🎙️ The Allagash Lake. We’re up there for for the experience, for the pure pleasure of canoeing and being out in the wilderness. What happens when you get back to camp? Well, we looked on the other side of the lake and here’s this sphere of light. And it’s moving like a balloon moving very, very slowly. What the hell is that over there? When I saw the light, I noticed it had a a weird quality to it. How so? So, I looked at it through binoculars and then as soon as I got them in focus, the light went like that. Whoa. Like a lens closing in on itself. And then it was right behind us and I was like, oh Christ. We are not going to make it back. Keep going. Don’t look back. And then I’m struggling to get up and I see this face bending down to look into my eyes and they began a clinical examination of me. So, you were laying horizontally. What did the table feel like? Very sterile, an emergency room setting in a way. What did the beings look like? A bulbous head with large eyes, no nose like us, slit [snorts] area in the chin. Are you freaking out? Freaking out? I’m beyond freaking freaked out. Do you know if you have RH negative blood?
🎙️ There you go. And then they came for me. I was terrified. He kind of like reached up in the air with his long, thin, articulated arms and he had this thing in his hand that looked like a flattened hockey puck. And they put one on on the outside of each one of my shins, and then I couldn’t move my legs.
🎙️ Oh my god. On his legs for several years, hair didn’t grow there. It was like bald patch on his legs.
🎙️ And and his identical twin brother Jack had tumors growing in the exact spots. Didn’t even get a damn T-shirt. I mean No souvenirs. Ignition sequence start. How is this possible? Nothing too unusual about that.
🎙️ Alien existence cannot longer be denied.
🎙️ Jim Weiner, Charlie Foote, thank you both so much for being here. I have uh followed your story for many years, and so it’s an honor to be in person uh with you both. You guys experienced something absolutely remarkable and kind of mind-blowing in 1976 in Allagash in Maine. Yeah, on the Allagash water system, yeah. And it was you two, and it was His identical twin brother. And then another guy.
🎙️ And another guy, another friend. And okay, so let’s set the scene. What is going on in your lives at the time? So, you’re in your mid-20s. Well, um I was uh college student at the time. Going to go to college on the GI Bill. Um and my goal at that time was to become a school teacher to teach art to children. So, I was a dual major. I was printmaking and photography. So, I figured during the 3 months where I wasn’t teaching I could do artwork to supplement my income. Well, uh uh that was where I was with my education. Jack had and Jim had just graduated from Mass College of Art. I think that year or the year before.
🎙️ Jack did. I never I I didn’t go to I wasn’t at Mass Art at that time. At that time I was in the program in artisanry which was a a crafts program being run by Boston University and Benjamin Franklin Institute.
🎙️ And so you guys are both artists. What are you like
🎙️ All All of us were artists. All four of us.
🎙️ All four. And what what what are you like personality-wise? Are you guys sort of irreverent and rowdy or are you sort of humble and quiet?
🎙️ average mid-20s, you know, Yeah. males, you know. Uh we were enjoying the experience of the wilderness. Uh we had uh started planning the trip the previous year, uh acquiring gear, just slowly accumulating all the gear that we would need, plus the meals ready-to-eat uh type of pack pre-packaged food that we brought along with us as well. And you guys were pretty good outdoorsmen, right? You had some skills when it came to this kind of surviving out outdoors on your own. We Yeah, kind of Grew up fishing out in the country, you know, doing fishing, camping, that sort of thing. Where did you live at the time? Was it in Maine or in Massachusetts?
🎙️ No, we were living in Boston.
🎙️ I was going to college. I was living in Brookline, actually, at that time. And the twins were my next-door neighbors, literally. Yeah. Just on on the other side of the driveway was their house.
🎙️ So you guys have known each other for a very long time.
🎙️ Over 50 years. Yeah, over a half century. Yeah, I mean at that time I was studying ceramics at the program in artisanry. I was working with two amazing um potters. One’s name was Bill Sax, who was a potter in Western Massachusetts, out in West Hadley. The other one was a guy named Rich. What was Rich’s Richard Hirsch. Huh. Who was a a master raku Uh-huh. And are you guys best friends? Oh, yeah. What, him and me? Yeah. I don’t know this guy.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ Sounds like a one-way situation.
🎙️ Yeah. Evil brother. Yes. All right, Jim, you [laughter] got the short end of the stick here.
🎙️ Yeah. I’m used to it.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ So, you guys are you clearly there’s a lot of prep work that goes into this trip. You guys are kind of, you know, figuring out the food situation.
🎙️ Yep. What equipment we need, what clothing.
🎙️ [clears throat]
🎙️ Being prepared for the weather, because it was at the end of the summer. And as you may or may not know about New England weather, Mark Twain said, “If you don’t like the weather, wait a few minutes, it’ll change.” And the weather up there at that time was abnormally hot and dry. It was one of the hottest August at the end of the year that they had had. So, we had gear for a the next level degree of coldness was the primary gear that we had. Hm. Uh we, as I said, had climbed Mount Katahdin uh two days prior to beginning our canoe trip. And when we were climbing up the mountain, I had to take my blue jeans, I had to take a knife and make them into shorts, because we were so soaked with sweat uh from climbing the mountain that our clothing or mine was like grabbing me and restricting my movements.
🎙️ Hiking in jeans is never a good idea. Well, that’s true. You can make them shorts, though. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you got innovative. So, I think maybe one of the most interesting parts of this whole experience that is kind of inextricably linked with it. You can’t kind of separate it is just the landscape of Allagash itself.
🎙️ Oh, absolutely. It’s beautiful up there. Describe it. Well, originally the Allagash water system, which is now a national park system was originally part of the logging industry prior to logging trucks going out into the forest you sent teams out in the forest. They would cut the trees, put them on the lake float them and that was they were moved down the Allagash River all the way to like Fort Kent and Allagash uh the village of Allagash and then that was where they would get out on the St. Lawrence’s is it there? Or St. Francis is it St. Francis? St. Francis.
🎙️ Yeah. That separates Canada from the US. And uh they would run the logs down there. Uh we ran in on our very last day of our canoe trip we met an old logger. Uh his name was Harry Smith. Really interesting character. Uh told us a lot about the early logging days and log jams and what you had to do to unjam them and that was incredibly dangerous cuz you had to get out there and pry the logs loose until the water could grab them and get everything moving again. So, uh the Allagash system uh still has part of an old railroad that they would go in to the forest, load up with lum- lumber or logs, and and take them out that way, as well. And now, uh it is all just a recreational environment.
🎙️ Yeah, it looks very primitive. I mean, you don’t at least when we the places we were at, you didn’t see cuts, you know, areas that were clear-cut or anything like that.
🎙️ There’s no houses along the lake.
🎙️ wilderness. I mean, gray herons are flying over all the time. You see moose, deer. Yeah. Uh loons.
🎙️ Bears, all kinds of wildlife.
🎙️ stuff. You have to um make sure you keep your food stuffs off the ground. You have to tie them up in a tree somewhere, off a branch, so the bears don’t get at them. The um rangers come every day to collect your trash, so that’s doesn’t lay around. The other thing you have to do when um before you even go there is you have to they only have designated campsites, and so you have to tell the rangers when
🎙️ What your itinerary is.
🎙️ what your itinerary is, like, so in case you go missing, they have an idea of which campsites to Start looking for you.
🎙️ for you. So, um and they come and check you. Minute you land on the lakes, when we flew in, we flew in a bush plane. Um within minutes, um two rangers came, and they come and they check your gear. They go through your gear to make sure you’re not carrying any kind of contraband.
🎙️ Mhm. Cuz the Allagash runs into Canada. Mhm. And they check to make sure that you have enough food
🎙️ food
🎙️ first aid
🎙️ and camping things to survive up in the wilderness, cuz we were there for what? Two weeks? Yeah, 17 days on the water.
🎙️ 17 days. So, you know, they’re they’re pretty strict about who they let stay on the waterway and pass through the waterway. And if you’re not out at the end of like the 17 or 18 days, then then they start trying to find you. Had either of you experienced anything anomalous in your life? Had you Oh, yeah. You had? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Describe. Jack and I, when we were kids growing we grew up in the Allentown area of Pennsylvania. Mhm. We used to have these things happen at night in our house where we’d be sleeping in bed. We both shared the same room. And we’d wake up in the night and there’d be something pulling the covers off our beds.
🎙️ Woah. Um or we’d see fit like figures moving around in the room. They um we saw uh Balls of light.
🎙️ Balls of light floating through the house on occasion. Did you ever communicate with any of
🎙️ Oh, yeah, we did with our parents and they used to say, “Oh, you’re having nightmares. Did you communicate with any of the beings or the No, no. We went straight to the bottom of the bed. Scared. Scared shitless. And you guys thought it was a ghost, didn’t you? Yeah, we used to call him Harry the ghost. Ah. He used to call our names sometimes. Like I’d be in in the room doing something and I’d hear this Jim. A real deep voice. Jim. Jim. And I thought it was I always thought it was my father. Was there any history either to the house you were in or to your family?
🎙️ No, my father built the house himself. Anything around your family experiencing paranormal stuff prior to
🎙️ No. this? But my parents um saw uh a being in their bedroom one night.
🎙️ Okay.
🎙️ Hooded being in their bedroom.
🎙️ being.
🎙️ Which we never I never knew until Ray Fowler interviewed her. Woah. And then she reported it to Ray and that
🎙️ So, she wasn’t open about it with you. She was open about it to Ray Fowler.
🎙️ about it to Ray. Well, get to you, but he’s a goofball.
🎙️ Never mentioned it to us. Wild. So, um you know, we used to have like to be like knocking on the walls at night when we try to sleep. And if you go into our basement, um we had a my father had a uh little pool table in the basement, so family members he had a large family, brothers and sisters. They would come to the house every other weekend or so. Back in those days, families like that’s just what they did. Super random question, but do you know if you have Rh negative blood?
🎙️ There you go.
🎙️ Yeah, my brother and I are Rh negative. And you did too, and your dad did. Not you. Your dad did, but you did. You do. Heather.
🎙️ have Rh negative. That’s fascinating, because that’s a commonality among experiencers, this missing protein that seems to for whatever reason Well, when we were when we were like 6 years [snorts] old, um [sighs] we both broke our arms like within a day of one another. Like when you have identical twins, if something happens to one twin, you you know, wait a few hours, it’ll happen to the other one.
🎙️ some entanglement system.
🎙️ entanglement there. Anyway, we had both broken our wrists. And uh Opposite arms, too.
🎙️ Opposite arms. Same fracture location.
🎙️ those days
🎙️ Literally entanglement.
🎙️ Yeah, in those days doctors came to your home. We had a family doctor that, you know, would come to your home if you called them. And so I was in just unbelievable pain. I was in unbearable pain, so they called the doctor. And the doctor came to the house, and he said, “Well, I’m just going to knock them out because if he can’t handle the pain” I mean, I was flipping out. So, he gave me a shot of something to knock me out, and a minute later Jack goes out cold. I don’t know exactly what AG1 is doing in my body, but I do know that my microtubules are online. I’m not saying I can feel the force, but my chakras have definitely auto-aligned. In fact, I used to think I had seven chakras, just like everybody else. And then, I drank AG1. Now, I have 50. Just kidding, but I did used to wake up feeling stiff and groggy, like my brain’s on airplane mode. And then, I started One Habit, one scoop in 8 oz of water. It’s a multivitamin, a prebiotic, a probiotic, and with its adaptogens, it’s the only green powder I’d ever bring to a skiff. Shout out Chris Ramsey. I take this in the morning, and it’s the easiest upgrade I’ve ever made. My favorite flavor is berry, but honestly, they’re all good. AG1 has over 50,000 verified five-star reviews and comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee. Go to drinkag1.com/alchemy to get their best offer, and get three free AG1 travel packs, plus free vitamin D3 plus K2, and AG1’s welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription order. That’s drinkag1.com/alchemy. Again, that’s drinkag1.com/alchemy. We’re linking that in the description. Thank you so much to AG1 for sponsoring today’s episode. Jack goes out cold. Woah. I’m sitting there, and the doctor they actually wrote it up. He wrote up a report, and they wrote it up in one of the local newspapers. And shortly after that, these two guys showed up at our house. And they wanted to talk to my father and mother. And they claimed that they were from some institute
🎙️ institute somewhere that was studying twins, and they wanted to take Jack and I away to study us.
🎙️ What institute? I don’t know which one.
🎙️ the the Round Table Institute?
🎙️ I I remember the name of it.
🎙️ remember where it was?
🎙️ um Duke. Duke? The Rhine Institute.
🎙️ have been the Rhine, but I’m not Don’t quote me. But anyway, they claimed This was
🎙️ So, they’re 70s, late late 50s.
🎙️ Yeah, well, the Rhine Institute ended in 1960, but
🎙️ father freaked out.
🎙️ Yeah. And literally threw them both out of the house and said, “If you ever come here again or if I ever see you around my kids again, I will.” Well, it’s fascinating because that time in history was when children started to be tested in programs that were kind of adjacent to MK Ultra, but also, you know, they were interested in UFO stuff, too. There was a guy named Andrija Puharich. I don’t know if you’re familiar with him, but he was an early kind of architect of MK Ultra. He was a Northwestern uh scientist and and uh I think he was a medical student there, uh but he just got very interested in consciousness. And he had a place in Ossining in upstate New York, and he recruited what he called the space kids. And it was like a camp for high sci, you know, high psychic ability children. And they would often, you know, channel these beings they would call the nine, these sort of, you know, alien entities. The first set of what really were the space kids were younger. Some of them were 7 years old up to 12 or in and in teens. Interesting. So, I wonder if you were, you know, being tracked.
🎙️ were tracking us. Did Was that Did that eventually evolve into Montauk? So, Montauk, I believe, was Yeah, I think it would have been around the same time. I think it would have been that 50s, 60s. I believe that there was like this machinery they found at Montauk and blanking on the name of the author of the book, but Preston something.
🎙️ be. I had I had the book at one time and I’ve given it away already. Yeah. But no, but that sort of So, the I mean, that uh whole the Montauk experiments, which we now think are probably real, inspired uh you know, Stranger Things. And Stranger Things is, you know, hit Netflix show, which is around the DOE and national labs basically recruiting children and doing psychic tests with them. And 11, this character in Stranger Things, which is like the biggest show in the world right now, is based on this. So, I didn’t know that.
🎙️ Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s fascinating. So, maybe they were trying to recruit
🎙️ had They may have had something to do with it, but my father didn’t like these two people at all. Yeah, I don’t blame him.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ So, Yeah.
🎙️ So, that happened when we were kids, and then in 1973, in the spring of 1973, I was attending Mansfield State College in upstate Pennsylvania. It’s almost on the border of Pennsylvania and New York State. Teachers College, and I was I was an undergraduate there, and um they were involved in this project with beavers. Mhm. Because um they were having problems with every time a big storm would come through, they’d have a lot of flooding. There was a river up there. I forget the name of it. But it would flood and ruin everything. And so, they decided what they were going to do was parachute beavers into the countryside all around it. It’s It’s really up in an area of Pennsylvania that’s really wild. In fact, they they filmed um the Deer Deer Hunter movie. Was that the name of it? Deer Hunter? Yeah, that’s where they filmed it. It’s like you can you can walk for 75 mi in any direction up there, and you don’t see a single house. It’s really pre- you know, primitive. Interesting. Anyway, um so, I was I was um gotten They got me and two other friends of mine up there involved with this where they dropped, they parachuted [laughter] these beavers. No, they parachuted in beavers.
🎙️ Yeah, they parachuted in beavers to build beaver dams to control the water table.
🎙️ Wow.
🎙️ Which I thought was a great idea. Huh. Cuz how else do you get into the water table when it’s there’s nothing there except trees and forest. And so, what we had to do, myself and my two friends was and they had other students doing we had to go out into like all these old logging roads and whatever and and find beavers and, you know, mark them, you know, put them in a database. So, I was out one day with these two friends of mine and we’re driving around a little VW bug. We’re driving around looking for beavers. We never, I don’t think we even found any. But we were coming back and it had just become night time and we were driving through a cop, some pasture. It was this huge pasture with two ruts for try tractor ruts in it. And we were driving and then it was dark, so that was But up there in that part of Pennsylvania, that’s um uh, what they call the night sky places. Where like you can go out and look
🎙️ Clear skies. Clear skies or you know, it’s like where that’s virgin black. There’s no light pollution. And uh,
🎙️ [clears throat and cough]
🎙️ so we were driving across, we were lost and we were driving across this pasture, this huge pasture and on the end of the pasture there was a tree line
🎙️ [snorts]
🎙️ and so we were going towards this tree line and then I noticed, I looked up above the trees and I noticed there was this group of stars that looked like the little dipper except they were moving and they were moving in a really strange way. It was like instead [snorts] of like just going in a constant plane pace or plane, they were tumbling like a slinky. They would this whole they were maintaining the the dipper shape. There was probably six or eight of these lights. They looked like, you know, bright bright stars.
🎙️ [gasps and sighs]
🎙️ But they were tumbling end over end and it was coming like right down towards where we were. And then um we were like I was like, “What the heck is that?” So I stopped the car. I said, “We got to get out and look at this thing.” So the three of us got out of the car and we’re we’re watching this thing and it’s just walking out of the sky like right for us. And then all of a sudden out of nowhere this car comes uh opposite us on this tractor rut. So we’re like, “Oh Jesus.” So the car gets around us and then when when the at one point it was like on a hill and when the car lights went up it it hit these lights up in the sky and then they stopped coming down towards us and they started going parallel to us. And while they were they kept maintaining this tumbling thing except they were then they were changing shape. Like they were it was like they would go in at one point they were like a V shape. And then another point it was more like a amoeba type shape, but they it just kept tumbling end over end the whole time. So I said “Let’s signal it.” Because it was only, you know, a thousand, maybe two thousand. It wasn’t that far up in the sky. And so I I had a flashlight in my glove compartment. I could took the flashlight out and I blinked the flashlight and all of a sudden one of these starlight lights like went off like a an big amber flash bulb and it’s like turned into like a tube of light almost like a blob of toothpaste kind of light came out of it. And then it it did a a couple more tumbles and then it just This is the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this. It was going like this tumbling and then all of a sudden it was it just reversed. It didn’t stop and wait. You know, one blink of an eye it just stopped and then reverse it just reversed itself and then it walked back up into the sky and disappeared. That was in 1973. Fascinating. Yeah. Wow. So that was a year before or that was 3 years before this Allagash event.
🎙️ Yeah. So you had had like this whole kind of backdrop of anomalous experiences multiple. Yeah, except that we never we never subscribed them to UFOs. UFOs. I mean, you grew up in you know, I was a grew up in farm country in Pennsylvania.
🎙️ They’re just like ghosts or weird
🎙️ or you know,
🎙️ lights in the sky.
🎙️ lights in the sky, you know, could have been you know, helicopters for all we knew, you know, I mean, I didn’t know what it was and so we nobody talked about UFOs and those you know, I grew up in a family that who was um uh conservative. Very conservative. So like we didn’t talk about ghosts unless something weird happened and then my father
🎙️ ghost. Yeah, that’s that’s Harry. You don’t worry about it’s only Harry the ghost.
🎙️ Yeah. So he would casually he would dismiss it but he would casually he had a name for this ghost.
🎙️ Yeah.
🎙️ Because that’s how much it would appear.
🎙️ We called him Harry. Interesting.
🎙️ Yeah. Okay, so you guys let’s cut back to 76. You guys are at Allagash you have this you know, sort of beautiful landscape. Sounds like they have a rigorous protocol for kind of onboarding you, you know, to to camping out there. You get there uh at what point do you start canoeing? Well, right after we climbed Katahdin, which was the first uh 3 days we were in northern Maine. Went down to Millinocket uh and got some supplies. Uh then climbed Katahdin, broke camp the next morning, took the supplies we had purchased in Millinocket. And we drove north and east of Baxter State Park to a outfitter at Shin Pond. And at Shin Pond uh a friend of ours, in fact the guy that came down this last Saturday, uh we were using one of his canoes. Uh a friend of ours named Charlie had lent us uh a Grumman uh aluminum canoe for our trip. And had taken it to Shin Pond and this guy had had it strapped to the pontoon of the airplane. So, he would take two passengers and the gear for those two guys and the canoe. And that’s all he could put in that little plane besides him. I had a Volkswagen Beetle had a far more complex instrument panel than this airplane had. Yes. Uh it was it was I mean, it was as simple as simple could be. You got a choke, you got an oil pressure gauge, and you got a gas gauge, and that was it. We had two canoes, the one that our friend loaned us and then we brought another
🎙️ rented one, yeah. Describe your first anomalous sighting on the canoe. Well, the first sighting we saw that was on our second day on the lake system. We were on Chamberlain Lake. And that was a lake that runs north-south, and we were going north. And we were trying to get up to the Allagash River. Uh, or the Allagash stream, which flows in from Allagash Lake. And that is totally primitive up there, uh, area. Uh, the only way you can get up there is by poling up the river, and we didn’t know how to pole. Uh, but we attempted paddling and paddling, but didn’t do us any good.
🎙️ Yeah. However, to get back to the first sighting, uh, we had passed two teenagers on our way north. And [snorts] they were fooling around on a little island. And we got up to this site called, uh, Mud Pond. And, uh, we didn’t want to camp with other people. There were people across from us in a sheltered area from the wind. And we had decided to take this one spot. But when we got up there, the wind was like just coming down on us like crazy. And we’re like, we don’t want to be dealing with this all night long trying to put our lean-to shelter together, cuz all we had was a a big, uh, uh, tarp that we used as a tent, you know, cuz you can use tarps for multiple purposes, and we were using it for shelter and as well as keeping our gear weatherproof. Well, at any rate, uh, the weather forced us across the lake uh, where this other group of campers were. And they had asked had we seen these two kids we’d seen earlier, and we told them where we had seen them. And so, they were getting worried because, you know, there’s two teenagers, member of their group, and they Well, and then it had gotten dark by this time. So, out there, it’s so black at night. You You can’t really see your face.
🎙️ see your hand this far in front of your face. So, we were out with them as well, looking with our binoculars across the surface of the water, seeing if we could I find them. And they ended up taking the campsite that we had abandoned. Uh and a member of this other group said, “What the hell is that over there?” And we looked on the other side of the lake, and here’s this sphere of light. And it’s moving like a balloon, moving very, very slowly. But it’s like moving into this wind. So, I’m trying to figure out
🎙️ Yeah, I was trying to figure out like, “What the hell is that?” Uh but then, we spotted these kids, and so, okay. And we looked back this light, and it wasn’t there. So, [snorts]
🎙️ Well, I looked at it through binoculars because it had When I saw the light, I noticed it had a a weird quality to it. How so? I It just didn’t look right to me. It didn’t It wasn’t like a pure white. It was more like a yellowish Mhm. white. And it it I don’t know, there’s just something about it that didn’t seem right to me. So, I looked at it through binoculars. And And then, as soon as I got them in focus, the light went like that. Like a like a a lens closing in on itself, and then it just vanished. Mhm.
🎙️ And I thought, “Well, that’s that’s kind of weird, but
🎙️ [snorts]
🎙️ I didn’t think anything more about it because we were we had to set up camp. So, you know, it was just this weird light, but I had never seen a light do that before. Like just implode in on itself.
🎙️ Mhm. Wait 48 hours.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ You’ll see it again.
🎙️ what was odd, which we we didn’t know at the time, but it was like the direction [clears throat] that it was in line to us was over Eagle Lake. The area that we were camping at 2 days later.
🎙️ So, it was almost like it knew where you were going. It was like patrolling that area or something.
🎙️ the area.
🎙️ That’s interesting. That reminds me of when you hear Commander David Fravor from his 2004 Nimitz incident and he says, you know, we were, you know, dispatched to go check out this Tic Tac object and then the Tic Tac was already at the rendezvous point that he was going to next. It was like they sort of know your intent or something, trajectory. Or it had been there for a while because there was a there was a witness, a logger, who had witnessed the this same craft up in that same area that they were logging. Fascinating. Okay. So, you guys kind of, you know, note that this is anomalous, but you don’t you try to kind of, you know, keep moving forward.
🎙️ Yeah. Well, I mean, we’re not there to see it a a light disappear in the night sky. I mean, we’re up there for the environment, for the experience, for the just pure pleasure of canoeing and being out in the wilderness. What happens when you get back to camp? Well, well, that night, the first night we saw it, nothing. I mean, we would just turned in, got up the next morning, and continued our canoe trip. That was when we tried to get up to Aliash Lake.
🎙️ Do you guys even talk about the first sighting? What was the other one?
🎙️ No. No.
🎙️ I mean, it was was like I got bit by a mosquito type of a thing, you know. So, you probably said something when you were looking through your binoculars, right?
🎙️ Yeah, I said, “Well, this is this this is a strange light.” And when it kind of winked out, I thought, “Well, that’s kind of weird, but I mean, maybe maybe it was a helicopter and maybe it was a balloon or something and that’s just the way it went.”
🎙️ Right. Okay. So, then the next day after that, we had canoed up, tried to get to Allagash Lake, but found it impossible. We’d spent like 8 hours trying to go upstream until we got to a point where we said, “Well, we’re not even at halfway mark.” We turned around and it took us uh about 15 minutes to go back down and to where we started, so we set up camp uh right there on the river that night in this camp location. The following morning is when we canoed down to the Eagle Lake Portage area. So, it was a 3/4 of a mile portage that we had to carry our canoes and all of our gear. So, how we rigged it is that we lashed two poles uh ran perpendicular to the canoe and uh then the four of us would just pick up the ends uh and with the canoe in between us and then walk the canoe over to the other lake, went back and retrieved the second canoe and then got out on the water and we were going to camp at Pillsbury Island. That was our goal. It’s kind of in the middle of Eagle Lake towards the southern end of it. But, there was a canoe about, I don’t know, a quarter of a mile in front of us and that is where he be- beelined straight to. So, we’re like, “Well, we don’t want to camp with other people anymore.” So, we went to our secondary, which was Smith Brook campsite. We set up our camp for the night and then we decided, “Hey, let’s try and catch some fresh fish so we can supplement have a fish meal or something.” So we built a fire because it was getting dark. So we built a fire that we knew would burn for close to 3 hours. And went out on the lake and we had to navigate through standing trees, logs in the water. And it took us maybe about 25 30 minutes to work our way through all this obstruction to get to the site that we were fishing at which was maybe about 500 yards from our campsite. Yeah, we were all in one canoe. Charlie was at one end of the canoe, the other guy was at the other end, Jack and I were in the middle. And
🎙️ All we had was paddles and
🎙️ fishing poles and
🎙️ and that was it.
🎙️ You know, and a flashlight.
🎙️ [laughter]
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🎙️ Mhm. And it’s hundreds of hundreds of yards away from us. And so, we just sat there bewildered looking at this thing. And then, it kind of like makes a left turn. And then, it starts coming straight toward us. Totally silent.
🎙️ Yeah. And so, we’re watching it and watching it. And then, we notice as it gets closer, the tops of the trees are illuminated. And this thing’s only about 15 ft above the tops of the trees. Just coming straight toward us. And when it was about, well, less than 100 yd away from us directly across, I thought, I wonder what the hell it’ll do if I flash an SOS at it. So, I had one of those square battery flashlights with the handle and the push button. I put my hand over the lens, turned the light on, and then I three short, three long, three short. And then this thing stopped. I mean, it just no sound whatsoever, just stopped moving. And all of a sudden this big cone of light blue light, like a neon blue, but it looked like a a giant glass straw. You know, it looked like it was open a void in the center of it or something. And this light starts from the bottom of the sphere coming out across the lake toward the canoe. And that was when I realized the sphere was coming with it at the same time.
🎙️ This thing was big. It was as big as a two-story house.
🎙️ Wow. Oh, yeah. I mean, it was like huge. Wow. And how far away is it? It’s like a under 100 yd from you? When I flashed the flashlight, but when I dropped the flashlight, it was about 75 yd from us and closing. Wow. And so, do you think it it reacted to this uh SOS flashlight?
🎙️ Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it came closer. Yeah. And all I could hear behind me were Jack and Jim screaming, “Paddle, Charlie, paddle.” And as I said, if I could have uh ran across the water like a Jesus Christ lizard, I would have been doing that.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ What um emotions are going through you guys at this point? Well, I was terrified.
🎙️ Self-survival.
🎙️ Self-survival. It’s like we’re I I do not want to deal with this out here.
🎙️ I don’t know what this is, but I I know as much as I really want to know at the moment.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ Cuz it was, you know, it was big. It was huge. Yeah. And you’re like, uh uh-oh, that’s not a helicopter cuz it was absolutely silent. There’s no background noise. I mean, you can hear a loon a quarter of a mile away.
🎙️ Yeah. And this thing didn’t make any noise at all and it it had this weird kind of life to it like it was roiling. This surface of this thing was like roiling. It was alive.
🎙️ It was like it was a some sort of plasma. Yeah, pressure or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something going on inside. Yep. Well, you know what it one of the things that impressed me the most that I recall about it was you’ve seen halos around the moon, right? Sure. This thing had a halo around it as well. As it approached us, you could see the definition of this halo. And the the sphere itself
🎙️ of inside of it.
🎙️ was you know, in constant motion. Yeah, and I remembered I’m I remembered you know, we’re like paddle. Well, the other guy with us, he was he was just like catatonic. He just sat in the other guy with the paddle across his legs and just stared out. And we’re like paddle, paddle, paddle. And he just It’s like sort of help us a little here. So, Charlie
🎙️ name by the way, this other guy who’s catatonic?
🎙️ Chuck. Chuck.
🎙️ Yeah. And um It’s the reason I go by Charlie so there’s no confusion.
🎙️ And so we’re like Chuck, paddle. And he just did sat there staring out into nothing and so It seemed like only a few moments from the time we started paddling to the time that Jack and Jim and I were standing on the beach. We weren’t in the canoe. We’re standing in front of the canoe on the sand of the beach. Yeah. And this sphere had followed us all the way across the lake. Didn’t Chuck also prior to this feel like you guys were being watched? He had some ominous
🎙️ said, yeah. Yeah, that’s what he said. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I the last thing I remembered before we were suddenly at the shore at the camp was looking back to see where this thing was.
🎙️ Mhm. And I thought, well, it’s still like, you know, 70 yd away, except it was like, instead of being back here, it was like right there. It was right behind us and I was like, oh, Christ, we are not going to make it back. And then that’s the last thing I remembered until we stopped at the our canoe at
🎙️ went up on the shore of the campsite and So, there’s a little blackout period, little sort of missing time where you don’t remember
🎙️ but I mean
🎙️ memory at least where Well, I mean, but the thing about it is is in total context, we weren’t aware of anything like this at the time. At the time. But but now recalling it, you remember this bright plasma-like object 75 yd away
🎙️ Oh, no, no, we remembered the whole plasma incident like it just happened last night.
🎙️ And then and then you remember that and then it just sort of flashes directly to like you’re going up on the shore and to the campsite. There’s nothing in between that in your memory.
🎙️ No, no, as a matter of fact, I the I had a very vivid memory of my eyes focused on that campfire and that was all that I was that was my goal, my objective was to reach that site cuz that was the only indicator of where our campsite was. Uh without that campfire, you know, the shoreline is identical at night. It’s dark.
🎙️ When you’re going on the shore and the campfire is in sight, do you guys feel differently physically than kind of before you blacked out a little bit?
🎙️ this was the kicker when we got to shore the three of us were standing on this in sand. I reached down in the canoe and I picked up the flashlight again and I gave it another SOS.
🎙️ Mhm. But this time all it did was it just went away from us to the opposite side of the lake. Once it got to the exact opposite side of the lake it ascended up and away at a 45° angle. Mhm. Yeah, I remembered when we got onto the shore turning around to see where it was and I remember it hovering right over the water and it’s cone of light was coming down onto straight down under it on the water. Really? Like it was there was a beam
🎙️ was sitting on a beam of light and it was close. I remember thinking if I had a stone I could hit this with a rock. And it was only about 40 ft above the surface of the water and the surface of the water was like a mirror. It was like glass.
🎙️ Glass at night. And then it did that same winking out. I remembered Well, that was when it went up in the sky.
🎙️ it just went and then it And and when you could see it sort of close up could you make out how big it was and the and the shape but was circular?
🎙️ It was still spherical. Spherical. Spherical it was still spherical.
🎙️ like maybe two and a half story a house triple decker. Yeah. Triple decker so like 80 ft in diameter.
🎙️ Yeah. Easy.
🎙️ And was it always uh kind of white light or did it change colors?
🎙️ a whitish yellow. What? The the the best example I could give you to envision what we saw would be go into a dark room with a Mhm. Look at the light or turn the light bulb on, look at it, turn it off, and then close your eyes. The after image that you have would be about as close to what we saw as I can think of. For example, Fascinating. So, you guys are going on the shore and you flash the SOS again and the thing kind of, you know, presumes off. goes across the lake and begins to ascend up and away from us. Yeah, when it went, it it flew weird. I remember it reminded me of like when you have a Frisbee. Mhm. And you’re tossing a Frisbee back and forth and sometimes a Frisbee will go at a certain and then skips up and then keeps going and then it skips up again. That’s how this thing it was like it was going up a stairway. What happens when you get back to camp? Well, this is while we’re in camp watching this thing going up. Okay. For some reason, I felt that this thing was about to take off at a high rate of speed. So, I took the flashlight, which I was still holding in my hand once I had signaled it the second time, and I looked at the sweep hand on my watch noting to where the sweep hand was or the second hand, then I looked back up at this thing and then it shot off into the night sky. I So, I didn’t observe it skipping. I just mean that probably happened when I was looking at my wrist watch. But, when that thing took off within 8 seconds of the time I spotted the sweep hand to the time the thing was a pinpoint of light in the night sky, 8 seconds had elapsed. Mhm. And uh I turned and I looked at the campfire. The campfire had flames about 1 in high. The campfire had completely burned out. But, I didn’t say, “Oh my god, what happened to the fire?” I mean, cuz fires burn out. You You expect that. But, I was puzzled by the fact that the fire was exhausted. So, I asked everybody, “Should I throw some wood on the fire and build it up?” And they’re like, “Fuck [snorts] the fire, man. I’m exhausted. I’m going to” And I all of a sudden just felt exhausted. So, it was like that adrenaline that put you into that afterburner rocket across the lake to get back to your shoreline safety, that adrenaline is now dissipated and exhaustion hits you. That’s the way it felt like. But, you somehow intuited that this thing was going to shoot off. That you you felt like you had a sort of premonition and I didn’t I didn’t know why at that time. It took [clears throat] uh uh us going through hypnotic regression Mhm. to learn the answer to that. And The fire The fire’s significant, too, right?
🎙️ Yeah. Yeah. Ex- extremely so.
🎙️ So, so explain that. Well, the fact that we had only been out on the water less than 30 minutes when we encountered this thing. So, it should have taken us about 20 minutes to get back to shore, but it seemed like going took a few moments for us to get back to shore. And when we got back to shore, the fire was extinguished. So, that was a 3-hour period of time that is that missing time that everybody talks about.
🎙️ And the the fire initially was set, you know, it was an intense fire. Yeah. Yeah. It was a It acted like a lighthouse. Uh-huh. Cuz I mean, you have to have a point of reference to get back to if you’re going to be out on the water at night because as as he had said before, you know, you can feel the heat from your hand but you can’t see your hand. So, it was this was a bonfire explicitly for visibility at far distances.
🎙️ Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But not so big that it would start a forest fire. I mean, if it would have been windy, that would have been a different thing, but it wasn’t windy at all that night.
🎙️ I mean, they it’s called a long-burning fire or sometimes an upside-down fire. You build it to last to burn a long time rather than quickly. And the fact that this was basically out by the time that you guys got there or, you know, all but out shows you that maybe there was some some some missing time involved.
🎙️ Well, there are a lot of so so because fires burn out.
🎙️ This is a this is a pattern that you notice in retrospect after piecing everything together.
🎙️ Yeah, in fact, we hadn’t even you know, made that connection. It was Ray Fowler that made the connection. He said, “This is missing time where you knew you were paddling toward a fire, a fire that you were looking at, but yet when you got there, the fire was out.” That’s also a common trope with alien abductions. You have, you know, Travis Walton coming back with a fully grown beard. Yeah. Uh you know, actually it was a 1 year before you guys, right? It was ‘75.
🎙️ ‘75. Uh 9 months. 9 months before you guys, yeah. And I had never heard of Travis Mhm. at that time.
🎙️ Travis and Oh, yeah. And then And we didn’t know about anybody back then. We didn’t know about any of this back then.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ This we were novices. It was all new. Yeah. Which is one of the reasons we were so intent, as I said to James, to share this knowledge with the world. I mean, you know, this Hey, something comes down into my neighborhood and kicks my butt and I can’t do nothing it it. I don’t people to know, you know. Did you Did you guys report it to Yeah, we reported it the next day. So when the ranger came to collect our trash, we said, “Hey, you know, did anybody see anything weird?”
🎙️ Uh-huh. Uh last night?” And he’s like, “What What do you mean?” And have that main accent, you know? We were So we told him what we saw. And he was like,
🎙️ of gave us this weird look, yeah.
🎙️ “Well, I don’t know what you guys were smoking last night.
🎙️ No, he didn’t say that. You all need to stop, you know?” And we were like, “No, this this is something that we really saw. This thing was like, how could you How could somebody else not see it?” In fact, we asked other people when we passed other people on the lake system, we said, “Hey, did you see anything weird, you know, last night or a couple nights ago?” They’d say, “No, we were all in bed by, you know, sundown.”
🎙️ And you guys had six more days, right, on the hike on the
🎙️ No, no, we had like about two more weeks. Oh, you had weeks. You guys had two more weeks on the trip. Yeah. So so how much does this change the dynamic between you guys? Are you guys talking about this a lot?
🎙️ Well, that night we didn’t talk about one word. We just more or less all drifted off. “Forget about the fire,” everybody said. So we all drifted off, climbed in our sleeping bags, and you know, closed our eyes. And then the next morning, as we’re breaking camp and eating, the only thing we could talk about was this thing. What the hell was it? It happened to me in the woods. I was hiking solo. New year, no phone, no gear. I was just trying to find myself. That’s when I saw it. Something glowing, silent, descending through the trees. A UFO. And stepping out from it wasn’t an alien or an android. It was me. But better. Same face, same gray hair, but something was different. This guy had perfect posture. He was wearing the perfect jean, and they start at just $79. Six fits, sizes for every thigh on this timeline and beyond. Now, 2026 me wears the perfect jeans. They don’t crush my thighs or my dreams. They’re soft, but dangerous. For a limited time, our listeners get 15% off their first order plus free shipping at the perfectjean.nyc or just Google the perfect jean and use code JESSIE15 for 15% off. That’s 15% off for new customers at the perfectjean.nyc with promo code JESSIE15. After you purchase, they’ll ask you where you heard about them. Please support our show and tell them we sent you. Your khakis and get the perfect jean. What the hell was it? And we immediately said, “Well, it had to be a UFO because I said it’s nothing military cuz I I’m familiar with what we have militarily. I’ve been around enough Hueys to know it wasn’t no damn helicopter.” Well, it didn’t make any noise. It was totally silent. And as it flew off, it had to be going faster than the speed of sound. It just had to be cuz it that’s how quickly it Speed of sound?
🎙️ accelerated. Yeah. No, no sonic boom.
🎙️ Mach 1, but no boom. Which is that a thing? Totally silent. It’s gliding through space-time or something.
🎙️ Yeah, I don’t know how you know, it’s
🎙️ Breaking Newton’s third law or something.
🎙️ does that, but there was no sonic boom and that thing took off like Charlie said, all you saw was a streak behind it.
🎙️ How how much are you guys talking about it for the next couple of weeks? Do you talk about the next day?
🎙️ Oh, we talked about it for like the freaking next year. Every body that we knew. Yeah. Literally, everybody that we knew. And a lot of people that we didn’t know, we shared this experience of the seeing this thing and being chased by it. By week two, are you guys starting to speculate about UFOs, non-human intelligence, aliens, that sort of thing?
🎙️ we we just said it was a UFO because it doesn’t it didn’t move like anything I’d ever seen or any of us were ever familiar with. Mhm. Like shooting off into the night sky the way it did.
🎙️ Mhm. Um yeah, we and we didn’t have any sense of contact with any beings or anything like that. It was just this weird craft that we saw.
🎙️ us and chased us across the lake, scared the crap out of us, and and then we were off and gone. But, Jake, Yeah. to get back to me shining the flashlight, to put that in a little bit of context, remember I said I used to work on nuclear submarines.
🎙️ Yeah. And I worked with reactor system. Submarines uh operate with a bubble of air inside the between the outer hull and the inner hull. They have a bladder, like fish have a bladder. And you fill it full of air to maintain a certain depth. Well, apparently, when I was uh on board this craft, inquired about their uh power system, you know, cuz I was curious about it, and it was relayed to me that it works like the submarine working with a bubble of air, they can match gravity fields. So, if you set it for, you know, like minus X, that might be like 80,000 ft up in the sky and set it for minus one, and you’re 12 in above the water. And they can move between the In fact, uh uh the uh encounters that the aircraft carriers had in California in uh 2004, they had a craft at 80 I think it was 81,000 ft. It was like over 15 mi straight up in the air. And they sent a planes up to that area, and when they could just start seeing it on their instruments, it dropped down to 24 in above the water surface in under 1 second. Mhm. I think it was it was right above the water, and it moved to 30,000 ft in 7/8 of a second. And then yes, it then it zoomed up to over 80,000. So, yeah. But I mean, that’s another thing that kind of disturbs me when you’re reading information. You get a lot of conflicting information, and Well, I think I think you’re actually right cuz well, some of them are radar I think the radar thing was more similar to what you said, and then the the you know, I think maybe visually
🎙️ Visually, yeah. But But it it’s like I’ve heard podcasts on the Allagash many, many times.
🎙️ facts wrong. Yeah. Facts wrong. Yeah, and and they’re mixing this person up with that person, and Yeah. Well, even Ray did that in his book. He kept getting Jack and I mixed up. So, so you get back, you see your families. What do you What do you say to them, and and how do they react? Well, I mean, half of my family believed me, and the other half thought I was squirrel bait. Mhm. You know what squirrel bait is, don’t you? No, what’s squirrel bait? Nuts. Ah, that’s [laughter] funny. There you go. So, but over the last 50 years, and especially most especially over the last uh 15 years, uh there’s so much more information coming forward.
🎙️ Mhm. Uh so many more reliable, credible [snorts] people are coming forward. Uh like the Prime Minister from Canada for
🎙️ Paul Hellyer. came forward describing uh his UFOs, the information he had, the uh supreme Air Force commander of the Belgian uh military and, you know, decades ago, way before uh we were even aware of Ray Fowler.
🎙️ Mhm. Um came forward, said these things uh were real.
🎙️ Cooper? Well, Gordon Cooper, uh who was one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, uh Jim and I gave a presentation in uh Portsmouth, Maine in 1995, was it?
🎙️ It’s either five or six. And ‘96, I think it was, yeah. And Gordon Cooper was one of the speakers as well. We had We spent basically the weekend with Gordon Cooper. He shared with us that in 1957, that uh he was on the base, and they had a craft land, physically land on the base. So, he was in a Jeep with three photographers, a cinematographer with a 16 mm movie camera, and he was shooting film, 35 mm photographer was shooting film, and a 4 by 5 press camera photographer. And he said when they drove straight out, there was this uh sort of like uh kind of like a Tic Tac shape thing that was on the ground on tripod. And when they approached, the legs like retracted back into it. And then it just went straight up in the air. When they were within about three or 400 yards, it just went vertically straight up. And I said, “Well, what did the films look like?” And Gordon said, “Never saw them. As soon as we got back, they were all confiscated.” And this saucer flew right over them and put down three little gear and landed out on the dry lake bed. And they went out there uh picked up their cameras and moved on out toward him filming. And he lifted off, put the gear back in the well, and climbed out at a very high rate of speed, disappeared. That is so nuts. Yeah, well, he I think spent more time in space than anybody prior to him in the Mercury
🎙️ Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was one of the Mercury Seven. Yeah, fascinating. Did he say anything else to you? Uh well, about seeing uh when they were orbiting, he saw uh well, not they, uh each astronaut orbited by themselves. And you know, cuz they they only had seven astronauts, so they had seven capsules, so. Yeah.
🎙️ Uh Cooper said that he had witnessed and I guess he was on the radio back with the ground control, and then they like they often do switch to another radio frequency to get off of the public radio frequencies. Um Who the hell did we meet? Some guy from Australia that um had been recording and when they switched to a different channel, he was able to switch and cuz he knew where that channel was and he switched over to that channel and he recorded uh some of the of the interchange going back and forth. It’s It’s amazing how much information is out there and has been out there, but it was just in tighter circles. The circles are expanding now.
🎙️ Yeah, I think that’s right. And but Gordon Cooper is saying that he literally experienced the UFO while he was orbiting Earth. Yeah. As an astronaut.
🎙️ Yeah. In the Mercury missions.
🎙️ Right.
🎙️ That’s amazing. And he had seen that one in before the Mercury program because the Mercury program didn’t start until I think like ‘59.
🎙️ ‘58, yeah. ‘58, ‘59 and uh so by 1969 when we landed on the moon, I was stationed over in Europe. I remember that night incredibly well because all the bars, you know, cuz it was night time for us over there. All the bars were open and they all had these tiny little black and white TVs that were all snowy and we’re watching the the astronauts on the moon. So we all grabbed our beers or whatever we were drinking and we went out in the streets. Thousands of us Americans were all toasting the guys on the moon with our beers.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ Now the moon belongs to us cuz we got our flag there. That’s funny. So So but did he just describe this UFO that he saw at all while he was orbiting Earth with the other astronauts or
🎙️ Uh just that it had come uh in proximity with him. And I think he said it was green if I’m not mistaken, but I don’t know. I might be confusing that with other other astronauts that had had uh encounters. So, you guys still have some missing puzzle pieces with your own experience for a decade plus, right? For 12 or so years.
🎙️ Easily. Yeah. we never really started um looking at it until the late ’80s. So, what what exactly kind of spurred Catalyst.
🎙️ What was the catalyst to piece together more?
🎙️ Jack both at the same time in two different states. Jim lived in Massachusetts. Jack in Vermont with his wife. They both started experiencing these identical nightmares. And
🎙️ Well, similar. Similar. Yeah, I don’t know if they were identical, but
🎙️ Well, for lack of a better word, they were identical inasmuch as they had the same four people. The two twins, me and the other guy. Yeah. And so, back to the entanglement thing. You guys are experiencing the same
🎙️ Yeah.
🎙️ things at the same time.
🎙️ would But even then, we didn’t know what was going on. I remember he used to say, “Man, I had like a really strange dream last night where there were like these things like these like humanoid things and and I was like, “Yeah, Jack, come on. It’s a nightmare, you know. I have them, too. Yeah. Yeah.
🎙️ I have I have the same kind of dreams. It’s just a nightmare. Don’t worry about it.”
🎙️ And it was you, Charlie, Jack, and Chuck in the dream just like Yeah. It was you four at Allagash.
🎙️ Exactly. Yeah. That Well, that was the only time that we had ever done anything together like that. I mean, And so, the dream is just you guys are sitting there and what what happens in the dream?
🎙️ in a doctor’s office. Mhm. Um strange things were being done to you Mhm. with no explanation. So, you’re Are you guys on a craft? Well, we we Somewhere. We After the hypnotic regression, we did discovered that yeah, we It seems like
🎙️ on this craft, apparently. So, you’re having dreams that are sort of adjacent to or kind of you know, flashbacks.
🎙️ um point to something else having occurred, and then that catalyzes this desire to get a hypnotic regression. Jim had had a an injury, uh and he developed epilepsy, temporal lobe epilepsy. And he was having a lot of seizure activity. So, he was at the Bethesda Real Hospital, uh being followed for that, and they were going to do a sleep deprivation study on him, and he had a all these wires glued to his head. And they said, “While you’re waiting around, you want to read a book or anything?” He said, “Yeah, yeah.” So, they brought in a tray of books, and And one of them was um Whitley Strieber’s Communion. Mhm. And when I saw the face on the cover, I flipped out. Yeah.
🎙️ I was like, “Why Why are you giving me this book to read? I don’t want to read this.” And I like I For some reason, I didn’t really know why. It was just like this face just Negative reactions.
🎙️ I had this extreme negative reaction, and I didn’t want to have anything to do with it, and I made a big scene. And then a few minutes later, one of the neurologists came in and said, “Jim, [clears throat]
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ what just came down here?” And I was like, “I don’t want to talk about this.” And he was like, “Well, um it’s kind of weird, don’t you think?” And I was like, “I don’t care what you call it. You know, it’s like I don’t know. I just don’t like this I don’t want to look at this book anymore.
🎙️ like a visceral allergic reaction.
🎙️ a visceral reaction to it and I got really upset.
🎙️ [clears throat and cough]
🎙️ And then You know this is oh by the way common for people experiences to see the cover specifically of Communion, Whitley Strieber’s book and a lot of stuff cut bubbles back up.
🎙️ comes up.
🎙️ Comes back up and sometimes it’s this and then other times it’s like whoa that looks familiar. Yeah. And and so he he left and and after the test was done the EEG he came in he said you know I’m going to ask you a kind of personal question. And I said fine what do you want to ask? He said have you ever seen a UFO? And I remembered like looking at him like What the hell?
🎙️ is going on here and I said well yeah as a matter of fact I have. Yeah. And he said oh you want to talk about it? I said um not really you know I really want to kind of concentrate on the seizures you know I’m having these problems with seizures and I think that’s a little bit more important than talking about UFOs and he said well you know
🎙️ [gasps]
🎙️ I know this guy one of my professional people I know who turned out to be John Mack. No way. Yeah. Yeah. Who’s this neurologist? He’s what was his name? Jonathan Silverman I think it was And was he affiliated with He was affiliated with Beth Israel and and Harvard Medical school. Yeah so um Did you sense anything nefarious about him or you felt like he was an honest actor?
🎙️ No I felt he was an honest actor and um and so I said well yeah you know I I have had a UFO experience and and I was telling him about these nightmares that I was having thinking they were seizure activity. And he said, you know, Jim, I think you really need to talk to somebody like John Mack or somebody who
🎙️ [sighs and gasps]
🎙️ deals with people who have seen UFOs. I could tell he was trying to be gentle about walking around this topic so I wouldn’t flip out again
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ cuz I was I was not happy. And so I said,
🎙️ [clears throat]
🎙️ you know, I really I really want to just concentrate on the seizures, you know, let’s concentrate on the seizures. So I tried to avoid it for a while and then a few days later he came into my room and said, look, you know, this guy named Ray Fowler, Raymond Fowler, is going to he’s a UFO investigator and he’s going to be at this um conference uh which was pretty close to where Cal and I live now. It was a library.
🎙️ Marriott Hotel, there was a Marriott Hotel in Newton and he said he’s going to be doing he’s going to be speaking at this uh or he’s going to have a book stand or something like that at this thing and I I want you to go and talk to him. And I was like, I don’t want to talk to him. And he said, look, you really I really want you to do this. So he talked me into doing it and that’s how I met Ray Fowler. And I remembered when I met him he was selling some his books.
🎙️ [gasps]
🎙️ And he said, oh, you’re the yeah, your doctor talk called me and and so I’m expecting you and I said, you know, and he goes, well, why don’t you just start at the beginning and tell me about this UFO that you saw. So I told him about it and at first I thought he was bored. You know, it’s like, oh, yeah, I’ve heard this a million times, you know. And then I said I’m my Charlie and myself and my identical twin and then he went What did you just say? And I said Charlie and I and this other guy and my identical twin. He said, “Oh, you have an identical twin?” And I said, “Yes.” And then he said “Okay, I want you to start all over again.” And then I could tell he was giving me his attention. So Why was Why was that somehow
🎙️ know.
🎙️ role [clears throat] and you got a base population and a control population if you’re going to do any type of mental experimentation. So That’s interesting.
🎙️ you have two identical twins. Yeah, that both That’s interesting. I also think from an investigatory perspective, if he’s speaking to you first, he can get your whole testimony, then he can isolate your brother Yeah. and then get the same testimony and kind of, you know, compare and contrast. And so it’s probably from his vantage point, you know, the potential for high confidence is really there.
🎙️ Which is exciting. And And that’s exactly what he did with the regression sessions. He you know, that we we we filed a report. The That was the first thing we did. And then he said, “You know, would you like to do hypnotic regression? Have you ever done You ever been hypnotized?” I said, “No. I’m not even sure I can be hypnotized. I mean, isn’t that kind of a control show something? some kind of weird thing, you know, that people believe in but it’s not really Not science.
🎙️ it’s not science. Yeah. Yeah. It’s not It’s not accepted in a court of law. Yeah. So, I mean, how could it be legitimate? He’s like, “No, it’s just kind of this like super relaxed state. You know, it’s not no big deal.” So, I said, “Yeah, sure. We’ll do it.” So, we all four of us agreed to undergo um regression multiple regression sessions. And then we promised we agreed that we would not talk about them between us. We would not report anything we remembered from these sessions. So, no collusion.
🎙️ No collusion.
🎙️ Totally isolated.
🎙️ Yeah. And what comes out of the regression session? Pretty similar stories. Yeah. Something that I didn’t think had happened at all. I thought was probably somebody there’s nothing to this story. We’re out fishing. This weird light came up on top of us. We paddled away. We shined a flashlight at it. It flew away. That’s the whole story. The whole end. Nothing to it. So, after being hypnotized, then I was totally quiet. With myself even. I didn’t even talk to myself. I’m for like the next 4 hours I’m just trying to access, absorb, and accept what I had just re-encountered that I didn’t know that I had encountered to begin with. Yeah, it was
🎙️ Why the fire had burned out. Why I knew that this thing was going to go at lightning speed. Uh because of its power source. Uh works off of gravitational fields when it’s within the limits of a planet that has gravitational fields. Describe in detail what transpired based on your regressions between you seeing this, you know, plasma ball that’s glowing 75 yd away, and then you guys kind of walking on the shore. Well, uh first thing I remembered in my regression was looking at my toes and thinking, “Well, that’s odd. What the hell happened to my socks?” And then I’m thinking, “Where the hell are my shoes? Where the hell are my clothes?” And the fast thinker that am, then it’s like where the hell am I? Mhm. And I’m like getting cold and freaked out and I’m like looking around. And just beyond my toes, I can see Jack and Jim and this other guy sitting on this bench like they’re waiting for a damn bus. Mhm. And in my mind, I’m screaming. I couldn’t articulate, but I’m like screaming, “Get off your asses. Get over here. Help me. Get me loose. You know, what’s going on?” And at that time, I was probably about a first degree black belt in martial arts, Shotokan karate, Goshin Jitsu, Isshin Ryu, Pukulan, Mhm. and Aikido. So, I studied mostly Aikido for many years, but at any rate, I could take care of myself in a fight, you know, I I I’d had people attack me with knives and weapons and I defended myself successfully. But here I am but naked and and I’m as helpless as an infant. Mhm. I I just it was rough for me to kind of cope with that for a while. Mhm. And uh then I’m struggling to get up and I had that sensation of movement. I look up and I see this face bending down to look into my eyes. So, I dropped my head to move as way as quickly as I could and I probably only moved my head like another 3 or 4 in till I was making contact with the surface I was laying on and I couldn’t go backwards any further. So, you were laying horizontally? On a table, yeah. And what did the table feel like? Uh kind of like a chilly, like this room is chilly. Yeah. It felt chilly. Uh, very sterile, uh, very much like uh, an emergency room setting in a way. And then, uh, I recall this panel coming down from somewhere above my head. And it was over my chest and it basically covered my entire torso. And then this blue light came straight down out of it and it had like definite dimensional quality to it, the light did. I mean, it isn’t like like take your flashlight or anything and you shine it and the light spreads and travels. This was focused. It was localized into one shape and that was emitted straight down onto my torso. And there were like two beings to my left uh, doing whatever to this panel. I had this one at my head and another at my feet. And they began a clinical examination of me for lack of a another term at all. What did the beings look like? Like what did the face look like when you’re lifting your head up and you see this other head above yours?
🎙️ Leaning down? Yeah. Well, I got I got artwork of it in the computer, but and and it’s in the book as well. Uh, a sort of like a bulbous head with large eyes. No nose like us and no mouth like us. It was sort like a slight slit area in the chin. No ears like we have protruding. They were like just a a lump. And not like a a lump or a blob or anything, but like a slight bump out from the skull. Are you freaking out? Freaking out? I’m beyond freaking freaked out.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ I mean, here I was, an individual I mean, hell, I I defended myself against seven armed kids in Boston a number of years ago. I had seven kids come at me with weapons. And you know, I I had no fear of them whatsoever. I just told them they’d made an error in judgment. Just They I just had to let them know that they had truly made one. With your words and with your your moves.
🎙️ Well, yeah, I I let them know a thing or two, so.
🎙️ There you go. But at any rate, I couldn’t do diddly to protect myself or do anything. So, I mean, at that moment on that craft, um but I was told not to resist, not to fight. I wasn’t in any danger. Just comply and everything will be all right. And I’m there like, “Oh, I can do that.” Were you told telepathically?
🎙️ Yeah, when I was Well, you’ve you’ve had the experience of being on a roller coaster when it drops and your stomach stays up around your shoulders. Sure. I had a physical sensation like that, but it wasn’t my stomach. It was like my mind. When I looked into these eyes, it was like uh two magnets grabbing one another instantly. And I I it was like I understand what you’re asking of me. I believe you. You know, okay.
🎙️ Instantaneous comprehension of their intention.
🎙️ Absolutely. Interesting. Absolutely. And so I’m there like Huh. Okay, well, I’m not going to get hurt. I’m going to get released. So All right. Were they gray in color?
🎙️ Yes. Yeah, yeah, they were grayish in color. Do you remember how tall? Uh, under 5 ft. Spindly. Uh-huh. Uh, their hands had four digits. Uh-huh. Uh, not five or three
🎙️ Uh-huh. as they’re portrayed in a lot of our science fiction films. Mhm. Uh, their hands had four digits hang straight down. And the center of the hand had like an articulation ability. So they would have four opposable digits. Mhm. Where we only have one, our thumb. Mhm. Uh these these beings had four opposable digits. And that was the way all their technology was geared to, toward their hands.
🎙️ Mhm. Uh, just like our world is designed because of our hands, how our hands work to use tools. Mhm. Um but they had like a clothing on that was I didn’t for lack of a better word, it’s like spandex type of appearance where it like tightly conformed to their body. Mhm. Um, but they also one of them also had this wand uh, like a magic wand that was maybe about this long or so. Mhm. Jim can tell you more about that because of something that he attempted to do. I’ll go back to the the canoe. When we were paddling back to the towards the beach, the the campsite, the last thing I had remembered consciously was looking up and seeing this craft like right behind us. The next thing I remembered was going up to the canoe. But under hypnotic regression, I remembered it being right over on like literally on top of us and it this beam came down around the canoe. And it was a hollow, like Charlie said earlier, it was it was like a tube where our hose were the sheath of the hose is and made out of light and it was moving. [snorts] Like when you see um dust motes through sunlight, you know, it’s moving. That’s had this quality to it. But the inside was dark. And I remembered looking up straight up into the top of this tube and it was dark in there, but there was something moving. I could tell there was still something moving up there and I remember thinking, oh, This is bad. And then the next thing I remembered was uh being in a room. Um Chuck, Rack, and Charlie were sitting on this bench. And I think I think I remembered I was standing near it. And Jack was um out in front of me with um these beams. And then one of them had this wand that had a thin wand with a bulb on the end of it like the end of your finger. And he was doing he was pointing it at Jack and they were doing they were like taking his wrist and rotating his wrists and his arm to see like how it rotated. I thought at first they were going to hurt him because they were like trying to twist and turn it all these different ways and I was like oh crap man they’re going to break his arm. And and then they had lifted his head back and they were like examining his throat. And they had another thing that looked like it was a little flashlight like a pencil light flashlight that they were looking in his eyes with. And um and then they I remember them walking him away into this other area it was like a hallway or something. And they took him in through there and then um they came for me. And they were doing the same thing to me. And then when they went to um walk me through this area I didn’t want to go because I was terrified. I thought that’s it we’re going to get dissected. This is this is not going well at all and I didn’t I didn’t get any messages saying just relax or we’re not going to hurt you I didn’t get anything like that and I didn’t want to go through this this doorway or into this other area and one of them that had this wand took it and they jammed it in my rib in between my ribs you know and I was like I then I got I didn’t hear anything it wasn’t like a verbal message but I just had this understanding that if I didn’t cooperate I was going to be in trouble. Mhm. That I had to cooperate. Was there any sort of surgical implantation of anything or removal of anything? Well um I remember them taking sperm sample. Mhm. And um and then at one point I remembered uh this was over two sessions. The first session that they first hypnotic session um I remembered their bodies, but I couldn’t get their faces. For some reason I just could not see their faces or I didn’t want to see their faces. And then in the second session their faces finally came through and I remember screaming, “They’re bugs. They look like bugs.” Um they had this kind of
🎙️ [gasps]
🎙️ it looked like a like a a shape of an an ant, you know, that had a bulbous top head and they had these big eyes that were more laterally situated rather than in the front.
🎙️ Mhm. No nose, slit for a mouth. And I couldn’t tell if if if they if it was the actual head or whether there was a mask there of some sort. Mhm. And and I thought they looked they reminded me of like an ant head or an insect head. Are there any details from each of your individual isolated regressions where you were kind of separated from each other? Any details that were inconsistent between your accounts or did they all line up?
🎙️ Inconsistent. Some small details were different like I remembered the um the device that they used to get the um to store the store the semen. Mhm. I remembered it being more like a tubular shape Mhm. with a round bottom and uh there was a neck a smaller flange on the neck. Um but like when they took the semen from me I was like I was so terrified, you know, my Johnson was like 3 in inside of me. It was like, “You are you are not getting there.” And so then I had this I got this impression that um um
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ things are going to you better change your ways or you know So I I actually like forced myself.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ erection and then they brought out this thing for me to you know ejaculate in. Whereas Jack remembered uh more of a conical shape device with a with a wand coming like a spike coming out of it or a needle coming out of it that they actually inserted into his penis to get the sample. So that was different between his recollection and my recollection.
🎙️ Or it could have been different instrumentation or whatever.
🎙️ Yeah, it could have just been [clears throat] because of the way I mean I remembered they let me sit up to do it. I remember saying I can’t do this laying down. I got you know let me sit up and then I I was able to function. And um and then uh there was another time I don’t know if they did the same thing to Jack or not. I can’t remember but at one point I remembered laying on a on a on a table.
🎙️ Mhm. And there were two two beings at my shoulders behind me and two at my feet and two next on either side
🎙️ [gasps]
🎙️ and I remembered thinking I mean I was terrified.
🎙️ Mhm. And I didn’t trust these things and so I at one point I’m almost ashamed to say I thought you know maybe if I kill one I can create a distraction and get out of here. I can escape. Mhm. And as soon as I had that thought cuz I had these really like thin pencil-like necks and these like thin necks. I thought well I could get my hand around there and just Mhm. And as soon as I had that thought they the ones who were near my shoulders and on the side they moved away so fast it was like a blur. And then um the one of the ones that were at my feet just it was weird. He kind of like reached up in the air with his arm. They had these long long thin articulated arms. And when he came down, he had this thing in his hand that looked like a flattened hockey It was like a hockey puck, but it wasn’t like perfectly round. It was more like of an oval shape. And it had rounded edges instead of the sharp edges a hockey puck has, but it was like the size of a hockey puck, maybe a little smaller. And they put one on on the outside of each one of my shins, and then I couldn’t move my legs. Like no matter how hard I tried, I I couldn’t move my legs. Did you ask them any questions about who they were and where they were from or No, I didn’t. Yeah. Didn’t even get a damn T-shirt.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ I mean No souvenirs. You know, like I said earlier, it was like I got the clear impression that these whatever they were they were following a procedure. Yeah. It was, you know, step one, step two, step three, step four. I don’t remember them putting in me in any machines. Jack, they got a lot more out of Jack than they did me because I was like so terrified all the time that Ray thought I was going to have a seizure, so they had to keep bringing me out of the hypnosis so I wouldn’t have a seizure. Cuz I would be like freaking out during these sessions. But it was almost like the beings were in some sort of automated assembly line, and they were following
🎙️ a sense. In a sense, yeah.
🎙️ weren’t totally automated. Um just a footnote about what Jim had just mentioned about these discs being placed on his ankles. Uh on his legs for several years thereafter. I don’t know if it’s that way now. Hair didn’t grow there. was like bald patch on its last
🎙️ Whoa, really? And both shins. And his identical twin brother Jack Yeah. had tumors growing in the exact spots on his legs.
🎙️ What? Tumors? Tumors.
🎙️ Benign or We never knew because the tumors were removed uh at the teaching hospital where they removed them in Vermont. Uh their pathology department was unable to ascertain what type of
🎙️ Mhm. biological they were looking at. So, they sent it to the Air Force Institute of Pathology down around Washington, D.C. Mhm. It was signed for by a major or no, by a colonel, a doctor who was a rank of a colonel cuz they have one of the best uh pathology uh science labs in the world. Got it.
🎙️ Yeah, when they removed this thing on his shin, it looked like a piece of um chewing bubble gum, pink in color, hard. Mhm. And they said in the report that it resembled the type of growth that is common when you have um uh bone marrow taken out of a bone, you get this kind of tissue that grows on the wound. Mhm. That’s what they they said they didn’t know what it was, but that was what that was the closest thing that they could describe it as.
🎙️ Whoa. Did any of you guys end up with any implants, anything inside of your body?
🎙️ I don’t know.
🎙️ so. I used to have a head of hair.
🎙️ [laughter]
🎙️ Does Does that count? No. Okay. I I have like a small punch biopsy scar near my scrotum that I had never known before. Uh uh if you were to take like an old uh pencil, the ones that had the brass barrel and the rubber eraser in them, pull the eraser out and stab it into something, it’d take a plug out. That’s the size diameter Mhm. and very shallow, maybe about uh not quite an eighth of an inch deep. Uh right here on the inside of my leg. You described the beings as clinical? Very clinical, yeah. We were like the chimps and they were like Jane Goodall. So, they were about their business. Kind of Yeah, right. Yeah. The best analogy I can come up with is like when scientists go to the, you know, the Arctic Mhm.
🎙️ see a polar bear and they dart them. Mhm. And then while he’s anesthetized, they measure his teeth and look at his you know. Yeah, what’s the What’s the polar bear got to say about what happened to it? I remembered when under the hypnosis, I like the way I saw things was weird. It was like I had tunnel vision. I could see clearly Mhm. you. Mhm. But out here, everything was fuzzy. Mhm. and unclear. Did all of the hypnotic regressions line up? Cuz all four of you did hypnotic regressions.
🎙️ Yeah.
🎙️ of them period of about almost a year. Mhm. Do you have the audio? Uh Ray certainly has. I don’t. Yeah. Would I be able to listen to that?
🎙️ it’s the some of the hypnotic regressions are are word for word in his book. Would I be able to listen to the audio? Oh, you’d have to ask Ray.
🎙️ Okay.
🎙️ If he even still has that stuff.
🎙️ Okay. Uh but if you do go to the library or get a copy of his book, The Allagash Abductions. Um it has direct quotes from the regression. Okay. Uh questions as well as our responses.
🎙️ And their analysis. And their analysis of them as well.
🎙️ the best book on the case.
🎙️ Did John Mack oversee any or did did John Mack review any of the uh hypnotic regression audio or any of the material there? I don’t know what John did.
🎙️ must have over the years cuz we’ve known John for many years, 20 over 20 years.
🎙️ Yeah, over 25 years before he died.
🎙️ um after we had after Ray had gotten finished with his investigation I was um he said it cuz during the during the investigation he said, “I don’t want you to read any books. I don’t want you to talk about it to one another or really anybody else because I don’t want to like pollute Yeah. Well, hopefully now he would, you know, after having written his book hopefully the audio, the raw source material he would sort of open source because I think if anybody, you know, if anybody should uh be in possession of it, it should be you guys, to be
🎙️ I mean we could have purchased the complete manuscript. I mean and that includes all of the hypnotic regressions transcribed verbatim word for word.
🎙️ Mhm. Uh but, you know, that thing was like literally
🎙️ Yeah, they’re really each one is
🎙️ of paper.
🎙️ Now we have a little thing called AI and you run it you run it through and you just say, you know describe, you know, these accounts and give us a give us a summary and then you can query it and you so I think I think it’d be really cool to to get these things kind of digitized and you know, and then run it through the AI and you’d be able to ask it questions and stuff.
🎙️ Sounds like you found a project for yourself.
🎙️ Oh, I’m ready. Let’s do it. Ray. yeah, I’ll try to get in touch with Ray and that’d be cool. Um fascinating. What what was John Mack like? Uh I am a long time, you know, admirer of his, obviously, you know, rest in peace.
🎙️ Well, I went to his his support group for a while after Ray was done with his investigation. Um And Jim, real quick, just for the audience, for basic context, John Mack was the head of the Harvard psychiatry department and brilliant guy. He actually even wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning um I believe Lawrence of Arabia.
🎙️ That’s right. He was an expert on him. The the the prince of disorder and and is really kind of a mystic in his own right, but also obviously academically as credentialed as it gets. And towards the end of his career, he started to cuz he was a clinician see people who had missing time and get into the whole, you know, alien abduction phenomena and was actually childhood friends serendipitously with Bud Hopkins, who was this, you know, amazing aggregator of a lot of these experiences himself. So,
🎙️ [snorts]
🎙️ go on.
🎙️ Yeah, so anyway, my impression of John when I first met him was I knew that he was a psychiatrist.
🎙️ Mhm. And he was affiliated with Harvard and he had credentials up the kazoo. And so when I went to his support groups, I noticed that they were in my from my perspective, I saw two different camps of people. One camp, which I considered myself a member of, was the nuts and bolts. I called it the nuts and bolts. You know, I I I want to see physical evidence. I want to see physical beings.
🎙️ Mhm. And then the other camp was more of a like um people who thought that they there most that they that their experiences were more ethereal, Uh multi-dimensional beings
🎙️ that weren’t physical, but communicated More of a spiritual consciousness consciousness based Mhm. And that these people seem to think that the aliens were our saviors, that they were going to save the human race and they were here to uplift our consciousness to a level where there’s no more hate or war and all that stuff.
🎙️ [gasps]
🎙️ Which was fine. I didn’t have a problem with it. I mean, but [clears throat] I did notice that and I think John was more the second camp because of his training as a psychiatrist. He, you know, because what a psychiatrist job to do, their job is to heal people. You know, and these people all had like serious problems dealing with this stuff. It’s like even though they even though we all believe that we actually that these experiences were real for us, it still creates all kinds of psychological problems, you know, how to deal with other people who don’t who think you’re crazy or think you’re, you know, subhuman for some reason or something wrong with you because you have these beliefs that are out of the box. Mhm. And so it’s it my impression of John Mack was that he saw it as his mission his mission to help these people become, you know, self actualized again where they could be they could live with their experiences without pain or fear or anxiety. Kind of re-reintegrated back into society and probably simultaneously
🎙️ be able to live with their experiences, you know, because that was that was the difference between him and the rest of the community the rest of the psyche psychiatric community, rest of the psychiatric community, especially at Harvard, which is why they tried to kick him out.
🎙️ Yeah. Was that, “No, these people are, you know, they’re they’re lunar. Mhm.
🎙️ There’s something wrong with these people.” John was saying, “Look, I’ve given them every kind of psychiatric and psychological tests I can think of. They’re all coming out as normal people.” And neither of you had any kind of mental health history prior? No. The only mental problems I had was from the seizures.
🎙️ Mhm. Um because I’d have auras, you know, I’d smell things or hear things, or Um how many beings were on the craft? Well, hard to say. Yeah.
🎙️ Yeah, it really would be cuz there were people or beings in the like control room area that we were ushered through on our way into the exam area. And as we left, we passed because that was where I inquired about their power system, their propulsion system. And so so you’ve you learned some stuff directly from them about the propulsion system, the way you would explain something to a a 6-year-old, you know. That it [snorts] uh it operates in a similar fashion to the way a submarine can work at different atmospheres in the water, different levels by the amount of air that it keeps in its inner hull to maintain that depth. And they could match gravitational fields. Mhm. And so that was the way they were sort of examining uh example A to what we do. This is So like
🎙️ your submarine works, this is the way our craft works when it’s in in a planetary gravitational area. So, it would like you mentioned with the submarine, you have a certain amount of air between the inner and outer hull, which manages the depth. And you’re saying that they’re doing something similar where they’re modulating gravitational in fields. Interesting. Yeah. That’s fascinating. Very Yeah, well, it’s good to, you know, think about that. I’ll mull that over. Well, I mean, it’s just like we can do things magnetically that um where you take the two very powerful magnets and you have the same polarity, you have all this resistance if you try touching them to one another. Uh and their ability was to match and a gravitational field to propel them away from Mhm. from a denser field to a less dense field. I don’t know. It’s the only way I can think of.
🎙️ Yeah. Did you have any sense of where they came from, why they were taking, you know, samples from you guys?
🎙️ No. It’s interesting cuz the kind of, you know, gammy, you know, see semen and egg sample thing comes up a lot. That’s very common. It’s almost like there’s some intergenerational alien breeding program. And that’s kind of where you end up with a lot a lot of these
🎙️ Yeah. guys. Don’t don’t we do the exact thing same thing to animals? Do Sure.
🎙️ On our planet?
🎙️ Yeah, we domesticate animals all the time. We breed them. We create new species.
🎙️ thing with people and like, you know, dynasty families. Mhm.
🎙️ It’s wild to think that, but it’s it’s true. And sometimes I think about these um gray alien beings. And you think about what an evolutionary biologist would say a human is evolving into given that we’re being domesticated right now. That is not a controversial thing to say. We are, you know, testosterone is dropping off a cliff. Uh sperm count is dropping off a cliff for men. Uh we’re losing, you know, the melanin in our our skin. That happens over a long period of time. So you end up with these beings that, you know, they lose the melanin in their skin. Their their their their prefrontal cortex is larger because decision-making is probably more important with the advent of, you know, the AI white-collar work age. Their ears and nose become vestigial. We’re not hunter-gathering. Their eyes become more slit-like cuz we use more screens. And their their bodies are sort of wiry and spindly because our physical bodies become less important. And they develop some sort of, you know, latent telepathic power, which you’re now seeing, you know, the telepathy tapes and like, you know, people starting to lend more rigorous scientific credence to the idea that maybe we we have this mind-matter sort of thing. And so they’ve selected for all of this stuff that you would expect humanity to select for. It’s very interesting.
🎙️ right. Yeah. You know, I mean, I’ve heard from some people at some of the conferences where they believe that they’re actually us from the future. Yes. Yeah, that the exactly There’s a guy named Mike Masters. And then I somehow think that, you know, that’s a really interesting theory that’s important. And then it’s somehow too simple. Like there’s something else going on, too, you know. But it’s it’s always hard to theorize.
🎙️ I always have is the interdimensional stuff against the physical. I mean, if they if if they can travel interdimensionally, why do they have craft? What do they need a craft for? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
🎙️ You know, it’s like what? Yeah, it’s almost like some of these things are symbolic memes that change over time. And that would be the Jacques Vallée idea.
🎙️ mean, are they is is that craft that we saw really something physical or just something they wanted us to see as physical? I don’t know. Did Did any of you So okay, so the the the physical evidence would be like the ankle Your hair not growing around your ankle, your brother having tumors in the same spot, tumors in the exact same spot. Anything else as far as like a physical, you know, remnant of the experience. Well, one of the things that has always fascinated me personally was the fact that all of us or the three of us most certainly had uh major changes in the direction of our lives and our artwork after the Allagash where I was training myself to be a school teacher to work with children teaching art I ended up becoming a medical artist working with medical scientists, medical researchers and being aware of all kinds of new technologies the technology I mentioned that they used to look at our chests or at our torsos um when I was a medical photographer I would use ultraviolet light sources and ultraviolet film infrared film and infrared light sources to photograph human bodies um because with ultraviolet light you can see through the skin and see the blood vessels much clearer than you can with your naked eyes. um So we use magnetic fields to look inside the human body now, to look at soft tissue. And your MRIs. Prior that was your x-rays and then CAT scans and you can use ultrasound uh sonic waves and
🎙️ tomograms, the whole nine yards.
🎙️ All these different radiological tools. So, I was talking with a physician about this. And uh And he said, “Well, he said it’s just like when you know, uh defibrillators first showed up in the world. You know, they were these you know, experimental paddles that you touch the heart or, you know, to re- start the the heart’s function. And that all of these technologies that these beings have we’re slowly catching up. I mean, if you stop and any rational person stop and think in 1903 which was 123 years ago two bicycle builders from Ohio did the first manned flight. Not a glider. They weren’t gliding from a high elevation to a different elevation or a different location. They took off from a low elevation and landed at a higher elevation. That was flight. 66 years after that we were walking on the moon. In 66 years. Now these entities, these beings that we don’t know where they come from. Uh they have science that’s you know, even patting us on the back saying thousands of years ahead of us. They might be hundreds of thousands of years ahead of us. Uh the Milky Way galaxy there are more stars and planets in the Milky Way galaxy than grains of sand on planet Earth. That’s what I’ve been told by astrophysicists and that is a number that just is almost incomprehensible for me. Uh and uh that uh the technologies that we have and we’re developing like sound technology without speakers. Uh bone conducting headphones. Yeah, send the vibrations through your cheek bones and I hear better with these than I do listening to people. Yeah, it’s fascinating it you can bypass the ear canal through vibration. Which Beethoven went deaf famously and he would uh chew on this rod and that would allow him to hear once he went deaf which was obviously very important for him as this amazing composer. Um speaking of very advanced technology, maybe the most shocking thing that you said Charlie right before we started rolling, which I got so excited about is I’ve been researching this guy named John Norseman. Yeah.
🎙️ And he is uh you know, this interesting engineer who has this Lockheed patent for essentially how to fly a UFO with your mind. How do you sort of biofeedback from the brain in order to control remote control, remote pilot a craft. And he he talks about brain prints, the idea that we have fingerprints, but you might also have a unique kind of you know electromagnetic signature. Just like iris or whatever, yeah. Iris, yeah. So, fascinating guy who seems well ahead of his time and I have to think if there is, you know, legacy UFO crash retrieval program, which I do believe, they are either tracking him, you know, and he’s now since you know, he’s he’s passed away, but they were either tracking him or they were working
🎙️ directly with him would be my guess. And [snorts] so, this is fascinating because you said that John Norseman, you spoke to John Norseman and he was at Allagash in the 19 in 1976 in August when you guys were there and experienced your abduction. Is that what you said? He read our report to the ranger that same day. Mhm. That’s what he told us. Wow. He read your report to the ranger that same day. And what what did he say he was doing there? He said he was doing a TTR um tag, trace, retrieve exercise with a subcutaneous device that they were testing that they could monitor, sort of like GPS.
🎙️ agents. You know, we tell them like blood pressure, heart rate, that sort of stuff. So, he would
🎙️ What exactly would he would put like this like RFID chip or something on some other military folk and they would sort of you know, go off and into Allagash and they were testing to see how well they could track these people.
🎙️ exactly. That’s so fascinating.
🎙️ told us. And does any part of you guys think that cuz I you know, I think about some of these narratives with like, you know, UFOs showing up around nuclear sites and I don’t it might not be a coincidence that you’re you know, you were uh in the navy in a nuclear capacity.
🎙️ Air Force base or was at the time in the ’70s up in northern Maine. What was the name What was the name of that base? Do you remember? Uh was it an Air Force guy? Loring.
🎙️ Loring. Loring. There you go. Loring Air Force Base.
🎙️ Yep. Um But this was near Was it near Allagash? You know too?
🎙️ 90 miles away from Allagash.
🎙️ Okay. Interesting.
🎙️ and it was a secret nuclear base. They had a uh uh episode it was either 1975 or 1976 where craft were coming over the base and these laser type beams were coming out and they were mapping the nuclear stockpiles.
🎙️ And this is around the time that you guys had your experience 90 miles away.
🎙️ the same time but
🎙️ ‘75 or ‘76.
🎙️ yeah.
🎙️ Yeah, well that’s around the same time. Yeah.
🎙️ but yeah. Well, there’s like uh a many reported incidents over uh our nuclear missile sites where these craft would appear above them and then all the missiles go offline. All their computers shut down. Yep.
🎙️ And uh they go into a massive freak out.
🎙️ freak out.
🎙️ I’ve I’ve interviewed a lot of those guys first hand and I think they’re all legit.
🎙️ So 90 miles away you had this Air Force Base. They reported UFOs showing up within a year or two of your experience with lasers shooting out of the UFOs seeming to sort of you know track and or do
🎙️ were do they were definitely mapping the bunkers. And that’s a common thing you hear, yeah, that they’re sort of you know uh testing the tip of the spear of human defense and you know knowing you know either to protect ourselves, protect their resources, you know, some of the people in the national security state say they might be you know doing ISR and doing recon. I don’t know. I don’t believe that. don’t
🎙️ I don’t believe that either.
🎙️ Yeah, yeah, I don’t buy the whole the the idea that they’re a threat and you know, I think they’re
🎙️ They Oh, if they wanted to do something we couldn’t do diddly about that.
🎙️ That’s right. And they would have done it years ago. They would Why It’s like they they are so advanced. It’s like Yeah, why do they need to like, you know, play around with us before before you know, it’s like what at what point in your ISR, you know, recon do you say, “Okay, we can like take these guys out.” Like they can They can clearly take us out now if they wanted to. They could have taken us down a long time ago. Good lord, yeah. You look back at all artwork from the Renaissance era and you have a lot of depictions of like UFOs in some of these pieces of artwork. Yeah. Um Yeah, no, it’s clearly a it’s a across civilizations and across millennia phenomena. So, if they were going to threaten us, I mean, they would have done us way before the Neanderthal were bred out. Yeah. And that’s another thing. A lot of people think the Neanderthal were killed by Cro-Magnon and Homo sapien sapien, which is what the species we are. Uh but they got literally screwed out of existence. I want to stick with this John Norsigian thing cuz I think this is really interesting. So, he was doing TTR, this sort of tracking thing of other, you know, fellow military combatants or something, seeing if they go out in the field and track them.
🎙️ him. I mean, he was he’s a I got to know John pretty good. How’d you meet him? Uh we met him at mutual friend of ours down in Newport down in Newport would bring together experiencers uh and she’s somebody that and researcher Was he an experiencer, Norsigian? No, he was he was working with an artist in Jamestown across the bay. Um What was he doing when you met him? Do you know what his job was? John, I don’t really know what his job was. He was telling us things, and then he said, “Well, I can’t really tell you what I’m doing now because I would probably end up dead in some hotel room somewhere.” And I was thinking
🎙️ what happened to him.
🎙️ And I was cuz he ended up dead in a hotel room? Yes, exactly.
🎙️ No way. Down Tennessee, was it? I don’t remember.
🎙️ Somewhere, I think it was It was a heart attack, but he told us at Ann’s. Yeah.
🎙️ He said, cuz he was talking a lot about stuff that everybody knew he shouldn’t be talking about.
🎙️ It just seemed like science fiction to
🎙️ Yeah, it seemed like that. I even said to him, you know, John Isn’t that a bit out there? What? Wow. He was drinking, you know what I mean? Everybody was drinking wine, and he was, and What did he say it was his job title in the 70s, in the in ‘76 when he was at Allagash? Do you remember what he
🎙️ Primarily research function, yeah.
🎙️ I think he was said he was doing government research. He had to be working with the military because they were you know, TTRing agents in the field. And no part of you guys thinks that your experience was some sort of smoke screen for like covert government experimentation?
🎙️ I don’t think so, no. I asked John that.
🎙️ don’t
🎙️ You asked You asked
🎙️ I asked John that. I said, “John, you know, is what we saw up there, and I mean, did you Did we like stumble into something that we shouldn’t have stumbled into, and then you nailed us, and and hypnotized us, or gave us drugs, or something to make us believe that we had this abduction experience to cover your butt?” He said, “No.” And he believed him when he said Yeah, no, I could tell he was telling the truth. He said, “We wouldn’t do that. We’d We would just go away.” No, I mean
🎙️ Leave you with a story nobody’s going to believe. I fresh sure yeah yeah exactly. It’s not like you guys have like had an easy time since you Yeah, you know Yeah, came out with your story. No, I I almost I almost wonder if the you know, meta phenomena of the UFOs showing up around the tip of the spear of human defense and ingenuity. They’re showing up at nuclear sites and at particle accelerators and things where we are literally messing with sort of space time itself. You can imagine them maybe being interested in a you know, chip tracking you know, human experiment and them showing up around that. So, you know, I think the kind of easy lazy skeptic thing would be to say that oh it’s a it’s a smoke screen for some MK Ultra thing. But maybe the more interesting and possibly true narrative would be that their activities which were seemingly covert might have attracted the phenomena itself. Well, that’s what John’s that’s what John told me.
🎙️ It’s Alexander Graham Bell. Let’s go ahead and listen to what he’s saying. Yeah, exactly. But you’re saying that’s what John literally told you? That’s what he believed too that their that the the experiments that he was conducting was may have been just attracting these things. When did he he ended up dead in a hotel room? I forget what year it was. In fact, that was followed a really weird email that I had gotten from him because he he had contacted me via email. You know, he was a he was an RV er. Mhm. He was one of the early RV ers. Yeah. And remote viewers.
🎙️ Yeah. And um he had sent me an email and said and and some of the other people from AINS and he said listen, I’m giving a lecture on my latest research at the Naval College in Newport. Do you want to do you want to VIP pass to come and and attend it? I was like, oh yeah. So, he said okay, I’ll get it all set up. And then at the end of his email, you know, he was into I forget what the term is for this kind of use of language. Semiotics.
🎙️ Semiotics, yeah. He was really into that. And the last sentence in his email said, um uh Norse uh I he said, “I I RV’d the upcoming um lecture uh John not heard nor seen.” Whoa. And I remember calling Ed and saying, “Hey, Ed, like, what the heck is this last sentence mean? John not heard nor seen.” I only seen the semiotics and stuff, so, you know, not nor seen is his last name, but John not heard nor seen? And then just like 2 weeks after that, he was found dead in a motel room, so. Jesus Christ. So, that was some sort of code where it’s like he he remote viewed his own view
🎙️ it, and it wasn’t there. And this was code to say he’s not heard nor seen.
🎙️ mean, what else could that mean? Oh my god. I mean, what? Uh this is nuts. And he probably was working on program stuff. Who knows? I mean, he was working at that time with this artist, this amazing artist in Jamestown, um Duncan Laurie is his name. He’s a a sculptor, glass artist, but at that time, John was working with him on
🎙️ [sighs and gasps]
🎙️ uh life energy are is around like rocks and plants and things like that. Bioenergetics.
🎙️ Bioenergetics, yeah. Very interesting. Very, yeah. Well, this is a wild and very interesting interview. I feel like we could go on forever, but Charlie, you had uh cuz you were in the Navy, you had a very interesting, you know, UFO experience that that I want to get into. Yeah, in May of 1970, uh we were off the coast of Spain uh doing what we had gone out there to do. And uh it was just after we’ve knocked off working for the day uh waiting for the call to evening meal. Uh there were about 24 of us that went up on the main deck. Yeah, have cigarettes, kick around, kill some time until it’s time to go eat. We had a commissioned officer who was a lieutenant uh a highest ranking uh enlisted, which was a chief petty officer and then descending ranks from there. And one of the guys said, “What the F is that?” And so we all kind of like turned to look toward the stern of the ship. And just as I was looking back, I saw these two lights coming toward us. I mean, faster than you could swing your arm uh from your shoulder to directly in front of you and come to a stop. These things were going faster than that and came to a complete stop. And uh we observed them for almost 2 minutes, two full minutes. And uh one of these points of light or spheres ascended so quickly that it went from like a point of light to a line and was gone. Mhm, just snap snap. But less time than it did for me to say that. Snap snap, it was gone. And then uh about 30 seconds later, the other one did the exact same thing, and they both went vertical, straight up, so fast you just couldn’t believe what you were looking at. So, we turned to the officer that was there, and we said, “Sir, what the hell was that?” And he looked at the chief, then he looked at us, and he looked at the chief, and he looked back at us, and he said, “If I were you guys, I wouldn’t say anything to anyone anyhow, cuz no one’s going to believe you. And this topic’s closed.” And with that, he turned and ran up into officer’s country. And I I’ve never forgotten that verbatim quote, you know. You Nobody’s going to believe you anyhow. Well, this topic is closed. I think they believe you guys now, because, you know, now you have directors of national intelligence, directors of the CIA, presidents saying we’re going to looking into this stuff. Yeah, well, you got pilots using their cell phones to photograph freaking UFOs that aren’t from here. Yeah, it’s uh the evidence is becoming pretty overwhelming, and I think the consensus is rapidly shifting, and um you said, uh and this is I think going to be also, uh if we find corroboration for this, really, you know, healthy vindication for, you know, Allagash as well. Oh, absolutely. May 1970, USS Holland is where this occurred.
🎙️ Correct. And so, Off the coast of Spain. Off the coast of Spain, and this thing was seen on the starboard side, and maybe it’s still in the logs. So, to anybody who has any experience with the Freedom of Information Act, and knows how to, you know, send those requests, try to try to get this stuff out, because
🎙️ you can access that stuff, I’d be certainly interested in knowing what was reported. Awesome. Can we talk a little bit about little bit more about how this experience has affected our artwork? Sure. Because um there were two things that changed Well, we talked a little bit about yours.
🎙️ base and Jack’s obsession
🎙️ obsession about mathematics and he become I mean this this happened immediately after we returned to Boston. And uh before we went to the Allagash, Jack was doing um uh endangered species Well, he was doing like really tight kind of um illustrative silk screen designs. One of them is in the uh Museum of uh two Museum of Art in Washington, D.C.
🎙️ poster, Devil’s Pupfish Yeah, I don’t know if the Devil’s Pupfish is, but um anyway, and then he was also doing these kind of like um uh what kind of painting it is? Abstract Expressionist painting of um landscapes
🎙️ Mhm. That was the kind of work he was in and then like immediately after coming back from the Allagash, he like just became obsessed with this this like all this kind of weird mathematical stuff. He was building um models of like icosa-dodecahedrons out of straws and he was
🎙️ Whoa. He was
🎙️ He was incorporating grids in all of his artwork and in in very incredibly intriguing ways. Whoa.
🎙️ And I I was one piece that I really loved. I would like to know whatever happened to it. Tossed grid salad.
🎙️ Okay, that’s Craig, a friend of ours. Oh, Craig’s got that? Anyway, um and he was like I you know, we live together, you know, and I’m his twin, so like no secrets. And I’d be like, Jack, what the hell is going on here? You know, like what are you doing? He’d he I don’t know, but I have to do this. I have to do this.”
🎙️ And and like it just like kept going and going and going and years later somebody came our friend Mike Asherman came to the house. This is got This guy is like a a brilliant MIT scientist.
🎙️ MIT programmer and scientist. He helped them build their tokamak at MIT and he came over one night and he was looking at Jack’s arm again and he goes, “You know, I know what this is, Jack. This is get this book Secrets of World Grid World Grid and anti anti-gravity by David Hatcher Childress.” Mhm. And that go to this this chapter in here. You’ll see Jack’s what’s the math behind all of this stuff.
🎙️ What? Yeah, and this guy is building tokamak?
🎙️ Yeah. Wild. So, it’s almost like your brother was channeling something frontier science.
🎙️ happened to me. When I came back before I went up to the Allagash, I was making production pottery. I was making bowls and cups and platters and plates and things and teapots. And when I came when I was like just days after this event in on the Allagash, I had this epiphany.
🎙️ I mean it was like an epiphany is the only word I can think of to describe it. All of a sudden this thing came into my head fully developed that I could if I worked with clay this way, I could do this like really unique kind of of creations with clay that are they’re so far total opposite of production pottery and I became obsessed with this stuff. I almost got I almost got kicked out of the program because of it. But I stayed with it and I managed to convince them that this was something legitimate that I really wanted to some of the most amazing
🎙️ amazing artwork.
🎙️ in addition to that I I became obsessed like my brother on ancient architecture. Places like Teotihuacan, Tiwanaku, Baalbek and the temples in Southeast Asia, Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom and the pyramids and I I just became obsessed cuz I had this You know that’s also common among experiencers. They’ll say I’ve become obsessed with the pyramid. I have a buddy who you guys might be friends with too, Mario Woods from the Ellsworth Air Force Base induction experience South Dakota 1977 and he he goes after he goes this is going to sound weird but after my experience I just became obsessed with pyramids. Yeah, so did I and and I had this this belief which I still have. I I believe that these structures these structures, these architectural sites are a form of macro chip technology. Mhm. That they they’re not just ceremonial places that people went and prayed to their gods.
🎙️ Yeah, I believe that too.
🎙️ actually used these structures for some kind of purpose a functional purpose. You know because
🎙️ I agree. Why did they have huge sheets of mica brought to Teotihuacan Sun Pyramid pyramid from 2 to 3,000 miles away in South America and then put them under the floor structures of the temples? I mean mica is used in the electronics industry. And so like why would why would they do that if it’s not um decorative? And And not just in the pyramid of the Sun, it’s in all the other pyramids that were in that immediate area. They all have those They all utilize this mica. So, you know, mica is is a It’s used as an insulator. All
🎙️ capacitors. Mhm. Another point very interesting.
🎙️ Yeah. And I’ve always And that was like just something that
🎙️ strong electric fields. Yeah. I’m reading a book now it’s called Seeds of Knowledge Stones of Power, I think it is. I can’t think of the author. I just started reading it this past week. Found it on Amazon where these researchers went to all these pyramid sites in Mesoamerica, Europe, Egypt, and they took measurements of the electrical fields field energies of these locations. And they [clears throat] claim in their argument in their book that these peoples, the Incas and the Aztecs, the Mayans, the Olmecs, were using these structures to make their seed more virulent. And that they So, they started doing tests at these same sites with bags of seeds or you know, whatever containers of seeds, and they found out that they increased yield per acre like three to five times. It’s like electroculture or something.
🎙️ Yeah. Bioelectrics. Yeah, fascinating. Well, Jim, Charlie, this was an absolute honor. It was a lot of fun. And yeah, it was really amazing to hear your story and you know, I hope people start to you know, use the Freedom of Information Act to try to get to the bottom of the 1970 experiences as well.
🎙️ interesting. I’d like to know. And I want to give a shout out to the great James Fox for the very generous introduction here and thank you both for your time. Well, you’re very, very welcome. It’s been an honor, Jess. Oh, my all mine. Head to americanalchemymarch.com to grab official American Alchemy merch and support the show directly. And while you’re there, the Cowboy UFO T is a fan favorite we always keep in stock along with the Atomic Age design. Thank you all so much for following and supporting the show.
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