A massive public archive of declassified US government files vanished just one day after President Trump ordered the release of all UFO-related documents. The Black Vault, run by researcher and ufologist John Greenewald Jr, had its main server reportedly wiped clean on February 20, deleting hundreds of gigabytes worth of files on UFOs, declassified CIA projects, and major conspiracies, including the assassination of JFK. Black Vault has become a go-to resource for anyone wanting to see exactly what the government has quietly made public over the last 80 years. Greenewald has spent three decades organizing information on hidden programs and little-known incidents that suggest the US has been involved in top secret efforts to recover and take advantage of alien technology. Troves of declassified files the public can freely search through on the Black Vault detail military base reports, witness testimonies, and even CIA directives since the 1940s and 50s which have been unsealed without widespread public knowledge. The researcher has also publicly revealed every time a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was returned by the CIA, FBI, and other government organizations with little or no response. Hours after saying Barack Obama acted improperly by allegedly sharing classified information when he said that aliens exist, President Trump ordered the Pentagon to declassify all UFO files Creator of The Black Vault, John Greenewald Jr, wrote on social media that the website containing 3.8 million declassified files was wiped hours after Trump's UFO order In a statement released on X, Greenewald said he did not 'fully suspect foul play' but noted that he couldn't rule out the possibility because of the suspicious information he had received from the website hosting provider. '[They] had no idea what happened, and on their side, they said it was a deletion, not corruption,' the researcher posted on Saturday. Until recently, the US government has flat-out denied that UFOs or extraterrestrial beings existed, maintaining for decades that there has never been any physical evidence recovered that proves something non-human has ever landed on Earth. However, Trump's February 19 order came after he publicly criticized former President Barack Obama for saying in an interview that aliens were real. Greenewald has previously filed over 11,000 FOIA requests with the US government to obtain these documents, including some declassified reports that date back to the alleged UFO crash landing at Roswell in 1947. His investigations have also provided legitimate paper trails, detailing how former administrations and the intelligence community created secret task forces of high-ranking military and scientific officials to research UFO incidents. These groups include the Majestic 12 (MJ-12), which was allegedly formed after the Roswell crash and worked for over two decades investigating sightings of alien spacecraft, working with non-human technology, and contacting extraterrestrials. The Black Vault contains millions of pages of declassified information from the CIA and other sources on UFOs, secret government projects, and investigations into high-profile assassinations 'It is a stark reminder to us all, me included. And never be intimidated by anything that comes our way, no matter what we expect may have happened,' the researcher wrote on X. 'In my honest opinion, I feel it was a very odd-timed server maintenance done by the hosting provider, that went awry,' Greenewald posted Saturday. However, these file wipes can be done intentionally by bad actors. The most common problem happens when hosting companies perform routine updates or data cleanups. If a software glitch, human error, or incompatible changes take place, it could accidentally delete files or alter permissions. Hardware issues, such as failing hard drives, software bugs, or even power outages, could also corrupt or erase data. Critics of the Trump Administration's promise to release all files tied to UFOs and extraterrestrial contact have claimed the move is merely a stunt to distract the public from other political controversies and nothing about aliens will actually be learned. Many on social media have pointed to the previous releases of the documents detailing President Kennedy's assassination and the Jeffrey Epstein files both containing heavily redacted information that provided no definitive 'smoking gun.' By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Privacy Policy. 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Huckabee also said Israel isn't trying to take over Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, or Iraq, but is just trying to protect itself. Carlson also asked how much it cost to move the U.S. military fleet into the Persian Gulf, and instead of offering a dollar figure, Huckabee replied, "A lot less than it would to bury a lot of Americans." After the interview, Huckabee also released a statement responding to another line of questioning from Carlson that he found perplexing. What I wasn't anticipating was a lengthy series of questions where he seemed to be insinuating that the Jews of today aren't really same people as the Jews of the Bible. I'll first just say something I didn't think to say to Tucker, which is that Ashkenazi Jews, meaning those who families had spent centuries in Europe, are a minority of Israel's Jewish population, only maybe 35-40%. There are far more Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews inside Israel. But there's a good reason, as it turns out, that I had never encountered this theory that Tucker kept pushing on. I think it's important to take a moment now and educate Tucker and anyone else who might get sucked in by this dangerous conspiracy theory, just as I have been educated this week. I'm sharing this information because it has been weaponized by very bad people to delegitimize Jews and strip them of their history. It has really caught fire in recent years on the Internet and social media, mostly from some of the most overt anti-Semites and Jew haters you can find. I don't know why Tucker was so fixated on this, and I'm certainly not saying he knew the origins of this conspiracy theory. But I do know that the discredited idea that most Ashkenazi or European Jews descended from the ancient Turkic kingdom of Khazaria is bunk. I sincerely hope Tucker will let me know when he actually wants to learn facts about the land and people. Julie Stahl is a correspondent for CBN News in the Middle East. A Hebrew speaker, she has been covering news in Israel fulltime for more than 20 years. Julie's life as a journalist has been intertwined with CBN – first as a graduate student in Journalism; then as a journalist with Middle East Television (METV) when it was owned by CBN from 1989-91; and now with the Middle East Bureau of CBN News in Jerusalem since 2009. As a correspondent for CBN News, Julie has covered Israel's wars with Gaza, rocket attacks on Israeli communities, stories on the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and More You are signing up to receive general newsletters from CBN. By signing up, you are consenting to our privacy policy. You can specify preference after sign-up and opt out at any time. You are signing up to receive general newsletters from CBN. By signing up, you are consenting to our privacy policy. You can specify preference after sign-up and opt out at any time. © 2024 The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., A nonprofit 501 (c)(3) Charitable Organization.

You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time. For information on how to unsubscribe, as well as our privacy practices and commitment to protecting your privacy, check out ourPrivacy Policy James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary. James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary. Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics. UFO enthusiasts have waited decades for presidents of the USA to begin talking about aliens. On that front, February 2026 has probably been a real treat, with two US presidents suddenly discussing the topic. on journalist Brian Tyler Cohen's podcast during a speed questions section of the show. Obama went on to clarify on Instagram that he was not talking about life visiting Earth, but life generally out there, minding its own business in the vast cosmos. “I was trying to stick with the spirit of the speed round, but since it's gotten attention, let me clarify. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. But before Obama had made these clarifying remarks, President Trump had already reacted, telling journalists on a flight to Georgia that the 44th president had "made a big mistake", essentially accusing him of revealing state secrets. "He took it out of classified information," Trump told reporters, per Reuters. While it is unlikely that Obama accidentally revealed the secret existence of alien life on Earth during a speed round section of a podcast interview, Trump has since said he will direct government agencies to release more information pertaining to these phenomena. It should be noted that in recent years, the US government has been attempting to be more transparent on the topic, holding public hearings in Congress discussing UAP and UFO sightings. Sometimes, the incidents have had definitive explanations, including an old classic: weather balloons. Responding to Trump's post, NASA Press Secretary Bethany Stevens explained that they would continue to be transparent on all topics. "We continue to embrace President Trump's open science commitment as an agency. "As [NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman] has said, there are certainly things he's come across in the job that he can't explain… but they relate more to unnecessarily costly programs than they do to extraterrestrial life!" Though reassuring, we should point out that Stevens' post wasn't quite accurate either. NASA continues to be one of the most transparent agencies out there, and does release most data to the public, but it does not release all of it. Perhaps NASA has classified secrets squirreled away – for example, the locations of military bases seen with its network of satellites – but don't expect a sudden new release explaining that aliens are real and that they have been hiding from us. Add us as a Google preferred source to see more of our trusted coverage in Search

Sure, the Oscar winner-turned-Hollywood pariah is an easy target given that his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow has accused him of molesting her when she was 7 years old. There are many threads like when Epstein asks Previn in 2014, “have you found a soon to be corpse for lorinda.” Or the time in 2018 when Allen and Epstein invoked infamous rumored cannibal Idi Amin. “Because you also eat the bones providing fiber,” Epstein responded. It was the year before #MeToo would hit Hollywood and leave Allen's famed career in ruins. Allen was in production on the Kate Winslet starrer “Wonder Wheel,” his first movie in a four-picture $68 million deal with Amazon. (A Wayfair spokesperson told Newsweek at the time the theory first emerged in 2020: “There is, of course, no truth to these claims.”) As best as I can piece it together from the files, Epstein was looking to buy Allen a special 81st birthday present and began planning it two months out in September 2015 in a note to himself “strip club, woody film , woody birthday. On Oct. 27, 2016, Allen, who was in production on “Wonder Wheel,” took time away from set to select the gift himself and picked out, of all things, outdoor folding chairs, pasting the Wayfair link to the cheapo item. The order (totaling about $158 per chair) was placed later that day, and Allen received the following message: “Exciting news: Your friend Jeffrey Epstein sent you a gift from Wayfair!” From that point on, a group of at least seven people began obsessing over the shipping details of these low-rent chairs like it was a colonoscopy result. On Oct. 27, Epstein forwarded the Wayfair email with tracking number to his accountant, Bella Klein. I'll keep you posted.” On Nov. 7, a person with a redacted name wrote Allen's assistant Laura Cheung — who's credited on his films “Wonder Wheel” and “A Rainy Day in New York” — “Do you think someone will be home to receive the chairs? Epstein's assistant assured her boss that someone from Allen's staff will be on hand to accept the delivery. “I spoke with Wayfair (the company we purchased Woody's chairs from) – they have confirmed Woody should receive the chairs on Thursday Nov. 10th via Fed Ex. I let Lauren, Woody's assistant know, and she has confirmed either his housekeeper, Gert, or his chef, Richard, will be there to accept them! :)” Simultaneously, Epstein's assistant kept Allen apprised of the delivery specifications. This all while Allen has moved into post-production on “Wonder Wheel.” But the delivery date changed, and Epstein's assistant let her boss know, “I will keep my eye on them.” Epstein then wrote Previn on Nov. 10: “Woody's Chairs are still at the warehouse!” “I checked on this order and it has NOT left the warehouse as of yet (it was to be delivered today)… Wayfair will be calling me back with an update in 2 hours.” Mind you, Allen's birthday is still 20 days away on Nov. 30, which isn't typically an ideal time for al fresco dining in NYC. Can you confirm receipt for us…I just want to be able to tell Jeffrey his gift arrived…thanks!” Post-delivery, Epstein's assistant then asked Cheung a strange question for two people talking about furniture. Alas, Previn didn't seem happy with the items and wrote Epstein to complain. When the bizarre, unfounded Wayfairgate controversy first emerged as a theory, as later propagated by QAnon adherents, the furniture company noted that the high-priced items buried on its website were merely a glitch, commenting to a BBC News “specialist disinformation reporter” for a 2020 piece called, “Wayfair: The false conspiracy about a furniture firm and child trafficking,” “We have temporarily removed the products from our site to rename them and to provide a more in-depth description and photos that accurately depict the product to clarify the price point.” There are unfortunately still such price glitches on the site six years later, like this item, being sold for $84,999. The price of this 9-by-12-foot rug, which looks like it was photographed in someone's basement, has come down from its original $100,000 during the reporting of this piece. There's also this “bone line” wardrobe made of “solid wood” for nearly $25K. Nor have any of these reports been made by someone who has a specific connection to any alleged missing children.” Epstein ordered a lot of items from Wayfair. Says the source: “This is all simply inexplicable.”

Kelli Saam is an anchor for Action News Now and rejoined the team in 2021. Kelli Saam is an anchor for Action News Now and rejoined the team in 2021. His sister said Redding native Tommy Simpkins was found dead near Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara one week after the Super Bowl was played there. REDDING, Calif. - A woman is seeking answers about the mysterious death of her brother, Tommy Simpkins, who was found dead a week after going missing on Super Bowl Sunday. Brandi Stroud, Simpkins' sister, shared that he was last seen leaving a BBQ in San Jose on February 8, the day of the Super Bowl. He was found dead in a creek behind Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara one week later, with his wallet and phone missing. Stroud tracked down the location where her brother was found through social media rather than law enforcement. She and her family had posted missing person flyers around the Bay Area and shared posts on social media to seek help. "She must've had a police scanner because she sent me the audio... and she told me to call the police... and from there I was able to talk to the coroner and identify my brother by his big Simpkins tattoo on his back," Stroud said. "There's a lot of questions that haven't been answered. I haven't been able to get a hold of a detective... we can't ever begin the healing because we can't get a hold of anybody to tell us what's going on," she said. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Santa Clara Police Department at 408-615-4700. Kelli Saam is an anchor for Action News Now and rejoined the team in 2021. Kelli Saam is an anchor for Action News Now and rejoined the team in 2021.

The Galileo Project's goal is to conduct a systematic scientific search for evidence regarding extraterrestrial technological artifacts. Our research team aims to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of extraterrestrial technological civilizations from accidental or anecdotal observations to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research. The Galileo Project is complementary to traditional SETI, in that it searches for physical objects near Earth that are associated with extraterrestrial technological equipment, and not for electromagnetic signals from distant stars. The data stream is being analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) models in search for anomalous outliers among millions of documented objects every year. We search for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) with flight characteristics that deviate from human-made or natural objects. Our goal is to figure out the nature of UAP through detailed observations. Our observatories aim to infer distances of objects through the method of triangulation, by observing them from different directions with multiple units separated by about 10 kilometers from each other. In the process of training our AI models, we are seeking help from volunteers who are interested in labeling objects from our latest images. For that purpose, the Galileo research team established a new website which displays images and asks interested volunteers to classify objects in the sky into known categories. If you are interested in helping out the Galileo Project in its exciting mission, please click on the link here. Our engineering and data teams are currently focused on infrastructure and model development, meaning that many of the images in our database have never been viewed by a human eye. This is your opportunity to see our data first-hand. By participating, you are directly engaging in the search for UAP. To ensure our machine learning models can accurately detect, track, and characterize UAP, they require a robust dataset of manually labeled images. We currently lack the internal capacity to label this volume of data alone. We are asking the community to assist us with this essential task to improve the accuracy and reliability of our detection systems. Obama said about aliens: “They're real but I haven't seen them,” President Trump responded that Obama gave “classified information, he is not supposed to be doing that.” Shortly afterwards, President Trump released the statement: “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex but extremely interesting and important matters. Of course, we can all wait for the Pentagon or relevant departments in the intelligence agencies to release information about UAP, but while waiting — we can also search the sky for rare and exotic objects. Now that these observatories deliver fresh data, we need your help in sorting out objects in our images. At 11 AM Eastern Time on Thursday, February 26, 2026 - which happens to be my birthday, I will be delivering an overview of the Galileo Project in a colloquium, streamed online on YouTube at the following link: Among these, the second and fourth appeared anomalous relative to known solar-system rocks whereas the third appeared to be a familiar comet. In June 2023 we recovered 850 spherules from the Pacific Ocean site of IM1. 1I/`Oumuamua featured a flat shape and non-gravitational acceleration with no detectable cometary evaporation. 3I/ATLAS has chemical and geometric anomalies, including a trajectory aligned to within 5 degrees of the ecliptic plane. Currently, new Galileo Project Observatories are monitoring millions of objects near Earth in the infrared, optical, radio and audio and analyzing their nature with machine-learning software. Are products from extraterrestrial technological civilizations lurking among the natural interstellar rocks? The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024. Avi Loeb is the Baird Professor of Science at Harvard U. and a bestselling author. Check out his YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb

The Galileo Project's goal is to conduct a systematic scientific search for evidence regarding extraterrestrial technological artifacts. Our research team aims to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of extraterrestrial technological civilizations from accidental or anecdotal observations to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research. The Galileo Project is complementary to traditional SETI, in that it searches for physical objects near Earth that are associated with extraterrestrial technological equipment, and not for electromagnetic signals from distant stars. The data stream is being analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) models in search for anomalous outliers among millions of documented objects every year. We search for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) with flight characteristics that deviate from human-made or natural objects. Our goal is to figure out the nature of UAP through detailed observations. Our observatories aim to infer distances of objects through the method of triangulation, by observing them from different directions with multiple units separated by about 10 kilometers from each other. In the process of training our AI models, we are seeking help from volunteers who are interested in labeling objects from our latest images. For that purpose, the Galileo research team established a new website which displays images and asks interested volunteers to classify objects in the sky into known categories. If you are interested in helping out the Galileo Project in its exciting mission, please click on the link here. Our engineering and data teams are currently focused on infrastructure and model development, meaning that many of the images in our database have never been viewed by a human eye. This is your opportunity to see our data first-hand. By participating, you are directly engaging in the search for UAP. To ensure our machine learning models can accurately detect, track, and characterize UAP, they require a robust dataset of manually labeled images. We currently lack the internal capacity to label this volume of data alone. We are asking the community to assist us with this essential task to improve the accuracy and reliability of our detection systems. Obama said about aliens: “They're real but I haven't seen them,” President Trump responded that Obama gave “classified information, he is not supposed to be doing that.” Shortly afterwards, President Trump released the statement: “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War and other relevant departments and agencies to begin the process of identifying and releasing government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex but extremely interesting and important matters. Of course, we can all wait for the Pentagon or relevant departments in the intelligence agencies to release information about UAP, but while waiting — we can also search the sky for rare and exotic objects. Now that these observatories deliver fresh data, we need your help in sorting out objects in our images. At 11 AM Eastern Time on Thursday, February 26, 2026 - which happens to be my birthday, I will be delivering an overview of the Galileo Project in a colloquium, streamed online on YouTube at the following link: Among these, the second and fourth appeared anomalous relative to known solar-system rocks whereas the third appeared to be a familiar comet. In June 2023 we recovered 850 spherules from the Pacific Ocean site of IM1. 1I/`Oumuamua featured a flat shape and non-gravitational acceleration with no detectable cometary evaporation. 3I/ATLAS has chemical and geometric anomalies, including a trajectory aligned to within 5 degrees of the ecliptic plane. Currently, new Galileo Project Observatories are monitoring millions of objects near Earth in the infrared, optical, radio and audio and analyzing their nature with machine-learning software. Are products from extraterrestrial technological civilizations lurking among the natural interstellar rocks? The paperback edition of his new book, titled “Interstellar”, was published in August 2024. Avi Loeb is the Baird Professor of Science at Harvard U. and a bestselling author. Check out his YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoeb

Editor's Notes: In this episode of Basement #004, AJ from The Why Files sits down with Chris Bledsoe to explore one of the most extraordinary and well-documented UFO encounters in modern history. From discussions about a “divine feminine” presence to the persistent interest of government agencies, this interview investigates a story that challenges our understanding of reality and consciousness. It is a compelling look at a case that continues to intrigue serious investigators and skeptics alike. The Why Files: Chris Bledsoe on UFO Contact and Government Secrets AJ GENTILE: Today I'm talking with Chris Bledsoe, a North Carolina businessman who in 2007 was facing the end of everything. His company had collapsed, he was dying from Crohn's disease, and he went down to the Cape Fear River with his teenage son and three of his workers to fish. What happened next changed his life. And honestly, it's one of the most unusual cases in modern UFO history. Chris and all five witnesses experienced multiple orbs, creatures with glowing red eyes, and a massive Tic Tac shaped craft — and four hours of missing time. Chris came home healed from his Crohn's disease. Four hours of missing time, and he came back healed. Meanwhile, I lose four hours on TikTok and come back with carpal tunnel. And here's where it gets interesting. Since 2007, senior officials from the CIA, NASA, and even the Vatican have been quietly investigating him. Former CIA officer Jim Semivan wrote the foreword to his book. A NASA engineer spent years trying to debunk him and couldn't. Oh, NASA tried to debunk him, huh? Okay, let's get back to work. This one goes places you don't expect. Let's go down to the basement. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Thank you for having me, A.J. AJ GENTILE: Oh, don't say that. You don't have to say that. So if you know my show — and I'm just going to recap this for the audience — at the end of The Why Files, I do a segment on debunking and analysis. This is about telling the story and exploring your experiences. So if you feel any pushback, this isn't a gotcha show. We're going to talk about your story. I guess it all starts at the river. What brought you to the river? Before the River: Business Collapse and Illness CHRIS BLEDSOE: It actually started before the river. Let's back up to about 2001, when the World Trade Center disaster happened. At that time, I had been in business nearly 20 years, building upwards of 100 to 130 houses every year, and was one of the biggest builders in our county and in the state. When that disaster happened — being that my business is based in a military town, Fort Bragg — housing sales just stopped. And so here I am with $18 million invested in property, and the interest rates had gone up to like 8%. On borrowed money, it was costing me $100,000 a month. We fast forward, and I was dealing with Crohn's, and that made it worse. By the time 2004 came along, I was in the hospital having — and I write about this in my book — a near death experience from a doctor poisoning me. It took me five years to go through all the savings I had, liquidating all I could. By summer of 2006, I was just getting to where I could go back to work. I'm still sick with Crohn's, and I'd just had this poisoning in the hospital by a doctor. AJ GENTILE: I'd love to get into that at some point, maybe later today, because you've had two NDEs. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, one from a gunshot when I was 10, and one from over-medication — not checking my vitals, my liver, and my blood work. This doctor just failed to do it, and it caused me to go into toxic shock. So here I am, all this happened. Sick, recovering, at the end of my rope. I had a million dollar home, four kids, living on a golf course for all these years. And now I'm in a mobile home, getting free lunch money from school. How debilitating and demeaning that was. But that led me to the river. AJ GENTILE: What led you to the river? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, it wasn't entirely my decision. I started back to work — just the first job. My dad convinced me to go out and look after a big house that he was contracted to build on the coast, two hours away. So I took a crew of men and had them working there, and we worked four months in 2006, from October to December. When December came along, it was right before Christmas. I didn't need to go back. We were down to the last 10% of what they owed us, doing a punch list. So on the first or second of January, I sent the crew back, told them to do their work and bring me a check back. And that's exactly what they did. On January 8th, they called me: “Hey boss, we got your job done. It was about 2:30 when we got to the river. I was having a hard time mentally — depressed and struggling. I had my son there, he's 17, and these three grown men. They were crew leaders, doing roofing and framing — people that had worked with our family, with my dad, for years and years. I thought it'd be nice to get Chris Jr. out of the house. So we get to the river at 2:30, and I left walking. AJ GENTILE: Why did you leave? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I wanted to get away and think. I just wanted to make sure they were settled in. So I managed the crew, and I felt like they were all set up — sitting on the bank with their poles. I'm going to go find some space and think. AJ GENTILE: Okay, so you had the intention. CHRIS BLEDSOE: So I left walking. Imagine you go to the dead end of a cul-de-sac, drive down into the woods, and it dead-ends into a round grassy area about an acre. I walked into the cul-de-sac to the back of it, looking for deer really — just looking for some away time for myself. So I'm sitting beside a big tree, and it starts getting dark in the woods a lot earlier than out in the open. I think it was 4:45 when I came walking out of the woods and walked up to where they were fishing. I said, “You guys want to go home or do you want to fish some more?” They said, “We just got here, we want to do some more.” I said, “Well, it's going to get cold tonight. So all five of us — me, Chris Jr., and the three guys — went around the cul-de-sac picking up dead wood. We had a huge pile of wood and a little fire going by about 10 after 5. I said, “It's going to be dark soon. It's uphill, about 100 feet of elevation from the riverbank where we were fishing up to this cornfield. When I got up to the top of that hill where I could see clearly, I said, “That doesn't look like the sun. That's really weird.” There was fire going around this thing. I looked down, took two more steps, and when I did, I could see a wider peripheral view — because the higher up I got, the more my view spread. There was another one sitting right beside it that I hadn't seen at first. So now I've got two huge balls of fire. AJ GENTILE: How far away are they? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Probably 300 yards away, about 200 feet in the air, sitting right above the trees. There was this flame going around them, and little tips of fire were shooting off these things. I knew what I was looking at wasn't anything from us at all. And I'd never really studied UFOs — I was dealing with poverty and sickness. I got down on my stomach and raised my head up to look above the hill, because I still had some more hill in front of me. But I started getting worried — my son's down the hill. I need to get back down there and tell them what I'm looking at. The minute I decided to run, I had it in my thoughts: “I'm going to run.” I turned my body, looking back behind me at it, and stood up to run. And the minute I stood up, right above me, another one appeared and shot down right in front of me. I knew that it saw me. I felt like a lab rat. It was just overwhelming — knowing that this thing had me on its radar. Oh my God, what am I looking at?” And the minute I went to run, this other one appeared. It was connected to my thoughts, and I couldn't get away. That was the first thing I knew. But luckily, they wiped my memory. So I had that moment of fear — and then all of a sudden, the lights went out. AJ GENTILE: Just everything went dark. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Just everything went dark. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And so the next thing I realized, I'm walking up to the fire. I don't remember any of that. So I'm walking in the dark. They can't see me coming. And these three guys are standing at the campfire. And the fire's burnt down to very little. I left, and it was a pretty good-sized fire. I've been gone but 20 minutes.” And they're like, “No, you've been gone all night, and we've been looking for you all night.” I said, “Well, where's Chris Jr.?” He wasn't there. And so they said, “Well, he went back to the cul-de-sac, where you went earlier today, looking for you, while we took your truck and drove up and down the road. My son's down in that forest, and it goes for 50 miles to Wilmington, with very little to nothing in there. CHRIS BLEDSOE: So I panicked and took off running, ran to the back of the cul-de-sac, where I'd gone in that day. And he knew where I'd gone because he'd been watching me all the time. I started shouting for him, and nothing — couldn't hear anything. So I started making my way into the forest. I got about 10 feet in there, and I heard him getting up off the ground. He was laying on his stomach underneath these real thick shrubs. He's like, “Oh, my God, Daddy, why'd you leave me?” And I said, “I didn't leave you, son. I just walked up to the field. We've been looking.” So I'm like, “Oh, my God. But I wasn't scared anymore. From that point forward, it was like amusement. These three guys are in shock — they're terrified. So I drag him back to the fire where they were standing. They're very quiet because I was telling them about this ball of light I saw at the top of the hill. And Chris Jr. is talking about this creature that he had seen coming from a quarter mile away. The road at the end of the cul-de-sac is a quarter mile, and then it makes a left, which is only an eighth of a mile. So he sees this light come out in the road way down at the end — a red glowing light. He thought it was a flashlight. In the military they use a lot of these red lenses on their flashlights. And there were two of them. They went across the road about three feet off the ground, and then they came back out on the road and started towards him. He's standing back, calling for me. AJ GENTILE: Can he see what they are at this point? So he crawls under these bushes, trying to get away, just because he's afraid. He couldn't go back to the fire because now it's between him and the fire. So he's hiding, and they get within 15 or 20 feet of him. And there are these two little creatures that were glowing. In a dark night, they look almost like black figures, but with red eyes. It was their eyes that were red. AJ GENTILE: Like a humanoid shape? So anyway, I don't know what to think. I drag him back to the fire. These guys are freaked out — grown men, tough country boys that don't get afraid in the woods — and now they're very quiet. And all of a sudden one of the guys says, “Look.” And we all look up, and there are between eight and nine, maybe 10 bright stars — bright as Venus — that just appear. AJ GENTILE: And they just appear out of the sky. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, just materialized above us. They were way up there, bright as Venus, each one. We were watching this, and all of a sudden, here come three down, and they land on the other side of the river in front of us. The river is only 60 or 70 yards wide. Whatever they did to me, I was no longer afraid. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, and they were angry. So we ran and jumped in the truck. There are three men in the back seat and Chris and I in the front of a four-door Ford pickup. AJ GENTILE: They didn't let you drive, I hope. AJ GENTILE: With your arm out and a radio on there screaming at you. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, I'm starting up the path right out of there, and this road is muddy — real muddy. And they're screaming every breath, “Go, go, go.” And Chris Jr. is just saying, “I want to get home, Dad, I want to get home.” One of them told MUFON, when we reported it, that they had witnessed a red ball of light come out of the woods and follow the truck as we were driving up out of there. When we got up to the top of the hill, to where I had my experience, we went up that hill so fast it almost went airborne when I went over. It's a real steep incline there. And there in front of us were the same two red balls of fire in the same exact spot. The third one that appeared and frightened me — it's no longer a ball of fire, but a Tic-Tac. AJ GENTILE: While you're still in the truck? Now it's an egg in the road. AJ GENTILE: Can you see that it's a structure, that it's a craft? CHRIS BLEDSOE: It was all light. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And the light was doing this — it's like sparkles of light going around. It was probably 100 feet in the air, totally silent. And then it pivoted and shot off like out of a canyon to the north. I hit the gas and we took off. And there became a fight between the guys over who gets to go home first. AJ GENTILE: Are the fire orbs still with you at that point? CHRIS BLEDSOE: There are just balls of — I haven't seen the fire ones now. So we left because this thing had the path blocked. We couldn't go because the road was blocked. But once it went over us, they were beating on my seat, screaming, “I want to see my wife before it's over.” We thought the world was coming to an end, that we were being invaded. I didn't understand what was happening. We left from that point racing. Only a mile and a half down the street is where I was shot when I was 10 years old. Well, at a mile and a half is also where my first wife was killed. And on the 11th month and 28th day of our marriage — two days before our one-year anniversary — I'd been out of town hunting. My dad and I and his hunting club would take boats down on the coast and run dogs on islands, chasing deer. And I knew that she was going to be at this party out in the country. A bunch of friends since we were young — we'd always had a cornfield, they'd go hang out and stay out of trouble. Never went to bars and all that. AJ GENTILE: We find trouble somewhere. We were out in the country, and the law found out about it. And I write about this in detail in my book — why I left. One of her old boyfriends was all snuggled up with her when I got there, and I turned around and I left. I spoke to him and said, “I'm going home.” So I started home, went two miles down the road, and turned around to go back to meet her. Of course I turned around to go back, and on the way back, in this very sharp curve, there was a car laying on its side. I could see the bottom side of it. Didn't know who it was. It was dark, laying on its side. And I said, “You better call the ambulance rescue. I can't find who it was.” So I left and started back to the road, and that's where I tripped over her, laying in the shade. AJ GENTILE: This is your first wife, Dana? She was laying in the shade of the pump house — a water pump. But that night when we left the river, I blamed myself for that all those years. AJ GENTILE: You'd forgiven yourself at this point? But that night when we left the river, everybody's freaking out, scared. I'm in la-la land for what had just happened. It's the biggest thing I remember. So we get to that mile and a half down from where we worked. Here's this big, huge thing hovering right over where she was killed. It just put this vision in my head, and it said, “You have to forgive yourself. So all that together over the next couple of years is what made me understand this thing was so much bigger than some alien coming from the Pleiades. But anyhow, not to drag that whole event out too long. He didn't want to go back that way. Going back towards the house was that way — a shortcut — because we'd have had to drive back under that power line and where this thing was. So we took the long way around, got home. It was probably 11:30, and Christopher ran through the house locking everything. He had every door locked, all the windows shut, all the floodlights on. I'm in my room trying to see on TV if the military's coming. We just know there's an invasion. Because it wasn't one — it was probably 15 in total that we were seeing that night. Nine or 10 at once, and then others up on the hill. AJ GENTILE: I've heard Chris Jr. talk recently, and he still struggles with the story. You can never get over those things. He ran from it for a long time, and it wasn't all his fault. It was pressure from the community and the church that caused a whole lot of problems for us. AJ GENTILE: Well, when you got home from the experience, your wife Yvonne wasn't there yet? CHRIS BLEDSOE: No, no, she was off at her mother's, staying with her mom. They were doing something for a couple of days. I don't know what's happening. AJ GENTILE: Are you still peaceful? And suddenly my dad, who lived next door — we lived out in the country, our houses beside one another — he had dog kennels there where he'd raised hunting dogs all his life. Before I was born, he had dogs. He'd have 30 or 40 all the time. Then all of a sudden, they started barking. And hounds bark very loud — big, mouthy, deep voice. And I knew that what they were saying was that they were scared. They were doing what I'd call a “boo bark.” Dogs do that — they hear or see something, but they don't know what it is. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I've seen that with bear hunting. AJ GENTILE: Is that what you thought it was, a bear? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I thought it was a bear or a deer or something. So all the dogs are barking. Then I thought maybe somebody's breaking into Dad's shop. That was my first thought — somebody's breaking into the shop — because the dog kennel is next to his garage. He and I shared this big 40-foot garage. So I'm imagining the dogs seeing somebody going into that shop. And I said, “Christopher” — he's freaked out now, he's scared, these dogs are barking — “I'm going outside. I'm going to see who's breaking into that shop.” And he didn't want any part of that. I'm like, “Look, we won't take a flashlight. We got Rosie here — she's a 110-pound Chesapeake. She'll keep anything away from us. We'll just sneak down there and see who we see, maybe scare them away.” He had me by the back of the shirt and he never turned me loose. We walk in there and I look, and they're all looking out the back of the kennel. They're not looking toward the garage — they're looking into the forest behind it. So immediately I thought maybe it's a bear. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Because they were barking every breath, facing into the forest. So I'm whispering to Chris, “I'm going to send her in on whoever's in there, whatever. We'll make a run for it. We'll go back and hide behind that big oak tree and see what she pushes out of there.” Typical hunting — that's what we did. Try to cut the dogs off, put them in, and get in front of them and see what comes out. AJ GENTILE: They're trained to do this. So I bumped her on the rear and she took off immediately. And I felt Chris turn loose when I made a left turn — the grass was getting frosty and I slipped — and he turned loose. I ran up to this tree and stopped myself — ran up to it in a full run. I'm against the tree, and the dog's coming, coming straight at me, very loud. And this all happened so quick. When I looked back, he was gone. CHRIS BLEDSOE: But when I did, AJ — there, standing behind me about arm's length — was this little figure, yay tall, which I painted. And it was glowing white, about three — And it was glowing white and it had what looked like a triangle on its chest — a dark area, triangle-shaped. And it had red glowing eyes, about this big around. Scared me bad when I saw it. So I backed myself up to the tree to try to get away from it, but I've got a tree behind me. CHRIS BLEDSOE: She's barking every breath, coming very close. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, she senses it. Dogs have a way of seeing things we can't. CHRIS BLEDSOE: So the dogs are definitely coming. I'm facing this three-foot thing that's glowing. I thought it was going to kill me. I don't mean you any harm.” And it said, “You don't understand. We're here to help you, not hurt you.” That's exactly what it said. And then the dog comes out of the bushes and this thing vanishes — right in front of me, immediately vanished. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I heard it in my mind. Sounded like a man's voice — deep, thunderous, loud. That's one of the few times I ever heard an audible voice. You don't hear voices, but I heard that one plain. I heard it when the lady came in 2012 — this audible voice. AJ GENTILE: Yeah, I would definitely want to get into that. CHRIS BLEDSOE: “Lady, arise.” Just like that. So I go back to the house thinking about how I'm going to tell Christopher about this. AJ GENTILE: That's why you couldn't outrun this thing. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And so I'm trying to find a cigarette, and Chris is like, “You can't go outside, you can't go outside to smoke.” So I go over to the back of my sunroom and put my knees on the couch and reach over behind it and started raising the window up. I didn't even get the window open. I could see it in the floodlight, 20 feet away. AJ GENTILE: What did that look like? AJ GENTILE: Okay, so this is also a humanoid? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, very tall, skinny thing. So I grabbed Junior by the arm — didn't tell him — and I said, “We don't want to stay here tonight. We're going to go somewhere else.” So we went four or five miles away — and this is midnight, one o'clock — where are we going to go? So we went down to a big hayfield and parked in the middle so I could see in every direction until the sun came up. I'm having to manage my child. AJ GENTILE: Have you ever heard of the incident at Devil's Den? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I've heard of Devil's Den. AJ GENTILE: It's almost the same creatures, really. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Wow, I never knew that. He was sitting there, pinned down under the bushes, and they were 20 feet from him — two of them — and one was on its knees picking up bottles and cans and sticks. It would look at them and put them on the ground, while the other one was staring at him the whole time. He felt frozen when it looked at him. He had absolutely no control over himself. And he felt a lot of trauma. AJ GENTILE: There at Devil's Den, that large creature had a triangle on its chest. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Get the heck out. AJ GENTILE: It shows up in all these stories — the triangle. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I never heard that. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Makes sense why NASA came calling and said, “We'd like to talk about that little being with the triangle on its chest.” AJ GENTILE: Well, where are we chronologically at this point? CHRIS BLEDSOE: She comes back two days later. CHRIS BLEDSOE: So this is on a Tuesday night, I think. The Church's Reaction and Five Years of Darkness And I had the greatest story to tell. And it was scaring my wife because she was raised in the Pentecostal Holiness Church, and her family is generous. They were part of the whole movement. They brought it to North Carolina. Her grandmothers and ancestors were very big in the conference. So I had that whole weight on my head there. AJ GENTILE: When you were telling her the story, were you telling it from that position of peace? Because I can't see her reacting positively. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, I was telling her the story, and Jenner was telling it too. She didn't want to believe it. And then when the other guys came a couple days later, they came back to the house to bring back my fishing poles, because we left everything on the river. CHRIS BLEDSOE: We left coolers and sitting right there, sticks still with rods in them. AJ GENTILE: How did the church find out? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, my wife's family is the church. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, she was worried about how to handle this with the children, because the children were frightened. CHRIS BLEDSOE: My 10-year-old daughter thought I was disrupting their school. It just disrupted everything — the school, their sleep. And I have to say, my wife is a very loving person. We've been together 43 years and I couldn't live without her. She's worried about school in the morning, and I'm like Dustin Hoffman all of a sudden — AJ GENTILE: — with the mashed potatoes. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, I was just like that. I was just saying, “Oh my God, you won't believe what happened.” And when she called her family and my family, it turned into, “It was a demonic experience. Any light you see, if it's not of God, it's got to be evil. AJ GENTILE: How did you know it wasn't? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Because it healed me, and it told me, “I'm here to help you, not hurt you.” But I struggled with that. It didn't act like what an alien would. So I started researching the Bible and learned about the chariots of fire, and immediately it started making sense. I furthered my research by meeting Dr. Diane Salka and Dr. George Zervos and a whole lot of other religious scholars and people who know this. AJ GENTILE: What did you find in your research of the Bible that tracks with this story? CHRIS BLEDSOE: This is something Diana gave me. She said, “I'm going to give you this. And that is, throughout the Bible — Mark, Matthew, Luke, Revelations, and even in Exodus — there is something called the “clouds of heaven.” This will be in my next book, by the way. But the clouds of heaven — I'm like, “What is that, Diana?” She said, “Well, these clouds, some of them are talking, some of them are shiny, some of them are feeding people, some of them are protecting people.” For example, in Exodus, it says an angel of the Lord went before the children of Israel for 38 years in a pillar of a cloud — pillar meaning a pylon or cylinder. Wherever that thing went for 38 years, they camped underneath it. It fed them manna in the morning, and it gave them shade by day and warmth and light at night for 38 years. Matthew 24 talks about Jesus saying, “When I come back, I'm coming in the clouds of heaven. I'm going to come back the way I left.” And it says he was taken up in a cloud. So Diana educated me on this very carefully, and there is just tons of evidence. AJ GENTILE: Do you know Daniel 10? It talks about him being made of topaz, made of light — if that's the right book. Daniel, Chapter 10 talks about his angelic vision, what he saw. And it had red eyes like fire. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, like fire torches. AJ GENTILE: And in Ezekiel 40, he talks about meeting a messenger made of shiny bronze who shows him this temple of the future. And I thought you had an experience kind of like that, didn't you? CHRIS BLEDSOE: That's where they took me. I didn't know what happened during those four hours. But after Dr. O'Connell came from Harvard and started working on me, he said, “You'll remember it all over time.” AJ GENTILE: He was a student of Dr. Mack? AJ GENTILE: So John Mack, for folks listening, was an award-winning expert psychiatrist at Harvard who specialized in abduction and contact experiences. CHRIS BLEDSOE: He actually started all this research. Hypnosis, Hidden Memories, and the Tour of Egypt CHRIS BLEDSOE: Dr. Michael O'Connell was a student of his and got his degrees there, and he started helping me with hypnosis to get rid of the headache I had. Every time I tried to think about what happened, I'd get this massive headache and eventually pass out. It happened numerous times in front of investigators. My wife would tell you, “You keep asking him those questions, he's going to pass out on you.” Because there was such a block in there — it would become this pressure, and it would get so painful that I would just black out. He removed that block so I could think about it without the pain. And he said, “If you learned everything overnight, it would probably cause you to melt down. So we're going to program your subconscious to reveal everything over time.” And that's what he did. So immediately I started having all kinds of weird dreams. I go to bed early because I get up early, and they're night owls. AJ GENTILE: What were you saying? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I was saying all kinds of things. One crazy thing I was saying is that they took me to Egypt. It was like a virtual tour, being inside a bubble — something clear and round. AJ GENTILE: So there wasn't a message — it was just, “This is Hathor's temple, this is…” Well, I didn't know what it was at the time. I met Dr. Robert Gilbert, who ran the Vesica Institute — he taught sacred geometry. Sadly, he passed away last year. I don't have the answers. But they also took me up over the Midwest. AJ GENTILE: Before you get to that — is this before what you call in your book your “Five Years of Darkness”? CHRIS BLEDSOE: This was during the Five Years of Darkness. AJ GENTILE: Can you tell me a little bit about how you went from this experience where you're feeling peaceful to five years of darkness? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, why I call it that is I came home with this story, acting like Dustin Hoffman, and they're looking at me like I've lost it. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And I couldn't control it. And that turned into a backfire, because the more I talked about it, the worse it got. It got so bad that I came home one day and the sheriff pulled up in the yard with social workers. It got so bad that at elementary schools and high schools, they were questioning my kids, because I was on TV now. MUFON made a DVD in 2008, promised to vindicate me, and they made it worse. AJ GENTILE: That was a hit job. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, it was a hit job. And so now I've got the school questioning my kids. Next thing I know, social services is at my house trying to remove me from my family. So all of this is the darkness — for five years, it was just constant. AJ GENTILE: This might be too personal a question, but is your wife on your side at this point? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, she's on my side, but it's out of control now. She's just trying to be a mom, live her normal life, and raise her four kids. AJ GENTILE: And are you still welcome in church? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, they told me I had to completely stop talking about this if I ever wanted to be involved in the church anymore. It's something much greater, and I aim to pursue that. So yeah, they gave me that ultimatum. Although I've been a couple of times during Easter or Mother's Day — going with the wife. AJ GENTILE: I want us to take a break in just a minute, but can you give us, before we go to break, that final scene — that final moment in the Five Years of Darkness where everything changed? So five years of fighting social services, fighting the community's ridicule — it was so bad I wouldn't go to the grocery store anymore. And here I am working with NASA. I've got NASA scientists at my house, and I'm down at Cape Canaveral and all these places. AJ GENTILE: Yeah, don't worry, gang. We're going to get into all that in a moment. I was so beat down that Richard Dreyfuss and me had gone into hiding now and shame. But the wall I was hitting was now affecting my kids because my kids were coming home crying. They were being made fun of in school, picked on in the hallways and called out in class by teachers and children. So I went to bed that night at 9:30. It was a Saturday night of 2012, before Easter. And it killed me to say it because I was so deeply moved by what happened, and the Richard Dreyfuss experience, to experience it and to talk about it and to find more. So there are two or three hundred cousins and relatives in that town. “Why did you do this to me? Now I've ruined my children's lives. I can't even get a job now. Nobody will hire me.” I had put in for several jobs. I couldn't get any work. Not even family members would hire me. People that had worked for me. I'll never talk about this again.” To save my children and what's left. And I went to bed at 9:30. At 3:00 in the morning, I know it was 3 because when I heard this voice, it was so loud it woke me up out of a dead sleep. My alarm clock on the counter — back then we had the digital ones — it said 3am. And I could see movement, just a flare. It's not very clear, but I could see movement at the end of my bed in my room. AJ GENTILE: We'll be right back. It's Easter 2012 and you shout, “I'm done. CHRIS BLEDSOE: — said, “Arise.” And it sounded like the deepest, most manly voice I'd ever heard. I don't know what happened, how they're able to control our movements and what we do. Maybe they can turn time off, I don't know. But I got up fully dressed. I had been in my underclothes, but now I'm in full blue jeans, socks, and a coat. So I walk behind these shadowy figures, following them. I haven't been afraid since. Ever since what happened, I lost all fear. So I'm following it, and it leads me out to the dog kennel, right where Chris Jr. and I had put Nelly in the forest and said, “Go get them.” They were standing in the same spot. And one of these shadowy figures hands me something. It stops, reaches out, and hands me this object. And it said, “This is yours, you must keep.” So I reached out and I took it. And when I did, it felt like holding a hedgehog. They had little spikes on them. So I dropped it on the ground. AJ GENTILE: No head or tail? AJ GENTILE: You're describing a tribble from Star Trek, maybe. And it said, “No, you must keep this.” So I reached down to pick it up, and I'm juggling the thing. So I'm standing at the dog kennel. I'm not going to lose it. AJ GENTILE: Are the dogs in there? CHRIS BLEDSOE: All the dogs are gone. CHRIS BLEDSOE: This is five years later. And it wasn't the trees, it wasn't the wind like you'd normally feel. It was in front of me. So I fell to my back in the leaves, right where all this had happened with the dog back in 2007. And as I'm falling backwards, I see what was coming at me out of this blackness. Like a huge cow, runs right over me. And I could see through it. I could see the stars up in it. I grew up on a farm. But the minute it went over, I landed on my back and rolled to my stomach. So now I'm facing behind me, and I'm getting up to run, all at the same time. About six to eight feet from me, floating, is this most beautiful woman from heaven. I still try not to label this, because we really don't know. But she said, “You know why I'm here. This is your burden you have to bear. And on top of that, I'll allow you to film my presence and let you share us with others.” Before, I couldn't film it. I'd go out and there's an orb hovering 100 feet over the house. I'd pull my camera out and it says, “Memory Card Error.” Camera doesn't work anymore. Or every time it would appear, when I'd get the camera out, it'd disappear. They wouldn't let me film it. So right after that, I started amassing a database. I never had any information before. But now I've got a lot. I don't know if you know this, but she's the goddess of maternity and motherhood. And according to ancient Egypt, she is the sky. Which I think in Greek is wisdom. And Hathor is depicted as a cow in ancient Egypt. And that resonated with me because the first thing they showed me was Egypt, right? It's like cow ears and such. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And so immediately that resonated. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, I suppose it could be. But in my research, I know that the word “spirit” — the definition of a spirit — nobody really understands that. The most impactful thing to me was not only seeing and hearing, but the wind that pushed me over. The cow running over me — I saw it — but the wind, physically, it frightened me. So here there's this force that came at me, only to reveal itself as the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. I went from extreme fear to, “Oh my God, what am I looking at?” She's allowed me to share her presence, or the orbs, with everyone. All those men that were on that trip with you, that fishing trip, have all come forward and corroborated your story. Your son has said it happened. Hundreds of people have seen them. I've had a thousand at one time. AJ GENTILE: So now I don't know what to call her — the divine feminine, or whatever. Now you're back on your mission. So take us back through Crohn's disease, which is a very difficult disease with no cure. AJ GENTILE: And you were cured of that? A doctor sent me to Chapel Hill to find out where it had gone, if the markers were still there. AJ GENTILE: When were you cured? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I was cured in 2007. In 2009, I came down with rheumatoid arthritis. It didn't get too bad, but I know the rheumatoid came on from the stress during those five years. It did a lot of damage. But even the rheumatoid doctor said — and even Gary Nolan told me — that it was probably a reprieve from the Crohn's, and it came back as RA. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I went to Chapel Hill. It did not move from one to the other. So yes, this healing ability you have, unbelievably, you have shared with others. AJ GENTILE: Can you talk a little bit about that? Because when I say share with others, I don't mean a boy in your neighborhood. I mean you've been summoned to the White House and — CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, well, that was part of what she granted when she came in 2012. AJ GENTILE: Did it start with Nellie? CHRIS BLEDSOE: It started with my dog Nellie. And believe it or not, she came back in 2013. It didn't happen the first year in 2012. In 2013, she came back and she told me about the situation with Iran and Israel. So it was 2013 when I first got that information. And that's the year that I was asked to put it right into the Pentagon. AJ GENTILE: What did she say about Iran and Israel? CHRIS BLEDSOE: She said, “When you see Israel and Iran begin to exchange missiles” — and I saw them in a vision, they give you telepathic images, it's like looking at a television, really — she said, “When you see these happen, that's when we're going to come in and we're going to start waking up the population. We're going to reveal ourselves, which will change the consciousness of people.” A lot of things this does. AJ GENTILE: All right, we'll get back to that in a little bit. Can you just start with Nellie? CHRIS BLEDSOE: So this is how it went down, 2013. Grant Cameron's Visit and the Burning Tree This journalist, UFO researcher out of Canada — good friend of mine, a guy I really have a lot of liking for — is Grant Cameron. Grant is on the way from Congress. They were doing this mock Congress thing in Washington. And he calls me, says, “I'm going to Florida to do an event down there and would love to stop on the way and visit you.” I said, “Why don't you come stay the night?” He says, “Okay,” comes, he stays two days. He calls me on the way back and he's like, “Man, can I just stop back by? I'd like to at least take pictures of the burning tree. I have the video of it. AJ GENTILE: There's so many biblical connections to the story. It had been raining for two days. My wife and I and children were living next to my dad on a six-acre property, about 600 feet deep and probably 500 feet wide or something like that. I quit smoking October 2012, after the lady came. CHRIS BLEDSOE: So we were watching TV, my wife and I. I said, “I got to smoke.” So I paused the movie we were watching on the cable box. I walked out the back door, lit up a cigarette. The wife says, “I'll be out in a minute.” What looked like somebody lit a couple of bottle rockets off from the ground, and they shot up. She sees that and says, “What?” She opened the door and said, “What's going on with that tree?” I said, “I have no idea. And then all of a sudden, sparks would poof out three feet and they would just kind of do like fireworks, it looked like. Then suddenly, poof — this thing erupted into flames. She freaks out: “Oh my God, how did this happen?” We run out, and Ryan, my son, he takes his iPad — he's got it in his hand — and he starts filming. This tree just spontaneously combusted in our backyard. It messed her up so bad she couldn't sleep. At 12 o'clock, she walks by the back door and looks — and it's burning again. CHRIS BLEDSOE: So we go out and we put it out the second time. At 3 AM she can't sleep, she goes by the door — there it is, burning again. So she puts it out the third time. So Grant is there wanting to see this tree. It's under my name, Chris Bledsoe. “Burning Tree.” You can look that up on YouTube. It's been there since way back then. And that tree became very famous. A lot of people would bring articles of clothing and put them in the tree, and healings would happen and stuff. So April 2013, Grant Cameron comes two weeks after Easter, and we walk out to the tree. We look at the tree and stand around it for 20 minutes conversating. And my Black Labrador Nellie is laying beside us — she would just walk wherever we laid down. So she'd been with us the whole time. All my kids are standing on the patio. I said, “Grant, if you want, I'll get the kids to get your bags out of the car and you can just stay the night with us.” He's like, “Oh, that'd be fabulous.” So immediately he turns his back to me and starts toward the door. I'd leave the doors open that time of year, windows and all. And so Nellie takes off to beat us in the door. But when she did, I saw her go by and blood shoot out of her neck, right outside of her neck. A long stream of blood went down Grant's pants. There's a string of blood going right on into the back of the house. She's about 80 pounds, and me with rheumatoid arthritis — it was adrenaline that kicked in. We're all looking, and Grant's down there with the camera. We don't know how it got there. My friend at NASA — the Dragon — he suggested maybe I should look into healing, because maybe the phenomenon is trying to tell me something. I didn't think about it at the time, but that's what happened. She's laying there bleeding to death. I got my hand on her neck and blood's coming up through my fingers. I knew at that moment she wasn't going to live, because we were 30 minutes from a vet out in the country. She was going to bleed to death before I even got her in the car. There was just that much blood. I didn't realize who was standing there at that moment. I just looked up at heaven. I said, “Lord, you got to help her. The picture — I'll share it with you — but it has her laying there completely still. It went on for a while, to where I had Chris Jr. go get a rag. I thought maybe we could put pressure on it and help stop the bleeding. So he went in and got a washcloth. She just stood up, wagged her tail, and walked away like nothing happened. He wrote a paper on it, an article or two. And so I told that to my NASA friends, and I told it to someone. After the lady came, a whole lot of people started showing up. AJ GENTILE: Well, when did the government first — AJ GENTILE: How did they find you? Well, let's just say in 2007 is when it happened. CHRIS BLEDSOE: In January, under my wife's wishes not to ever talk about it anymore — because it was interrupting the children and the schedule — I decided I wouldn't talk about it and try to help. I've got to talk about it. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And so I went in agony. I went into depression and slept in my little office for 10 months. I went and talked to my wife. I was so upset, felt restricted. But I understood her position with the kids. I had so much anxiety, and I just had to talk to somebody. So for two weeks, I looked at it in agony. The very next day, I get a call out of California from a guy named Jim Dimanchi, I think his name was. And he's like, “Man, we want to come visit. We want to investigate.” I'm like, “Hold on. I just wanted to tell somebody. I don't want y'all here. This is going to cause me a problem.” So I said, “No, thank you.” So January comes along — this is October — they're calling me every week. And January comes, they called me and said, “We're going to officially close the case if you don't want to talk about it.” They'd already opened the case file. So within a week — by February of 2008 — I allowed them to come in. So it happened in January of 2007. AJ GENTILE: How the government first — So when I reported it, Jim Semivan told me that he knew the very minute that I reported it. AJ GENTILE: Because some would say MUFON and the government have a little bit of — CHRIS BLEDSOE: — the same data-gathering apparatus. And they can tell if you're like Richard Dreyfuss — you'll fall for it every time. They tried to give me a training manual. But here's what happened next, and it was terrible. By March, they had six or seven investigators at my house all the time. And they were convincing me to do a documentary on Discovery. “We're going to vindicate you.” This was a month, two months after I met them, and they already had it in place. By June, they had the whole thing shot. And the community said, “No, it didn't. You're dealing with the devil.” Long story short, it backfired. MUFON did a hit job on you. And what everyone points to is that you didn't pass the lie detector test — which, on my channel, I tell everybody that those things do not work. AJ GENTILE: But what's not emphasized is you passed a psychiatric exam. And the lie detector was a farce. You're only supposed to have three or four questions. And it was an abusive thing. They came in and filmed this show — and I write about this in the book — where my little children were so excited. “Hollywood's coming!” My daughter's 10, 11 years old. Here they come, and they've got this assistant going around — a lot like your staff — working to support the production. They're going to send out for dinner. We were all in my house. They took my whole house over. They go out and get dinner, took our order. And when they got back, the kids went to the table — and they didn't have any food for us. Government Connections and the Intelligence Community CHRIS BLEDSOE: So they sat there in my house, ordered food and ate without feeding us. AJ GENTILE: And is that where the government— CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, the government, yeah. Who wrote the foreword on your book. AJ GENTILE: So this is a senior CIA official. AJ GENTILE: When did you first meet him? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I met him in 2013, right after— AJ GENTILE: Right after the lady. But the first government person I met was Dr. Hal Povenmire from NASA. AJ GENTILE: He is a debunker. So they sent him to debunk my case. But he shows up one day in the fall or summer, right after the thing aired in June or July — within a month, he knocks on my door. I'm in town working or something and he calls his dad. “There's this very tall guy from NASA here at the house, wants to meet you.” I said, “NASA?” He said, “Yeah, he drove all the way from Cape Canaveral by chance to find you.” I said, “Well, tell him to hang around, I'll be there in an hour.” So he did. And I was terrified because I had been told by MUFON's people in the UFO world, “They'll kill you.” AJ GENTILE: The Men in Black. “They're going to kill you.” And so the whole family is terrified by this giant of a man. AJ GENTILE: A knock from the government is never good news. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Turned out he was like a family member. Thanksgiving, he and Katie, his wife, were coming to visit us. AJ GENTILE: Was he the one who got you involved in the intelligence community? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, in a way, that and Jim. But he was there in 2008 and he would come every year, two, three, four, five times a year. He'd come to my kids' birthdays, he'd come to my daughter's recitals. And he told me — he told everybody — “You know, that's what I did. I was the one that did that.” He said, “But I have to tell you, I could not ever debunk you.” He said, “I found eight witnesses in Gray's Creek where this thing happened on the river.” MUFON didn't go out and look — he went and put in the effort. And he could never debunk it. Right before he died, he said, “Chris, I know about everything there is to know about this. I've been there a long time and I've always wondered — is it spiritual or is it alien? We all suspect one or the other, but we're not sure.” He said, “But now I know. I know now it's about God.” And that's what a NASA official told me. AJ GENTILE: Well, at this point — meaning present day — you've had CIA, DOD, DIA, all of them. Senior leaders, not some low-level people. AJ GENTILE: What is their interest in this phenomenon? CHRIS BLEDSOE: This is as much of an interest — it's more of an interest to the government than to us. But they also want to know the technology and how to defend against it. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, because they don't know. Most people are conditioned to believe alien things are alien — that it's coming from the Pleiades or this or that. AJ GENTILE: And you don't believe that. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I think it lives right beside us. I can demonstrate it at any time with groups of people. AJ GENTILE: This is maybe out there, but — what if there's life on other planets? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, I think so. I was concerned about the triangle. I asked people in the government — the Dragon and others — “What does that triangle mean?” AJ GENTILE: The Dragon, by the way, is Tim Taylor, who's a very elusive figure. CHRIS BLEDSOE: The White House, or any king or queen — it doesn't matter. I know somebody else who can too. CHRIS BLEDSOE: That's a friend out of Washington. AJ GENTILE: You don't want to name him? CHRIS BLEDSOE: No, you probably wouldn't want me to do that. AJ GENTILE: So the Vatican is interested in this as well. AJ GENTILE: Have they been in touch with you? CHRIS BLEDSOE: They have, through several people, yeah. AJ GENTILE: What is the Vatican's take on this? CHRIS BLEDSOE: To them, what I'm seeing is the Virgin Mary. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And go to Fatima — what do they see? Sometimes they get the full apparition, but a lot of times at these holy sites they see the orbs. AJ GENTILE: And I think the Catholic Church has now acknowledged UFOs — I could be wrong. But haven't they revealed at this point the three secrets of Fatima, which were hell, war, and the end of religion? So were you ever shown — we talked earlier about the two timelines, and how we're at an inflection point where we can choose as a species. We can go down a dark path of evil, or we can go down the light path of enlightenment. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, I think we're heading to the light. AJ GENTILE: I hope you're right. AJ GENTILE: Were you ever shown the other side? AJ GENTILE: Did you tell us? I started to hit on this earlier. CHRIS BLEDSOE: They showed me Hathor's temple. They showed me Egypt as a whole. Then they transport me up over the United States, somewhere up over the Midwest. We were way up high, and we were looking, and they're talking, they're narrating these things. And all of a sudden I see the sun swell up in the sky. And I knew then — that was the reset mechanism. And they told me, “This is what we're in for.” That's the end of everything, man. And that's how the tektites got here. Scientists try to say, “Oh, that can't be a supernova.” Well, yeah, it can. It's happened before, and we know it has, because I've studied with Dr. Povenmire, who was the world's expert on tektites. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And how did they get made? It didn't come from a solar flare — it came from a supernova. So the way they explained it was we had two timelines. They want to do this — these religious extremists, I guess you would call them. AJ GENTILE: I think it's a shadow government. And that's why they're building bunkers. All of that is because they're trying to engineer the end of the world. And that's what she told me — that's what the beings told me. And if we go that route, it would end up in Armageddon. And that they were going to help — and that's by waking us up. AJ GENTILE: And does that lead us into the 2026 event? CHRIS BLEDSOE: 2026 into a time of awakening, not war. AJ GENTILE: And you have been called — I know you don't like the word “prophet.” AJ GENTILE: So let's just call it a prediction. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, what she told me was — it was a riddle in a way. She said, “When the red star of Regulus—” Now, keep in mind, I don't know anything about astronomy. I don't know what Regulus is. She just put these words out. She said, “When the red star Regulus aligns in the gaze of the Sphinx.” And she showed it to me — it looked like a little red ball. CHRIS BLEDSOE: But she said it would appear red on the horizon just before dawn. When that happens, that point would mark a shift into a new knowledge and awakening of the people. It doesn't mean you're going to flip a switch and we all suddenly know that day. I think it's just the beginning of a new era, a new knowledge. AJ GENTILE: And this will be the Sphinx gazing at Regulus. AJ GENTILE: Do you know what constellation Regulus is in? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Isn't that crazy? If you look at a lot of the logos — whether it's the NRO or all these agencies — there's all this Egyptian iconography on them. I can tell you they do. There is something I do know. But let's just say — without me getting in really serious trouble— AJ GENTILE: Are you under any NDA? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I can, but I might cut myself off from a stream of information. Disclosure, Orbs, and the Nature of Consciousness AJ GENTILE: As the legal counsel, I would advise you to be careful here. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, that's what I'm doing. But I do know that they've documented things over the last several hundred years. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Ever since they started keeping records in the US and abroad. The specific thing I'm speaking about. AJ GENTILE: Well, we can see orbs in paintings that are hundreds of years old. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And it's like this — the Gelder painting of Jesus being baptized by John the Baptist. There's a cloud up there and it looks like a flying saucer with laser beams. CHRIS BLEDSOE: How did they know to draw laser beams in the 1300s? They didn't have a flashlight. So yeah, there's a whole lot of knowledge we don't have. AJ GENTILE: Do you think disclosure is happening now? It's happening one person at a time. AJ GENTILE: Because I'm very suspicious of what we're being told. So I don't know if this is planned disclosure, and if it is, I don't like that. The Orbs, Iran, and Government Confusion CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, they're planning it. Partly because when the drone thing happened — and they weren't drones, they were not drones at all, and we know that — they were orbs. It's the very thing I predicted. I didn't predict it, I just told what I was told: that when Iran and Israel go to exchanging missiles, the orbs would start appearing out of the sea, out of the land, out of the sky. They were firing at one another in November. So the government freaked out and they started sending their own drones up — big ones — and leaving them for days hanging around. All that was done to confuse the people. AJ GENTILE: So you're a pilot. I've been shown by another pilot a NOTAM report that showed in advance all these areas where drones would be. But the government never told us that. They never said, “Relax, we've got it, it's us.” They kept us confused and frightened. What would be the purpose of that? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I'll tell you why. I was sitting in a restaurant with some people from the Pentagon and some Congress members and others at the Capitol Grille in Washington D.C. this past summer. After that happened — the thing happened in November and December — but this past summer, or spring, not too far after that, we were meeting and they wanted to know my opinion about this. I said, “I told you — you start shooting missiles with Iran, you're going to get it.” And they're like, “Oh my God, this is catastrophic.” So that term was coined with me sitting at a meeting with these people. They don't want that to happen. They don't want to lose control of the people. They're afraid if they push the button too far, it's going to come down here and wake us all up and take over. They worry about what's going to happen. CHRIS BLEDSOE: That's exactly what's going on. So they backed off of Iran, they quit shooting at one another, the whole thing settled down. CHRIS BLEDSOE: They started shutting down airports over there. AJ GENTILE: If there were a nuclear war, do you think these orbs would stop it? Because we know that they have shut down nuclear facilities. CHRIS BLEDSOE: They told them, “You keep pushing these buttons, we're going to expose you, we're going to stop it.” They keep warning them. I say both because I have video of beings coming out of orbs. I'll show you one today where this orb approaches myself and two or three ladies — one very sick with cancer. It approaches right up to us, flashes, and out steps a seven-foot-tall glowing white figure. When they flash, something just stepped out of it. So I think it's a way they can come into our world through that light. But I have also seen and filmed many others — flying saucers, metal balls like the Tic Tac, the Bouguer sphere. AJ GENTILE: We will put all that footage in this episode because it's all there. When I see debunkers try to say that these are airplanes, I just don't get it, because I've seen the video of it happen in real time where an orb will appear and disappear. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, that's what they are. AJ GENTILE: Where did they come from? They're around us all the time. We just can't see them. As for the beginning — whoever created consciousness — I look at this a little differently than a lot of people do, and I'm slowly creating a hypothesis. AJ GENTILE: I'm wondering where the origin of these things was. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, to put it in my own way — and this is somewhat biblical — what are angels? That doesn't mean grandma with wings. Everybody has a misconception about this. Even Diana told me — every angelic experience is terrifying because they're creatures, they're different than us. It's a tough question, but I think they're fractals of God or consciousness. And I've had the greatest time watching all these scientists who are atheists saying, “We're studying consciousness.” Well, you're studying God. Who programmed this world we live in? Somebody programmed this thing that we're living in. AJ GENTILE: This is a simulation. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, it's a simulation. AJ GENTILE: So if our souls are spun out of the source, and these orbs are spun out of the source, what's the difference? CHRIS BLEDSOE: It's a fractal of God. In other words, how can 8 billion people pray and have a personal experience with God at the same time? So these orbs are just a little piece of that — an intelligent piece of God responding to you and me. And that's where Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is within us.” And, “If you had the faith of a mustard seed, you could tell that mountain to move and it would.” So what is he telling us there? CHRIS BLEDSOE: But I think that we're magical beings with humongous power. Summoning Orbs — and Why That Word Is Wrong Because you can summon orbs at will. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I don't call it summoning, because that is kind of a dark term. You don't summon these things. CHRIS BLEDSOE: It's like ordering God what to do. Stay away from that word, because it's not about summoning. AJ GENTILE: That's in the Bible as well. CHRIS BLEDSOE: When you talk about summoning — these guys doing psionic summoning — they don't know what they're getting. They're liable to get trouble, really get some bad stuff, because it's out there too. It's just asking the Holy Spirit — whom I believe is the lady — to come share her presence with us. That's all I do, nothing else. In front of a thousand people, I had a little church service with Gino. The most liberal UFO place you could go to, and I just had a little church for about two minutes. AJ GENTILE: 300 people saw orbs — or was it a thousand — that appeared when you prayed? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, I just asked a little prayer. She came at me like the wind spirit. Could it be the Holy Spirit? It's okay — we all imagine God in our own way. The problem we have in this world is that brother Tom over there wants to kill me because I don't think like him. AJ GENTILE: How do you know? We've got to come to understand that this whole thing is not within our imagination. The world is much more complicated. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, it's real complex. The Dark Force and Earth's Energy Grid AJ GENTILE: You said something earlier that kind of frightened me — that this energy is here, it's a positive energy, it's a good energy, it's a protective energy. CHRIS BLEDSOE: There is a dark force. Let me say something that gives a little context for where I believe this comes from. I learned this through Dr. Robert Gilbert. He explained something to me about Egypt. He said, “You know what they dig out of the ground in Egypt the most, of all the artifacts they dig up over there?” Pendulums. Dr. Gilbert sold a whole kit of different kinds and taught people to use them. What the Egyptians knew, and what Robert explained, is that the Earth has these grid lines. They're very close together in some places, further apart in others where they're stretched. AJ GENTILE: Some call them ley lines. Energy Lines, Ancient Structures, and the Moon CHRIS BLEDSOE: He said, those energy lines, some are negative and some are positive. And if one of those negative lines happened to run through your house to a bedroom where your child slept, that child could develop very bad problems, sickness, die from it, from this constant negative energy and these evil spirits that are in that. So they took pendulums and they would find these negative lines, they would transmute them up off the surface to clear the area, only leave the positive lines. And then they put these obelisks out there. Those things are tuned — these stones are tuned by somebody that we can't replicate. Why is there one in Central Park from Egypt? Why is there one in Paris from Egypt? AJ GENTILE: They're tuned to sound frequencies. CHRIS BLEDSOE: They transmute this negative energy. And that's why all these cities are so big and all the biggest cities have them. And the pyramids were part of that. I think they were tone generators, peaking this frequency to transmute the darkness. AJ GENTILE: It's been proven that if you send the right frequencies toward the Great Pyramid, it will amplify it and turn into an energy amplifier. CHRIS BLEDSOE: So I think the water underneath them and the salt that they find in them was creating this frequency, pinging constantly. AJ GENTILE: I hate to plug my episode, but we do have an episode about the pyramid as a power plant, as a power generator. They were there before Jesus, five or six hundred years. But I've heard through Robert that the pyramids used to have musical notes all over them and that somebody stripped that all off. AJ GENTILE: I haven't heard that. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I'd heard that before. AJ GENTILE: So if there are negative energy lines, is there also a negative energy source? And we're all part of that electrical energy from the sun. So this negative energy is like a battery. Same way on Earth — you have positive and negative poles, and you have a battery that cranks a car. Yin and yang, it's all the same. AJ GENTILE: Okay, that makes sense to me. AJ GENTILE: What happens when we die, Chris? CHRIS BLEDSOE: In my Christian world, they preach about — and I'm still a Christian. AJ GENTILE: I don't think anything you said today contradicts religion. CHRIS BLEDSOE: But I believe a little differently. I don't think that we know enough to demand that when you die, you go to a heaven that's out somewhere far away. I think it's right here around us. And I think we can come back here. AJ GENTILE: When people ask, like I did, “What do you think happens when we die?” — I'm asking out of fear. CHRIS BLEDSOE: No, I'm not afraid at all. I believe there's a possibility in reincarnation as well. AJ GENTILE: I agree with that. AJ GENTILE: I want us to take one more break. If you wouldn't mind coming back for one last segment. AJ GENTILE: All right, let's take a break. When we come back, I'd like to talk about remote viewing, the Memorial Institute, some of that. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Okay, back in a sec. AJ GENTILE: Tell me about the Dragon. Tim Taylor — the most elusive man in intel and ufology. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Tim is the most elusive. I like to say that about him. He's a ghost because of his work. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, NASA, SpaceX, all of them. NASA runs the launch facility, but they all use it — they rent it. AJ GENTILE: And I think it's public knowledge that he consults with Elon Musk. CHRIS BLEDSOE: So imagine — from what I know — the National Reconnaissance Office has eyes on everything. And if you took mission control, with Tim being the Dragon, he's the head of that, he's in charge. Let's just say there's a square building — it looks like a mobile home that's been put together, a big double quadruple-wide mobile home, little metal tin on the outside. You look over through the glass wall — it's kind of depressed in there — and there are all these consoles, people standing there running the launch. So over there you've got fatigues on, camouflage, and they're in there running a launch, while the NASA people are on the right. He goes in after the launch goes up, and he has these television screens — only for him to see. And he's communicating with the team that's flying. An old friend of mine — he died a couple of years ago — his name was Peter Chobon. I write about him in my book. Peter ran the WB-57 program out of Houston, which uses these big high-flying planes — almost like a U-2 spy plane, but bigger — that loiter up there at 50,000 feet. It starts getting blurry up that high. That's when another plane — the F-104 Starfighter, equipped with rockets and flown by pilots in spacesuits — flies way up there and keeps tailing the rocket. There are like seven cameras on that plane following it. So what are they looking for? The big thing is mechanical failure — if something goes wrong, they need to know how to fix it. But why is the Dragon in that one office? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Because often these UFOs — flying saucers, orbs — will approach these rockets in space and investigate. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And I'm like, “Why did they do that? Did they have weapons on that thing?” He said, well, there was a mock nuclear warhead on there. But they still wouldn't accept it. AJ GENTILE: You can find that illustration online. I think it talks about a craft flying around a warhead, beaming light at it. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I saw that video. I asked him, “Why did they do that? Was there a weapon on that thing?” And that told me all I needed to know. Because they're protecting — they don't want us up there blowing up warheads and stuff. They don't want weapons in space. AJ GENTILE: What percentage of astronauts have seen them? Hal told my wife that one night — I'll never forget. He always said, “Don't ask me that. The men in black will come get me.” I'm like, “Who are the men in black, Hal?” He said, “A bunch of CIA guys riding around in black trucks.” AJ GENTILE: They all work for Tim Taylor. Did We Land on the Moon? AJ GENTILE: What do you think? Do you think we landed on the moon? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I'll tell you how confusing they are. They put out disinformation big time. A lot of things they tell you are meant to confuse. Tim told me — and I had Hal, who was my best friend. He had the David E. Lord Award for 50 years of occultation grazing — that's the moon. So he's telling me all about this, and that there are buildings up there that we didn't build. Hal would tell me this stuff. CHRIS BLEDSOE: He said there are old, ancient structures, and we didn't build them. AJ GENTILE: So do you think that we landed men on the moon in 1969? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, I hear that, and then Tim tells me — he's planting these ideas in my head. He said, “What do you think of the moon?” I'm like, I don't know. I've been obsessed with it all my life. I wrote about it in the book. I was a little boy, always staring at it. He said, “You think it's real?” AJ GENTILE: You think the moon is real? CHRIS BLEDSOE: That's what he told me. He said, “You think it's real?” I said, “Well, I think so.” He said, “Isn't that funny?” And he gave the numbers — how far away it is, and it's in the exact right spot, and it never changes its face, and it's locked in. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And how it got there — he said, “Maybe it was towed into position.” AJ GENTILE: There are ancient Native American legends about the sky without the moon. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I had no idea. That's the kind of things these intel people do. They tell you all kinds of things. So I have to try to sift through the data and make my own thoughts. But he insinuated that it may have been pulled here. AJ GENTILE: A moon that large and that close has never been found on any planet, ever. We are the only one with this thing. AJ GENTILE: If I had to guess, I would say we went to the moon, saw some things that maybe the government didn't want us to see, and that's why we didn't go back for a while. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I think that's probably the truth about it — that we did go there, and they were told not to come back. AJ GENTILE: They were told not to come back, most likely. So that leads me to remote viewing a little bit, because — Project Stargate. AJ GENTILE: So Joe McMoneagle is a friend of yours? Remote Viewing, Psychic Awakening, and the Future of Humanity AJ GENTILE: Ingo Swann was part of that project. He saw aliens on the moon and said we're not welcome there. He saw the structures and all of that. And earlier you mentioned that you had a vision or dream about Bigfoot on Mars, which sounds funny, but Joe remote viewed without knowing what he was looking at. He finally opens up the card and it says it's Mars, one million years ago. In fact, I'm on the History Channel and I'm with the Monroe Institute. My son is a trainer for them. AJ GENTILE: We're big fans of them here. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, and so I'm a huge supporter of them. They've helped me out a whole lot. But remote viewing — all of us have that capacity. Some people have it all the time and don't know what's happening. We all have these moments where, say, you think, “I'm going to call my wife.” You pick up the phone and you start dialing, and suddenly your wife thinks about you, and then the phone rings. Her thoughts fly through space, and you're able to pick up on that. So that's what consciousness is about. CHRIS BLEDSOE: All kinds of things. I've taken training on this stuff. I've been to classes with it. But one of the things that NASA told me a long time ago is that people who interact with these orbs become very psychic. So that's a natural part of it. All of humanity starts experiencing this. And that's kind of alarming to the people in power. They don't want us all becoming psychic. AJ GENTILE: Well, imagine if all of us could communicate with, or absorb, or remote view. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And we all can. AJ GENTILE: And maybe that's the awakening that you've been told about by the lady. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I think that's it 100%. And once people, one at a time, begin to realize, “Oh my God, it's real,” then you start awakening and you can develop these powers. We do a lot of work together. And all these wonderful kids with Kai Dickens. Kai and I were on the World Forum just during Christmas. She told me she ordered one thing for Christmas, and that was your book. AJ GENTILE: That's what I think. AJ GENTILE: Well, let me put you on the spot then. You've said this before — what's the date? What's the date when Regulus turns red? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I was given this riddle by the lady. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, I'm misquoted all the time. I've got people on the Internet saying, “Chris says this,” or “Chris says that.” I've never said that. People say, “Chris says that the Sphinx is going to open up as Paul.” CHRIS BLEDSOE: I never said that. But what you say has a lot of similarities to what Edgar Cayce said about all the records and stuff. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, it's all part of this progression and studying. But what I do know is when the lady told me about this many years ago — about Regulus and this star — I immediately called a literary agent friend of mine, Lisa Hagan. I told her we were working on a manuscript, and we were talking all the time. So I told her about this and she said, “I know a lot of people that do astrology. They write books.” I said, “Well, find out if this is going to happen, if it's really real. I don't know if it's going to happen. It was just a riddle she gave me.” So she called Kirk Nielsen, who's part of the Edgar Cayce Research Center, among others. And they all came back to me way back then — September of 2026, this is going to take place. So for seven or eight years, that's all I preached about. You can look at many older podcasts and I'm always saying September 2026. Wasn't it September?” She said, “Oh, I think we made a mistake there. They now believe it's going to be around Easter, around April.” I thought, well, that makes sense because the lady always comes on Easter. So that's what I went with. But I was never really sold on it — for eight or nine years that's all I said was September. I was never sold on it other than the fact that the lady has always been associated with Easter. But now I see that these astrologers are still unsure of when this alignment will happen. Yeah, October 7th, 2026 at 5:30am — it will line up with the Sphinx. And if the atmospheric conditions are correct, that blue star is going to turn red. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, that's the date. I wasn't really set on Easter. Even though I wrote it in the book, if you read what I wrote, it was just that I've come to believe it. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I was never really sure when that alignment would be, and I'm totally dependent on the experts to tell me when that'll be. So that's probably when I'll be in Egypt. AJ GENTILE: And I think it's important for everybody to know that when and if that happens, we're not going to see magical visions in the sky. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, I think it's going to be something that comes and goes. But we'll all realize in the next five years, “Boy, that guy really, 12 years ago, made this prediction that the orbs would appear when Israel and Egypt and all that.” Well, it all happened. I've been seeing it for 12 years. And now I think it's just going to mark a change, a new beginning. I think we're going to learn some things between now and then that are going to shock us all. I think disclosure is going to become more real. The government's going to reveal more things. I have a little birdie telling me that Egypt is about to release something this year that's going to rewrite history. I've been asked to be a part of it. AJ GENTILE: Can you share any of that? AJ GENTILE: Can you tell me where in Egypt? CHRIS BLEDSOE: I just know it's through the Egyptian government, through the Antiquities Authority. AJ GENTILE: I don't trust those guys. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I don't either. But there are very credible scientists in the United States that are a part of it. It could be they just discovered a new pharaoh there. It could be something out of that. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I think it's more about what's under the ground. I hope we're talking about the Hall of Records. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I don't know. They just told me they want me in Egypt this year and that they were going to reveal something that's going to rewrite history. AJ GENTILE: There's a story that I tell on the show about Dorothy Eady. I don't know if that rings a bell. Since she was a child, she was always drawn to ancient Egypt, and her parents didn't know why. They took her to the British Museum one day — she was four or five years old — and she went to the mummy of the pharaoh that might have been Ramses the Great. She was crying and she said, “I know him.” They gave her a book about ancient Egypt as a child, and she was able to pick up hieroglyphics. She eventually went to Egypt and she knew her way around all the temples. And she said that underneath the Sphinx are these chambers and there's knowledge down there. Dorothy worked with antiquities for years. AJ GENTILE: So you've got scientific evidence with a little bit of the spiritualism of reincarnation. We've got LiDAR and GPR showing all these cavities. CHRIS BLEDSOE: And they're going to tell about it. A New Era: Energy, Disclosure, and the Exposure of Darkness So I think that'll be part of this new knowledge that's going to happen, going to rewrite the old way. I think you're going to see fusion energy, helium-3, all of that. Imagine a world tomorrow where Elon doesn't need rockets anymore. AJ GENTILE: But there are going to be forces that are going to fight that every step of the way. AJ GENTILE: And they still are. CHRIS BLEDSOE: They just killed the fusion expert at MIT. And they're planning to roll fusion out. About 80% of everything you buy is energy costs. AJ GENTILE: So what happens if energy's free? CHRIS BLEDSOE: Then we become very wealthy, everything gets very cheap, and living becomes a lot different. AJ GENTILE: And that power structure kind of goes away. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Well, that's part of the new knowledge. And look at all of what's being exposed right now all around the world — things that people are horrified to see. Whoever thought that going into 2025 we'd be seeing people being trafficked, and the US appears to be the biggest trafficker. I think everybody can sense that something's happening, and can sense that there's an ongoing war between good and evil. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Yeah, I think the good is going to prevail and all the evil is going to be exposed. I don't think we're going down the road of Armageddon. I think we're going up to a new time of happiness — after all these dark individuals are exposed, kicking and screaming as this all unfolds. Thank you so much for coming today. And I would say it's an excellent book. Even if you're not into UFOs or religion, it's a fantastic story. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Thank you for that. It's on Amazon and most other outlets. But the crazy thing is that it's been in the top three to five in its categories for three years now. AJ GENTILE: Well, let's get it up to number one. And when's your next book coming out? AJ GENTILE: Now for fans of The Why Files, you know the saying is there's always a book. Something to keep in mind, folks, is that Chris didn't monetize his story for 15 years. So I never wrote about it until 2022. And all the research I've done — I have spent more time out filming the sky than any three people you can come up with. Nobody has probably spent the amount of time I have out observing the sky, and I've done it all on my own dime. And I get people saying, “Oh, you got the horrible camera, you should do this, you should do that.” Why don't you go out and do the filming? AJ GENTILE: Well, let's support his work. Gang, grab that book, and I'll keep everybody posted with what he's doing and how we can support his work. I do believe we're in a battle with darkness, and his message is valuable and important. CHRIS BLEDSOE: I appreciate that, AJ. And if things go right in the next 30 or 45 days, we're going to step it up and start an expedition out your way, and hope to have you and Gino come along with us at times. If you want to, we'll be a part of it. We're going to film this every night and get more serious about it. AJ GENTILE: We'll be a part of it. AJ GENTILE: All right, Chris, thanks again. CHRIS BLEDSOE: Thank you, and God bless. AJ GENTILE: So we just spent three hours with Chris Bledsoe, and I need to sit with this a minute. The January 8, 2007 incident at Cape Fear River is documented. Chris, his 17-year-old son, and three adult coworkers were all present, and all of them reported what they saw. MUFON investigated, though Chris says the investigation became a hit job — and that's probably true. What's harder to dismiss is who came next. Harold Povenmire, a NASA engineer who worked on Project Apollo and spent 59 years at the agency, investigated Chris for over a decade and couldn't debunk him. Jim Semivan, a 25-year veteran of the CIA's Clandestine Service, wrote the foreword to Chris's book. As for the big claims, Chris says his Crohn's disease was cured after the encounter, and that he has documentation from UNC Chapel Hill showing no markers remain. I couldn't find independent medical verification of that. But here's where it gets interesting. Chris claims orbs interact with nuclear sites. There's the 1967 Malmstrom Air Force Base incident, where Captain Robert Salas reported a glowing red object hovering over the facility right before 10 Minuteman nuclear missiles went offline. That's been testified under oath before Congress. UFO activity around nuclear facilities isn't fringe conspiracy — it's in Pentagon records. Now here's what I'm still chewing on. Some say Easter, some say August, but it's probably going to be October 7th. Chris says he's been saying this since 2012, long before anyone was calculating alignments. So my take is this: Chris Bledsoe is either sitting on experiences that bridge the gap between UFOs, spirituality, and human consciousness in ways we don't have language for yet — or he's the most convincing experiencer in modern history, with an unusual talent for attracting high-level interest. What I can't explain away is the caliber of people who investigated him and walked away believers. NASA engineers, CIA officers, Pentagon officials. Something about this case keeps pulling serious people in, and that's what keeps me thinking about it. Chris's book is UFO of God, available on Amazon. He self-published it and has been in the top five in its category for three years. Our mission is to provide the most accurate transcripts of videos and audios online. Our mission is to provide the most accurate transcripts of videos and audios online.

Team USA won its first men's hockey gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in 46 years on Sunday when Jack Hughes slotted home the game-winner in overtime. While some would call it a hard-fought victory and perseverance, others are claiming other possible reasons for the Americans winning the gold medal. One Canadian sports writer believes that something mystical might be the key to why Team USA won to close out the Olympics. More news: USA Olympic Gold Hero Jack Hughes Linked to Famous Canadian Pop Star More news: USA Hockey Player's Shocking Post-Gold Medal Meal Goes Viral "It was almost as if supernatural forces were at play," Sportsnet writer Luke Fox penned about the gold medal clash. "Storming Team USA's net in hungry waves, Canada was all over the Americans, first tying the airtight gold medal game, then pressing their nemeses like paninis, wanting what's golden." At times, it felt like every small bounce went the United States' way. Although much of that can be attributed to Hellebuyck's phenomenal play, there were some instances in which he would have had no chance of stopping the shot if the Canadians had gotten the puck on target. "Sometimes you hear some funny stuff out there, but yeah," he said.

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