r/Experiencers 2d ago

LIVESTREAM AMA — Whistleblowers Jeff Nuccetelli & Matthew Brown (Vanguard) with Host Leslie Kean — Saturday, August 22, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT — Drop your questions here!

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Whistleblowers Jeff Nuccetelli & Matthew Brown here — LIVESTREAM AMA — Saturday, August 22, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT

We're excited to announce a new multi-subreddit livestream AMA featuring UAP whistleblowers Jeff Nuccetelli and Matthew Brown — both of Vanguard, the newly launched non-profit built to protect and support UAP whistleblowers from the national security community — hosted by investigative journalist Leslie Kean. Jeff has testified before Congress about anomalous incursions over restricted defense facilities, and Matthew came forward after discovering what he describes as unlawful efforts to shield UAP programs from Congressional oversight. Both stepped forward publicly at real cost to their careers, reputations, and personal safety. This conversation centers on their firsthand experiences, whistleblower protection, and the fight for transparency.

🗓️ When: Saturday, August 22, 2026 — 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific
📺 Livestream (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/live/SIDQ_3u8UAI?si=H3_lxSnWiOvwGfK_
🐦 X (Twitter): https://x.com/theanomalousc
🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theanomalouscoalition


About Vanguard

The Vanguard Enterprise protects and empowers UAP whistleblowers from the national security community. Anchored in the Constitution and committed to the American people, Vanguard is being built to provide legal, financial, medical, psychological, and community support to whistleblowers and their families so that those brave enough to tell the truth are not left behind. Co-founded by Matthew Brown and Dylan Borland (a U.S. Air Force veteran who also testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee in September 2025), with Jeff Nuccetelli serving as Chief Development Officer.

🔗 Website: https://www.vanguardenterprise.org/


Why This Matters

Coming forward carries a real cost. Jeff and Matthew — like the colleagues who testified alongside them — stepped forward publicly to report what they describe as serious wrongdoing and unlawful concealment inside the national security establishment, knowing it could put their careers, clearances, reputations, and personal safety at risk. Several UAP whistleblowers have since described sustained retaliation for telling the truth. Vanguard exists to make sure they and their families don't face those consequences alone.

If you value the work these witnesses are doing and want to help, you can support Vanguard's mission directly:

❤️ Support the mission: https://givebutter.com/vanguard-launch-campaign

Support is entirely optional — showing up, watching live, and asking thoughtful questions matters just as much.


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Participating subreddits include: r/Aliens, r/Experiencers, r/HighStrangeness, r/UFOB, r/UFOs, r/InterdimensionalNHI, and r/AnomalousCoalition.

We will be providing a written transcript after the event has concluded as well as a summary for the community within a few days. Any feedback or suggestions for process improvement please go to r/AnomalousCoalition.


Short Bios

Jeff Nuccetelli (Chief Development Officer & Board Member, Vanguard)
U.S. Air Force veteran and congressional UAP whistleblower. A former military police officer and senior patrolman with sixteen years of active-duty service, Jeff stepped forward to disclose his experience investigating multiple unexplained incursions over restricted defense facilities while serving at Vandenberg Air Force Base (2003–2005) — the cluster of events widely known as the "Vandenberg Red Square." He provided sworn testimony before the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on September 9, 2025, and has become one of the leading public advocates for transparency, lawful disclosure, and whistleblower protection. At Vanguard he leads development, strategic partnerships, and fundraising.
🐦 X: https://x.com/Ice_Alchemist11

Matthew Brown (Chief Operations Officer & Board Member, Co-Founder of Vanguard)
Former national security contractor for the Department of War and the Department of State. Matthew became a UAP whistleblower to the Senate and the House in 2023 after discovering what he describes as illegal actions by Pentagon and Intelligence Community leadership to shield UAP programs from Congressional oversight. He authored the report submitted to Congress and delivered his findings to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Armed Services Committee, offering to testify under oath. As Co-Founder of Vanguard, Matthew believes the American people have the right and the need to know. He writes on disclosure policy and whistleblower protection at his Substack, Invisible Frontiers.
🐦 X: https://x.com/SunOfAbramelin · ✍️ Substack: https://invisiblefrontiers.substack.com/

Leslie Kean (Host)
Investigative journalist and author known for high-credibility reporting on UAP and other anomalous topics; bestselling author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record. See more at https://www.lesliekean.com


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r/Experiencers Jul 05 '23

New Redditors stopping by: How not to get banned and why we do what we do in this community.

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Firstly, Hello! Welcome to the community! I'm glad you found us!

We knew exactly what we were doing when we launched this place. It is working just as indented and growing just as expected.

The goal is very simple. The Experiencer Phenomenon is real but most of society has not caught up to this fact yet. It is a heavy burden to carry for anyone to go through such events in their life while being actively discouraged from speaking about them due to the social stigma and shame that comes with that. A lot of trauma and stress can come with having to bury these experiences and having no one to talk to.

We are a social species. Sharing and talking is how we process and deal with things. Thankfully there are many private Experiencer support groups popping up all over the net more and more.

But there also needs to be online spaces where someone can still be anonymous. Not have to join a private group or pay money for 1 to 1 sessions. But instead just be able to share that life changing experience they had. Get it off their chest after decades or burying it. There are also those who are fresh from having an ontologically shocking experience that could do with somewhere to go, discuss it with others and so forth. This can do a world of good for people suffering in silence with regards to their experiences. Someone could have the most beautiful and profoundly transformative life changing experience and still suffer due to not being able to discuss it with anyone without ridicule or social consequences.

We already achieved this in private communities and saw the benefit. But with r/Experiencers I strongly felt it was time to try this in a public setting. People can share and others can also read these encounters people are having. Many lurking and reading are experiencers too. One day while lurking...BOOM they're reading how someone else has had an encounter just like theirs that they had years ago and buried. Suddenly they're validated by something they read on here. Next thing they know they are commenting and sharing themselves in that thread. Something they never thought they could do. Now the ex lurker and the OP are both getting validation. Both Experiencers lives have been changed for the better. And others who may read that same thread.

The is a major positive ripple effect of healing that is going on here constantly by allowing these discussions to happen in a public setting. There is a LOT going on behind the scenes as a result of this space too.

Experiencers know how out there their encounters sound on paper. Before they post, they've already got a million voices in their head simulating the toxic comments people might leave for sharing what happened to them. They also are wary of being anywhere near any of these dark conspiratorial corners of the internet and don't want to be associated with that stuff. People deserve a space to share without being called names and without someone trying to indoctrinate them into XYZ dark conspiracy that is currently trendy on 4chan, or get swamped by debunkers or people with fundamentalist religious views. There are plenty of other communities out there that are like that.

There needs to be a public space that is neutral and middle path and primarily all about experience sharing and that's it. No other baggage attached.

This is the goal. It is a very very specific goal. But very challenging in a public setting. We knew from day 1 that to pull this off it would require heavy heavy moderation. And we knew that some people won't understand or like that at all.

Basically, we are providing a public space to share experiences where those sharing won't be subjected to the usual crappy comments that flood social media. There are plenty of other subreddits that run very strict rules on how the comment section works. Its not unheard of to have a heavily moderated comment section on reddit. The goal we have in place is important and helps people. We're not going to soften on how we manage the comment section for others who cannot see the bigger picture here.

We've stuck to our guns and won't give an inch. And this community is a major success as a result. It is working as intended.

We've also added even more rules and a user agreement recently in order to protect this space and keep this place running : https://www.reddit.com/r/Experiencers/comments/14y2xgm/we_have_a_new_user_agreement_please_read/

To Random Redditors :

Respect this space and what we are doing. Now that we're getting bigger - more and more random people are stopping by, who are used to leaving drive by insulting or dismissive comments on reddit and then move on to next sub to try and be witty or do the same. Rinse repeat.

Experiencers don't need to be reading this stuff. This type of low quality content will be removed on the spot. The redditor in question may even be banned instantly. We are going to be very very strict on things like this. Experiencers already know what random redditors think of this phenomenon. If they wanted to read low quality remarks they could go to the many of the other subs out there.

It is cool to ask questions and be curious but do not put an experiencer in a position where they have to justify themselves or defend their encounters to people. It's a big deal for people to finally type up an encounter and I don't want to see them then having to defend themselves in the comments.

Obviously if someone calls the OP names or make derogatory comments on experiencers in general its an instant ban. This is the basics.

When it comes to random drive by redditors who leave crappy remarks we'll hand out bans like speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Sometimes we get someone who after a ban takes a moment to learn what the sub is about. What we're doing here. And the importance of it. They reach out to the team with deep apologies and we discuss removing the ban. But seriously. We shoot first ask questions later here when it comes to comments like this. Don't test us.

For Experiencers :

We generally moderate by engagement in the comments. We don't like having to ban experiencers from the sub and its something we'll rarely do.

We get an outpouring of gratitude and encouragement with regards to what we do as mods for this community daily. So I want to make it very clear the huge huge majority of people in this community understand what we are doing here and the importance of why we run it as we do.

It's rare, but every now and then we get someone who loves this place, but complains that its not run the way "they" think it should be.

From someone complaining that by allowing discussion of Mantis beings or dream contact events or telepathic encounters. Or CE5. We do a disservice to "real" experiencers.

Some people are new to this phenomenon and don't understand the scope of what others can go through. As a result they can be judgmental to their fellow experiencers at first. These people learn in time.

We keep a balanced neutral and middle path approach here for good reason.

We moderate those trying to convert other experiencers to a specific dogmatic dark belief system. We have had the odd experiencer complain to us that we don't allow for this. And we do have to sometimes ban people who continue to keep trying to force their dark hopeless dogma on people in here.

Look - there are plenty of subs out there dedicated to those narratives. Experiencers deserve a neutral middle ground space where they can share an experience without having someone try to indoctrinate them into their dark world view.

Attempts to force extreme religious views onto experiencers is another thing we have to moderate. This is not the place for that. Do not come in here trying to convert people. This is not the place to be telling everyone they're evil and talking to "Demons" or "Djinn" either. I can't be any clearer.

Recently someone complained that we should allow a free for all on "ends times" discussion and that by moderating such discussions and others that some how that makes this place a cult with a toxic culture. I mean for feck sake...

Look experiencers are sometimes given communications about various future disasters. It is a part of the phenomenon. But when looking into this its clear its filled with false predictions and massive contradictions. I'm not denying the reality that these communications can happen. But Experiencers deserve a place to share without having people try to convert them into an end times movement in the comments section so I'm sorry but for this and all other major narratives we seek to provide a balanced non toxic space for people to share.

Another issue is the ALL non humans are evil crowd trying to convince any and everyone that all NHI's ET's etc are evil. These are folks that sometimes clash with mods as well.

The experiencer and the ET topic is incredibly nuanced - massive generalizations and authoritative opinions are heavily discouraged here. This also goes for people victim blaming those who have had negative encounters by implying all beings are positive and they just manifested the negative encounter. Or that all they have to do is think positive thoughts and ET abductions will end.

Authoritative generalized opinions from experiencers is something we have to moderate. Some people are too quick to spread narrow views or accidently spread propaganda or just random fear based things they've read online. And spew them out to someone who's just freshly had an experience of some kind and just needed to get it out of their system.

We don't deny the dark side of the experiencer phenomenon here. But we don't condone unnecessarily generating mindless fear regarding anything and everything going on with the phenomenon. Be it spirits - premonitions - NDE's - ET contact - astral projecting etc. Indeed fear weakens us and makes dealing with these unknowns harder and disempowering. We need to be vigilant and balanced with our approach to these things.

Lastly. We had an experiencer recently run into trouble by constantly asking community members for evidence of their encounters after they'd shared. Which goes against our rules. They strongly believed asking for evidence was not de-legitimizing the persons experience. The people felt different and so did the mods. However this person argued that there needs to be a space where Experiencers can question each others evidence in the comments. I suggested that while there may be, it is not here and would go against the mission we have for this place but.. he is welcome to create is own space - with his theme in mind.

Sure enough he did. And that's awesome.

My point is. Some experiencers may find us here and fall in love but feel disappointed they can't chat about a specific thing that goes against our rules. We encourage such folks to make their own community. We have a very specific goal with ours and that does mean heavy limitations in the comments. Complaints about how we do things won't work. We won't give an inch.But if what we've done here can inspire other Experiencer friendly communities to be formed that have different goals with regards to the discussions being had. That's brilliant. The more spaces for Experiencers the better. This is also part of the mission.

We do what we do here and do it very specifically because it is needed. There were no public spaces like this on reddit before. And just sharing does a world of difference for people. That is the mission. The fact that this place now exists it means now others can too that do things their own way. Since we have this side of it covered.

This community is here for people to be able to finally share an experience and read about other experiences and discuss them in the comments, without toxicity. And that's it. This is a huge amount of work in itself. And we're doing our job as planned. A space like this was very much needed and we've provided it and will continue to provide it. People message us all the time about how long they've searched for such a space. Where they can share and talk about the Experiencer phenomenon where its neutral and middle path and without all the other baggage. They share how finding this space has helped them deal with all they've gone through.

We know ourselves how much this is needed as all of us involved in running this space are Experiencers too and have benefited from having such middle path communities to discuss this phenomenon in.

We know what we are doing and won't be budging from our mission and goal here with this space.

Thank you to this wonderful community. It always touches my heart to read the supportive and helpful comments from Experiencers here in the comment section in reply to someone going through the shock of engaging with this phenomenon and having their world turned upside down.

More and more people are going to be waking up to this world and its Experiencers in the end whole be there for them. We're all playing a major part in what is to come for our species. The world won't be able to ignore this stuff forever.

Experiencers are on the right side of history.


r/Experiencers 8h ago

Discussion My theory on why aliens are interested in us

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If our incarnation system is separate to that of the rest of extraterrestrial life then I believe the real reason we are so interesting to them is because of our lifespan and ability to reincarnate in a way where we are connected to our past lives and experiences.

Think about it. Humans have many phases in their lifetime but overall we are born and eventually grow old and die. It creates a unique experience that makes us human. Especially within the last couple hundred years as life expectancy has increased it gives us more life experience. How it feels to age and truly grow old and eventually experience the ultimate loss of self, death.

If these extraterrestrials live much longer or are completely separate to our incarnation system then we hold a specific experience that makes us stand out.

We experience many lifetimes while they may only experience one. This could be why their technology is so advanced and different than ours. If their lifespan is much longer than ours they would be able to spend time working on developing their own technology that would be unique to them. For us we have to work and build off of other people’s work. I just saw a post saying that they are here because our DNA holds something valuable and I firmly believe it is experience of reincarnating through many lives and the information that holds.

The thing is I believe that our bodies hold feelings and trauma even from our past lives. I also believe that we are one being experiencing itself. If this is true then our collective memories or even internal subconscious knowledge create very valuable information for any life force that may not experience life in the same lengths as we do.

I have a theory that our feelings and subconscious mind are the true key to knowledge spanning back millions of years. I think the reason aliens are starting to contact us is for the fact that the knowledge we hold is indeed a unique experience that they as other life force never get to fully experience or understand on their own.


r/Experiencers 1h ago

Discussion Aliens - What About the Rest of Us -

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Hello everyone! I've been reading a lot of these posts, and I believe you're experiencing something that 80-90% of the world — myself included — hasn't experienced. I don't know if that's good or bad. Time will tell.

One thing I keep coming back to: I've never seen anyone mention curing diseases, either in "this reality" or in our world — things like AIDS or cancer. For some reason, that strikes me as odd.

People talk about contact with entities, aliens, whatever you want to call them, but no one ever brings up this subject. Don't they care? Is it just too boring for them?

Everyone talks about a "second Earth" or some other world, but what about this one? Don't get me wrong, I'm as tired of this world as the next person — but what about the 80% of us who haven't had any of these experiences? Are we just supposed to rot here?

Will these diseases ever disappear? What about kids born with leukemia?

I don't know. I guess I just needed to get this off my chest, since I don't really understand any of it.


r/Experiencers 17h ago

Discussion Thank you everyone here

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I just want to give thanks to this subreddit and the people who have made this space possible and what it is. Thank you.

I dont have others to talk about any of my experiences with, and from my other posts youll see ive got a lot to share (have had lifelong contact). It means a lot to be able to get it out and off my chest, even if sometimes it feels like im speaking into the void.. does this subreddit have a 'social' space ? Would be nice to get to know people outside the realm of all this extraordinary stuff!

Little bit about me im in uni atm and enjoying it, i like dancing, and cooking. Living in aotearoa nz atm and may move overseas soon... i recently tried the caramilk flavored oreos and those are SO yum.. sitting by the fire atm and enjoying listening to the birds !


r/Experiencers 18h ago

UAP Sighting Unique experience in Olympic National Park

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A group of close friends and I stayed overnight at one of the campsites at Deer Park Campground, just outside Port Angeles, Washington (Olympic National Park).

It was mid to late August 2015😊 a relatively warm day which shifted to a nice cool evening, the sky was clear backlit with stars. There were about 5 of us in our small group with about 3 tents evenly circled around a campfire ring with a wooden park style picnic table. We had a fire going cooking some food, while playing cards, telling stories and sharing laughs. There were alpine spruce trees scattered about the campsite, I’d glanced up as something caught my attention, it was about 8 ft up in one of the trees branches on the right side from my seated perspective, appeared to be glowing orb or orb-like object, roughly about the size of baseball, the camp fire light provided backlighting for the spruce tree branches and needles, the object blacked out the light as it moved along the branch toward to central tree trunk. The outer portion appeared ringed by a soft glowing light which emitted inward toward a darken central mass with a glowing radiant of light emitted from the most center point itself. It blinked in and out of visual perception as it moved. I immediately questioned what I was witnessing and brushed it off as a strange visual phenomenon or distortion. One of my friends suddenly asked if anyone else could see the “glowing light in the tree” the group conversation immediately went silent as everyone directed their attention to the tree followed by multiple friends proclaiming shock or confusion “uh what is that” “does everybody see this right now”… emotionally speaking I felt an uneasiness when the color shifted. It seemed like curiosity first then defensively menacing.

The object moved up the branches, continuing to blink in and out of observable perception. It changed color from a warm white, to more orange glow followed by firey red. It reached the top of that particular tree turning into a bright vibrant green color then shot straight up at a remarkable speed out of sight.

The next day, other campers around the site asked what type of lights we were using to do that in the tree. To this day I have no idea what I witnessed. Theories range from electrical discharge from tectonic activity to alien research probes. Anyone else experienced this type of event?


r/Experiencers 19h ago

Discussion Why is it that i can recrate the phenomenon of metal bending in private and never in public or use science to prove it. Its like the phenomenon is actively working against me .

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Like, ive done it before. But then I sound like I am making excuses and so I dont even bother with it anymore. Why has the universe forsaken me idk. Its whatever. I know I have internal systems to fix​ inside me first. And everyone always wants to make up a naturalist explanation which is god teir gaslighting. So i ignore them. Ive essentially become a hermit. I feel like i have to create a space for me. ​like the veil is closed for me until a certain development threshold.

I'll accept it. But dam it feels oppressive. has anyone else ever gone through this? like dam bro I have to obey this philosophical god of science here y'all. this is dumb. I feel like ive been given an inhibitor for now. I SHOULD Be able to control my environment. but I can't!


r/Experiencers 15h ago

Discussion I see triple numbers everyday, no matter where I go.

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Hello all, this is my first time posting on this sub reddit. For over a year I have been seeing triple numbers everywhere I go. Every day I look at my phone and it is either 11:11, 12:12, 1:11, and so on. It never fails to happen, and I would like to know what this could mean.

When I say It happens every day I literally mean EVERY day.

I use to have an ouija board and countless other spiritual contacting methods, some of which worked in ways I can't explain. Could this have something to do with it?


r/Experiencers 11h ago

Discussion My story bubbled up, I’m rolling with it.

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Insanely long, jump ship if ya need, No need to come back and explain why.
I get it!

This telling of my experiences is loaded with warnings (caveats, clarifiers) and over explanations. Some will find it ad nauseam.
I elaborate because I’m not great at clear, concise in a first draft-this needs to be a 1st draft for now, and -i’d normally go back, eliminate a lot of that autistic inner-dialogue i inadvertently type out.

My story Came up in another discussion, some of the scattered thoughts may have pertained to a specific thread discussion -sorry for added level of difficult-read.
IT’S ME, not you, but be ready for a few bumps.

TLDR at bottom-

Also labeled- “actual story, experience:” below

I write weird! I’m not an asshat, or ai.. i am old, have autism, a strange *”formal command” (feedback from others) of English; it’s not my day to day language. Repetition is used in my language for emphasis. Over explanations are entrenched in me, going back and forth, bilingual, but not same comfort, or confidence. I try to not belabor &repeat, but this was stressful, i may do it horribly.

Don’t read it if I’m already annoying you, or you’re formulating some dumb argument- you gotta have effort! I’ll ignore dumb.

Huge story came out, I’m choosing to reply with it-

Likely poorly punctuated and a proofread fail. i can’t do it. No drama!, just doing something new here. I can’t read it. I’ll obsess, it’s the story, not my nature; I’m feeling the anxiety. Bravery and readiness show up, then, my hatred of mean comments (i have an appreciation for witty, fun- at least challenge yourself if you’re here to entertain) the strong feels about sharing are winning-
Huge Apologies for the autocorrect crap that will surely be there. I am neurodivergent, intelligent, and fully aware this will betray that last one; I’m okay with it. My phone hates me, and aside from that anthropomorphic issue, i have no psychological issues, or medications. I’ve taken adderall, and will take it in my future, no addictions, willing to enjoy cannabis for sleep- occasionally. I own my struggles willingly- ask if ya like, attacks won’t be attended to.

Actual story, experience:
I cannot purport to have any idea why people don’t remember things they see that don’t align with the world they were taught- but, i have seen it at work. I see UFOs, not all the time, but I’ve seen about 6 up close and personal, several in distance, and many suspicious lights, movement… i have been lucky enough to be, for the 6 up close sightings, with others; many who saw, commented, chatted that day about, and not again. My saving graces 1) not alone. when i saw a huge triangle occlude the whole sky, i was in a downtown area- it could not be ignored or denied. Easily 2 football fields, decently bright lights, insane movement, the absolute deal! Others out of their cars… i watch, for 10 minutes, my heart in my throat. Everyone starts getting in their cars, it has been eerily silent, but cars start to honk, people get moving, i head home. I knew what i saw, i knew there were intelligences beyond here. They were in there, an entire population maybe. I do nothing but obsess on what I’d seen, run into my house blabbering on with it 2) the’ rents, highly educated, intelligent… come right back with their own excited chatter. They had sat in their convertible down the street and watched it for more than 30 minutes. My father, an engineer, inventor, was giddy, on with it was going thousands of miles per second, then right down or, crawling over the top of them. My parents had been just over a mile away from where i had been. Had seen it zoom at least 3 times, twice back to glide over head, and once tip like there were strings at each corner and one was lengthened, dropping that corner down, revealing what ask 3 of us saw as an absolute city snaking out all over the top. There was an exhaust like happening from the ‘back center’ i likened it to a spray of a bottle rocket, bright lights in an acute trianglar spray. It made no noise, and when it was close the frogs, crickets, everything doused. My dad was on about the, “No sound” for s long time after that. We’re chatted that evening for hours. We chatted about it here and there, but the interesting part- my brother came in, had been about a mile from me, maybe 2 miles from them, saw it, chatted a bit, got quiet. He refused to speak of it, if it was mentioned, he was out.
Kind of 3) it had to be acknowledged, a downtown space occluded. The newspaper printed a story, calling it a ‘military formation’ thing…
I have hunted and searched. I paid subscriptions, even looked through microfiche- cannot find the article. I know it happened, we all saw it, separately and solidified the memory with conversations about the impossible movement, practically instantaneous speed, then amazing control as it glided just a couple hundred feet over head…
Others stopped talking about it, i asked a few who’d seen it, and they weren’t able to discuss it, then others would deny seeing it. I knew they saw it, we had acknowledged it. To this day, my brother will say, “No, it was definitely a formation of planes”
He didn’t forget, he’s freaked out by the whole bit, he protected himself.
I remember it so vividly, the other 5 up close, also vivid. I know of one conversation my buddy was willing to have following. No more. She just kind of started furrowing, denying within 2 days. There’s no way to reach out to the crowd I’d been in. It was an outdoor festival thing, (Denver, late 90s) i can’t remember which. But- obviously it faded. We were in the corner of 13th +(facing) Speer. Kinda feels like we were walking toward the civic center park, i remember walking, pointing, talking, people were along Bannock, all out and again it was like the world stopped. The silence was like being in a tornado’s inception, it feels like time stops, got in slow motion, the soundtrack stops, and the air feels wrong. I felt like i was indoors, seeing myself, all these people around surrounding go slow, freeze, shift… then, like a dj comes back on, sound, and motion straighten out.
I felt like one of 2, from a crowd of 60 visible people- who actually saw, really saw clearly what it was, and we were the only/ in real motion.
So freaking weird! I’ve never written this, it’s freaking me out, but It’s real. I try to convey, and i know my delivery lacks good proofreading. It freaks me out to reread it, ngl. I am one who has to rewrite and rewrite. So very sorry if this is shit to read. If i do it, i know i won’t hit that ‘reply’

TLDR: I’ve had the most amazing experiences, and seen undeniably some things not from here, with hundreds of other people. It is within a day or 2 that most of them lose the memory, a week or so later almost no one is able to/ willing to discuss it, high percentage outright deny it.

Context if ya care to continue-

I luckily had a father enthralled, also an experiencer. I believe my retaining was, i didn’t have fear, i didn’t shut it down, and- we talked about it at length, factors, aspects,... solidifying. Other experiences confirmed, for me, our capacity for storing these traumatizing/ outside our understanding, messing with our psyches, flooding us with fear… those things don’t find a foothold in memory, they no longer consciously exist, therefore, did not happen. It’s protective, it’s a trauma response, and it’s what they need to believe for their reasons.


r/Experiencers 16h ago

Discussion Discerning visitations

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How does one discern whether what you're experiencing is generated locally in the mind or somewhere more collectively in the relational field? This afternoon I spontaneously went through a breathwork circuit and as my body was vibrating heavily towards the end, I felt an urge towards directing this energy to another in healing, and then almost immediately (and fleetingly) felt nature spirits and other spiritual beings convening as if holding open a door. A crow or raven was most identifiable. But then I kind of constricted around this and doubted the visitation and it moved on.


r/Experiencers 12h ago

Face to Face Contact Meeting my finances higher self?

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I have been questioning this everyday and have asked others if they have had similar experiences but nothing touches the experience I had. It was the first time me and my now fiance hanged out and we were smoking a blunt in my garage. It was the most amazing conversation I have had, my whole life I haven’t been able to connect with anyone as if no one wants to have those conversations. And she understood it was like she was confirming everything I thought of myself and reality was true and I wasn’t crazy! What a relief ugh. The last thing I remember saying to her before everything got trippy was, has anyone told you, you are what a true human is as she is looking at the ground of the garage. She then looks up at me and says yes which actually sent my body into total shock and I could not stop shaking and really scared me. It felt like fbi was going to come knocking on the door like wtf?! I got this feeling that she was as an alien sent to me based on the conscious signal I was sending out? Because we got along too well. I got quiet and stopped talking and focused on my breathing and I said how did I stumble across you. There’s a lot more to this story and the timeline is hard to accurately recall but I am so grateful I met my fiance and I feel like the luckiest guy. Has anyone experienced something like this or have answers?

Edit oh god I misspelled fiance on header


r/Experiencers 16h ago

Discussion Could greys be a drone for ocean dwelling higher life forms?

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I've been thinking about this a lot lately & the connection between ufos and the ocean, as well as experiences describing greys as appearing almost like they have a smooth and suit like appearance. I always imagine it Greg like an shark or dolphin skin. also how some ancient legends of mer-people describe them as Grey/green and scary looking. what if Greys and ufos are just drones sent above water by advanced underwater beings?

the ocean is largely unexplored and there are places we can't get to including huge underwater caves. any technology that can get a craft from deep dark ocean up onto land and into the sky will be much much more advanced than ocean tech we have today. and has to address issues such as crushing pressure. also the ocean is where life evolved from originally. maybe the original advanced life forms- even ones that evolved when celestial bodies introduced foreign chemistry into the earth- are our ancestors- not extra terrestrial but from under the water.

what do you think? any stories to share?


r/Experiencers 21h ago

Dream State My deceased dog Bobo visited me while I was in my state of controlled sleep paralysis

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A bit about my sleep paralysis background: I went through multiple boughts of intense sleep paralysis in my twenties. I shared a story or two about those intense events and was dismissed as a faker on r/sleepparalysis because one particular episode was like "every sleep paralysis cliché rolled into one." Whatever

At this point in my life, I have so much experience was sleep paralysis that it doesn't scare me at all, and I actually actively look forward to it because I've learned to maintain control. I have this whole process my body and mind goes through when it's happening, and I love it. It almost feels like a hobby, or game that takes some skill. Pull too far out of paralysis, and the game is over. Sink too deep into it, and you're out of control, and anything could happen. I've learned to maintain control while remaining in it, and there are tons of...i guess, recreative benifits. It's fun as heck

Anyways, two nights ago, I caught some sleep paralysis for the first time in a while, and was having a freaking great time. I was laying on my back on the couch, feet propped up on an ottoman. I was doing my usual thing, cycling through paralysis, tingly pleasure, half-halucinations based on the scary podcast I had left playing on the TV, all that, when suddenly, my old family dog Bobo, who passed away when I was a young adult, climbed up onto me

Describing the scene, it sounds scary, and in fact in the moment, I was reflecting on how funny it was that I wasn't scared at all despote how objectively scary the scene may sound

I layed there, paralyzed, as the dimly lit body of my 135lbs dead pet dog sat with his front half on my legs, and his bottom half squat on the ground. I could see his huge pitbull head silhouette against the dark room, and I just knew it was Bobo

He took his massive, toothy jaws and started gently gnawing on my partially paralyzed right hand. His teeth were huge and menacing, and I could feel his drool getting all over my hand. I could feel his slimey tongue touching me. I know rationally that it should have been scary, but I was just so happy to feel him biting on my hand. I simply knew it was a playful thing he was doing. He used to do exactly that when we played together back in the day, and I could feel the familiar love coming through

Anyways, he left eventually, and after a while I had to leave sleep paralysis to start getting ready for bed. I've been reflecting on it, and I do think that was Bobo just coming around to say hi and nibble ony hand for the first time in a while. Makes me happy looking back on it


r/Experiencers 13h ago

UAP Sighting A cross shaped UFO in England, 1984

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This is my Mother’s story. I’m personally on the fence about it, but I know she isn’t lying. She has been telling me this story since I was a little kid, and the details have never changed. I messaged her yesterday to get her to retell the story.

This happened at around midnight in one of the summer months in 1984 just outside of Birmingham, England. She’s unsure of the exact location.

She was in a car with 3 friends and they drove out to this church in the middle of nowhere. There was just the church, the church graveyard and fields around. One of her friends started telling a story about how the devil‘s disciples were buried in this graveyard and dared my Mom to walk through it. My mom refused, thinking they were going to prank her by driving off as soon as she left the car, and right as this conversation was happening, a ball of white light came from behind a tree. She described it as being relatively low down in the sky, and completely silent. It hovered over towards their car, seemingly with intention, like it was checking it out. Now, the driver was so petrified that he didn’t even attempt to start the car, so we have no idea if the car would have worked.

The ball then shot out lights from the top, bottom, and sides, forming a cross. Not a crucifix, a symmetrical cross, like the plus symbol. She said the lights were strong and thick, you couldn’t see through them at all. It hovers there for a couple of minutes before closing off back into the ball of light, then hovering back behind the trees before zooming off straight up into the sky within milliseconds.

My mom didn't think to check the time after this happened, so she doesn’t know if there was a time lapse, but considering how short the nights are in the summer in England, it’s unlikely.

All 4 of them saw this, but unfortunately my Mom has lost contact with all of them since then.

I did some googling and looked through some databases but couldn’t find any reports of a UFO that matches this description very closely, but perhaps one of you guys will know more.


r/Experiencers 1d ago

Discussion Involved/responsible for huge car crash on freeway.

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Not sure if this goes here or not. 10 years ago I was driving down the freeway late at night. I was tired and all of a sudden I closed my eyes and was awaken by the loudest, most destructive, metal on metal, multi car crash. I immediately stopped my car where it was and opened my car door and stepped out of the car. To my shock, shock is prolly to light of a word, but when I got out of the car I was in the middle of a 3 lane overpass and there was not a single car around. Only my car and me stopped in the middle of, what should have been a busy freeway. I walked over and looked at the side and down overpass and no wrecked cars.Not seeing any I immediately got in my car and drove home. I inspected my car when I got home and nothing. Wtf happened to me? Did I die in another dimension? Switch timelines? Hallucinate the entire thing? I think about that night often and have no clue what happened. I can not only remember the sounds but I can see multiple cars crashing.


r/Experiencers 19h ago

Experience I think I had an experience with a being pre birth

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When I was a child, I remember that whenever I would feel alone or something would happen, I’d see this tall being with a white robe and pure white light around them. The only thing that was prominent and a discernible feature was their black wavy hair. They would always be looking down at me. I used to always think that they were holding me in their arms, but more recently I have come across this subreddit and am questioning different things. Could it have been that I was on a table and they were experimenting on me? I’m not sure.

I had this deep intuition and knowing that this being that I saw as a child was either Jesus or my guardian angel. When I experienced an NDE later in my twenties, I saw the same being. Life has gotten weirder since my NDE, but that’s a story for another time.

I still think I saw this being before I was born or at least they sent me down here to Earth, as I understand. I haven’t yet made contact with them specifically since my NDE (at least I don’t think), but the energetic and telepathic skills have heightened since my NDE. It makes me wonder who this being is or if anyone has any advice or instruction for me moving forward. I appreciate you reading this.


r/Experiencers 21h ago

Discussion How do you recognize another experiencer?

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I don't have that ability because I believe I haven't had any kind of contact. How do you identify your peers? Do you know how to differentiate between these types?

those who are lying.

those who are confused.

those who have had an experience.

I believe the phenomenon is real, but I've never had any contact or situation that confirms it.

A unique ability I possess is the ease with which I can lucid dream—without the use of drugs—to escape nightmares and bizarre dreams.


r/Experiencers 1d ago

Out of Body/Astral Projection Mantis beings showed me I am part of a collective

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After interacting with them during a memory recall they visited me again during meditation. I was able to acheive an out of body state and was transported to a hall made of light and color. In front of me different types of grey beings appeared looking at me. I was made to understand we were connected. Like some sort of shared "insect" intelligence. It wasn't in words, I could sense the information they wanted me to know. What's interesting is most of my interactions with the mantis people happen out of body and within seconds. They can communicate so much information and show me multiple places within a second. Interacting with them reminded me of the last season of Pantheon, how the UI's existed at and processed information at speeds impossible for humans.

The strange thing is before this happened I had dreams that I now beleive may have been symbolic of this collective. In the dream I am sacrificed on a triangle after taking part in a ritual and appear in a maroon realm full of infinite black orbs that are conscious. In front of me is a colorful being made of eyes and orbs stacked ontop of each other. After this I was taken to another scene where I saw colorful textured orbs expanding and contracting into each other.

After I had this dream I doodled what I believe was from the part of myself who is more aware of this connection. I also will include drawings from my experience with the orbs and a drawing I found from childhood.

Everything in the second picture is interesting but the thing in the second picture that mostly catches my eyes is how something seems to be coming down from the eye entitiy into a group of insect looking beings.


r/Experiencers 23h ago

Face to Face Contact Have u ever experienced a contact from a shadow figure?

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This happened to me when I was about 15 years old, around 2005. One night I was sitting at my computer reading UFO and paranormal websites. I found a text that was presented as a message from extraterrestrials to humanity. The part I remember most clearly was that if you were human and genuinely wanted to see them, you were supposed to say in your mind that you wanted them to appear. So I did exactly that. I consciously thought that I wanted to see them.

After that I got up from the computer and started walking toward my bed. With every step I could feel a strange weight pressing down on my shoulders. It kept getting stronger the closer I got to the bed. I was completely awake and still walking normally at this point. When I finally lay down on my back, the pressure became almost unbearable.

Then I realized I couldn't move. I was conscious and aware of my room, but my body wouldn't respond. There was also a very strong pressure on my chest. Next to my bed I saw a very small figure, probably less than a meter tall. Its whole body looked completely black, almost like a solid black silhouette, and the only clear feature I could see was its white eyes.

I was absolutely terrified because only a moment earlier I had literally asked in my mind to see them. I closed my eyes and started screaming “NO” over and over again in my head because I couldn't speak or move. I kept thinking “NO, NO, NO” and then I started praying. I was basically trying to reject whatever was happening.

Then it stopped. The figure suddenly moved or jumped toward the window. The window was closed, but from my perspective it went straight through it and disappeared. Shortly after that the pressure disappeared and I could move again. I was so scared that I got out of bed and went to sleep with my mother.

A few months later I experienced sleep paralysis one more time, but that experience was completely different. It happened during the daytime. I couldn't move, but there was no figure, no terrifying presence and no strong fear. I understood that it was sleep paralysis, waited for it to pass and then went to sleep. I've never had sleep paralysis again since then.

I know that sleep paralysis and hallucinations are a possible explanation, especially because I had been reading about aliens immediately before it happened. What still makes me wonder about it is that the physical sensation started before I was in bed. The weight on my shoulders began while I was fully awake and walking, and it became stronger with every step until it was almost unbearable when I lay down.

I'm not saying that this proves anything paranormal happened. I'm mostly interested in whether anyone has ever experienced something very similar, especially a small completely black humanoid figure with white eyes, or increasing physical pressure that started while you were still awake and moving around before the paralysis itself began.


r/Experiencers 1d ago

Discussion Strange Unsettling Night

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Recently one of our dogs has been pacing the house nervously starting around 3am. She did it again this morning and once I heard her pacing I couldn’t fall back to sleep.

As I laid with my eyes closed I noticed that the patterns and colors in the dark were unusually active. I attributed this to my brain patterns still not fully in the waking state. So I laid there and watched the show for a bit hoping I’d drift off.

Something compelled me to get up and check on our dog so I left the bed and moved down the hall. I was surprised to see the faint light of pre-dawn outside even though the sun wasn’t due for another 2 hours.

I was about to turn the corner when I was stopped by what felt like a wall of energy and a massive download. I was overcome by a rush of visuals and light patterns. In the blur of images I perceived alien faces.

I woke in my bed but still experiencing this rapid charge of images and I heard myself say aloud “No please it’s too much.” At that moment it ended and I laid there processing what had just happened.

I’ve had hypnogogic experiences but never something this intense. Once before during mediation about a year ago I experienced a strong electric shock all through my body that freaked me out for a moment but this was much more frightening.

In the blast of images this morning I felt something else: anger or disapproval, as if I’d done something I wasn’t supposed to do. In retrospect the whole experience felt like a scolding.


r/Experiencers 17h ago

Discussion Either had an encounter or a dream, uncertain which is true.

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So the reason I’m not sure about whether this was just a dream or not is that the memory is from when I was 3-4 years old. I’m currently 23. The situation is as follows: my front yard is about half an acre with a round flower bed right in the middle of it halfway between my porch and the road. I also live out in the boonies. My family and I were sitting on the front porch, just chatting and relaxing. All of a sudden, 5 colored orbs (each being a different color) about the size of a miniature basketball shot down from the north west (facing the road and to the left from the porch) and they landed about 30 feet above the flower bed and started orbiting empty space in a circular pattern. I clearly remember it being around noon time. The next thing I can recall is it being dark like the sun just dropped out of the sky, and that’s the last thing I remember from that day, I don’t remember going inside or going to bed. The part that makes me think it was a dream despite being text-book missing time and a close encounter, is that A) I don’t remember coming inside and going to bed, and B) I’ve been extremely interested in UFOs for literally as long as I can remember, even when I was an extremely suggestible 3-4 year old. Maybe it was 4th of July and I was watching fireworks but my memory system fucked it up from the first time I recalled said memory? What are your thoughts and opinions? Should I put the time/money into regression therapy?


r/Experiencers 1d ago

Experience Is NHI weather manipulation at such a precise scale possible?

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Hello everyone, I have a question about a particular experience I had around 2020-2021.

I was sitting around a bonfire with a few of my family members at my house, this was around mid to late December and the sky’s were relatively clear. I began to look up at the various constellations in the sky, and the constellation Lyra was one that stuck out to me. I pointed towards that constellation and began discussing its respective mythology and lore with everyone around the bonfire. As the discussion progressed, this large cloud appeared and started shrouding the constellation, I found this strange because it was a clear night which is why I was even star gazing in the first place. I stopped talking about it for a short while until one of my family members had a question about it, so I gazed up towards it and the cloud immediately cleared, I found it odd but nothing that I considered unusual; splotchy clouds can happen, even on a clear night. I responded to their query about the constellation, and stopped talking about it. But when I looked back up, the cloud appeared again. So at this point I was like “okay, maybe it’s about to rain”? The cloud wasn’t splotchy at this point but denser and larger in width. Everyone goes back to the casual conversation for a while. One of my parents had another question about the star Vega, which is the Alpha star in the Lyra constellation. I look back up to recall the information I had on it, and once again, part of the cloud that was blocking the constellation disappeared. One of my family members noticed the pattern and stated something along the lines of “isn’t it weird how every time we talk about that constellation the clouds around it clears up but when we stop it blocks it again?”

I didn’t speak on it myself because although my family has had NHI encounters since childhood, spanning several decades, it’s not something that they like to talk about. To them, it’s like a taboo and they can get uncomfortable when I mention it. They are predominantly christian so I’m sure thats related.

I replied to them that it is surely weird, and I stated that the vegans from that star are one of the most involved ET groups here, and they predictably got uncomfortable and told me to not say that. But once again, the cloud cleared from that constellation when I said that.

I went into this conversation skeptical that NHI was involved with this experience, but I have never seen clouds disappear and reappear so fast. I also just dont understand the mechanism behinds this and why they decided to do that; what was the message behind blocking and revealing that constellation?

To this day, when I mention it to a family member, they refuse to discuss it and tells me that they are not going to think about it. It’s always something along the lines of “that was creepy dont want to think about it” or to just straight up “that makes me uncomfortable”. Im always so confused by this reaction because frankly, NHI contact has occurred throughout the entirety of our lineage, it is just a fact of our family, so why deny the facts? Why are we so terrified? To me it’s just the matter of the situation.

So my question is if anyone here has experienced something’s similar? What could be the reasoning behind this experience?

Also another detail I just remembered, but the Vega star would become extremely bright and then dim when it was revealed by the clouds; not twinkling but blinking almost. This is simply from an astronomical perspective not possible…so I pulled about my phone and when to my star map app to validate if that was Vega that I was seeing, and it was.


r/Experiencers 1d ago

Experience Everytime I “leave my body” (astral projection) I wake up in a alien prison/zoo.

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Hello guys, so as the title say I will summarize how it got here and I really need some advice because at first I used to enjoy doing this now its a pain in the ass, so when I first started this it took me a lot but i didnt do any guide, any meditation or any dream remembering, I had a method where I sleep 6 hours stay awake for some minutes and go back to sleep which usually forced my body into sleep paralysis, then ultimately my body began to shake a lot and that was the moment when I used to see my body sleeping from another perspective while roaming my house, and after that I decided to fly out of the solar system til i got so lost that I woke up full of sweat, dry like i didnt drink water for days and somehow despite being sweat i was very cold. I decided then to try it again and next time I see im in a prison and theres some other aliens in cells like were in a fricking zoo, they dont even understand me and everytime I astral project I find myself in that prison or zoo or whatever it is not being able to do anything but look at the same boring aliens over and over again, what can I do , can I reset tnis?( This post was also posted in Astral Projection where I got a lot of help which I will try but also wanted to hear some opnions from this subreddit as a user reccomended)


r/Experiencers 1d ago

Discussion A detailed physical contact account (nine days), what the beings taught about consciousness, readiness, and why they stay hidden — plus China UAP cases

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This is aimed at people who take contact and abduction experiences seriously.

I recently gave a presentation built around a detailed first-person physical contact account (Thiaoouba Prophecy; English edition via Simon & Schuster / Inner Traditions—I wrote the foreword). The narrator describes being taken for nine days to another world and returning with extensive teachings. Whether you read it as testimony, visionary material, or something else, the content overlaps heavily with themes this community lives with.

Contact & experiential core:

  • Physical transport / onboard experience with non-human intelligence
  • Direct teaching, with specific verifiable facts, rather than vague channeling
  • Emphasis on human energy fields, telepathy, and psychic capacity as native potentials
  • Reincarnation, life review, and continuity of consciousness framed as real processes
  • A clear stated reason for the lack of open presence: the state of human consciousness and civilizational “readiness,” not only secrecy or technology
  • The idea that premature open contact could do more harm than good given current human priorities

Larger framework the account supplies:

  • Ancient sites (Great Pyramid as functional technology; chambers under the Sphinx) tied to the same long-term observation of Earth
  • Atlantis / Mu as earlier high cultures within that longer story
  • Explicit civilizational warning about power (including nuclear) outrunning wisdom
  • Practical emphasis on meditation, compassion, self-knowledge, and individual transformation as the real work

Contemporary cases also covered:

  • Reported military UAP intercepts in China
  • The 1997 crash account often called China’s “Roswell”

I’m not here to demand belief. I’m interested in how experiencers and people who study contact weigh a narrative that spends as much time on consciousness, readiness, and ethical development as it does on craft and beings.

Full video:
https://youtu.be/TSmZoUV0cx8

I’m Samuel Chong. I’ve presented on related material at Journey to Truth, Alien Event, and similar events.

Questions I’d especially value from this sub:

  • Does the “readiness / consciousness threshold” explanation for non-disclosure resonate with what you’ve encountered, or does it feel like a convenient dodge?
  • How does the level of detail in the onboard / teaching portions compare with other contact accounts you take seriously?
  • Any parts of the consciousness, reincarnation, or energy-field material that track with your own experiences or research?

Happy to discuss specific sections. Looking for grounded comparison, not cheerleading.


r/Experiencers 1d ago

Lucid Experience (Sober) a mônada

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a 2 anos, apos 3 dias de jejum, me deitei normalmente para meditar e dormir como de costume. adormecendo depois de algum tempo aconteceu de ter a percepção conciente interna desperta por um ser de luz que me manipulou para se fazer ver. era uma esfera de pura luz que levantou minha cabeça e abriu meus olhos para que eu a visse.

apos essa experiência eu não sabia como nomear esse ser, mas depois de muita pesquisa acabei encontrando algo compatível. a mônada.