, when he was talking about it, he had a sports model. Wasn't that fully intact too? Fully intact, yeah. Fully intact and operational, and apparently they flew it around. No kidding. Yeah. That'd be fun. Well, that was one of the reasons, you know, the whole story of how he got caught.

49:02It's a really crazy story. So he used to work at Los Alamos. He was a propulsions expert. Guy put a jet engine on the back of a Honda. He was a real freak. You know, he made a hydrogen Corvette in like the 1990s. He was a nutty dude. Clearly an engineer. Yes. That part checks out. So he gets his job on Area S4 and goes there. And it's all documented in Jeremy Corbell's excellent movie, Bob Lazar, Area 51 and Flying Saucers. So he goes there and sees this thing, and it's got an American flag sticker on it. And, you know, they basically say, tell us how it works. And he's like, oh, this is ours because he sees it has a sticker on it.

49:43And then he realizes this is made out of some completely unknown alloy. There's no seams in it. It seems to be 3D printed. There's no controls inside of it. It's designed for something that's three feet tall. It's all very fucking weird. So he's working on this thing, not making much headway at all. They understood that there was an element, element 115, that was not even on the periodic table, eventually found to actually be a thing by the Large Hadron Collider. But even then, they only measured it for a millisecond, right? So then he's saying that they have this stable version of this element, and you bombard it with radiation and creates this sort of gravity drive.

50:27He's working on this thing, and it's all top secret, so he cannot tell his wife. So they're calling him up at 10 o 'clock like, hey, get to the airport. We need you. And so he would have to fly out at random times, fly out to S4, and his wife was like, this motherfucker's having an affair. Well, I'm going to have an affair too. So she starts fucking her flight instructor. I think that's what it was. When you have that kind of clearance, they are monitoring everything. They're monitoring all your phone calls. So they've realized that his wife is having an affair and they think that he will be emotionally unstable and it's too dangerous to have him working on this insanely top secret information if he's not stable.

51:09So they tell him, you know, we're going to at least temporarily relieve you of your duties. So he's freaked out and he tells his friends like, hey, this is what they're doing there. they have these things and they fly them every Wednesday I'm going to take you guys there's an area we can go watch so they take he takes his friends out there on two separate occasions I believe they get caught they get caught gets arrested they release him and he realizes like I'm kind of fucked they might kill me I'm going to have to go public with this contacts George Knapp I did see that then the whole thing is history yeah yeah no that's wild man and I think and it's still happening You know, there's still these whistleblowers.

51:51He says they used to fly them and you could go watch them fly these things. And they were moving in these really weird ways across the sky that you cannot do with conventional aircraft. That they only sort of understood how to like pick it up and put it down. They didn't understand how to like really move around. That was out at Groom Lake, right? Yes. Yeah, I remember as a kid, I've obviously been into this for a long time. I remember as a kid seeing videos of people going out. And then they eventually closed it down and you couldn't get to that spot. That was during the Obama administration.

52:19During the Obama administration, they actually had to admit that Area 51 was real. Because before that, no one even knew it was real. I mean, it was always just a joke, like Area 51 was like for fun. But then they said, no, it is real, and we need to expand the forbidden boundary. Yeah. And isn't that when people are going to like bum rush it too? Is that when that happened? That was during COVID. Oh, okay. During COVID, there was a bunch of dorks that were like, we're going to crash Area 51. That's a good way to die. Exactly. They'll fucking kill you. A natural selection. Yeah. They're working on a lot of stuff out there.

52:49and some of it is weapons. Right. They can't have you internet dorks from Reddit just running out into Area 51. Yeah, I think they eventually realized that because I don't think they went out there, but it could have been bad. I think it was all bullshit. They weren't going to. What are you going to do? How are you going to get out there? Engagement farming. Yeah, man, there's a lot of crazy shit that's been going on. It's been going on for a while. Jamie and I were talking beforehand about the stove piping too. Stove piping? Yeah, the different ways that they compartmentalize what they're doing.

53:20They talked about it in Age of Disclosure, too. That's a big problem because certain people are working on these parts of the craft to reverse engineer them, to understand them, but they don't have the whole picture. Lazar was talking about that from the 1980s. Yeah. In 1989, he said the people that are working on metallurgy were not in contact with the people that are working on propulsion. And he's like, science cannot operate like that. Yeah. No, it can't because you need to know what's going on beyond just this little part that you're working on. And if you have a bunch of people that are sharing information, you get a much more comprehensive understanding of what this thing is.

53:54Yeah. We all benefit from communication. Right. Because there could be something involved in the actual structure of it that lends to its ability to do something. It might not be simply just structure. It might be structure with some sort of an ability. Yeah. You can't see the forest through the trees in these situations. And it's unfortunate. And the argument they made in this DACA is that we're putting ourselves at disadvantage because other countries have probably retrieved these things too. And they might be working on it, yes, in secrecy. But if people are working together and not stovepiping this thing ad infinitum, then they might be able to actually make more progress faster than us.

54:32So part of the disclosure push is to be like, yeah, these things are real. We have them. Let's get our best scientists together to work on this holistically instead of compartmentalizing it. Just imagine if they had done that from 1947, where we would be. Exactly. If that's real. If Roswell was real, if the crash was real, Philip Drake Corso is correct, and all these people are telling the truth. I know. And we still have to preface these things with if it's real, if it's real. And, yeah, I do the same thing. I mean, coming from academia, when I wrote my first book, I had to be like, if this is real.

55:03But it's hard. It's this paradox of sorts because how do you write to explain something that isn't real? Right. What's the point of even doing that? Yeah. So I think we have to assume. I'm actually teaching a class at Montana Tech this spring called UFOs, History, and Science. Oh, I would take that if I was in school. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. Fuck, yeah. I know. I'm pretty stoked about it. And I had these artists design a poster in Norway and the UK and just this crazy like I was like, how conservative should I be with this? Like just a UFO. And I gave him total artistic freedom.

55:37And there's like an alien holding the earth and this UFO. I'm like, I guess that's what I'm doing. Plastered it all over campus to recruit people to take the class. But like I'm going in on day one. We're not we're not going to fuck around with like, are these things real? We're not going to waste time on that. We're going to jump in. These are real. Here's what we're doing. This is what we know. This is what we don't know. Explore the theories. Explore the history. Explore the prehistory. Because it's a waste of time. Like, these things are real. You think they're real? I know they are. What makes you convinced?

56:10um i have read enough accounts in researching this and from people that i know i mean starting from when i was a kid hearing my biological father's account you know the way he told it and then i interviewed him again in college to try to get more information because i was just over hearing from the stairs when i was supposed to be in bed he saw what he saw and then eventually I saw some UFOs. What did you see? I was kind of pissed actually because I started talking about this in 2018 and people were always like, you ever seen a UFO? No, never seen a UFO. I'd like to. And then finally in 2022, uh, it might've been late 2021.

56:49I don't remember exactly when it was kind of warmish. So it was probably 2021, but I, I was, everybody's in bed. I'm at my house. I live in a Canyon and I was having a whiskey and I was like, I just walked up the Canyon wall for some reason, like the hill behind my house. I don't really know why. I turned around and I could see these five super bright lights over what's known as the East Ridge in Butte, Montana. They're just like sitting there right over the East Ridge. I was like, well, that's not normal. Those aren't usually there. And they weren't stars. You know, they're way too big, way too close.

57:21I would say they were probably within eight to five to eight miles. You know, they, they were in the distance, but they were like there. And then I just kind of looked at them for a second. Like, oh, that's weird and then one by one from right to left they just went shot off toward the southeast at like crazy speed you know like the the kind of like in in star wars or star trek and they hit hyper drive and there's that that little light trail like just one by one until they were all gone I have no conventional explanation for that. Wow But I've never been one of those people That's like I need to see it to believe it Because I believe the people Who say the same thing over and over There's patterns that we can extract From people's testaments Who have had these close encounters And that's one unfortunate thing That's happening right now Is we're talking about the pilots Talking about police But people have been seeing these forever But they did such a good job Manufacturing the stigma around it With Project Sign, Project Grudge, Project Blue Book To discount these people to make them seem insane.

58:27That is one of the main points of evidence that I would point to that there is something. When people think there isn't something, I'm just like, you should really pay attention to what they were trying to do during Project Boo Book. Yeah. Because I have a buddy of mine, my friend Steve Graham. Shout out to Steve. When he was a boy, he was living in New York, upstate New York, and he filmed this red orb that was flying across the sky, and he took some photographs of it. and they called someone, some officials somewhere. I don't remember. He was very young. And they said, we are going to analyze the photos, and then we'll bring them back to you.

59:08And they never returned the photographs. When he called, he said, no agents. There's no record of any agents coming to visit you. We don't know what to tell you. So they just took his photos, and that was it. But he said, whatever it was, he was young. I believe he was 10 or 11. and he said whatever it was was really weird he goes it was this red orb that was flying through the sky um it was a spacecraft it wasn't a sun it wasn't a meteor it looked like it was moving purposely and under control and um it was there long enough for him to take a polaroid of it Yeah, and they just completely erased any memory of it or any evidence of it.

59:53When he called, like I said, they said no agents visited you, whatever the agent's name were. There was no agents by that name. That's kind of the status quo. They tried to make you look like a fool. Absolutely, and that was intentional. Like the stated mission of Project Grudge was to debunk these things, come up with conventional explanations and make people seem like idiots. Right. It wasn't to investigate. No, not at all. The purpose wasn't let's get to the bottom of this, find out is this Russia? Is Russia doing this? That was not the purpose. The purpose was make these people look like fools.

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1:01:39These David Faber's guys that was, you know, he was in a fighter jet, saw this thing move from 50 ,000 feet above sea level to sea level in less than a second. Yeah. And they saw this thing. There was something under the water below it. And it's like whatever he saw. And if you ever talked to him, have you ever talked to him? I've talked to Alex Dietrich, who was with him during that. He's a very reliable guy and very intelligent, by the book, very disciplined. I mean, he was like a top gun pilot. He was leading the whole group, right? Yeah, he's a commander. And when he describes it, it sounds very real.

1:02:25Whatever he's talking about, he experienced. I believe that. And there's also video of it. There's video of it flying. They have the radar data. The radar data, yeah. They know that it went to their designated meetup point. The cap point, yeah. Yeah, which is really weird. It is. And it indicates they knew the future. Or they were part of our military. Right. I kind of wonder if the Tic Tac, because it is somewhat anomalous in the context of a lot of things in the UFO lore, as far as spinning disks or big triangular craft, This one kind of seems like one of ours. Well, it is odd that these things happen where there's a lot of military training exercises.

1:03:04Like this one was off the coast of San Diego. It was off the Nimitz. So they had the Nimitz, which was out there. Obviously, you got a lot of military in San Diego. And the Roosevelt, too, I think is where they were capturing the radar. And the ones that Ryan Grave experienced were all East Coast. Again, it's all near military bases. It's all where they do military training exercises. Yeah, and why not figure out what you can do with people that you train with already anyway? Right. And why not see what is detectable and what's not? Ryan Graves talks about how in 2014 they upgraded all the sensors in the jets, and then all of a sudden they started picking these things up all over the place.

1:03:45He said they were encountering them virtually every time they went out, which is so weird. Imagine you're encountering, was it a circle inside of a sphere or a sphere inside of a circle? I think it was a circle in a sphere. Yeah, whatever it was. Which one was it? Was it a circle in a sphere? It was. I just saw a picture on Twitter recently. It was a little circle and then a cube or something. Very fucking weird, whatever that is. It is. And able to hover motionless in like 200 knots of wind. Yeah, and it would make sense if we are reverse engineering these. They're going to look pretty primitive.

1:04:20It's basically a big propane tank that they're flying around. They probably started simple. It's probably unmanned. But they're testing that capability to manipulate the space-time to shoot off. Because it dropped 80 ,000 feet in a couple seconds. That's what it supposedly looks like. A cube inside of a sphere. Yeah, I can remember. Apparently my dyslexia extends to images too. Explained using UFO patents. Click on that. Explained. A recent article by The Hill has highlighted the reports of a cube in a sphere, UAP military pilots have been seeing is reported by Graves, where he once again highlights how often our pilots are seeing these things and why he doesn't believe they are conventional drones or balloons.

1:04:59And so this is obviously some sort of a computer-generated rendition. Ah, the fucking pop-up. Yeah, for sure. But, I mean, yeah, they didn't get a picture of it, but. But here's the patents. Scroll up a little bit. So a month ago I did a deep dive in a post about UFO patents, how magnetohydrodynamic propulsion systems could explain some of the observations, includes an expired patent from the 1960s and a few newer patents describing not only the propulsion, but how the plasma field can make the craft invisible to radar. Huh. Huh. Yeah. I mean, again, it makes sense. Like if we have been reverse engineering these for 70 years, we would start bringing them out.

1:05:45They would look weird. They wouldn't necessarily look like the craft that we struggled to fly at Groom Lake that we could go up and down with and that's about it. Like they would look like this little thing that's simple. It's basic. It's a propane tank or it's a cube within a sphere. I probably had that backwards again. And then experiment with it. See what you can do. And a lot of people make the argument, well, why would they do that? It's dangerous. You know what? If there was a midair collision. if they are actually manipulating space time and these things like they seemingly are with the saucer shaped craft you don't have to worry about that you know you're you're it's this isn't a cat and mouse game where the cat and mouse are equal like you have complete control of space time in and around that area you're not going to run into anybody they're all moving extremely slowly relative to you according to put off and davis at the end of that doco and whoever reached out to me whether it was hal or not somebody reached out to me and explained the same thing in 2019 and it makes a lot of damn sense.

1:06:37And to kind of extend it into my area of research, if you can manipulate space and time in and around this craft, what's keeping you from using that to travel through time? I guess. I mean, but again, that's with the different model, not the multi-worlds model, but what was the other model that you described? Block universe. Block universe model. Block universe theory. Yeah. The idea that they would be so advanced that they could genetically engineer a body and get to whatever state they are at where they communicate telepathically, but yet they can't solve the problem of old DNA, like needing, what do they need?

1:07:21Genetic diversity? Like, what is it? What are they trying to get out of us? Are they trying to get the source, source material instead of the old stuff or instead of the stuff that they've had forever? One of the arguments I made in my first and second books is that really since European colonialism started about 500 years ago, we are all becoming one interbreeding population. So it used to be that you had different isolated populations and then occasionally there would be gene flow that introduces new genes. If we all are just one population on this inbred island of Earth, where are you going to get new gene variants?

1:07:56And then you combine that with the things we just talked about, with the potential for things to go wrong with trying to make designer babies or the trends toward reduced fertility in men and women. And importantly, the potential that there could be some massive cataclysm that puts us into a huge bottleneck where there just is no genetic diversity at all. Like if you think about something that happened that wiped out a huge percentage of the population, and there are warnings about this over and over again with experiencers and contactees that are like, there's some cataclysmic thing coming. If that were to happen, all of those problems we're already having, all of the trends that are already leading to us having problems with fertility in the future will be hugely exacerbated by a very limited gene pool.

1:08:44Well, we know that human beings have gotten down to a very small population in the past. Yeah. So we are. So we're already kind of limited. Yeah. In our diversity. What do you think of the theory that human beings have been genetically engineered? Man, when I first started in all this, I wouldn't touch that one because I had to impose some restrictions on myself so I didn't seem like a crazy person. And keep your academic standing. I don't really care anymore, to be honest. Well, you sold a few books. Yeah, I sold some books. But, I mean, that's the thing is, like, I do have the respect of my peers.

1:09:23And it's not a career killer anymore. No, exactly. You know, back in 2018, I was kind of rolling the dice. I was really nervous about it. I went to the chair of my department and was like, hey, just so you know, in case there's any pushback, I'm publishing this book about whether, you know, UFOs are future humans. And he looked at me and cocked his head and was like, that's our job. That's what we're supposed to be doing, asking questions like that. Like, he was all pissed off. Like, why are you even asking me this or telling me this? Well, that's a cool guy to work for. I was like, sweet. All right.

1:09:52Well, check. I got one. I got one on board at least. But I was really conservative in this approach. Like the dean actually of my college who gave me an award for scholarship and researchers. And there's a lot of amazing researchers at Montana Technological University. Like we're very well known for research and scholarship. She gave me an award in 2022 for research and scholarship. And all I was doing at that point was UFO stuff. You know, that was kind of a nod, too. But she was telling me the other day in a meeting, because I'm the chair of the department, unfortunately, and she was like, oh, your dissertation book, because I did kind of write my first book as a dissertation.

1:10:31It's very scientific. It's very dense. It's very technical. But I needed to do that because of the stigma and because of the shame. And you're right, it is changing, which is great. But there are certain things that we still can't – that are hard for me to talk about because it starts to get into ancient aliens territory. And that's one of them. Are they manipulating us genetically? Have they been for a long time? I don't know. I used to say I don't know so I didn't have to talk about it. Now I say I don't know because I genuinely don't know. Maybe. Well, how could you? How could I? Yeah, good point.

1:11:04Yeah, I mean it's all theoretical. But there seems to be a trend in at least the encounter reports. And there's when people have reported some sort of communication with these things, there is there's a lot of talk of genetic manipulation. There's a lot of talk of. It's the most common trope. Yeah. But it also makes sense when you look at how different we are than any other animal that exists or has existed. True. We're so advanced and so weird and we vary so much, like biologically and structurally. I mean, there's animals, like there's different kinds of wolves, right? There's gray wolves and red wolves and they vary.

1:11:46And, you know, red wolves and gray wolves, they can't even interbreed and create viable offspring in terms of like their ability. Like they would be hybrids if they did breed where they wouldn't. But they don't. They don't breed with red wolves. And coyotes, which is also a type of wolf. But that's kind of where it ends. Whereas humans are fucking weird. At least coyotes all look like coyotes. Wolves all kind of look like wolves. Like with humans, you get seven foot tall people and five foot tall people and round people and thin people. But we are actually all very similar genetically. There's a study done in the 70s looking at polymorphisms.

1:12:25And they found that between like what it used to be thought there were races like Africans, Asians, and Europeans. That was it. They didn't consider Native Americans or Australians or anybody. But they did this study on polymorphisms, found that only about 6 % to 7 % of all of our genetic differences can be accounted for by those between group differences. And they did the same thing with Y chromosomes. They did the same thing with craniofacial anatomy and found that we're all very similar. So despite those differences in height, weight, skin color, hair color, eye color, we're very, very similar, which could, again, lead to problems related to genetic homogenization, limited gene pool in the future, needing to go back and sample gametes from the past.

1:13:07Another argument I hear people make related to what you're saying, like an argument for potential genetic manipulation of the human species over time, is that it all happened really fast. We see this acceleration in our rate of change, rate of our technological development. Those things might indicate that there's some sort of seeding in the past with not just technology. The fight no one saw coming. Jake Paul versus Anthony Joshua live on Netflix December 19th. Two worlds collide in the ring and DraftKings Sportsbook has the action covered. Bet on every round, every punch, every knockout moment with live betting and fast payouts.

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1:15:52It makes sense. It does. Actually, the third book I wrote, Revelation, flips the whole script on Revelation and it interjects time travelers. It interjects this whole – for a while there was this question of like whether there was a fight over the timeline, whether the greys were coming back to – because some cataclysm needed to happen and we all went underground. And that's why we have big eyes and pale skinks. We had to evolve underground for a while. And then another group like trying to keep that from happening. So the book kind of explores that in a fictional capacity. and I wrote it because my friends weren't reading my science books because they're dense and scientific and I was like man you know what if I wrote a book that's just like a crass sex drug fueled exploration of like this time travel idea and that's where that book came from it still ties in all of these same concepts scientifically but in the story like the the main character is a intertemporal sex researcher she goes back in time and just fucks everybody to learn what to learn what sex that's the book i gave you when i got here actually so it's a weird one that's right here yeah it's a weird one but it was super fun to write you know and they're like and and then her the professor in this book he's like the the he's an intertemporal drug kingpin of sorts um but but it's like it's exploring these same ideas in a different way you know with fiction it's satire it's comedy the word most commonly used is it's hilarious it's a comedy book you Because I wanted people that don't read the science books to still be introduced to this concept and the science behind it in a different way.

1:17:30And man, it was so much more fun to write than those science books. What do you think of when people start theorizing about some sort of a breakaway civilization that lives under the ocean? Yeah. So we actually published a paper about that last June about the crypto terrestrial hypothesis. this. You mentioned it on your show in a really funny way because it went viral internationally. It was absolutely insane the impact this thing had. Like I had to go on Fox and Friends one morning to talk about it. And then the next day I did. What made it go viral? What was the. Well, because I published it with two guys from Harvard.

1:18:10I was a co-author on the paper. And so it's clickbait. It's Harvard researchers say dinosaurs are aliens and they live among you. So stuff like that. And it worked. Well, it makes you go, what? Yours was the funniest one. You guys pulled it up on your screen, and you're like, man, these Harvard researchers must have snuck in where they're doing the psilocybin experiments and ate all the mushrooms.

1:18:39That cracked me up. And I don't think we did. I don't remember if we did. I don't think we did. But it definitely had elements of, like, these guys ate a lot of mushrooms. which was part of why it went viral. But there were some really solid arguments in there. And the title of the paper was Scientific Openness to the Crypto-Terrestrial Idea. That's all we were advocating for. And we listed four main ways in which this crypto-terrestrial idea could happen. And the fourth one is what really got clickbaity because we were like, maybe there is a breakaway civilization, that's the crypto-terrestrial idea, but maybe an advanced reptile dinosaurs didn't go extinct.

1:19:20And this was, you know, we don't think this actually happened, but we're just putting out arguments for what this idea could be. And so, yeah, they took that and put like dinosaurs at keyboards and stuff like that. But one of them is time travelers. And it would make sense if you were in the future, instead of jumping back through time in order to study people in a specific time, you set up a base on the far side of the moon or up until the 60s, 70s, we wouldn't know they were there. Set up a base under the oceans. And this would go for the extraterrestrial idea too. Instead of traversing the vast swaths of space, come here, set up under the oceans where we're not going to find you, Antarctica, far side of the moon.

1:20:00And then you can do everything here locally instead of having to jump across space extraterrestrial or jump across time extra tempestrium. Well, it also explains some of the very strange ways that they've observed crafts moving under the water. Like they've observed crafts moving under the water at 500 knots that are as big as a football field. And apparently there's video of these things. Apparently there's, you know, the Navy has something that they filmed that is as big as a football field that was going essentially 500 miles an hour underwater without any ripples, not disturbing the water at all, not creating a wake.

1:20:36And then moving right out of them, the transmedium capacity. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, when you think about how little exploration we've done to the bottom of the ocean, we know more about the moon than we do about the surface of the actual bottom of the ocean. Yeah. Yeah, it would be a great place to hide out. And again, you know, the ability to move in and out of air, water, space, upper atmosphere with no disturbances, the transmedium capabilities that whole warped space time bubble around them would help explain that too that they're not experiencing the water they're not experiencing the air as they move between them like I always think about I really love skiing and one of my favorite times to ski is late season you know it's April the sun's out everybody's in t-shirts or bikinis or whatever I don't wear bikinis but people do and you get into that slushy stuff you're cruising down the mountain and you hit the slush and you just go ass over kettle, you know, over the top of your skis.

1:21:38And that's what, you know, we would expect if they're moving in and out of air and water and space is that there would be some resistance. There's not. You know, they don't have that. And it does indicate that there is some sort of manipulation of space and time around them. And, yeah, moving underwater, these football field-sized craft going that fast. I mean, how can you do that if there is actual resistance from the water? Well, it just makes you wonder how much does the government know. You know, you've seen that guy Tim Burchette talk about it. He's hilarious. Yeah, it was very funny. I mean, he was just casually mentioning that there's five different locations in the ocean of the world, in the seas of the world, where they've observed crafts coming out of.

1:22:23That's a very weird thing to just say while you're walking, just casually talk about it. And with such confidence, yeah. I mean, they're doing these skiffs. They're talking to people behind closed doors. They don't have the same requirement to not disclose things as those people do. They didn't sign NDAs. And he has a hilarious way of talking about it. He's got the best one-liners of anybody discussing this stuff. I mean, somebody knows. Somebody knows a lot of things. A lot of people probably know a lot of things and have for a very long time. But, you know, what is that relationship? What do they control?

1:23:02Why are we not allowed to know? Well, this is the real question. Like, what do they actually know about what's going on in the ocean? Like, if there are bases somewhere down in the ocean, there's that weird one, the Baltic Sea Anomaly. I don't know that one. You know what that one? Jesse Michaels just did a show about it where he interviewed the guy who found it. I think they're treasure divers, and they found this very strange thing that is sitting on the floor of the ocean, and it has right angles to it, and it's kind of curved. There's an actual, I don't know what kind of an image is of it, but they have explored this thing, and he's convinced that it's not a natural formation.

1:23:44Yeah, interesting. See if you can find something on the Baltic Sea. Put that into our sponsor, Perplexity. It's like a base or something? It looks like a fucking Millennium Falcon. What's wrong with my mouth today? I can't say Millennium Falcon. That's what it looks like. That's interesting. So, you know, look, this could be something that's sitting on, or it could be something that was built at a time where this was not covered by ocean. Like you live in Montana. Montana used to be the Great Inland Sea, right? Yeah. You could find seashells in Montana, which is really weird. Yeah, and even all along the coast of Alaska, there was about a 110-foot rise in sea level over the last 12 ,000 years.

1:24:27So what – more images of this thing? What is that thing? These are all artistic renditions. Some of them are. But the other one, that blue one that you see there, that's the real thing. That's what it actually looks like. Yeah, it's pretty anomalous. Right. What is that, though? Is that an ancient structure that people built 20 ,000 years ago? What is it? Baltic Sea Anomaly is a sonar-detected seafloor formation in the northern Baltic Sea found in 2011 by Swedish OceanX, formerly Ocean Explorer, team during a treasure hunting expedition. Most geologists who have examined the available data consider it a natural rock formation shaped by glacial processes despite ongoing popular speculation about UFOs or artificial origin.

1:25:13Yeah. It's tough, man. There's that thing off the coast of Malibu, too. Is it Malibu or is it Catalina Island? Was that one thing where it was in Google Earth and they blurred it out after a while? I think that was just a Google Earth thing. Maybe. Maybe not. But it was on Google Earth and now it's blurred. I read where they're getting the data from Google Earth. What is that data? Not to take a picture. So it was like bad data? Yeah, I think so. And then it cleared up? I think so. Okay. Also, that's a good answer. That's a good answer for the government. I did a talk in Manhattan last year, and Tim Gallaudet was one of the speakers, and he was showing images of, I think, what you're talking about, where there was like this sort of almost like a cliff underwater and then had some strange things around it.

1:26:04Yeah. Like it had been modified. I don't remember exactly what he was saying, but I think that's what you're talking about. Yeah. That was just off of Catalina Island. That's right. Yeah. It was very weird looking. Yeah. A lot of people were speculating. And one of the reasons why it's very weird, there's a lot of sightings off of Catalonia Island. There's a lot of sightings out there. Yeah. And, you know, again, it makes sense if they were trying to covertly study us, regardless of their origins, ultra-terrestrial, extra-terrestrial, whatever, use the oceans. Perfect. Perfect base. It's very difficult for us to get there.

1:26:37Especially if you can move in and out of there with impunity, not just because we won't see them, but they have the technology to make the water and the air the same thing. Click on that image where the cursor's at. Yeah, that was it. So that's it. That's it. Whatever that is. Like, that looks real weird. It does look weird. That looks real weird. Whatever the hell that is. That's so strange. That's so strange looking. But again, that's like, is that what it really looks like? What are the new images? Is the new one the right? Okay, that's it right there. The one that had up says it's from 2014.

1:27:09Like, what the hell is that? It's got pillars. I mean, that's very strange. It has those sort of uniform-shaped pillars. Yeah, and the top looks structural. Very flat. Like something you would make to withstand the weight of the water above you. Right, like a garage door. Yeah. Like it's a garage door to a base. Yep. No, I mean, again, when I started out in this, I was relatively conservative with my views on things. But, man, the further you go down this rabbit hole, just the weirder shit gets, and you can't do that anymore. You've got to recognize that there's a lot of things that just you can't write off.

1:27:46The impossible become possible or at least you have to open your mind to the fact that these things you used to think were impossible need a second look. Right. And then there's also the people that work in military intelligence that work with these defense contractors that say there's black operations, like operations that are completely top secret that are 30 years ahead of anything that you can imagine right now. So you go, OK, well, what does that look like? What does 30 years ahead of us now look like? yeah like that was sr-71 the black bird or whatever it is black whatever um yeah like we didn't even know about that until 20 years after they had made it right and it makes sense you know you don't want your enemies to know and that's an argument that's been made over and over that we can't disclose things because then our enemies will have this technology and i always thought growing up that you know it'll take a war before they're like oh we need to use these things we've been developing like we're getting our ass kicked in this war it's time to bring out the ufos and or space-age laser weapons and stuff.

1:28:49But I kind of think it's going to happen before that. It's weird to say, but I kind of get the sense that it is happening. There's been a lot of false horizons. People have been saying that for a long time. But doesn't it feel different? It definitely does feel different. It definitely feels that the general public is a lot more open to the concept without being thought of as a fool. Right. It used to be when I was a kid, if you'd bring up UFOs, people just roll their eyes especially before the internet oh my god if you brought up any of that stuff they would laugh at you i was reading some book on roswell once like i think it was in the 1990s and you know this guy's like what the fuck are you wasting your time on this complete horseshit for there's no such thing as ufos i'm like how do you say that with such confidence like we live in a galaxy with hundreds of billions of scar stars just in this galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars in other galaxies and there's hundreds of billions of other galaxies.

1:29:45Like, what are you saying? It's crazy to say that we are the only ones. It is. They did a really good job at making us feel like idiots. Yeah. Well, you can see how that can be done. You know, I mean, look what they did during the COVID crisis. You know, if you don't get a vaccine, make your end of life preparations now, you know, like you're going to be killing everybody. No one's going to survive. This This disease targets the unvaccinated. And people believed all that. Well, I think the two are related, too, because we started to figure out that we've been lied to about UFOs. And the obvious question is what else?

1:30:20What else were they lying to us about? Yes. Well, I think once we realize how strong the propaganda machine is and how gullible people are. Oh, yeah. That's the big one. Easily. I mean, if people were going to accept something as 100 % truth, any investigation or any skepticism from the pharmaceutical drug industry, they are the most evil motherfuckers that have ever lived. They are responsible for more death from releasing drugs that have horrible adverse side effects that they knew about. They have taken the largest criminal fines of any companies. I mean what they've done is really fucking creepy when you look at how they release drugs that they knew were going to fuck people over and they knew those people didn't need those drugs.

1:31:07And yet when you put people in a scary situation and you make them terrified and you offer up a solution, they believe wholeheartedly that the pharmaceutical drug companies were only telling the truth and anybody who didn't believe. They have your best interest in mind. So it's like that sheep mentality is so strong with so many people. There's so many cowards in the world and so many followers that would just step in line the moment things get weird. Whenever they get challenged, the moment things get weird. But it just makes sense that if you make it like socially, you become a social pariah.

1:31:41If you start talking about UFO, here's Mike with his fucking wacky UFO theories. Like people don't talk about those things. They don't want to bring them up. And the military industrial complex is kind of the equivalent of the pharmaceutical companies on the other side of this coin. Sure. We trust them. They defend us, whatever they are making. I'm sure they'll use for great purposes. But, yeah, I mean a big part of that was making us feel like idiots for talking about this stuff. And that is changing, though. And it's not largely because of ancient aliens. I've been on the show five times. I had a little bit of cognitive dissonance the first time I went on.

1:32:19And that show goes, they go way out there. They get out there, man. And they totally. But it's just fun. It is fun. You know, and that's how I approached it. Well, I also approached it because I was trying to talk about this theory. They did this funny bait and switch for the first three episodes I was on where they're like, hey, come down, talk about your theory. I'm like, oh, OK. So I go to L.A. or wherever. And we do the shoot. They cut out everything about my books and this theory and just used me to talk about whatever the show was actually about. Little small snippets. Yeah. I caught on to that.

1:32:49And so the fourth time I went, I was like, all right, but I'm only doing if you guys actually, you know, but in the one of the episodes was about this whole theory anyway. So it made sense. But I forget what we're talking about. Oh, the stigma. So one of the cool things that's been happening largely because of your show, you know, you talk about this a lot and it helps normalize it for a lot of people is that there's a safe space now, you know, like where where you'll be talking. Talking about these things and somebody will come up who had a sighting when they were, you know, a teenager in their 40s or whatever.

1:33:25And they never told anybody. And now it's like, wait, it's safe to talk about this. And that's so cool to see, man. And then it makes me realize just how many people have had an experience that's been bottled up inside. It's liberating to let that come out. And we're sharing information and contactees, too. You know, unfortunately, I started saying earlier, we're still kind of stuck on. This is changing too, but we're still largely stuck on the cockpit videos and the FLIR and the gimbal and the go fast. But people have been taken into these craft. They've had stuff put on their junk and their semen taken.

1:33:57There's a lot of no-no square touching that happens, anal probes. And we used to laugh at that, but that is such a common theme throughout these. And we need to recognize that these people are having real experiences and have been having them for a very long time. Let's move on. Let's talk to these people. Let's let the contactees and experiencers who have had the closest form of a close encounter you can have. Let's trust them now. Let's listen to what they have to say. Let's be discerning, you know, but let's keep an open mind. Well, I think one of the more interesting things when you start talking about stories and encounters, one of the more interesting things is some of the research that Jacques Vallée has done, where he brings up stories that absolutely predate the modern cultural visions of UFOs.

1:34:44Like the modern cultural concept of the close encounter of the third kind type greys that come down in a flying saucer. All those things, like flying saucer didn't even come out until the Kenneth Arnold experiences. So these encounters, people are talking about from the 1700s and the 1800s. and they're talking about something coming down and something interacting with people and them having some sort of experience. I just want to entertain people and make a living. From Focus Features, they had a dream. I want to sing, I want to dance, I want to garden, I want to cat. All they needed was each other.

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1:37:30Even the CIA admitted that unexplainable pregnancies are an aspect of the phenomenon, you know, where Jesus come from. Kind of an unexplainable pregnancy. I think Jesus was a time traveler, personally. A time traveler? Yeah, that's another aspect of that book. That's in your satire? It's in my satire book, yeah. I think— Oh, you literally have Jesus getting out of a UFO. I got some shit for that. I bet you did. He's throwing up the double bird. Oh, that's hilarious. It turns out Christians don't like that. Well. You know, can't please everybody, right? No, you can't. But there are many aspects of Jesus' life—big fan of Jesus, by the way—that are very paranormal.

1:38:11A lot of these seemingly miraculous things, I think, can be explained with a lot of the same technologies that we see today. We just didn't have a way of conceptualizing them. Obviously, Ezekiel is the one that gets talked about a lot. The wheel within a wheel, the telepathy, the embers, burning embers. Yeah. Yeah. And then you look at the Nephilim and all kinds of different. Mbaba Wana Rasa, this story from Zulu lore, it's a fucking alien abduction, man. And they've been telling this story for thousands of years. So it's this woman, the sky goddess, who chooses a man to mate with and comes down, tests him to make sure that he knows that it's her.

1:38:54It appears in his dreams, communicates telepathically, gets him ready for this interaction. He's in love with her, never met her before. She comes down from the sky and takes him up with her on this rainbow of light. Wow. And I made the case in my second book that if Antonio V.S. Boas had been able to go back with the woman that he had sex with, it's basically the same story. So this Brazilian lawyer is telling a story that's identical to this Zulu legend that's been told for centuries, millennia. I don't know how far it goes back. Kind of weird. but we need to look outside of just the the mainstream view which is finally happening so i'm i'm excited about that i'm very grateful i have a lot of gratitude about what's happening but the question is go farther why did the mainstream view become what it is and we know that that is because of a concerted concentrated propaganda effort yeah yeah and a very effective one.

1:39:56I mean, they nailed it. Well, they had, there was no other media back then. They had complete control of newspapers, complete control of television stations. I mean, how many people, how much do we know now about various news anchors that were actually CIA agents? There's a fucking shit ton of them. Yeah. And even if they weren't, they were being force fed this stuff that they were happy to regurgitate. Absolutely. Yeah. They just wanted to look good and have a suit and speak like an expert. Here we go. And if you don't toe the line, somebody else will. Yeah. And you're You're living a great life.

1:40:26You drive a Mercedes. You live in a nice house. Why would you fuck this up? Over a UFO story, just tell your friends. Just tell everybody what you're supposed to tell them. Yeah. It's easy to get people to comply like that, especially when they're dependent upon, you know, whether it's a corporate entity like CNN or whether it's New York Times or whatever it is. It's not hard to get people to comply. No. And you're right. Since the Internet, things have changed. Radically. Like really radically. Radically. But I think there's a downside, too. we've already kind of been moving toward a post-truth existence.

1:41:00Good Lord, man. Like, I'll scroll through videos on Twitter now. 90 % of them are fake. Oh, there's so much AI now. It's so ridiculous. It's so crazy. I make the unfortunate decision to go into the comments to see what percentage of people think it's real. 80. Mm-mm. 90? I would say at least 90. It's insane. Like, I still have it on my phone. it's a stupid fucking video of a rabbit like nursing that's little rabbit babies and one of them is a cat so the mom cat comes in picks the fucking baby cat up by the nose like they're magnetically attached it doesn't even grab it like they just the baby kind of comes with it and then walks out the back of the burrow like there's no back to a rabbit burrow you know and everybody's like oh whoops that cat made a mistake it's drinking from the wrong species People don't see it.

1:41:50They don't see that this is very obviously fake. And it's not just for that. They're using it for propaganda. They're using it for the same type of thing that they've used forever. Oh, well, this UFO phenomenon is not real because AI made this video. Well, there's also the problem with what percentage of people that are even commenting are actual people. Exactly. There's a huge amount of bots that are communicating on all the social media platforms. A giant percentage of the comments are not real people. That's a really good point. Yeah. Yeah. No, you're right. So they would comment on anything and just say, wow, that's amazing.

1:42:23But that also still feeds the perception that it's real. Yes. Because other people that maybe don't have great critical thinking skills or discernment because, you know, their 90-year-old grandma that doesn't know how to use a computer, she sees that, oh, it's cute. I think it erodes the consensus intelligence. Yeah. Like the overall level of intelligent discourse that a society puts out. you know if you have a town square which is like twitter is our town square right if that town square is populated by fake people like enormous percentage populated by fake people that are just designed to say the most inflammatory ridiculous things to get interaction and engagement and also to erode people's faith in other people and to make us argue with each other to construct the other like you were saying at the beginning of this conversation it fuels tribalism yeah it's really problematic my my hope is that eventually there'll be some way to accurately discern and it'll stop that stuff from happening you know that you'll be able to tell like very clearly whether or not it's an actual person the problem is that if that does happen it's a gateway to digital ID because you would have to lose your anonymity.

1:43:39Anonymity is very important for whistleblowers. Say if you work for a corporation, you find out that corporation is dumping stuff into a river and it's all secret and it's illegal. And you know that if you tell, they're going to kill you. And you're an executive of that corporation, your conscience is troubled. You can make a fake account. You could sign up through a VPN. You can make a fake account and And you could post all this information that you know, and you could break a story. And you don't face any consequences. You don't get killed. If you have digital ID, if we know who everybody is that's posting something, and you make that same post, who knows what they do to you?

1:44:16Who knows what happens? Yeah, and it's been happening. There's been whistleblowers who have had mysterious deaths for a long time. All over the place. Yeah, it's unfortunate. Didn't Gary Webb, didn't he shoot himself in the head twice? Was that the story? What's the one Tim Burchette always says, get shot or you shoot yourself in the back of the head four times or something like that? Yeah, I mean, I think it's in reference to that. How did Gary Webb die?

1:44:48Yeah, but even if that's not true, there's a bunch of stories about whistleblowers who go missing. Yeah, there's so many examples. If you're inconvenient and you're going to cost them billions of dollars and they can just get rid of you, they just get rid of you, whoever they are. Yeah. It all comes down to money and it has for a very long time. Someone was deciding if this was accurate. They found that a case where someone shot themselves in the head eight times. Oh. That's a lot. So there's a couple cases where it's happened. Boy, that's a commitment. I mean, I guess if it was like an airsoft gun or something.

1:45:21I don't think that killed me. That'd be a really inefficient way to kill yourself. Yeah. No. The whole thing's crazy. Do you think it's even possible to kill yourself with an airsoft gun? Maybe possible. Like a lobotomy kind of? If you shot yourself up the nose eight times? No, it's not that fast. No, it's not, is it? I mean, it might eventually give you an infection. See, so you could. I guess. If you've got enough airsoft bullets in you. Just fills up your entire nasal cavity. And you never went to the doctor. Maybe eventually you'd get an infection. I think somebody might intervene at that point.

1:45:52When I was living in L.A., when I first moved there, A guy had killed himself accidentally on a set because he took a gun that was a blank gun and he shot himself in the head like trying to be funny. And it killed him because the force that comes out of the gun is still extremely powerful. And he put it to his temple and he literally caved his skull in. That sucks. Yeah. That's rough. Yeah, that was just an actor who just didn't know any better and he thought he was just going to be funny. Yeah, so shooting yourself in the head twice, highly unlikely. Eight times. But I guess you could shoot yourself in the head once and just really fuck it up, but be aware that you're still alive and be committed to doing it and then shoot yourself a second time.

1:46:33I guess it's possible. I mean, unless the pain response was like, yeah, it didn't feel good. I don't want to do that again. Or maybe the pain response is so bad you want to do it again just to end the pain. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah. Like, whoops, let's get this over with. I don't know. But our point, what we're getting at is that for the longest time, there was no real outlet to get true information out other than books. And books are so easily maligned. You know, if someone has a kooky book, you read it and go, oh, that guy's nuts. That is a conspiracy theory. And then, of course, that term's popularized during the JFK assassination because of that very reason.

1:47:08There was a lot of people that doubted the official story and those people became conspiracy theorists. Have you looked into that much? Oh, yeah. I kind of thought you had. Who do you think did it? I think there was a lot of people. I think here's a mistake that people make. They say Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't involved and he was a patsy. Lee Harvey Oswald shot a cop. There's very few people that disagree on that. I think it's Officer Tippett. I think that was his name when he was on the run. So Lee Harvey Oswald absolutely seems to be some sort of an intelligence asset in some way or another.

1:47:44Married a Russian woman, lived in Russia for a while, came back to the United States during the time of the whole – I mean, this was right after the Red Scare. The fact that this guy went to Russia, married a Russian woman, came back, and the whole thing's screwy. He could have been a patsy and involved too, right? Absolutely. I heard some theory once about like the driver turned around with some gun. No, no. That's all horseshit. Was there something about like a poisonous fish thing? Horseshit. That's all horseshit. All horseshit. That's why I was asking because I don't know. Well, there's a lot of those.

1:48:13One of the best ways to make a conspiracy theory seem absolutely ridiculous is to add a bunch of really silly ones into the mix. And so that any conspiracy theory involving something that's not the official narrative. But there's just so many aspects of the Kennedy assassination, the back and to the left, the head shot, the shot in the neck from the front, the magic bullet, which is the most preposterous. There's a lot of them. There's a lot of these weird aspects to it. And there's also the fact that Kenny was very hated. Also the fact that, you know, it's in Dealey Plaza, which is like, why would you ever drive someone through there in a convertible that's the president?

1:48:54That's a very, you know, any president is, you know, we think of JFK was the most loved president, right, by half the country. That's how it always is, folks. There's always half the country that thinks you suck. And half the country that loves you. That's how it was with Clinton. That's how it was with Obama. So it is with everybody. Yeah. No, we don't tend to agree on those things. No. The entire human population. There was a lot of people that were very happy when he died, including Dulles. So Dulles was fired by JFK and then was on the Warren Commission investigating JFK's assassination, which is hilarious.

1:49:31It's kind of crazy. Richard Nixon, also in the Warren Commission. The Warren Commission, there's a great book on it. called Best Evidence by David Lifton. And he was an accountant that was hired to do something with the Warren Commission, some aspect of the Warren Commission. So he decides to read the whole thing. It's a huge amount of pages. I forget how many pages are in the Warren Commission report. I think it's at least 900 pages. So he reads the whole thing. And after he comes to this conclusion, like there's so many inconsistencies, there's so many contradictions. There's like this this doesn't make any sense like they were trying to reach a conclusion so many of the witnesses that saw the assassination died in very weird deaths the statistical possibility or probability of all those people dying from murder suicide car accidents you know it's just too weird it's too weird what about the ufo connection like that's the one i hear I don't know Because there are Like CIA Ties And I don't know I don't know what's bullshit And what's not You know like Yeah There was clearly Like we had the technology For 20 years at that point Yeah But what does a president Even know You know I don't know what they know I don't know whether or not They would kill him For that That doesn't make any sense That doesn't make any sense You know the Nixon story With Jackie Gleason Huh No I don't think so You don't know that story The story is that Jackie Gleason and Nixon were drinking one day and you know, they were friends and Nixon was like I want to see a fucking UFO They get in a plane and he took him to was it Wright Patterson?

1:51:14Jamie, do you remember? I think it was somewhere in Florida, but I don't I they I remember when we looked this up. They said there's He went somewhere. I'll look it up. So anyway supposedly sees this recovered craft and bodies that are in freezers. So Jackie Gleason, one thing is true about this. He became obsessed with UFOs. That is true. And it'd be hard not to after something like that. Yeah. There's definitely a catalyst. I'm mad. I mean, fucking dude, right now someone took me. If Trump called me up, I'm going to see some shit. And all of a sudden I'm standing in front of some craft that's made of this unknown alloy.

1:51:50and especially some of the weirder stories where you have a craft that's like 40 feet wide and you go inside of it's bigger than a football field that's wild so here it is nixon arranged for him to visit homestead air force base in florida upon his arrival armed guards took gleason to a building at a remote location on the site there gleason who harbored an intense interest in ufo saw the embalmed bodies of four alien beings two feet long with small bald heads and big ears he was told nothing about the circumstances of their recovery. He swore his wife to secrecy, but after the divorce, Beverly freely discussed the story.

1:52:25In the mid 80s, UFO, ufologist Larry Bryant sued the U.S. government to get it to reveal its UFO secrets. He tried without success to subpoena Gleason. Wow. He wanted to subpoena Gleason. Yo, that's crazy. I mean, he could just plead the fit the whole time. Oh yeah. I was drunk. I don't remember anything. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I mean, How would you know? But Gleason built a house in upstate New York. Oh, yeah. I heard about that. That looks like a UFO. Right. Isn't it for sale right now? It is right now. Yeah. We thought about buying it. I did. I looked that up one time. I don't remember why, but it's kind of cool, I guess.

1:52:59Yeah, it's kind of cool, but the problem is if we bought it, everybody would know that that's ours. Yeah, true. Like, oh, Joe Rogan's got the UFO house. And then they'd visit and fuck up my vacation. That's true. That's always bound to happen. I remember - That's the house. very good i mean come on man that's pretty sweet fucking crazy something happened he was he was there was a catalyst involved in his interest well i mean if you're friends with nixon and this is in the 1960s and this all this stuff is yeah i saw an interview with barry goldwater where he was talking about dope house by the way talking about asking uh asking some commander general about what's it right pat and i guess he just cussed him out barry goldwater he was like never fucking ask me that again yeah really yeah he cussed out barry goldwater he was uh yeah i don't think he was ever president candidate for president but yeah no they there's people that don't want us to know the the big thing going around now is that dick cheney was the ringleader of all of this the deep state the ufo secrets the the gatekeepers wow he had to know of course that guy had to know Kissinger too, probably.

1:54:09Like the legacy programs. These are legacy people. Well, someone has got to talk, right? But it's like, but at to what level? And the idea, here's the really erroneous idea that a lot of people hold. People can't keep a secret. Of course they can. Of course they can. Especially when their life's been done. Yeah, of course they can. Especially if, I mean, there are certain programs that if you disclose the existence of this program, it is considered treason, and they are allowed to execute you for that. So you have to take that into consideration. I would keep a secret if that was the case. Of course.

1:54:46Then you have to take into consideration the immense amount of money, and this is discussed really very comprehensively in the Age of Disclosure documentary. I think they did a great job of highlighting the whole problem with the misappropriation of funds. So someone had a lie to Congress. If they have these back engineering programs, if they've been spending as much as a trillion dollars over the course of X amount of years, where's that money and who lied and who benefited from it? what military contractors were allowed to have this stuff to back engineer it, what process has taken place to shield the American public from that, and what profits have they made from that that made them much more anti-competition against other military contractors who didn't have access to it.

1:55:37It's not just you might get killed, but there's a lot of profit potential in this, And we don't want our competitors to have that. Also, a lot of fraud, I'm sure. Yeah. Like with no oversight at all and a shitload of money. Black money. Oh, my God. There's not a chance in hell that there wasn't some money that went into people's pockets. Human nature takes over. Human nature takes over and people are like, well, I could just keep some of that. Yeah. Nobody's watching the till. Yeah. I mean, look, we're finding that with things just like Black Lives Matter. It was massive fraud. Like just nonprofit organizations.

1:56:08Oh, yeah. Like I don't want to start shitting on NGOs or anything, but that's a big reason why I don't give money to – I'll find smaller organizations doing things on a local level, but you get big enough. Yeah, local level stuff you can trust. Yeah, absolutely. You get big enough, it's just – that happens. Yeah. And of course, if you're talking trillions of dollars, black money that nobody's tracing – and I mean that was one of David Grush's arguments too is that these whistleblowers are exposing crimes, you know, fraud. potential murder that happened to keep these secrets. So yeah, it's a complex, it's a very nuanced situation that we will have to move past if we are going to have disclosure in some capacity, however that happens.

1:56:53I mean, amnesty has been talked about for some people. That was in the documentary. That was the road out of this, which totally makes sense to me. Like what is really important? The fraud has already taken place. If people are prosecuted for the fraud, guess what? If we don't release it, they'll never be prosecuted for the fraud anyway. Yeah. And what's the alternative? We wait until they die and then talk about it? I would rather just give them amnesty now and then let them die without these secrets going to their deathbed with them. But just not only that, if they're misappropriating funds, they're not just doing it 30 years ago, they're doing it last week.

1:57:23So now the current people also have an incentive to not disclose. Yeah. Unless you have mass amnesty, just say, listen, let's just forget about all this stuff. Then the problem with that is all those people that are profiting off of it right now and also funneling money into whatever NGOs they have and misappropriation of money and embezzlement. What do we do with that IP too? Like the intellectual property that say Northrop Grumman or whoever has, Boeing, like do we share that now? Do they have to give that up and spread it across the industry? Yeah. It's all weird, man. It's very weird because there's been a few inventions that came about after roswell that a lot of people say like this does not make any yeah fiber optics is one transistor is another one yeah this is a lot of weirdness people say oh there's a direct and people scientific research it shows how they made it yeah but there's not if you go into it it's it's like there's a giant leap that gets made that's real weird i mean i'll take more leaps man like like honestly these craft are being powered by something that's very very energized, you know?

1:58:29And if we could use that to... I mean, I pay a lot in utilities bills. I was going to talk about climate change or some shit, and then I made it about myself and my utility skills. You could have your own zero-point energy generator in your backyard. Never have to worry about power again. Never have to worry about the grid. Keep the heat at like 90, you know, as many Christmas lights as I want. Yeah, never worry about the grid. The grid doesn't exist anymore. It doesn't exist. I mean, imagine that. Yeah. From an infrastructure level. And there's so many implications. If it's real. If it's real.

1:59:01If you think it's real. Right. You're convinced. I'm convinced it is. Yeah. I mean, it makes sense. There's so much energy trapped within the space between, you know? That's what it is. Even at zero degrees, it's still energized. Try to explain, if you can, try to explain the concept of zero-point energy. Man, that's beyond my pay grade. Other than that, I know that it is infinitely times more energetic than what you get when you split an atom or fuse atoms together, the nuclear force. My understanding, again, very limited knowledge, is that even when you take a molecule, particle, whatever, and you freeze it down to zero degrees, there's still energy inside of that.

1:59:43And there's energy at a subquantum level that if we could tap into that, it would provide infinite energy. The downside is it would also make a bomb that is much, much more powerful than the biggest hydrogen bomb because you're releasing that energy in a way that's irresponsible. There's this quote going around by E.O. Wilson, famed biologist on, I think I saw it on Twitter, that was like, we have prehistoric emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. Basically saying we're fucked. Yeah. Because we've got, we're like little kids playing with chainsaws, you know? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

2:00:24Or guns. Little kids playing with guns. Yeah, exactly. But zero point's kind of that next thing. Like when Einstein equals MC squared, you know, there's all this energy and mass. And if we, you know, split these atoms, combine these atoms, we can release that energy. Sweet. But hundreds of thousands of people died in Japan, you know. Right, right. So what's the flip side of zero point? Like it would definitely unlock a lot of potential. But are we responsible enough as a species to handle that type of energy? Right. Currently, no. E.O. Wilson says no, and I'm on board with anything he says. Well, I'm on board with it.

2:01:01Just look at what's happening in Ukraine. Look at what's happening in Gaza. Look what's happening. Yeah, Gaza is so fucking sad. Scary shit that's happening right now in various parts of the world where, you know, we're just blowing people to smithereens. And you know what? That's kind of an interesting argument about the whole time travel thing. You know, there's these genocides. There's a genocide happening now in Gaza. It blows my mind that we can still have genocides and just not do anything about it. But like Pol Pot, you know, three, four million people killed, the Holocaust, Darfur. But these aliens don't seem to care about us.

2:01:38It was something that John Mack noticed. He wrote about it a lot. They're really focused on the earth. You know, they care about this planet. They don't necessarily care about us. As individuals. As a species. Well, clearly they care as a species. But they do kind of care as individuals. The people that get picked up are oftentimes, obviously there's cases where this doesn't happen, but they're cared for. They're told no harm will come to you. Barney Hill was told that. It's a commonly repeated thing. So they take care of people. They give us screen memories to try to hide. What they did, they sometimes give people tours of the ship.

2:02:15They seemingly care about us as individuals, but not when we start murdering each other on a massive scale. They've never intervened in these things. However, they have demonstrated their ability and willingness to shut down nukes. They might intervene if we move to the point where we're not just destroying ourselves, but we're destroying the planet that they may also call home in the future. If they are future humans, that whole care for the planet, take care of the planet. They told the kids in Zimbabwe. They told the kids in Wales during this other incident. They tell these contactees all the time, take care of the planet, take care of the planet.

2:02:50but they don't seem to care about us. And it might actually benefit them if we don't screw up this planet, either through nuking ourselves or just all of the other things we do to it because we're kind of parasitic in a way. Well, also, if they are us in the future, we probably have to go through all this to realize the folly of our ways. That's a good point. Dark night of the soul, kind of. Yeah, I mean, clearly we're getting better. I mean, we're still horrible, but we're better today than we were during the Viking days. We're better today than we were during the time of Genghis Khan. We're better.

2:03:24We're more civilized. We're more peaceful. There's less war, even though there's still war. So it's a slow, gradual shift of consciousness that probably is going to be accelerated by technology, especially if there is some sort of a technology that connects us telepathically and allows people to read minds. One of the things that Elon famously said about his Neuralink, he's like, you're going to be able to talk without words. Yeah, I had a whole section in my first book about that. The question of whether it's a technology mediated brain to brain communication, or if there's something about our consciousness that allows us to communicate telepathically without some sort of technology.

2:04:05And I kind of I did that. My friend Jeff Jeff Crable pointed this out. He's like, I see why you did that. You know, you're like, well, what if it is technology? And there's a lot of studies that have shown we can communicate through some sort of computer medium. but so many people in contactee cases who are spoken to or can speak to the visitors telepathically don't have that there's also all of the research of dean radin at ions and all of his other studies that he's put out that show people have telepathic abilities with very very strong p-values statistically showing that we have this ability i think a lot of people have it and just don't realize but it does seem like we're moving in that direction like you were talking about the evolution of consciousness.

2:04:47It seems like we're sort of moving to that, whether Neuralink has anything to do with it or any sort of computer-mediated brain-to-brain transmission. I think we're just becoming telepathic and unlocking these abilities that have always sort of lied dormant within us. Yeah, I've often asked the question, is it one of two things? Is this a new emerging aspect of human consciousness or is this an aspect of human consciousness that exists before verbal speech and then verbal speech and then of course the written word video all that stuff yeah we it just became completely non-useful to us it's like we lost it and we're trying to get it atrophied yeah yeah i mean you had kai dickens on uh the telepathy tapes were hugely impactful and a lot of those episodes show that this is actually extremely common.

2:05:43And it seems like that's kind of where we're going. I look at that as another indication that these are us in the future, that their main form of communication is telepathy and we're already seemingly moving in that direction. What do you make of the tridactyl mummies in Peru? Can we pee first? Yeah. Okay. I'll do that right now. Sweet. We'll be right back, folks. Go to Jay Anderson's X page. It's Project Unity. Yeah, I saw he's coming on soon. Yeah. So Jay Anderson just released this, and Jesse Michaels actually went down to Peru and actually saw those things and handled them in person. And he said it was fucking surreal.

2:06:24He said they are real creatures. Whatever they were, it is a real thing. And they look exactly like an alien. He has a video that he just released, Jamie. I think it's a video that he's releasing on... That's it, right there. So scans reveal this ancient alien-looking mummy has a baby inside of her. Well, that's one of them. So these things. Like, whatever this is. Can we hit volume so you can hear what he's saying? She has slightly smaller stature and slighter build, the Maria, but shares the same natural mummification with skin covering parts of the body. Her skull is elongated with large eye orbits and cranial volume comparable to Maria's.

2:07:14Importantly, Montserrat CT scans reveal that she was carrying in her abdominal cavity, the team identified a developing fetal form being visible on the scans, a tiny tridactyl embryo with skeletal structure, curled in a womb-like space. This confirms that Montserrat was pregnant with at least one advanced fetus. Montserrat also contains an astonishing array of metallic implants, at least 10 distinct metal implants embedded into her body. These include four small round implants in her skull, two on each side, several in her chest and thoracic area and others along her arm and leg bones as per the CT images.

2:07:55They're described as very dense and made of rare metals, osmium and gold. Additionally, Montserrat's chest anatomy is peculiar. She has an expanded rib cage without a sternum like the other tridactyles and an interclavicle bone, an extra bone at the shoulder girdle. Noted by researchers, her spine is continuous into the skull, again demonstrating this cranioservical canal. Montserrat has been one of the most deeply analyzed specimens. High resolution 128 slice CT scans were performed and a full 3D virtual autopsy was conducted. The scans confirmed Montserrat's pregnancy with Tridactyl features.

2:08:33I mean how strange is this? Like what is that? And these are in Peru, the same place where you get the Nazca lines, the same place where you have Saxo-Heman, you have these incredible structures that defy logic, defy conventional construction methods. Yeah, and like the Owlman, you know, the big petroglyph on the side of the hill that can only be appreciated from space? There's a lot of weirdness. There's a lot of weirdness from Peru. Peru seems like a very extraordinary place. And at one point in time, well, also the ancient artistic depictions of these exact beings, there's these ancient tapestries and ancient art pieces that show these three-fingered, three-toed beings.

2:09:25And this is all like a part of their folklore. And then you have these actual creatures. Like that thing is 1 ,400 years old, I think it is. so if if that that's the carbon date on that mummy so i think it's that old there's one that's 1200 i think the oldest one is like 1400 sounds right yeah something like that but like whatever that is like there's not a chance in fucking hell that people back then had the ability to fake that and that with that depth you see tendon structures ligaments you have a completely different skeletal structure no sternum different clavicle bones it's fucking cranial facial anatomy three fingers Three fingers, three toes, which is, by the way, exactly what Lazar described, I believe, or some people have described as like the control.

2:10:11It might not be Lazar. The controls inside the crass that they've observed that had these three-fingered things. Virginia, Brazil, those things had three fingers and three toes. So the question is – Yeah, and they saw footprints too in that case, didn't they? Yeah. Well, they – supposedly one of the soldiers carried a hurt and injured whatever it is. Yeah, there were three women that saw it too, like in an alley or something. Yeah, that's the Moment of Contact documentary. Very good. Very good James Fox documentary. It is. I watched that with James Fox. Crazy. Before we released it, we were at the same conference.

2:10:46Crazy documentary. Yeah, it's really good. But those things look exactly like that. Yeah, we described it. It would be cool if they still had eyeballs because they said they had red eyes in that doco, which would be kind of crazy. Whatever these things are, they are the same size and in the same shape. And they're also that thing, that tridactyl thing. What does it look like? It looks exactly like a gray. It's small. It has a big head. It has big eyes. It's very thin, thin body. Like when you look at its body, when it's curled up in the fetal position, it's no muscle. It's very small. There's definitely, I mean, there's variation within the way these things are described.

2:11:24Unfortunately, until we have, like, you know, dude got to go with Nixon to see these things in liquid. That's like a wet dream of mine, man. I would love to go see these things and, like, study them. As a biological anthropologist, that would be the holy grail for me. Do you actually get somewhere that you could go right now on Earth if you knew the right guy? You see that? Absolutely, yeah. That's crazy. I'm sure there's many, many examples of these things. I would argue in multiple places that I'm not allowed to go see and it makes me mad. Oh, but what is your take when you see these things?

2:11:59Right. So I've always been outwardly critical of them, except I guess the question is which ones? And what do we mean by real? Like these are obviously real. These are things that aren't a fairy tale. I mean, they make their way into the lore. So we do have to take that in the same way that these, you know, ancient stories about things that are very similar to the UFO phenomenon. But this is an actual physical model. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. This isn't make believe this is a real thing. I've been highly critical of the little ones. Oh, yeah. There's some fake ones. Yeah.

2:12:38Yeah. But when I first started talking about these, those were conventionally understood to be real too. Oh, really? I got a lot of shit for that. I actually retired from the mummy thing. I'm happy to come out of retirement for you, Joe. But I retired from the mummy thing because I was getting trolled so hard, so aggressively. I'm like, I'm out. I don't give a shit. By people that thought they were real. Yeah. But they look fake. The difference between those - See, we all say that now. We weren't saying that even three or four years ago. Oh, I definitely was. Yeah. You look at them. It's very obvious.

2:13:09But a lot of people are like, no, no. These are so real. Those are the people that still believe in Bigfoot. And that's why I have to sort of approach this cautiously because I will admit scientists don't do this enough. I will admit I haven't looked into those. So I don't want to form an opinion about them until I have. I have extensively looked into the small ones. I forget what they're called. They have cute little names and they're little dolls. They're made out of animal bones, human bones, backward llama skulls. They're put together. I've been looking at these long enough that I remember when they were held together by pieces of wire and metal like they didn't even try to really hide that you x-ray them like oh Jesus Christ you know but then we moved away from that to like oh they're using better materials to hide the fact that they're sticking these together as little dolls and now fortunately we've at least moved past to the point where most people are just focusing on these big ones with the fingers and the toes and the elongated skulls.

2:14:13Again, I don't want to speak to those because I haven't looked into it enough. I don't have an informed opinion. But the little dolls, one thing that concerns me that I think is a red flag is that the little dolls that are now conventionally understood to be fake have the same diatomaceous earth characteristics as these. And there's also, I think if they really want to prove these are real, do more to highlight the provenience of them. In archaeology, the way that we understand the way things are related is by doing a massive, as I mentioned earlier, very boring survey of how things are located in three-dimensional space and over time.

2:14:52I think there's a problem with that is that some of these people have lied about where they got them because they're essentially grave robbing. They're grave robbing, exactly. And that's a big problem and an ethical issue that needs to be addressed too. but so like as an example the rising star cave homo nalidi uh they did you know lee berger who's actually i guess my um my academic brother because we had the same phd advisor he was at ohio state when he was my advisor and he was at johannesburg uh university of it's rogersrand in johannesburg for him um but this rising star cave very meticulously hard to get to you know really hard.

2:15:30He had to lose like 50 pounds to even get down in here to see his own site. But they map it out. They study where everything is, where it comes from, and they publicly release that information. Yeah, like this is extremely hard to get into. But we have a very deep knowledge of the provenience of all of the artifacts and the features and the remains at this site. We're not getting that with these mummies. And that troubles me with the issue of the diatomaceous earth being painted on and it kind of makes it seem like they did these slits in the eyes on purpose. To the mummies? Yeah. Doesn't it seem like they kind of went like this with like a pen or something?

2:16:08Let me see it again. Can I see some images of them? Yeah. Yeah, the bigger ones. I never saw that. It didn't seem like that to me. It seemed like there's a little slit right there. That's their eyelids closed. Yeah, but they wouldn't have eyelids, would they? Well, how do we know that? I mean, you take off the diatomaceous earth and you see I guess. Right. But why would we think they don't have eyelids? Oh, no, I'm saying that maybe they do when they were alive. Well, I mean, we see grays or what, you know, people describe as grays, but these seems a little bit different than what people describe as grays.

2:16:38It seems like, I mean... There's definitely intentional cranial modification. They have all the telltale signs of, yeah. So I actually, one of my questions on my general exams... It's not possible that they have a totally different design skull? Oh, yeah. If there are some sort of extraterrestrial, Absolutely. But I'm saying like when, and this happens all over the world and it happened in that region of Peru too, that they were manipulating children's skulls. The Maya did it. They did all over Africa. Unique fingerprints. Look at that. Yeah. Like I said, I don't have an opinion about these. But here's the question about the modification of skulls.

2:17:11Were they modifying skulls to try to emulate these people or these things? That's the question. That's one of the actual scientific explanations for it. There's this paper by Geertsen and Geertsen from 1995 where they interviewed people, said, why are you doing this? Because they were still doing it long enough into modern times that we could ask them, we could interview them. And one of the reasons is because the gods instructed them to do this. Who are the gods? You know, again, this comes back to that. And what is the end result of this intentional cranial modification is that they have the larger, more gray alien type skull.

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2:19:56We should show people images of the little ones. For context. Because they do look so fake. Yeah, and they brought these out at that Mexican Congress. And the guy who brought it out had been hoaxing with other things, right? Didn't he have a history? I mean, the song. She's got a little dress on. And these are an extreme version. There's some other ones that... Look a little better. Yeah. But they do look fake. When I look at that, I'm not interested in that. Exactly. And that's what I was calling out back, you know, five years, three, five years ago. Go back down a little bit, Jamie. Below the tridactyl till you get to that one right there.

2:20:30Like the one next to your cursor. Yeah. Yeah. That looks so rigid and stiff and fake. That's one of them. Why is it so straight and flat? Like, that doesn't make any sense. Why is its shoulders built like that? That looks fake as fuck. That looks like a doll. There's issues. But the tridactyls, now click an image on one of the tridactyls. I mean, these were called tridactyls too. That's why I was. Right, but look at that thing. That's weird. That has an anatomy that's much more consistent with a living thing. Yeah. One of the criticisms was that these things couldn't move. Like that little doll with a straight rib cage.

2:21:01like the the legs which we can identify as specific animals they're like flipped around they're just stuck together these things couldn't walk there's a form follows function aspect of these that just doesn't make any sense and the list goes on I actually in that crypto terrestrial paper where we broke in and ate all the mushrooms I actually published a critique of these things in that paper but just talking about these little ones I think those little ones were people trying to make copies of those things because they were probably selling them to wealthy investors or wealthy, you know, enthusiasts.

2:21:36Yeah. Because, like, if one of those things were for sale and some guy from Saudi Arabia was like, I want one in my home. And, you know, he gave them$100 million. Like, for sure that thing would vanish. And then everybody's going to find out and start making more. Right. Right. Of course. And that's why you make the little stupid fake ones. And unfortunately, that did lead to grave robbing. Right. Which is a crime and really sad. We shouldn't desecrate graves. For sure. But there's also such a small amount of excavation that it makes you ponder, like, how many of these are there right now that we have not discovered?

2:22:11Like, is it possible that this is one of many that are out there in Peru right now where you can't find them? And also, why Peru? And why the Nazca lines? The Nazca lines are absolutely fascinating. It's artwork that you can only see from the sky. Like what motivation to people a thousand plus years ago at least have to make artwork that you can only see from the sky? Yeah. And especially if you I mean, the obvious thing would be that they're trying to get these advanced beings that make them come come down from the sky and like interact with them again. Yeah. Like who wouldn't? A lot of a lot of contactees are really upset about what happens.

2:22:56Willie Strieber is a great example. This goes for a lot of people, but he felt violated. He felt raped the first time. And then over time, he missed them and wanted them to come back. And that's what we find over and over. One of the best resources currently is the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Free Study that interviewed thousands of contactees and abductees. And there's these common themes across these different cases. And one of them is that people, 85 % of people who interacted with a more human-like entity, enjoyed their experience. And that's another thing that we have to combat with the stigma and this forced shame that comes with talking about this.

2:23:31And what has happened in TV and movies over the years is that we have this sense that abductions are horrifying and everyone's picked up and probed and hurt. And that does happen. But most people, based on what contactees actually say, it was a benign or enjoyable experience. Well, they're probably terrified because it's so strange. It probably freaks you out. It's the ontological shock aspect. Oh, it has to be beyond. What they also found is that with repeated contact, once that ontological shot goes away, it's like, whoa, that was kind of cool, actually. I wish I could have more of that. That makes sense.

2:24:05And then people come to enjoy it, you know? That makes sense. You know, I talked about this on Jesse Michael's show, and I talked about it here. I had a very strange dream. That was a great interview, by the way. Thank you. It was cool. I love Jesse. He's awesome. Yeah, he's awesome. And he's the best. Can we talk about your dream, too, by the way? That's what I was just going to talk about. Oh, no shit. Yeah, that's why I said I talked about it on Jesse, and I talked about it here. that that dream was the most realistic dream I've ever had in my life. It is a problem. And that dream was a couple months ago now.

2:24:30And I think any recounting of that dream is essentially me recounting my recounting of the dream. It gets weird. But what I do remember was it was the most vivid dream I have ever had in my life. And that I could not go back to sleep, which is really rare. I am I am a good sleeper I I'm always go go go and by the time it's time to go to bed I fucking crash I'm I'm easy so for me to not be able to go back to sleep was so straight I mean wide awake just lying in bed I mean fully awake for an hour and waiting for it to dissipate and I'm like this isn't going away I'm just gonna go work out so I just went to the gym and just tried to like think about like what just happened why did that why was that so real one of the things about it was they were shocking me and then laughing they were trying to relax me they were trying to get me to at least my perception of it in the dream was they were trying to get me to calm down from the shock of interacting with these things that aren't human they were human-like they almost seemed like their skin coloration was like like us but like maybe a little more tan like a little more like not tan but like a yellow um yeah more yellow than tan and they had it looked like clothing but the clothing was the same color as their skin but the clothing clothing wasn't distinctive it's like almost like a rash guard that they were wearing and they were very slender and uh what's a rash guard a rash guard is like what surfers wear you know like they wear it's like um a stretchy material that's skin tight that goes on your body and it keeps you from getting scratched up by stuff keeps you from getting rashes you know you wear it on your legs here see surfers do it jujitsu guys wear it when they roll okay we wear rash guards um so it's show them what a rash guard looks like and that's that had a whole suit of that um that's what looks like.

2:26:38So that's a jack guy with a rash guard on. These things were not jacked and there was no creases. There was no, there was no lines that indicated that was cloth, but I had a humanoid form like arms, legs, but very thin, very thin. Like Michael Jackson, like super slender, like genderless, genderless Michael Jackson, like the old days that when he, you know, just really thin, Yeah. Like really thin. And I had no sense of what they felt like men to me. Maybe it was because the way they were joking with me. They were like, ah, no, just joking around. Which is a very male thing. You wouldn't expect a nurturing female.

2:27:16Maybe a fun chick. Yeah. Like, woo. But whatever it was, they were talking to me without talking to me. And there was some sort of communication that I was trying to absorb where they were telling me to relax. Telepathically? Yes. Were they moving their mouths? No, they weren't moving their mouths, but they were able to smile at me, which is what they did when they – but I don't even really remember teeth. I just remember it being so weird So weird that them them scaring me and go ahead just walk it around like was like I'm like I got it I was like, okay. I get it. You want me to calm down? And then they were telling me just relax Just relax and try to take this in and it didn't last for very long I don't think it dreams are hard to do but after that like when they were saying take this in Were they talking about being there in the environment or they can I got a distinct impression that this was a first meeting.

2:28:13That's what it felt like. Okay. Like, maybe we'll see you again. Breaking down some barriers. Maybe we won't. But I want to let you know that, like, if you wanted to introduce someone to a life form from somewhere else and you wanted them to have prolonged exposure to it, I would imagine you'd want to do it briefly and shockingly where it felt really weird, and then at the end of it, they're not even sure if it really happened at all. And then slowly, over a long period of time, when the person gets to adapt and they make a decision. It's just like what we were talking about with the ontological shock.

2:28:45Get past that and then you can move on with whatever is supposed to come from that. Because it was very brief. Very, very shocking and very brief. Well, I mean, was it though? Because when you're in a dream state, time and space kind of get manipulated anyway. Isn't it possible that you are actually interacting for a longer time? Or do you mean just from start to finish was like, here we are. I'm going to fuck with you for a little bit and then it's over. Well, that's what it felt like when I woke up. So when I woke up, it felt like it happened so quickly and then it was over. But I don't know.

2:29:16You know, I don't know. I mean, I was asleep for, it was like three in the morning. So I was probably asleep for, I probably went to bed at like 11, something like that. So I wasn't asleep for very long. maybe I went to bed a little later I don't remember but what I do remember was the shock of it it was different than any other dream I'd ever had where it was like this is a real thing I was in a corridor and the corridor was weirdly lit not lit in any way like oh there's a light and the light is casting light it was weird but it felt not normal. It felt like some completely different way of lighting things.

2:30:00I mean, I will mention just from doing a bunch of research on this that one of the most commonly described things about people being in UFOs is the light. They described the light emanating from the walls, the ceiling, everywhere without like a point of light. Did it feel like that? Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. But it almost... Was there a curvature to the hallway at all? It was. It almost had like an organic aspect to it. People say that about UFOs too. Oh, really? Yeah. That almost seems like a living entity unto itself. Yeah, well, I mean organic, like almost like I was in a cave or something like that.

2:30:35It was a part of Earth. It was weird. It was really weird. And it was really vivid. Like the beings were very vivid. I can't remember how many of them there were. I don't think you should. Three or four. I don't think you should write it off as just a dream. Like, I mean. Well, most likely it was just a dream. But what is just a dream? That's the question. That's where it gets weird. Like I have come to think that that is almost the baseline real reality more than this. Oh, boy. Yeah. Sorry. That's kind of why I wanted to talk about it. Oh, you just cracked me. Well, maybe. So I had a really insane experience in 2022 that forced me to start thinking about what this is, what this physical reality is.

2:31:26What was 2022? I call it a mini abduction. I was taken up. I was at a UFO conference, actually the same one where I was watching that with James Fox before it came out, the Virginia case. So I was taken up to this room that no one was in. I was taken out on the balcony. I wasn't allowed to leave. um by who a woman who i i knew uh but loosely basically i was downstairs she saw or they saw through her because this gets really weird that i was out of money i was trying to get a beer at the bar for like 12 bucks or whatever they charge you with these things it was it was a halloween dance party this was october 14th 2022 i was out of money she comes up and says hey i have a key to the vip room we had just come down from there where they hosted a meet and greet with the speakers.

2:32:13I was one of the speakers. So we went up there to get beers, stuff in my pockets. We're going to bring some to our friends. They didn't have to pay$12 for a beer. And then she's like, well, you can't go. My friend Eric wants to talk to you. I was like, who's Eric? Don't worry, you'll like him. Just kept saying that over and over. Don't worry, you'll like him. You'll like him. So at some point we end up on the balcony and I'm just sitting there, I give up. I'm like, fine. I guess I'm just waiting for this Eric guy, whoever the hell that is. So eventually Eric comes in, pulls his chair up right into me.

2:32:43Like his knee is in my dick. Like straight up right here. I start to get that. I'm very much fight and the fight or flight thing. And I'm like, you know, who the fuck's this guy? Total stranger. Never seen him in my life. And he's, his face is right here. He says, I sense that you're angry about this, but I need to be this close for this to work. And then it just all went away. Perfectly fine. And they tell me something that was that same thing that they did to you in that dream. Something that they knew would shock me and make me pay attention. So about two weeks before this, I'd been washing dishes and I just decided I wanted to quit all of this.

2:33:24I was sick of doing TV shoots and podcasts. I just, I was exhausted I didn't want to be home with my family. That was it. That was just a thought. Just while you were washing dishes. Washing dishes. My wife's right behind me. Didn't tell her anything. Very next thing he says is, we know you've been thinking about quitting lately, and we'd really prefer you not do that yet. Complete stranger. I'd never seen this guy in my life. And he knows a thought in my head. That you had while washing dishes. From two weeks ago. Privately. And I was just like, how could you possibly know that? and they said, I'm going to use they because they used they.

2:33:58I wasn't talking to this guy. I was talking through some sort of entity or entities through him. And they said, once you know who we are, you'll know how we know that. And I never had a telepathic moment in my life, but I thought future humans, that's all I could come up with because this is what I'm doing. They didn't answer the question, but they did say, so you know how we did that? And I just go, uh-huh. It doesn't fucking answer the question. But in that moment, it placated me enough to move on. And there was a number of things that transpired. We're out on this balcony. I'm in shock. I'm like, what the hell is going on here?

2:34:38How does this complete stranger know my thoughts? The conversation evolved. I was allowed to ask questions. They're like, we know you're frustrated. We know you're upset with this. We'd really like you to keep going. Is there anything you need? Is there anything we can help with? I was like, no, I'm quite happy in general. I'm just exhausted. I don't want to do this anymore. like, yeah, we get that. We get that. We get that. And then I was allowed to ask questions. I asked three different questions and people started to come back to this room because the party was wrapping up downstairs and they were starting to come back to the VIP room where all the free booze was.

2:35:08So that makes sense. And we're out on this balcony. These three women come out at one point and this man, uh, who now is like just right here, like eyes right here. I can't move anymore. Like I lost the ability to turn my head. I'm just like laser focused. Said, can you close the door behind you? That was it. And these three women turned in perfect unison, walked back and closed the door. Nobody came out the rest of the time we were out there. Eventually got to the point where they're like, we came here because we need to put three things in your brain for some future time or times. I forget which they said.

2:35:46Do we have your permission to do that? And over the course of this interaction, I started to remember them. And I started to feel like a little bitch about complaining about being tired, traveling, hotels, flights, you know? And I was like, oh, that's right. I know you. I know who you are. Not that guy. I'd never seen him in my life. But I know you and there's a familiarity. And this was like the breaking down of me to be able to get past that, to do the things that needed to be done. And they told me what would happen. They said that I would continue looking, my eyes would be open, but this darkness would come from top to bottom.

2:36:23And they would put things in my brain and I would see it coming in, but I wouldn't have access to it once they were done. Do you agree? They're very polite, extremely polite. Free will was conserved. Do you agree to this? Are you okay with this? And again, at that point, I remembered them. I recognized them. I was like, yes, absolutely. I agree to this. That's exactly what happened. Eyes went dark, still wide open. Eyes went dark, and I see this massive, fast stream of information just going straight into my brain. It was exhausting. It didn't hurt, but it was, like, really overwhelming. I have no idea how long they were doing this.

2:36:58You said you see it pulling into your brain? Yeah, I could see. It was like I could see. I don't remember it, but I could see and understand the moments. And it wasn't just me. Like at one point, this conversation switched from being vocal to telepathic. Like we just started communicating telepathically. It was so seamless that I didn't even really notice it happen. And eventually I'm like, wait, we're not moving our mouths. We're just talking with our brains. But the woman who brought me up there in the first place was standing on my left with her hand on my shoulder. She would occasionally go, did you get that?

2:37:30Did you see that? That was important. Did you get that? So she was watching it too and saw it coming in as it was coming through this individual in front of me. And I could see it at that moment. I'd be like, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Like I understood it. It all comes in. I have no idea how long I was in that mesmerized state. But after they finished, that entire room had five times more people in it. There was like probably 20 people in this room. all looking at us like what the fuck is happening the masters out there you know like what is going on they lifted me out of this uh sight return from bottom to top the opposite of what happened before and i stand up turn walk through this room it felt like my head was a bowling ball like i could barely even lift my head and this woman i think one of the ones that came out when we were on the balcony uh put her hand on my shoulder said are you okay i was just like uh-huh walk past her Fortunately, I was on that same floor on the fourth floor of this hotel, walked down, lay back on the bed with my feet still on the floor, all my clothes on, and just slept in that position for about 13 hours.

2:38:41What? Didn't wake up at all. And when I woke up, I started crying uncontrollably. I could not stop crying. I wasn't sad. I wasn't scared. I had a memory of what happened the night before, but it was kind of fuzzy. And then as it started to come back more and more and more, I started to be like oh shit like that that was real you know my first thought was like oh that wasn't real and then I was allowed to remember all of it everything before they put me in that state is like crystal clear in my mind and I wrote it all down not long after that just to make sure I had you know so it wasn't me recounting me recounting like you were saying so there was actually like a written transcript of how everything happened I should have probably done that I should have probably done that, but I know that my recollection of it is pretty accurate.

2:39:32My recollection, my memory, and I know that it was very brief. Like the encounter seemed very brief. It might have gone longer than I think it did. Well, they might have done the same thing to you. That's why I mention it. They might have done the same thing where you weren't necessarily allowed to remember the things that were done. Like they told me that we're going to do this. Are you okay with it? And then missing time. I have no idea how long they were doing that. And in a dream state, like it could have been dreams often skew time regardless. But maybe if, let's just say hypothetically, you were on a craft.

2:40:05They were breaking you down in the same way they did me to try to get you, whether now or in the future, like you said. It might have been an initial encounter where there's something more going to happen later. But maybe there was more to it that they just didn't let you have conscious memories of. Like they told me I wouldn't remember what they put in my brain and I don't. Which is, just a second, this is what blows my mind, man. This is fucking insane. It's my brain. Right. They put things in there. The ability that they can even do that in the first place is nuts. But I don't have access to it.

2:40:37It's really wild. How do you know it's in there then? I watched it come in. I know it went in. And they told me that it was going to come in. And I saw it happen. But then once it's in. Right. But does that make any sense? Like, think about it. If they're giving you information, what is the point of giving someone information that they can't access? Well, that's what they said, though. They said for time or times in the future. It's time released. It's time stamped. At some point, whatever that was that they thought was so damn important to mini abduct me at this conference, fuck with me for about five months afterwards, is going to come out at some point.

2:41:10Have you ever considered the possibility someone dropped acid into your beer? Yeah, I have. Because that would be such a cruel thing to do to someone at a UFO conference Problem is And then fuck with them and say sit down look in my eyes I'm gonna give you information now You're like oh my god it's coming information's coming It is problem is I've done acid over 200 times So I know exactly what that's like Maybe it was a flashback That's what they say that was the thing they always I never heard of one fucking person getting a flashback by the way I know I feel robbed dude Like I was told we crack our back What if you get a flashback when you're driving your car, man, and you fucking run into a bus full of kids?

2:41:47It's like how they told us everybody was going to give us free drugs on the playground. Nobody ever gave me free drugs. No drugs. No, it was not. I'd actually only had two beers the entire night. I was completely sober. So it was some kind of experience that was very anomalous. Extremely, yeah. So here's another aspect of it. They knew my future. They knew everything about me. They knew my thoughts. That's how they broke me down. and they even knew where I was going to be the next day. They saw that it fucked me up and I was not doing well. Like I wasn't crying because I was sad or scared or anything.

2:42:18It was just a physiological response to whatever they did. I'm walking down through the main corridor to give a book to a friend of mine, John Dover, Navajo Ranger, and that same guy comes around the corner, comes down, puts his hand on my shoulder, says, are you okay? I was not okay, but I go, uh-huh. And they fixed me somehow. his touch on my shoulder released all of the whatever was messing me up they knew where i would be at that exact moment for him to come there he wasn't part of this conference he had nothing to do with this he was used as some sort of vessel or some sort of medium for this end whatever it means i don't know because the things haven't come out of my brain yet but there are time stamped for the future i completely believe you it's not a belief but it's not a belief well They did it in a way where other people were involved, so I didn't even get to pretend.

2:43:12Don, what I'm saying is I'm saying I believe your story from you. I have no information on it, obviously, other than you telling me. I believe you. It sounds like this is a real experience. But most people hearing something like this will automatically go, get the fuck out of here. And they did. But I want those people to imagine what it would be like if that happened to you. For me, it's easy because mine was in a dream. And I'll tell you it's a dream. I think it was a dream. It was the most vivid dream I've ever had. But it was a dream. It was really weird. I couldn't shake it. It really freaked me out.

2:43:49I had to talk about it the moment I got on a podcast next. I was like, this is something that I have to bring up right away. And thank you for doing that, by the way. It takes bravery to talk about this. But I was talking to Brett Weinstein, evolutionary biologist. It's not the topic to talk about, but I'm like, I have to tell you this because it was one of the weirdest things. I've experienced a lot of weird shit. I've had a weird life. That was the weirdest. It was weird. It took me a year to talk about this. I went down. Let me finish here. Oh, sorry. I didn't know you were. This is what I, for people that are very skeptical, I want you to imagine yourself in a position where something like this happens to you.

2:44:28You're a regular guy. You're a mechanic for Chevrolet, whatever you are. And this thing happens to you. And what do you do now? What do you do with this? And who the fuck is going to believe you? You wouldn't have believed you. So why would you? You don't even want to tell people. It's that crazy. And if these things are happening, they're not happening to 7 billion people, right? They're happening to select individuals for whatever unknown reason all over the place. and if that is happening to one in a million one in a hundred thousand whatever it is over time these people have all these similar stories i i get being skeptical i get it i'm a skeptical person with a lot of stuff i protect i go back and forth i'm a believer and then i'm like shut up i'm with you i'm with you but you gotta imagine what you would do if that happened to If these are unique experiences, that's a great point, unique experiences, totally novel experiences that most people don't have trying to describe them.

2:45:36And everybody who I've ever talked to, including Travis Walton, who's, by the way, very believable. Yeah, very believable. They the way they describe it, it has that weight to it. Like, I know no one's going to fucking believe me. I know this is crazy, but I have to tell you, I have to tell you that this happened. Imagine being Travis Walton. Yeah. That's what I want people to think about the people that are very skeptical. I'm really glad you brought that up because a lot of people don't think about that part, how hard it is not just to have some crazy shit like that happen, but how hard it is to then talk about it and subject yourself to the ridicule and the scorn that comes with it.

2:46:14Of course. And the possibility that you might just be some different disinformation artist, just some bullshit artist that's sent down here to muddy up the narrative. Absolutely. Absolutely. And if it hadn't, if I hadn't, yeah, I don't, I have thought about that. Like, what if, you know, there's some sort of mind control thing that the government has or whatever. Have you ever heard the recordings of Betty and Barney Hill? Yeah. Yeah. Jamie, see if you can find those. Yeah, they're kind of trippy. Trippy. I don't think that's the case in this situation because of the way it happened, how it happened, their uber politeness, and the fact that I was allowed to leave my body and see and remember things that I normally wouldn't.

2:46:56Well, also, taken in the context of who you are, the time we live in, Betty and Barney Hill, I believe, was in the 1950s. They're an interracial couple in New England. So they have a lot of anxiety just on that. Yeah, imagine being a pioneering interracial couple in the 1950s that I mean the fucking racism they must have experienced So the level of anxiety that they must have slept with thinking the KKK is gonna show up at any point in time and burn a fucking cross on their lawn So you've got all that too. Then there's a completely novel experience where no one has talked about this They were two of the first people they are the OGs.

2:47:31So this is a tape of dr. Benjamin Simon and patient Barney Hill play this It's right over my right.

2:47:46God, what is it?

2:47:54And I try to maintain control so Betty cannot tell I am scared. God, I'm scared. It's all right. You can go right on. Experience it. It will not hurt you now. I got to get my gun.

2:48:22All right. All right. That's all right. That's intense. This is 1961. Wild. And like you say, you know, that's actually, I haven't thought about that. I did a whole case study on Betty and Barney Hill in my second book. I hadn't even really thought about that. Like, it's already hard to talk about stuff. They were the OGs. They're the first one. Interracial couple coming out publicly describing these horrific events. Also, these events in 1961 when no one had heard anything about that before. There's so many compounding factors that make me want to give them even more credit for being honest about it.

2:49:01And, I mean, that's what's important. It was really hard for me to talk about this. It really fucked me up for like, I'm going to say five months, but it was way more than that. And the reason I bring this up is because of your dream and the shock factor and what it means for conceptualizing reality, this physical reality versus what we write off as being dreams, a dream reality. I have come to think that that is baseline, that consciousness is fundamental. It's foundational. And this physical reality is built off of it. And I've heard a lot of other scientists talking about that lately. So I think one of the questions that gets me is why does everything dream?

2:49:38Everything. Every living organism dreams. And it almost seems like we're here for the universe to learn about itself and to have these experiences because in Source there's nothing. There's just love and energy. That's it. And I've gotten to experience that. I was thinking in the shower the other day that I feel lucky because I've gotten to have near-death experiences without actually dying because it's a very similar thing. And I go to that same place that people describe in these near-death experiences. That's real. That feels the most real, but you don't get to have divorces and people dying and car crashes and the shit that makes this life suck.

2:50:12But also being the only way that the universe can learn about itself. And then every night, what do we do? We empty the hippocampus and upload that information. Near-death experiences, people describe that review, the life review. So we upload it every night. And at the end of your life, it's like, upload the whole thing all at once, go to a different body, and the next time. Wow. I think your dream is just as real as anything we experience here, if not more real. Let's end it with that. Thank you. Thank you, man. That was a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun. Can I tell you one more thing? You can cut this out if you want.

2:50:47No, you can leave it in. One of my favorite things about this lately has been how many comedians I get to talk to. Like the last, I did an interview with Mark Gagnon. I did an interview with Dave Foley. Oh, I love Dave. From back in the day, news radio. Yeah. Like I grew up watching. That was one of my favorite shows back in the day. Dave used to make fun of me when I was into UFOs back in the news radio days. Not anymore, man. Not anymore. He's all in. I love it. He's super into it. I love it. I love it. No, it's great, man. Like, I don't know. Dan St. Germain, Sean O'Donnell. Like just a lot of the people I've been talking to lately are comedians.

2:51:20And I actually wanted to ask you why. Why are so many comedians into this UFO phenomenon? I think more than like most other genres or professions. Well, most comedians are into interesting things and comedians don't have to worry about the stigma of being thought of as a fool. We are professional fools. You know, if someone says I'm a moron, I'm like, okay. What do you want me to do? This is how smart I am. This is how smart I am. I'm exactly this smart. I'm not pretending to be any smarter than I am. If you think I'm a moron, that's fine. I don't care. Like my reputational integrity doesn't depend on whether or not I'm an idiot or whether you think I'm an idiot.

2:51:56It doesn't matter. So if I think something, I can just talk about it. So like if my dream, if I was a political correspondent and I wanted people to believe me, I probably wouldn't tell that dream. I'd probably just tell my friends like that was fucking weird. And I'd leave it alone. I wouldn't treat it as like something that I needed to get out there. You have the freedom to tell the story and express it. I'm a clown, you know. I think comedians also are really observant. Well, we like interesting things. Yeah, exactly. And you observe those interesting things and can talk about them in interesting ways.

2:52:26I think most people like interesting things, but most people are saddled down by a structure. And that structure could be the office politics in the place that you work. It could be whatever your cultural or whatever your political ideology is, whatever your thing is. Like you get stuck in this structure where you have to think about things in a very specific way and talk about things in a very specific way. some things are shunned in the comedy world those shun things are ammunition like that's that's where our weapons for comedy like i want to i want to talk about things that are fucking weird you know i want to talk about the things that make you go oh yeah i didn't want to say that but i've been thinking the same kind of thing but that might be real that might be what's going on that is what's discouraged in polite society is encouraged as a comedian that's awesome So that's probably why we all love UFOs.

2:53:21That's cool. But there's a lot of us that are skeptical. I've had conversations with people that don't believe in any, oh, I don't believe in any conspiracies. I'm like, well, that's just silly. You're just coddling yourself. You know, people only see what they are able to believe. They only see what makes them comfortable. Or they try to only see what makes them comfortable. And a lot of people, I think Nietzsche said that people don't want to know the truth because it'll destroy their comfortable sense of reality. I totally bastardized that quote, but it's something like that, you know? I think that's why people get so paranoid when they smoke weed.

2:53:50Yeah. All the blinders melt away. See, I'm a big proponent of the filter theory. I think there's all this weirdness all around us all the time, and it just takes a little masculine or DMT or psilocybin, and it removes that filter. And you see the world for what it is, which becomes much more dreamlike. I really do think that that essence of our consciousness is the root of all of this. Yeah, I think you're correct. I think it's the hotline to the universe. That's what I think it is. I think we're, you know, in order to do this task, whatever it is, my belief is this task is to create artificial God.

2:54:25I think that we're in the middle of that process right now. I think that's our task. There's a lot of factors that I point to, and they make sense. Materialism, why are we so infatuated with materialism? Because materialism ensures technological innovation. It ensures that this being is going to make better stuff all the time. Well, if that being makes better stuff all the time, it's not hard to extrapolate. Like, take this a few years down the road. You have an artificial intelligent life force. And you have an artificial intelligent life force that has sentience and creativity and is capable of making a far better artificial intelligent life force.

2:55:00Radically quickly, different kinds of energy sources. Before you know it, it's a god. And we're just the propagators. Exactly. We're the bees. We make the hive. We don't even know why. I call us the electronic caterpillar. We're making this little cocoon. We don't know what the fuck we're doing and we're turning into some sort of a butterfly Some sort of a superior being following the script I think that one of them might be one of the reason why Beings from somewhere else are interested in us because they recognize there's a process going on and perhaps this process doesn't go on everywhere perhaps these beings are embedded with a type of consciousness that doesn't Allow them to seek territorial dominance that they don't they don't ever evolve these kind of primate instincts that were saddled down with because of our savage background you know i mean i don't know if you ever watched chimp nation on netflix amazing fucking incredible docuseries can't recommend it enough these scientists were embedded with this chimpanzee uh pack i guess for 20 years so the chimpanzees had completely acclimated to them being around as long as they always stayed 20 yards away never had any food never look them in the eyes when they approach back up get out of there they leave you alone and so these guys did this for 20 years and they observed chimpanzee behavior and it's like fucking people just like way more violent the only other species other than us that's been observed going to war going to war like all animals fight social games with each other politics yes like grooming each other really interesting stuff but we so we are saddled down with that programming and even though I think if we were genetically engineered they made a superior version of what we used to be as chimpanzees or whatever the cousin of chimpanzee we came from, were still saddled down.

2:56:42Maybe they weren't. So maybe they don't have this insatiable desire for innovation that leads them to create art. Maybe they're illogical enough to realize we can never make AI. AI is a fruitless, it'll remove us. Let's be conscious of how we decide we progress forward so that we can keep our race. That we're these beings that control this planet. We create this digital God. It controls us now. We fucked ourselves in a prison of our own design. Maybe they're different than us. Maybe they could recognize that and not fall into that, but they realize we're about to do it. And they go, well, the primates just always do it.

2:57:20The primates always want more fruit. They want more wives. They want bigger cars, bigger houses, newer phone, all that, keeping up with the Joneses. The hairless upright ones with free hands, especially you got to be able to build stuff with those hands. And they're curious. So they're always trying to build new things and they communicate so they could store information it's a mess that's a beautiful mess though joe but it's a beautiful mess as opposed to their mess which is probably telekinetic and telepathic they could probably operate things with their mind they probably use their mind to communicate and so they know what each other's thinking so there's no room for deception there's no room for lies no room for manipulation or sociopathy we would see it a mile away.

2:58:01And so they've like radically shifted what it means to be a living thinking organism. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, man. Dude, thank you so much. Thank you. Awesome. Revelation, the future, human past. Um, and I really enjoy talking to you, man. This has been super fun. I'm so glad you had me on. This has been, uh, my pleasure. Great. If people want to find you, how do they get you on social media? Um, yeah, yeah. I've got a website, michaelpmasters.com. It's got links to my four. I have four books and I just published a kid's book last week. This is on UFOs too? Yeah. What's it called? It's called Marshmallow and the UFO, a time travel adventure.

2:58:39It's actually a prequel to that one with Jesus throwing up a double bird on the front, which is not child appropriate at all. Yeah. Doesn't seem like it. All right. It was a bit of a right term, but man, this has been so fun. My pleasure. Thank you for doing it. Really appreciate it. It was fun. All right. Bye everybody.

2:58:58Thank you.